Regency Romances by Elizabeth Leydin

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?

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, its 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?

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?

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!

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?

Generosity is a good thing - but can too much of it keep loving hearts apart?

Adeline Edmonds is rich, but can't touch that money for the charitable causes she believes in so passionately, and resorts to subterfuge and deception to do her good works. Anthony, Viscount Merryam, is pretending to be the kind of pleasure-loving nobleman her uncle and aunt want her to marry. He is shocked to see Adeline in the mean streets of Soho - and in the decidedly shocking environs of the Soho Club.

Deception breeds confusion and heartache: can two generous hearts find happiness in the truth?

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.