Harlequin Regency Romance
Description
A romance or romantic novel is a genre fiction work focused on the relationship and romantic love between two people, often concluding with an emotionally satisfying or optimistic ending. Authors who have significantly contributed to the development of this genre include Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë. Romance novels can encompass various subgenres, such as bodice ripper, fantasy, contemporary, historical romance, paranormal fiction, sapphic, and science fiction. They may also contain tropes such as enemies to lovers, second chance, and forced proximity. While women have traditionally been considered the primary readers of romance novels, a 2017 study commissioned by the Romance Writers of America found that men accounted for 18% of romance book buyers.
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
Infamous Sea Bath
SHE was determined to rescue him at any cost! Miss Georgiana Lacy cared not a whit for the avaricious manoeuvrings of her socially-conscious mother. To discover that she had unwittingly sprung her mother's trap put her sadly out of curl. The catch was to be Anthony Braithwaite, Lord Sarre, hitherto known only to Georgiana as "Tony," the mysterious gentleman she had encountered in the woods. His easy manner and gentle teasing had instantly won her approval as well as a devotion George was hard put to understand. At Lord Sarre's invitation, the Lacys re-moved to the seashore, where Georgiana was to learn there was much more to friendship than she had imagined. When the unscrupulous designs of her matchmaking mama threatened to ruin everything, Georgiana rushed to the rescue with a shocking revelation that turned the household upside down!
The fortune hunters ..
Jessica Franklin came to Bath to marry a rich man--and she was delighted to find handsome Matthew Walsingham with every qualification. Matthew, however, had come to Bath for the same purpose, regarding Miss Franklin as the perfect wife--wealthy and beautiful. When they discovered the truth, they had to reassess the situation--and their hearts.
Beauty and the Beastie
THE sparks which flew ignited more than their tempers! At the age of five and twenty, Miss Felicity Bell was set in her ways and could think of no cause to change them. But Jamieson Denham, Earl of Hastings, disagreed, and only offered to help locate her runaway sister after eliciting a promise from Felicity that she would in no case try to manage or inconvenience him. He had not taken into account that Felicity would bow to no man's wishes, but she had been equally fair and far out to suppose he would let her go scot-free!
Lady Alicia's Secret
Lady Alicia had a plan... Since the gallants who courted her were enchanted only by her face and her fortune, Lady Alicia Morgan Fitzhugh St. John was determined to seek true love elsewhere-away from London and all who knew her. So she created Morgan Fitzhugh, a gentlewoman of modest means and in need of employment. Answering an advertisement, Alicia was hired as personal secretary to Darcy Cummings, Baron Pennsfield. But then her strategem broke down. The baron was uncommonly bad-tempered and seemed to take an instant dislike to her. Clearly, love still eluded Alicia-but in the meantime, she just might enjoy a battle of wits.