Improbable Fictions
Regency Romances by Elizabeth Leydin
Elizabeth Leydin writes charming romantic stories set in the British Regency period. Her novella, A Generous Heart, won the RWA Ruby Award in 2022.
Elizabeth blogs about all things Regency on Substack, Corsets and Coaches.
You can also watch her This Week in the Regency videos on Youtube or visit her website at elizabethleydin.com.
Regency Series by Elizabeth Leydin
The Sunderlands — stories of a Scottish clan and their English cousins
The Scottish Engineer
Eleven Pipers Piping
Lost and Found
Little Foxbury — stories of the Norfolk village of Little Foxbury and its residents
The Reluctant Countess
A Generous Heart
Long Meg and the Wicked Baron
Little Foxbury Omnibus
The Trengrouse Ball — stories from the Trengrouse Ball, one magical night in Cornwall
The Captain and the Lady
The Youngest Son
Second Chance at Christmas
The Baboon at the Ball
My Earl, the Spy
The Lion and Miss Lamb
The Trengrouse Ball Omnibus
The Sunderlands
The Sunderlands are a family split between the original Scottish Catholic clan, and the Anglican English off-shoot. But family comes before religion, and the Sunderlands’ lives may vary, but their loyalty to their brothers and cousins does not. Until, that is, it’s time to go courting…
The Scottish Engineer
The Sunderlands: Book 1
A story of sabotage and love
Rory Sunderland is a newly-minted engineer, helped to find a job by his cousin William, Marquess of Fenton, at Muffet’s Tinware. Muffet’s is run by Mr Muffet, but also by Miss Caroline, his daughter.
Caroline and Rory are drawn to each other, but, deep in the middle of an investigation into sabotage by the Head Engineer, their main problem is religion—there is no possibility that Mr Muffet will let any daughter of his marry a Catholic!
Can Rory solve the mystery and prove himself a worthy suitor? Or will Caroline turn her back on the family she loves for him?
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Eleven Pipers Piping
The Sunderlands: Book 2
She’ll never love another soldier … will she?
Elizabeth MacDonald, made a widow at Waterloo, is determined to keep herself and her son away from anything military. Gavan Sunderland, her husband’s captain, is determined to teach her son the bagpipes, so he can be a piper like his father.
When two strong-willed people clash at Christmas time, will the result be disaster or lasting happiness?
Revised and updated. Previously published under the pen name Pamela Hart.
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Lost and Found
The Sunderlands: Book 3
Her fiancé is missing, her fortune non-existent and the Marquess is unable to declare his love. The outlook for Governess Alice Merryam seems grim.
Governess Alice Merryam’s fiancé is lost at Waterloo, but even three years later his mother won’t admit that he’s gone, so Alice can’t move on. Her life is in limbo—but does that matter when she’s unmarriageable without a dowry?
Her employer, William, Marquess Fenton, has an unfortunate tendre for her. He doesn’t think she’d be interested in a stodgy bore like him; but if he can set her free to be happy with someone else, he will.
William travels to Belgium to find irrefutable proof of her fiancé’s death—but what he finds will set all their lives in disarray.
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Little Foxbury
The charming and historic market town of Little Foxbury, under the wide Norfolk skies, is a wonderful place to look for love…and to bring love home for good.
The Reluctant Countess
Little Foxbury: Book 1
A marriage of convenience based on love
Diana Tilney hates the very idea of marriage—married women are virtually owned by their husbands and have no freedom. But when her sister and brother-in-law die and leave their daughters in Diana’s care, Ned Faulkes, the new earl, needs her with them, in Swanstead, their palatial home.
For her nieces’ sake, Diana agrees to a marriage of convenience. Ned swears he doesn’t want an heir, and that it will be a marriage in name only. He’s being honest: his first wife died in childbirth and he never wants to put a woman in that position again.
A woman who rejects marriage, a man who rejects intimacy…can they trust each other enough to make a real marriage together?
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A Generous Heart
Little Foxbury: Book 2
Anthony, Earl of Merryam, wants to build a new school in the town of Little Foxbury. His mother wants him to get married. A bolt to the city to find an architect seems to be in order.
Adeline Edmonds also wants to build a school but for the poor people of Soho. She is rich and can easily afford it. Unfortunately, her trustees refuse to hand over the money until she is forty or married. She has no desire to wait and even less desire to get married.
When she meets the Earl, he seems to be type of type-wasting, pleasure-loving nobleman she despites.
When he sees her in the Soho he is horrified. What could such a gently-bred woman be doing in such a dubious area? Surely nothing good.
Deception breeds confusion and heartache: can two generous hearts find happiness in the truth?
An earlier version of this story appeared in the Secrets of the Soho Club anthology.
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Long Meg and the Wicked Baron
Little Foxbury: Book 3
Will Nick throw off his father’s reputation and find love?
Meg is in her mid-twenties, grief-stricken and all but on the shelf after the death of her beloved fiance, John. The last thing she expects is an immediate attraction to Nicholas, Lord Ashham, newly arrived in their Norfolk area to take up the title of his departed father—who was in every sense a wicked Baron.
Artistic Nicholas is cut from a different cloth. Can Meg help him escape the stain of the past without damaging her own, spotless, reputation, and become a bride at last?
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Little Foxbury
Omnibus Edition
This omnibus edition contains the novellas The Reluctant Countess, A Generous Heart and Long Meg and the Wicked Baron together with a bonus short story Building a Home.
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The Trengrouse Ball
The Trengrouse Ball is a series of six charming romance novellas, centering around a ball at the Earl of Trengrouse's family estate. It is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Dutch. It is also available (with bonus stories) in two omnibus volumes.
The Captain and the Lady
The Trengrouse Ball: Book 1
Petroc Trengrouse has come home from Waterloo missing his right leg. Family friend Lady Beatrice Marlowe has been thrown out of her home on the deaths of her father and brother.
When Petroc comes to stay at Beatrice’s mother’s seaside house to recover from his wounds, he has no idea that he’s causing severe financial problems.
He feels he’s not fit to marry; she knows she’s too poor to attract an aristocratic suitor. Will the Trengrouse Ball prove both of them wrong?
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The Youngest Son
The Trengrouse Ball: Book 2
When Ives Trengrouse hijacks his friend Den’s coach after the Trengrouse Ball, he thinks it’s no more than a prank. But Den isn’t inside. Instead, it's his sister Katie, going home early with a migraine.
Compromised beyond saving, the two must marry immediately—and do so. Katie’s dreams of a big London Season are gone. Ives can’t go on his light-hearted, care-for-nothing way now he’s a married man.
Neither of them wants to be in this marriage: can they turn childhood friendship into something deeper and everlasting?
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The Trengrouse Ball: Book 3
Widowed, pregnant Lady Demelza Mandeville returns to her family home, Trengrouse Hall, after her husband’s recent death, dreading meeting family friend, Sir Denzell Kelynack, who jilted her in her first Season.
Denzell looks forward to the meeting—he wants to know why Demelza had jilted him eight years ago. And what role did his needy, unstable mother play in that?
Finding out the truth, and finding a path to a new life, is complicated by Demelza’s pregnancy. If the baby is a boy, she’ll be bound to the Mandeville estates until he’s an adult; if a girl, she’s free to live her own life while a Mandeville cousin inherits the estate.
The Trengrouse Ball is a promise of things to come, but will the promise come true at Christmas?
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The Baboon at the Ball
The Trengrouse Ball: Book 4
A forbidden love story with animal antics to upset the normal order of things! (Or, a Cinderella story with a difference…)
Val Muffet is a Cit—a rich, well-educated, beautifully-mannered man, but definitely not one of the ton, despite being invited to the Trengrouse Ball.
Lady Kerenza Trengrouse’s family is amongst the great and the good of the land, and she expects to marry a lord. An earl, at least!
What could bring these two to care about each other? Enter Genevieve, the lost, forlorn but definitely challenging baboon, given to the Muffets by the Prince Regent himself.
Genevieve is not invited to the ball, but she comes anyway, and life will never be the same again for Val or Kerenza!
This story was first published in the anthology The Regent’s Menagerie, Volume 1.
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My Earl, the Spy
The Trengrouse Ball: Book 5
An exciting ace romance with a twist of espionage!
Lady Melissa Trengrouse can’t imagine being married to anyone but Charles Goddard, Earl of Westholm, for whom she decodes secret French dispatches.
Although she hates the idea of marriage or children, for Charles, Melissa would endure it all. They’re perfect for each other: but when she proposes to him at the Trengrouse Ball, he refuses her without explanationp.
Charles has his reasons. He hates hurting her, but it’s a relief when he has to ride off on a secret mission for the Crown.
Melissa realises he's riding into a trap. Can she save him and discover his secret reasons for denying that he loved her all along?
A sweet Regency romance with an atypical couple!
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The Lion and Miss Lamb
The Trengrouse Ball: Book 6
Sarah Lamb doesn’t have a family; Endellion Trengrouse has never fit in with his.
Immediately attracted, the two have a brief flirtation at the Trengrouse Ball, which ends disastrously when Endellion—known as Lion—finds out the truth behind Sarah’s birth. Sarah isn’t surprised by his reaction: she knows no respectable man will marry an illegitimate orphan.
But there’s more to Sarah’s parentage—and Endellion’s—than either of them know. Can they find the truth…and will that truth bring them together, or drive them apart?
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The Trengrouse Ball
Omnibus Edition
All six Trengrouse Ball novellas are now available in two omnibus volumes.
Volume 1 contains the novellas The Captain and the Lady, The Youngest Son and Second Chance at Christmas, plus a bonus story The Upper Servants.
Volume 2 contains the novellas The Baboon at the Ball, My Earl, the Spy and The Lion and Miss Lamb, plus a bonus story The Penroch Heir.
Volume 1
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Volume 2
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