Posts Tagged ‘spinster’
The Spinster & The Beast – A Regency Novella
Elizabeth Wicklow is a confirmed spinster, content to chaperone her lovely nieces on their hunt for husbands. While she has no foolish notions about her own martial state, her heart quakes at the sight of Major Rutledge, a man from her past. Unfortunately, Major Rutledge is enamored by one of her nieces! What could possibly be more devastating?
Elizabeth decides to vent her frustrations in a letter. Thinking no one will read it, she spares no details.
However, her deepest secrets are about to be discovered… by the elusive “Mr. Nobody.”
Sensuality Level : Sweet
Word Count: 20,000
Almost A Spinster
An omnibus of Jenna Petersen’s wildly popular “You Tell Me the Story” online interactive novellas.
In “Her Every Desire” Lady Jane asks her old friend Wesley to do a favor for her, seduce the fiance of the man she believes she loves. Instead he proposes that they pretend to be engaged to make the other man jealous and please Wesley’s “dying” grandmother. But what starts as a pretended engagement leads to true feelings. And a choice that must be made that could change both their lives forever.
In “A Scandal to Keep”, Felicity Ellis made a terrible decision that ruined her when she gave her innocence to a scoundrel. But after his death, his younger brother Gabriel inherits the title… and the sins of his brother and father. Felicity cannot believe the two brothers could be so different, but after they kiss, she finds herself entertaining more than just Gabriel’s offer to make amends with a marriage of convenience.
Finally, in “A Woman Scorned”, Madeline was humiliated and ruined after her engagement was broken. Now she is in the country helping her aunt with a difficult pregnancy when she is nearly run down by Nathan and his horse. He believes she is a servant and Maddie lets him continue that misconception. But they are from very different worlds, and by the time he realizes her deception, it may be too late.
A Matter of Choice
Joshua Camden, Marquess of Montfort, will do everything in his power to save his precious Graystone Manor – even take a wife he doesn’t want. But he isn’t prepared for the one demand the woman who holds the power to save his precious Graystone makes – that he remain faithful forever. Lady Allison Townsend would rather go to her grave a spinster than marry a man who embarrasses her with his string of mistresses. But when she’s given no choice but to marry one of London’s most well-known rakes and womanizers, she refuses to go to the altar without a stipulation of her own – that the man she marries never share his bed with another woman. But neither Allison nor Joshua is prepared for the dangers they’re forced to face and the choices they’re forced to make to protect their happiness – as well as their hearts.
Venetia (Hqn)
Her beauty rivaled only by her sensibility, Venetia Lanyon is nearly resigned to spinsterhood, thanks to the enormous amount of responsibility she inherited with a Yorkshire estate, an invalid brother and the lackluster efforts of two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then she meets her neighbor, the infamous Lord Damerel, a charming rake shunned by polite society—exactly the type of man that a woman of quality should stay away from.
Though his scandalous past and deepest secrets give Venetia every reason to mistrust him, a rogue always gets what he wants. Without warning, his demanding kiss threatens to become a bachelor’s undoing…and a spinster’s most passionate awakening.
Tangled Reins (Historical Series No. 3)
Miss Dorothea Darent has no intention of ever getting married, certainly not to a rogue such as the Marquis of Hazelmere. A disreputable scoundrel, he is captivated when they meet by chance and is determined to win her heart, even while she’s busy dazzling the rest of London society. Now Dorothea has a choice to make: stick with her plan to remain a respectable spinster, or run into the arms of her dashing stranger….
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