Lord Lucas Kestrel has to get close to Miss Rebecca Raleigh, court her, even seduce her, to try and discover if she's smuggling secrets that are threatening England's security! But Lucas, the rake without a heart, hasn't bargained on falling in love with the one woman he can't have...
The sight of Cory, Lord Newlyn, rising naked from the Midwinter river, is enough to send ripples of shock through Rachel Odell's carefully ordered life. He has always been a friend, although now she's aware of him as a man--an exceedingly handsome man. But she can't possibly entertain romantic id...
Playing host at his country estate, Major Anthony Lyndhurst is making his return to Society which has shunned him for four years. Rumor and speculation still surround the mysterious disappearance of his young bride.As family, friends and servants gather, further scandal comes close on their heels...
"Rumor has it a certain notorious Princess has not a feather to fly and is looking for a gentleman to ease her financial worries. Perhaps the Earl of S. is the man she seeks...." -- The Gentleman's Mercury, 1816Princess Isabella never imagined it could come to this. Bad enough she faces imprisonm...
An Eternal Triangle - a lord, a lady and an island! Beth, Lady Allerton, is determined to reclaim Fairhaven Island, stolen from her family generations before by the treacherous Earl of Trevithick. She challenges the current Earl, Marcus Trevithick, to a wager - his island against her virtue! Ma...
Meeting Sir William Weston was wonderful. He made his interest very clear, and widowed Mrs Annabella St Auby was hugely drawn to him.
Regency.The Pirate's Kiss by Nicola Cornick Famous and feared pirate Daniel de Lancey is master and commander of the Defiance. Only one woman makes him want to swap danger for desire, sea for seduction... And with one Christmas kiss, he will make Lucinda his bride!A Smuggler's Tale by Margaret Mc...
Nick said the following morning as he and Dexter Anstruther rode down to Peacock Oak village on their way to the Skipton road, “you have now had two days in which to assess our fellow guests. What do you think of them? Are there any that strike you as potential highwaywomen?” “Only Lady Hester Be...
‘No,’ she said. ‘I found it in the book. How did you get hold of it?’Richard ignored her question. ‘So you are claiming that neither the book nor the sheet of paper belongs to you?’ he asked.His high-handed manner lit a flicker of temper in Deb. ‘I am not claiming anything,’ she said sharply. ‘I ...
He was angry with a special sort of fury that only Lizzie could arouse in him, a mixture of protectiveness and complete exasperation.Nat had made his excuses to Lady Wheeler, and given his apologies to Priscilla Willoughby, whom he had shed with a ruthlessness she deserved. When had Priscilla bec...
It had been easy enough to procure an invitation to one of Sampson’s notorious parties. The man was an inveterate social climber and when he heard that the Duke of Welburn, no less, was interested in attending he had been expansive in his welcome. Whether or not Sampson would be equally easy to t...
Rutherford.” Lord MacLeod shook Jack’s hand. His grip was firm but his hand cold, the skin paper-fragile. He had insisted on standing to greet Jack when he was announced, but Jack was rather afraid that his host would collapse before he made it back to the chair before the fire. Lord MacLeod move...
Allegra asked. Christina had been listening vaguely to her father’s plans for a twenty-foot-high Italianate fountain in the middle of the lawn whilst simultaneously wondering what she might spare from the dairy to take on her visit to Mrs. McAlpine in the village that afte...
Christmas this year was far exceeding her expectations. Together she and Alex had collected holly and mistletoe to decorate the house. They had visited the nearby village of Fortune’s Folly to buy fuel and candles and a Christmas turkey (a great improvement on the pickled scrag end of mutton that...
THE URGENT TONES of her maid dragged Tess up from the deepest sleep. She came awake with a start, her heart pounding. For a second her mind felt hazy and confused, sluggish with dreams. She could see that there was light creeping around the edge of the bedchamber curtains but it was a very pale g...
She asked the coachman to wait for her and walked briskly along the crowded pavements to Lincoln’s Inn Fields. She needed to be in the open air, needed space and time to think. She barely saw the crowds that passed her other than as a flash of color and a blur of faces. The babble of voices, the ...
Dorothea, the Dowager Lady Vickery, rushed into the drawing room of Drum Castle, enfolded her elder son in a scented embrace, then released him to stand back and dab artistically at her eyes with her inadequate and lacy handkerchief. “I am so sorry for you, Miles, darling! To have inherited the M...
She had been there for three hours, waiting for her lover. It was a warm summer night, a beautiful night, and a night made for romance. The scent of blossom was on the air. She almost expected a nightingale to start singing. No doubt there were many lovers plighting their troth under the midsumme...
The air was thick with the scent of spices and steam. All the servants were crowded around the long pine table sampling the almond drops and the Naples biscuits. Mrs. Bow, the cook, had been completely won over by Margery’s sponge roll, declaring it the best she had ever t...
Carrington said, for all the world, Laura thought, as though she were a courtesan entertaining men in her boudoir. “I put him in the library.” His voice quavered. “I am very sorry to say, your grace, that it is the Duke of Cole.” For one dreadful moment Laura thought that he was referring to Char...
Lottie could not sleep. Her mind ran like a rat in a trap, scampering from thoughts of Ethan locked in his airless little room under the eaves at The Bear Hotel to his son, alone and friendless, being hunted through the length of the kingdom. She rolled over, thumped the pillow, then threw hersel...
Evershot knows. He confronted us this morning in the drawing room. At first he was calm as you please and I thought that all might be well, but soon his temper broke through and it was terrifying. I am almost certain Clara betrayed me, untrustworthy jade that she is. I expect he paid her well for...