I really enjoyed the book the first time I read it. Ian and Hannah are both sensible. There's no Big Misunderstanding. The hardship they both faced - indignities they had to suffer, censure from the ton, all was realistically portrayed. The way they slowly open up to each other was sweet.But now ...
Bridget Cooke possesses the gifts London society prizes: genteel manners, intelligence, an exquisite figure. She lacks, however, a fortune. A companion to icy relatives, Bridget resigns herself to a life of solitude, especially because of the childhood scar that mars her lovely face. Little does ...
A proper gentleman, Constantine, Lord Wylde, proposes to a similarly proper young woman. It's a practical proposal that pleases both parties....Until the night Constantine finds an old pistol–packing pirate waiting for him at home. The old man claims that Constantine was promised at birth to his ...
Katherine Corbet abhors injustice -- and is happy to assist the disturbingly attractive Sir Alasdair St. Erth quash the brazen schemes of a marriage-minded opportunist. But appearing on the arm of the dark, dashing rogue at London balls as his interest will never be more than a sham -- no matter ...
In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Cad, a poor but beautiful woman comes of age in post-Napoleonic England and is pursued by three devilishly persuasive suitors. After mastering the technique of resisting unwanted embraces, this headstrong woman may fall in love yet.
The Earl of Egremont has returned...or has he? It's been 15 years since Christian Sauvage has left England, but now he's returned to claim his title and his inheritance. Julianne knew Christian when they were children, and though there is a slight resemblance to the boy she once adored, can this...
Though Eve Faraday was beautiful and intelligent, she never expected to be wooed by the devastatingly handsome and utterly charming Aubrey Ashford, the most eligible bachelor in all of London. Skeptical of the sudden attention, she tries hard to avoid temptation, but the alluring Aubrey—and his k...
Miss Catherine Robins took a position as companion to the Dowager Duchess of Crewe little suspecting what kind of strait she would find herself in. For the not-so-good Duchess expected her hired companions not to please her, but to please the gentlemen she adored having swarm around her. By the t...
A reputation in ruins . . .Lovely Meg Shaw is a respectable governess in a wealthy household—and it is her duty to bring her charge safely home when the headstrong heiress runs away. But the perils for a young woman alone on dark English country roads pale before the dangers posed by Daffyd Reyna...
Is it possible? The breathtaking Lady Annabelle has actually agreed to marry, sight unseen, a gentleman of her father's choosing -- the self-proclaimed "exceptionally average" Miles Croft. The ton is aghast! After scandalously toying with so many hearts, why is the exquisite Annabelle chaining he...
From the moment she first saw tall, dashing Eric Ford, Camille's heart was lost. In her most cherished fantasy she is standing by his side, exchanging sacred wedding vows with her beloved. But Eric seems content to be no more than her unofficial protector, watching over the younger sister of his ...
How does one seduce a bride? Step One: Lay bare her mysteries... Daisy Tanner has taken the ton by storm and Leland Grant, Viscount Haye, wants to know everything about this ravishing, secretive woman who is tempting his friend into marriage. Though his rakish reputation is the stuff of legend,...
A Body Broken Many times Alexandria Gascoyne has been called upon to nurse forest animals back to health -- but never before have her brothers brought her a wounded man! Though pale and grievously injured, the unconscious nobleman in Alexandria's bed is as striking a male as she has ever seen. B...
Lady Carstairs said with great satisfaction. She, Pippa, and Maxwell stood at the top of a grand stair, looking down into the ballroom of an elegant, ancient town house. They stood in back of other guests, waiting to be announced. The ballroom was vast, with high vaulted ceilings decorated with s...
Not all of the hired musicians had arrived as yet, and the household staff was still in a frenzy, with the cook shrilling that his assistants were ruining him and the footmen practically panting in their haste to get all the vases of flowers, extra chairs, dishes, and tables in their places. One ...
the governess commanded, and obediently the little sallow girl dipped and swayed, and executed a neat little mockery of a curtsy. Only there is no mockery in her eyes, her father thought, with a curiously unreasonable pang of discomfort somewhere in the region of his chest as he gravely regarded ...
But as Elizabeth sat and watched the clouds go by as tearaway as spring-struck lambs, she was filled with gratitude to whatever powers were that it was at least not raining. For she would have gone on a picnic today even in the teeth of a gale. Picnics were, after all, among Anthony’s favorite di...
Though ordinarily Leonora would very much wish to know what treasures awaited between the soft covers, they lay limp and closed. And not the promise of the vision of a dozen angels with the likenesses of her cousin, or a score more with her own dark face, would have tempted her to turn one page o...
Though a tame canter through the park was not her idea of high adventure, there had been little else to do that offered even that much diversion.She had sat and read and stood and gazed out the window, or sat impatiently listening for any arrival at the door for three days. Lady Grantham had been...
The gentleman stood at the doorway to the salon and stared intently at the shaken young woman. She, in turn, gaped back in frank astonishment at him. In the common way, Julia was to think later, it was most irregular for any female of breeding to subject a visitor to such naked, unrelenting obser...