Lady Phoebe Johansen embarks upon her first season with two goals in mind â€" to remain unwed and scandal free in London. It isn’t that she is against marriage and if her situation were different, she would welcome the opportunity for love and chil...
Hiding from a dangerous man, Tess Crawford thought The Wiggons’ School for Elegant Young Ladies would be the perfect place to disappear. Or it would be if the local villagers weren’t on edge because of the vampire in their midst, at least they th...
Sabrina Chester has been a servant at Lady Davies Academy for Young Ladies for the past four years. Until her father’s death, which left her destitute, she had been one of the affluent students. Sabrina is rescued from her plight by Marius Parker, ...
Elizabeth Claywell ran away from her uncle when he arranged a marriage with his sixty-year-old friend. She soon finds herself in the position of governess for Lord Jared Fairfield, who inherited five little girls along with the title. Of all gentlem...
Emily Frasier has lived as the ward of Duke Ellings since her father died when she was fifteen. She also knows that soon it will be time to leave his household and make her way on her own. When she discovers a cottage while visiting her aunt and uncl...
Katrina Clark had two goals. To secure a position as a governess and discover the secrets of what happened between a man and woman before settling into spinsterhood. Lord Timothy Strotham wanted nothing more than to purchase the contents of the Cla...
When Miss Audrey Rutledge meets Lord Alec Winters in an Edinburgh employment agency her world is turned upside down. She fought her growing attraction to him last Season, but can she reside in the same town unaffected, especially since he plans to se...
It is time for Clayton Trent, Earl of Bentley, to take a bride. He knows exactly what he needs and the type of lady who should become his Countess. His life is orderly, scandal free and exactly the way it should be until Miss Eleanor Westin careens i...
Scots, Spies and Salacious Lies is a compilation of three Regency Novellas. The first, Compromised at Christmas was the beginning of the Tenacious Trents Series.Compromised at Christmas…Miss Elizabeth Whitton craved excitement and adventure. Unwill...
Matthew Trent always knew what was expected of him and that was to become the Perfect Vicar and the Perfect Gentleman. When Grace Cooper enters his life, he is forced to face what he really wishes to become. Grace Cooper has three options for marriag...
Lady Madeline Trent had grand plans for her future until she learned her family’s awful secret. When a fall through an icy lake lands her in the arms of a handsome Scot, her future is more unsure than ever. Lachlan Grant, the Marquess of Brachton, ...
Mr. Jordan Trent, the spare, was raised to be a rake. Not only did his father encourage his roguish life, but insisted that Jordan do nothing except enjoy the life of women, gambling and fine brandy -- the life his father had wanted. It is a life Jor...
Compromise for Christmas, a novella, first appeared in anthology, A Summons from His Grace. It later appeared in a compilation, Scots, Spies & Salacious Lies. Lady Elizabeth craved excitement and adventure. Unwilling to endure further boring Seasons,...
Juliette Mirabelle knew one life and it was one as a ballerina. The moment Drake Finton, Viscount Acker, saw the ballerina take the stage in Milan he knew he must have her. Yet, Juliette would not be his and when she disappeared he returned to his l...
Heiress Lady Moira Kirkwood will do anything it takes to marry a laird to take her north - far, far away from London and her domineering mother. Unfortunately, a pair of gentlemen overhear her jest about Scotland and compromising a fellow if she has ...
Noah Johansen, Marquess Felding, is determined to find a wife. Each of his friends had married well, and for love, yet Noah has not found a match for himself. Despite how much he has looked amongst the ton, Noah has come to the conclusion that he wil...
Devlin Barrett was never meant to be Viscount Marston, but when his older brother and father die within a day of each other, Devlin not only inherits the title, but three younger sisters, all of marriageable age, and must retire from his former profe...
Lord Patrick Delaney promised to deliver an important message to his best friend’s sister, but promises are hard to keep when one becomes a ghost. After Patrick is attacked in the forest and tossed into a river, he is surprised to wake at the count...
Mr. Sebastian Stanwick never intended to marry. It was bad enough that his father gambled away everything they owned and then drank himself to death, leaving his mother broken until she could not go on. But the death of his good friend at the hand of...
Alexia Deme likes her quiet life as an art teacher at the Baxter School of Art, a high school for the talented and troubled. It was a long journey to get here, but she’s finally on her own and where she wants to be. Though nothing is ever permanent...
All Genviève Mirabelle wanted was her mother’s belongings and a place for herself, out from under the watchful eyes of her step-brothers. The Trent Brothers, specifically. Since coming into her life they have had very definite plans for her future...
Anton Petrov loved one woman and thought to spend the rest of his life with her. Never would he have imagined that she would betray him, leave him for dead, and disappear completely. When all that she loved was lost, Natalie Pritchard returned to Eng...
Jenna Ferguson knows exactly what sort of player Cole Harper is. She's seen him often enough from high school through college, going home with a different girl nearly every night. And now he's turned his sights on her, though she has no idea why sinc...
As a reporter, Ellen West has an inherent need to dig up secrets and expose them, and the Baxter School of the Arts is concealing a secret she has vowed to find. But on the path to the truth, she finds Gabe Kent, former ball player, and he sets abou...
A SECOND EPILOGUE: Catch up with the Trents, meet up with old friends, and possibly meet someone new.Dearest Reader,You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr. Jonathan Bridges and Miss Genviève Mirabelle. The marriage is to take place at the Ch...
Deirdre O’Brien had briefly met Jesse Tinley, an art instructor at the Baxter Academy of Arts, one Sunday afternoon in November. After returning to classes at Vassar, Deirdre could not stop thinking about him. When spring break arrives, she knows e...
The one thing Rose Trent, Dowager Countess of Bentley, ever wanted was freedom. Now it’s within her grasp. Or it was, until she was kidnapped on the very first holiday she’d ever taken. What should have been traumatic has turned into the most adv...
Brighid Glace is not a witch, no matter how many times Blake Chetwey has called her one. She's a healer and he should be quite grateful she is too. Without her abilities, he might not survive his holiday at haunted MarisdĂąn Castle when another bout ...
Being a Baxter is all about giving -- giving your time, giving money, and giving hope to those who have none. While Jacqueline Baxter has plenty of time, money, and hope to spare, what she lacks is trust. When Brett Robak, the FBI guy determined to...
Fresh from the Caribbean, Mark Easton, the new Duke of Roxburg, returns to London to secure a bride. It’s expected of his new station, after all. Unfortunately, he knows just what will meet him once his presence in Town is known. Sycophantic and cl...
When Mr. David Thorn returns to Marisdùn Castle for another haunted Samhain masquerade, he hopes to encounter the elusive artist who sketched him the year before disappearing into the night. But finding her might be difficult, especially if she’s ...
Captain Nathaniel Storm fell in love with Miss Isabella Valentine during the time of war. She followed the drum, he knew his duty. If not for the fear of making her a widow, Nate would have claimed her as his long ago. Isabella knew Nate could never ...
Mary Soares was supposed to spend Christmas, nice and warm on her family’s estate in Falkirk, Scotland, tending to their whisky business. However, the English have made smuggling almost impossible, and so order after order is waiting at the distill...
Only three things matter to Kelsey Fry: an envelope full of memories, a pink box full of hope, and a well-planned future, soon to be realized. Alex Dosek knows that Kelsey needs more than the tattoo he gave her. She hoped to ink the memory of the dau...
Two things stand in the way of Madison Cross realizing her dream of studying music performance and composition at a prestigious college: 1) Her parents, who don’t understand or get her, and want her to attend a community college and settle on a car...
There is nothing Samuel Storm wants more than to leave London behind him and return to his plantation in Barbados, until he sees a portrait come to life. At least he’s fairly certain the girl across St. Paul's is the same one depicted in the scanda...
Gabriel Westbrook has spent his adult life building a wicked reputation to hide his true identity as an agent for the Crown. When his latest assignment brings him to Cornwall to capture French spies, nothing has prepared him for three meddlesome scho...
Twelve years Dylan White has waited. Twelve years since his family was yanked away Twelve years of being alone -- except for the friends he met at Baxter, who are now his family. His brother, Noah, has disappeared. His sister, Nina, just turned eight...
Lady Lilian Bliant appears to be a serene earl’s daughter, but under her exotic façade she has a spine of steel. She is determined to thwart her manipulative father’s plan to shackle her to a weak-willed man of the ton and is successful until L...
When a rake’s silver tongue fail to charm… Ian Grant has wanted to court a certain lass for quite some time, but when his usual charm has no effect on Davina MacGregor, he stops talking and kisses her instead. And what a wonderful kiss it is too....
A brief meeting An immediate attraction A weekend to remember. Christian Sucato wishes he’d never agreed to go on tour once he meets Bethany Dalton. But, he needs to go, and it’s not for the music. There’s someone he must find. Bethany Dalton h...
***Previously published in SpellboundA delightful adventure, that is really all that Lady Charlotte Beck craved, but it was never to be. Not with two older brothers being the most diligent of chaperones. However, when her family is summoned to Castle...
The Earl and Countess of Banfield cordially request your attendance at the wedding for their daughters: Lady Tamsyn Hambly to Mr. Gryffyn Cardew, & Lady Morgan Hambly to Harold Mort, Viscount Blackwater, on the 24th day of December, 1811, at Castle K...
Noelle Dubois had the perfect life. She’d studied in Paris, became a pastry chef at a vineyard, and had the love and support of both parents.In an instant, all that changed and now she’s back home in New York, without a job, taking care of her ei...
Thirteen years they’ve waited.Thirteen years since they were torn apart.Dylan White’s siblings were torn from him at the age of twelve following his parents’ arrest, and it’s taken him years to track them down. Now his sister Nina is living w...
Determined to assist his distant relatives, Lord Gideon Trent travels to the Scottish lowlands, expecting to find a missing lady and even a kidnapper. However, he never expected to find the most unique miss he could have ever stumbled upon. From falc...
It's Christmas 1817 and the Duke of Danby is matchmaking again! Spend the holidays in Yorkshire with freshly fallen snow, Yuletide balls and mistletoe kisses. The Duke's Christmas Conundrum includes:JANE CHARLES's A VERY MERRY VISCOUNTThe thought of ...
Henry Cochran, Earl of Kilsyth, was never meant to be an earl. Nevertheless, the title is his, along with the ennui. He has nothing to excite or challenge him. At least that is the case until he unintentionally wins an Irish lass in a game of chance ...
Christian Sucato may have found love in Shake, Rattle and Roll, but he hadn’t found his mother. Did the DNA kit Bethany give him lead to any answers?Christian Sucato had spent his life wondering why he was abandoned at birth. When a DNA test matche...
The thought of spending Christmas at Danby Castle with her matchmaking great-uncle filled Lady Tabitha Storm’s heart with dread. She would love a match, of course, with the handsome horseman she’d spied in Hyde Park throughout the last season. Un...
For three long and lonely years, Tristan Trent, the Marquess of Hopkins, waited for his wife Elaina’s return. Eyewitnesses insist no one could have survived the storm that swept her overboard, but Tristan refuses to give up hope -- even when he is ...
7 Historical Christmas Romances in one boxed set!HIS MISTLETOE MISSAnthony Beck, Viscount Redgrave abides by his mother’s requests even when they tend to the ridiculous. There is no other reason why he would visit a gypsy camp to acquire a piece of...
In an unexpected turn of events, Lady Hannah Storm appears to have escaped the great-uncle’s matchmaking attempts, until he issues a dire warning that her position as a companion is temporary. Next spring, she will return from Barbados and marry wh...
One Hour, one waltz, and several passionate, unforgettable kisses....There was only one time in her life that Lady Claresta Copeland enjoyed the freedom of nobody knowing who she was—when she attended a masquerade ball disguised as Juliet. The...
The Earl and Countess of Banfield cordially request your attendance at the wedding for their daughter Lady Gwyn Hambly to Lord Locryn Pendarvis on the 20th day of June, 1812, at Castle Keyvnor, Bocka Morrow, Cornwall.BEGUILED AT THE WEDDING includes:...
One gossiping parrot, a few sips of whiskey, and a sprig of mistletoe will often seal one's fate.Ethan Copeland was only in England at his father's request. It was important that he meet his uncle, and experience other options open to him as the neph...
Ten Leaping Lords, one imperious grandmother, and a Mister from Louisiana were her Christmas fate. Much to Lady Lucinda Claxton's dismay and irritation, her father's house party only includes bachelors ready to wed. With her siblings off celebra...
Scarlett Hannigan is really good at running away. She's had quite a bit of practice. In the beginning, she'd run away from her family. She'd ran straight into the arms of a man. His name was Tony Volta, and she was pretty sure he was THE ONE… ...
Miss Diana Vail had thought she'd found love, but James Bryant, the Earl of Somerton, had only been toying with her affections. Had she not overheard the horrible truth, she might have succumbed to his practice seductions and been ruined for life. Th...
Miss Miranda Vail had set her cap on Wesley Claxton, Marquess Epworth during her first Season, even though he considered her feather-brained for believing in ghosts. However, she hadn't let his opinion deter her and the two became grand friends, thou...
Observations of a WallflowerJournal Entry of December 5, 1816Society can be odd and those within the ton do not always behave as expected.For example, Lady Violet Claxton spent more time in the gardens admiring flowers, plants, and bushes than she di...
Lord Maxwell Trent has never remained in one place for long. His fascination for history and quest for antiquities has taken him from Pompeii to Greece to Egypt, and now the search of an ancient sword has brought him to London—and back into Mi...
Damon Norcott, Viscount Bentford was expected to marry a witch. Coming from a family where the females were born with magical abilities, and the men were not, it was expected that the males would take a witch as a bride to offer protection. However, ...
Lady Gaia Evans and Lord Zachariah Radburn, Marquess Lydell first met last Christmas Eve after finding shelter from a blizzard. The most unusual part of this introduction was that it was within a brothel. Conversation into the night led to the f...
Charlotte Hawthorn had everything she could ever want. She lived alone, enjoyed freedoms that few women ever experience, was a governess and an artist, and she had not seen her husband in four years. Theirs was a marriage in name only, a convenience....
Mr. Peter Storm loved only one woman, Lady Johanna Knight, but she would never be his. Her grandfather would only allow Johanna to marry a title. Peter was the fourth son of an Earl. Johanna didn't care that Peter was only a mister and that his ...
Miss Vanessa Claxton gave her heart to Lord Crispin Tilson when she was only seventeen. He did not ask for it, but it went willingly. A secret friendship on the cusp of young love, and then he was gone.Lord Crispin Tilson hadn't expected that at the ...
When Orion Drakos was told that not only was a mysterious lady in the grove, but that she lived there, he knew that he must investigate even though she was likely the imagination of a child. After all, Nightshade Manor had been in his family for gene...
Angelo Evans, the Earl of Bolton made a promise to his mother—that he'd marry before Christmas. As this would be the last Season he would ever enjoy, Angelo is determined to embrace all of life's pleasures: brandy, women, and gambling. Come th...
Lady Clara Westcott fell in love with Pierce Drakos, Viscount Harcourt, at the age of fifteen. That is also when everything went wrong- at least magically. When she encounters him again in London, Clara quickly realizes that she might very well be a ...
Darius Copeland, an American, and now the Duke of Ellings, believes he has been taught all that is necessary for this new station in life. Lady Theresa Tessa Claxton will show him that there is so much more to learn....
Ten Leaping Lords, one imperious grandmother, and a Mister from Louisiana were her Christmas fate.Much to Lady Lucinda Claxton's dismay and irritation, her father's house party only includes bachelors ready to wed. With her siblings off celebrating C...
With the arrival of a letter from his father's man of business, the path of Mr. Julian Ashford's life was altered. It also frees him to pursue the one woman he'd desired for months.Miss Caitlin Doyle, teacher and spinster, never expected to fall in l...
One photo made them enemies.Ryan Stark took it and wants to use it to promote his business. Moira Murphy hates it and wants it destroyed. It's a memory of the worst day in her life.Now, they are stuck with each other in Paris.Ryan Stark ended up with...
Lady Antonia Kerrigan could speak to animals, and they could speak to her. But nothing could have surprised her more than when she met a very charming wolf, especially since they were believed to be extinct in England. All he asked was for a temporar...
Doctor Xavier Sinclair dedicated his entire life to finding treatments for melancholy, hysteria, and illnesses of the mind so that others did not suffer and die as his mother had. However, when he failed to cure his sister's amnesia, he questioned al...
Miss Carina Leonelli had once been the pampered daughter of an Italian barone. All that came to an end when her father fell into bankruptcy, lost everything, and then suffered a violent death. With no home to return to, she became the companion of he...
Miss Sheena MacGregor had loved Camdyn Oaks, Earl of Irvine, once upon a time. How could she not fall for his charm, honeyed words, and seductive lips? When she found out it was all a ploy, his betrayal cut deep. Never would she be such a fool again....
There were few people that Leopold Tilson IV, the Duke of Claybrook trusted. One of them being Lady Bethany Grey. It wasn't simply trust, but also love. He had every intention of asking permission to court her until she, for no reason that he could f...
Lord Seth Claxton embraced the life of a rogue: brandy, women, gambling. His luck with cards led him to establishing his own gambling den from which his wealth grew. That is, until those who usually sat at his tables started gambling at a more respec...
It was because of Miss Eliza Weston that Lucian had nearly found himself betrothed. Not that he had wanted to wed Eliza, but because they had almost been caught in a compromising situation. If she wasn't so stunning, perhaps he would not mind, but Mi...
When Mr. Demetrius Valentine unexpectedly inherits a cottage by the sea, he makes the decision to travel there for the Christmas holiday to reflect on his life and determine what he truly wants for his future. What he had not anticipated was to disco...
With the death of his uncle, Henry Simpson, Duke of Eldridge, became guardian of his five female cousins. Given that they were raised by a strict vicar who allowed them no freedom whatsoever and forced pious prayer while warning that London was full ...
The most dishonorable thing Dr. Orlando Valentine could do was fall in love with a married woman. But when he witnesses Lady Blythe Clay being auctioned by her husband, he could not stand by and let another soldier claim her. Though she may be his, B...