Jo Beverley. Jove, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-58353-7
Beverley’s Regency romance touches on an important historical event, the childbed death of Princess Charlotte, but never makes it feel real. Princess Charlotte’s tragedy leads everyone to confront mortality, including Lady Ariana Boxstall, who fears
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Jo Beverley. Signet, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-47190-1
Beverley’s latest Regency romance introduces pragmatic lovers who find happiness together despite distractions from family and civil unrest. Kitty Cateril’s war hero husband was injured in battle and eventually died. Trapped with her depressed...
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Jo Beverley, Author . Signet $6.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-451-20807-1
Beverley returns with another Regency-era romance loosely tied to her Company of Rogues series (Hazard, etc.). Tristan, the reluctant Duke of St. Raven, is posing as a highwayman when he stumbles upon Miss Cressida Mandeville. Tristan takes it upon...
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Jo Beverley. Signet Select, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-47189-5
Beverley’s long-running Company of Rogues Regency series continues (after A Shocking Delight) with a novel that eschews steamy love scenes to focus on character development and a swiftly moving plot. Lady Hermione Merryhew is traveling with her...
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Jo Beverley, Author Zebra $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8217-4858-9
When Portia St. Claire's half-brother gambles away the family estate, leaving them penniless, she sets off in search of a wealthy family friend, the Earl of Walgrave, from whom she hopes to secure a loan. Unfortunately, although Walgrave proves...
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Jo Beverley, Author Signet Book $6.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-451-19997-3
Beverley (Secrets of the Night) will delight readers with the fifth installment in her series of historical romance novels centered around the Mallorens, a dashing, aristocratic English family. Bey Malloren, the Marquess of Rothgar (who was...
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Jo Beverley, Signet, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-23271-7
Beverley's 11th Malloren World romance, which starts a new trilogy, is a delightful, deftly plotted exploration of social class, gender roles, and romance. Prudence Youlgrave's expectations are reasonable for an impoverished woman in 1765 Yorkshire:
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Jo Beverley, Author, Teresa Bodwell, Author Topaz $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-40780-1
Lady Elfin Malloren, sister of Cyn (My Lady Notorious) and Bryght (Tempting Fortune) is 25, virginal and destined to become a spinster with no future except to oversee her brother's estates. Bored of feeling safe, she longs for ""wild adventure""...
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Jo Beverley, Author, Teresa Bodwell, Author . Signet $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-21183-5
This slow-moving addition to Beverley's Company of Rogues series (St. Raven
, etc.) fails to hold the reader's attention, despite its likable protagonists. Laura, "Lady Skylark" to the London elite, was a dazzling 18-year-old when...
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Jo Beverley, Author, Teresa Bodwell, Author . Signet $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-20580-3
Beverley's newest (following The Devil's Heiress) is an engaging, if thinly plotted, Regency-era love story featuring Lady Anne Peckworth. Demure, reserved and polite to a fault, even after being jilted twice, Anne is the perfect heiress....
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Jo Beverley, Author, Teresa Bodwell, Author . Signet $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-20254-3
With this deftly woven tale of romantic intrigue, Beverley (The Dragon's Bride, etc.) completes her Regency-era trilogy devoted to "The Georges," three lifelong friends who return from Waterloo to find themselves facing trying...
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Jo Beverley, Author, Teresa Bodwell, Author, Cathy Maxwell, Author Signet Book $6.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-20380-9
Four talented authors team up to celebrate the virtues of younger men in an enduring quartet of stories that historical romance enthusiasts are sure to cherish. Maxwell (The Marriage Contract) kicks off this anthology with ""A Man Who Can Dance,"" a
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Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, et al. Kensington/Zebra, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2486-6
Eight authors celebrate Christmas in Regency England in this heart-warming anthology. Putney’s “She Stoops to Wenchdom” brings Lucinda Richards face to face with her childhood crush, Gregory Kenmore, who thinks himself too cowardly to deserve love....
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Jo Beverley, Author, Mary Jo Putney, Author, Barbara Samuel, Author . Signet Eclipse $15 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-22902-1
Four engaging novellas bring romance to the legend of the Holy Grail. In Beverley's “The Raven and the Rose,” set in 1153, cloistered novitiate Gledys must find the literal man of her dreams so they can summon the Grail and ensure...
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Jo Beverley, Author, Mary Jo Putney, Author, Barbara Samuel, Author . Signet Eclipse $14 (375p) ISBN 978-0-451-22039-4
Dragons may rival vampires as a popular fantasy motif and, like vampires, the mythical beasts can provide a theme for romance as well. These four original paranormal novellas mix the two genres, but are far more romantic than fantastic. All the...
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Mary Jo Putney et al. Kensington, $15 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61773-923-1
Eight romance authors (collectively known as the Word Wenches) walk into a Regency-era ballroom and wreak fabulous, shimmering holiday mischief all over the place. The Dowager Countess of Holbourne is hosting an extravagant Christmas ball, and the...
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