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Historical Romances

 

Below you'll find a list of my Severn House titles which are available in your local library.

 
    

Penniless and alone in the world, Corrie knows that life must have more to offer than drudgery in a bleak Cornish orphanage, and fending off the unwelcome advances of unscrupulous Ezra Follett.  As though in answer to her prayers, a visitor appears, bringing news of what may be a much brighter future.

Just returned from the Napoleonic wars, Raul Beringer has discovered that the legacy of his late father's wine business in Madeira is not a straightforward affair.  As well as contending with the enmity of his younger brother, Maynard, the company now belongs in part to this unknown English girl.  Under the terms of his father's will, whoever makes the most profit from their inheritance in a year will win overall control of the company.  The battle commences but is there more than money at stake?

 

   
     

When the Honourable Felicity Travers discovers that her late father had arranged a marriage for her, she consider this stretched duty a little too much to ask.  for one thing, she is expected to marry Jarle Blakeley, the man she believes to be responsible for her father's bankruptcy; and, secondly, inspired by the suffragette movement, Felicity intends to be a modern woman and make her own decisions.

The entrepreneurial Blakely proves persuasive, if lacking in romance, and Felicity changes her mind.  But there are secrets to be told, secrets which surely mean that this marriage has no hope of success.

 

 

 
     

 

Strong-willed and beautiful, Charlotte Forbes is due to inherit her father's fortune on her eighteenth birthday.  But even money cannot destroy the scandal lurking in her past.

From the moment that Sir James Caraddon, the rising star of Pitt's government, informs Charlotte of her inheritance, both their lives are turned upside down.  Time after time, the two are thrown together and, as James is forced to protect Charlotte from the unsavoury characters who have an eye on her wealth, the two find themselves fighting an inevitable attraction . . .

Charleston 1780.  With the war entering its fifth year, Hester Mackay and her Aunt Kizzy are reduced to taking lodgers into their once grand mansion just to make ends meet.  But Hester hadn't bargained on an English gunrunner and black marketeer being one of them - particularly one as attractive as Benjamin Blake.

Three years later, Independence is won but Hester's troubles are far from over.  Her brother George has died, Aunt Kizzy is now bankrupt and Carter Lois the local storekeeper, is still pursuing her.  Thankfully, Hester accepts Benjamin's proposal as an easy way out, and they leave for her Nort6h Georgia plantation house.

Happiness is short-lived, however - Cart brings Aunt Kizzy home and warns Hester that her handsome husband has already killed two wives.  can it be true?  If not, who else is behind the mysterious accidents which suddenly begin to befall Hester?

Despite her passion for photography, twenty-five year-old Abigail Carter feels life must have more to offer than being companion to Mrs Emilia Goodenough, and standing in loco parentis to her frivolous younger sister Polly seems equally unrewarding!

Then all three ladies are roused to excitement when Emilia's nephew, Carl Montegne, arrives to sweep them off to Italy to help him search for the long lost family fortune.  But Carl makes it clear he doesn't trust his aunt's companion, or the interest that a local landowner is showing, and even the picturesque scenery doesn't stem the friction between them - until the romance of the quest suddenly turns into danger, and Abigail discovers the extent of her feelings.