Imprisoned as a child by her spiteful father, Helena Lambarth vowed upon his death to never again live under a man’s rule. But to honor her mother’s last wish, she journeys to London to enter society -- and finds herself a reluctant houseguest of the dashing Lord Darnell.Adam, Lord Darnell, has l...
After surviving Waterloo, Captain Jack Carrington returns home to take up his family duties and find himself a wife. Until he encounters Lady Belle, the most beautiful and celebrated courtesan in all of London.After the death of her long-term protector, Belle intends to spurn the entreaties of he...
Threatened by extortionists, disowned widow Emily Spenser has little recourse -- until the Earl of Cheverley, captivated by this unusual shopkeeper, comes to her aide. Emily cannot repay the Earl's expenditures -- not in coin. But having learned through bitter experience not to trust the largess...
Lord Anthony Nelthorpe had committed many sins -- not the least of which was his hare-brained attempt to seduce the well-bred Jenna Montague Fairchild into marrying him. But that was three years past, before the war magnified life's conceit; after Waterloo, he who scoffed at honor, was nursed ba...
The purported intent of his visit was to discover from Father Gryffd the current whereabouts of William Darby, the parish clerk, who in Sennlack, as in many Cornish towns, was also the quill master, or keeper of the books, for the smuggling operations. He wondered for a moment whether the vicar w...
He’d left three days ago to ride to the coast and meet Geoffrey Randall, afire with impatience for a firsthand report on all his good friend and assistant had learned in the Peninsula. But Geoffrey never arrived. After waiting a day and interrogating every packet captain who made port, he’d found...
It was impossible for anyone with a particle of interest in fashion not to be delighted after having spent several hours trying on the half-dozen new gowns now hanging in her wardrobe, each one lovelier than last. Betsy was still busy putting away the accompanying gloves, bonnets, slippers, retic...
He’d barely slept last night; all day his emotions had careened from an ecstatic desire to shout his love from the rooftops to a harsh self-rebuke that, despite Sally’s kind words, it was highly unlikely the incomparable Elizabeth would ever come to feel similarly enraptured by cloddish Hal Water...