In a family of dark-haired children, blonde Ivy has always felt like the odd duck out. Always finding herself in trouble, she sees her potential redemption when the village's new visitor asks her to show him around. Everyone is sure to take notice when she's on the arm of a handsome man. But her new friend is more cha...
Charlotte Claridge lives a life dictated by her stepmother's whims. Sent to live with one family member after another, she finally arrives in Scotland, on the doorstep of a crumbling estate abandoned by its owner. With her aunt, she spends her days mending curtains and peeling potatoes, a quiet existence that changes...
( COMPLETED STORY) What happens when the rakish Lord in the whole of London is truly falling in love with a simple, plain, and most ordinary girl, something he has been avoiding- his innermost fear. True love? Miss Amy Ott is London's newest riddle. . . She's the mysterious niece of one of England's wealthiest duk...
Good girls don't go snooping where they don't belong. But Lady Delia Scarborough never claimed to be a good girl. Lady Delia Scarborough wants her sister back from the grave. Since that can't happen, she'll settle for the next best thing... Making sure her sister's murderer does not go free. Lady Delia's happy to pl...
Heir and a spare... Jacob Thornton-Spencer never intended to inherit his father's estate-one rarely does when they're the half-disowned second son of a particularly ill-tempered duke-but when his father and his brother drop dead in the middle of a wedding, Jacob finds himself sole heir...and sole suspect. Fortunately...
Forced to sail to the sun-drenched kingdom of Ardalone to fulfill a marriage alliance, Prince Thomas of Pretania must choose one of the Ardalonian princesses to be his wife. But every choice comes with consequences. Spurned by Thomas' older brother, Princess Dulciana stands to inherit the throne as she is eldest, but...
Disguised as a man and captured by ruthless pirates, debutante Octavia Palmer must find a stolen treasure to save her father from debtor's prison. But can she escape with her life--and her heart-- when the devilishly handsome Captain Charles Atwell knows her secret? *** Desperate to save her father from death in a deb...
Regency debutante Lottie Atwell must silence a blackmailing killer before her secrets are exposed and her family is ruined. She's killed before, but can she do it again? *** One year ago, Lottie Atwell killed a man to defend her honor. Now, a blackmailing killer claims to have proof of the incident and will reveal he...
***2016 WATTY AWARD WINNER - VORACIOUS READS*** WINNER OF THE FICTION AWARDS 2016 - HISTORICAL FICTION Against all odds, Libby Marks-Whelan is back at court - and no longer confined to the service corridors as a lady-in-waiting. With the start of the new Winter Season, however, the competition for a crown just got a...
Prince Gavrila is, to put it lightly, rather unhappy about having been dragged home from the war. However he is tasked with the petty tradition every king must honour; choosing his bride. Whilst there are six months avaliable with which to get to know his ten possible fiancees, Gavrila is determined spend as little ti...
(Complete) I backed against the door, and balled my hand into fists, to keep myself from panicking. "I..." Another step. We were now inches apart and he stood in front of me, his face in the shadows. "Who are you?", he asked, his voice sending shivers down my spine. I couldn't tell him! Or, should I? ~~~~~~~~ In which...
[2022 YOUNG ADULT WATTY WINNER] Penny Brooks's life is nothing short of perfect; during her reign of being a mean girl at Royal High School, she has it all: a hot boyfriend, the coolest best friend who is the ultimate bully, and a position at the top of the food chain. What could be better? But when Penny and Annie ar...
[2022 WATTPAD BOOKS AWARD & WATTY WINNER: GETTING PUBLISHED 2025] There's a boy at Evergreen High that has a different girlfriend every two weeks, and yet, none of them speak badly of him. This perplexes Skyler Fox, a clever girl with a strong sense of justice. Even more so when one of her best friends spends two we...
**The Season Series Prequel (#0.5)** Isabelle de Haviland is hopelessly in love with Prince Leopold of Germania. Fortunately for her, the dashing foreign prince is her betrothed, thanks to a decade-old marriage treaty signed by her father, the Duke of Kentshire. But Kentshire is a rich and bountiful duchy, with Isabel...
HE HAS VOWED TO GRACE THE BED OF EVERY WIDOW IN LONDON... Nicholas Kentshire, Lord of Carlisle is enjoying his life as a notorious rake of London. Being the fourth son nobody expects anything from him. He is free of any responsibility that comes with being a Lord. SHE HAS TO SAVE HERSELF... After her father's death...
**Only the bonus chapter is paid, the rest of the story is (and will stay) free!!** Libby Marks-Whelan is decidedly not a lady. Kicked out of nearly every finishing school in the country, she's shocked when her demure, straight-laced cousin Ella invites her to the royal court as attendant during her debutante season...
*Book 2 in the Regency Series- can be read as a standalone.* Nathaniel Whitlock, Duke of Somerhall is used to debutantes who want him for nothing more than his title and the wealth and prestige that comes with it. He has seen the first of his sisters marry for love and knows that it is something he wants for himself...
Reputation! For Lord William Kentshire, reputation is the one thing that he treasured the most. The one thing that took him far up the ladder. The one thing that he will do anything to save. Reputation! For Lady Kathalina, reputation is the one thing that she doesn't seem to understand. The one thing that took her far...
One must see beyond the title. The Duke of Devonshire, the most powerful duke in England, tires of female debutantes' and their gabster mothers' pretenses and Spanish coins just to win the station of duchess next to him. But one queer day in Northamptonshire, he meets the strangest of women by the name of Esther. Who...
Octavia Sorrell, the Countess of Kendall, had been forced into marriage by her father and brother when she was only fifteen years old. Just after her sixteenth birthday, she gave birth to twins; Charles and Olivia. Two years later, after Lord Kendall's scandalous death, and fearing the gossip it had caused her, she b...
Cover made by @lsahiggins3. A duke betrayed by his wife for another man . An innocent Duke's daughter ruined by her fiancé on the evening before their wedding . A pair of broken hearts longing to heal. A social season that will Bring them together for a love that they rightfully deserve.
Leonard Fox, the Duke of Montrose-handsome as the very devil and a physician by profession was very content with his less than normal life. But then his best friend dies, leaving his four year old daughter under Leo's guardianship. Leo loves the girl, no doubt. But that didn't mean he knew how to raise her. So he ends...
A fierce warrior seduces a mysterious rebel to protect the king. --- Epsa proudly defends the nation as a member of King Makapu's Royal Guard. When a resistance movement threatens the kingdom from within, Makapu calls on Epsa for a task requiring more than just combat skills. Epsa must seduce Izra, a mysterious and ma...
(COMPLETED) It's 1817 and there is nothing more a woman wants than to marry a rich man and live a life of comfort. But not Nancy Brooks. Having spent half her life helping her mother run her laundry shop and the other half in the local library, Nancy knows what she wants, and it is not a life spent looking for the p...
**This book is FREE with a paid bonus short story!** She's always wanted to date a gentleman - so why does she find herself falling for a rogue? *** Ophelia Prescott is a hopeless romantic, and she's determined to find her own Mr. Darcy during her study abroad in London. In fact, she's already spotted him in the libra...
"No respect for the dead." His words came out in silent whispers, his teeth clenched. A small smile tugged on her lips. "Respect is earned in life, my lord. When a man fails to earn respect in life, it cannot suddenly be bestowed on him simply because he returned to the dust whence he came." "At the very least, Lady A...
Born a bastard, Race Belington has lived all his life paying the price of his father's infidelity. Scorned and set aside by society, he is in doubt that even his newly acquired wealth will be enough to secure him a wife. Still, he manages to fall in love with a woman of the ton, and risks it all by asking her to marry...
#Wattys2016 Lord James Ravenwood is next in line to become the next Duke of Sudbury after the untimely death of his parents in childhood. It won't happen unless he changes his rakish ways and manages to secure a bride this season after his grandfather threatened to disinherit him and pass the dukedom onto a distant co...
Josephine McMaster is pretty and smart, but very much a klutzy mess. Finally, at 26, she may have actually lost the dreaded 'McMaster the Disaster' nickname that has followed her around her whole life. Josie's quite content to be single, much to her mother's disappointment. So when a bizarre contest is announced wher...
In order to save her family's reputation, Ella Hunter agrees to marry a mysterious nobleman looking to save his family's fortune.