Anonymous wrote:One Perfect Rose - Mary Jo Putney

This book is perfection.

Thanks everyone! Really helpful and great

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Anonymous wrote:Wallflower series by Lisa Kleypas. It does have some explicit sex though.

There are four books. In one book, the man does indeed "learn" to love her, but the other three there was sort of an instant attraction, though it took a while for the man to figure it out.

Women were all pretty strong characters, for the most part, well, as strong as they could be in that era.

I just usually go on to amazon books. They also have some free books you can get for your kindle.

I was going to suggest this but you posted first. The Wallflower series are all pretty piney.

Some authors:
Julia Quinn
Tessa Dare
Elizabeth Boyle
Elizabeth Hoyte
Maya Rodale - she wrote the same book as a historical and as a modern - the duke changed to an internet billionaire. It's pretty good.

And

There is an excellent website: Smart Bitches/Trashy Books
http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/

From the website:
Smart Bitches Trashy Books began in 2005 as a community of romance readers eager to talk about which romance novels rocked their worlds, and which ones made them throw the book with as much velocity as possible. Since then our site has grown to include a community of incredibly smart and savvy romance readers, as well as folks who are curious about all those fuchsia books with the tangerine skies and turquoise ruffles they used to see in the drug stores.

Julia Quinn has a series of historical romance novels in the Bridgerton series that aren't bad.

Also Laura Kinsale, some are more explicit than others but fun, easy reads while still having interesting, less predictable characters.

If you don't mind them being chaste, I love Georgette Heyer. Regency romance that's quite clever, engaging heroines. "The Grand Sophy" and "Frederica" are faves but I like them all.

One Perfect Rose - Mary Jo Putney

Wallflower series by Lisa Kleypas. It does have some explicit sex though.

There are four books. In one book, the man does indeed "learn" to love her, but the other three there was sort of an instant attraction, though it took a while for the man to figure it out.

Women were all pretty strong characters, for the most part, well, as strong as they could be in that era.

I just usually go on to amazon books. They also have some free books you can get for your kindle.