When Verity Pymbroke inadvertently rented her London house to Lord Carrisworth, she broke one of her most stringent rules *condoning the presence of a rake. Clearly, the man was a practiced scoundrel. The sensations he provoked in her were most unsettling, though not entirely unpleasant.His Lords...
During the reign of George III, London had its own Mr. Blackwell, of sorts -- a man named Beau Brummell, whose eye for fashion and trendsetting in England's Regency Era is now the stuff of legend. That romance author Rosemary Stevens thought to immortalize such a person as a fictional sleuth intr...
Giles Vayne, the eighth Duke of Winterton, was rich, handsome, and arrogant enough to assume that every eager mother was throwing her daughter at him. He was right, of course. Unfortunately that cynicism, plus an ill-mannered comment, made a charming country miss the subject of town scuttlebutt b...
Regency fashion icon Beau Brummell must deduce who poisoned the Prince of Wales' bodyguard before his friend is executed for the crime.
The arbiter of fashion attends the Duchess of York's birthday party. But when a guest is murdered-with one of the Duchess' hairpins-Beau must clear her name and find the culprit.
Lady Pelham had two marriageable daughters, Lady Rachel and Lady Stephanie. She was determined that the ball be a triumph to impress the eligible gentlemen in attendance and had, therefore, ordered the best of everything. Lord and Lady Pelham had already joined their guests by the time Lord Raven...
The officers shooed away the crowd. My officer took a statement from me, detailing what had happened. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed that Bradley, standing nearby, listened intently. The cop told me I would have to go down to the station house and sign the statement once it had been typed ...