Kate Marchant was a petite gamine when she first learned to love her dashing and romantic distant cousin Anthony, the Earl of Chepstow. She saw in his tempestuous life a figure too romantic to be real. But soon her illusions were turned to ashes when...
THE HOUSE WITH TWO FACES HAD FAITHFULLY KEPT ITS SECRET... It was an old house, brooding and beautiful, but no more so than its mistress, Valentine Revel. Valentine knew the house's secret; indeed, she was a part of it. But sometimes she w...
How does a woman cope with a man whose pathological jealousy becomes a physical threat to her life -- a man who hears an assignation in the commonplace greeting of a newsboy? To Sophia Lanchard, frightened and bitterly resentful of her husband Ruf...
Canny and beautiful Tamsin Grove, daughter of a disinherited wastrel and a runaway gentlewoman, could not escape the stigma of her dissolute upbringing. All her beauty and wit would never make John de Laleham, heir to a noble house, regard her as any...
In each life there is a time when one stands at a crossroads and faces the agonizing decision of which road to take. Such a time had come for Polly Oliver many years before, and her decision, based on a paradoxical mixture of false values and a rath...
PENELOPE DEVEREUX, radiant beauty of her time, is twice betrothed -- first as a child to the rebellious Lord Mountjoy, and later to Sir Philip Sidney, one of England's greatest poets and soldiers. A tumultuous moment in history robs her of one m...
RACHEL BRENT HAD NO INTENTION OF BECOMING OTHER THAN AN ONLOOKER WITH A DETACHED VIEW OF THE PLAYERS -- BUT SUDDENLY SHE FOUND HERSELF BEING MANEUVERED INTO A DANGEROUS GAME. At La Fontana, remembered ghosts were bound by strong roots: Frederick ...
Spirited Harriet Piper had been in love with Verney Capel all her life. But Harriet was a country girl, and Verney was the dashing, youngest son of good family, and until she knew his intentions, she was forced to wait demurely, as a proper young lad...
Lavinia Reed, classically beautiful with hair the shade of moonlight and eyes the color of violets, is uncharacteristically horrified when her husband announces that she is to take her annual holiday at Martland Farm in Cleave, for he doesn't know th...
Young, innocent Sarah Cooper couldn't believe her good fortune when she was invited to go to the fashionable British resort of Bath as companion to Cassandra Fleetwood. There in the lush splendor of the ballroom, Sarah is dazzled by her first gl...
Celia Greenwood knew she's always have every luxury if she agreed to become Charles Stannard's mistress. But the stunningly beautiful singing sensation of Vauxhall Gardens wanted no part of the arrangement. She had no intention of becoming the dashin...
Susan Frensham, wife of many years, mother of four, receives a strange package in the mail. The package contains a treasure stolen thirty years before -- when Susan was about to make her debut. The sight of the family jewel brings to Susan's m...
When the penniless young widow Diana Pentland befriended a rich and terrified girl who was about to bear a child out of wedlock, she never dreamed this small act of kindness would change her whole life. It was arranged that she would adopt the ch...
Young, innocent Sarah Cooper couldn't believe her good fortune when she was invited to go to the fashionable British resort of Bath as companion to Cassandra Fleetwood. There in the lush splendor of the ballroom, Sarah is dazzled by her first gl...
Lady Charlotte Rivers was young and inexperienced when Kit, Lord Brancaster, asked for her hand in marriage. However, his fierce good looks and strong mind quickly won her over. And once they were married, the passion that flowed between them was dee...
When Captain John Dacre is killed fighting in Ireland, Mary Dacre is left a widow at twenty eight with four children. When she becomes the second wife of handsome and distinguished Edward Garnharm she is considered lucky. But Edward's past has lef...
Who is Grace Wilton? Is she heir to the Tabor estate, or is she a penniless nobody perpetrating a hoax? Old Mrs. Tabor wanted desperately to find her only grandchild, missing since birth, and it was comforting to believe this pretty, amenable youn...
HONORA HAD NOT EXPECTED ROMANCE TO BE ONE OF HER SCHOOL'S SUBJECTS! But then, she had not expected to be left penniless at the death of her father. All she had were two houses in Bath, but they did provide her with freedom. And with the shocke...
HONORA HAD NOT EXPECTED ROMANCE TO BE ONE OF HER SCHOOL'S SUBJECTS! But then, she had not expected to be left penniless at the death of her father. All she had were two houses in Bath, but they did provide her with freedom. And with the shocked di...
The story of the downfall of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. The story of Essex's last five years of triumph and disaster greatly affected his much loved sister Penelope Rich. Forced into a legal marriage but bound by a youthful betrothal to the ...
The beautiful Lavinia was happily married until her encounter with Captain Stephen Milroyd. She flirted outrageously with him, unaware that her husband James, the Earl of Keynsham, was watching quite carefully. But then, James had his own secrets. ...
They were two unlikely heiresses who had been sent for as brides: Bridget Montresor was tall and vital, more shrewd than shrew; little Lucy Barnes was a timid, friendless waif. Yet it was Lucy who became caught up in a dangerous game of love… Sh...
HAD SHE FALLEN IN LOVE ONLY TO LAND IN SCANDAL? When a terrible snowstorm pitchforks Miss Edith Bruton into a world of fashionable strangers, she is giddy with delight -- especially when asked to journey back to London with the party. She even wi...
Poor investments by her elderly father had left seventeen-year-old Pamela’s future in dire straits, particularly when her godmother willed her fortune to Lord Blaise, instead of Pamela. Even so, when the unknown Blaise arrived offering marriage, ...