Ellsworth Assortment

She craves respectability. He's honorable to a fault. When their hearts harmonize, can they avoid a scandal to form a perfect pairing? Florence Ellsworth reluctantly lives in the shadow of her family's notoriety. Mortified that her widower father is on the hunt for his fourth wife, she accepts an engagement to a staid clergyman in the desperate hope for propriety. But she's unprepared when her sire's newly hired attorney proves to be young, sincere, and handsome. Robert Fairchild feels a bit awkward in society. Aware of how his modest background is perceived, the humble lawyer is surprised by his longings when he gains the confidence of his client's lovely daughter. But with her already betrothed to another, he dares not be dishonorable by confessing his interest and losing her respect. Disturbed by her growing feelings for the charming solicitor, Florence works all the harder to find the appeal in her sober intended husband. Meanwhile Fairchild is inadvertently pulled into a lady's schemes and fears any chance with the object of his affection has been forever lost. Will they find a way out of their tender traps to capture happily ever after? Tempted by Folly is the delightful first book in The Ellsworth Assortment clean Regency romance series. If you like sparkling personalities, witty dialogue, and endearing couples, then you'll adore Christina Dudley's swoonworthy novel.

The only thing standing in the way of her winning Mr. Wright was Mr. Entirely Wrong. Out of all the swains she collected, Miss Lily Ellsworth knew Mr. Gilbert Wright was the one she would choose in the end. Rich, well-connected, dashing, daring, he was exactly the sort of man to turn heads, even if he hadn't much of one himself. Lily didn't mind-a dim husband would be more easily controlled than a clever one. And after seeing how her father chose his several wives, Lily sometimes doubted clever men even existed. There was the new curate of St. Eadburh's, of course, but Mr. Simon Kenner might be altogether too clever for comfort. Where every other gentleman of Lily's acquaintance thinks her an angel, Mr. Kenner shows an alarming tendency to catch her out. And where every other gentleman envies Mr. Wright's favor with her, Mr. Kenner thinks his cousin is making a colossal mistake. Between these two opponents, will either gain the whip hand, or will love defeat them both? ◆◆◆The Belle of Winchester is a clean Regency romance and second of The Ellsworth Assortment.◆◆◆

An unladylike young lady. A young man with something to prove. Let the games begin. Tomboy Miss Araminta Ellsworth and her dearest friend Aggie were the most backward graduates Mrs. Turcotte's Seminary for Young Ladies ever produced, more interested in batting and bowling than sewing and simpering. How then could Araminta ever have predicted Aggie's unprecedented passion for the reprobate Mr. Francis Taplin? If Minta is going to keep her friend's person and fortune out of Taplin's dangerous hands, she'll need to think of something-fast. Mr. Nicholas Carlisle has always lived in his stepbrother Francis's shadow: at school, at university, and in his family's prospects. So when Miss Ellsworth approaches him for aid, she finds a willing accomplice. Nicholas fashions a new personality for her, transforming her into Francis's ideal. To this he adds a counterfeit courtship, to stir his brother's competitive side. Their scheme succeeds. Wildly. But the victory might cost them the only prize worth winning-their own chance at love. ♥ From the author of the beloved Hapgoods of Bramleigh series called "sparkling" and "swoon-worthy," Minta in Spite of Herself is a clean Regency romance and the third book of The Ellsworth Assortment. ♥

He's paid to make promises he'll never keep. She dreads nothing so much as empty words. But when he's hired to win her for another, will feigned fondness become literal love? Tyrone Ellsworth's career as a literary lover-in-lieu began at university, where he found amusement and steady spending-silver in writing poetry, love letters and offers of marriage for fellow Oxonians. So when schoolmate Gareth Boulton purchases his pen in order to win the wealthy Miss Agatha Weeks, what could be the harm? The task will be all the easier, in fact, because Tyrone has known her for years as his sister's dearest friend. Miss Agatha Weeks has never felt for any young man what she felt for the one who broke her heart years earlier. And while she doesn't pine for him any longer, she has begun to doubt there are any worthy, honest young men left. But then suddenly there are two! Mr. Gareth Boulton, whom she dismissed earlier as a callow fortune hunter, begins to reveal new depths in his pursuit of her. And Tyrone Ellsworth-thoughtful, scholarly, kind, comfortable through long acquaintance-if Tyrone cannot be trusted, no one can. Murder will out, however, and so will mendacity. Can the deceiver escape the consequences of his own deception, or will the beloved deceived be lost to him forever? ♥ A Scholarly Pursuit is the 4th book in the clean Regency romance series The Ellsworth Assortment. Each book can be read as a stand-alone or in order. ♥

"She's a reluctant tourist. His future does not allow for detours. Will they find each other in the terra incognita of love? England, 1814. Coaxed by family members to the seaside, Beatrice Ellsworth nearly loses her life in a bathing-machine mishap, only to be rescued by a quick-thinking young man. The grateful Ellsworths embrace him, and he soon steals Beatrice's heart, despite him being engaged to another. If these are the consequences of Beatrice's first pleasure trip, will she ever be persuaded to make another? Penniless John Clayton was apprenticed in his adolescence to a rising engineer. Years later, when the successful man lay dying, he entrusted his orphaned daughter and her inheritance to John, encouraging them to marry when she was older. What else could John do for this man who was more than a father to him? He agreed to it all, hoping love would come later. By the time he met Beatrice Ellsworth he knew better, but by then he could no more alter his path than he could the Grand Junction Canal. When the two meet again in London, Beatrice dutifully tries to forget him. But knowing she is the only one he can love, John struggles to find an honorable escape from his heartbreaking arrangement. ♥ A Capital Arrangement is the sixth book in the clean Regency romance series The Ellsworth Assortment. The books can be read as standalones or in order. ♥ "

A wary widow. A dashing gentleman. When their sons cross paths, two lone parents discover love needn't be sought to be found. Winchester, England, 1812. Unexpected widowhood leaves Miranda Ellsworth a wealthy woman in the prime of life, but she is too busy with her son and stepdaughter and too leery of fortune hunters to marry again. So when her boy's schoolmate entangles her with his charmer of a father, she is determined to keep her distance, no matter the unfamiliar emotions which assail her. As a younger man, Colin Wolfe married to please his family. But now that heaven has called his wife onward and his son has gone to school, he intends to enjoy his liberty. The only problem is, his son seems to prefer another family to his own, and Colin can't stop thinking about the quiet woman at the center of it. Avoiding each other proves impossible when Miranda must play chaperone to her stepdaughter and the dean's flirtatious granddaughter, but she refuses to compete with younger women for Colin's attention. Can Colin convince the respected Miranda he has her best interests at heart and that his admiration has grown into far, far more? ♥ Miranda at Heart is the 5th book in the beloved Ellsworth Assortment series.