Even for a novella, the story seemed to move too fast. Caroline is a housekeeper for a brother and sister. She has suffered a terrible scandal which led to her being scarred. She secretly admires the brother, Gregory, who, it turns out, is also enamored of Caroline. The plot sort of races for...
Josephine moved to Yorkshire with her family after several failed Seasons in London. They aren't very welcomed there due to her father wanting to make some major changes to the town, but there is one person who looks after her....their steward Will Crowle.Will worked his families land to the bone...
Xiao Fei, the Phoenix Tear, must become one with the Draige-Uisge, using her ecstasy to save Crimson City from the demons who have returned to rule this glittering metropolis. Original.
ALMOST THERECarolly Hanson was training to be an angel, or so she believed. It was the only explanation for why she kept dying and reappearing in different places and times. Clearly she was intended to help people --- and clearly the best way to help people was to find them true love. Never mind ...
China's Grand Canal saw all kinds of transport-food, slaves, even deadly opium. And when one woman planned to sail it to freedom, her flight would end in the arms of a Mandarin prince. There her true journey would begin.Orphaned and stranded, Anna Marie Thompson could trust no one, especially not...
When a young Englishwoman in Shanghai, China, decides to learn the secrets of the East, will she learn the secret of true love?
Englishwoman Lydia Smith sailed to the Orient seeking her fiancé. She found treachery instead. In seedy Shanghai, she was drugged, sold, made a slave to a dark-eyed dragon of a man. But while her captor purchased her body, was that what he truly sought? He demanded not her virginity but her yin—t...
A fun regency book, about a rebellious young lady, trying to have her cake and eat it too. Bucking the Rules of The Ton, when she really doesn't know why they where put in place to begin with. Coming within an inch of her life being ruined by cutthroats, she is rescued by the Earl who is ruling h...
War!Pity, plain and simple, made Sophia accept the offer of marriage. True, Major Anthony Wyclyff was wildly handsome, but that could never overcome her happiness at being "shelved"; only sympathy for a near mortal wound could do that. Then the blasted man recovered! Not that she wished anyone il...
University of Illinois student Tracy Williams just discovered she's a Tantric sex goddess. The source of her divine revelation: her hunky Chinese-born erotica instructor, Nathan Gao. Whenever her yin bumps up against Nathan's yang, she's literally communing with heaven. Tracy's new mantra: more...
He knew he needed to go slow. She was not a bored society woman. For all that Penny was a woman on her own, she was an innocent in the ways of sexuality. No matter how blatantly she asked for his touch, he had to go slow.That’s what he told himself, but his mind had little control over his body. ...
Kit threw a panicked look at Maddy but she was still determined to avoid him. He didn’t blame her. If he were a gentleman, he would have already offered her marriage. But he wasn’t a gentleman and he hadn’t been one for a very long time. He would not saddle any woman with his fits. &n...
He rarely got to eat pistachios in Hong Kong, much less pistachio ice cream. He shouldn’t be eating it now given that one scoop of the stuff cost three times a bowl of rice. But this tasted better, and he was enjoying the company—even big, burly brother Joey.The four of them sat at a table in the...
Their lips touched and clung. Given her position lying on his shoulder, she had to stretch up to meet him and he had to tilt down quite a ways for her. It should have been awkward. It wasn't. It was so very, very exciting. Her toes curled, her belly quivered, and her blood seemed to sing in her e...
Beautiful. Responsive. Intelligent. He wanted her so badly, it had taken every ounce of willpower he possessed to leave her room. If Adrian had so much as touched her again, the Devil himself could not have stopped him from taking her. How was he going to finish her training? How was he ever goin...
It took even longer for her to try and find a handle on the situation to turn it to her advantage. It took so long, in fact, that she could not do it. She could only sigh as Hurdy stood before her, lifting up her bruised face until he stared right into her eyes. "You betrayed me. You were suppose...
Why he was off limits. Yes, he was a duke, but he’d always been her better. More socially skilled, with a bigger heart, and generally, much nicer than she was. And, if he were fool enough to kiss her, then she would be doubly idiotic to refuse. So she was done with saying ...
She knew not to do that. Which meant something important had happened. But given that Mari hadn’t snuck back into the house until a couple of hours before dawn, she had trouble caring. Let the world go hang for a bit. She was sleepy and happy from everything she and Peter ...
he said Ji Yue recoiled in shock, her heart beating triple time. It was one thing to be the woman caressing Bo Tao, bringing him to a place where he had no control over his body. It was quite another to remove her own attire.“If you wish to know how to seduce a man,” Bo Tao said softly. “It begin...
Not a lot. Truth was, he was hiding more than imbibing. He couldn't shake the sight of Jane as a Council Member. His little fool looked as regal and capable as any queen in any land. She had her own special beauty. Her face was pale, almost drawn, but that only enhanced the fierce light shining t...
She knew this was wrong. Unmarried ladies did not entertain gentlemen in their bedrooms. Not while in their night rail, and certainly not with brandy and kisses. She knew it, but she found herself unable to stop. After an entire lifetime of being demure, Melinda found herself tossing every scrap ...
He despised it with the passion born of a desk covered in things he ought to be doing. He despised it like he despised standing still for twenty minutes while his tailor measured or pinned or generally annoyed him while he thought of all the things he wasn’t doing. He hated everything about it, a...