Regencies
My earlier Regency novels were published by Robert Hale. Many are in libraries, including in large-print. All are now available as Ebooks from Regency Reads. See details on my Sally James Regency page.
All my new Regencies are shown below and are available as ebooks and paperback, from:
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A Marriage for the Earl
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When Peter Stannard inherits a Yorkshire estate from his uncle, he does not expect a proposal of marriage from a lady.
- Lady MacDonald's father and Peter's uncle once planned to unite the estates, until Edward Stannard eloped to Gretna with the Rector's daughter.
- Now Edward is dead, so is Lady Macdonald's husband.
- And her cousin Gabrielle proves to be a serious rival for Peter's affections.
- Ebooks 2017: Smashwords ISBN 9781370173952 Amazon
- Ebooks 2021: Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812277
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326803698 2019 Lulu ISBN 9780244508159
- Copyright © 2016 Marina Oliver
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Lord Patrick's Heir
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Who will be the next Earl?
- When the Earl of Aylesford is killed in a riding accident, they have to wait for his child to be born.
- If it's a boy he will inherit. If not the title goes to Lord Patrick's brother Martin, but he is in America and has not been heard of for some time.
- The next heir is cousin Etienne.
- Then Martin's wife and son appear, saying Martin is dead.
- Ebooks 2017: Smashwords ISBN 9781370500260 Amazon
- Ebook 2019: Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812598
- Copyright © 2017, 2019 Marina Oliver
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Count Rupert's Captive
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Belle is afraid to go home to England where her cousin George will force her to marry him.
- She exchanges identity with her friend and is on her way to Vienna to be a governess when the coach is attacked, and her companions killed. She is saved by Count Rupert's arrival, and taken by him to his castle where, he tells her, she can be a companion to his niece Gisela.
- There are some odd people at the castle - the Count's mistress Anna who resents Belle's advent, and is dismissed; the dim-witted Johann who wants Gisela, and the dangerous Uncle Otto, who is anxious to gain control of Gisela's fortune. Outside are other men Belle needs to avoid.
- Then Gisela is sent away to meet a prospective husband, and Count Rupert persuades Belle to help him in Vienna, where he hopes to persuade the politicians to return the Tyrol to Austria.
- Belle meets many people, especially Lord Castlereagh, and aids the Count to arrange secret meetings. Then she discovers that Gisela is staying at a convent outside Vienna, where she has become friendly with another girl whose brother is in Vienna.
- Soon Belle becomes worried as both George and Otto arrive, and to escape George Belle agrees to marry a minor English diplomat.
- The Count pursues them and takes Belle back to Vienna. Otta and Anna contrive to capture Belle, but Rupert rescues her. Then news of Napoleon's escape from Elba reaches Vienna.
- Ebooks 2016: Smashwords ISBN 9781370870806 Amazon
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326803698
- Copyright © 2016 Marina Oliver
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Apple Blossom Bride
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Eve longs to escape from her rigidly disciplinarian father, and experience life away from her small Herefordshire village. Her brother James longs to join the army fighting Napoleon in the peninsula.
- Eve is fascinated by cider-making, and despite her father's disapproval, makes it with the help of a local farmer. When Justin, the Earl of Newark, discovers her in boys' clothes high up an apple tree picking her apples, he is intrigued.
- Ebooks 2016: Smashwords ISBN 9781311934635 Amazon
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326790653
- Copyright © 2016 Marina Oliver
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Louise
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Persuaded by her grandfather to supervise the coming out of Matilda, his great-niece, Louise
reluctantly goes to London to take part in the season for the first time since her soldier husband was killed three years before.
- Matilda is difficult and rebellious, but Louise finds she can enjoy meeting old friends and the balls and parties.
- Ebooks 2015: Smashwords ISBN 9781311226815 Amazon
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326787882
- Copyright © 2015 Marina Oliver
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3 Regency Lords
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Marina's first 3 Book set.- 3 full length Regency novels in one: Lord Clifford's Dilemma, My Lord Tremaine and An Earl from India.
- Three Regency Lords: one cannot court Elizabeth while his ward is infatuated with her young brother; one, missing after Waterloo, leaves a devastated fiancée and a cousin with his importunate family; the third, exiled for years, is dead in India and impersonated by his bastard half-brother hoping to gain his fortune and an heiress bride. Will they obtain their just rewards?
- Ebooks 2014: Smashwords ISBN 9781311645487 Amazon
- Copyright © 2014 Marina Oliver
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Eugenie and the Earl
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Eugenie, orphaned in Switzerland, is working her way through France in 1812 as she returns to England and a home with her uncle. She is helped by the stranger Hugues.
- Enjoying London Society, she is worried by the behaviour of her cousin George.
- Then the Earl of Lyndhurst comes to the rescue.
- Ebooks 2016: Smashwords ISBN 9781311432568 Amazon 2021 Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812437
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326790646
- Copyright © 2016 Marina Oliver. Ebook cover design by Debbie Oliver
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My Lord Tremaine
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When their father, the Rector, dies Elinor and her elder sister Jane Darwen are left with very little money.
- But Jane is betrothed to wealthy Edmund, Viscount Tremaine. When Napoleon escapes from Elba Edmund returns to his regiment.
- After Waterloo news arrives of Edmund's death and his cousin William inherits the title, and soon marries Jane.
- Meanwhile Gervaas, helping to bury the dead, finds a live body but the man has lost his memory.
- Ebooks 2014 Smashwords ISBN 9781310325977, 2014 Amazon, 2022 Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812482
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326787868
- Copyright © 2014, 2016, 2022 Marina Oliver
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An Earl from India
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Silas, impersonating his dead half-brother John, expects to find a flourishing estate at The Priory and marry an
heiress when he returns from a twenty-year exile in India.
- He is attracted to Fanny, the heiress daughter of a wealthy trader he meets on the homeward-bound ship, but she dislikes him and her brother Gerard, who is to take over his dead father's business, rejects him.
- Then he meets his family, cousins Lucien and Amanda, and Aunt Charlotte, and finds his inheritance worthless.
- He needs to recoup his fortunes, reverting to his earlier career of gambling and worse.
- Ebooks 2014: Smashwords ISBN 9781311525987 Amazon
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326785925
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The Irish Bride
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Brigid is happy working as a companion to Sophia, but knows she will soon have to look for a new position as governess or companion.
- What she will not accept is marriage to Matthew, Sophia's brother, for she is penniless.
- Another possibility is suggested when she meets her unknown uncle and aunt and they offer her a home.
- Can she accept, or would it be a trap from which she cannot escape?
- Ebooks 2013: Smashwords 9781301682591 Amazon
- Ebook 2016: Belgrave House 9781947812635
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326790615
- Copyright © 2013 Marina Oliver
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The Chaperone Bride
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When Joanna finds herself destitute after her gambler father's suicide, unable to find work, and is offered instead a marriage of convenience she sees no other option.
- Sir Kenelm needs a wife as a chaperone, since governesses are reluctant to live in a widower's household.
- The twins, children of his first wife, refuse to accept her as a new Mama. The governess, having thought she too was applying for the position of governess, resents her.
- Ebooks 2012 Smashwords ISBN 9781476135854, 2012 Amazon, 2021 Regency Reads
- Paperback: 2014 ISBN 9781499391589
- Copyright © 2012, 2014, 2021 Marina Oliver
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The Marriage Gamble
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Luke, Earl of Frayne, is determined to recover Frayne Caste, even if it means marrying the present owner,
Damaris Hallem, a girl he has never met.
- Luke's father, an inveterate gambler, lost the Castle fifty years earlier to Damaris's grandfather, an innkeeper. As it is the first estate his family obtained Luke wants to regain it.
- Damaris, unwillingly obeying her grandfather's wishes, comes to London for the Season with her friend Mary, Lady Gordon, and her two young children.
- She will be twenty-one in July and is looking forward to controlling her inheritance, which has been in the charge of a distant cousin, Humphrey Lee. Damaris is convinced he wants to marry her. She doesn't want any husband who would deprive her of such control.
- Her first encounter with Luke is disastrous but she soon finds a way out of the dilemma.
- Ebooks: 2011 Smashwords ISBN 9781466002746, 2011 Amazon, 2021 Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812345
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326791506
- Copyright © 2011, 2021 Marina Oliver
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Lord Clifford's Dilemma
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Lord Clifford meets Elizabeth when his ward Annamarie announces she means to marry her brother Sir Henry. Not only is Henry under age, Elizabeth controls his fortune.
- And sixteen-year-old Annamarie has been falling in love with unsuitable men for several years.
- Until he can resolve this complication he cannot turn his attention to courting Elizabeth.
- She is wary of love after being cruelly jilted when she was just seventeen.
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781466020160 Amazon
- Ebook 2022: Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812550
- Paperback 2016: Lulu ISBN 9781326786083
- Copyright © 2011, 2022 Marina Oliver
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Regency Crime
A Murdered Earl
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Most French aristocrats fleeing the revolution must earn a living.
- Comte Luc de St Pierre wants to discover what happened to family jewels, and thinking the Earl of Redditch can help, obtains a position as the irascible Earl's valet.
- When the Earl is murdered, Luke Peters, as he is now known, is suspected.
- One of the revolutionaries, Bossard, is also seeking the jewels, and thinking Luke's young sister Sylvie has information, threatens her.
- Luke must find the real murderer while evading Bossard and his thugs, and safeguarding Sylvie.
- ebook: 2011 as From Knife to Noose by Whiskey Creek under the pseudonym Caroline Clare ISBN 9781603131377
- Ebooks: 2016 Smashwords ISBN 9781310334450, 2016 Amazon, 2021 Regency Reads ISBN 9781947812451
- Copyright © 2011, 2016, 2021 Marina Oliver
