Perpetua Langley

Perpetua Langley is the author of the sixteen book Sweet Regency Romance Series and the Chemsworth Hall series. She is a firm believer that life ought not to be taken too seriously unless absolutely necessary.

Perpetua writes sweet and clean romance that is in keeping with the literature of the time and hopes to capture the spirit of those stories. The tone of her books is reliably low angst so if you are looking for a gnashing of teeth and a pulling of hair and a cursing of the fates...you have landed in the wrong drawing room. However, if you like to settle in and live in a world where the problems are not life threatening, the characters are treated to a gentle humor, and their fates always resolve in an HEA - come on in! As Jane Austen wrote to the librarian at Carlton House:

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other notice than to save my Life, & if it were indispensible for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I finished the first Chapter."

If you would like to join Perpetua's mailing list to be the first to know about an upcoming release and get a free short story about Kitty Bennet's fate after the final chapters of Cousin Emma, please use the following link: http://eepurl.com/bLESdf. If you have questions or comments, send her an email at perpetualangley@yahoo.com.

The Sweet Regency Romance Series:

Book 1 - A Summons to Greystone Hall

Book 2 - The Mysterious Earl

Book 3 - Season of Grace

Book 4 - Return to Hertfordshire, a Pride & Prejudice continuation.

Book 5 - Miss Brookdale's Dowry

Book 6 - The Sweet Regency Romance Boxed set of books 1 through 5

Book 7 - Lady Carpathian and the Bennets, a Pride & Prejudice variation.

Book 8 - Condescension & Condemnation - a Pride and Prejudice variation.

Book 9 - In the Neighborhood of Buckthorn Green, a Pride and Prejudice variation

Book 10 - Blakely Hill - a Pride and Prejudice variation

Book 11 - Our Particular Friend - a Pride and Prejudice Variation

Book 12 - The Sweet Regency Romance Boxed set of books 7 through 11

Book 13 - The Bennets Take on the Ton, a Pride & Prejudice Variation

Book 14 - Lady Catherine Decamps, a Pride & Prejudice Variation

Book 15 - The Lady's Jewels, a Pride & Prejudice Variation

Book 16 - Cousin Emma, a Pride & Prejudice Variation

The Chemsworth Hall Series

Book 1 - Violet

“The whole scheme hangs on you, my love.”

So begins Lady Mulholland’s directive to Henry Granger, her one and only son. He is to bring suitable gentlemen home from Oxford and he is to make all haste. There are seven daughters to be married—Violet, Rose, Daisy, Marigold, Lily and the twins, Poppy and Pansy—an undertaking that will span a decade.

Lady Mulholland, however, is not faint of heart. She devised her plan on a long ago evening when she happened to look down her dining table and note precisely how many daughters were to be had. She is confident of its success, as she is confident in all of her plans. Whether her daughters will cooperate is another matter entirely.

Violet, her eldest daughter, is a scholar. She is shrewd enough to guess at her mother’s schemes and bold enough to thwart them. Lord Smythesdon, invited to the house under false pretenses, considers himself a serious intellectual. He also considers that particular quality to be a man’s purview. As he says, there is no fact ruined faster than hearing a female spout off about it. As Violet is in the habit of spouting off quite a lot, there could not be a more ill-omened beginning.

Smuckers, the fearless butler, is determined to do his bit for his mistress. He will rally the below stairs staff and enact some schemes of his own. Despite his outward bravado, he secretly fears that, in this particular instance, Lady Mulholland shall be defeated. This disturbs his peace for, as he well knows, if Lady Mulholland is not happy, nobody in the house is happy.

In the spirit of Nancy Mitford, Chemsworth Hall follows the fortunes of the Granger family in all their delightful eccentricity. Let the games begin...