What dreadful secret was he guarding? Isabella did not know nor even care to ask. She only knew that she passionately loved Jerome Hansford, a real man in a world of fops and dandies. For his part, Jerome was bitterly afraid he could never marr...
She was a most determined young lady! After her parents' death, Aurelia was saddled with enormous debts. When her lawyer stated she had no choice but to sell the family plantation, she resolved to find another way. So she took herself off to En...
“A rogue, a gamester, a cad and a rake!” This is how Briony Malleby views Sir Nicholas Darrell. Battling to keep house for her father, a dissolute, persistent and unlucky gambler, she is horrified to learn that he owes no less than 12,000 pou...
“I am going to make the captain fall in love with me. And when he does I shall reject him utterly and there will be nothing he can do about it.” When Napoleon’s army occupies Vienna in the winter of 1805, Leon de Vaudry, Captain of the Drag...
Just when Dona Marian Alvarez believes that war is over and Napoleon's troops are in retreat, she is captured by French officer Guy Dupre. He intends to hold her hostage so that the man he believes to be her lover, the infamous guerrilla leader F...
‘I am a man and a soldier, not a knight in shining armor!’ The army is no place for a woman of gentle birth, of that Charlotte Lacoste is aware. But if she is to find her fiancé she must cross the Alps with Napoleon’s army. And she knows only ...
'You're young, beautiful, poor and unhappy, can't you see it's a recipe for disaster?' Countess Gabriella knew that her behaviour was making her the gossip of fashionable Vienna. Only her dead husband's cousin, the Polish M...
‘RESPECTABLE LADY COMPANIONS SCREAM FOR HELP WHEN STRANGE MEN CLIMB INTO THEIR ROOMS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT...’ So why had Miss Verity Lyndon melted into the arms of her intruder instead? And further, why had she remained silent when she d...
"Who wants to be stuck for life with a virago like you?" But it wasn't to seek a husband that Zoe Hammond had come to China in the summer of 1910. It was to work--to forget men forever. That was her intention--till she met Quentin Farrell. The...
The seedy streets of Victorian London were certainly no place for a lady, or indeed, any woman. What was needed, thought Miss Emma Wainwright, was a Rescue Home for the fallen women whose lives were made so wretched by the way men behave… Hero: ...
Quite by chance, Rachel Grey was able to prevent one of her Ragged School children from picking the pocket of Captain Dan Harland, but in return, Dan seemed to feel it incumbent on him to interfere in Rachel's life. His manipulations resulted in Rac...
Her heart finally convinced her of what her mind refused to admit Miss Harriet Stanton was independent, outspoken and fiercely attached to her ancestral home, Monkscombe, in the West Country. She already loathed and despised Benjamin Stanton, her ...
She agreed to marriage and nothing more Emily Weston led a simple, pleasant life in the English countryside of Essex. As a ward of a peer, she wanted for nothing, except the return from the Peninsular War of her guardian's son, whom she consid...
She wanted to help him He wanted to protect her At six and twenty, Susanna Harte thought little could discompose her. Even when her father took a new bride half his age. When her father presented his new wife with the Harte diamonds that right...