Elizabeth Essex

Elizabeth Essex is a USAToday Bestselling and award-winning author of critically acclaimed historical romance, including the Reckless Brides and Highland Brides series. Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice and Seal of Excellence awards, and RWA’s prestigious RITA Award. The Reckless Brides books have also made top-tier lists from Romantic Times, The Romance Reviews, and Affair de Coeur Magazine, and the entire series was awarded Desert Isle Keeper status at All About Romance. Her fifth book, A BREATH OF SCANDAL was awarded Best Historical in the Reader’s Crown 2013.

When not re-reading Jane Austen, mucking about in her garden, or messing about with boats, Elizabeth can be found at her laptop, making up stories about heroes and heroines who live far more exciting lives than she. It wasn’t always so—long before she ever set pen to paper, Elizabeth graduated from Hollins College with a B.A. in Classics and Art History, and then earned her M.A. in Nautical Archaeology from Texas A & M University. While she loved the life of an underwater archaeologist, she has found her true calling writing lush, lyrical historical romance full of passion, daring and adventure.

Elizabeth lives in Texas with her husband, the Indispensable Mr. Essex, her active and exuberant family, and her darling dogs, Ghillie and Brogue, in an old house filled to the brim with books.

The Pursuit of Pleasure (Dartmouth Brides Book 1)

The Pursuit of Pleasure (Dartmouth Brides Book 1)

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Series: Dartmouth Brides, Book 1
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

Miss Elizabeth Paxton is a new sort of heiress—educated, opinionated and entirely independent. The last thing she wants is a husband mucking about her life. Even if he is the only man she’s ever loved.

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A Sense of Sin (Dartmouth Brides Book 2)

A Sense of Sin (Dartmouth Brides Book 2)

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Series: Dartmouth Brides, Book 2
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

The Ravishing Miss Burke has everything a young lady could want—beauty, status and suitors lined up just to beg for her hand. Until a blackmailer from her past holds her future for ransom.

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The Difference One Duke Makes (Reckless Brides Book 7)

The Difference One Duke Makes (Reckless Brides Book 7)

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Series: Reckless Brides, Book 7
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

Miss Penelope Pease is what every bright young thing never wants to be—ruined, thanks to an ill-conceived flirtation with the late Duke of Warwick. But ruined suits the new duke, his brother, Commander Marcus Beecham just fine—because after a career in the Royal Navy, he’s rather ruined himself. All it takes is one frosty night for two imperfect people to make the perfect February valentine.

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The Danger of Desire (Dartmouth Brides Book 3)

The Danger of Desire (Dartmouth Brides Book 3)

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Series: Dartmouth Brides, Book 3
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

Royal Navy Captain Hugh McAlden will do anything to stop the treasonous flow of information out of the Admiralty, even if it means taking in a slyly attractive street thief to steal those secrets back.

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The Scandal Before Christmas (Reckless Brides Book 5)

The Scandal Before Christmas (Reckless Brides Book 5)

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Series: Reckless Brides, Book 5
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

Lieutenant Ian Worth needs a wife by Christmas. He has to find her, woo her and wed her before he goes back to sea. Anne Lesley is a shy spinster with no prospects, so she accepts Ian’s hasty offer if only for the security, and the house, the marriage will bring. But when a midwinter storm rolls in, things start to heat up between them, and they just might find a Christmas present they didn’t expect: honest-to-goodness, true love. Included in this edition is the short story: A Unrequited Fire

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Mad Rogues and Englishwomen (Highland Brides Book 5)

Mad Rogues and Englishwomen (Highland Brides Book 5)

From award-winning author Elizabeth Essex comes the adventurous final novel of the highly acclaimed Highland Brides, a quintet of bold, brilliant lasses determined to make their own happily ever afters.

A thing of beauty can be a joy forever.

But beauty lies…

Lord Archie Carrington knows a beauty when he sees one. Barmaids and countess alike fall beneath the charm of the youngest-ever editor of Edinburgh’s sharpest political and literary quarterly. So when he sets out to write an exposé on the new Lord Advocate, the clever Scotsman devises a plan to charm his opponent’s shy portraitist daughter out of her smock—and her family secrets.

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She Walks in Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 8)

She Walks in Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 8)

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Series: Reckless Brides, Book 8
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

A man who stands alone.
Nicholas Gowan is forced to make his way in the world with his sword, teaching fencing to young lordlings with more money than sense. But when he takes on a remarkable—and remarkably attractive—new student, his prospects begin to change.

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From Rakes to Riches (Dukes, Rakes & Rogues, Oh My! Book 1)

From Rakes to Riches (Dukes, Rakes & Rogues, Oh My! Book 1)

From the glittering ballrooms of England to the Scottish countryside, enjoy this limited-time collection of NINE full-length Victorian and Regency romances from nine of today’s New York Times and USA Today’s bestselling authors!

This anthology includes stories by Jennifer Ashley, Anna Bradley, Anabelle Bryant, Darcy Burke, Kerrigan Byrne, Gayle Callen, Tanya Anne Crosby, Sofie Darling, and Elizabeth Essex.

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A Lady’s Gift for Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 6)

A Lady’s Gift for Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 6)

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Series: Reckless Brides, Book 6
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

Miss Tamsin Lesley desires above all else to be a bluestocking and lead an intellectual life. The only thing standing in her way is her father’s heir, who wants her along with her father’s estate. To foil him, Tamsin enlists the services of masculine wallflower Simon Cathcart to ruin her. But the road to ruination leads to far more pleasurable places than Tamsin had ever imagined, and her charming wallflower proves to have secrets of his own.

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A Scandal to Remember (Reckless Brides Book 4)

A Scandal to Remember (Reckless Brides Book 4)

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Series: Reckless Brides, Book 4
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

The rules of courtship are swept out to sea when a shipwreck offers a Reckless Bride a true taste of paradise…

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Almost a Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 1)

Almost a Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 1)

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Series: Reckless Brides, Book 1
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

SHE’S ALWAYS READY FOR ADVENTURE. HE’S ALMOST READY FOR LOVE...

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A Breath of Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 2)

A Breath of Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 2)

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Series: Reckless Brides, Book 2
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

Shockingly brash and scandalously independent, the Reckless Brides are boldly rewriting the rules of love and marriage—one smitten bachelor at a time…

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