Historical romance – traditional

Chasing the Tale: Volume II

Chasing the Tale: Volume II

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Christmas at Hollystone Hall
At a time of peace and goodwill toward men, the new Duke of Haverford struggles to reconcile with his mother, who had tried to prevent his marriage.

Lady Cicely’s Forfeit
When she made the wager, Cicely had been certain she could skate faster than that ridiculous fop Lord Benjamin. When she finds herself racing half the people in the house party, she faces potential scandal and even defeat.

Lord Dependable to the Rescue
Millicent chose the wrong suitor, and is now stuck in a dungeon, with a flooded river threatening to pour in through the window. George might be the most aggravating man in England, but she can’t deny that he had been right about Arthur.

Miss Winston’s Honour
Lily Winston cannot return to her work as a governess with a baby in tow; nor can she abandon little Peter. Ralph Stephenson is determined to defend her from those who see a baby as evidence she is a loose woman. The Marquis of Aldridge makes an unlikely, but effective, cupid.

Only a Kiss
In colonial New Zealand, five girls enliven their social season with a daring game. For one, the game has unintended consequences.

The Abduction of Miss Amaryllis Fernhill
Rilla has been trapped into wedding a nasty old man. Constantly watched, threatened with even more dire consequences if she refuses, she wishes for rescue. It comes in a most surprising form.

The Easter Bonnet
Wearing new clothing on Easter is meant to bring good luck. Can a single bonnet bring luck to three different couples?

The Major’s Homecoming
Luke comes home from the wars when his brother claims to be in danger. When someone takes a shot at Luke, Magda finds him in her vegetable garden with a bullet wound in his shoulder. The two childhood sweethearts set out to unravel the plot against Luke and Paul, and to recover their old love.

The Kindest Gentleman
A reluctant animal doctor and an abused poor relation find common cause over a litter of puppies and an injured cat.

The Truant Lord Clairmont
Lady Clairmont goes to a scandalous house party to retrieve her truant husband after his return to England from a nine-year absence. What she discovers is unexpected.

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‘Lord Cuckoo Comes Home’ in Desperate Daughters

‘Lord Cuckoo Comes Home’ in Desperate Daughters

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One of nine stories in Desperate Daughters, the 2022 Bluestocking Belles Collection with Friends, Lord Cuckoo Comes Home brings a tired soldier who has not had a home in nearly 20 years, and a girl from the country who has never had a chance to be even a wallflower.

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Zara’s Locket in Belles & Beaux

Zara’s Locket in Belles & Beaux

A run-in with the adult son of the household leads to dismissal for governess Zahrah ibnit Yousef, or Zara MacLaren as the household knows her. Turned out of on a Christmas Eve, her circumstances go from bad to worse when she is robbed and then arrested.

Goldsmith and jeweler Simon Marshall recognizes the locket a young aristocrat tries to sell, and it leads him on a hunt for Zara, the friend of his childhood. He finds her. He finds trouble, too, and joins her incarceration.

They need a Christmas miracle. It will take a pair of charitable goalers, a little Christmas cheer, and the timely intervention of family to bring this story to a happy ending.

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Paradise Triptych

Paradise Triptych

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Separated when young, James and Eleanor married other people.

Paradise Triptych traces their histories.

Paradise Regained: James chooses between England and his new family in Central Asia. Paradise Lost: Eleanor, shaken by James's reappearance, relives memories of her life. Paradise at Last: They are free to marry at last. Will their own pride and a vengeful villain stand in their way?

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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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Weave Me a Rope

Weave Me a Rope

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When the Earl of Spenhurst declares his love for a merchant’s niece, he is locked away in a tower. Spen won’t get out, the marquess his father says, until he agrees to an arranged marriage.

After the marquess unceremoniously ejects Cordelia Milton from his country mansion, she is determined to rescue her beloved, but it all goes horribly wrong.

She needs time to recover from her injuries, and Spen has been moved across the country under heavy guard. It seems impossible for two young lovers to overcome the selfish plans of two powerful peers, but they won’t give up.

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Christmastide Kisses

Christmastide Kisses

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Six charming holiday season romances from award-winning and best-selling authors.

The Bluestocking Belles and Friends brighten your holidays with:

  • A beleaguered uncle whose wards have run off every governess--what he needs is a wife, if only he can persuade the latest applicant
  • A country solicitor who becomes an earl and then finds a secret that changes everything
  • A very proper clergyman battles very improper urges when he and a lady with a murky past find themselves snowbound
  • A viscount whose search to unearth generations-old family secrets kindles the fire of love for his lovely search partner
  • A former army captain wonders if the best friend of his ex-fiancee is the woman he should have married
  • A vicar with a misspent youth and the duke’s daughter who brings out the best in him

Six gentlemen and the ladies with whom they discover the power of a Christmastide Kiss.

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