OH, BOTHER! HER FIANCE WAS RETURNED FROM THE DEAD! Of course, he wasn't her real fiance. Miss Frances Armstead had only concocted the spurious engagement as a sop to her uncle, who was insisting that she marry that impossible wag Albert. Fortunate...
LORD PETHERBRIDGE LAID DOWN THE LAW: MARRY HIS ACTRESS DAUGHTER OR FORSAKE HIS FORTUNE! The old gentleman had taken it into his head to leave his considerable fortune to his illegitimate daughter Sarah Romney. with pious Lady Petherbridge none the...
"SO NOW YOU KNOW, YOU LOOSE SCREW. YOU PROPOSED TO THE WRONG WOMAN!" Having delivered this facer to the Honorable Fitzhugh Denholm, a delighted Antonia Thorpe watched as he reeled from the shock. For the notorious rake thought he had escaped a mar...
A PAIR OF LOOK-ALIKE RAKES FORM A WICKED WAGER WITH DEVILISH CONSEQUENCES FOR A LOVESTRUCK LADY! After breaking off a loveless engagement, lovely Lady Venetia Lowther vowed she'd rather be a spinster than marry a man who didn't love her, despite w...
IN STRUGGLE WAS BORN THEIR PASSION. IN SURRENDER THEIR LOVE. Spirited Laurie Campbell was a pawn of peace -- married into the traitorous MacDonald clan to end an ancient feud. Proud and defiant, she boldly challenged the mocking eyes of her new ...
HOW WOULD SHE MARRY HER ONLY LOVE? HE AVOIDED HER LIKE A PLAGUE! Though the world thought her sap-skulled for refusing Lord Littlecote's hand, Mary Anne Hawtry could not marry a man she didn't love. Unfortunately, Captain Anthony Rodes, the man sh...
IF THE GENTLEMAN WAS NOTHING BUT A COMMON THIEF, WOULD HE STEAL HER HEART AS WELL? Desperate to avoid her father's odious matchmaking scheme, Miss Eliza Osborne boards the Brighton coach for a visit to her beloved aunt. She quickly realizes, howev...
TIME HEALS WOUNDED HEARTS? PERHAPS WHEN PIGS FLY! The gossip mongers had a field day when the newly betrothed Lady Harriet caught her fiance, Rawdon Melford, kissing another woman -- at their own engagement party! Eight years later, Harriet nev...
DECK THE HALLS, AND MAN THE BARRICADES --- A LONG CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY COULD START FIREWORKS BETWEEN THE GUESTS! A bout of measles forced Jemima to replace her bedridden sister, Clarissa as the houseguest of her wealthy aunt for the Christmas season ...
THE THREE COUSINS HAD AN IMPOSSIBLE REPUTATION TO UPHOLD AS THE DAUGHTERS OF THE INFAMOUS PERCIVAL SISTERS.... They were expected to make their come-outs together and repeat their mothers' triumphs. Unfortunately, it was only cousin Sylvia whose e...
THEY WERE FAST APPROACHING SPINSTERHOOD, WITH NOT A BEAU BETWEEN THEM. And no hope in sight, it seemed, as Misses Emeline Sedley and Andrea Prior rusticated in their cottage at the estate of Emmy's cousin, Lord Blakeney. With Valentine's ...
THERE WAS SOMETHING DECIDEDLY PECULIAR ABOUT LADY PICKERING'S NEW MAID. Clearly, her lovely hands had never done a day's work. And when Lord Jeremy Pickering kissed her in a fit of pique -- promptly accepting a bucketful of suds in return ...
HOW DARE THIS UNQUALIFIED ARISTOCRAT WALTZ IN AND COMMAND THE STAGE! Lord Worth, now a fugitive after being falsely accused of shooting a man, needs a place to hide -- and a clown's makeup in the perfect disguise. The last place anyone would look...
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THERE WAS MORE BEING EXCHANGED THAN GIFTS!
Sir Jervis, taking to his annual holiday deathbed, demands the attenda...
Miss Kendal was a most determined miss! Taking up a challenge born mostly out of boredom, Miss Frederica Kendal set her cap for her new neighbor, Lord Thorpe. A calamitous first meeting provided a rather inauspicious beginning for her campaign. Th...
SHE HADN'T SET OUT TO STIR THINGS UP -- ESPECIALLY HER OWN HEART... Though recently jilted at age seven-and-twenty, Claudia Wentworth was about to embark on a whirlwind adventure. It all began when she enlisted the aid of Lord Thornton after h...