"I DON'T CALL FIFTY GUINEAS SILLY. I'D DO ANYTHING TO SAVE WARDLEY HALL AND I NEED MONEY TOO BADLY TO WORRY ABOUT DISHONESTY. I WAGER I'D MAKE A WONDERFUL HIGHWAYMAN:" Thus spoke the lovely Lissa Ward on the eve of her first adventure as a highway...
"O WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE, WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE!" Here is the Duke of Chatham, deeply in love with Lady Winship, but supposedly courting her daughter, Mariel, instead. And here is young Algernon Carleton, deeply infatuated with the...
"I DO NOT BELI EVE IN SUBTERFUGE AND PLAY-ACTING! That is why we are all here, is it not, to try to gain sole possession of a very large inheritance?" Five people and only five have been summoned to the bedside of Lady Cecily. But just one will...
THE VERY FIRST THING DIANA HEARD ABOUT THE DUKE OF CLARE WAS THAT HE WAS A RAKE AND A WOMANIZER. Which is why she tried not to be attracted to him, even though he declared that his intentions were honorable. But when she saw him with the beauti...
HER MOTHER'S FONDEST DREAM WAS COMING TRUE. HER OWN NIGHTMARE WAS BEGINNING. Janet Lambert's imperious mother offered the lovely and sensitive young woman two choices. Janet could wed the immensely wealthy, completely adoring, and thoroughly...
TORN BETWEEN GOOD SENSE--AND HER SENSES At the age of twenty-five, Lady Georgina Spalding was too old to play the girlish fool in love--yet too young not to respond to the shocking but undeniably arousing advances of the handsome visitor from Virg...
THE INDEPENDENT YOUNG LADY AND THE INSUFFERABLE EARL When Miss Lorna Jarrett met Peter Truesdale, the Earl of Norwell, they detested each other at first sight. The Earl was certain he had never met a young lady so unbending in manner and so sh...
THE ODD ALLIANCE Miss Claire Carrington was the most independent young lady ever to scandalize the London ton with her refusal to bow to the dictates of fashion or the rules of ladylike deportment. Andrew Tyson, the Marquess of Blagdon, was the...
MARRIAGE AND MISCHIEF Beautiful young Lady Patricia Westerly thought she knew the bargain she was making when she wed the wealthy Mr. Alvin Biddles. In return for placing herself in this loathsome man's grasping hands, she would free her fathe...
DISHONOR'S DAUGHTER Emily Wyndham heartily hoped never to follow in her mother's straying footsteps, for Emily's mother had followed a path of love that made her the scandal of society--and her death left Emily not only penniless but branded with ...
THE UNHEAVENLY HONEYMOON John Haverfield, the Marquess of Vare, was in no hurry to take a wife--and certainly not one like the tomboyish, outrageously independent, thoroughly intractable young Lady Laura Lockridge. For her part, Laura wanted n...
HE WAS A LORD SHE WOULD HATE TO LOVE There seemed no reason why Lady Juliet Manchester should not be wed. She was beautiful, well born, witty, charming, intelligent. But this Juliet allowed no male to play Romeo to her. For reasons that she kept v...
THE BEAUTIFUL PAWN Anne Ainsworth was an eleven-year-old servant girl when the twenty-four-year-old Anthony Hawkins, Earl of Bredon, sent her to a secluded vicarage to be raised as a perfect lady. Anne knew how very much she owed to the Earl--a...
SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR APART Lady Amelia Fairhaven and Lady Anne Fairhaven were twin sisters who shared more than their extraordinary beauty and their distinguished lineage as daughters of the Duke of Severn. They shared as well the same tastes, th...
THE DESIGNING DUKE The devastatingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Duke of Rutland was sure that Miss Rosemary Barton was too good to be true -- and too beautiful to be good. Surely this extraordinarily lovely young lady had put herself in his p...
THE TEMPTING TARGET Lady Julia was a beauty who stood out even in a London filled with lovely ladies. For a rake like Robert Hammond, she was an appealingly available female to be conquered with all his seductive skills. For an upright ge...
Beautiful Erica Stone left Regency England for Vienna with a husband she barely knew. But she found her husband mysteriously murdered and herself alone in a city of romance, where women were playthings and words of love were lies. Owen Kingsley, t...
LOVE'S DANGEROUS DREAM From the moment that lovely young Lady Catherine Cahill set eyes on Lionel Eden, Viscount Benning, she knew that he was the only man she could ever love. What matter if this lord was society's most handsome, sought-after ...
TUG OF LOVE At first lovely young Miss Meryl Lancaster couldn't believe her suspicions. Surely she was imagining that Lady Gloriana Willoughby would want to sabotage Meryl's upcoming marriage to her son, the wildly handsome, utterly adoring Edward...
His lips were warm, persistent, ardent, and the kiss went on and on. He held her so close she couldn't tell if the heart beating so furiously was his or her own... Beautiful and innocent Camille Talbot was the daughter of a stern country vicar, raise...
SHE NEVER THOUGHT SHE WOULD FEEL LIKE THIS, NEVER IMAGINED HIS LIPS WOULD BE SO MAGICAL, WOULD MOVE HER TO SUCH SENSATION... -- Kate Hathaway fell wildly in love with the breathtakingly handsome and dashing Jack Reade the first time they met. But s...
Two loves -- as different as day and night. Beautiful young heiress Elinor Fielding was an orphan and afraid when she came to Mordyn Castle on the wild and windswept Cornish Coast. But the warm welcome of her father's old friend, Sir Robert Grenville...
FORBIDDEN VENUS Even as a ragged Irish child, Sally Desmond was so beautiful that men noticed her -- like the soldier who tossed her the sovereign that became a talisman for her dream. But none of the dreams came true when she became a woman mor...
Newly, and happily, widowed, Lady Sarah Lacy is lured home under the guise of her mother's illness so that her parents may take over the handling of her money. They even have a wealthy new husband picked out. But after a brief but hellish first marri...
CAN A VERITABLE ANGEL FIND HEAVEN WITH A MOST DEVILISH GENTLEMAN? Once firmly in the mainstream of London society, the Simmons family has fallen on hard times. Now, with an ailing father and a menagerie of waifs and unfortunate souls to feed, Miss...
It was quite impossible to be romantic in such an unromantic world... At nine-and-twenty, Celia Anders considered herself too old for girlish jitters, but couldn't hide her excitement at her very first house party. Her loving but lonely life, bein...
IT WAS NOT THE ACT OF A GENTLEMAN, BUT EVERYONE DECIDED HE WAS NOT ONE! Stifled and smothered by an overprotective father, Victoria Emerson's first London Season was fast becoming a dismal affair. No gentleman was good enough for Gerald Emers...
Northern Exposure Lady Eliza Chalmers was the most divinely dazzling, wickedly witty beauty in London. She was also as spoiled and arrogant a young woman as ever dashed suitors' hopes and drove a father to take desperate action. Thus it was...
A Wealth of Temptation Suddenly Miss Sarah Eaton was richer than her wildest dreams. A legacy from a grandfather she barely knew not only made her mistress of a magnificent country manor but also made her into a woman of wealth that many a man wou...
Race to the Altar Once Harriet Winthrop Bates and the Earl of Morland had been madly in love -- until a foolish quarrel sent them on their separate ways. Now they had come together again as a beautiful widow and a lord whose wife had passed away. ...
A Reticent Lady Theodora Meredith has landed an earl, and all the tongues in the ton are wagging. Lucas Whitney, Earl of Canford, asked for her hand, yet no one asked Theodora how she felt about an arranged marriage with a nobleman who thinks her ...
Thorns of Love To the young ladies of London, Jaspar Hayes must have seemed the perfect gentleman. But to Lucy Blake, he was a perfect horror. A cruel man from Lucy's past, Hayes shadowed the lovely young widow at every turn, leaving strange n...
An Invitation to the Dance...and More In the short time Constance Ames had been at Moreston House, the proper country miss had found herself bedeviled by the most unusual circumstances. First were the anonymous, threatening letters hinting at her ...
A Love Without Price Lila Douglas's great-aunt, the wealthy Lady Cecily Douglas, has summoned her nieces and nephews to her foreboding Scottish castle under the threat of disinheritance. And though neither Scotland in winter nor Lady Cecily's disp...
SUSPICIOUS OF LOVE The charms of Vienna are certainly not lost on Cornelia, the widowed Countess of Wyckend. But she has come to this beautiful city with a very important responsibility--she must look after a young relative whom she and her dista...
Possessed of an inquisitive and adventurous spirit, Lili Martingale has proved herself unsuitable for the daily grind of life on a farm. Fortunately, her family believes she'll thrive in London, where she can enter society and marry respectably. ...
Apparitions Siblings Katharine and Edwin Whittingham have just inherited a mansion from a great-uncle they never met. But before Edwin can sign the deed to Bryce House, his uncle's will requires him to spend one full month there, nights included....