Every lady has want of a scandal… unless it results in murder.To escape her stepmother's matrimonial plans, Nora Webb sets a risqué wager with Merritt Dryden, Duke of Roxburghe; if he can't find her a suitable match by the year's end, he must provide her with financial freedom. But if she loses, she must publicly destroy Tabitha Philbert's reputation...and her own.Rescued by Nora before the marriage trap could spring, Merritt views their agreement as an opp...

There were few people that Leopold Tilson IV, the Duke of Claybrook trusted. One of them being Lady Bethany Grey. It wasn’t simply trust, but also love. He had every intention of asking permission to court her until she, for no reason that he could fathom, pushed him into the Serpentine, and then refused to speak to him. That was a year and a half ago and nothing has changed.Lady Bethany Grey had fallen in love with the Duke of Claybrook. Or at least she thought she had until she h...

Nothing ruins a lady's reputation faster than a stint in prison.Conned out of her innocence—and freedom—by her mother, recently pardoned Winifred Fernsby-Webb resigns herself to the role of the protective older sister, rejecting every suitor before they learn of her shameful past.While hosting a weeklong engagement event, the request to act as a buffer between Winifred's restrictive presence and her betrothed younger sister is made of Silas Morton, Duke of ...

In a country far, far away…Lady Gwendolyn Beaumaris and her brother have been known as the Bernard twins since their father's death. Fearful that their grandfather, the Duke of Shackerley, would take her son, Gwen's mother relocates them in Boston where she had family. At nineteen, Gwen and her mother have been waiting to hear from her brother, who is trying to make his fortune in the timber trade. Down to their last pennies, a wealthy middle-aged merchant comes to the resc...

Miss Juliet Adams would be living on the streets if not for the kindness of the dowager Countess of Wyndam. Her father died leaving her penniless and without any prospects. The countess offered her a position as her companion and she leapt at the opportunity. She's content with her life, but she's also no fool. She fully realizes a day may come where she won't have the protection of the countess and then where will that leave her? So she's made plans, concessions, none of which includes lo...

From USA TODAY bestselling author Ari Thatcher comes a delightfully wicked story of scandal and passion…and love?Milly Nichols has landed herself in the midst of a scandal after being seen in an amorous clinch with a baron, who then absconded to Gretna Green with someone else. Now her father has arranged for her to marry a lecherous old man, which she absolutely refuses to do. She reaches out to her lifelong friend Lester, Duke of Dainsfield, a scandal in ...

Be careful what you wish for; it may just come true.Miss Hannah Masterson is hopelessly on the shelf. Well past the first and second blooms of youth, and possessed of a curvaceous figure, she has grown weary of being bedeviled by her family about when she'll wed. At her thirtieth birthday dinner, she blurts out something she can't take back—the Duke of Steppingford has fallen madly in love with her and that they'll be married within the next few months. No one need know sh...

A collection of cyberpunk stories carving space out for Trans+ characters in near-futures ravaged by rampant capitalism, terminal environmental decline, state surveillance, poverty, and the rolling back of human rights.Trans_lucent comprises six deeply empathetic stories exploring sex, technology, community, and what it means to be trans in a world where transhumanism has become business as usual.Told with sharp wit, precise prose, and own voice observation...

He is a duke who thrives on a challenge. She is a woman who refuses to be tamed. Together, they will discover that the only thing more dangerous than their rivalry is their desire.Alistair Rutley, the Duke of Tunstall, has never met a woman as infuriating as Miss Verity Baxter, his childhood neighbor and sworn enemy. Their battles are legendary in the ton, but when Verity's brother asks Alistair to find her a husband because he can no longer support her, the duke cannot refuse. Ver...

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Liam Stedford, fourth Duke of Hanbury has made avoiding the parson's trap into an art form.With an overbearing mother and the eyes of the ton to contend with, it hasn't always been easy. But he's determined to enjoy his freedom until it's finally time to put duty before all else. Even then, he's tempted to just hand over his title to a distant cousin and be done with it. As far as he's concerned, there isn't a woman alive who could tempt him into forever. Least of ...

'Improbable Botany' is a science fiction anthology about alien plant conquests, fantastical ecosystems, benevolent dictatorships and techno-utopias, featuring newly commissioned short stories by 11 multi-award winning science fiction authors: Ken MacLeod, Cherith Baldry, Eric Brown, Simon Morden, Adam Roberts, James Kennedy, Stephen Palmer, Justina Robson, Tricia Sullivan, Lisa Tuttle and Rachel Armstrong.The book has been curated and produced by Wayward - a London-based landscape,...