Book Detective

A novella, previously published in the print anthology It Happened One Season.

Sebastian Trantor is in need of a wife. But although he's scouted the ballrooms, drawing rooms, and salons of London, he's yet to find a single worthwhile candidate in the young ladies paraded before him. They simper; they giggle; they are completely unsuitable.

Then, he discovers Tabitha Makepeace--breaking into a desk! He quickly realizes that this clever and resourceful young lady is the bride for him--but how is he to convince her of that?

The Reasons for Marriage by Stephanie Laurens

And Then She Fell by Stephanie Laurens

The Lady Risks All by Stephanie Laurens

It Happened One Season by Stephanie Laurens

The Lady's Command by Stephanie Laurens

From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon

Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde

The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

In the Land of the Long White Cloud by Sarah Lark

The American Lady by Petra Durst-Benning

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson

The Whiskey Sea by Ann Howard Creel

At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson

The Paradise of Glass by Petra Durst-Benning

Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer

Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran