Gender-Reversed Regency Romance Wanted

[redbrunja]

I have been binge-reading regency romance, and besides coming across an actual ‘90% of the conflict centers around two characters not talking to each other’ plot (I had forgotten these existed except as theoretical examples of what NOT to do), I have read about a lot of wealthy, powerful men and the in-financial-straights women who love them stories. Don’t get me wrong, I totally get the appeal of ‘now you have regularly have hot sex with a guy who loves you and now all your money worries are over and you’re LOADED’ as a fantasy, but it has left me DEEPLY craving a story about a duchess who decides to take, I dunno, some hot, broke, strapping young man into her bed. He teaches her about the wonders of life she’s been missing, she teaches him the joy of love-making and in the end, marries him to take him away from his life of toil and strife.

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

It's not quite this but... have you read Judith Ivory's The Proposition? It's a reverse Pygmalion-tale of sorts with a hero who's a ratcatcher and a heroine who has to coach him to pass as a Viscount at a ball. (Ivory's historicals are really fantastic if you haven't... they're a bit older now as most were early 90s I think. She doesn't write any more unfortunately.)

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

I want one about a Bow Street Runner and a Lady's Maid.

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I know of any books like that, but it's funny how similar that is thematically to the Titanic and Anastasia.

[empressearwig.livejournal.com]

This isn't QUITE what you were looking for, but it was the closest I could come up with: Duchess by Night by Eloisa James (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2283547.Duchess_By_Night).