Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for 01/2022

On the 1st of each month, Regency Fiction Writers publishes our FREE online newsletter, The Regency Reader, to anyone interested in Regency Fiction (1780-1840). The publication features author interviews, tidbits about the Regency era, and a listing of new titles from members and non-members (Submit your April Regency-set Fiction Release or Regency Author Article by March 24th, to appear in the April issue. Information submitted after March 24th will appear in the May issue.). (Subscribe now!)

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Renee Wilde

Sweet Transgression
Series: Bloomsbury Brides
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Literary Wanderlust
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 01/01/2022
Author Website: http://www.reneewilde.com

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He’s a soldier who can’t remember who he is; she’s a nurse who’d rather forget who she was. One tender night in Chelsea Hospital is all they allow themselves, but when they meet again in the ballrooms of London, can they forget their Sweet Transgression?


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Regina Scott

Never Pursue a Prince
Series: Fortune’s Brides: The Wedding Vow
Genre: Traditional Regency Romance
Publisher: Edwards and Williams
Content Rating: Sweet
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 01/03/2022
Author Website: http://www.reginascott.com

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Sometimes, Prince Charming isn’t what you expect.

Lady Larissa, oldest daughter of the Duke of Wey, has one goal: find suitable husbands for her two younger sisters and best friend so they may live happily ever after. Despite their attempts at matchmaking for her, she’s all but given up on finding her own groom, a gentleman good enough to meet her late mother’s and grandmother’s expectations. She has a hard enough time meeting those expectations for poise, propriety, and perfection. But a chance encounter brings the most marvelous gentleman to her attention. A shame he is merely a captain of the Imperial Guard of Batavaria and in no way the suitable husband for the daughter of a duke.

Prince Otto Leopold Augustus of Batavaria has one goal: to win back his country from those who ousted his family. But someone seems intent on stopping him, for danger stalks the corridors of their palace in England. So why not trade places with his identical twin brother, the leader of the Imperial Guard? Leo might just uncover their enemies before someone is hurt. And having an ally in the thoroughly proper and pretty duke’s daughter can only help.

The more Larissa and Leo are thrown together, the more secrets come to light and the more their attraction grows. Would the daughter of a duke dare to throw off propriety, if it means winning the heart of the most princely of men?


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Kathy L Wheeler

The Duke’s Detour
Series: Rebel Lords of London
Genre: Regency Romance Suspense
Publisher: Chisel Imprint
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: eBook
Release Date: 01/04/2021
Author Website: https://kathylwheeler.com

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Lady Rebecca Thatcher cares nothing for fashion or societal dictates. Her destiny in life is to fight for those less fortunate, be it woman, child, or animal. And when a young boy appears from the trees, clutching her skirts, addressing her as Mama with a vile villain on his heels, it incites every instinct in her to protect. Her priority is to get him where he belongs.

Having married off his youngest sister, the Duke of Ryleigh can finally begin the task of locating a suitable bride of his own. But his well-ordered plans are thrown into chaos by a note from his sister informing him she no longer wishes to be a countess (as if she had a choice) and has vacated to the family’s seat in Dorchester. On Ryleigh’s way south, he encounters a carriage with a broken wheel carrying Lady Rebecca, his sister’s long ago schoolmate—the one responsible for turning his genteel and compliant sister into a hoyden he hadn’t recognized when he took her out of school seven years before.

Ryleigh’s sense of honor will not allow him to look the other way as he and Rebecca are bound for the same destination. She is just as he remembers—unwieldy and uncaring of what anyone thinks—and now? Unmarried with bastard children. Certainly not duchess material.


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Sandra Sookoo

Tangled in Lavender
Series: Colors of Scandal #12
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: New Independence Books (indie label)
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 01/04/2022
Author Website: https://www.sandrasookoo.com

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If you allow your differences to hold you back, you’ll never discover how wonderful your life can be.

Honorable Dorothea Carrington is companion to the Dowager Duchess of Fairfield. Though she enjoys a good life and regularly travels the world at the dowager’s whim, something is lacking. Born with a birth defect that makes her an easy target for ridicule and rejection, all she wants is acceptance and to be loved for herself. If the opportunity to marry comes about, she’d accept with alacrity, no questions asked.

Major Anthony Jasper’s world has been upended. Though retired from the military, the past won’t stay buried. When his mistress leaves a six-year-old daughter in his care, he’s at sixes and sevens. It was never in his plan to have children, for the world is a horrible place. As his wit’s end is reached, he turns to the most unlikely source for help—his godmother, the Dowager Duchess of Fairfield.

Thea’s intrigued with the major, even more so when she discovers his daughter possesses a birthmark that sets her apart, but the dowager’s not best pleased at the friendship that springs between her companion and godson. To Anthony’s credit, he does everything in his power to ignore the pretty, blonde-haired lady who’s fearful of being in society, but his godmother’s demands on his time constantly puts him in Dorothea’s company. It’ll take some sneaky interference to see them make a go of a happily ever after, but it’ll be worth the effort.


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Ellie St. Clair

Gambling for the Lost Lord’s Love
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: prairielilypress
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: eBook
Release Date: 01/07/2022
Author Website: https://www.elliestclair.com/

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If there was ever a forbidden love, this was it. John Wade. The very man who threatened to destroy all that Diana’s family had ever built.

But by the time Diana realizes the man she has fallen for at the race track is the very man she has vowed to bring down, it is too late — she’s already lost her heart. And her hand in marriage.

Wade had said he’d needed a wife. He just hadn’t counted on falling for the sister of his greatest foe. For Wade is trying to build his own empire, to become a man who is as feared and respected as Arie Hondros. And he must do so while facing secrets from the past he never saw coming — secrets that question everything he ever knew about himself.

The trust between Diana and Wade is as shallow as their passion for one another is deep. But when a shadowy figure from their pasts threatens all that they know and all who they love, they must learn to work together or risk losing everything — including each other.

This Regency romance contains some steamy content.


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Sandra Sookoo

The Sting of a Storme
Series: Storme Brothers #4
Genre: Regency Romance Suspense
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 01/18/2022
Author Website: https://www.sandrasookoo.com

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Sometimes, the winds of change don’t come on a storm; they arrive with a beguiling breeze.

Inspector William Storme is a Bow Street Runner who’s working a series of gruesome murder cases. His dying mother wishing to see him settled adds to the anxiety his position brings. So when he courts a pretty young lady, and she agrees only if he’ll let her accompany him on cases, everything seems to work out fine until the attraction begins and he’s forced to compete with another man for her attention.

Lame and socially shy Miss Francesca—Fanny—Bancroft, daughter of Viscount Nattingly, is a budding society reporter for the General Evening Post, but she aspires to write articles on more important topics. When she encounters the inspector at a rout and he asks to court her, she presses her advantage. What’s more exciting than interviewing a Runner? The plan is sound until she begins to desire the mysterious, oftentimes grouchy man.

While the murders increase, William and Fanny accelerate their investigation of a possible serial killer, but between the shocking scenes, an unexpected romance develops. Emotions swirl around them and truths are revealed as they track down clues and talk with suspects. Passion ignites between them, which leads to the murders becoming personal, bringing danger to them both. It’ll take intelligence and instinct to catch the killer before it’s too late, because their love and their lives now hang in the balance.


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Jeanine Englert

Eloping with the Laird
Series: Falling for a Stewart Series
Genre: Georgian Romance
Publisher: Harlequin Historical
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 01/25/2022
Author Website: https://www.jeaninewrites.com

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A man she can trust…

With her life…and her heart?

Ordered by her father to choose a husband by the end of the Highland Games—or he will select one for her—widow Moira Fraser hastily elopes with Rory McKenna, Laird of Blackmore. But they soon discover neither is free of the past. Rory has a price on his head and needs an heir as soon as possible, and Moira’s horrible first marriage has left her afraid of letting her new husband get close…


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Rose Phillips

Love Denied
Series: Honorable Intentions
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 01/28/2022
Author Website: https://rosephillipsrambles.blogspot.com/

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LOVE DENIED

Catherine Baring has chased her brother Laurence, and the neighboring Sinclair boys, through childhood into adulthood. She adores all three, but it is the younger Sinclair, Nicholas, who owns her heart. When Nicholas leaves to join the fight against Napoleon, she vows she will wait for him. However, four years is a long time and circumstances change. Faced with the threat of a scandal that will lead to penury and, worse, possible criminal charges, Catherine agrees to do the only thing that might deflect attention from their families—marry the elder Sinclair, Daniel. Daniel is killed before the two are wed, and Nicholas is summoned from the battlefield to assume the role as heir to Woodfield Park. Disillusioned by the atrocities committed on the continent, his brother’s death is another blow. He clings to thoughts of Catherine, certain that in her arms he will find the solace he craves.

Instead, Nicholas finds betrayal and deceit. Catherine claims to love Nicholas, but she refuses to repent for the betrothal to his brother. Nicholas buries his conflicting feelings, and himself, in the neglected affairs of the estate. But a lifetime of loving is hard to set aside, and when he discovers a series of letters that reveal the truth behind the traitorous engagement, he’s not sure he can.

As they struggle with loss and longing, one thing becomes clear to both Nicholas and Catherine. Only in confronting the past can they hope to build new dreams for the future.



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Anna St.Claire

The Marquess of Mischief
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Suspense Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 12/21/2021
Author Website: https://www.annastclaire.com/

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Christopher Anglesey, the Marquess of Banbury, is on an assignment that brings him to the museum, where he discovers a beautiful young woman desperate to escape and recognizes her as his sister’s best friend. She may be the one person who can help save the Prince Regent’s life. Sparks fly as he tries to protect her and find a killer.

Can they survive the danger that pursues them and gain a chance at love neither thought could happen?


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Kathy L Wheeler, Amanda McCabe

Gaming Hell Christmas
Genre: Georgian Romance
Publisher: Chisel Imprint
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: eBook
Release Date: 12/01/2021
Author Website: https://kathylwheeler.com

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A Gift for the Duke’s Illegitimate Daughter -Kathy L Wheeler

Miss Alexandra Blessing, the Duke of Winsome’s illegitimate daughter longs for anonymity and a home of her own where her younger half-siblings don’t commandeer every moment of her day. Escape is imminent—right after her family’s annual Christmas fete.

But Alexandra is missing from the ball, and Theodore Millburn must find her before he loses something important: his chance for love.

The Merry Widow’s Christmas Adventure -Amanda McCabe

Annabelle, Lady Ranstruther, after a year of lonely widowhood is ready for new love—and she knows exactly who she wants—her wild friend, the gorgeous William, Lord Deansley. She fears he doesn’t want her, until they meet again at the exclusive, discreet gaming hell la Sous Rose, at Christmas.

Will it mean a future of love—or the end of all her dreams?


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Courtney McCaskill

What’s an Earl Gotta Do?
Series: The Astley Chronicles
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Hazel Grove Books
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 12/03/2021
Author Website: https://courtneymccaskill.com/

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He lost her once. He can’t bear to lose her again.

Michael Cranfield, the Earl of Morsley, has been hopelessly in love with the girl next door, Lady Anne Astley, ever since they were fourteen years old.

This made it particularly jarring when she went and married someone else when his father sent him on a secret mission for the Crown in the wilds of Canada.

Now Anne is a widow, and Michael has a second chance to be with the woman he loves. He’s determined to marry Anne, take her back to Canada (where’s he’s spent the past four years training to be Governor General,) and wrap her up in cotton gauze so he’ll never have to be parted from her.

Anne still cringes when she recalls the day she learned with absolute certainty that Michael only saw her as a friend. But she isn’t the biddable girl Michael remembers, not any more. She’s found that being a widow, answering to no one, and running her London charity precisely as she sees fit suits her just fine. She does want to remarry because she’s always yearned for a large family, but only if she can find a husband who will support her in the charity work that means everything to her.

And if Michael Cranfield thinks she’s going to give up her charity to move to Canada, or let him boss her around, then he’d better think again!

What price will Michael be willing to pay to be with the woman he loves? What’s an Earl Gotta Do?


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Cheryl Bolen

With a Little Help from My Lord
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 12/07/2021
Author Website: http://www.cherylbolen.com

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SOMEONE WANTS HER DEAD, BUT THEY’LL HAVE TO KILL HIM FIRST

An innocent trip to the book store propels Lady Harriett Beresford into danger when a stranger—warning of peril from the Fat Man—collapses on her doorstep. Dead. She rushes to find aid, and when she returns, the dead man is gone. No one believes her.

Alex Muir, Baron Rockingham, has been charged by his honeymooning closest friend to watch out for his sister while he’s away. When Harriett turns to Alex for help, he’s skeptical. The exuberant young lady has always had a flair for the dramatic. But when someone attempts to kill her, his protective instincts kick in. She cannot go back to her home. She must stay with him.

Together, they seek the identity of the Fat Man, learn of a plot against the regent, and fight against their own searing attraction to one another.


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Heather Boyd

Seduced in Secret
Series: Distinguished Rogues
Genre: Regency Romance
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 12/07/2021
Author Website: https://www.heather-boyd.com

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The banns have been called, the date is set, but he’s falling fast and hard for the wrong woman.

When her parents announce they intend to break their promise to remain in London society for another year, Charlotte Waters is also given an ultimatum—make a suitable match immediately or start packing her trunks. Since leaving England is the last thing she wants, Charlotte puts aside her foolish longing for love and throws herself into the hunt for any proposal of marriage with the help of her good friends. However, her persistent infatuation for an engaged earl proves a great distraction when it becomes clear that his life is in peril…and Charlotte is the only one who’s noticed.

Winston Bell, Earl of Hurlston, has his position in society, a loving mother, loyal friends, and an arranged marriage he’s willing honor for duty, if not love—until a sweet, brave, and normally blushing wallflower puts herself in danger to save his life. His gratitude slowly blossoms into an attraction to a woman he shouldn’t long to seek out at every turn. But when another attempt is made on his life, Charlotte Waters is fighting right by his side again, transforming attraction to deep desire. Can he prevent falling further under the spell of a woman he shouldn’t want?


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Sandra Sookoo

The Viscount’s Bluestocking Vixen
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: New Independence Books
Content Rating: Burning (Hot)
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 12/08/2021
Author Website: https://www.sandrasookoo.com

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Lady Katherine Moncrieffe, only child to the Earl of Indicott-Barrow, is a bluestocking miss who has thrown all her energy into curating a valuable collection of books for her father’s library with one exception—a rare volume of poetry that shows her mother in a scandalous light. A meeting with the man who owns the book fires her interest and excites her imagination. Too bad romance is a disappointing endeavor best left to the younger set.

Nathaniel Harkness, Viscount Satterfield, has a long history of being a rogue. At the age of forty, the lifestyle has grown stale, but to give it up means doing his duty to his neglected family and title. When an obscure book of poetry turns up in his study, he hopes to sell it at auction, but a pretty librarian with russet hair in search of that very volume changes his mind. Perhaps he’s found a new bedmate, and just in time for Christmas.

With desire crackling between them, the two match wits for rights of the book… and neither of them is above employing seduction to get what they want. All too soon, the battle grows into a wickedly sensuous game of cat and mouse. After nights spent sharing personal histories amidst the sheets, an likely romance blooms that drives them closer to something they’ve spent the last few years denying they’d ever wanted again.


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Andrea K Stein

Pride of a Warrior
Series: Men of the Squadron, Book 5
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Muirgen® Publishing, LLC
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 12/14/2021
Author Website: https://www.andreakstein.com/

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A diamond of London’s glittering ballrooms
must travel to the ends of the earth to find love…

It’s 1825, and Lady Lydia Howick has accepted that the love of her life, Royal Marine Captain George Neville, has been killed in action with the Men of the Squadron in fierce fighting on West African Sherbro Island. She’s moved on with her life until one day while at a Royal Academy exhibition of art from the Holy Land, she sees her supposedly dead lover in a group of figures painted in a desert caravan scene.

She can’t rest until she’s sure he’s not suffering as a slave in the Middle East.

George Neville no longer considers himself worthy of the title of Royal Marine ever since being taken captive during an action against slavers. Once his captors realized his strength and abilities in battle, they forced him to be one of them, promising his eventual freedom if he helped enslave others. They held the threat of punishment of child slaves over his head if he did not obey orders.

After four horrific years in the slave trade, he’s certain he’s unworthy of anyone’s love, let alone that of Lady Lydia. He refuses to sully her with the weight of his sins.

How can she forgive him? More importantly, how can he forgive himself?


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Sandra Sookoo

A Storme’s Christmas Legacy
Series: Storme Brothers
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print | eBook eNovella
Release Date: 12/17/2021
Author Website: https://www.sandrasookoo.com

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At times, there is nothing better to soothe the storms within than to be among family.

It’s the Christmastide season, and the Storme family has gathered for the holiday in the Derbyshire countryside. Now that the men have ironed out personal problems and have ushered romance into their lives, they’re ready to mend fences with their estranged cousins. For the first time in twenty years, they’ve come together with hopes of recapturing the happy times they knew as children. Unfortunately, soothing familial ties isn’t as easy as enjoying plum pudding, rum punch, or stealing pastries from Cook’s kitchen.

When two mysterious letters are found inside a writing desk, penned by their fathers before both men died, the visit takes on a more special meaning. Amidst long held secrets and horrible truths coming to light, there’s a scavenger hunt afoot at Hadleigh Hall. By the end, the Storme brothers, and their new brides, as well as the Storme cousins might just come to understand each other better in order to grasp a deeper meaning to the season, and a new appreciation of family.