It seemed like I read a lot of 70's/ 80's romance novels where the main woman had more than one husband/lover, if not more than on "true love". Skye O'Malley comes to mind.

Speaking of Regency romance, I just finished Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamour in Glass and really enjoyed it! The first book was a little too romance-focused for me (it was basically Pride and Prejudice, after all),

I'm reading the first one right now! They just went to the ball.

but I like that the rest of the series seems to be focused on what happens after the traditional Happily Ever After:

Spoiler! (No, I kid; it's pretty obvious what the outcome will be. The fun is in seeing how it plays out.) (I assume all-naked, all-gay, right?)

I am really looking forward to the fourth book, which she describes as "Ocean's Eleven in Venice." THERE IS INDEED A GONDOLA CHASE.

Also every book includes a Doctor cameo.

Also every book includes a Doctor cameo.

Wait, what? For realz?? I totally have to try this series....

They're not overt, but any time a doctor appears in the story, he is dressed like one of the Doctors. Eleven is in the fourth book, bow tie and all.

I did not catch the doctor cameos! Possibly because I have never watched doctor who. But I am exited to hear about a 4 th book.

It comes out next week! And then there's one more book left in this first cycle. She's doing three five-book cycles at different points in their lives (middle age and elderly, I think). That's the plan, anyway.

A lot of the great 80s Regency authors are re-published in large print editions, for the grandma market I guess. I can find them at my library. I mean, when I'm a grandma I don't expect I'll have given up my taste for reading explicit sex scenes, but since I also like witty banter I am glad that both are available.

(I am amused at the perennial feeling that older people must be somehow old-fashioned. My mother is a grandmother, and she was at Woodstock, people! She knows all the cuss words and has had lots of sex in various decades.)

I loved Valerie Vayle (sp?), piracy and espionage in the Sun King era. They're funny and sexy and the heroine has lovers who she maintains good relationships with even though she ends up with the hero, and said lover sometimes ends up as a friend of the hero. In the first one there's even a harem. The heroine avoids the sheik until she has to get to him to save her friend. The sheik turns out to be a pleasant man, and she remembers him fondly later. I wonder why my copies are? And if there are new copies available? Mine were falling apart.

Here she (they?) are on Goodreads, Connie.

Valerie Vayle.