The Nichols Sisters
A REGENCY ROMANCE SERIES STARTING IN JULY 2026
Much Ado Over a Duke
COMING JULY 16, 2026
Much Ado Over a Duke
Two rivals from opposite worlds. One absurd treasure hunt. No time whatsoever for falling in love.
Lady Cordelia Nichols has buried two Dukes in six weeks and has not the time, or patience, for a third. But when her father’s estate and title pass to commoner Justin Wright—the adopted son of a former scullery maid, by way of the most baffling entailment in English legal history—Cordelia must decide how far she’ll go to protect Hollyhead House and the three eccentric sisters who depend on her.
Justin has no interest in being a duke. He has a London life, an architectural firm, and a perfectly comfortable absence of aristocratic obligation. But settling the estate requires returning to the country house where he was never welcome. He finds a crumbling manor, four unmarried women, and a very beautiful eldest daughter who rides like a highwayman and argues like a barrister.
Then the late duke’s will surfaces a secret: a hidden fortune, left only for the heir “worthy enough” to find it. Suddenly Cordelia and Justin are rivals in a madcap treasure hunt where ciphered Shakespeare, overturned garden statues, and increasingly poor decisions abound. With a gossip columnist circling and their reputations unraveling, the search for the duke’s treasure may ruin them both. And falling in love along the way is the one disaster neither of them anticipates.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN
Much Ado Over a Duke
Rivals to lovers
Grumpy x Grumpy
Forced Proximity
Eldest Daughter Falls in Love
SLOW BURN
Cozy mystery
Class difference
He falls first
FOUND FAMILY ANTICS
A Rake By Any Other Name
COMING OCT 2026
Much Ado Over a Duke
A lady fleeing suitors. A rake fleeing enemies. A Scottish castle that has other plans.
Lady Portia Nichols has made her peace with spinsterhood. London society sees her deafness as a flaw and her beauty as a consolation prize. She has no interest in being launched into another season she didn’t ask for. When her sister insists she have one last adventure before swearing off matrimony, Portia reluctantly agrees: a trip to Scotland to catalogue repairs on a distant property. She agrees, looking forward to some alone time that is mercifully free of suitors.
What she gets instead is Henry Peverill.
Henry was once a rake, and he’s been working hard at scrubbing that reputation, with mixed results. A disastrous naval skirmish has left him exposed in the scandal sheets and dismissed by his spymaster, and the only way back into his handler’s graces is to track down the privateers himself. Who are, most conveniently, hiding in the Scottish Highlands. He invites himself along on Portia’s trip, confident he can be indispensable to King, Country, and one very reluctant, very beautiful, travelling companion.
But the journey north quickly becomes a race. Peverill’s enemies know exactly who he is—courtesy of a gleefully overzealous gossip columnist—and soon he and Portia are dodging kidnappers and bounty hunters, blending in with a ramshackle troupe of travelling actors, and assuming false identities just to make it to the castle alive. Forced into one another’s company, their talent for mutual irritation begins to morph into something far more dangerous—especially since they’ve both sworn off love.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN
A Rake By Any Other Name
Reformed Rake
Forced Proximity
Banter as Foreplay
Roadtrip Romance
Found Family Antics
He Falls First
One Bed at the Inn
Heroine with disabilities
haunted castle
A Winter’s Vow
coming january 2027
Much Ado Over a Duke
A lady with a secret. A baron in desperate straits. A marriage of convenience that proves anything but.
Lady Hermione Nichols has done the impossible: she has been invited to present her work at a prestigious gathering of Europe’s most celebrated vintners—an honor that could secure her independence for life. There is only one complication. No one knows she is the scientist behind the discovery. To society—and to her relentlessly matchmaking sponsor, Lady Billings—Hermione is merely another eccentric Nichols sister in urgent need of a husband.
But Hermione has no intention of being strong-armed into matrimony. What she requires is passage to France and a plan bold enough to slip free of Lady Billings’s watchful eye. Fortunately, she has devised all three—and it begins with Sebastian Harland.
As a former naval Captain, Seb is used to steering his life like a ship. As a newly minted baron drowning in debt and a failing estate, he’s quickly running out of options. When Hermione proposes an extraordinary bargain—marriage in name in exchange for safe passage across the Channel—Sebastian does the only sensible thing. He agrees.
What begins as a strictly practical arrangement quickly unravels. Between stolen glances on deck and late-night confidences, their carefully drawn boundaries begin to blur. But when a betrayal threatens Hermione’s discovery—and the future they have each wagered everything to secure—they must decide whether to retreat to safety…or risk it all for a love that was never meant to be part of the bargain.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN
A Winter’s Vow
marriage of convenience
bluestocking heroine
green-flag hero
Roadtrip Romance
naval captain hero
clever heroine
One Bed at the Inn
love on the high seas
cozy adventure
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