The Regency Romances: Midsummer Moon, My Sweet Folly, and Uncertain Magic (Regency Tales)

This collection contains three historical romances set during the Regency period by Laura Kinsale, a New York Times–bestselling and Rita Award–winning author. Midsummer Moon follows Merlin Lambourne, an eccentric inventor of a device called the "speaking box"—a sort of telephone—so valuable that Napoleon has killed for it. Ransom Falconer, Duke of Damerell, is sent by the crown to secure both inventor and invention. He is shocked to discover the genius is female, and even more surprised by his attraction to her. He must convince her to marry him while managing her distracted nature. My Sweet Folly centers on Folie Hamilton, trapped in a loveless marriage whose days are brightened by letters from her husband's cousin, Lt. Robert Cambourne, stationed in Calcutta. Love develops between them, but upon her husband's death, Robert's final letter reveals he is married. Four years later, Robert summons Folie and her stepdaughter to England. The man she once knew has become paranoid and delusional. Folie must determine if she can find the man who captured her heart. Uncertain Magic is set in nineteenth-century Ireland with Roddy Delamore, cursed with the ability to read minds, making marriage prospects unlikely. She proposes to Faelan Savigar, Earl of Iveragh, despite his poor reputation and mysterious past. He struggles to understand why she believes in him and whether he can trust her with his heart.