Cover of Miss Billings Treads the Boards

Miss Billings Treads the Boards

Playing a Perilous Part

Miss Katherine Billings was cast in a most unlikely role for a vicar's daughter. But beautiful Kate was an impoverished orphan—and her only escape from a lecherous employer's embraces was to go upon the stage.

Read more

It was dangerous enough that a charming French playwright wanted her as his leading lady, and an ambitious impresario demanded that she bare her charms to an eager audience.

But when a magnificent marquess, Lord Henry Grayson, proposed that she join him in a masquerade of mating in a mock marriage, Kate found that putting on an act in public could be even more perilous in private...if the act was an act of love....

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 234 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Miss Billings Treads the Boards? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Miss Billings Treads the Boards. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Jack of Clubs Shares historical romance, Regency, romance
  2. Miss Jacobson's Journey Shares Regency, romance, historical fiction
  3. A Loyal Companion Shares Regency, historical romance, romance
  4. A Proper Companion Shares historical romance, Regency, romance

“People who read Miss Billings Treads the Boards tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Irresistible
  2. Lord St. Claire's Angel
  3. The Substitute Bridegroom
  4. Poetic Justice

“If you want more of the same (historical romance), start with these.”

  1. A Garden Folly
  2. The Houseparty
  3. A Promise of Spring
  4. The Ruthless Lord Rule

“If it was the Regency that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. With All My Heart
  2. Curricle & Chaise
  3. Miss Lacey's Last Fling
  4. The Babe and the Baron

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Butterfly
  2. The Madcap Marchioness
  3. Princess in Love
  4. A Difficult Truce