regency novels

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes commentary on literary and historical context as well as allusion and language.

Anthony Bridgerton is a playboy London bachelor who shocks everyone when he announces plans to marry. His fianc?'s sister, Kate, objects and attempts to stop the betrothal. Her schemes drive Anthony crazy, but he is more troubled by the erotic dreams he has been having about Kate. Kate wants to protect her sister, but she soon finds her heart falling for Anthony and can't resist him when he kisses her.

When the handsome duke Simon Bassett and lovely Daphne Bridgerton develop a scheme for "pretending" their engagement to keep other suitors away, they are drawn together despite many hardships, and their scheme may not last.

After being stripped of her title upon learning her parents were never married, Camille Westcott steps aside as her newly discovered half-sister, Anna, asserts her role as the rightful heir to their father's fortune. Camille takes a teaching job at an orphanage where Anna grew up. There she meets an artist and part-time teacher named Joel, who finds her as incorrigible as she finds him. But under the hostility and frustration, a flame begins to burn, and soon the two cannot deny the passion they feel for one another.

Fiona, a beautiful and wealthy Scottish heiress is sent to the Tribble sisters to be prepared for the London society season, after the season's first ball the sister's realize why she left Scotland unmarried.

Lydia Bennet, the younger sister of "Pride and Prejudice's" Elizabeth Bennet, believes George Wickham is the man of her dreams, but she soon realizes reality is not a fairy tale and happily ever after may come from unexpected places.