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From reluctant debutanteTo scandalous bride!After a disastrous first Season, Lady Daisy Patterdale is relieved to be back home with her books. Looking for peace, she rows out to the island on the lake, where she encounters Captain Benjamin Flinders, the Earl of Bramhall—who's been tricked and left there with no clothes! It's a scandalous encounter that rushes them straight to the altar… But despite her unwillingness to wed, Daisy's drawn to charismat...

Miss Aimée Peters desperately craves respectability. After her father scandalously auctions off her virginity, she escapes London to become a governess in remote Yorkshire. She's horrified to discover her new employer, the piratical Captain Corcoran, never sought a governess-he wants a bride!Aimée's unadorned charm makes Captain Corcoran forget the true reason he married her. Then he discovers the fortune of coins stitched into Aimée's bodice…. What secrets does his new wife hide b...

Battle-scarred Captain Robert Fawley was under no illusion that women still found him attractive.He offered no pretty speeches of courtship-only a brisk bargain to claim a Berkshire estate before an old family feud stripped away his inheritance. None would agree to marry him-except, perhaps, Miss Deborah Gillies, a woman so down on her luck that a convenient marriage might help improve her circumstances.Facing a bleak future as an underpaid teacher, she har...

A sparkling, witty Regency romanceA convenient marriageThat could help them both!Jasper Patterdale may be an earl's estranged younger son, but his efforts to help his brother have backfired, landing him in trouble. He's out of options when feisty stranger Penelope Brinsley offers him a lifeline—she'll pay off his debts if he'll marry her so she can gain control of her family business. It's a practical match on paper…until an i...

An aristocrat offers a convenient marriage to a woman he believes will be an obedient wife, but his bride is more spirited—and alluring—than he imagined.Be careful what you wish for . . . .Lord Havelock is in need of a wife. But with no time for a society wedding and no stomach for girlish fripperies, his options are limited. So with help from his friends, he draws up a list of qualities he does desire in a wife . . . .When orphaned Mary Carpenter disc...

Is she his lost love?With his dark, haunted eyes and forbidding expression, the menacing Lord Matthison has the reputation of the devil. Living on the fringes of polite society, he has still to get over the death of his one true love seven years ago. But Cora Montague’s body has never been found… So when he encounters a fragile-looking woman, the image of his betrothed, working in a London dressmakers, Matthison is convinced Cora is still alive. But what should he do to claim her…?...

A sparky mistaken-identity Regency romance!Her plan to marry well…Has backfired spectacularly!Miss Betsy Fairfax must marry to save her family from financial ruin. Only, her mother's overzealous efforts to find kindhearted Betsy a suitable match have made her society's most undesirable debutante! She's ready to give up and become a paid companion, when she shares a spine-tingling kiss with James, a charming steward. H...

"A charming and chaste 'Cinderella' story wrapped in a Regency romance. This heartwarming tale is an engaging and uplifting read." — Library Journal**The marquess wanted a governess…He got a whole lot of trouble!**Governess Rosalind is hired by Michael, the new Marquess of Caldicot, to guide his ward—a just-launched debutante. But Rosalind takes her role a little too seriously when she accidentally knocks one of her charge’s disreputable su...

**A search for a duchess…**despite his scandalous secret!Oliver, Duke of Theakstone, needs a duchess, but who will accept his secret illegitimate child? He invites several eligible ladies to his estate to assess their suitability, including infuriating beauty Miss Sofia Underwood. Oliver is a master of cool practicality, so he’s hopeful when he sees the connection between Sofia and his daughter. What scares him is there’s nothing cool or practical about his attraction to S...

REGENCY CHRISTMAS PARTIES(Regency)by Annie Burrows, Lara Temple and Joanna JohnsonEnjoy three festive Regency stories! Clara’s swept off her feet by the captivating Lieutenant Hugo. Bella makes an unlikely ally of forbidding Lord Deverill. Maria’s rescued from a snowstorm by the enigmatic Viscount Stanford.MISS CLAIBORNE’S ILLICIT ATTRACTION(Victorian)Daring Rogues • by Bronwyn Scott

A spoiled socialite uses a compromising situation to trap the wrong man into marriage in this Regency holiday romance.Wrong man . . .Lady Julia Whitney is at her wit's end. Her perfect beau just won't propose! But she's struck upon a plan to ensure her marriage by Christmas. Between masquerades and mistletoe, she finds herself fully compromised . . . by the wrong man!. . . Right husband?Captain Dunbar cannot believe he's fallen for this chit's g...

He only wanted peace from grasping relatives, but a spirited orphan might just be the greatest Christmas gift of all.The Earl of Bridgemere is happy to encourage his reputation as a curmudgeonly recluse if it repels the grasping females who usually attend his lavish Christmas parties.Arriving at Alvanley Hall to help her ailing aunt, she expects an unyielding host, only to scold the broad-shouldered stranger she mistakes for a footman.Helen Forrest ...