Margaret Bennett
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Born in Fall River, MA, Margaret Bennett has lived most of her life in Norfolk, VA. Professionally, she has a diversified background. She earned a Master of Education from the University of Virginia and certification with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in Adolescents and Young Adulthood / English Language Arts. She taught middle and senior high school students for over twenty years, with nine years in alternative education for at-risk students.
As an avid reader, she became a fan of Georgette Heyer's Regency novels, then started writing Regency romance novels as a hobby. She particularly loves to write about feisty heroines in an age that identified women by their husbands' accomplishments. Currently, she lives with her husband in beautiful Port Royal, SC, where she enjoys walks with their dog Sally and is busy plotting her next novel. 
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The Earl's Incompetent Maid
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Regency Romance
How hard can a maid’s job be? Fleeing an abusive guardian, Thalia encounters an Earl on a lonely road, who offers her a position as a housemaid at his country estate. But Thalia’s the daughter of a wealthy Viscount and has led a privileged life, and finds the life of a servant more challenging than she expected. Playing the role of a good Samaritan, Simon, the Earl of Chedworth, takes up the rain drenched young woman on his way to his estate. When weather forces them to stop at an inn, he’s appalled to find she’s been beaten. Even though she’s secretive about her circumstances, it’s obvious she’s a nobleman’s daughter. When he learns she’s seeking employment as a domestic servant, he offers her a position as a maid at Chedworth Hall. But Thalia’s domestic incompetence soon turns the efficiently run Hall into chaos, even unsettling Simon’s heart. When her guardian shows up, Simon is determined to protect Thalia from harm. Only she has other plans. 
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Miss Finley Kidnaps an Earl
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Regency Romance
How hard can it be to kidnap an Earl? Clarissa faces losing her home because of her younger brother’s financial ruin due to gambling debts. So what better way to help him than to kidnap the Earl who holds the vowels and force him to hand them over to her. Easy, right? Noah, the Earl of Daubeney, finds his vanity wounded when a sprite of a girl bests him, locking him in a root cellar. But though he soon gets the upper hand, it’s no longer his vanity at stake, but his heart. A sweet, humorous, Regency romance with witty dialogue, mischief and happily ever after. 
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The Strange Duties of a Lady's Companion
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Regency Romance
Desperate for employment, she becomes a lady's companion to a thief. Upon the death of her father, Miss Emme Lyndhurst is left destitute and is forced to accept a position as a lady’s companion to Lady Webley, who’s a pilferer, or to put it bluntly—a thief. Somehow, Emme must keep the older woman from stealing items. But a house party with valuables lying all about turns into a fiasco for Emme as she discovers items stolen by Lady Webley and now must return them without the owners’ knowledge. Jonah, Viscount Hampden, attends a house party in the wilds of Cumbria to uncover a seditious rebellion and encounters the attractive lady’s companion. Their paths continually cross at night, and soon she becomes embroiled in his investigation. He’s also drawn into her unusual duty to protect a thief—and to the plucky young lady herself. A clean, humorous, Regency romance with witty dialogue, mischief and happily ever after. 
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Lady Jocelyn Courts Blackmail
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Regency Romance
She’s fiercely independent. He rejects involvement. Will their tangled webs of deceit unravel to reveal love? London, 1811. Lady Jocelyn Graydon is no fool. But the clever heiress is still surprised when her disreputable cousin kidnaps and places her in an upmarket brothel to gain access to her fortune. So when a handsome nobleman arrives for his usual appointment, she persuades him to help her flee… with nary an item of clothing removed. Viscount Adrian Stangate avoids affairs of the heart. But the crown spy’s search for a traitor offers a pleasant distraction when he rescues a young actress from a madam’s clutches. And though his feelings are firmly walled off to shield him from any compromise, he can’t shake the pretty woman’s visage from his thoughts. At first grateful for his assistance, Jocelyn quickly becomes convinced the striking aristocrat is a villainous blackmailer. And Adrian is so completely taken by the stunning lady’s bold break-in to his study, he vows to discover who the real person is behind her beguiling smile. Will the couple’s secrets be their undoing, or will they pay love’s ransom for a happily ever after? 
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Foiling the Earl's Affair
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Regency Romance
What happens when a Misfit among the Ton, a matchmaking Aunt, and a determined Earl collide? Lady Meghan Charlton, a bluestocking who can’t see without her spectacles, takes up residence with Lady Farringdon for the Season and becomes embroiled in her matchmaking hostess’s plan to keep the Earl of Daventry from proposing to a young debutante. Unfortunately, Lady Farringdon refuses to let Meg wear her spectacles, as she is convinced that is why Meg is still unwed. Julian, the Earl of Daventry, has decided to marry a biddable young lady but is constantly foiled in his attempts to propose by the lovely, but extremely clumsy, Lady Meghan. It isn’t long, however, before he finds her intelligence and sensibility far more appealing than the ingénue he’d chosen. 
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The Spinster and the Spy
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Regency Romance
A feisty Spinster. A rakish Earl working for the Crown. An unlikely partnership for trouble. Miss Jane Colborne is firmly on the shelf, much to the chagrin of her brother, Viscount Ridditch, who sees her independence as highly unseemly. While taking a moonlight stroll at a house party, she stumbles upon a notorious rake spying on French traitors. Afterwards, she offers her services to the Home Office to help catch an English turncoat, turning her dull, uneventful life as a spinster into one of adventure and intrigue. She also must guard her heart against a rogue. Working for the Crown, Owen, Earl of Blackmore must uncover a traitor among the aristocracy. While spying on two French émigrés, he's forced to pluck the most delectable spinster out of harm's way and into the shrubbery. Now his job becomes doubly difficult, for he must keep his eyes on, but his hands off, the infuriatingly inquisitive and feisty Miss Colborne who poses an even greater threat to Blackmore, this time to his heart. 
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The Earl and the Merchant's Daughter
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Regency Romance
A Misfit with the Ton finds an Earl in her bed. He proposes. She refuses. Now he must woo her. Due to her father’s investment acumen, Lucy Swinton finds herself a guest at a duke’s country house party. Still, she knows her place, for the nobility frown on their titled sons marrying a merchant’s daughter. The Earl of Camberley, a renowned rake, is expected to propose to a young lady of his mother’s choosing. But Camberley can’t bring himself up to scratch. Instead, he drinks himself into a stupor and ends up in Lucy’s bedchamber. What a hullabaloo! When a maid discovers the naked lord in the merchant’s daughter bed, Camberley is duty bound to propose. But when Lucy refuses to marry him, Camberley must convince the merchant’s daughter to take a chance on him. 
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The Impossible Governess
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Regency Romance
An impossible Governess brings havoc to the household of an imperious Viscount and his troubled niece. Forced to earn her way in the world, Georgeanne is on her third employer in four months as her good looks and aristocratic upbringing make it near impossible for her to maintain a position. Her last hope is governess to Lord Raynor's five year old niece, a sullen and tantrum prone orphan. Now, other than talking back to her aristocratic employer, Georgeanne biggest challenge is not losing her heart to him. Lord Raynor is amazed by the new governess’s success to control his troubled niece. Yet, no servant has ever tried his patience more. He finds the governess a most tempting morsel even as he's sorely tried not to wring Georgeanne's pretty little neck for her antics. 
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A Lady's Dilemma Or The Dandy and Lady Penelope
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Regency Romance
She engaged to another but drawn to Max. He's an Earl who reinvents himself as a dandy to uncover a spy. Lady Penelope Lenwood has been engaged to marry Victor Bynes since she was fifteen years old. However, as she finds herself drawn to the flamboyant Lord Aldwyn, she experiences Victor’s possessive nature that he’s managed to hide from her. Still, she’s reluctant to break the engagement, for while Lord Aldwyn makes her heart sing, she can’t help but to notice his penchant to chase after men. A former soldier assigned to Wellington’s staff, Lord Maxwell is recruited by the War Office to capture a spy and reinvents himself as a dandy. His father, the Duke of Blackmoor, is appalled by his son’s transformation, especially when Max discovers he enjoys playing a Pink of the Ton. And when Penelope’s father asks him to convince her to break the engagement, Max finds Penelope is a threat to his own independence. 
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The Poor Relation
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Regency Romance
A Spinster whose a companion for eccentric tippler. A Viscount working for the Crown. He’s not for her, but seeks her out--when he’s not rescuing her from disaster. Chloe Woodforde is a poor relation well past the age to marry. As a companion for her eccentric, elderly great aunt, Chloe biggest challenge is keeping the old lady out of the booze. When they attend a country house party, Chloe encounters Viscount Camden while walking her aunt’s Yorkshire terrier. Though he is far above her reach, her attraction for Camden grows as she sees past his harsh demeanor and his reputation as a rake. Camden finds himself drawn to Chloe’s honesty and integrity. But as an agent for the Crown recruited to prevent stolen documents from falling into enemy hands, he recognizes it is not in her best interest to seek her out. Unfortunately, circumstances continually throw the lovely sinister into his path as he tries to keep her from falling into disastrous situations while out walking her silly mutt. 
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