Regency Lovers

This 26,000 word novella was previously published in A Regency Duo by Carole Mortimer & Angelique Armae. There have been no changes or additions from the original novella.INDECENT (Regency Lovers 1) is the 1st book in USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer's, NEW Regency series.Impoverished Miss Emma Harris can hardly believe her good fortune when Adam Stirling, the handsome and imposing Duke of Hawkwood, asks her father for her hand in marriage.However, she feels thoroughly humiliated when she attends a masked ball that very same evening and sees Hawkwood in a compromising position with a married woman. A very compromising position, in fact it is positively INDECENT.Angry and upset, Emma confronts Hawkwood with what she saw, accusing him of only wanting to marry her as a shield to his affairs with other women. Accusations the duke denies.Half in love with the arrogant Hawkwood, Emma is devastated when she learns the real reason he asked her to marry him.But if Emma thinks Adam is the type of gentleman to meekly accept her rejection, she is about to learn exactly how INDECENT he can be when he wants something as deeply as he now wants Emma.

OBSESSION (Regency Lovers 2) is the 2nd book in Amazon #1 & USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer's, NEW Regency series, Regency Lovers.Author's note: The books in the Regency Lovers series are steaming hot!Three years ago Lord Alexander Stirling, younger brother of the Duke of Hawkwood, had been shocked to learn he had been made the guardian of fifteen-year-old Miss Amanda Fullerton, the daughter of a man he had once served with in the army. Having absolutely no room in his bachelor life for a young ward Alex immediately enrolled Amanda into Miss Marchment's School for Young Ladies, and apart from paying the school fees, had promptly forgotten about her.Unfortunately, he has now received a letter from Miss Marchment informing him Amanda Fullerton is now past the age for continuing as a pupil at her school. The headmistress now requires Alex's instruction as to whether Amanda should remain at the school as one of the teachers or be returned to him.There was no question in Alex's mind that Amanda Fullerton should remain at the school.Having spent the past three years languishing in the strict confines of Miss Marchment's school Amanda had no intention of remaining there a moment longer that she had to. Nor did she intend being forced to do so, by the headmistress, or the man who was her guardian but had not so much as visited her at the school once nor requested she ever join him for the holidays.As far as Amanda is concerned Lord Alexander Stirling has avoided his responsibilities for quite long enough.She was completely unprepared for the shock of arriving at Lord Stirling's London home and finding him in bed with an equally naked and beautiful red-haired woman.Alex is furious at the manner in which his ward has chosen to take it upon herself to arrive completely unannounced and uninvited at his residence in London. That anger is added to by his feeling completely wrong-footed by the timing of Amanda 's intrusion into that bachelor establishment.But having arrived, Amanda Fullerton refuses to leave, and without resorting to actually physically removing her, Alex has no choice but to accept his beautiful and disobedient ward is here to stay. An acceptance that is immediately complicated by the unexpected desire Alex quickly realizes he feels for his ward.When a series of "accidents" put Amanda's life in danger Alex finds himself stepping up to the role of guardian and protector when he would far rather be Amanda's lover.

CRAVING (Regency Lovers 3) is the 3rd book in Amazon #1 & USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer's, Regency Lovers Series.Author's note: The books in the Regency Lovers series are steaming hot. You have been warned!At the age of seven and twenty, Miss Sophia Marchment, unlike many of her contemporaries, has lived a life of satisfying independence without the restraint of either a husband or male relative. As headmistress of her own school for young ladies in Portsmouth, Sophia is not afraid to share her independent views with 'her girls'.During a stay in London in which she meets with Magnus Spencer, the Duke Weston and the widowed father of a potential student, Sophia receives several unsigned and threatening letters. Ones in which she is advised to return to her home in Portsmouth or face the consequences.Quite what those consequences might be Sophia has no idea, but nor will she be told what to do by someone who is not even brave enough to sign their own letters.Aged eight and thirty, and single for many years, Magnus Spencer, the Duke of Weston, knows he has grown both cynical and arrogant. Nevertheless he finds himself surprisingly drawn to the beauty and independence of Miss Sophia Marchment. An attraction he has every reason to believe she reciprocates, and yet refuses to act upon. The more Magnus sees Sophia the more his attraction to her deepens, until she is all he can think about. A CRAVING beyond his control.But not everyone feels that same admiration for Sophia and her fiercely independent ways, and when her very life is put in danger it falls to Magnus to protect her. From herself if necessary.

SURRENDER (Regency Lovers 5) is the 5th book in Amazon #1 & USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer's, historical romance series, Regency Lovers.Author's note: This book is a #MayDecember steaming HOT Regency romanceA month after being kidnapped, rescued, and returned to her family, eighteen-year-old Miss Clara Catchpole is still recovering from her terrifying ordeal. No longer the young and frivolous Miss she once was, there is now only one person Clara wishes to see and be with, and that is Lord Ezra Stone, her rescuer and a man twenty years her senior.Unfortunately, for Clara, that gentleman's company proves to be as elusive as he is taciturn.Ezra is aware of Miss Clara Catchpole in a way he has not been with any other woman, but his age and the events of his past make it impossible for him to pursue her, even when he knows he is hurting Clara with his seeming disinterest. She is young, he decides, and will recover from what can only be her infatuation with him.He is able to maintain that distance between them until those events from his past once again intrude on the quiet life he has made for himself. Faced with the dilemma of ensuring Clara's safety or protecting his own heart, Ezra knows there is only one choice he can make. Keeping Clara safe is all that matters to him.Will these two mismatched people find happiness together or will Ezra's past tear them apart?More books by Carole Mortimer:Regency Lovers Series:INDECENT (Regency Lovers 1)OBSESSION (Regency Lovers 2)CRAVING (Regency Lovers 3)FORBIDDEN (Regency Lovers 4)SURRENDER (Regency Lovers 5)More books to come in this HOT Regency Series.Steele Protectors:LOGAN (Steele Protectors 1)ATTICUS (Steele Protectors 2)BRYCE (Steele Protectors 3)ROURKE (Steele Protectors 4)More books to come in this HOT Contemporary Romantic Suspense SeriesAlso Available:ALPHA Series – Bks 1-8Regency Unlaced – Bks 1-9Regency Sinners – Bks 1-8Dragon Hearts – Bks 1-7Carole Mortimer has written over 245 books in Regency, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, and Paranormal romance. In 2015 she became the Recipient of the prestigious Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. She was awarded a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 2017. She is an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author-ever. A 2014 Romantic Times Pioneer of Romance. She was also recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, for her "outstanding service to literature".

SCANDAL (Regency Lovers 6) is the last book in Amazon #1 & USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer's, historical romance series, Regency Lovers.Author's note: This is a steaming HOT Regency romance.Rachel has never met anyone quite like Grayson Long. From the moment of their introduction Rachel finds Mr. Long to be brusque to the point of rudeness, arrogant as any duke, but so handsome he takes her breath away. Closer acquaintance does not improve upon that initial impression, but nor does her heart cease beating faster whenever Mr. Long is anywhere near.Grayson is accustomed now to always standing in the background, to never quite belonging, but it wasn't always this way. Once he had an estate of his own, a family and a title, but all that was taken from him. He certainly has nothing to offer any woman let alone one as lovely and innocent as Miss Rachel Banford, resulting in him deciding to keep his distance from her whenever possible.But Grayson cannot continue to maintain that distance when Rachel becomes the target of a vindictive woman's vengeance.Coming Soon – Regency Club Venus - HOT new Regency SeriesBastian's Surrender (Regency Club Venus 1)More books by Carole Mortimer:Regency Lovers Series:INDECENT (Regency Lovers 1)OBSESSION (Regency Lovers 2)CRAVING (Regency Lovers 3)FORBIDDEN (Regency Lovers 4)SURRENDER (Regency Lovers 5)SCANDAL (Regency Lovers 6)Series complete.Steele Protectors:LOGAN (Steele Protectors 1)ATTICUS (Steele Protectors 2)BRYCE (Steele Protectors 3)ROURKE (Steele Protectors 4)More books to come in this HOT Contemporary Romantic Suspense SeriesAlso Available:ALPHA Series – Bks 1-8Regency Unlaced – Bks 1-9Regency Sinners – Bks 1-8Knight Security – Bks 0.5-6Dragon Hearts – Bks 1-7Carole Mortimer has written over 245 books in Regency, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, and Paranormal romance. In 2015 she became the Recipient of the prestigious Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. She was awarded a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 2017. She is an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author-ever. Carole is a 2014 Romantic Times Pioneer of Romance. She was also recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, for her "outstanding service to literature".

FORBIDDEN (Regency Lovers 4) is the 4th book in Amazon #1 & USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer's, historical romance series, Regency Lovers.Author's note: The books in the Regency Lovers series are steaming hot. You have been warned!They met in fire, burning with a passion for each other, but when the truth is known will their love turn to ashes?Eleven years ago Lord Zachary Noble, the Earl of Harrogate, was involved in a scandal which rocked Society. It resulted in the loss of his reputation and being ostracized and held in contempt by those who mattered to him.His best friend.His family.No woman would even consider marrying him.All of it gone because of the false accusation levelled at him by a young woman he barely knew.All these years later Zachary's good name has at last been restored to him after the real culprit is finally found and punished for the crime.Lady Rissa Spencer is very like her father, Magnus, the Duke of Weston, in that she is both determined and steadfast once she sets her very stubborn mind on something, or someone. And she has set her heart on Zachary.Zachary appreciates that Rissa is beautiful, as well as vivacious and intelligent, but she is also the very last woman he should ever allow himself to fall in love with.Nor will Rissa wish for his love once she becomes aware that the scandal in Zachary's past is connected to her family and the stepmother she adores.Unfortunately the past has a way of intruding into the present, and when it seems Rissa's very life might be in danger, Zachary is determined to protect her. No matter what the cost.