Isabella Hargreaves - Romance through the Ages

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I write Romance through the Ages, namely, Regency romance, British historical romance and Australian historical romance. My books are set in periods from the Ancient World to the Regency era to Australia during the 1860s to the 1920s. Jump into my action-filled, historical romances and explore love and life in your favourite eras of British and Australian history.

Find out more information about my Regency Romance books.

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Other British historical romances are due for release in 2025. More information coming soon.

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Isabella x

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January 2025 Release 

Beginnings: an Ancient World Romance
Release date: 1 January 2025
Buy link: books2read.com/u/3LXaJN 

AD 22. In Albion, island of the Celts, grows a forbidden love…
Two decades before the Roman invasion of Celtic Albion, or Britannia as the Roman’s called the island off the coast of Gaul, a love is born. Alina, daughter of the chieftain of the Durotriges settlement of Dun Limen, is duty-bound to serve her tribe, so when she’s chosen as the bride of her people’s king, Arthmael of the mighty fortress of Mai Dun, she feels honoured. Until she meets Garamaros. She didn’t expect to fall in love with a man from another tribe and of a different rank. Alina yearns for the Belgae craftsman with the muscled body of a blacksmith, the deep melodic voice of a minstrel, and a personality that charms everyone. He’s a man who possesses the artistic skills of the greatest goldsmiths of the Celtic world. A man who looks at her with hunger and cherishes her in ways she craves. A man whose touch ignites her body. Alina knows she will love no other man as she loves him.

Garamaros is the son of a druidess and a Belgae blacksmith. He’s been accepted by the Durotriges tribe and has found acclaim as a master goldsmith. When he falls in love with Alina, his only desire is to fulfil all her dreams for the rest of his life, but that’s impossible because she promised to the King of the Durotriges.
Alina must marry her people’s king, forsaking the man she loves. Accepting that Alina is lost to him, Garamaros vows to protect her from afar.

Will their love affair end in life-long despair or will they find a happy ending? 

Beginnings is the prequel to The Divided Isles Saga. This novella is a spicy M/F love story featuring: love at first sight and forbidden love tropes.
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The Divided Isles Saga, commencing in the first century AD, follows the lives and loves of the Celtic queen, Alina, and her female descendants over generations. Each book is set during a period of division in Britain caused by invasion, civil war, or religious, cultural, or political differences.

Forthcoming books in The Divided Isles Saga:
~Romano-Britain series
The Celtic King’s Daughter (book #1)
Sons of Rebellion (book #2)
The Rebellious Daughter (book #3)
~Viking series~
Enthralled
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Find your copy of Beginnings here.

Christmas 2024 Release

The Regent's Secret Matchmakers
Release date: 17 December 2024 
Buy Link: books2read.com/u/bzk5On

1819. A war widow, a former spy, and two fugitive wallabies.
Prudence Hartwell lives on a meagre income after the death of her husband injured fighting the hated French at Waterloo. She wants a quiet life in the country. Her plan to nurse her lonely heart and limited budget by filling her days with gardening and her evenings with knitting goes haywire when the Prince Regent gifts her with a wallaby from his menagerie to “provide you with endless entertainment in your new abode”. The bizarre beast keeps escaping to the lush grass of the estate next door, owned by her landlord, Luc de Certain, a French émigré with a doubtful past and a glib tongue.
 
After fighting Napoleon’s regime as a spy, Luc De Certain, travelled Europe after the war in search of emotional healing. He’s back in England to enjoy a peaceful country life at his childhood home. That is, until The Regent foists not only a wallaby but also a needy tenant upon him in the form of the delightful widow, Madame Hartwell. Hopelessly attracted to Prudence despite all his fears, he plans a flirtation with her during the long winter, but she is persistently resistant. Merde!
 
Luc and Prudence find their Antipodean charges are wayward and highly resourceful escapees, determined to be together.

Can Prudence keep her wallaby at home and avoid Monsieur de Certain, who makes her feel far too much?
 
Will the wallabies help Luc win over the widow, who could heal his tortured soul?
 
And can they achieve their goals by Christmas day?
 
The Regent’s Secret Matchmakers is a sweet M/F Regency romance novella featuring: love at first sight, forced proximity, and enemies to lovers tropes. It can be read as a standalone story.
 
The Oxford Friends Series comprises:
#1 The Wallflower’s Christmas Surprise
#2 The Kidnapped Christmas Bride
#3 The Regent’s Secret Matchmakers

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September Release

The Temptation of Reverend Francis Brody  
​Release date: September 24, 2024
Get your copy here.

A love that defies society’s rules.
Actress Clarissa Bartlett craves fame and fortune on the stage. After years of struggle since she left the Duke Street Orphanage, she’s achieved theatre acclaim at Covent Garden.
When her aunt takes a wealthy lover and decides it’s time for Clarissa to take one too, Clarissa turns to the only person willing to protect her.
The earnest Reverend Francis Brody is the only man she trusts and her total opposite.
Francis ministers to the Covent Garden parish while he awaits a promised living in Hampshire, and avoids Miss Fanny Hodges, the woman everyone thinks he will marry.
When the beautiful Clarissa seeks his help to avoid an unwanted liaison, he can’t refuse her safety in his home. Suddenly, his ordered and respectable life is thrown into chaos.
As their enemies unite to destroy their reputations and their careers, Francis offers Clarissa his protection in a marriage of convenience.
Soon, they’re finding it hard to resist their attraction to each other and starting to believe they may be a match made in heaven…until their hopes for a future together are shattered.
Can they find a way to stay together when so many circumstances are forcing them apart?
The Temptation of Reverend Francis Brody is a spicy but sweet M/F Regency romance featuring: love at first sight, opposites attract, forced proximity, marriage of convenience, and forbidden love tropes.
Find your copy on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited here.
Print version available now.

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Last day to buy this publication is December 17

The Regent's Menagerie  (Sweet)
​Release date: June 21, 2024
Buy here.

The Prince Regent is in one of his moods. The growing menagerie of unusual and bizarre animals from around the world is eating into his finances. That's money he could spend on a new waistcoat!

His head animal keeper, Sir Anthony Hoult, hatches a plan to gift some of the animals to friends and foes alike.
After all, a problem shared is a problem halved!

The result is an array of adventures - and delightfully sweet affairs of the heart - across Regency-era Britain.
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You'll be delighted with these amusing animal adventures and delightfully sweet romantic comedy novellas from:
Susanne Bellamy - A Goat of a Chance
Catherine Bilson - St George and the River Horse
Isabella Hargreaves - The Regent's Secret Matchmakers
Fiona R. Holden - Reputation Rescue
Heidi Wessman Kneale - A Sow's Ear
Elizabeth Leydin - The Baboon at the Ball
Ebony Oaten - Marriage, She Wrote
And more by:
Tasha Blythe
Caroline Deness
Tanya Kean
and Caro Kinkead

Find your copy here.
Print available also.

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IN PRODUCTION:

Ancient World Romance Series: The Divided Isles Saga (for release in 2025)
Beginnings (prequel) released January 2025
The Celtic King's Daughter (final editing) release date: 28 March
Sons of Rebellion (final editing)
The Rebellious Daughter (final editing)

Regency romance:
The Temptation of Reverend Francis Brody (The Brody Family Series #2)
Release date: To be released as a single title on all retail platforms in April 2024.

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