Learn more
These promotions will be applied to this item:
Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions.
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
Follow the author
OK
A Winter's Madcap Escapade (THE BRIDES BY CHANCE REGENCY ADVENTURES SERIES Book 4) Kindle Edition
Can a daring young girl take control of her future?
1804, England
Alexander, Lord Dymond’s life is thrown into chaos when he finds young Appoline Greenaway hiding in his coach.Having lost her father, Apple is on the run from her scheming cousins, who are determined to cheat her out of her inheritance before she comes of age.
But Apple is not all that she seems. Her inheritance is tied up in a mysterious trust — and no one knows who set it up.
As Alex and Apple grow closer it becomes apparent that he has taken on more than he bargained for…
A WINTER’S MADCAP ESCAPADE is the fourth book in the Brides By Chance series, an enchanting set of Regency romances set in Georgian England.
THE BRIDES BY CHANCE REGENCY ADVENTURE SERIES:
BOOK ONE: In Honour Bound
BOOK TWO: A Chance Gone By
BOOK THREE: Knight for a Lady
BOOK FOUR: A Winter's Madcap Escapade
BOOK FIVE: Marriage For Music
BOOK SIX: Damsel to the Rescue
BOOK SEVEN: Widow in Mistletoe
BOOK EIGHT: His Auction Prize
BOOK NINE: Disaster and the Duke
BOOK TEN: Taming of the Vulture
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 17, 2019
- File size2.1 MB
Shop this series
See full series- Kindle Price:$10.97By placing your order, you're purchasing a license to the content and you agree to the Kindle Store Terms of Use.
- Kindle Price:$51.90By placing your order, you're purchasing a license to the content and you agree to the Kindle Store Terms of Use.
Shop this series
This option includes 3 books.
This option includes 5 books.
This option includes 10 books.
Customers also bought or read
- By His Grace and Favor: A Traditional Regency Romance (Lord Dere's Dependents Book 1)Kindle Edition$4.99$4.99
- Lady Ferocity: A Regency Historical Romance (A Series of Senseless Complications Book 1)Kindle Edition$0.99$0.99
- Miss Ridley and the Duke: a clean Regency romance (Dazzling Debutantes Book 1)Kindle Edition$4.99$4.99
- Tempted by Folly: A Traditional Regency Romance (The Ellsworth Assortment Book 1)Kindle Edition$4.99$4.99
- Naomi and the Purloined Journal: A feel-good Regency Romance (The Wild Marchmonts Book 1)Kindle Edition$3.99$3.99
- Shadow at the Morgue: A Spencer & Reid Mystery (Spencer & Reid Mysteries Book 1)Kindle Edition$4.99$4.99
- Murder in Moonlight: Victorian Historical Romance Mystery (Silver and Grey Book 1)Kindle Edition$2.99$2.99
- APHRODITE: a historical romantic comedy, Regency Christmas novel (Regency Goddesses Series)Kindle Edition$4.99$4.99
- The Spinster's Resolve: A Delightfully Twisty Historical Regency Cosy Murder Mystery Entwined With A Sweet RomanceJust releasedKindle Edition$4.99$4.99
Customers who bought this item also bought
Product details
- ASIN : B07Y24H7K4
- Publisher : Sapere Books
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : September 17, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 2.1 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 309 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1913335090
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Book 4 of 10 : THE BRIDES BY CHANCE REGENCY ADVENTURES SERIES
- Best Sellers Rank: #583,355 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,701 in Historical British Fiction
- #2,881 in Historical British & Irish Literature
- #2,906 in Historical Regency Fiction
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Elizabeth Bailey grew up in Africa with unconventional parents, where she loved reading and drama. On returning to England, she developed her career in acting, theatre directing and finally writing.
Elizabeth's latest venture is The Lady Fan Mystery series, published by Sapere Books. The novels feature amateur sleuth Lady Ottilia Fanshawe and a cast of family members including her husband and champion Lord Francis Fanshawe. She originally published Regency romances with Harlequin Mills & Boon and has many titles in her Brides by Chance Regency Adventures series, now also published by Sapere, as well as standalone Regency and Georgian romances.
Elizabeth also writes edgy women's fiction: Her dual time novel Fly The Wild Echoes, which deals with past lives, and For One More Tomorrow, where the ghost of the real Macbeth returns, protesting his villainous portrayal by Shakespeare. And she has published a romantic suspense novella, Silence of a Stranger.
Elizabeth lives in Sussex, England. She is still an inveterate reader with eclectic tastes and she spends her spare time helping other writers improve their craft.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonCustomers say
Customers find the book's story engaging, with one review highlighting its quick-witted banter and suspenseful plot twists. Moreover, the book receives positive feedback for its readability, with customers considering it the best in the series. The characters are well-developed, with one review noting they are fun and appealing without being mawkish or exceptionally silly.
AI Generated from the text of customer reviews
Select to learn more
Customers enjoy the fun story of the book, with one mentioning its quick-witted banter and another describing it as a delightful romp back in Regency times.
"This was such a fun story. I was so worried that they would never find a happy ending...." Read more
"...Humor, mystery , clean romance, a wonderful story that I could not put down until the story was over...." Read more
"Was caught up from the first. Light-hearted & suspenseful by twists & turns. Ms. Bailey's true to form in this escapade" Read more
"...See? That’s not fun to read, is it? Anyway, I love this fun story, and feel that it is everything a true Regency should be." Read more
Customers find the book to be a delightful read and consider it the best in the series, with one customer particularly enjoying the story of Apple and Alex.
"I quite enjoyed reading this book by Elizabeth Bailey, It is a reissue of an older edition And I'm really glad to see it on today's market!" Read more
"I rarely write reviews but thoroughly enjoyed reading about Apple and Alex and all the twists and turns of their story...." Read more
"...ah- I could get the next story by this author😊 It is a delight to read a well written story that draws you in and flows smoothly...." Read more
"Such lively characters and a story that is amusing make for a delightful read. This series so far has made me want to read every episode." Read more
Customers find the characters engaging, with one review noting that the hero and heroine are fun and appealing without being mawkish or exceptionally silly, while another mentions that the villains are nicely obnoxious.
"...I loved the character of Alex, but I wished he didn't say "ain't" so often." Read more
"...The villains were nicely obnoxious without being vicious, just callous and self serving, and the hero and heroine fun and appealing without being..." Read more
"...The characters were engaging however and I enjoyed it for the most part...." Read more
"Such lively characters and a story that is amusing make for a delightful read. This series so far has made me want to read every episode." Read more
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews. Please reload the page.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024Format: KindleVerified PurchaseThis was such a fun story. I was so worried that they would never find a happy ending. I loved the character of Alex, but I wished he didn't say "ain't" so often.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2020Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI quite enjoyed reading this book by Elizabeth Bailey, It is a reissue of an older edition And I'm really glad to see it on today's market!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2022Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI rarely write reviews but thoroughly enjoyed reading about Apple and Alex and all the twists and turns of their story. The villains were nicely obnoxious without being vicious, just callous and self serving, and the hero and heroine fun and appealing without being mawkish or exceptionally silly. A thoroughly nice book.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2023Format: KindleVerified PurchaseThe villains were less than believable and the denouement completely ridiculous.
The characters were engaging however and I enjoyed it for the most part. I found the manner in which Alex spoke to be quite distracting and although I have seen this sort of thing before in regency novels; so it might be accurate; it still took me out of the story and made me imagine Alex as a pompous ass, even while he was being chivalrous. The use of “chit” was jarring, and constantly infantilizing Apple was difficult to get past. Hen witted, featherbrained…calling her monkey, just rather icky.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2021Format: KindleVerified PurchaseExcellent- perhaps one of my favorite books. Delightful romp back in Regency. The constant use of the word ain’t was very jarring coming from the mouth of the upper crust. That was the books only flaw to me. Humor, mystery , clean romance, a wonderful story that I could not put down until the story was over. Then I was sad- but ah- I could get the next story by this author😊 It is a delight to read a well written story that draws you in and flows smoothly. The only jarring note was the frequent use of the word ain’t. A very talented author .
- Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2020Format: KindleVerified PurchaseWas caught up from the first. Light-hearted & suspenseful by twists & turns. Ms. Bailey's true to form in this escapade
- Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2020Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI like this one so much, I have now read it twice! Alex and Apple’s relationship is so fun to watch unfold. I really enjoy Elizabeth’s writing. I don’t feel like I’m reading about 21st century people in regency dress. But I’m not having to slog through early 19th century, enormously long, run on sentences that take up half the page, and contain slightly archaic words or word structures, along with paragraphs which are an entire page, and consist of two sentences, maybe three if you are lucky. See? That’s not fun to read, is it? Anyway, I love this fun story, and feel that it is everything a true Regency should be.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2021Format: KindleVerified PurchaseSuch lively characters and a story that is amusing make for a delightful read. This series so far has made me want to read every episode.
Top reviews from other countries
- kkReviewed in Australia on February 3, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars A treat
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseLovers of trad regencies will love this too. A very pleasant read, with good period feel, interesting characters, decent drama and a proper happy ending. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
2 people found this helpfulReport - S. J. WaldockReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars a delightful read
Format: PaperbackVerified Purchasein the best tradition of sweet Regency romance we have a spirited heroine with a hidden past and a capable and likeablie hero, whose chivalry defeats the dragons of guardians of the heroine. A quixotic urge to protect her grows into love, and with a few twists to the plot the couple satisfy the reader by finding their well-deserved HEA. I planned to ration myself over the holidays and read two chapters a day, which lasted precisely one day and I then devoured it. Like a good scone, enough substance to satisfy and enough cream and jam to make it delicious.
2 people found this helpfulReport - Monique HarpigniesReviewed in Italy on September 30, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly charming and great fun
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseA masterly romp, quirky and endearing: Alex and Apple grapple with the period's damning social codes and their own assertive personality that makes for constantly challenging interplay before stumbling into fascination and helpless, perhaps hopeless passion.
- OsannaReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2019
4.0 out of 5 stars Delightful caper
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseA charming story that had me entertained the whole way through, without giving any clues as to how the apparently irreconcilable situation would finally be resolved.
- Wandering StarReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it!
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseThere really is nothing more to add. I really really enjoyed this book.
Alex and Apple is what romance is about. Fun, laughs, a few tiffs... What's not to love about it?
This is a story that is going to be read again and again by me because it just is that kind of sweet romance.
Thank you Elizabeth Bailey. Hope the others in the series match up to A Winter's Madcap Escapade. Perfect reading as I sit by the window watching snow fall.