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.

What could be more engaging than the women who rise from the commoner classes and minor nobility to triumph in the unforgiving high society of London. Read about women who have lost their fortunes, country girls at their first season, and new wives who can’t resist temptation in the nine titles of the Changing Fortunes series. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

The seven heroines of the Daring Debutantes Series set out to conquer London’s glittering high society and marriage mart. These headstrong women cannot help but keep the most wanted bachelors 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.

From a bride whose scandalous secret is revealed on her wedding day by a talking mynah bird, to a duke seduced by love letters secretly written by someone else, to an ingénue and a vicar’s wife drawn unexpectedly into the whirlwind of the London season, these seven novels are set in a world of high society scheming and passions hidden behind nineteenth-century propriety. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

Taking us from the English countryside to the social circles of London, the novels in this sparkling collection feature a botched marriage, a drugged bride, a witty governess, an unexpected inheritance, and many other delightful surprises from “a romance writer who deftly blends humor and adventure” (Booklist). Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

From a penniless pauper to a stenographer, a governess, and an accused murderess, the heroines of this outstanding collection overcome incredible odds with grit and sophistication—to conquer their challenges and to find true love. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

Beset by awkward situations, inconvenient feelings, and ambitious families, the women in the seven books of this romance series refuse to bend to society’s whim and still manage to capture true love in the process. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

In the Regency Intrigue series, our heroines are trapped in poverty, by loveless marriages, or by intrigues. In each case, these women will prove more than a match for their adversaries, and more than a match for their would-be suitors. Note - the books in this series were originally published as standalone novels.

The Royal Ambition series is a collection of seven Regency romps that draw you into a world of seduction, scandal, and sin. Each heroine, from a confirmed spinster, to a vicar's daughter, to a fraudulent princess, has to find her own way to achieve her dreams. 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 traveling 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.