Book 1
The Wicked Duke of Ashford
An eight-minute visit. One very serious bluestocking. And a duke all of London has decided is wicked.
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Complete in 12 books
The Ashford family of Ashford Park, Derbyshire, and the friends who are drawn into their circle. Guarded, capable people meet someone who pays exactly the right kind of attention, and shared work becomes a courtship.
Book 2
A Rake's Redemption
He lost forty-three cases of Bordeaux. His penance is six weeks on a widow's estate books. She found the errors first.
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Book 3
The Scandalous Widow
The critic who reviewed her poems would very much like to meet A. Vane. He has no idea he is already talking to her.
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Book 4
The Heiress of Carramore
An English artist inherits an estate in County Clare, with its land, its tenants and one very attentive earl next door.
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Book 5
A Captain's Promise
For years she ran his household by letter. One hundred and fourteen letters. Now the captain has come home.
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Book 6
A Soldier's Honour
A colonel who cannot forgive himself. A treaty scholar who signs her work E. Fitzroy. One quiet Foreign Office library.
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Book 7
The Diplomat's Daughter
She has been fighting a blackmailer on her own. The diplomat who offers to help knows exactly how to read the small print.
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Book 8
The Reluctant Earl
One boundary stone, moved in 1803. Twelve yards of water meadow. Two neighbours who will not give an inch.
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Book 9
The Spinster's Revenge
Every Thursday for two years, Lord Davenport has called. Miss Arabella Hurst is a contented spinster. Mostly.
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Book 10
The Doctor's Heart
She has an earl's name and a reformer's will. He has a Waterloo surgeon's hands. Together they mean to build a hospital for women.
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Book 11
A Countess in Hiding
The village schoolmistress calls herself Mrs Celia Marsh. Lord Evander Cole is very good at finding people who don't wish to be found.
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Book 12
The Last Dance at Ashford Park
A house party brings every Ashford couple home. The duke's daughter finally notices the botanist who has been there all along.
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12 books, more coming
Love stories along the wild south and west coasts of Ireland: Kinsale harbour, the limestone Burren, Connemara and the Aran Islands. Scholars, surveyors and physicians who find more than they came for.
Book 1
The Kinsale Correspondent
He crossed the sea to meet the brilliant botanist who signed himself E. M. Connell. He found a red-haired widow.
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Book 2
The Physician's Irish Bride
Dublin disgraced him for telling the truth. At Ardcollum, a careful cataloguer is guarding her late father's collection.
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Book 3
The Earl's Wild Irish Shore
They call him the Ghost Earl. A botanical illustrator from London is about to disturb his solitude on the Burren.
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Book 4
The Crossing to Inishmore
An island-born herbarium keeper, a geologist from Edinburgh, and a survey of Inis Mór, the island she calls home.
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Book 5
The Connemara Survey
Two rival scholars. One survey of Connemara. And a long way from the Institute to Clifden.
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Book 6
The Aran Survey
For years her geology was credited only to "M.F." Now she and a Galway botanist must survey all three Aran islands.
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Book 7
The Surgeon's Reluctant Shore
She runs a Connemara dispensary with no degree and Irish as her first language. The Edinburgh surgeon has a great deal to learn.
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Book 8
The Solicitor's Return
He came home to defend the fishing families. The hedge-school mistress who reads legal Irish was the help he never expected.
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Book 9
The Tidal Survey
Nine years of secret tide notebooks. No one has ever read them, until an Admiralty surveyor does.
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Book 10
The Clare Survey
He has the engineer's chart. She keeps the weather and wreck ledger. The Clare coast needs them both.
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Book 11
The Lisbon Correspondence
She charted the Tagus bar from fourteen years of letters without ever leaving Cork. He was sent to print it under another name.
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Book 12
The Widow of Kilcredaun
For twenty years she has read the tide off an ash spar at Kilcredaun. He has been sent to fetch her book.
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5 books, more coming
Carramore, a house on the Galway coast in the limestone country beyond Kinvara. Each book brings someone to Carramore on a commission, and the work of making a record becomes a romance.
Book 1
The West Wind at Carramore
A land surveyor writes one true sentence about a flower. The woman who grew it reads every word.
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Book 2
The Thornfield Summer
Herbert Edwin Yates, Earl of Thornfield, has refused seven matches. At Carramore, an illustrator tells him to trust the evidence.
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Book 3
The Architect of Carramore
In Carramore's west wing lies a room sealed since 1798. Opening it means opening a family's secret.
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Book 4
The Historian of Carramore
He came to write the Fitzgerald family history. His best source turns out to be the quiet guest who sorted the archive.
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Book 5
The Cartographer of Carramore
Six years of drawings. Nine places where the Ordnance Survey is wrong. One cartographer willing to look.
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6 books, more coming
A Thursday club of titled men who have each decided they are done with wanting things. One by one they marry on practical terms, and discover the arrangement was the excuse, not the reason.
Book 1
A Bride for the Brooding Duke
He needs a wife. She needs a roof that won't fall in. A practical marriage, they agree. Nothing more.
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Book 2
A Rake's Convenient Bride
She has debts to pay. He needs a wife on business terms. The rake and the clergyman's daughter shake hands on it.
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Book 3
The Quiet Lord's Bride
Lord Calloway seldom says more than four words. After one charming deceiver, Constance Hartley finds she rather prefers that.
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Book 4
The Soldier's Reluctant Vow
Eleanor Vane keeps the parish accounts, runs an empty vicarage, and has no wish whatever to be rescued.
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Book 5
The Viscount's Reluctant Return
In Bath, a widow has built a quiet life exactly as she likes it. Then Constance Hartley's elder brother walks into it.
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Book 6
The Earl's Reluctant Homecoming
A diplomat's daughter reduced to a paid companion. An earl home on the moors with a guilt he has told no one.
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5 books, more coming
A chain of friends and cousins, from the barristers and painters of London to the Derbyshire Peak. Careful observation becomes recognition, and recognition becomes love.
Book 1
The Unlikely Heiress
A letter meant for No. 14 arrives at No. 12. Every Tuesday after that, so does the earl.
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Book 2
The Reluctant Season
A first love at thirty-four. A caller who comes every Tuesday. And a summer in Ireland to make up her mind.
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Book 3
The Portrait Painter
She must paint his late mother from one small miniature. To do it, she has to come to know the son.
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Book 4
The Observing Heart
He fell for her portrait at the Royal Academy before he knew her name. In person, she hides everything.
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Book 5
A Winter Arrangement
He came to mend the drains at Hartwell Grange. He found the woman who has been running it all along.
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1 book, more coming
A remote, book-filled abbey on the edge of the Northumberland moor, where winter keeps everyone close.
Book 1
Whispers at the Winter Retreat
Snowed in for a month in a grieving baron's library. She was only meant to be useful.
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Victoria Ashbourne writes clean, slow-burn Regency romance: clever, guarded heroines, men who pay the right kind of attention, and love that grows out of shared work and honest conversation.
Her series range from the ballrooms and town houses of Mayfair to the wild Atlantic coast of Ireland. Every book is a complete love story with a guaranteed happily ever after, and each one can be read on its own.