Is Number 67 Clarges Street the unluckiest house in Mayfair? Every season the beau mondes of the Regency would hire a house in the heart of London’s fashionable West End at disproportionately high rent for often inferior accommodation and yet Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant from year to year. Could it be that it is associated with ill luck and even death? Something must be done so that the servants of this house don’t lose their livelihood.

The Bad Husbands series deals with three very different women with one thing in common - they are married to the worst kind of men: a cruel philanderer, a drunken brute, or a useless gambler. In each case, fate offers a way out of their situation, but their troubles have only just begun. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

The sole book in the Changing Fortunes series follows Lady Betty, who has no interest in the Duke of Collingham. The Duke of Collingham can have any woman he wants - but he only wants the one who won't have him, and he'll stop at nothing to persuade her. Note - this book was originally published as a standalone novel.

The Edwardian Candlelight Series chronicles young, passionate girls who come to understand the nature of true love despite overwhelming odds. From a penniless pauper, a stenographer, a governess to an accused murderess, these ladies in love overcome incredible odds with grit and sophistication to find and keep true love. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

The sole book in the Ladies in Love series follows Miss Amaryllis Duvane, a reigning beauty of the London season, now penniless and alone after her father's death. She is forced to survive on the charity of relatives who made her little more than a servant. Note - this book was originally published as a standalone novel.

The heroines of the Regency Candlelight Series set out to conquer London’s glittering high society and marriage mart. These headstrong women cannot help but keep London society dangling on a string, but will they find a husband or lose themselves in the game? Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

Searching for lighter romances set in the English countryside? Look no farther than the Regency Flame Series, which features mistaken identities, botched marriages, witty heroines, and the courtship of prime Corinthians. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

When opposites attract, the romantic fires rage higher. So it follows in the titles of the Regency Royal Series when the seemingly most unusual and inappropriate matches are ultimately the marriages of passion and adventure. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

The heroines of the Regency Season Series come from all walks of life. But whatever their origin, be it as an orphan, a tomboy, a ladies companion or a convicted criminal, what they all have in common is a complicated path to love. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

Sir Beverley has two great assets - six lovely daughters, and Mannerling, their exquisite 17th century family mansion. But luck is not among them, and when he gambles away the family estate, his daughters are left homeless and determined to regain it. Marrying into a wealthy family would allow them to do this, but are the daughters willing to do what it takes?

What do you do if you are of noble stock, but impoverished, and living in London with a certain style to maintain? One has to work... but One's relatives will be appalled when One turns One's hand to trade - and opens a hotel, The Poor Relation, offering employment to others of the same social standing and in the same awkward situation. This is precisely what Mrs Fortescue decides upon and, together with friend Colonel Sandhurst, transforms her decrepit Bond Street home into a posh hotel, offering guests the pleasure of being waited upon by the nobility.

'If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daughter, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst'

When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an inheritance, they place this advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional chaperones, vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage at their School for Manners. But the sisters are going to have their work cut out for them.

The Reverend Charles Armitage has two problems - firstly, that his family has little money; and secondly, that he has six daughters in need of husbands. Reverend Armitage sees an opportunity to solve both of these at the same time, but will his strong-willed daughters fall in line? And will they be able to find anyone to match their completely different personalities?

A dead employer's legacy of five thousand pounds allows spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure travelling the English countryside by stagecoach. But as she travels around the country, she encounters a series of young women in search of - or fleeing from - romance, and she is only too happy to lend her assistance.

The infamous and reclusive bluestocking Madame Waverly adopted three girls and raised them to be her disciples, spreading the word of women's rights against male oppression. But can her daughters Fanny, Frederica and Felicity stick to their principles and resist the attraction of the opposite sex?

Many of M.C. Beaton's historical romances were originally published as standalone novels. But there is only one story which was published as a standalone novella, the Summer of Discontent.