Elizabeth A. Lance follows up her first collection of Regency Novellas with the return of The Valentine, The Bloom and her newest novella, The Mystic. In The Valentine, Lady Madeline Ryder falls instantly in love with Lord Samuel Powell, a man her father and her aunt despise. Can she and Sam overcome their objections before the Red and White Ball? In The Bloom, Miss Erin Lambart, a blue-stocking, finds herself falling for the scholarly Lord Guildford who has no interest in anything more than a marriage of convenience. Will their pack to find each other suitable partners leave them in misery or will they discover their love for one another in time for the May Day celebration? In The Mystic, Miss Margaret Denholm's fate is tied to the tribe of Romani gypsies who visit Hatherleigh land every summer...the question is will Maggie choose a Noble Englishman, or instead follow her heart and find out the truth about her past...