Historical romance

To Mend the Broken-Hearted

To Mend the Broken-Hearted

Ruth is a healer, not a social gadfly. She's glad to leave the foreign world of the ton to run an errand for her sister-in-law. She doesn't expect to be caught up in a smallpox epidemic, nor to meet the man of her dreams.

War and betrayal have wounded Val beyond bearing. The woman who arrives at his retreat with patients who need shelter says she's a healer. But he is beyond healing. Isn't he?

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To Wed a Proper Lady

To Wed a Proper Lady

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James must marry to please his grandfather, the duke, and to win social acceptance for himself and his father’s other foreign-born children. But only Lady Sophia Belvoir makes his heart sing, and to win her, he must invite himself to spend Christmas at the home of his father’s greatest enemy.

Sophia keeps secret her tendre for James, Lord Elfingham. After all, the whole of Society knows he is pursuing the younger Belvoir sister, not the older one left on the shelf after two failed betrothals.

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A Suitable Husband

A Suitable Husband

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As the Duchess of Haverford’s companion, Cedrica Grenford is not treated as a poor relation and is encouraged to mingle with Her Grace’s guests. Perhaps among the gentlemen gathered for the duchess’s house party, she will find a suitable husband?
Marcel Fournier has only one ambition: to save enough from his fees serving as chef in the houses of the ton to become the proprietor of his own fine restaurant. An affair with the duchess’s dependent would be dangerous. Anything else is impossible. Isn’t it?

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Paradise Regained

Paradise Regained

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James Winderfield yearns to end a long journey in the arms of his loving family. But his father’s agents offer the exiled prodigal forgiveness and a place in Society — if he abandons his foreign-born wife and children to return to England.

With her husband away, Mahzad faces revolt, invasion and betrayal in the mountain kingdom they built together. A queen without her king, she will not allow their dream and their family to be destroyed.

But the greatest threats to their marriage and their lives together is the widening distance between them. To win Paradise, they must face the truths in their hearts.

This novella is prequel to The Children of the Mountain King series. It was first published in the Bluestocking Belle's 2017 Christmas collection, Follow Your Star Home.

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Chasing the Tale

Chasing the Tale

... from the imagination of award-winning author Jude Knight. Nine Regency plus one colonial New Zealand and one medieval Scotland. Multiple tropes, catastrophes and barriers on the way to a happy ending.

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Holiday Escapes

Holiday Escapes

Holidays, relatives, pressure to marry—sometimes it is all too much. Is it any wonder a woman may need to escape? The heroines in this collection of stories aren’t afraid to take matters into their own hands when they’ve had enough.

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Unkept Promises

Unkept Promises

$3.99eBook: Coming 24 September
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Series: The Golden Redepennings, Book 4
Genre: Historical romance

Mia Redepenning arrives in Cape Town to nurse her husband's dying mistress and adopt his children. Jules Redepenning finds his long abandoned child bride has grown up since he married her to protect her seven long years ago.

Each falls in love with the other, but will that be enough when their duties part them, and enemies threaten?

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The Realm of Silence

The Realm of Silence

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In a frantic chase up the Regency's Great North Road, Susan Cunningham and Gil Rutledge rediscover their childhood friendship. Danger awaits them in Edinburgh, where Susan's daughter is lost in the city's underbelly. Gil can face such trials with the ease of an experienced campaign officer; the challenge to his heart is another matter.

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A Raging Madness

A Raging Madness

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Ella survived an abusive and philandering husband, in-laws who hate her, and public scorn. But she’s not sure she will survive love. It is too late to guard her heart from the man forced to pretend he married such a disreputable widow, but at least she will not burden him with feelings he can never return. She prays he will learn to tolerate her.

Alex understands his supposed wife never wishes to remarry. And if she had chosen to wed, it would not have been to him. He should have wooed her when he was whole, when he could have had her love, not her pity. But it is too late now. She looks at him and sees a broken man. He hopes she will learn to bear him.

In a masquerade of a marriage, Ella and Alex soon discover they are more well-matched than they thought possible. But then the couple’s blossoming trust is ripped apart by a malicious enemy. Two lost souls must together face the demons of their past to save their lives and give their love a future.

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Farewell to Kindness

Farewell to Kindness

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He thought he had buried his heart with his children. He was wrong.

“And now… farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.” Alexander Dumas

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Candle’s Christmas Chair

Candle’s Christmas Chair

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When Viscount Avery comes to see the best invalid chair maker in the southwest of England he does not expect to find Minerva Bradshaw, the woman who rejected him three years earlier. Or did she? Older and wiser, he wonders if there is more to the story.

For three years, Min Bradshaw has remembered the handsome guardsman who courted her for her fortune. She didn't expect to see him in her workshop, and she certainly doesn't intend to let him fool her again. Even if he is handsomer and more charming than ever.

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Gingerbread Bride

Gingerbread Bride

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Traveling with her father’s fleet has not prepared Mary Pritchard for London. When she strikes out on her own, she finds adventure, trouble, and her girlhood hero, riding once more to her rescue.

Now available AT THE SAME PRICE as part of the box set, Holiday Escapes. Heaps of bonus reading.

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Lord Calne’s Christmas Ruby

Lord Calne’s Christmas Ruby

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Fashionable London holds nothing for wealthy merchant's niece, Lalamani Finchurch. Except perhaps for an earl with a twisted hand and a charming smile. Why is it that, for all the fortune hunters she has fended off since returning from India, the one man who seems to like her is so against marrying for money?

Philip has inherited an impoverished earldom, but he still has his work as an engineer to fall back on. He doesn’t have to sell himself to the highest bidder, and isn’t even tempted by the women he meets in Society, until a tiny woman with beautiful eyes and a fine mind dances with him on his last night in London.

When they meet again in a small country village, they join forces to uncover larceny and deceit, to rescue Lalamani's aunt from poverty, and to discover that pride is a poor reason to refuse a love for a lifetime.

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A Baron for Becky

A Baron for Becky

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A fallen woman dreams of getting back on her feet, until unexpected news threatens disaster.

Becky has a pampered life that she yearns to leave.

Aldridge is not free to follow his heart.

Hugh hides a secret that makes him unfit to marry.

Two wounded people and a would-be benefactor, determined to solve their problems.

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The Bluestocking and the Barbarian

The Bluestocking and the Barbarian

James must marry to please his grandfather, the duke, and to win social acceptance for himself and his father’s other foreign-born children. But only Lady Sophia Belvoir makes his heart sing, and to win her, he must invite himself to spend Christmas at the home of his father’s greatest enemy. Sophia keeps secret her tendre for James, Lord Elfingham. After all, the whole of Society knows he is pursuing the younger Belvoir sister, not the older one left on the shelf after two failed betrothals.

(This novella has been rewritten and republished as a novel in the Children of the Mountain King series. It's called To Wed a Proper Lady.)

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Revealed In Mist

Revealed In Mist

$17.99 USD printeBook: $3.49 USD

Prue's job is to uncover secrets, but she hides a few of her own. When she is framed for murder and cast into Newgate, her one-time lover comes to her rescue. Will revealing what she knows help in their hunt for blackmailers, traitors, and murderers? Or threaten all she holds dear?

Enquiry agent David solves problems for the ton, but will never be one of them. When his latest case includes his legitimate half-brothers as well as the woman who left him months ago, he finds the past and the circumstances of his birth difficult to ignore. Danger to Prue makes it impossible.

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House of Thorns–no longer published. Has been replaced by Grasp the Thorn

House of Thorns–no longer published. Has been replaced by Grasp the Thorn

Coming sooneBook: USD99c

Grasp the Thorn in the Lion's Zoo series is a rewrite of this book.

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Hand-Turned Tales

Hand-Turned Tales

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Hand-Turned Tales is a book of stories. Think of it like a sampler box of chocolates: each one complete, but a different flavour. Dip in, and try my writing for free: four very different tales with a variety of heroes, heroines, and villains.

The three short stories and one novella are also sold as stand-alone paperback books from Amazon and BooksAMillion.

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Lost in the Tale

Lost in the Tale

A collection of lunch-length reads: four short stories and a novella. I offer them as a sample of my writing style, the stories I love to tell, and the types of hero and heroine I love creating. I hope you enjoy getting lost in my tales.
Thank you to Marcia Bucktin, Jennifer Coleman, Dawn Morse, Sheryl Lynne Nyary, and Teri Slabinski Donaldson, who planted the seeds that became these stories.

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If Mistletoe Could Tell Tales

If Mistletoe Could Tell Tales

UD$2.99eBook: US$2.99

What better time to fall in love than during the magic of a family-centred festival? Jude has collected six published Christmas themed stories to produce ♥If Mistletoe Could Tell Tales♥.

Contents comprise novellas ♥Gingerbread Bride♥, ♥Candle’s Christmas Chair♥, ♥A Suitable Husband♥, and ♥Lord Calne’s Christmas Ruby♥, and stories from the Tales collections, All that Glisters and Magnus and the Christmas Angel. The collection won’t, probably, interest those who already have most of those books, but Jude is also be selling the new one, ♥Lord Calne’s Christmas Ruby♥, as a stand-along ebook novella.

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Forged in Fire

Forged in Fire

Burned in their youth, neither Tad nor Lottie expected to feel the fires of love. The years have soothed the pain, and each has built a comfortable, if not fully satisfying, life, on paths that intersect and then diverge again.
But then the inferno of a volcanic eruption sears away the lies of the past and frees them to forge a future together.

A novella in the 2017 holiday box set from the Bluestocking Belles

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