"YOU MARK MY WORDS, ONE DAY SARA IS GOING TO FALL FOR SOMEONE QUITE UNSUITABLE, AND HAVE HER HEART BROKEN. IT'S ALWAYS THE WAY WITH FEMALES WHO ARE CONSIDERED 'SENSIBLE'" Everyone agreed Sara Auden was sensible. Until the day h...
SNATCHED FROM A SQUALID FATE BY A HANDSOME MARQUIS! SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY.... But alas, the impoverished Verena Barrington could not exult in a marriage forced on her and her groom to settle a gambling debt. She little wondered when the Marqu...
The beguiling tale of a penniless orphan who becomes a countess.... Lucinda Kendricks did not know who she was. After the stagecoach accident she had become a victim of amnesia. Suddenly she was the new countess of Glenbrooke. And Dareth Farringdon...
TAMING A FIREBRAND "I will not be married to that hellrake," cried Auriol. She loved another and did not want the dashing duke as her husband. His reputation with women was scandalous. Besides, all he wanted was her fortune. This w...
The year is 1820 and Lianne Vernon is in need of employment. When the post of governess is offered to her, the opportunity is too good to miss. However, Lianne finds Elswick Manor is a strange place indeed. Arabel Forrest, her young pupil, is given t...
When Miranda ran away from home she did not dream anyone would stop her. For she had disguised herself as a boy and was certain she would be safe from the unwelcome advances of strange men. She had not counted on the intrusion of Lord Dornford, who i...
SHE LOVED HIM TOO MUCH TO CARE ABOUT HIS PAST... Luke had been a sweep's apprentice, rescued purely by luck from his cruel master. Over the years he had grown from a scrawny, frightened child to a handsome young man full of bursting health and qui...
Soon after her arrival at Monk's House on the Kentish coast, Lilith Redshaw had been told that it was haunted by a monk, and she had laughed. Of greater interest was their neighbour, the mysterious Fabian Delamaye. Was he truly as debauched as rumour...
It was all a mistake. When dashing Lord Arundale (quite the catch of the countryside despite the fact that he had given up on women) accidentally stumbled into Drina Alcott's bedroom, that lovely young innocent pulled up the bedcovers and sta...
It was no fund of goodness in Sir Hugo and young Lord Devaney that prompted them to turn Marin's future into a game. They had found the lovely young runaway in dire straits--accused of theft and wantonness. Now they wager that Lord Devaney can ...
What happens when the most sought-after beauty of the London season chooses to mock a stranger? What happens when she finds herself falling in love with that very stranger? And what happens when he chooses to take his revenge? A rollicking, ...
In the 18th Century, life for wealthy bachelors like Sir Francis Derringham was good, so it was with dismay that he viewed his appointment as guardian to a seventeen-year-old girl. Moreover, the girl, Robyn Wentworth, turned out to be a veritable ter...
As the widow of a titled gentleman, the very beautiful Lady Caroline Kilgarron was pursued by fortune hunters and impetuous young men, and by aging rapes, too. One, the Earl of Farrowdale, was particularly insistent. And Caroline's unprecedented ...
BEAUTIFUL IMPOSTER Moments after lovely and spirited Annabel Haygarth was unjustly dismissed from her position as governess for allegedly seducing her employer's son, she found herself involved in a hairbrained scheme involving her employer's daug...
HER ONLY LOVE SPRUNG FROM HER ONLY HATE! Beautiful young Robyn Wentworth was shocked to discover, upon the death of her father, that she was a ward of handsome Sir Francis Derringham, the darling of London's Beau Monde. His suave manners and d...
EVERYONE KNEW THEY'D MAKE THE PERFECT MATCH -- OR PERFECT ENEMIES. No doubt wagers were being taken when Lord Rossington returned to London to brazenly ask for the hand of the lady he had jilted nine years before. Now it seemed all of England sto...
SMUGGLERS, GHOSTS, AND MYSTERIES! Delicate and lovely Lilith Redshaw shivered as she looked up at Monk's House, her aunt's home on the desolate Kent shoreline. Lilith had been sent to visit with Lady Standish to escape the memories of an unhapp...
THEY WERE MARRIED IN NAME ONLY. To all appearances it was a grand affair-the marriage between Valentina Woodville and the Marquis of Stockdale. All London Society was present. But what was not known was that Valentina and Stockdale had made a p...
THE STAKES WERE HIGH, BUT THE OFFER WAS IRRESISTIBLE. When the Earl of Astbury inherited his title, he also inherited enormous, overdue debts. But "Foxy's" keen mind and wizardry at cards soon changed all of that. Then the notorious gambler, Si...
MARRY HER STEP-FATHER'S GHASTLY CRONY? SHE'D RUN TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH FIRST! Not even a vicious beating could stop Clarinda Devereaux from fleeing her scheming step-father and her vile betrothed, Lord Frampton. But injured and delirious, she w...
Jacey Trevallion waits impatiently to go to London for the Season, but her delight when the summons arrives soon evaporates when she discovers her father so much in debt he has pledged her entailed dowry to the equally dissolute Earl of Sheringham. U...
WAS EVER A BRIDE SO SADLY USED-- THE GROOM GETS KILLED ON HIS WEDDING NIGHT! So much for Miss Sabina Jenkins's glorious rise from lady's companion to wife of a rakehell English peer. And his vast fortune is cold comfort indeed! For with all her...
HOW MYSTERIOUS! A HURT STRANGER FOUND ON THE PROPERTY, IN THE MIDST OF A SNOWSTORM... No one was more surprised than Davinia Winterton when the dashing Rupert Jardine was discovered, in need of her ministrations. For a while the seamless quiet she...
The Marchioness of Emberey in love with her husband -- 'twas the scandal of the season! When the dashing Marquess of Emberey took up with a ravishing opera singer, the ton looked on with mild amusement. Far more shocking was his wife's behavi...
"I AM TO HAVE A SEASON AFTER ALL. I CAN SCARCELY CONTAIN MY DELIGHT!" Jacey Trevallion's joy at being summoned to London by her profligate father is to be short-lived indeed. For once there, he confesses to her that he has promised her portion--an...
Sir John Somerville's current paramour, Lizzie, secured a post as maid to heiress Mirabel Cheriton, who had arrived from Jamaica for a Season in London. It was the hope of Mirabel's family that she would find a titled husband. For Sir John it was the...
"WHEN I ARRIVED IN LONDON I WAS BUT A GREEN GIRL. I AM NO LONGER A CHAWBACON, AND I TRUST NO ONE!" The friendless Miss Jenna Tregail had ample reason to say as much. Bamboozled by an infamous bawd, the innocent Jenna coshed an old lecher and got h...
Banished To The Country For The Season! 'Twas A Fate Worse Than Death! Pandora was outraged! Her first London Season as Lady Asheville and her husband deemed her conduct unbecoming to her new position. Worse, he'd prescribed a Season at Brocklesby ...
WITH THE BREEDING OF A LADY, AND THE MANNERS OF A HOYDEN, AMANDA HAD A LOT TO LEARN. Amanda Westwood detested the arrogant Marquess of Glendarvon after he ruined her gamester father. And although Glendarvon paid her way through school, no word of ...
EVEN THE FOULEST VILLAIN CAN BE MOVED BY A FETCHINMG FEMALE En route to London, Leonora Hamilton was horrified to face the pistol and muffler of the notorious highwayman Captain Starlight. Not satisfied with seizing ordinary valuables, the odious ...
Cornelia Faraday considered herself all but betrothed to St.John Drimmer, her father's gentle curate, when she was whisked off to fashionable Tynings to make her social debut. -- Cornelia cared nothing for the beau monde, and even less for some of ...
HOW COULD A RAKE AND A RESCUER MAKE A PERFECT MUDDLE OF HER PERFECT BETROTHAL? Held up by ruffians, then secretly kissed by the mysterious gentleman who came to her rescue, recently engaged Sophia Kingsland feared the gossip-starved ton would milk...
HE WAS HER SISTER'S BETROTHED. AND QUITE SIMPLY, SHE LOATHED HIM. Lord Crandon was considered one of the most charming and handsome Corinthians of the ton. And the news that he would soon wed Miss Laura Montescue shattered the hopes of many an...
HOW HAD SHE BECOME SO DANGEROUSLY ATTRACTED TO A MAN WHO COULD NEVER BE HERS? Though Serafina D'Arblay agreed to accompany Miss Imogen Geddes to London for her comeout, she herself preferred books to husband hunting. Since she possessed neither t...
Bath was dull as dishwater -- though the Summerhayes ladies were finding it otherwise.... Young Celestine hoped her stepmother, Demeter, would approve her betrothal to the nephew of the notorious rake, Lord Amesbury. In the meanwhile, Demeter, wi...
Araminta Penrose had grounds for holding the Duke of Avedon in dislike. His Grace's behavior with regard to his nephew's betrothal was more than unfair. He didn't care a jot if he destroyed the happiness of two people desperately in love. Avedon was ...
THIS PARTICULAR GAME OF SEDUCTION WAS PROVING MUCH MORE THAN HORSEPLAY! Flavia Allenbrook finds herself plagued by suitors when her beloved colt, Brighton Beau, becomes the toast of the racing season. Having no intention of ever selling her belove...
THE RAKE WOULD SOON BE THWARTED BY HIS OWN DEBAUCHERY... Stacia Gilbert, the toast of the London theater, harbored a secret loathing of the ton's truest incomparable, Lord Silverwood, after he ruined her father. Now, after years of deprivation...
It was a scandal, indeed! Lucian Carisbrooke, the nonpareil of every woman's dreams, is involved with Miss Arabella Trentham's own relation. But when Kitty Polstead, Society's most incomparable hostess, decides she is tired of Lucian's attentions, ...