Jane Aiken Hodge Books in Order

Marianne awakens without her memory and seeks shelter at Maulever Hall, where a lonely widow takes her in. The arrival of the widow's son and his intended bride raises suspicions, leaving Marianne searching for her own identity.

During the Napoleonic wars, a young woman and her governess flee across Europe in search of safety. Their journey brings the possibility of love, but also forces them to navigate danger in a continent unsettled by war.

Fulfilling a promise to her dying father, Christina visits her estranged family at a coastal estate. An inheritance tied to marriage draws her into family rivalries, while smugglers, spies, and the threat of French invasion complicate her choices.

Kate Croston crosses the Atlantic hoping to escape the aristocrat she once loved and now fears. At an isolated New England mansion, his unexpected reappearance threatens the refuge she has found and makes her flight seem futile.

Juana longs to return from England to Portugal, where her stutter no longer isolates her. But political schemes surrounding her home and competing romantic attachments draw her into danger as the threat of French invasion grows.

Cousins Juliet and Josephine once treated their remarkable resemblance as a childhood game. When life brings them together again in the American South, impersonation becomes a dangerous undertaking, drawing both women into a masquerade with much greater stakes.

Jane Aiken Hodge examines the connection between Jane Austen’s private family life and her public achievement as a novelist. Letters, historical records and Austen’s writing help reconstruct the woman whose observations transformed familiar manners into lasting fiction.

Helen Telfair marries after a traumatic encounter leaves her pregnant, only to find herself neglected and isolated. In wartime Naples, her friendship with Emma Hamilton draws her into a world where private troubles intersect with public upheaval.

Marian accepts work accompanying a troubled young woman on a coach tour of Greece after her children leave home. A series of suspicious accidents transforms the trip into a dangerous puzzle about her charge and fellow travelers.

After divorce and separation from her son, Julia receives anonymous letters directing her to Venice to find him. Following their instructions draws her into a conspiracy where an appealing stranger offers companionship but little certainty about whom to trust.

After discovering that her father is alive, Henrietta sails from Boston to London to prove her identity. An unexpected inheritance draws her into an uneasy household, where her stepmother’s hostility and her stepbrother’s ambiguity complicate reunion and romance.

Jennifer Purchas refuses the marriage arranged for her and escapes into employment as a governess. Maintaining her disguise proves difficult, especially around the children's guardian, while her uncle searches for his missing niece and her fortune.

Rescued from a mob by plantation heir Hart Purchis, penniless English orphan Mercy Phillips enters a divided world in revolutionary Savannah. Her loyalties and feelings become entangled with the fortunes of a family caught between opposing sides.

Kate Warrender undertakes an impersonation that endangers both her family and her home. Romantic complications unfold alongside political unrest, forcing her to navigate personal loyalties and the risks of deception in an England approaching revolution.

Believing she has only months to live, widowed opera singer Anne Paget accepts a performance in an Alpine principality. Her rise from understudy to star becomes entangled with sabotage, murder, and political intrigue that make protection difficult to trust.

Camilla accepts a marriage of convenience to Lord Leominster, then accompanies him on a diplomatic mission to Portugal. Separated amid the threat of French invasion, she must survive a dangerous winter while her feelings for her husband deepen.

During the American Revolution, privateer Hart Purchis marries spy Mercy Phillips, but capture separates them across the Atlantic. As Hart faces temptation in London, Mercy forms plans of her own in Philadelphia amid uncertain loyalties and romance.

Caroline Thorpe discovers she is the unacknowledged daughter of a wealthy duke and enters a household that regards her with hostility. An impulsive marriage offers escape, but brings new complications as she learns whom she can trust.

Drawing on private papers, correspondence, and family archives, Jane Aiken Hodge explores the life behind Georgette Heyer's popular historical novels. The illustrated biography considers her personality, working world, style, and enduring fascination with the Regency period.

Seeking refuge after a painful betrayal, Daphne Vernon joins her cousin on a secluded Greek island. Its apparently harmonious community offers healing and possible love, but competing ambitions and threats of violence place its future in jeopardy.

Princess Isobel pursues Polish independence through marriage, diplomacy, and dangerous political alliances during Napoleon’s campaigns. At her side, unwilling spy Jenny Peverel risks love and safety to protect the young prince on whom their hopes depend.

Banished by her father for refusing marriage, Lady Cristabel pursues an opera career in Lissenberg with American companion Martha Peabody. In 1802, their artistic ambitions become entangled in the political dangers and shifting power of Napoleonic Europe.

As Napoleon's influence tightens around Lissenberg, Princess Martha faces danger with her husband under his control and her friend trapped in an unhappy marriage. Returning enemies, threatened borders, and personal betrayals place both her marriage and crown at risk.

Kathryn of Windover Hall is secretly engaged to her tutor, who leaves on a world tour. When he fails to return, she remains trapped at home with an ailing mother, a domineering stepfather, and an increasingly uncertain future.

Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Comyn rejects a familiar suitor and runs away to London, where an actress offers an unexpected friendship. Their subsequent journey to Sicily carries Charlotte into political intrigue, espionage, and possibilities of romance she had never anticipated.

Forced to marry an elderly lord, Amanda Cartaret finds his remote estate an unhappy refuge. A journey to Naples brings her into Emma Hamilton's circle, while a volcanic eruption and a childhood connection offer unexpected changes to her life.

Jane Aiken Hodge examines women's pursuit of love within the restrictive social rules of the Regency era. Personal relationships and political upheaval frame a social history that includes George III's daughters and the pressures shaping women's choices.

Returning to war-scarred Oporto, Caterina faces her father’s demand that she marry or enter a convent. Old romance and political intrigue complicate her search for independence, while a closely guarded secret makes deciding whom to trust increasingly dangerous.

A document disappears during Lesser Muchton's annual flower show, plunging inexperienced Detective Crankshaw into the tangled affairs of Hoblong Hall. As the household's secrets emerge, his first murder investigation becomes increasingly complicated by the eccentric people around him.

Susan Monckton takes a year away from Oxford to study at Radcliffe in 1930. Isolated in Boston and constrained by her mother’s expectations, she becomes passionately attached to a glamorous professor, complicating her education and independence.

Living quietly in Oporto with her son, Caterina Fonsa hopes an old scandal has faded. Civil war shatters that peace, drawing her into a besieged city, a dangerous new undertaking, and encounters with friends and enemies from her past.

Mrs. Feathers changes her will in favor of her granddaughter Patience, then dies from poisoning. Suspicion falls on the person who stands to inherit, yet the question of who killed her remains unresolved fifty years later.

Left nearly penniless after her mother's death, Helen Westley accepts work caring for an elderly woman near the south coast. Their growing friendship offers stability, until a handsome American relative arrives with family stories and motives Helen cannot easily judge.

Disgraced aristocrat Brett Renshaw escapes to the Mediterranean, only to rescue Phyllida and her aunt from captivity. Their search for Phyllida’s brother during the Greek independence struggle becomes a hazardous voyage complicated by pride, danger, and attraction.