Bøker av Paula Quinn

"You're like the treasure box filled with all the laughter I've lost."When social outcast Mercy Blagden accidentally cuts herself on an ancient ruby dagger, her blood mixes with the blood of a cursed seventeenth century English lord and casts her into his time, his castle, and his father's dungeon. It's one thing that the young man who takes pity on her and sets her free in his care has the kindest heart of any guy she's ever known, sees beyond her scarred face, and claims her blood can heal him. It's another when she begins to fall in love with him and learns she's been sent there to kill him.Josiah Ashmore, seventh son of the duke of Dorset, turns every head and sets almost every heart to fluttering when he enters a room and sweeps his guileless, jaunty smile over all, rich and poor. He's well loved by everyone who knows him, most especially by his father and six older brothers. But his smiles, even his joy, are well-practiced to convince others that he isn't the devil they fear from some age-old prophecy. They love him but they keep their children from becoming his friends and their daughters from becoming his wife. For all he has, he lives a lonely life. But when he meets the mysterious woman who claims to be from another time-before he speaks to her or touches her-he knows he's been waiting for her all his life. The more time he spends with her, the more hope fills his heart for a brighter future, and the more genuine his happiness becomes until he's convinced that now that he can breathe, he will suffocate without her.Mercy doesn't care about some stupid prophecy. She's been alone her whole life in a self-imposed prison waiting for him to set her free. With his smile and his kiss he fills all her empty spaces and makes her whole. Her life finally has a purpose. To love Josiah Ashmore and to be loved by him.But can their love survive the cursed ruby dagger when it brings Josiah's worst fears to the castle doors and then hurls Mercy back to the twenty-first century? And what will happen when, after four years, Mercy finally finds a way back to the man who holds her heart and discovers that he wants nothing more than to crush it in his fingers?Will Mercy use the dagger to fulfill her destiny? Or will she create a new path paved with forgiveness like a hopeful light. A light that can shine in a lonely monster's darkness?For All Time SeriesBook 1 - A Promise For All TimeBook 2 - A Kiss For All TimeBook 3 - A Touch For all Time

Like the sun, Tanon's fire cannot be extinguished.By the king's order, Lady Tanon Risande has been promised to wed a fierce Welsh prince as a gesture of Norman goodwill. But the Prince Gareth ap Owain seems more like a pulsing beast ready to devour, and Tanon doubts she can obey her king and wed the untamed dragon prince. When he claims her hand in a tournament, beating dozens of men to win her, she knows he won't leave without his promised prize, and she can't help but fear bedding a barbarian. But like the sun, Tanon's fire cannot be extinguished. In it, she possesses the power to subdue a king, tame a dragon, and bring peace to the wild lands of Cymru.Gareth may be a prince, but his primal sensuality proves he's no courtly gentleman. But he's determined to show the woman he's loved since he was a boy that he saves his savagery for the battlefield, not the bedchamber. He'll use far more persuasive methods to draw his lady into his arms. But though Gareth is a prince, he can't offer Tanon the finery she's used to, nor can he be sure she will be safe in his untamed land of Cymru, where princes plot against princes and Marcher lords take more of their land each day.What he can guarantee her is a love unlike any she has ever known, and a life of intrigue, trust, and passion.Hearts of The ConquestBook 1 - The Passionate HeartBook 2 - The Unchained HeartBook 3 - The Promised HeartNOTE: This story was previously published under the title Lord of Seduction. It now has newly added content for you to enjoy.

Norman lord Dante Risande never met a woman he couldn't seduce... until a lovely servant named Gianelle refuses his attention and his help when she's accused of murder. As the King's right hand, he can't sit idly by. It's his duty to investigate. But in order to save Gianelle, he must buy her, which makes him an enemy in her eyes. She's no easy woman to win over, which makes her even more alluring. The more time he spends with her, fighting, laughing, breathing the same wonderfully charged air -like being on the ocean when lightning strikes nearby, the more he begins to long for her to be his. He'll give her anything she asks, but he can't give her what she truly wants while her accusers are alive.A slave all her life, Gianelle Dejiat wants nothing to do with men. Especially the abusive kind. That's why she's caught trying to escape her lord's castle, and why she's accused of killing him when he's found dead in his bed. But the true danger is just beginning. The only thing worse than a mean-tempered master taking interest in her is a silver-eyed, velvet-tongued warrior like Lord Dante Risande. What Gia wants is her freedom, to disappear and live her own life, not to become another of Dante's conquests. But when he buys her and brings her home to Dover, will his castle high on the cliffs become a new prison or the place where she finally learns how to fly?And when her accuser shows up in her life again, this time to kill her, will she use her wings to fly away to live her own life? Or will she leap into the arms of the man who unchained her heart and set her free to keep her close?¿¿Hearts of The ConquestBook 1 - The Passionate HeartBook 2 - The Unchained HeartBook 3 - The Promised HeartNOTE: This story was previously published under the title Lord Of Temptation. It now has newly added content for you to enjoy.

Norman Lord Brand Risande, known as "The Passionate" is temptation incarnate with the power to pull and lure, and cause kingdoms to fall. But he hides a bitter secret; the betrayal that has sealed his heart. Now as this most feared warrior rides out to possess the lands he has won in war, he engages his most formidable enemy ever.Saxon Lady Brynnafar Dumont is prepared to do anything to protect her people-even seduce the savage knight who defeated her father. But instead of a cold-blooded beast, she confronts a purely sensual scoundrel who wants nothing to do with her.Innocent as she is, she must use all her wiles to defeat Lord Brand in the only battle worth fighting-the one for his passionate heart.NOTE: This story was previously published under the title Lord Of Desire. It now has newly added content for you to enjoy.

Was she ready to explore the heart of a warrior?Welcome to book 1 in the exciting new series Echoes in Time from New York Times Best Selling author Paula Quinn.After receiving a dragon brooch from a distant great aunt, twenty-first century historian Kestrel Lancaster finds herself in fifteenth century England. Smack in the middle of a war. Like...in the middle of a blood and guts spewing, heads flying around her war. With six armored men riding toward her, bloody swords raised high in the air, horrified looks on their faces, there isn't time to think. Only to scream. But like a dream, a dark knight rides into the fray and saves her from them all. When she realizes where and when she is, she doesn't know whether to thank him for keeping her alive or curse him for it.Sir Nicholas de Marre has seen many things in his years as military commander for the House of York, but he has never seen a woman appear right before his eyes-and in the middle of the battlefield. Without thinking, he kills the Lancaster bastards closing in on her. Thankfully for her he is able to fight with her deafening screams behind him. He saves her from certain death, not knowing if she is mad, or he is, and carries her to safety.That's his first mistake. The second is showing her mercy when he finds out she's a Lancaster. But this odd woman who takes pictures with imaginary phones and teaches Cook to make cupcakes is easy to fall for, and before long, the heart of York's champion is captured by a Lancaster.England's throne is about to change. The House of Tudor will reign, and the War of the Roses will finally be won with the intimacy of a kiss, the tenderness in a touch, and love that will echo through time.Echoes in TimeEcho of RosesEchoes of AbandonThe Warrior's Echo

NYC Detective Michael Pendridge doesn't have to think about all he's lost since the day he put on the uniform eleven years ago. The ghosts are always there, fresh in his mind. This job has cost him his soul. It has taken everyone he's allowed himself to care about. It has made him a monster and robbed him of any woman he could have loved because of time, and danger, and his increasingly screwed up head. It has wrenched compassion from his heart and replaced it with the hard shell of apathy. People are liars. They are capable of the worst crimes. He has seen it all. He's weary of the dirt and dark deeds of others.But justice is in his blood.In fact, even after rubbing a blackened brooch and being sent back to eighteenth century England, one of the first things he witnesses is a pickpocket in the crowd. A beautiful pickpocket who will lead him on a journey where he will find himself again-in the eyes of a thief.Lady Charlotte Whimsey, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Croydon has been picking pockets since she was twelve. She's good at it. She's not about to let the fact that her estranged father is a judge stop her, or that he hires the handsome, dark-haired stranger who shows up at the door to keep law and order in Croydon, and also to keep her under control. After a failed attempt at out-witting the new lawman, she finds herself in his care-and it isn't so bad. She expects to fight with him. She doesn't expect to fall in love with his rare smiles and his tender gaze. He's menacing, rough, and gritty, and he makes her forget everyone else.But the closer she grows to the detective, the closer he grows to discovering how deeply she's involved with the elite thieves known as The Horsemen, guilty of murder.Will this man of honor ever look at her as anything but a criminal when the truth becomes known? Will Charlotte give up everything for him? Can Michael give up the only woman his heart will ever love? And when the dust all clears what will he do when he learns he's the son of a king?Echoes In TimeEcho of RosesEchoes of AbandonThe Warrior's Echo

In the New York Times bestselling tradition of Lynsay Sands, Hannah Howell, and Monica McCarty comes the third book in Paula Quinn's new Scottish romance series.

In the New York Times bestselling tradition of Karen Hawkins, Monica McCarty, and Hannah Howell comes the second book in Paula Quinn's new sinfully sexy Scottish romance series.

In the New York Times bestselling tradition of Lynsay Sands, Karen Hawkins, and Monica McCarty, comes the second book in Paula Quinn;s new sinfully sexy Scottish romance series.

In the New York Times bestselling tradition of Lynsay Sands, Karen Hawkins, and Monica McCarty, comes the third book in Paula Quinn's sinfully sexy Scottish romance series.