Louise Allen Books in Order

In Civil War England, Royalist Henrietta marries Parliamentarian Matthew to protect her home and its people. As affection challenges her loyalties, a secret entrusted by her dead brother threatens the fragile trust between husband and wife.

Antonia inherits a crumbling estate and resolves to restore her disgraced family's independence. Her powerful neighbor wants both her lands and her affection, but his ducal arrogance collides with a woman determined to control her own future.

Traveling without a chaperone leaves Sophia and Lord Hal compromised, making marriage appear unavoidable. She wants him as a husband, but believing he acts only from duty, she resists the arrangement rather than accept a loveless future.

Hebe falls for Major Alex Beresford on Malta, only to discover that he is already engaged. When danger forces them together, their growing attachment creates a conflict between the promises he has made and the woman he loves.

Joanna has loved Colonel Giles Gregory for years, but his apparent interest in another woman sends her fleeing an arranged marriage. Her mother asks Giles to find her, turning a rescue into a test of trust and stubborn hearts.

An inheritance allows artist's model Tallie to enter fashionable society, where her former work could destroy her reputation. Lord Arndale's suspicious attention becomes increasingly personal, leaving her to decide whether love makes telling the truth worth the risk.

Katherine marries a condemned highwayman to escape her brother's debts, expecting a brief solution to her troubles. Discovering that Theo is innocent gives her a reason to fight for his life, but his hidden identity creates new complications.

Hester refuses to let ghost stories drive her from her new home at Christmas. The Earl of Buckland's attention is more difficult to resist, yet trusting him could expose the scandalous past she has worked to conceal.

Marina accepts a convenient marriage to Justin, whom she secretly loves, hoping to escape life as the family's spinster. Discovering his concealed motives and troubled past makes trust harder just as he begins trying to win her heart.

Escaping another family matchmaking scheme leaves Decima stranded in a blizzard and rescued by Viscount Weston. His attraction delights her, but she refuses a marriage based merely on propriety, leaving them tangled in competing expectations and unwanted matches.

Disowned by her aristocratic relatives, Alessa supports herself on Corfu and resents the earl sent to bring her back. Their attraction clashes with his conventional expectations until an encounter with pirates reveals more than either expected.

Coaching-company operator Bree prizes her independence and has little patience for aristocrats until an accidental meeting with an earl changes her prospects. Entering society requires hiding her working past while resisting a man determined to persuade her into marriage.

Wealthy Lily wants a titled husband to secure her place in society, but falls for impoverished mine owner Jack instead. His pride and a concealed past threaten a match that would overturn both their carefully held ambitions.

Spy and adventurer Jack Ryder agrees to escort a grand duchess to England, expecting a difficult but manageable assignment. Discovering warmth beneath her reserved manner makes the journey increasingly personal and threatens the distance his mission requires.

During the sack of Rome, senator's daughter Julia is rescued by Visigoth leader Wulfric and becomes his captive. As his people travel south, their attraction must survive profound cultural differences and the uncertainties of a collapsing world.

Freed from an unhappy marriage, Lady Belinda begins an affair with a handsome soldier and enjoys ignoring society’s disapproval. She has no intention of marrying again, but growing dependence on Major Reynard challenges the freedom she hoped to preserve.

Determined to escape rumors of an impending marriage, an earl recruits a respectable governess to help make him socially ineligible. Teaching Jessica to appear scandalous awakens unexpected attraction and risks creating a much more personal complication than either intended.

Fleeing an unwanted engagement, Sarah encounters a nobleman disguised as a highwayman to win a wager. His kiss inspires a plan to ruin her marriage prospects, but their growing attraction makes a performance of scandal difficult to control.

Theo Ravenhurst encounters his apparently unremarkable cousin Elinor abroad just as his dangerous activities catch up with him. Her connections offer practical help, but sharing the adventure reveals unexpected abilities and an attraction he had never imagined.

Lady Maude refuses suitable proposals because she loves a theater owner society considers ineligible. Eden distrusts love itself, leaving her determined to challenge both convention and his assumptions as she pursues the relationship she truly wants.

Forced to flee Jamaica, Clemence falls into the hands of dangerous pirates and depends on an undercover naval officer for protection. Their perilous journey sparks attraction, but Nathan’s sense of honor and guarded heart stand between them.

Wrongly accused of stealing, Celina flees the brothel she calls home and seeks protection from an adventurous nobleman. Quinn’s assumptions about her experience conceal her innocence, complicating the attraction growing between a vulnerable fugitive and her unpredictable rescuer.

Widowed Meg poses as an injured officer’s wife to secure passage back to England and reunite with her sisters. Major Ross Brandon offers employment rather than marriage, but their growing attraction challenges boundaries shaped by his wartime past.

Pregnant and abandoned, Arabella seeks help from her child’s father only to learn that he has died. His brother offers marriage to legitimize the baby, forcing her to navigate a luxurious new world and an unexpectedly powerful attraction to her husband.

Kidnapped and placed for auction in a London brothel, Laurel clings to memories of an investigator who once made her feel safe. Seeing Patrick among the bidders brings hope and uncertainty about whether he has come to rescue her.

After Sophia's estranged fiancé dies in a shipwreck, his twin brother offers a marriage of convenience to protect her family. She accepts despite his insistence on emotional distance, only to discover an attraction that complicates their practical arrangement.

A voyage from India brings scandal-shadowed Lady Perdita into close quarters with Lord Alistair, a man from her past. Their renewed attraction grows during months at sea, but a shipwreck exposes a secret that could separate them again.

Shy merchant's daughter Averil sails to England to marry an aristocrat she has never met. After a shipwreck nearly kills her, the man who rescues her presents an unexpected threat to her carefully planned future and her conscience.

A lady poses as a maid to prevent her friend's unsuitable marriage, while a viscount becomes a valet to stop the same match. Their disguises at a snowbound Christmas house party create a romance neither scheme anticipated.

The daughter of an Indian princess and an English peer refuses to return to the father who rejected her. Assigned to escort her to Calcutta, Major Herriard struggles to reconcile duty with an attraction that makes protection increasingly personal.

Scientifically minded Chloe agrees to a pretend engagement with Kit, the man she has secretly loved for years. Treating courtship as an experiment gives her a chance to change his feelings, but risks exposing the heart behind her research.

Fleeing disgrace, Julia accepts marriage to a man who expects to die soon and needs an heir to his estate. His unexpected return three years later disrupts her hard-won security, while dangers from her past threaten their future.

Sent to Wimpole Hall after a scandal, Lady Isobel finds herself drawn to architect Giles Harker. Their unequal social positions and complicated reputations make love dangerous, especially while she conceals a secret that could cost them both dearly.

Emily's husband left for military duty on their wedding day, leaving their marriage of convenience uncertain. A chance reunion in the Isles of Scilly gives them one day to discover whether an arrangement can become a loving partnership.

Phyllida Hurst has carefully built a place in London society despite the scandal surrounding her birth. The arrival of a viscount raised in Calcutta threatens that precarious balance when her hidden history becomes the focus of his fascination.

Joanna arrives in Calcutta after scandal and heartbreak, determined to return to England without finding a husband. A day exploring the city with reluctant escort Alexander challenges both their defenses and offers an unexpected chance at love.

Diplomat Quin is sent into war-torn Egypt to retrieve a scholar who may be a traitor. Falling for the man's independent daughter Cleo turns his mission into a conflict between official orders, personal conscience, and her fragile trust.

Caroline wakes in a barn beside a stranger, unable to recall how she arrived in scandalous clothing. Pretending to have lost all her memory helps her escape, until Jervais finds her in London and threatens her carefully protected respectability.

Laura discovers that the child she believed dead is being raised by powerful Lord Wykeham. Determined to reclaim her daughter, she confronts a devoted adoptive father whose attraction challenges her anger, mistrust, and hopes for a family.

This history follows British stagecoach travel from its early development to its nineteenth-century heyday. Routes, coaching inns, passengers and crews reveal how the system worked, while accidents and highwaymen show the dangers behind faster overland journeys.

Desperate to avoid an arranged marriage, Thea appears in boy's clothes and demands passage on her childhood friend's grand tour. Rhys reluctantly agrees, but sharing the journey awakens desires that threaten their friendship and invite scandal.

Ten self-guided walks explore traces of London's Regency past, from surviving buildings to sites transformed by fire and redevelopment. The routes connect streets, institutions and historic associations, helping readers imagine the city familiar to Austen, Nelson and Beau Brummell.

An earl hurrying home for Christmas discovers a woman alone in a ruined shack, struggling to give birth. Determined to protect her after helping with the delivery, he offers marriage before either has had time to know the other.

A winter collision leaves Tess stranded and brings her into a bachelor's household as his housekeeper. Her warmth disrupts his insistence on spending Christmas alone, turning an act of duty into the possibility of a shared future.

Visitors arrived at Waterloo while memories of the fighting were still fresh and its aftermath remained visible. Using accounts by six early travellers, Allen reconstructs their journeys and responses to a battlefield already becoming a tourist destination.

Fleeing an unwanted marriage, Cassandra disguises herself as a valet and joins an earl's journey to Paris. Growing affection makes the deception increasingly perilous as travel adventures and misunderstandings threaten to reveal the young woman behind the disguise.

An unassuming Northamptonshire church houses four elaborate monuments to generations of the Montagu family. This illustrated guide connects their sculptors and subjects with the building's history, its community and the restoration that preserved the memorials.

Rescued from drowning by Lord Darvell, Helena is furious when he refuses to take her home. His secretive voyage, a rejected marriage proposal, and a later encounter in London draw her into intrigue that could involve treason.

Before railways opened seaside holidays to wider crowds, English resorts catered to wealthy visitors seeking health and society. Allen explores their bathing customs, entertainments, accommodation and eccentric remedies, revealing a coastal holiday culture unlike the later Victorian one.

A marquess planning a respectable marriage falls for the smuggler's widow who saves his life on the Devon coast. Her unsuitable reputation and his own hidden past threaten the attraction that tempts him to abandon his duties.

Lady Caroline offers an earl a shocking bargain to recover an estate her father has gambled away. His sympathy for her wish to protect her brother leads the notorious bachelor towards a commitment neither originally proposed.

Respectable Camilla secretly performs as actress Lysette, risking her family's reputation. When an earl pursues the actress while growing attracted to the woman behind her, a careless wager forces both to confront pride, trust, and social prejudice.

An antique-shop purchase sends modern police volunteer Cassie into London in 1807, where an earl is searching for a missing woman. Helping him survive the investigation creates an attraction complicated by her need to find a way back home.

A beauty sceptical of romance finds her principles shaken by a duke returning after years abroad. As their courtship develops, he must identify the family member who wants him dead without exposing her to the same danger.

After her stepbrother's death, Ellie insists the Earl of Hainford escort her to a new home. Their contentious journey awakens an unexpected attraction, and his determination to protect her leads to a proposal neither had anticipated.

Widowed Sara rejects society's demands and intends to live on her own terms. A conventional marquess reluctantly seeks her help with his sister's disastrous elopement, only to find himself wanting a woman unlike the obedient wife expected of him.

Swordmaster Jared accepts work guarding a noblewoman, only for her husband to be murdered soon afterwards. Protecting the widow from a killer and suspicion forces him to return to his birthplace and risk the identity he has carefully constructed.

Cassie returns from the present to her Georgian lover and finds him investigating two suspicious deaths among his brother’s friends. Blackmail and persecution endanger the inquiry, while their renewed relationship raises difficult questions about loving across two centuries.

Gabrielle wants an heir without surrendering her Portuguese vineyard to a husband. When former soldier Nathaniel arrives to escort her to London, she considers a daring alternative that could preserve her independence while putting her heart at risk.

Respectable widow Amanda discovers an unknown man in her bed with no memory of his identity. Helping him uncover his past brings an unexpected attachment, but each new answer draws her deeper into danger and threatens her reputation.

Giles marries his childhood friend Laurel to save his family's finances, expecting a practical arrangement. Discovering the woman behind his memories unsettles him, while her independent spirit challenges his assumptions about marriage and awakens an inconvenient desire.

An engaged viscount arrives at a friend's Norfolk house and discovers a fugitive woman hiding there. Smugglers, attacks and French gold draw them together while he tries to expose a traitor without abandoning his honour or his heart.

A newly inherited title brings a returning traveler face-to-face with his late cousin's widow, who is shaken by their resemblance. Attraction grows, but her troubling past and pressures from both families threaten the trust a future together requires.

Another journey into Georgian London places Cassie beside her lover during an investigation into an innkeeper’s murder. Questions about blackmail and an associate’s parentage complicate the case, while her feelings deepen for a man separated from her own time.

Sheltered Madelyn fulfills her father's dying request by marrying Jack, a nobleman who needs her land. Their practical bargain takes her from an isolated castle into society, where unexpected passion complicates the terms of their marriage.

A dutiful duke seeks a suitable wife to help raise his younger siblings, but encounters a rebellious bishop's daughter instead. When an overnight stranding compromises them both, convention pushes two incompatible people towards an unexpected marriage.

Cassie’s relationship with an earl from 1807 becomes harder to leave behind whenever she returns to her modern life. A death and stolen jewels at his country house create another dangerous investigation while they search for a future together.

A scarred marquess needs a wife to care for his motherless son, and a scholarly woman agrees in exchange for security. Their carefully practical arrangement is unsettled when the wedding reveals an attraction neither intended to pursue.

After rescuing an injured earl, aspiring artist Jane finds herself compromised and facing marriage. Their bargain promises she can keep painting, but her new fiancé's guarded past awakens a curiosity that threatens their agreement to remain practical.

A lord and an independent writer enjoy a friendship built on their shared resistance to marriage. Growing attraction unsettles that easy companionship, and rumours about their closeness may force a proposal neither is ready to risk.

Renovating a Georgian house, Natasha discovers a doorway into 1810 and an intriguing gentleman who considers the building his home. A murder soon draws them together, entangling her modern independence with his family's secrets and an unfolding series of crimes.

When their ship is seized, a duke claims stranger Sarah as his wife to keep her valuable to their captors. Sharing a cabin strengthens their attraction, but her position as a lady's companion threatens any future beyond their deception.

An earl hires his stepsister's outspoken piano teacher to help supervise her during a house party. When he and the teacher are accidentally compromised, an arrangement meant to prevent romantic trouble creates an unexpected marriage problem of its own.

Returning to Regency London, Cassie joins her lover in investigating a murder that places his friend’s entire family under suspicion. Alongside the search for a killer, she struggles to imagine marriage and children with a man born centuries before her.

Rose needs a husband to protect her younger sisters, while a newly titled duke wants to avoid the marriage market. Their sensible agreement grows less predictable when her courage and determination awaken feelings neither included in the bargain.

Natasha and Matthew hope to pursue their romance across two centuries after earlier dangers subside. Another murder, troubled friends, and signs of other time travelers instead draw them into a mystery that threatens both their relationship and the timeline.

Living under an assumed name, Viola encounters the earl she once abandoned at the altar. He fails to recognize her as they restore his neglected estate, but their renewed attraction threatens to expose the past she fled.

Widowed duchess Sophie hires a notorious rogue to retrieve her late husband's dangerous diaries and protect her son's inheritance. The mission brings political peril and an unexpected attraction, forcing her to weigh duty against feelings she cannot dismiss.

Treated as a servant by her family, Isobel accepts a convenient marriage to her childhood friend Leo so he can claim his inheritance. Escaping her home proves easier than hiding the love she fears he will never return.

A skeleton discovered at Natasha's development site belongs to someone Matthew knew in 1810. Investigating the death draws the lovers into a web of respectable suspects, but uncovering the truth could change history with disastrous consequences.

Natasha and Matthew's romance across two centuries becomes entangled in his half-brother's difficult engagement. Cruel practical jokes and hostile relatives give way to more sinister events, raising the possibility that someone will do anything to prevent the wedding.

Natasha's return from a Georgian adventure should offer time to enjoy her romance with Matthew. Instead, friends discover a body through another portal to 1811, drawing her into secret marriages, family feuds, and a dangerous search for the killer.

Natasha joins Matthew on a romantic journey through Georgian England, collecting newlyweds and a distressed young woman along the way. A country manor's missing steward and sinister visitors lead to murder, while her prolonged absence from her own time adds danger.

Renovating a former bank, Natasha discovers a body in a sealed vault and begins investigating. Her lover Matthew fears another dangerous mystery, and their relationship across two centuries comes under strain as missing bankers and competing demands complicate the search.

Katherine takes a job cataloguing a marquis's inherited treasures to recover the ruby she believes his family stole from hers. Her plan for revenge falters when the man she expected to despise becomes increasingly difficult to resist.

A legacy enables Abi to buy a neglected Georgian house, where unexpected portals carry her into 1811. Investigating a missing doctor and three murders complicates the renovation, while developing feelings for her solicitor link present-day possibilities with dangers in the past.

Thea discovers she was promised to a duke in infancy and refuses to marry a stranger. Her growing affection for new friend Hal seems an alternative, until learning his true identity makes their friendship feel like another betrayal.

Catherine has rebuilt her life away from society after a ruinous scandal. A duke's arrival threatens her carefully guarded privacy as their attraction grows and his curiosity draws him toward the past she cannot afford to reveal.

Newly titled army surgeon Nick pretends to be engaged to Emelia to deter suitors while she waits for her sweetheart. When that man marries someone else, their protective arrangement becomes a real marriage with unexpectedly tender possibilities.