Recs if you like The Rakess...

These books include couples that do not plan to have children ever. I've also added a few books where they don't even talk about kids and there's no baby in the epilogue.

Complex, often unlikeable antiheroines are some of my favorite women in historical romance. Unrepentant social climbers, gold-diggers, gossips. Strident, cold, sexually-liberated. All welcome, along with the besotted men they leave in their wake!

(comment with recs please!!)

Historical Romance titles that involve a single parent as one of the leads, or the character has a similar role (significantly older sibling, guardian or uncle/aunt).

Historical Romance that will make real men seem like bores and fictional men like Christopher Reeves