All of London knows Eleanor has a temper, and she's about to lose it. Her father expects her marriage to be advantageous—for him. It's that or a French nunnery, complete with cold baths and spiders. She's desperate to convince the gentleman she prefers to propose first.Jesper has no time to grieve the loss of his father. Face to face with his own mortality, the new baronet needs an heir. And the first step is to travel to London to find a nice, pla...

She needs him to protect her secret identity.She doesn't need to fall in love.Can he help without drawing her into his own tangled web?London inventor Mr. Cullen is actually Miss Cassandra Cullen, happy hiding behind her letters. When new customers want to meet face to face, Cas must trust Dr. Burke, her favorite correspondent, to help keep her secrets.Trusting Oliver Burke might not be entirely wise. He occupies himself with women and gin, tr...

She's in no position to turn down a duke.They both know it.That doesn't mean the game is over...Selene's mother is deathly ill, and there's little a poor housemaid can do. Working in her cousin's house, grateful for the roof over her head, Selene doesn't dream anymore of a titled marriage. Only a little of falling in love.Nicholas Hayden, the Duke of Talbourne, learned early in life never to show what he wanted. But sad experience, and silence...

The four Misses Bickering are too stubborn to marry unless it’s for love.They have just enough money to rent a bakery in Leicester Square, where bohemian earls rub elbows with ladies of the night, and all manner of people in between.To earn a living, they have to stick together — and as their name implies, that isn’t easy!Meet Anna, Jane, Emery and Rose. None of them are married, and each one has different dreams.Anna still ...

The first four Judith Lynne romances, collected.Not Like a Lady - Sir Michael returns from the wars having lost a leg; lost Letty wants to help him learn to ride again.The Countess Invention - Deaf Cass Cullen can't hide behind letters any more, and Dr. Burke has a terrible plan to help her marry.What a Duchess Does - Nicholas, Duke of Talbourne, cannot risk anyone finding...

Does Anthony's lonely past doom him to a lonely future?He's never breathed a word of who he was before he ran away from home. Now someone knows who he is.Worse, brazen David Castle knows what he likes.Anthony's survived by being what others want him to be. He's given up on finding the grand passion of his dreams. The little girl he took under his wing so long ago has asked for just one more thing: to know the fate of her mother.David Castle is...

Letty’s lost everything but one friend, and her horse.She desperately needs to convince the fierce baronet to buy any horse but hers.Now she's causing her own problems, because she cannot stop touching a man she'd been prepared to hate.The only way Sir Michael Grantley knows how to be the baronet of Roseford is to do what his father did. But he's not his father, he's a salty ex-sailor who lost half a leg in the war. He's desperate to get outdoors agai...

Isabel's painfully aware that she's no one's ideal wife.After two failed courtships, she’s accepted her place: a middling spinster from middling family, tucked away in a modest London room to fade quietly from everyone's life.Though she's terrible at staying quiet.All she wants for Christmas is one little book. Books are quiet.Bookshops, on the other hand, turn out to be quite a different—and alarming—matter.The sharp young man who steps in ...

Five years of silence.Seeing Bess again is a kick in what’s left of Dan’s soul. She makes a fine ballerina. And actress. And thief. She can be anything… except his.If he can catch one more criminal, he can buy her the life she deserves. She’ll finally be safe, and that’s all he ever wanted.Five years alone.Bess decided long ago her scowling, black-haired boy from London’s gutters must be dead. Now he’s back. ...

Lady Charlotte can find fault with every man in London. But never with Delina.Charlotte knows she does everything wrong. The right husband will fix everything: a life of horses, freedom, and a home for Delina. The alternative is unthinkable.She's so close to success...if Delina isn't swept off her feet first.Delina can't survive another season in this half-life between friend and companion, cleaning up Charlotte's chaos. Charlotte's marriage will ch...

A seemingly fragile beauty, Zelda Rawle is anything but the pliant heiress the Faircombe family expected. Once her wedding to the heir is over, she intends to carry out her own plans. They don't include the towering enigma that is the estate's shepherd.Lord Geoffrey Eliot will play his sheep-herding part as long as it takes to learn Miss Rawle's secrets. The laughing, peculiar Miss Rawle would make a poor lady of Faircombe, and he's made an unbreakable promise to p...

Lady Viola doesn't care for family; after all, hers never cared for her. None of them ever helped her through her recurring bouts of melancholy. Not even her physician brother.She'd rather be damned than leave the Duchess' court to wait on her now-widowed mother.No, she'd rather be married.She simply must hurry and kidnap herself a manageable husband. Perhaps her brother's best friend would do.Lee Waite has returned from wan...