Listed below are the some of the best loved romances of all times set in England, compiled from various lists throughout the internet where readers voted for their all time favorite romances.
Danelle Harmon
THE WICKED ONE 1/2001 Georgian ISBN:0380809095 Meet Lord Lucien The head of his noble family, the dark and dangerous Duke of Blackheath spends his time manipulating other lives without giving a thought to finding a wife of his own. Yet Lucien must admit he finds exquisite Eva de la Mouriere most intriguing. What adventurous, red-blooded male would not be intrigued by a flame-haired beauty who appears in his chambers demanding that he make love to her? Certainly this hot-tempered minx would make a delightful bedmate -- though surely not a bride. Eva knows Lucien is the cause of all her current misfortunes, Yet he refuses to be humiliated. But the worst betrayer is her own heart. No match for Lucien's seductive mastery, Eva craves the blackguard as she's never craved another, She must resist this rogue, but how long can she deny her own passion -- or Lucien's blossoming genuine love -- in the face of his scheming family's successful attempts to force a wedding?
Sandra Heath
MARIGOLD'S MARRIAGES 5/1999 ISBN:0451196821 Regency. Marigold Arnold had just lost a cruel and brutal husband. But her suffering was not over -- for his younger brother had produced a false will that declared her marriage a sham. Stripped of her good name, she faced the shame of being turned out into the street with her son robbed of his inheritance. Then she met the handsome Lord Rowan Avenbury, who first became her friend -- and within days proposed marriage! But this hasty betrothal had more to it than met the eye. An ancient family curse predicted Lord Roman's confrontation with mortal danger, and if the worst happened, he hoped to leave the wronged widow well provided for. Neither of them expected to fall in love -- or to fight against all odds for a happiness they'd never dreamed possible...
Virginia Henley
DREAM LOVER 2/1997. ISBN: 0385318138. Georgian. After five long years on a prison ship, Sean O'Toole, Earl of Kildare, makes his escape in order to exact his plan of revenge upon the Englishman who killed his brother and framed Sean for the crime. While imprisoned, Sean honed his body to rock-hard perfection, steeled his will against all sentiment, and filled his mind with thoughts of retribution against the man he had hated for years. But at night his dreams were filled with memories of his enemy's daughter - the half-Irish, half-English Emerald, whose fiery beauty had beguiled him when they met, and whose bold and fearless spirit he had never forgotten. His memories of Emerald are not enough to prevent Sean from going through with his plan to use her as a pawn in his quest for revenge His scheme: to kidnap Emerald and bring her to his home, where he will keep her long enough to sully her reputation and bring disgrace upon her family. Sean is shocked when, instead of the defiant temptress he once knew, the memory of whom kept him alive for five long years, he finds his quarry is now a timid, fearful woman afraid of her own shadow. Locked in prisons of their own making, Emerald and Sean must find a way to break free of their bonds, or risk losing themselves - and each other - forever.
THE PIRATE AND THE PAGAN 12/1990. ISBN: 0440206235. Renaissance. Wild as a pagan goddess, Lady Summer galloped her stallion along the Cornish coast. She had dabbled in the smuggler's game to save her family estate, but a wealthy marriage would better serve her purpose now. Lord Ruark Helford seemed the answer to her reckless prayers. But as his hot, hungry kisses drew her toward deception and irresistible acts of love, she had to hesitate. Would this arrogant, handsome lord be her ticket to heaven - or hell? Both a ruthless privateer and King Charles II's confidant, Lord Helford was a mysterious and dangerous man. Lady Summer's sensual innocence captivated. When she suddenly appeared at court, he thought she'd be an easy conquest, a willing student to his brazen, skillful desire. But when she managed to steal his heart he vowed she must submit, obey and never deceive him, or by God's tears, he'd tame her not as a gentleman but as only a pirate could...
A WOMAN OF PASSION 8/1999. ISBN: 0440222087. Renaissance. Young Bess Hardwick knew that the only way to escape a commoner's life was to serve in a noble family and marry well. So the headstrong beauty set out for London and the Tudor court, the arena for the richest, most ambitious men, none more powerful than the four men who would claim her. None more dangerous than Princess Elizabeth, who made Bess friend, confidante, then lady-in-waiting in her own glittering court...Dangerously seductive, William Cavendish, the king's dashing financial adviser, vowed to have Bess at any cost. Frail, adoring Robert Barlow offered a marriage she couldn't refuse. Newly crowned Queen Elizabeth bade her marry courtly Sir William St. Loe. But reckless passion drove Bess into the arms of George Talbot, the devastating Earl of Shrewsbury, whose wicked daring ignited in Bess the passion of a lifetime - even as it sparked the jealous interest of the most perilous ally of all: the Virgin Queen...
Georgette Heyer
THE BLACK MOTH 1921 ISBN: 330200925 Georgian. Jack Carstares, now rightful Earl of Wyncham, returns to the England he left in disgrace 7 long years ago. Still bound by the rigid code of the 18th century, Jack is determined not to claim his title and turns highwayman....Lovely Diana Beauleigh was under siege. The notorious Duke of Andover meant to have her--if not with her assent, then by force. But Diana was not about to surrender her virtue. She had already lost her heart to the man who rescued her from the Duke--a handsome mysterious highwayman.
FREDERICA 1965 ISBN:055324132X Regency. Frederica Merrivale has come to London for the social season, in order to give her beautiful younger sister Charis a chance to make a good marriage. Frederica herself, a witty charmer, is feared to beyond marriageable age at twenty-four.But they find themselves both besieged by more suitors than they can handle!
VENETIA 1958 ISBN:3499120038 Regency. In love with an improper stranger... At twenty-five, Venetia Lanyon was far too close to spinsterhood to reject the attentions of the impeccable Mr. Edward Yardley. But the headstrong beauty vowed she'd rather die than marry a man she didn't love - especially since meeting her long-absent neighbor, the scandalous Lord Damerel. He was quite the most dashing, yes dangerous, man she had ever known. And now, unwillingly, she was in his debt, tempted to cast her good name and reputation to the winds of fate!
THE TALISMAN RING 1936 ISBN:0373834470 Georgian and French Revolution It all began with the dying whim of that old tyrant, Lord Lavenham, whose last wish was to see his nephew, Sir Tristram, married to his capricious French refugee granddaughter, Eustacie. But Eustacie bristled at the idea and claimed she would rather embrace Mme. Guillotine than make such a marriage. She ran away in the night. To have an adventure, as she put it. And was captured by a smuggler. A very handsome smuggler. It was all wonderfully mysterious. Then she discovered the handsome smuggler bore the same name as her grandfather and the mystery deepened. Now Eustacie's adventure began in earnest.
Jillian Hunter
INDISCRETION 4/2000. 0671026836. Victorian. The scandal of Anne Kerr's foolish, stormy affair with a Scottish nobleman's son was averted when her parents quickly married her off to the scoundrel's cousin, a respectable English baron. A widow now, Anne has never forgotten Patrick Sutherland, who had seduced and abandoned her - and indeed, disgraced - her, no matter how she tries to lose her feelings in her furious horse rides across the heath. But even a woman of Anne's spirit can't ignore a royal summons that reunites her with Patrick under dire and mysterious circumstances. The suspicious death of a relative calls for a clandestine investigation inside a Highland hunting fortress. Anne and Patrick find themselves commanded by Queen Victoria to lay rumors of murder to rest. Anne sees nothing but trouble and temptation in the Queen's order to work with the rogue who shamed her. To Patrick, however, the chance to serve as Anne's bodyguard is a dream come true. But even the best dream can take a wicked twist...and when he learns he is not to pose as her ladyship's protector, but as her butler, the proud Highlander must helplessly submit as Anne exacts the delicious revenge he deserves for breaking her heart.
Judith Ivory
BEAST 4/1997. ISBN: 0380786443. Regency Period. An exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant...and bored - which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is hideous - a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless relationship with a compelling stranger she never sees in the light of day. Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancée's ship - and seduce the young chit in utter darkness. But the rake's prank backfired. It was he who was smitten - while the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And Charles will never have her heart - unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.
THE INDISCRETION 4/2001. ISBN: 0380813967. Edwardian. Lady Lydia Bedford-Browne's small rebellion becomes the adventure of her life, when her coach crashes and leaves her stranded on the treacherous Dartmoor with the only other passenger: a rugged, disarmingly attractive Texan named Sam Cody. Sam's slow, melodic drawl and dark, hypnotic eyes tempt Lydia in ways she never thought possible. But dare the lord's daughter loosen her proper English restraints any further? A foul luck has caused the dashing American millionaire to miss his own wedding to an unforgiving bride...for the second time! Worse still, he's stuck in the middle of nowhere with a straitlaced noble beauty. But there is an unmistakeable spark of courage, sensuality, and wild passion beneath Liddy's prim exterior, daring Sam to pursue even further what his heart and his soul now desperately desire - even though both the Texan's and the lady's vastly different worlds will be rocked if they dare surrender to the indiscretion.
THE PROPOSITION 12/1999 ISBN: 0380802600. Edwardian. No man, gentleman or otherwise, has ever looked at Lady Edwina Bollash the way the brash, handsome man standing before her is doing now. Edwina has accepted the challenge to transform incorrigible Mich Tremore into a gentleman in just six weeks. And although the linguist is sure she can rise to the task, she isn't at all certain she won't swoon under his frankly sensuous gaze before her job is done. Mick has lived outside of London society long enough to know that appearances can be deceiving. Edwina might look all buttoned up-the perfect English lady-but there is unleashed passion existing just below her placid facade (not to mention a great pair of legs!). And as she prepares him to take his place in society, Mick prepares Edwina to take her place in his heart...and in his bed.
SLEEPING BEAUTY 6/1998. ISBN: 0380786451.Victorian. Once a long time ago, Coco Wild learned to never allow a man's kiss to mover her, for that way led to downfall. A slender beauty with alluring eyes, she built impregnable defenses around her emotions. The men who came to adore her, fought to conquer her and learn her mysteries, made her the toast of London, but none were able to rouse her passions. But that hard-taught lesson is about to unravel because of Sir James Stoker. Back in England with a treasure of gold from his adventures, newly knighted by Queen Victoria herself, and feted everywhere, the handsome explorer has the world at his feet. He's exactly the man Coco might have dreamed about when she was young: a tall, fair hero with a charming smile. Now he's turned his energy toward winning her, the most desirable and the least attainable woman he knows; and Coco's afraid James may just fined his way past the thorns that have so long protected her from the world, and awaken her slumbering heart...with just one kiss.
Emma Jensen
BEST LAID SCHEMES 9/1998 ISBN: 0449002349 Regency. The Earl of Hythe is getting married. All he needs to do is choose a wife from among a list of several suitable ladies. Sibyl Cameron is not on that list. But she has known the earl all her life and loved him nearly as long. When Sibyl and Tarquin come together sparks fly, accidents happen, and the best laid schemes go completely awry.
Susan Johnson
SINFUL 8/1992. ISBN: 0553293125. Georgian. He was the most profligate rogue in London, but Sinjin St. John, duke of Seth, had never met a lady who could bring him to his knees...until Chelsea Fergusson slipped into his carriage, begged him to grant one small favor - and forever changed his life! He tried to act the gentleman with the delectable minx, but Chelsea needed the rake in him to save her from marriage to a man she didn't love. When she moved impulsively into his arms, desperate to persuade him to help her, Sinjin felt his pursuit of pleasure and his passion for his racing stables pale beside his sudden, fierce longing to possess her. Swept by sensation and an outrageous wager into unexpected ecstasy, Chelsea lost her heart to a man who vowed he'd never be trapped into marriage - not even for love. But undaunted by the challenge of seducing Sinjin into admitting he wanted her, Chelsea dared him to satisfy his hunger - all the while insisting she wanted no promise of always. Could a spirited vixen who trained and secretly raced thoroughbreds rein in the most eligible bachelor in England?
Nicole Jordan
THE SEDUCTION 6/2000. ISBN: 0449004848. Regency Period. As the most notorious rakehell in Regency London, Lord Damien Sinclair sought only his own pleasure, until his beloved younger sister, Olivia, was injured and her reputation ruined during a forbidden tryst. Now Damien will do anything to destroy the young nobleman guilty of hurting Olivia...And Vanessa Wyndham will protect her foolish brother at all costs, even if it means entering into an illicit bargain with the dangerously handsome "Lord Sin." When Vanessa offers to act as a companion to Lord Sin's invalid sister, Damien agrees with one scandalous condition - he'll forgive her brother's debt if she agrees to become his mistress.
Brenda Joyce
BEYOND SCANDAL 10/1995. ISBN: 0380781468. Victorian. Adoring and innocent, Anne Stewart was seduced by Dominick Saint Georges, Viscount Lyons, then brazenly abandoned on their wedding night. Now four years have passed, and England's most mysterious lord has returned to Waverly Hall. Anne can never forgive Dominick for the shame he caused her. She is determined to resist his advances and ignore the gossip and speculation surrounding them. But shocking revelations and deadly intrigues are drawing her ever closer to the enigmatic husband, to whom she dares not surrender again - this secretive stranger who holds the key to her survival...and her heart.
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