Proper Romance

Wonderful "Pride and Prejudice" romance without all the spice!

Updated December 19, 2024
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Ashes on the moor
Eden, Sarah M.
Paper Book
A Castaway in Cornwall
Klassen, Julie
Audiobook
Set adrift on the tides of fate by the deaths of her parents and left wanting answers, Laura Callaway now lives with her uncle and his disapproving wife in North Cornwall. There she feels like a castaway, always viewed as an outsider even as she yearns to belong. While...
A castaway in Cornwall
Klassen, Julie
Audiobook
Set adrift on the tides of fate by the deaths of her parents and left wanting answers, Laura Callaway now lives with her uncle and his disapproving wife in North Cornwall. There she feels like a castaway, always viewed as an outsider even as she yearns to belong. While...
A Castaway in Cornwall
Klassen, Julie.
Ebook
Set adrift on the tides of fate by the deaths of her parents and left wanting answers, Laura Callaway now lives with her uncle and his disapproving wife in North Cornwall. There she feels like a castaway, always viewed as an outsider even as she yearns to belong. While wreckers search for valuables...
The Dancing Master
Klassen, Julie.
Paper Book
Finding himself the man of the family, London dancing master Alec Valcourt moves his mother and sister to remote Devonshire, hoping to start over. But he is stunned to learn the village matriarch has prohibited all dancing, for reasons buried deep in her past. Alec finds an unlikely ally in...
The Girl in the Gatehouse
Klassen, Julie.
Paper Book
Miss Mariah Aubrey, banished after a scandal, hides herself away in a long-abandoned gatehouse on the far edge of a distant relative's estate. There, she supports herself and her loyal servant the only way she knows how--by writing novels in secret. Captain Matthew Bryant, returning to...
The Headmistress of Rosemere
Ladd, Sarah E.
Ebook
In Regency England, the same time period as Bridgerton and Poldark, Patience Creighton has devoted her life to running her father's boarding school. But when the enigmatic master of the estate appears at her door, battered and unconscious, the young headmistress suddenly finds her livelihood--and...
The Heiress of Winterwood
Ladd, Sarah E.
Ebook
In this sweet Regency romance, Amelia Barret will risk everything to keep her word--even to the point of proposing to a sea captain she's never met. Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby....
The Heiress of Winterwood
Ladd, Sarah E.
Audiobook
In the shelter of Hollythorne House
Ladd, Sarah E.
Audiobook
The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill Tales From Ivy Hill, Book 1
Klassen, Julie.
Paper Book
First Series from Bestselling Author Julie Klassen The lifeblood of the Wiltshire village of Ivy Hill is its coaching inn, The Bell. But when the innkeeper dies suddenly, his genteel wife, Jane Bell, becomes the reluctant owner. Jane has no notion of how to run a business. However,...
The lady and the highwayman
Eden, Sarah M.
Paper Book
Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls' school and a well-respected author of "silver-fork" novels, stories written both for and about the upper-class ladies of Victorian society. But by night, she writes very different kinds of stories--the Penny Dreadfuls that are all the rage among the...
The Lady in the Coppergate Tower Steampunk Proper Romance Series, Book 3
Allen, Nancy Campbell.
Ebook
Hazel Hughes believes there is nothing remarkable about her, not even her strange ability to heal the sick and injured. Her employer, Doctor Sam MacInnes recognizes her special talent, but because of the difference in their social status, he can't tell her how much he admires her. When a...
Lakeshire Park
Walker, Megan
Ebook
Brighton, England 1820  Amelia Moore wants only one thing--to secure the future happiness of her younger sister, Clara. With their stepfather's looming death, the two sisters will soon be on their own--without family, a ...
The Letter From Briarton Park
Ladd, Sarah E.
Audiobook
The light at Wyndcliff
Ladd, Sarah E.
Ebook
Set in the same time period as Poldark and Bridgerton, this Regency romance follows a young man searching for truth among the debris of multiple shipwrecks on his newly inherited property. Cornwall, England, 1820: Raised on the sprawling and rugged Wyndcliff Estate near the dangerous coast...
The maid of Fairbourne Hall
Klassen, Julie
Audiobook
Regency Romance and Mystery from Bestselling Author Julie Klassen   To escape a scheme to marry her off to a dishonorable man, Margaret Macy flees London disguised as a housemaid. If she can remain unwed until her next birthday, she will receive an inheritance, and with...
The Maid of Fairbourne Hall
Klassen, Julie.
Ebook
Regency Romance and Mystery from Bestselling Author Julie KlassenPampered Margaret Macy flees London in disguise to escape pressure to marry a dishonorable man. With no money and nowhere else to go, she takes a position as a housemaid in the home of Nathaniel Upchurch, a suitor she once rejected in...
The matchmaker's lonely heart
Allen, Nancy Campbell
Paper Book
A romance develops as a detective partners with a lonely-hearts columnist to solve a murder mystery. London, 1885 Amelie Hampton is a hopeless romantic, which makes her the perfect columnist to answer lonely heart letters in The Marriage Gazette. When Amelie plays...
The Matchmaker's Lonely Heart LIB/e
Allen, Nancy Campbell
Paper Book
A romance develops as a detective partners with a lonely-hearts columnist to solve a murder mystery. London, 1885 Amelie Hampton is a hopeless romantic, which makes her the perfect columnist to answer lonely heart letters in The Marriage Gazette. When Amelie plays...
Meeting her match
Turano, Jen
Audiobook
Protecting her heart
Allen, Nancy Campbell
Ebook
London, 1887 When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels...
The secret of the India orchid
Allen, Nancy Campbell
Ebook
Anthony Blake is in love with his best friend's sister, Sophia Elliot. But his plans to court her are put on hold when he is forced to resume his role as an undercover spy for the Crown. A secret document listing the names of the entire network of British spies-including his own-has been stolen...
Shadows of Swanford Abbey
Klassen, Julie,
Audiobook
Agatha Christie meets Jane Austen in this atmospheric Regency tale brimming with mystery, intrigue, and romance. When Miss Rebecca Lane returns to her home village after a few years away, her brother begs for a favor: go to nearby Swanford Abbey and deliver his manuscript...
The sheriffs of Savage Wells
Eden, Sarah M.
Audiobook
The sisters of Sea View
Klassen, Julie
Audiobook
Some guests have come for a holiday, others for hidden reasons of their own ... When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers and her genteel sisters fear they will be forced to sell the house and separate to earn livelihoods as governesses or...
A Stranger at Fellsworth
Ladd, Sarah E.
Ebook
The Governess of Penwythe Hall Cornwall, England, 1811 Rich with family secrets, lingering danger, and the captivating allure of new love, this Regency romance introduces us to the Twethewey family and their search for peace, justice, and love on the Cornish coast. ...
To love the brooding baron
Flint, Jentry
The Tutor's Daughter
Klassen, Julie.
Audiobook
RITA finalist and Christy Award winner Julie Klassen draws high marks from fans for her meticulous attention to detail in her inspirational historical romances. With The Tutor's Daughter, Klassen sweeps listeners away to the blustery Cornwall coast, where Emma Smallwood and her widowed father take...
A winter by the sea
Klassen, Julie
Paper Book
2024 Christy Award FinalistRoyalty comes to Sidmouth, bringing unexpected danger and the sweet possibility of romance. . . .When the Duke and Duchess of Kent and their daughter--the future Queen Victoria--rent neighboring Woolbrook Cottage for the winter, the Summers sisters are called upon...
A Winter by the Sea
Klassen, Julie.
Ebook
2024 Christy Award FinalistRoyalty comes to Sidmouth, bringing unexpected danger and the sweet possibility of romance. . . .When the Duke and Duchess of Kent and their daughter--the future Queen Victoria--rent neighboring Woolbrook Cottage for the winter, the Summers sisters are called upon...
With this pledge
Alexander, Tamera
Paper Book
From the pages of history and the personal accounts of those who endured the Battle of Franklin, Tamera Alexander weaves real-life love letters into a story of unlikely romance first kindled amid the shadows of the Civil War. "Beautifully-drawn characters and rich history in...

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