Books in series
#0
Scandal of the Season
2021
How did Miss Araminta Partington’s first season end under a cloud? Find out in the prequel to the Daughters of Sin series about two nobly born sisters and their illegitimate half-sisters, an actress and a governess.
Reluctant chaperone, Mrs Charlotte Wendover, has been dragged out of widow’s weeds to keep an eye on Araminta, and to ensure another scandal-prone young miss doesn’t inveigle a susceptible young man into matrimony.
When Araminta lands in a compromising situation with handsome, eligible Mr Durham, the pretty, briefly-married Mrs Wendover acts with prompt creativity to ensure that she is seen as the errant female.
After all, a widow can be forgiven for being discovered in a gentleman’s bedchamber. And what real harm can come of the lie? Araminta’s good name will be protected, and it’s not as if Charlotte has any plans for entering unholy matrimony again – regardless of how charming she finds Mr Durham.
But charming Mr Durham, who barely noticed Mrs Wendover until suddenly the gossips claim she has committed unspeakable acts with him, is suddenly intrigued by the unassuming widow with an unexpected streak of boldness.
If society has ruled Mrs Wendover guilty of a crime she did not commit, wouldn’t it be a waste for her to leave London without at least seeing if it were a crime she might have liked to commit?
Learn how Araminta’s first season did finish under a cloud, how designing and unsuitable Miss Julia Preston did inveigle a susceptible young gentleman into marriage. And how reluctantly Charlotte did throw off her widow’s weeds.
Then you can decide which was the real Scandal of the Season.
#1
Her Gilded Prison
2013
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Lady Sybil’s perfect life is a perfect lie. Her husband spends more time with his beloved mistress and illegitimate children than he does with her. Worse, since he no longer beds her, they’re left with only a distant cousin as heir. While her husband lives, Sybil knows no erotic touches, no passion. No love. If her husband dies, her home will be entailed to Stephen, a stranger.
When Stephen visits the property that will one day be his, he’s instantly ensnared in a web of lust, longing and lies. For how can he resist Lady Sybil, a woman so full of beauty and life? A woman who deserves to be loved and worshipped and set free from the gilded prison in which she’s trapped? Stephen is determined to show Lady Sybil every pleasure she’s been deprived of, even if it means being forever condemned in society’s eyes.
Inside Scoop: This erotic Regency romance features an intense, taboo relationship between an older woman and a younger man.
#2
Dangerous Gentlemen
2014
She was the wallflower beneath his notice…until a terrible mistake has one dangerous, delicious rake believing she's the "fair Cyprian" ordered for his pleasure.
Lady Henrietta has always known her place—in her dazzling older sister’s shadow. She’s a little brown peahen to Araminta’s bird of paradise.
But when the innocent debutante is mistaken for her common namesake "Hetty" and embroiled in the Regency underworld, she finds herself shockingly compromised by the dashing, dangerous Sir Aubrey, the very gentleman her heart desires. And the man Araminta has in her cold, calculating sights.
Branded an enemy of the Crown, bitter over the loss of his wife, Sir Aubrey wants only to lose himself in the warm, willing body of the young “prostitute” Hetty. As he tutors her in the art of lovemaking, Aubrey is pleased to find Hetty not only an ardent student but a bright, witty and charming companion.
Despite a spoiled Araminta plotting for a marriage offer and a powerful political enemy damaging his reputation, Aubrey believes he's been set up to suffer his greatest betrayal at the hands of the little “concubine” who’s managed to breach the stony exterior of his heart.
Until the 'the little brown peahen' reveals her true colors.
#3
The Mysterious Governess
2016
Lissa Hazlett lives life in the shadows. The beautiful, illegitimate daughter of Viscount Partington earns her living as an overworked governess while her vain and spoiled half sister, Araminta, enjoys London’s social whirl as its most feted debutante.
When Lissa’s rare talent as a portraitist brings her unexpectedly into the bosom of society – and into the midst of a scandal involving Araminta and suspected English traitor Lord Debenham – she finds an unlikely ally: charming and besotted Ralph Tunley, Lord Debenham’s underpaid, enterprising secretary. Ralph can’t afford to leave the employ of the villainous viscount much less keep a wife but he can help Lissa navigate a perilous web of lies and to ensure everyone gets their just desserts. With a little help from unexpected quarters there may even be a surprise Happy-Ever-After for the star-crossed lovers.
#4
Beyond Rubies
2016
Dazzling Kitty La Bijou has run away to London to meet her destiny. Distinguishing herself on the stage, she’s soon embroiled in a passionate affair with a handsome nobleman. Lord Mandelton’s smoldering black eyes and the scar across his cheek mark him out as her future husband, as foretold her by a gypsy fortune-teller four years earlier.
But is fickle Lord Mandelton truly her destiny? Or can charming, clever Lord Silverton, a man with a secret he cannot reveal, persuade Kitty that a much more exciting future lies with him?
When Kitty is embroiled in the machinations of her half-sister Araminta, who needs a scapegoat for some very serious misdemeanors, she’s plunged into a world of traitors and deceit.
Can dashing Lord Silverton extricate her, or is he the wickedest of them all?
#5
Lady Unveiled
The Cuckold's Conspiracy
2017
Kitty has the love of the man of her dreams but as London’s most acclaimed actress and a member of the demimondaine, she accepts she can never be kind and handsome Lord Silverton’s lawful wedded wife.
When Kitty comes to the aid of shy, accident-prone and kind-hearted Octavia Mandelton, her sense of justice leads to her making the most difficult decision of her life: Give up the man she loves for the sake of honour. For Octavia is still betrothed to Lord Silverton who’d rescued Kitty in dramatic circumstances only weeks before.
Cast adrift, Kitty joins forces with her sister, Lissa, a talented artist posing as a governess in order to bring to justice a dangerous spy, villainous Lord Debenham. Complicating matters is the fact Debenham is married to their half-sister, vain and beautiful Araminta.
However, Araminta has a dark secret which only Kitty knows and which she realizes she is duty-bound to expose if she’s to achieve justice and win happiness for deserving Lissa and Lissa’s enterprising sweetheart, Ralph Tunley, long-suffering secretary to Lord Debenham.
All seems set for a happy ending when Kitty tumbles into mortal danger. A danger from which only a truly honorable man can save her. A man like Silverton who must now make the hardest choice of his life if he’s to live with his conscience.
Authors
Beverley Oakley
Author · 30 books
Also writes under Beverley Eikli. Beverley Oakley writes Regency, Victorian and Georgian-set romances full of passion and laced with mystery and intrigue. Born in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, she married the handsome bush pilot she met in Botswana while managing a safari lodge and has spent the rest of her life as a ‘trailing spouse’ doing what she loves most: writing books from sweet to steamy; and from humorous to historical romantic suspense. Here’s more about her series. Daughters of Sin A very steamy, funny, witty and dangerous Regency-set ‘Dynasty’ featuring two nobly-born debutantes and their illegitimate sisters - laced with political intrigue, cheating spouses and, of course, dangerous gentlemen.
- Her Gilded Prison
- Dangerous Gentlemen
- The Mysterious Governess
- Beyond Rubies
- Lady Unveiled: The Cuckold’s Conspiracy (Prequel coming October 2021) The Scandalous Miss Brightwells A humorous, sometimes steamy, matchmaking series – with some books sweeter and more sensual and poignant.
- Rake’s Honour
- Rogue’s Kiss
- The Wedding Wager
- The Accidental Elopement
- The Honourable Fortune Hunter
- The Wilful Widow
- The Courtship Caper Fair Cyprians of London A group of women who work in a high class House of Assignation. Ranging from very steamy to sweet, hopeful redemption stories.
- Saving Grace
- Forsaking Hope
- Keeping Faith
- Wedding Violet
- Christmas Charity
- Loving Lily Hearts in Hiding Historical romantic suspense, very steamy often showing the darker aspects of Regency society, including the dependence and subjugation of women – and how, against the odds, they find their happy-ever-afters.
- The Duchess and the Highwayman
- The Bluestocking and the Rake
- Duchess of Seduction
- The Countess and the Cavalier Scandalous: Three Daring Charades Three sweet, yet intrigue-filled Regency historicals Lady Sarah’s Redemption Lady Olivia’s Butterfly A Little Deception You can connect with Beverley on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorBeverl..., or through her website at: www.beverleyoakley.com http://twitter.com/BeverleyOakley https://www.facebook.com/beverley.eikli
