This was a generally satisfying story. The hero, caught up in his lust for revenge after a terrible experience, seeks to destroy the woman who took part in his abduction, abuse, and humiliation. It is perhaps predictable that there's more to the story, and that he refuses to see another side of...
The notorious lady's secret may be safe with the charming, seductive rogue...but her heart is in serious danger.Lady Charlotte Hughes lives a double life. By day, she is the plain, demure sister of a domineering brother who wants her married and out of the way. By night, she is Lottie English, an...
A Lifelong Dream Lady Caroline Grayson had always wanted to study botany—and had already bred a rare, lavender rose— but as a woman in nineteenth-century England, her intelligence and talents were ignored. Caroline was determined to see her dream become a reality—even if it meant masquerading as ...
A Flawless Beauty Bored with her pompous suitors, Miss Natalie Haislett longs for romance and adventure. She is inflamed by dreams of the mysterious Black Knight—a daring English thief who has stolen her heart from afar with his legendary exploits. To meet her beloved, she reluctantly appeals t...
Darkness prevailed, save for the glow of a three-quarter moon directly overhead, the air cold, moist, and very still. The lingering scent of an early-evening rainfall and damp earth roused her senses as Madeleine silently walked behind Thomas into the backyard toward the cluster of bushes that wo...
I had a dream last night in which you had returned to St. Austell to see me married. But Miss Marsh was the bride, not I, and you were walking down the aisle at Holy Trinity, with her as your new wife. Mother was nowhere to be found, and in the dist...
The predawn showers had given way to brilliant sunshine and dewy fresh air, promising a day of warmth to bathe the bustling city. Of course, she had slept fitfully after their rather friendly discussion of the night before, tossing and turning between the sheets, her mind racing, filled with the ...
Mimi hardly noticed. Her night had been a fitful one, and she’d slept little, or at least she thought so. Her dreams, when she’d had them, had been mixed with luscious kisses and bones of a faceless monster, both in a fog, both drawing her in, both haunting her. Now, as the clock on her bedside t...