Historical Romance by Susanne Dunlap

Now Complete: The Double-Dilemma Romance Series

If you love sweet Regency romance with unconventional heroines, honorable but imperfect heroes, family secrets, and more than one love story to root for, welcome to the Double-Dilemma Romance series. Across six connected but stand-alone books, women with unusual talents and stubborn hearts find love, purpose, and the courage to claim lives larger than the ones society planned for them.

The complete Double-Dilemma Romance series in one collection
Six sweet Regency romances, twelve intertwined love stories, and a varied cast of unconventional heroines and engaging heroes.

Book 1: The Dressmaker’s Secret Earl

Augusta Hastings refuses to be traded into marriage with a scoundrel. Instead, she flees to London, determined to build an independent life as a modiste designing gowns for society’s elite.

But freedom is not as simple as she hopes. Her new life brings her into the path of Lord Bridlington, a brooding earl with secrets of his own, and his captivating sister Mariana, whose heart is fixed on a man society would never approve.

Soon Augusta is caught up in whispered intrigue, midnight masquerades, and two romances that may defy every rule of propriety. But when her past follows her to London, she must decide whether she has the courage to claim not only her freedom, but the love she never expected to find.

A sweet Regency romance of disguise, reinvention, family loyalty, and two hard-won happily-ever-afters.

Book 2: The Soprano’s Daring Duke

Olivia Fontenoy has a voice that could captivate any drawing room, but she refuses to sing for polite society like a trained ornament on display. What she wants is music on her own terms, even if that means risking scandal to perform in disguise at the King’s Theatre.

Newly widowed Princess Adelheid Kinsky thinks she is finally free, until she discovers her late husband’s final betrayal: the son she believed dead still lives. To secure the child’s future, she must marry quickly, discreetly, and without revealing the scandalous truth.

The Duke of Hartland needs a wealthy bride, and Olivia’s fortune could rescue him from ruin. But as secrets, ambition, and desire collide, Olivia finds herself drawn instead to Hartland’s closest friend, the quiet Marquess of Lewiston, while Adelheid discovers that an unexpected alliance may offer the future she never dared to claim.

A sweet Regency romance of music, masked identities, dangerous choices, and two love stories that refuse to follow society’s script.

Book 3: Miss Pauline’s Perfect Present

Modiste Pauline Dawkins is ready for a rare moment of Christmas peace. The shop is closed, her seamstresses have gone home for the holiday, and for once, no one is demanding the impossible.

Then an unsigned letter arrives late on the night before Christmas Eve, threatening her business unless she completes an urgent and mysterious clothing order. With only thirty-six hours, no staff, and an icy London night ahead of her, Pauline turns to the last person she ever expected to rely on: Benjamin Cooper, a tongue-tied but gifted tailor.

As needles fly and secrets unravel, unexpected alliances form, long-buried feelings rise to the surface, and the Countess of Bridlington arrives with a surprise that changes everything.

A sweet Regency Christmas novella of loyalty, courage, unexpected love, and one very special delivery.

Book 4: The Falconer’s Lost Baron

Antonella believes she is Lady Belinda’s twin, until a devastating revelation strips away her identity and her place in society. Reeling from the discovery while at the family estate in Cornwall, she clings to the one constant she has always known: her passion for birds.

When rescuing an injured goshawk brings her face-to-face with Lord Atherleigh, a wounded war hero who has lost both his hand and his hope, Antonella must decide whether love can bloom from ruin.

Meanwhile in London, Belinda is determined to secure her sister’s future, until the dangerously charming Mr. Gainesworth entangles her in a battle between duty and desire. When he follows her back to Cornwall, temptation may prove stronger than resolve.

A sweet Regency romance of sisters, secrets, healing, and two love stories tested by loyalty and truth.

Book 5: The Teacher’s Noble Heart

Miss Wilkins has always survived by being sensible, capable, and self-reliant. When she takes a bold step toward independence in Regency Cornwall, she has no intention of complicating her life with romance.

James Pentarrant, the steadfast captain of the Delabole slate quarry, seems determined to challenge her at every turn. Their encounters begin in disagreement, sharpen into wary respect, and slowly deepen into an understanding neither of them expected.

Meanwhile, a young heiress newly returned to Cornwall hides a calling society would never approve. When danger on the moor and the gossip that follows force her into an unintended engagement, her future becomes entangled with a gentle country doctor who has secrets of his own.

A moving Regency romance of independence, mistaken conclusions, Cornwall’s rugged beauty, and two love stories that grow where no one meant to plant them.

Book 6: The Dowager’s Grand Triumph

Caroline, Dowager Marchioness of Lewiston, has accepted the life she was given: a grand title, a comfortable house, and a heart trained not to want what it cannot have. Then Thomas Ashcombe, the man she was once forbidden to love, returns from India with a fortune, a beloved daughter, and dangerous evidence of East India Company corruption.

As old feelings awaken, Thomas’s secrets threaten any hope of a second chance, especially when suspicion itself becomes dangerous. Meanwhile, his daughter Anjali must navigate a society determined to question where she belongs.

Intelligent, courageous, and caught between worlds, Anjali never expects to find an ally in awkward, honest Sir Julian Meredith, a barrister more at ease in court than in any drawing room. But as political danger closes in, both couples must risk trust, truth, and their hearts.

A sweet Regency romance of second chances, dangerous secrets, belonging, and two love stories strong enough to challenge powerful men.

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