Enjoy these warm, short-but-sweet Regency romance novels - and one bonus short story to go with them! A lowborn authoress had been given the ultimate honour of serving at the royal court, but its vapid and vicious atmosphere is suffocating her. Her only ally is a seemingly irresponsible young nobleman who might just help her escape... When the poetess' family still had its ambitions, she and the only son of the local landowner were best childhood friends. But adulthood had shattered their illusions, if in very different ways. Now, years later, the young woman is back in Somerset, a guest in her former friend's house. Will they both use this second chance? Isabella is a Gothic novelist secretly publishing her imaginative tales under a foreign pen name. When she is arranged to marry a Scottish nobleman, she is plunged into the life of a taciturn older man. He is a decent and upstanding landowner, but one who is harbouring dangerous secrets... Last but not least, A Lady and a Publisher is a sweet prequel short story featuring a pragmatic London printer and a genteel widow who needs his help

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