25 Regency Romances (re-up) - Georgette Heyer

Written by Georgette Heyer
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Unabridged

Georgette Heyer was 17 when she wrote her first book, “The Black Moth”, in 1921 to amuse her convalescing brother. She wrote 50 books in her lifetime, romances, historical fiction and mysteries.

This is a re-up of the books in the flawed collections on this site with corrections or edits to a few books. Most books are 32k.

A Civil Contract (Phyllida Nash) *
Adam Deveril, 6th Viscount Lynton of Fontley Priory, Lincolnshire, is one of the Duke of Wellington’s captains. When his father, a crony of the Prince Regent, is killed in the hunting field, Adam returns to England to find his beautiful home in disrepair and his family facing financial ruin.

April Lady (Eve Matheson)
When Lord Cardross marries the young Lady Helen he also finds himself coping with her father’s financial disasters and the pressing gambling debts of her scapegrace brother. Many escapades must be resolved before the much-tried Earl can smooth the course of true love in his own marriage.

Arabella (Eve Matheson)
An enchanting debutante and the eldest daughter of a country parson, she should know better than to be provoked by Mr Beaumaris, the most eligible nonpareil of the day.

Bath Tangle (Sian Phillips)
Many eager suitors have vied for the hand of the enchantingly lovely Serena Carlow - but none so unconventional as the dangerously attractive Marquis of Rotherham, a man Serena once jilted and never expects to see again. But now her father’s sudden death has left her Rotherham’s ward, and she cannot collect her rightful inheritance until she weds…with his concent and approval!

Black Sheep (Barbara Leigh-Hunt)
One woman’s efforts to detach her niece from a fortune-hunter. The endeavors are complicated by the arrival of the black sheep of the family.

Charity Girl (Daniel Philpott)
When a chivalrous impulse saddles Viscount Desford with a homeless waif in the engaging shape of Cherry Steane, he asks his childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale, for help. Although they refused to oblige their parents by marrying, they remain the best of friends.

Cotillion (Phyllida Nash)
To escape the unwelcome attentions of greedy suitors, a wealthy heiress pretends to become engaged to Freddy Stanton, a modest and resourceful young Regency beau. The problems caused by this sham engagement are the focal point of a romantic novel set at the height of the Regency period.

Cousin Kate (Sian Phillips)
In Regency England, penniless Kate Malvern is swept to her aunt’s Elizabethan manor and showered with comforts. But despite the luxury of her new life, the atmosphere in the household is less than homely, and gradually it dawns on Kate that there are sinister reasons for her aunt’s benevolence.

False Colours (Phyllida Nash)
The Honourable Christopher Fancot, on leave from the diplomatic service in the summer of 1817, is startled to find his entrancing but incorrigibly extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin - and more than alarmed to find that his twin brother has disappeared without trace.

Faro’s Daughter (Eve Matheson)
Fiery, strong-willed Deb Grantham is wellborn and ever so lovely. None of this matters, however, in the game of love and matrimony in Regency London, because the lovely Deb presides over the cards in one of London’s finest gambling houses.

Lady of Quality (Eve Matheson)
Miss Annis Wynchwood becomes embroiled in the affairs of a runaway heiress, and is thus destined to see a great deal of her fugitive’s uncivil guardian. Chafing at the restrictions of Regency society in Bath, Annis has to admit that at least Carleton is never boring.

Regency Buck (June Barrie)
The beautiful Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine agree that Julian St John Audley is an insufferably arrogant dandy. Unfortunately he is also the 5th Earl of Worth, a friend of the Regent and, quite by chance, their legal guardian.

Simon the Coldheart (Ben Elliot)
Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind. Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to cross the flaxen-haired mountain of a man whose exploits in battle have earned him knighthood, lands and gilded armour.

Sprig Muslin (Sian Phillips)
Finding so young and pretty a girl as Amanda wandering unattended, Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty to restore her to her family. But it is to prove no easy task for the Corinthian.

Sylvester (Judy Franklin)
Sylvester, Duke of Salford, seeks with unconscious arrogance a bride worthy of the honour of becoming his Duchess. He journeys to Wiltshire to inspect the Hon Phoebe Marlow, unaware that he has met her before and instantly forgotten the tongue-tied girl without beauty or elegance to recommend her. This is one of her most recorded books.

The Black Moth (Maggie Jones)
When the dashing Jack Carstares is unfairly accused of cheating at cards, he leaves the country in disgrace. Returning some years later disguised as a highwayman, his reappearance heralds a dramatic chain of events that includes a Duke, a damsel, a duel, and not one, but two kidnappings

The Convenient Marriage (Caroline Hunt)
As this novel opens, the highborn yet penniless Lizzie Winwood is to marry the Earl of Rule - for the “convenience” of the Earl’s vast wealth. Yet Miss Winwood’s affections lie elsewhere. Her rebellious young sister, however, is more than willing to take her place as Countess of Rule.

The Corinthian (Georgina Sutton)
On his way home, the protagonist chances upon a beautiful young fugitive climbing out of a window.

The Grand Sophy (JohnWestbrook)
When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophy with his sister. A madcap romance with an irresistible heroine, almost six-feet-tall, who because of her forthright manner and ingenious matchmaking and organizing ability becomes a smashing success in London. 1950. This is one of her most recorded books.

The Masqueraders (Rosemary Leach)
Robin and Prudence Merriot have been dissemblers since they were children. And in this age of slippery politics, they need to be. So it is as nothing for them to rescue a rich heiress from her abductor. But once committed to their masquerade, they must see it through.

The Nonesuch (Eve Matheson)
At the age of 35, Sir Waldo Hawkridge, known as The Nonesuch for his sporting prowess, believed he was past the age of falling in love. But when he comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom Hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to unforeseen ramifications.

The Quiet Gentleman (Cornelius Garrett)
On becoming the 7th Earl of Stanyon, Gervase returns from abroad to take possession of his inheritance only to find a family hostile to his intentions. Strange accidents happen, especially after he begins to rival his brother for the affections of the beautiful Marianne Bolderwood.

The Reluctant Widow (Cornelius Garrett)
Elinor Rochdale is rather surprised that her new employer is quite rich, and more so at decayed grandeur of the house to which she is transported. Realizing that there has been a case of mistaken identity, she nevertheless agrees to an audacious plan and is swept into a dangerous adventure. Overnight, Elinor becomes mistress of a ruined estate. By midnight she is a bride, by dawn a widow…

The Toll Gate (Daniel Hill)
Captain Staple’s exploits in the Peninsula had earned him the sobriquet Crazy Jack amongst his fellows in the Dragoon Guards. Now home from Waterloo, life in peacetime is rather dull for the adventure-loving Captain.

The Unknown Ajax (Daniel Philpott)
Lord Darracott’s tetchiness is exacerbated when Hugh, the offspring of his disgraced second son, becomes heir to the title as a result of a yachting disaster. His Lordship determines that the only way to maintain the family’s good name is to marry Hugh to his pretty and intelligent granddaughter.

Venetia (Sian Phillips)
In all her twenty-five years, lovely Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate. Then she meets her neighbor, Lord Damerel, and before she knows better, she is egging on a libertine whose way of life has scandalized the county for years
This is one of her most recorded books.