Daphne Du Bois Books

'The Rogue's Reluctant Rose' is a traditional Regency romance in the style of Georgette Heyer...Will a single moment of impulse change the course of their lives?Miss Araminta Barrington , clever, pretty and unexpectedly poor, decides to sacrifice her own happiness in a marriage of convenience.Determined to save her family from ruin, she sets out to win the wealthy and good-natured Sir Timothy Stanton, but just when success is in sight, she catches the eye of Jasper Devereaux , the scandalous Marquis of Chestleto n , whose own growing fascination with Miss Barrington compels him to pursue her at all costs.To be seen in Chestleton’s company could ruin any chance of securing a marriage that would save everything Araminta holds dear. Chestleton is not the marrying sort and hopeless love is a luxury Araminta cannot afford.When a riding accident forces her to be his unwilling guest at a secluded country house, will Minta’s undeniable attraction to the dangerous marquis override her sense of duty? And when the time comes, will he be able to let her go?Love has a way of arriving precisely when it’s least wanted...

'The Scoundrel's Secret Siren' is a traditional Regency romance in the style of Georgette Heyer... He could deny the truth no longer: the most valuable thing he'd ever won in a game of chance was the heart of Miss Lorelei Lindon. Was love not the greatest gamble of all? When bored Miss Lorelei Lindon sneaks out in the middle of the night in search of ghosts, she finds rather more than she bargained for in the enigmatic Lord Winbourne. And when he does a dastardly thing and steals her treasured necklace as a memento of their midnight encounter, she must find a way to retrieve it without causing a scandal. Lord Winbourne is certainly a mystery and he seems determined to make her whole world unravel. How can one man burn with such passion one moment, and assume such a frosty façade the next? Will Lorelei be able to retrieve her trinket without losing her heart and her virtue to the irresistible rake? Is she a complete wanton or is the passion between them so wrong that it must be right? And will he acknowledge the true depth of his own passion before it is too late? Throw in a few well-meaning relatives, a niece stubbornly caught up in her own romantic dilemmas and duel to the death, and Lorelei's life will surely never be boring again...

'His Wayward Duchess' is a traditional Regency romance in the style of Georgette Heyer...A marriage most inconvenient…When SYLVESTER PONTRIDGE unexpectedly inherits the family estate and becomes the Duke of Strathavon, he decides on a marriage of convenience with the plain, practical MISS HOLLY MILLFORTE. Who better to help him set the crumbling estate to rights?But Miss Millforte is much more than Sylvester (or even she herself) could ever imagine! When Holly turns the tables on her duke, charming London society and stealing Sylvester’s heart into the bargain, can their marriage take a most inconvenient turn towards love instead?An old-fashioned comedy of manners in which adventure, blackmail, rakish cousins, and true love abound…

A traditional Regency romance in the style of Georgette Heyer... She will settle for nothing less than love... Miss Margaret Dacre dreams of two things: creating the gowns she's been dreaming up in her sketchbooks and winning the love of Lord Hartley. And neither of these will come true if her father has his way and she marries her dreadful cousin Kingsley Stanhope. But Maggie is not one to give up without a fight: she decides that she's long-overdue an adventure and nothing less than Paris will do. As Maggie and her dearest friend Cecile begin to establish their new identities in the most romantic city in the world, she discovers that love isn't so easily left behind - especially when you're trying to ignore it. But will Lord Hartley ever see her as more than his best friend's little sister? Or would the handsome conductor Sir Lucian Blake make for a better match?