Books in series
#1
The Reluctant Bride
2013
Can honour and action banish the shadows of old sins?
Emily Micklen has no option after the death of her loving fiancé, Jack, but to marry the scarred, taciturn, soldier who represents her only escape from destitution.
Major Angus McCartney is tormented by the reproachful slate-grey eyes of two strikingly similar women: Jessamine, his dead mistress, and Emily, the unobtainable beauty who is now his reluctant bride.
Emily’s loyalty to Jack’s memory is matched only by Angus’s determination to atone for the past and win his wife with honour and action. As Napoleon cuts a swathe across Europe, Angus is sent to France on a mission of national security, forcing Emily to confront both her allegiance to Jack and her traitorous half-French family.
Angus and Emily may find love, but will the secrets they uncover divide them forever?
#2
An Unsuitable Alliance
2022
A handsome politician determined to stamp out corruption.
A beautiful wife with a sinful past.
And a burgeoning love threatened by more than a past liaison.
Three years after her dutifully contracted marriage, Adelaide, Lady Leeson, has fallen in love with her husband.
Desperately, unequivocally, and madly in love with the good, honest man who rescued her when she was at her lowest ebb.
The problem is that Tristan, Lord Leeson, thinks she is indeed a little mad-though he cares deeply for her.
And Adelaide's mother will do whatever she can to enforce the fiction that her daughter has led a blameless past and that her psychological distress is based on events far more innocent than the truth.
However, when Adelaide's past lover returns to England, now a celebrity due to his salacious poems, all of society wants to discover the identity of his muse.
Now Adelaide must double down on her mother's lies.
For if Tristan were to learn the truth, how could he love her?
A passionate, tender, second-chance romance of mistakes, regrets, and ultimate redemption.
#3
Passion Fever
2023
A thwarted elopement. An opportunist Guardian. Lies, secrets, and a second chance at love.
When Adelaide, Lady Leeson, learns that her illegitimate daughter, Charlotte, has run away from Miss Prism’s Ladies’ Seminary, she elicits the aid of charismatic Jasper Creighton to locate her.
By the time Jasper, a notorious rake, discovers Charlotte at an inn, part-way through a daring elopement with a man she is starting to distrust, Charlotte is ready to own up to her mistakes and return home.
Alas, Charlotte is placed instead under the guardianship of a woman who puts into motion a plan to capitalise on Charlotte’s beauty with an advantageous marriage that is to everyone’s benefit.
Except Charlotte’s.
Three years later, a wiser, but no less determined Charlotte, makes her own plans to escape her guardian and her future husband.
This time it is she who elicits Jasper Creighton’s help. Jasper might eschew marriage but, as the past has shown, he is clearly not immune to her charm.
However, Charlotte’s daring escape in the midst of her betrothal ball does not go smoothly.
A steamy second-chance Regency romance featuring a determined heroine and a stubborn hero who has to lose everything before he realises what he needs most.
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
