-The School For Manners:
first book = Refining Felicity is the tale of the Tribble sisters's first attempt at bringing out a "difficult" young lady. Lady Felicity Vane is a rough and tumble tom-boy, much to the dismay of her parents. Can the Miss Tribbles succeed in a) refining her, b) marrying her off, and c) procuring a happy ending? Read and find out!
-The Poor Relation:
first book = Lady Fortesque Steps Out sets up the rest of the series. Lady Fortesque is an impovrished noblewoman with no hope of restoring her fortune. Then she has an idea: why not find other "poor relations" and perhaps band together? And thus begins her quest...
-The Daughters of Mannerling:
first book = The Banishment is the beginning of another sister-based series. The lovely yet haughty Isabella Beverley returns home from an unsuccessful London Season to find that her father has lost their glorious yet powerful familial home, Mannerling. She determines to marry the new owner with some surprising results.
-The Travelling Matchmaker:
first book = Emily Goes to Exeter Miss Hannah Pimm, spinster at large, has always longed to travel. Everyday she has watched the Exeter coach go by the house where she works, but never has been on it. Now with the death of her employer leaving her a surprising inheritance, Miss Pimm is off to see the world! And if she can procure a happy ending along the way, well, so much the better!
*other excellant novels:
-The Loves of Lord Granton. When Lord Granton comes for a stay in the country, the last thing he was expecting was to meet the young Frederica. But she is too young for him AND below his station in life! It could never work...could it?
-Miss Davenport's Christmas. The Davenports are religious to a fault. Gillian and Amanda have lived such a stifled life that they have never seen a Christmas tree, been to a party...nothing! So when they go to stay with some friends over the holidays, things can get VERY interesting indeed...
is a wonderful story about a spinster who thinks herself unattractive. She has little fortune, hardly an asset on the Marriage Mart! But she is sweet and earthy and loving, and oh-so good with children. Could she be the one to mend the marquess's broken heart? Oh most definatly - there's just one problem: He's engaged to her best friend!-The Famous Heroine
is another great one from Mary Balogh. In this, young Miss Cora Downes, who is cursed with a father in Trade, gains access to London Society by her daring although foolish rescue of a noble child. Things seem at first to be looking up, until she is caught in a VERY compromising situation with Lord Francis and is forced to marry him. This might be fine, if only she didn't suspect him to be gay...
is romance author Jill Marie Landis's first foray into the Regency. This is an intriguing story that asks the question: If someone came up to you on a dark and damp New Orleans night and asked you to switch places with them, would you do it? And if you did, what would happen?-Just Once
is the sequel to Day Dreamer. It tells us what happens to Jemma O'Hurley after she begs Celine Winters to change places with her that dank New Orleans night...
