While eighteen-year-old dancer Alixe Blair is walking the streets of London after giving a memorable performance as Myrtha in the ballet Gisselle...

Elizabeth Chater
Elizabeth Chater

Elizabeth Chater (1910-2004) was the author of over twenty-four novels and countless short stories. She received a B.A. from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. from San Diego State University and joined the faculty of the latter in 1963, where she began a lifelong friendship with science fiction author Greg Bear. SDSU honored her with the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1969 and Outstanding Professor of the Year in 1977. After receiving her Professor Emeritus, she embarked on a new career as a novelist with Richard Curtis as her agent. In the 1950s and 60s she published short stories in Fantastic Universe Magazine and The Saint Mystery Magazine, and she won the Publisher’s Weekly short story contest in 1975. At sixty-eight years old, she began writing in the romance genre and published twenty-two novels over an eight-year period. She also wrote under the pen names Lee Chater, Lee Chaytor, and Lisa Moore.

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The Elizabeth Chater Regency Romance Collection #1

A SEASON FOR THE HEART
Miss Melpomene Rand’s only refuge from a life of monotony and cruelty is the extensive library left to her by her grandfather. The fantastic notions and romantic heroes in those books are the only things that distract her from the abuse of her adopted family. But then a mysterious stranger, the Earl of Austell, finds they...

The Elizabeth Chater Regency Romance Collection #2

THE GAMESTER
Griselda Grant has everything: beauty, wealth, and an engagement to a future baron. Then her father dies, and she’s forced into being the guardian of her ne’er-do-well younger brother, Sholto Grant. Through his drinking and gambling, Sholto loses the family property to the infamous Devil Fallon. Griselda devises a scheme to regain...

The Elizabeth Chater Regency Romance Collection #3

A DELICATE SITUATION
Thalia Temple, dimple faced and lovely, sometimes has more pride than sense. She even shuns Lord Phillip’s attempts to court her, but when she’s plagued by financial troubles, Lord Phillip may be the only person who can help her—if only she can overcome her pride … and open her heart.

THE REFORMED RAKE
In the sequel to A...