He has a scar on the back of his neck. That's all Mirabella Whittingham knows about the man responsible for her best friend's death—so she's been kissing bachelors all over town in hopes of finding him. London society is shocked—but why should she care what people say? Her fiancé—a man she's neve...
When Millicent comes to the aid of her injured aunt, she never imagined her "help" would require her to do all of the legwork her aunt can't do– attend society's most fashionable events in order to help write her aunt's gossip column! But the devastatingly handsome Chandler Preswick, Earl of Dun...
Everyone thinks Catherine Reynolds has come to London to make a match. But she's actually trying to find out which of three men mentioned in her mother's journal is really her father. However, the truth may be her undoing after Catherine takes a spill from her horse in Hyde Park, and a handsome ...
—Samuel Johnson Hell and damnation! Brent had called her name until he was hoarse. He couldn’t find the dog. And to top that off, he’d come home to find a tersely scribbled note from the duke, ordering him to appear at the man’s house before dark. He would have liked to ha...
—William Shakespeare Iverson saw the dog at the same time Catalina did, and he started running. His heart hammered. Damnation, he knew she was going to try to save it. “No, Miss Crisp, don’t!” he yelled, dropping his hat and racing toward her at breakneck speed. &nbs...
3Lord Thornwick was gone almost before Angelina knew why he’d been there. She looked down at the wilted violets and smiled again. That man was unbelievable. He wanted her to take his plant and make it bloom again, but why? Did he think that because she helped wounded dogs, she could help a dying ...
Your loving Grandmother, Lady Elder AN HOUR LATER, SUSANNAH AND MRS. PRINCETON stood in front of Sir Randolph Gibson’s door. A well-dressed butler answered. “Yes?” he questioned with his nose so high in the air he had to look down on Susannah, though he wasn’t any taller t...
“A wise man, without being a Stoic, considers, in all misfortunes that befall him, their best as well as their worst side; and everything has a better and a worse side.” Your loving Grandmother, Lady Elder Morgan leaned heavily against Arianna’s door and composed himself, ...
—Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scene 1 Katherine, her maid, and her driver climbed the six steps that led to the front door of the large building that housed the small Potts Orphanage. They had been there three times before when it was Katherine’s turn to collect the clothing articles from the Wilte...
What the hell had happened to him? He was an earl. And that title demanded certain responsibilities, which he promptly ignored every time he was with the delectable Isabella.Daniel sat at a table in a darkened corner of White’s hoping no one would see him. He wanted to be alone with his decanter ...
“What? Wait? Give me those flowers.” He wrenched them from her hands and threw then aside. “I watched that magpie steal them from an urn and give them to you as if he’d just plucked them from his own garden.” “How dare you waltz in here as if you hadn’t done anything wrong? And to accuse me of ca...
Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental. A Taste of Temptation A BERKLEY Book / published by arr...