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Secret salons and forbidden tendres. The Season promises to be scandalous.After their parents' deaths, the three Grace sisters must leave their family home for their first season in London. But how will Alexandra, the eldest Miss Grace, fare in the ton's infamous marriage mart? She's determined to marry for love. If only she could find a husband like her childhood friend, Niall, Duke of Blackburn, but with added passion.Caught up in Society's whirlwind, Alexandra soon realizes eligible gentlemen may want to make suitable matches, but once wed, their true desires will be reserved for their mistresses. Enlisting her sisters' support, she sets up secret salons with trusted female acquaintances at which they can discuss the conundrum of men's true nature versus finding a happy marriage.However, the salons raise more questions than answers, and realizing she will only gain the knowledge the ladies seek by talking with a man, Alexandra approaches Niall. But discussing matters of an intimate nature proves very different from talking about art and architecture, and the friendship Alexandra has always felt rapidly turns into something more. Can she really be falling for her very proper childhood friend?Niall takes his role in life seriously. He's a proper fellow, decided in his ways to stand up for those unable to protect themselves. That's what dukes do-sustain traditions and serve with dignity. When an old friend from Eton asks Niall to watch over his three sisters, how can he refuse? If anyone can assist ladies in their entrance to Society, it's a duke.Strict and timely, practiced, and nuanced, Niall knows just what it takes to master the ins and outs of civilization. But sometimes the most proper thing to do is give in.The Three GracesA Most Improper DuchessNever Judge a Beast by His CoverBlame it on Lord Raine

Lady Clare had crossed a line she feared could not be undone. Sir Iain would never allow her to refuse him now.Lady Clare Logan is quite content with her life now-as a wealthy widow she has the means to carry out her late husband's plans for schools and training centers for the poor children of Edinburgh and Leith. Determined to establish his legacy, Clare is stunned when a recently-knighted businessman claims the rights to properties that she plans to develop.Sir Iain Buchanan is used to getting his own way-in business, in life and in any endeavor he tries. With plans to expand the headquarters of his burgeoning shipping empire, Iain runs into an immovable barrier known as Lady Clare. No matter what he offers, she refuses it. So, Iain feels no guilt when he resorts to the methods that successfully saved him from the gutters of Glasgow and allowed him to grow his companies until his business was known around the globe. Methods that meet with little success even while his need to seduce the appealing, beautiful, infuriating woman grows with each encounter.What will it take to make this lady see that he will not take nay for an answer?Unexpected Heirs of ScotlandThe Lady Takes It AllA Lady's AgreementThe Lady's Tutor

Newly arrived in Mayfair, writer Jack Bastin becomes the darling of high society after catapulting to fame with the success of his first novel. Charismatic, enigmatic, and independently wealthy, Jack appears to live the carefree life of a notorious rake and celebrated author. But beneath this façade lies an artist haunted by a painful past and crippled by a desire for vengeance against the man who wronged him as a boy. Jack plots revenge while hiding his true identity and living a life that leaves him detached and wholly unprepared for the muse who steps into his path.Ottilie Hamilton, a mathematics instructor and founding faculty member of Canterbury Ladies' College in Kent, relishes her independence and is committed to her cause of furthering higher education for women in England. Nonetheless, Lady Hudsyn is determined to see her wayward niece married and schemes to find Ottilie a suitable husband during her visit at the tail-end of the season. But the only gentleman Ottilie wants to meet while in London is the notorious novelist Jack Bastin-not because he is the most attractive man she has ever seen, but because she hopes to enlist him for her cause.Ottilie garners an introduction to Jack via her cousin, and their mutual attraction blossoms, giving way to the possibility of love-until the past collides with the present and plays havoc with their trust and future happiness.Will the past pull them apart, or will it bring them together?Love and LiteratureBook 1: Love and LiteratureBook 2: Love and VengeanceBook 3: Love and Liberty

Misfortune is an excellent teacher.When Phillip Tavernash, Ninth Duke of Glenmoor, discovers his title is held fraudulently, he embarks on a journey to North America determined to succeed on his own. It doesn't go well. He has no idea what a fish out of water he will be.Nan Archer had to summon enough backbone to stand up to her father and older brother who moved their family across the frontier every time civilization reached any clearing in which they'd made a stake. She has landed on the banks of the Mississippi and built something of her own, the tavern Archers' Roost. She will go no farther.When Nan's brother dumps a pathetic traveler, robbed, beaten, and wounded, on her tavern floor she takes him in, as she would any wounded duck. That he called himself duke is cause for hilarity.Attraction blooms easily, but can Phillip look past his life of privilege to find what he's looking for deep inside himself? Can he convince her she's the answer to his search?Is he a duke or a bastard? Does it matter in the end?The Entitled GentlemenBook 1 - Duke in All But NameBook 2 - Duke in Name OnlyBook 3 - Never a Duke

Tate faces a nefarious criminal in the fight for his love and his estate.A duke fighting to keep his estate. A lady intent on discovering what the man she loves hides from her. In disguise, beneath the very noses of the curious ton, His Grace Tarleton Fanshawe, Duke of Lindsey, works to solve a mystery and get the better of a villain intent on stealing all that he holds dear.At the death of his father, His Grace Tarleton Fanshawe, Duke of Lindsey's safe world, turns upside down. His historic estate, Cloudhill, is soon to be snatched away. Tate must go undercover to discover why his father, who never gambled, lost the family fortune, and he has little time to do it. And worse, he must face the possibility the woman he loves will marry another man before the spring Season has ended. But when Tate's carriage stops in a village on the way to London, he meets a man with a remarkable likeness to him, and an idea is formed.Lady Ianthe Granville has loved Tate since she was in the schoolroom, and believed they would someday marry. She is shocked when he not only fails to propose, he seems to accept he will lose her to another. Her come-out is a bitter disappointment, and as her father is intent on marrying her to a man she does not love, Ianthe takes it upon herself to discover just what it is that has caused this change in Tate, and why he has adopted an extraordinary disguise.Improper LordsBook 1 - The Duke's MasqueradeBook 2 - The Marquess Takes a MisstepBook 3 - The Earl's Brazen Bargain

Mix two fake lovers, age over a disastrous house party, distill the romance; and savor the happily ever after.Richard Ferrand arrives in Thetford to visit his family and to seek advice on a recent inheritance. He's expecting it to be a brief visit. His former brother-in-law has a new family, and Richard is eager to return to his familiar bachelor businessman routine. That all changes when he comes to the rescue of a young lady with plans of her own.Amelia Chitester has spent her life being the perfect society Miss-at least when people are watching. When they're not, she's busy creating the county's best whiskey. That all changes when her gravely ill father insists she marry so that she will have a protector after he dies.When Richard helps Amelia avoid a persistent suitor, she sees an answer to several of her problems.He needs a British distributor for his newly acquired French wine, and she needs a fake fiancé to take her off the marriage market. Richard thinks she's daft-irresistibly beautiful, totally disarming, and completely daft--but he agrees to help because he admires her commitment to her family and her home.As they work to fool their families and the entire village, it grows difficult to live out their lie. Amelia didn't figure on the soft side of her convenient rake, and Richard wasn't prepared for the stubborn charm of his fake conquest.Soon they're both faced with the choice of keeping their businesses or losing their hearts.Enterprising WomenHis Enterprising DuchessHis Spirited LadyHis Secretive Madam

Love does not advertise. Love counts no wrongs.But when a young woman needs to escape an ogre, she'll take an ad to find a man she can adore.Verity Carr wants a new life in a new town far from her old home and the vile threat to her body and soul. She comes from a fine family, has a good education and a bold ambition to become a portrait artist. She's ready to live her life with a man who will value her. A husband she can can respect and in time, hopefully love. Yet valiant though she is, she questions if she can escape her past and the one who will not let her go.Can a gentleman to whom great wrong was done, build a new life with a true wife and leave the past behind?Miles St. John Armstrong, Viscount Bellamy, never should have wed his first wife. He vows to select a new one with logic and careful investigation via advertisement. The young lady he selects is Verity Carr who is no ordinary woman. She has charm, wit and a beauty that sears his soul. No wonder theirs is a relationship built quickly on admiration and trust. No wonder their marriage becomes one built of mutual mad passion.But devoted as they are, their past comes to call. And it asks of them the ultimate question, can their love withstand the tempest and survive the terror?Matrimony!If I Love YouBecause of YouYou Do Something to Me

She journeyed through time in search of da Vinci...King's College PhD candidate Gabriella Palmer is sixtieth in line to the throne, yet has only forty pounds to her name. She's got no man, no money, and she must reluctantly return to her dissertation. So when offered the opportunity to travel back in time to meet her hero, the great Leonardo, she accepts the mission to find one of his missing paintings and bring it back to 2023....what she found was the love she'd always dreamed of.Accompanied by a cantankerous "bodyguard" named Graham, and time-travel expert John Stafford, Gabby experiences a series of misadventures- from an attempted seduction by Henry VIII, to peril at the court of France's King Francois I. But meeting the Tudor hunk whose painted portrait has hung on her bedroom wall since she was a teen, was a definite upside.And what she learned...Gabby discovers that life-in any era-can teach her more than she'd ever learn in school.Love is timeless.The Ladies of the LabyrinthBook 1 - The Veil Between WorldsBook 2 - The Veil of TimeBook 3 - The Season of the Veil

Awakening life and love...On the sudden death of her oppressive father in a duel, the cool and distant Lady Hera Severne finds herself floundering in her new freedom, and instantly attracted to sardonic doctor, Justin Rivers. Determined to change her life, she travels incognito to Lincolnshire, to take up a post as companion to Lady Astley and learn about life.But nothing is as she imagined it. Her cover is useless against Dr Rivers, whose family lives in the nearby village. Lady Astley appears to have little need of a companion. Rather she wants a carer for her husband's strange but amiable adult ward. Noises in the night, mystery, suspicion, and locked doors eventually force her to flee with Justin's help - and her charge.Inevitable scandal follows them to Brussels, where Justin's duty lies. But Justin, tortured by past failures and growing passion for the unworldly Hera, knows he cannot offer marriage to one so immeasurably above him in rank and fortune.But can he resist Hera, who has other ideas and the courage to follow them through?The DuelEntangledCapturedDesertedBeloved

Will the queen's assassin ultimately obey her, or listen to the earnest plea of his own heart?ETHAN ESSEX is Queen Victoria's most discreet assassin. Before he will be allowed to leave her employ and retire to the bookshop he's built in Willowbrook, he must complete one more assignment for her-eliminate the man who is stealing from the Crown's treasury.When LADY PAULINE DEARBOURNE befriends Ethan, their common love of books swiftly grows more intimate, until her father forbids her to pursue this relationship with a commoner. But it's too late, and Polly is now caught in the middle between the father she loves and her sweetheart who has been tasked with killing him.Note: This series is part of Dragonblade's Sweet Dreams line, so this is a sweet, wholesome Historical Romance where passion beyond the bedroom door is left to the reader's imagination.The Willowbrook SeriesA Willowbrook MiracleA Page Turner BookshopA Bitter Pill to SwallowA Lesson LearnedIt's Not What it Seems

A Duke, A Musician, and A Mystery. Will they catch the killer before he kills again?The DukeIoan Drummond, the Duke of Rathdrum, is on a mission-finding the person who killed his father and brothers. The trail leads him to London where he meets the enigmatic spymaster known as Tarleton. With the spymaster's help, Ioan searches for clues pertaining to the possible assassination of his family.The MusicianLady Matilda Welsh, the goddaughter and niece of Lord Tarleton, is a brilliant code breaker-making up her own code in the music that she writes. Her intuition leads her to the door of the duke next door-by way of secret passageways in her home. After being found in a compromising position with the duke, ending with an impromptu wedding in her front hall.Of Valor and HonorWith the help of his friends and Matilda, Ioan starts an investigative branch of Tarleton's spy network, handling cases within Great Britain. His first case? Searching for his family's killer. Why? His father and brothers were agents for Tarleton and had found a link to a rival spy ring known only as The Shadows.Good versus EvilIoan and Matilda work together to find the killer, not realizing the killer is watching their every move-planning revenge upon the Valor and Honor Investigators.Will they find him in time? Will they believe in each other as all they hold dear threatens to fall around them? Or will the Shadow agent kill yet again?Note: This series is part of Dragonblade's Flame line, so this is a sexy, steamy, and scorching-hot read with multiple sex scenes. Be advised.Of Valor and HonorThe Scottish DukeAn Honorable ViscountIt Happened One Knight

Convincing a rogue to wed comes with a high price.Ellie Middleton has exactly one month to find a husband. If she doesn't, her father will betroth her to a vile man. Although her heart still belongs to the soldier who died in the war, she is willing to enter a loveless marriage. Out of options, Ellie does the unthinkable when she runs into her brother's friend, Vincent Wallace, the Earl of Trenton, and boldly makes him a proposal of marriage in name only. Will the rogue accept the bargain she is offered?Vincent Wallace has no desire to marry and tie himself to one woman. However, he doesn't like the idea of Ellie settling for just anyone, either. He can't get her off his mind, and he desires her more than any women he's ever known.But when he is threatened to stay away from Ellie or die, Vincent doesn't know whether to release her and allow her to be happy or fight for the woman he has fallen in love with.Love's AddictionA Wallflower to LoveA Governess to ProtectA Maiden to Remember

I want ye with a ferocity that frightens me.Abandoned as a wee bairn and lovingly raised by the Keiths, Matilda has spent her entire life pondering her identity. When the truth proves more sinister than expected, she is desperate to hide her shameful secret despite the missives that continue to arrive, threatening both Matilda and her kin. Even death is preferable to losing the trust of those she loves, for surely, the Keiths and Irvines will disown her if they discover their enemy's blood runs through her veins. Preferring the life of a traveling knight, Reginald Irvine lives for the moment, never focusing on tomorrow. When ordered to discover the contents of Matilda's mysterious missives, Reginald relishes the task. He will charm the truth out of the lovely lass, then be off on his next journey. But when Matilda pushes him away and finds herself in danger, Reginald determines to protect her at all costs, even if the cost is losing his life... or his heart. Tired of the threats, Matilda takes matters into her own hands, and Reginald gladly follows. If their plan succeeds, they will save hundreds of lives. If they fail, they have more to lose than just their heads. But, when tempers flare, desires are spoken, and attraction turns to passion, the enemy on their heels is no longer the only threat to life as they know it.Irvines of DrumBook 1 - For Love of a Laird Book 2 - Like a Laird to a Flame ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Book 3 - Maid for the Knight

I wish to drive ye mad for the rest of yer life!Mary Hamilton is no stranger to scandal. As the former Laird of Drum's lover, she has been on the receiving end of many dark stares. But when he died in battle, leaving her alone and carrying his unborn child, darkness was all she had left. A woman cannot raise a child alone without scorn, but she would prefer to face the judgment of others than marry to save her reputation.The need for an advantageous marriage is a burden that Sir William Keith, Laird of Dunnottar and Marischal of Scotland, is all too familiar with. If only every prospective bride did not make him wish to jump off the cliffs surrounding his castle. When an invitation arrives to celebrate the Yule with his Sister at Drum Castle, William is eager to accept and escape the constant reminder of his plight... until the reason for his invitation becomes as apparent as the contempt Mary holds for him.She needs a husband and a father for her child. He needs a wife and an heir. But a marriage of convenience has never felt less convenient as they seem to fight more than they breathe. However, despite William's resolve to keep his distance, there is a spark in the darkness that surrounds the lass, one that draws him in-like a moth to a flame. But, just like a fire burning out of control, the heat between them may only burn them both in the end.Irvines of DrumBook 1 - For Love of a LairdBook 2 - Like a Laird to a FlameBook 3 - Maid for the Knight

She was a wonder of the world, and she was married to his brother.Betrothed to the elderly laird of their enemy, disillusionment and duty are all Elizabeth Keith has ever known. She may never know true love, but her people will finally know peace.However, when tragedy strikes more than once, and Elizabeth is pawned from laird to laird, unexpected desires for one man threaten to compromise her dutiful existence, forcing her to defy the rules.As the spare to the heir, Robert Irvine understands his obligation to the clan during these volatile times. But, marrying his brother's beautiful widow is more than he bargained for, and nothing he is prepared for. When all he never wanted becomes all he ever needed, Robert suddenly stands to lose it all.When war is a constant threat, and a marriage to Elizabeth is the key to peace, Robert will do all he can to secure both, until he discovers she has done something that may destroy them both.Irvines of DrumBook 1 - For Love of a LairdBook 2 - Like a Laird to a FlameBook 3 - Maid for the Knight

Her fit of anger becomes a leap back through time into the arms of a man she can never have.21st century bookshop owner, Lorna Merriweather is known for her patience. Especially regarding her fiancé. Tonight he's promised to go to the cliffs to watch for the northern lights. He must have something special to share if he's willing to treat her to the Aurora Borealis in the bitter cold that he hates. But when his something special turns out to be a cruel betrayal impossible to forgive, she throws his ring in his face and storms away, stumbling over the cliff straight into the arms of the most amazing northern lights show of her life. But she doesn't fall to her death. When her head clears, it's morning and she's back on the hillside in the middle of a snowstorm. Where is the glow of the town's colorful festival lights? And where is her terrible ex-fiancé? Everything looks familiar-but not. Thank goodness a strange woman and her family come along in an antique carriage and offer her a ride back to town. Or at least where town is supposed to be.17th century Gunn Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness and chieftain of Clan Sinclair, has been widowed twice. He loved both wives and can't stand the thought of going through that heartbreak again. But his beloved daughter Arabella needs a mother, and he needs an heir. The only solution is an arranged marriage to a woman he will never love. An amicable passionless union is what he seeks.Young Arabella is not about to let her father marry a woman so cruel to her son and lady's maid that they tremble when she is near. But she decides that the nice Mistress Lorna would do quite nicely for a new mama. And Mistress Lorna has seen how wicked Lady Murdina is, so Arabella knows she will help her get that she-devil out of Thursa Castle. They form a pact to stop the wedding and save the chieftain from the disastrous match.But what Lorna doesn't know is that Arabella isn't planning on halting the ceremony, the wily nine-year-old merely wants to switch brides.Time to Love a HighlanderBook 1 - Loving Her Highland ThiefBook 2 - Taming Her Highland LegendBook 3 - Winning Her Highland WarriorBook 4 - Capturing Her Highland KeeperBook 5 - Saving Her Highland TraitorBook 6 - Loving Her Lonely HighlanderBook 7 - Delighting Her Highland Devil

Bloody Hell! He abducted the wrong woman!Daughter of a traitor, Cordelia Cranfield seeks her freedom by proving her loyalty to the English crown. Since she looks like a young version of the great Tudor queen, she agrees to stand in for her on a delicate mission. But the simple masquerade turns treacherous when a Highlander, working for the French, abducts her, thinking her the great Queen Elizabeth I.Spy for Scotland, Marcus Ruthven has been tasked with infiltrating the French to rescue the English queen, whisking her away to Scotland so she can be thankful and name King James her heir. Marcus ignores the warning signs that this woman is too young and lovely to be Elizabeth Tudor because she's also clever and courageous, and Marcus is desperate to succeed. They work together to evade the French as well as their growing attraction. One can't just tup a queen no matter how good she feels in his arms.When Cordelia is revealed, the dam she and Marcus held against their passion for one another, shatters. Missions ruined, emotions raw, they must work together now to save the real queen.But remaining secrets surface, all masks come off, and Cordelia doesn't know if she can trust the spy who has stolen her heart.The Queen's HighlandersThe Highlander & The Queen's SacrificeThe Highlander & the Lady of MisruleThe Highlander & the Counterfeit Queen

Montague Lancaster, Duke of Caefall, is in hiding in Oxford after a wartime injury, trying to ignore his doctor's advice.Because he'll definitely be going back to France to fight, right? He's determined not to leave his honor on the battlefield-but Montague has financial concerns to keep him occupied. The Duchy is bankrupt. He's got to keep it a secret and keep his presence in England quiet.Fencing is his only refuge, his passion, and Montague agrees to teach students to pass the time. Easier said than done when a poetess storms into his bedchamber and demands he help her finish her poem...Sarah Lockwood is tired of having her poetry diminished merely because she's a woman. Society holds no interest, and she's in search of a poetry professor in one of the prestigious Oxford colleges to help her finish it. She ends up discovering a hidden duke who fences like a soldier and kisses like the devil.Words cross blades with actions as both Sarah and Montague fight their growing feelings for each other, and the expectations of the world.She cannot be a poet. He must return to France to fight. So which is mightier: the duke or the sword?This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

The only adventure Violet Greyson has ever known has come from books, but that all changes when her father dies, and she moves from remote Dartmoor to London. There, she finds her purpose amongst the pioneers of women's education and begins a new life as a teacher's assistant at one of England's first academic ladies' colleges. Love is the last thing on Violet's mind as she embarks on her new venture, but the harder she works to prove her worth to her capricious classics master, the more attached she becomes to him.Byron Thomas, schoolmaster at the prestigious St. James's Independent School for Boys, set out in life determined to be different from his brutish father but became disillusioned and bitter after typhus took his beloved wife and infant daughter. Beset with pain, he sets his sights on a marriage of convenience to the headmaster's stepdaughter. But his plans become muddled when he agrees to teach a course in the classics at a new ladies' college. Drawn to his intelligent and fiery assistant, Byron struggles to maintain a proper master-student relationship as she begins to chip away at the shield that guards his heart.Will love derail Violet's and Byron's plans for their futures, or will it bring them the happiness they thought out of reach?Love and LiteratureBook 1: Love and LiteratureBook 2: Love and VengeanceBook 3: Love and Liberty

Can a beautiful Italian American chef from modern-day Chicago find love under the Tuscan sun with a handsome yet disgraced 19th-century English earl?Gabriella D'Angelo, a talented chef from the Windy City, is left reeling when she's pulled through a painting and transported back in time to the edge of a cliff overlooking the Etruscan coast of Italy circa 1902. One minute she's sitting in a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, wondering where her friends Emily and Jenee wandered off to, and the next minute she's desperately clinging to a branch dangling above the Mediterranean Sea, trying not to plummet to her death. Luckily a tall, dashing, rugged stranger named John Henry Langsford, Jack for short, comes to her rescue.From the first moment, Gaby meets Jack, she can't stop thinking about him. The arrogant, hot-tempered, and handsome Englishman is too irresistible for his own good. His wit makes her bubble with laughter, and his brazen sensuality makes her blush down to her toes, but Gabriella can't afford to be distracted, especially not by gorgeous Jack. She must figure out where Marco Allegretto's painting is so he can finally be reunited with his time-traveling muse and soulmate, Iris Bellerose. Only then will Gaby be able to return to her life in modern-day Chicago. And that's what she wants, isn't it?The last thing Jack needs is a distraction, and the sensuous and sultry beauty named Gabriella, Gaby for short, is most definitely that! Jack is still reeling from his fall from grace. One moment he was the Earl of Witton and Marquess of Bainbridge, and the next, he was disowned and disgraced thanks to his duplicitous cousin. Forced to flee London, Jack has been staying with his favorite Aunt Kitty Darling at her home in Tuscany, Italy. His only hope is to marry the heiress Cynthia Maxwell and reclaim his life.He must exorcise his attraction to the curvaceously delectable Gaby, no matter the cost, or he will lose his patrimony and the earldom forever. And yet, from the moment he lays eyes on Gaby, he cannot stop thinking about her. The mysterious young woman from America who looks a like a siren and cooks like a goddess invades his very being and makes his senses come alive.Will Gaby and Jack find their way to love and solve the mystery of the missing Renaissance painting that holds their destiny? The stage is set, the players have been summoned. All that is missing is you.Lost in TimeLondon TimeParis TimeTuscan Time

Never let destiny meddle in your romantic affairs...When Lily Bennett became the caretaker of her teenage sister, it came at the expense of her hopes, dreams, and the home she grew up in. Now that her sister is grown and on her own, Lily struggles to find a place to call home. She wants to feel part of a family again and intends to mend the broken relationships with her siblings. That is, until she discovers an unusual timepiece that lands her in Regency England at the feet of one of the most eligible men in society. Unfortunately, he believes that she's crazy. Any attraction Lily feels for the stubborn man is clearly one-sided. Too bad she's stuck with him until she can figure out how to get home.Gabriel Hawthorne, Earl of Rothden, has decided to host one last house party before returning to London for the dreaded season where every simpering chit and money-hungry mother will hover around him like flies. Add to that his sister's hunt for a husband and Gabriel would rather shoot himself than a grouse. Still, it's his duty to find his sister a suitable match, which he'll do after one last bit of respite to shore up his defenses. A respite interrupted when a pretty little wallflower in scandalous clothes lands at his feet claiming to be from the future. He'd turn her over to doctors if she weren't so damned intriguing. Suddenly, all thoughts of London, responsibilities, and simpering debutantes don't seem half as hard as getting Lily to stay with him.But when his ex-mistress arrives unannounced at the house party, she makes every effort to drive a wedge between the fragile bond Gabriel and Lily have forged. If she succeeds, he could lose Lily forever. And if Lily finds a way back to her time, he may have to follow her.Because the Earl of Rothden always gets what he wants. Even when it's a wallflower from the future.Taken by DestinyThe Earl's Timely WallflowerTempting the Reclusive EarlTouching the Hero's Heart

What happens when a steamy duke who has never lost in battle meets the innocent young lady determined to conquer his heart?When Lady Henley Killigrew's father dies and his title of earl passes to a not so friendly cousin who wants her and her two younger sisters out of their elegant London townhouse, she takes them to Moonstone Cottage, a lovely manor house they inherited from a maiden aunt in the Cornwall seaside village of Moonstone Landing. But their funds are limited, and the new earl is a stingy guardian who will not loosen the purse strings to allow her to properly maintain herself and her sisters in their new home. The only way to save them all is for her to marry, for that is the only way to claim her trust fund. Would her neighbor, Cain St. Austell, the brooding and reclusive Duke of Malvern, consider a marriage of convenience?Cain St. Austell, the Duke of Malvern, has returned home now that Napoleon is defeated. But those grueling war years have left him scarred both physically and in his soul, for he lost too many friends and is not certain how or why he ever survived. Knowing he needs time away from London society and the madness of the Marriage Mart in order to heal, he has acquired a property in the quiet village of Moonstone Landing. Marriage is the last thing on his mind, until his neighbor, the beautiful and slightly eccentric, Lady Henley Killigrew, appears on his doorstep with a startling proposal...and he accepts.In fact, Cain is the one who does the proposing because when the heart knows, it knows.Moonstone LandingThe Moonstone DukeThe Moonstone MarquessThe Moonstone MajorNovellas:Moonstone LandingMoonstone Angel

Secrets hide in the Druid's Grove, in a murderer's heart, and in Niall Kier's past . .October 1851. After millions of visitors and months of success, the Great Exhibition is winding down. Mr. Niall Kier and Miss Kara Levett are busy with the celebrations planned for the last weeks-and with all the commissions their involvement has brought them. Their artistic works stall, though, when the closing ceremonies are interrupted by a murder.Suddenly, a friend is under suspicion and the murder has been linked to the Druid's Grove, the secret society in which Niall is a member and Kara has just been inducted. They dive in, hoping to quickly clear their ally's name, except nothing is simple in the Grove and no one is exactly who they seem to be.Niall and Kara put their talents and resources to work once more, but they find that old, sinister secrets might be behind the present-day bloodshed.And as they investigate, it appears someone might also be digging about in Niall's mysterious past.The Kier and Levett Mystery seriesBook 1 - A Killer in the Crystal PalaceBook 2 - Death from the Druid's GroveBook 3 - Murder on the Mirrored LakeBook 4 - Revenge in the Rogue's Hideaway¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Book 5 - Carnage from the Cursed Crown

When looking for a thief, should she trust her instincts or her heart?Maxey Langley has been tasked with finding the man who is responsible for killing her employer and stealing the earl's family ring. Against her will, she and another servant search for Lord Wentworth's younger brother Ignatius Burke who has been estranged from the family. As the Wentworth's governess, what kind of skills does she have to find a murder suspect? None at all.Nash Burke has lived as an opera singer for the past several years, keeping as far away from his family as possible. But when a beautiful governess comes looking for him and intends to inform the magistrate, charming the governess into thinking he is someone else is the only way to make her leave.Instead, the tables turn on him and she is the one stealing his heart.Love's AddictionA Wallflower to LoveA Governess to ProtectA Maiden to Remember

For passion to bloom, the lady botanist must uproot his secrets.She's cultivating a secret life...Jane Brickley is stifled by overprotective parents...until she joins a secret academy for ladies to study botany. But when a suspicious burglary closes the school, she's determined to uncover the mystery and get her beloved academy reopened. Jane recruits an insider's help, and although the charming servant Dev is completely unsuitable, his smiles still plant seeds of longing in the fertile ground of Jane's heart.He's disguising his quest for his birthright...Dev Holford, the rightful Marquess of Rowling, poses as a servant at the academy while he secretly hunts for proof of his legitimacy. Things grow complicated when the evidence vanishes, a distant relative may be trying to kill him, and a clever botanist pressures him to help solve the mystery of the academy burglary. But when Jane's investigation intersects with his own, it's only logical to share clues...and perhaps stolen kisses.Their love grows...As Dev and Jane work together to unravel the mystery, the covert lord who never belonged will fight for a home where he can put down roots at last... in the arms of his true love.Ladies Covert AcademyBook 1 - How to Court a Covert LadyBook 2 - Secrets of a Covert LordBook 3 - Winning the Covert Lady's Heart

A haberdashery owner who suddenly discovers he's a duke . . .A woman of the ton stained by scandal . . .A deathbed request which brings this pair together . . .Haberdasher Pierce Selkirk always knew he was the son of an earl. Much to his surprise, he learns he is not illegitimate as he had been led to believe. With his father's death, he becomes the Duke of Stoneham and must take up responsibilities beyond his comprehension.Lady Nalyssa Shelbourne was the darling of the ton until her gambling father went bankrupt and committed suicide. The suicide cast a shadow upon Nalyssa, and she now earns her living preparing men who have unexpectedly come into a title, training them to take their places in Polite Society.Nalyssa travels to Stonecrest, where she meets her next client, a man she is wildly attracted to. The new duke also desires Nalyssa, and she does her best to hold him at arms' length as she trains him in the idiosyncrasies and unwritten rules of the ton. Nalyssa knows Stoneham must make a brilliant marriage, if only to help his sister and help her find her footing in Polite Society.Will this duke create an even greater scandal by pursuing-and wedding-a woman barely tolerated by the ton?Find the answer in Alexa Aston's Polishing the Duke, Book 3 in Suddenly a Duke.Each book in the Suddenly a Duke series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.Suddenly a DukeBook 1 - Portrait of the DukeBook 2 - Music for the DukeBook 3 - Polishing the DukeBook 4 - Designs on the DukeBook 5 - Fashioning the DukeBook 6 - Love Blooms with the DukeBook 7 - Training the DukeBook 8 - Investigating the Duke

To the London ton, Cameron MacNeill is an awkward, wallflower of a man with no hope of finding a wife. But the Highland chief holds deadly secrets, and he uses his beggar-like appearance to remain unnoticed. He enlists the help of the School for Spinsters to help him find a wife who will agree to be married in name only-because he needs a mother for his son while he is away working on behalf of the Crown.Lady Ashleigh Pryor will do anything to escape the abusive household of her father-even marry a man she barely knows. But Cameron's lightning reflexes, the powerful muscles he hides behind ill-fitting clothing, and his mysterious manner suggest that he is not a beggar at all, but a man hiding a past he wants no one to know about.As she starts to uncover the pieces of Cameron's secret life, Ashleigh no longer wants a marriage in name only-she wants a true husband in her bed.But Cameron can't let himself fall in love-for if his wife learns the truth about who he is, his secrets might put her very life at stake.The School for SpinstersBook 1 - A Match Made in LondonBook 2 - Match Me, I'm FallingBook 3 - Match Me If You Can