The Venturesome Ladies of Little Valentine Books in Order

Nathaniel enlists penniless Margaret to pose as his fiancée at a family Christmas gathering. The deception offers escape from relentless matchmaking, but his formidable ducal cousin’s scrutiny threatens to unravel their arrangement and the feelings developing around it.

After surviving an attempt on his life, rake Beau hides in the seaside village of Little Valentine. Practical vicar’s daughter Clementine refuses to indulge his avoidance, setting out to confront the danger herself and discovering the man beneath his indolence.

Underworld fighter Jasper returns to the village that rejected him to hide a young woman from danger. His meeting with perceptive innkeeper Anne challenges his hardened defenses, but old grudges and new threats endanger their chance at love.

After Anne rejects her childhood friend’s proposal, an attack leaves the marquess blind. Anne and Beatrice care for him, but Beatrice’s disguise as a maid conceals an identity he once overlooked and complicates the feelings growing between them.

Aubrey arrives in Little Valentine for a quiet holiday and recognizes a stolen family brooch worn by mysterious Alice. Forced into partnership, they untangle theft, blackmail, and family secrets while attraction makes it harder to judge whom to trust.

Izzy shelters a wounded smuggler and later travels to London seeking answers about his disappearance. A cold nobleman at her debut looks exactly like him but denies knowing her, drawing her into a dangerous puzzle of identity and desire.

Architect Gideon focuses on the grand hotel that will secure his future, until Lady Henrietta repeatedly intrudes on his plans. Their clashes become attraction, but a private secret, sabotage, and family trouble threaten both his ambitions and their relationship.

Two rival novelists hide behind pen names of the opposite sex, unaware of each other’s identity. A Christmas visit to Little Valentine draws Sebastian and widowed Verity together through a ghost legend, threatening their anonymity and carefully guarded hearts.

To claim her grandfather’s fortune, Angel must solve a clue leading to a legendary grave. Traveling in disguise, she accepts help from a mysterious man whose own hidden identity turns their treasure hunt into a risky romantic adventure.

Celebrated Waterloo officer Marcus dreads the portrait meant to commemorate his courage. Artist Eustacia sees guilt behind the legend, and their increasingly intimate sittings force both to choose between the heroic image society demands and the man he really is.

Cecilia engineers a scandal with notorious Viscount Damian to escape marriage to a much older man. Their convenient union offers him respectability and unexpected friendship, but his hidden past threatens the faith she places in him.