NANCY CAMPBELL ALLEN
Proper Romance
Each book drops a sharp, capable heroine into a different dangerous situation—a haunted manor, a cursed midnight sleep, a hidden tower, a midnight deadline—where she will solve a mystery, outwit a villain, and fall for the man she least expected.
✅ You’ll Love This If You Crave:
- a gaslit, clockwork Victorian world
- a mystery
- supernatural creatures (shifters, vampires, ghosts)
- heroes who fall for a woman’s mind
- sharp, sparring banter
- clean romance with tension
- slow-building partnerships
- women pushing against what Victorian society expects of them
- manor houses, foggy London streets, airships over the Caribbean
- ensemble casts of recurring secondary characters
📖 Start with Beauty and the Clockwork Beast
🚫 Not the Right Fit If You Want:
- explicit or steamy romance
- hard steampunk
- dark, morally complex heroes
Looking for more adventures? Check out these collections:
London • Regency • Edwardian • Spice • Marriage of Convenience • Dragons • Airships • Inventors • Winter Romance • Haunted Estates • Globe-Trotting • Witches • Vampires • Selkies & Mermaids • Demons • Ghosts • Fairy Tales • Ancient Artifacts • Europe • Hearts • Detectives • Audiobooks • Kobo Plus
If You Want:
- Dragons, murder and a Masquerade Ball, try Charlotte E. English
- Fantasy set in the Edwardian England, try Freya Marske
- Steampunk detectives, try Corrina Lawson
- A variety of steampunk try Alter Kates
- A steampunk world teaming with vampires, try Delilah S. Dawson