Book Table

This is the first volume of the Collected His Majesty’s Hounds series, and contains Books 1 to 3, which are ‘Claiming the Heart of a Duke’, ‘Intriguing the Viscount’ and ‘Giving a Heart of Lace’.

The series is comprised of 17 books. This is the first collected set – more will follow.

The series follows the life of six men (and their families and friends), who spent the latter part of the Napoleonic wars as an intelligence unit in Wellington’s army in France and Spain, as they return to England at the end of the wars, and take up the reins of their civilian lives again, and navigate the complexities of society and the ton.

Where they left England as second sons, many now return as Lords, with all of the resultant responsibilities - which includes marrying and begetting an heir. Of course, along the way, they each find love, but the course of true love is not always smooth!

Immerse yourself in their lives, and the regency era, and be swept away by love!

The Whole series comprises:

Claiming the Heart of a Duke

Intriguing the Viscount

Giving a Heart of Lace

Being Lady Harriet's Hero

Enchanting the Duke<

Redeeming the Marquess

Finding the Duke's Heir

Winning the Merchant Earl

Healing Lord Barton

Kissing the Duke of Hearts

Loving the Bitter Baron

Falling for the Earl

Rescuing the Countess

Betting on a Lady's Heart

Attracting the Spymaster

Courting a Spinster for Christmas

Restoring the Earl's Honour (coming soon)

If you love Regency romance, great historical romance, and stories with great characters, you'll love these !

The series is comprised of 17 books. This is the second collected set – more will follow.

The series follows the life of six men (and their families and friends), who spent the latter part of the Napoleonic wars as an intelligence unit in Wellington’s army in France and Spain, as they return to England at the end of the wars, and take up the reins of their civilian lives again, and navigate the complexities of society and the ton.

Where they left England as second sons, many now return as Lords, with all of the resultant responsibilities - which includes marrying and begetting an heir. Of course, along the way, they each find love, but the course of true love is not always smooth!

Immerse yourself in their lives, and the regency era, and be swept away by love!

SECOND EDITION - REVISED AND EXPANDED !

Miss Catherine Thornberry led a quiet life, teaching in the parish school. Until the day that the Earl of Stanningfield knocked her into the river. And then employed her as governess to his niece. It was immediately obvious to both Catherine and the Earl, as their desires overcame them, that they wanted a relationship rather different than that of employer and employee.

There was just one impediment to their romance..... one very large impediment... even more significant than the difference in their stations...

Bestselling Author, Arietta Richmond, brings you a delightful romance in the tradition of Regency Historical Romance at its best!

This is the first in the Derbyshire Set series, be sure to read all nine!

Find out what happens in the lives of all your favourite characters.

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These hot Regency romances will keep you turning the page! These are the 4th, 5th and 6th stories in the Derbyshire set series.

Book 7 - The Marchioness’ Second Chance
A widowed Marchioness, a Scholar, secrets kept far too long, a surprise inheritance, a love that heals old wounds. Olivia Asterwood, Marchioness of Hemsbridge, is two years widowed, and focusing all of her energies on finding a wife for her son. Until, that is, she meets a scholar with as much of an obsession for the history of the great families as she has. Edward Greenidge, third son of a Viscount, has spent his life as a scholar of genealogy. Burying himself in his research has seemed the safest path, after his one venture into marriage failed disastrously. A widower, he expects to spend the rest of his life in libraries, in the company of books. But fate has other plans. When they meet, common interest paves the path to intense and unexpected attraction and together they discover secrets long held, which will change both of their lives. Can Olivia see past her longstanding beliefs about love? Can Edward overcome his doubts, and admit his feelings? Or will the past steal the future from them?

Book 8 - A Viscount’s Reluctant Passion
A Viscount who avoids society, a young lady followed by rumours, a suitor with selfish intentions, scandal narrowly averted, a rescue, a passionate love. Ignatius (Nash) Harringdon, Viscount Challoner, prefers the country to London, and poring over estate books to attending Balls. When his brother’s oldest friend marries, he finds himself in London, and when he meets Miss Wormsley, his perception of society women is turned on its head. But that is not enough to make him forget the past, and the fact that love and passion only lead to pain. So… why is he staying in London, longer than he had planned? Miss Beatrice Wormsley is glad that her sister has found happiness, but she begins to wonder if she will ever find love herself. It is clear that the gossip that has followed her since childhood has found its way into the drawing rooms of the ton. As a result, she cannot expect any titled man to want her – but that does not stop her from foolishly hoping, building dreams on the fact that Lord Challoner actually talks to her, and treats her as intelligent. But when circumstance takes Nash out of London, and Bea finds herself with a noble suitor, she must resign herself to the fact that dreams rarely come true. Or do they? Will Nash return in time to save Bea from a trap set to compromise her? Will they each find the courage to admit their feelings? Or will their sense of duty drive them apart?

Book 9 - Lady Theodora’s Christmas Wish
An eligible Duke, a beautiful young Lady, a Christmas Wish, a Ball to remember. Lady Theodora Rockingham is having a wonderful year. She is finally officially the Earl’s daughter, she has turned seventeen, she has a dressing room full of new clothes, and now there is to be a Christmas Ball. All she needs now is to meet a handsome man at the Ball, and fall in love. So she makes a Christmas Wish. Chase Harrington, newly the Duke of Montford, is still adjusting to the need to give up the rakish ways that he pursued as the Marquess of Travers. But a Duke needs an heir, and that requires a suitable Lady. He just hasn’t seen one that he’s the slightest bit interested in. Until the Christmas Ball. Will Lady Theodora‘s Christmas Wish come true? Will the Duke finally find a woman he can love? Find out in this delightful Christmas story.

This is a single volume omnibus edition of the first three stories of the Derbyshire Set series, Be sure to read all nine! Find out what happens in the lives of all your favorite characters.

This collection includes:

1 - The Earl’s Unexpected Bride.
Miss Catherine Thornberry led a quiet life, teaching in the parish school. Until the day that the Earl of Stanningfield knocked her into the river. And then employed her as governess to his niece. It was immediately obvious to both Catherine and the Earl, as their desires overcame them, that they wanted a relationship rather different than that of employer and employee. There was just one impediment to their romance..... one very large impediment... even more significant than the difference in their stations...

2 - The Captain's Compromised Heiress.
After the disgrace of a wedding that did not quite succeed in happening, Lady Blanchette was finally ready to consider speaking to gentlemen again. She had not expected to meet two interesting men at once, during her parent’s house party. Nor had she expected seduction, and disreputable behavior. Can she save her reputation, and still have the man that she has come to love? Or will her moment of irresponsible passion doom her to ruin?

3 - The Viscount’s Unsuitable Affair.
Anna Perkins needed her job, as a maid at Havisham Hall, home of the Earl of Stanningfield, to survive, but one small accident was enough to put everything at risk, including her heart. Spilling a tray of jellies all over a member of the aristocracy was definitely not what she had set out to do! The fact that the gentleman in question was kind to her, and was, in addition, quite the most handsome man that she had ever met, was more difficult to deal with than cruelty might have been. Richard Maitland, Viscount Bellham, was instantly captivated by the beautiful maid he collided with in the corridor, jellies notwithstanding. Something about her fascinated him, and raised his desire, in a way that the husband hunting young ladies of the aristocracy did not. A rather annoying thing for him to discover, given that dallying with the lower classes was not on his agenda, and might even get him disinherited, should his family discover it. But love and desire have no respect for “how things should be”, and, sometimes, fate intervenes with an unexpected outcome…..

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Hunter Barrington, Duke of Melton, returned from war a changed man. Grieving his lost love, now the holder of a title that he had never thought to inherit, and expected to marry at the earliest opportunity, what he needed most was someone who could see him, simply as himself.

Lady Nerissa Loughbridge, the second daughter, always outshone by her beautiful sister, perpetually reproved for her hoydenish ways. What she needed most was someone who could see her, just for herself, who might allow that her dreams had value, simply because she wished them.

Then one day, in the winter woods, they met....

But a few magical weeks of delightful friendship were swept away by the hectic London Season, as Lady Nerissa’s transformation from ordinary, to the Incomparable of the Season, brought a flock of suitors, and the Duke’s new title made him the catch of the year.

Can they find their way back to each other, through all their hearts’ confusion? Can Lady Nerissa thaw a heart frozen in grief, and claim it for her own?

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Charlton Edgeworth, Viscount Pendholm, returned from war to discover that his late brother had left him an inheritance of scandal. In the midst of dealing with that, he is called upon to serve his country further, undercover, to thwart a conspiracy instigated by a French spy. Between scandal and spying, there are days when he feels as if the war isn’t over....

Lady Odette Marmont, beautiful daughter of a French aristocrat and an English Lady, has been raised by her aunt since her mother’s death, and would prefer a book in a quiet library to a society Ball. But her aunt insists that, at 22, it is time she married, so, although disturbed by how changed her father is, since he returned from France, she steels herself to brave the Season.

But Lady Odette's father has attitudes and interests which bring him into conflict with everything that Charlton and his friends hold dear - and Lady Odette is caught in the middle.

Can Charlton and Odette find a way to explore their growing attraction, or will the tangle of scandal and treason tear them apart?

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Lord Geoffrey Clarence heroically saved the life of his best friend, Charlton Edgeworth, Viscount Pendholm, and six other people. He was then recruited to work covertly, in defence of crown and country – which resulted in the Prince Regent gifting him a substantial estate. Unfortunately, it came with a dangerous mission as a side ‘benefit’.

Lady Harriet Edgeworth decided, at first sight of Lord Geoffrey, that he was the man for her, her hero. In the year since, nothing has changed her mind. When Lord Geoffrey moves to an estate close to her home, she is delighted, and soon finds a way to volunteer to assist with the inventory of his new property.

Can Lord Geoffrey keep his mission secret, with Lady Harriet there every day? Can Lady Harriet convince Lord Geoffrey to see her as a woman, not just Charlton’s sister? And, if he does, can he keep her safe in the midst of a treasonous conspiracy?

This book won a Pinnacle Book award for best romance book in Fall 2017.

Lady Theodora Rockingham is having a wonderful year. She is finally officially the Earl’s daughter, she has turned seventeen, she has a dressing room full of new clothes, and now there is to be a Christmas Ball. All she needs now is to meet a handsome man at the Ball, and fall in love. So she makes a Christmas Wish.

Chase Harrington, newly the Duke of Montford, is still adjusting to the need to give up the rakish ways that he pursued as the Marquess of Travers. But a Duke needs an heir, and that requires a suitable Lady. He just hasn’t seen one that he’s the slightest bit interested in. Until the Christmas Ball.

Will Lady Theodora‘s Christmas Wish come true? Will the Duke finally find a woman he can love?

Find out in this delightful Christmas story.