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Livia Hart knows the right novel for every reader in Bath, but keeping her own story from ending in disaster is proving rather harder. With her father's library at risk and her young brother depending on her, she has until Michaelmas to save their home.

Merryn Holt can coax prizewinning vegetables from stubborn soil. Persuading society to value the woman who grows them is another matter. With her mother's home threatened, the Ashcombe gardening competition offers one chance to secure their future—and Merryn intends to win.

Isolde Bray has never met a room she cannot light—or a gentleman she cannot answer. With her father's candle shop threatened by debt, a Christmas commission in Derbyshire offers the chance to save her livelihood and put her own name on her work.

Imogen Croft has found husbands for fourteen women. She has no intention of finding one for herself. A discreet matchmaker with a sharp wit and hard-won independence, Imogen needs one generous commission to secure the home she has built.

A sensible bargain, an inconvenient longing, and a home she must be free to choose. Widowed landlady Nell Ashby knows the price of coal, the weight of a promise, and the cost of depending on a man's kindness.

A winter journey should lead Rosie Finch to a new position, not to a man who makes her long for a home. Travelling north to become a Yorkshire governess, she finds unexpected warmth in the company of a quiet stranger.

Eleven years ago, one careless joke taught Theodora Hargreaves the price of speaking her mind, and the man who made it holds the vote that could save her school.

Lucy Penhallow has spent years making other people comfortable. This London Season, she intends to claim space for herself and recover the inheritance her uncle refuses to explain.

A duke hunting an anonymous writer discovers that the woman who challenges him in every drawing room is the voice he cannot silence. Lady Phoebe Lacy has learned to survive by being underestimated: by day the composed daughter of an ambitious family, and by candlelight The Quill, whose elegant satire exposes cruelty and hypocrisy across Regency London.

A blackmailer knows her name, and the duke who loves her must protect her without taking away her choice. Lady Phoebe Lacy's secret survived exposure once.

He broke her trust to save her. Winning her back will require more than love—it will require obedience to her terms. Lady Phoebe Lacy wears Lord Rivenhall's ring like a lock.

Lydia Faircross knows how to make a perfect match, and she knows better than to fall for a client. When Julian Blackmere, Marquess of Carrow, arrives with twelve exact requirements for a wife, she accepts the most difficult commission of her career: six eligible ladies, eight weeks, and one fee that could secure the independence she has spent years building.

Lord Nathaniel Vale has spent years giving London excellent reasons to distrust him, and now his reputation may cost him his nine-year-old sister. With a guardianship hearing approaching, he needs proof that a rake can change.

Clara Penworth knows the value of a promise and the trouble of collecting on one. An unpaid printing bill takes the widowed proprietor into a Mayfair ballroom, a sticking conservatory door leaves her alone with the Duke of Ashbourne, and by morning London has supplied a scandal.

An earl who can charm any drawing room meets a schoolmistress who has no time to be charmed. Beatrice Halloway has twenty-four children to teach, accounts that refuse to balance, and a schoolhouse she may soon lose.

He inherits the title, the land, and a house that will not stop leaking. She inherits almost everything inside it. For six years Eliza Wren has kept Ravensby running with sharp accounts, muddy hems, and more conversation than anyone could reasonably require.

Amelia Hart has twelve things to do before she marries the wrong man, and the last line is still blank. After four Seasons spent being overlooked, she has arranged a sensible future with a respectable Dorset widower and, before September, intends to claim a few adventures of her own: a masquerade, a curricle, a swim before dawn, nothing that requires anybody's permission.