An Annotated List of Jo Beverley's
regency-set historical romances.

The Regency period is the time in England between 1811 and 1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent for his father, King George III. Thus he was the Prince Regent and the period is called the Regency. It ended when George III died in 1820 and his son became George IV.

But "Regency style" expands wider, perhaps beginning with the century. It's marked by classical influences and elegant designs. It is the period familiar to many of us today through the works of Jane Austen, especially the recent TV series and movies of her novels such as Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and of course, Pride and Prejudice.

The Regency period was framed as magical for romantic stories by the wonderful Georgette Heyer and I encourage you to sample her work. I started reading her at about aged eleven, and it was my life-long love of her work that inspired me to write in the period.

AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE
(RITA finalist; Reader's Choice Award; Romantic Times Best Regency Novel; Bookrak bestseller.)

Ruined through her vile brother's schemes, Eleanor Chivenham is in despair until she is offered rescue by marriage, but marriage to a charming rake with an infamous French mistress. Eleanor accepts, but she is determined to treat this arranged marriage with cool dignity. Once she meets Nicholas Delaney, however, her confidence in her ability to do that is shaken. Not only does he stir her senses and touch her heart, but she glimpses trouble and pain beneath the smooth exterior.

Nicholas is indeed troubled. Committed to serving his country by seducing secrets out of a French spy, he is then persuaded by his brother to marry the woman the earl has ruined. Are even his fabled abilities with women up to this task? To assist him, he gathers together again the schoolboy group he started years before, the Company of Rogues, but even they cannot protect Eleanor and Nicholas from the dark plots being woven around them. Plots that threaten not only their fragile marriage, but their lives.

In 1991 Romantic Times acclaimed An Arranged Marriage as "a splendid love story.... This immensely appealing pair of lovers will utterly captivate readers, while Ms. Beverley's commanding ease with the Regency period provides a veritable feast of delight for the true connoisseur. Bravo!"

The Duchess of Belcraven committed a folly, and bore her husband another man's child. Only a third son, however, so all was patched over. Then the two older boys drowned, leaving disaster. Now, over twenty years later, the duke discovers that he has a daughter, a child of his blood, and he compels the two to marry -- the arrogant ducal heir, devastated to learn for the first time that he is illegitimate; and the independent schoolteacher raised in the principles of the Rights of Women. Is there any common ground at all?

"Ms. Beverley is a storyteller par excellence, whose vivid and mesmerizing characters totally engage all the reader's emotions...topnotch Regency reading pleasure." Romantic Times

Leander, Lord Charrington has a problem. Raised to be a charming diplomat, women fall in love with him. He, however, seems unable to fall in love with them. For wife, therefore, he wants a woman he can live with on honest terms, and an impoverished widow seems ideal. Judith Rossiter thanks heaven for this escape from disaster. But can she keep to the terms of their agreement and not fall in love with her charming husband?

A "splendid new Regency novel by one of the genre's most gifted storytellers.... a beautifully complex love story that will become a treasured addition to every Regency connoisseur's shelf." Romantic Times.

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The death of her husband has freed Serena Riverton from life as an abused sex-object, but now her brothers plan to force her into another similar marriage. Fleeing, she is helped by Francis, Lord Middlethorpe. A passionate encounter leaves her pregnant, but no keener on marriage than before. He is virtually committed to marrying a sweet-natured lady. They marry anyway, and struggle to make something of their lives amid the disapproval of all around them.

"Nobody does Regency better than Jo Beverley, and this latest tale adds to the argument that she may just be the best." Rendezvous

"Ms. Beverley breaks just about every rule in the book and makes us beg for more in this enthralling love story. A fabulous dreamspinner, Ms. Beverley is well on her way to becoming one of the great names of the romance genre." Romantic Times.

Miles Cavanagh just wants to be in the Shires hunting, but instead he is unwilling guardian to a twenty-year-old heiress. He hopes this will be merely a symbolic position, but that's before he discovers that Felicity Monahan is hell-bent on marrying a fortune-hunting wretch. And before he begins to fall in love with her.

Despite her own growing love for Miles, Felicity has excellent reasons for her choice. Miles is determined to thwart her. Equal in will and ruthlessness, they are soon on a course that is dangerous indeed.

"...a smashing book: fast paced, tense and compelling, with a touch of Irish magic." GEnie Romance Exchange

HAZARD

You may have met Lady Anne Peckworth in FORBIDDEN, being exquisitely polite after being jilted. You may have heard about her in THE DRAGON'S BRIDE, being pitied from afar because another suitor found a woman he truly loved. Anne may have been the perfect lady once, but twice is her limit! Now she's angry, and to torment her further she has a mysterious, infuriating interloper called Race de Vere to turn her life upside down. And to tempt her to play hazard -- with dice, and with her heart.

NAL Signet, May 2002 ISBN=0-451-20580
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ST. RAVEN

Tristan Tregallows, Duke of St. Raven is playing the highwayman. His plan is to hold up one coach in order to prove that a man is prison is not the infamous Le Corbeau. However, his target coach is carrying vile Lord Crofton and an obviously innocent lady. Tris has to rescue her, no matter how reluctant she is. And then, of course, he has to help her on her quest, especially as it will take her to an orgy. He is, he assures her, an expert guide to orgies.

NAL Signet, February 2003 ISBN=0-451-20807-2
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SKYLARK

Sir Stephen Ball is the quiet member of the Company of Rogues. The lawyer and Member of Parliament whom the Rogues like to keep out of the action so he can act in an official capacity if necessary. Stephen, however, would dearly love an adventure.

More than that, Stephen dearly loves Laura Gardeyne, who as Laura Watcombe was his sister's best friend and as close as a sister to him. He realized too late that his feelings weren't brotherly, and anyway, he was too young to think of marriage when she married the dashing Hal Gardeyne.

Now, however, Hal is dead and Stephen visits Laura to try again to woo her. She's in no mood for romance. Someone might have tried to poison her son and a dangerous mystery hangs over the whole Gardeyne family. Stephen decides that the best way to win his beloved would be to solve the mystery and ensure Laura and Harry's safety. If his plan gets her alone with him in disguise in a small seaside town, all the better.
NAL Signet, May 2004 ISBN=0-451-21183-9
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THE ROGUE'S RETURN

Simon St. Bride, man of mystery! He's the Rogue who's hardly been mentioned in the previous books except to say that he's in Canada. Where in Canada? York, which is now Toronto. What's he been doing there? Fighting in the War of 1812, then attempting to tidy things up afterward. Now it's 1816 and time to return to England, but a duel and an unwanted wedding get in the way. Then someone really tries to kill him.


NAL Signet, March 2006 ISBN=0-451-21788-8
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TO RESCUE A ROGUE

Lord Darius Debenham caught the attention of readers even from small appearances in the earlier books, and the report of his death in An Unwilling Bride led to a campaign of "Dare lives!" Well, he did, but was discovered frail from his wounds and ill-treatment and addicted to opium. As the author, I'd put him in that situation and I had to rescue him and restore the joy in his life.

My assistant in this is Lady Mara St. Bride, sister to Simon St. Bride of The Rogue's Return. She has the St. Bride need to champion causes, and shares Simon's tendency to plunge into action. She's always thought of Dare Debenham as a beloved brother, and she cannot let a beloved brother suffer. She soon finds, however, that he is simply beloved.

"An exquisitely rendered story" Library Journal
"...well-crafted, delicious and wickedly captivating." Romantic Times

NAL Signet, September 2006 ISBN=0-451-22011-0
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LADY BEWARE

Lady Thea Debenham thinks her only problem is a stained ball gown, but in the deserted corridors of her home she meets Vile Viscount Darien; her life will never be the same. She has always been a perfect lady, which makes her perfect for Darien's purposes. He's determined to force his way into Society despite his own dubious reputation and the appalling one of his family. Thea is the perfect weapon, especially when she's the sister of a Rogue. After his time at Harrow school, he hates the Company of Rogues.

NAL Signet, June 2007 ISBN=0-451-22149-4
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