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Surviving the wilds of Cornwall is more life changing than they thought.Miss Caroline Sloane is on her way to Poughill, Cornwall. In highhanded fashion, her estranged grandfather has arranged a marriage for her to a sea captain she's met but once, and she wishes to convince him otherwise. She'll marry for love or not at all, but an accident with the crowded mail coach on which she's traveling throws her existence into chaos.Alan Blackmore, the Earl of St. Clair, ha...

True love doesn't come from position or status but by the whispers of the heart.Miss Lavinia Thompson's life hasn't been a bed of roses. Being born on the wrong side of the blanket ensures she's not welcome within the glittering, respectable world of the London ton. Left with little choice, she embraced her status in the demi-monde, content to remain a mistress to whoever would pay the highest price. Until that life dimmed, and she wanted to be accepted for hersel...

An unexpected romance at Christmastide proves it's never too late to realize the secret dreams of the heart.Recently retired from the Royal Navy, much acclaimed Captain Bartholomew Grayson has come home to London. He's looking forward to the Christmastide season, especially now that he's adopted a ten-year-old former cabin boy. The waif needs a family and Bartholomew wants to recapture the joy of his own childhood. Too bad the fly in the ointment is a strong-willed harrida...

Sometimes, the greatest truths of life come on a midnight clear.Major Cecil Stapleton is struggling with his new life as a civilian after nearly twenty years in the military. Wounds received in the Battle of Toulouse left him angry, disfigured, and sent him home to England. All he wants now is to retire to the country and be left alone, especially since it's the Christmastide season. Finding his old lover in his cottage leaves him at sixes and sevens… and perhaps wanting m...

Revenge is never as sweet as the ability to find peace.The Honorable Olivia Beaumont, eldest daughter of Viscount Hereford, wants revenge. Following an ill-advised game of faro with a powerful duke, her father lost everything and then suffered a fatal heart attack. Now she wants that man to pay and suffer as much as her father did. But the only way she can do so is to enlist the help of the most shunned man in the ton—the disgraced Duke of Skeffington. It matters ...

When two disillusioned people accidentally meet, finding a common bond in scandal will give them back hope.The Honorable Laurence Bannerman lingers in London to avoid joining his family at his father's country estate in Surrey to celebrate Christmastide. As the third son and a fourth sibling, nothing was ever expected of him, so his behavior has been quite scandalous. That is until he meets a woman who makes him long for a wife and wish for a change… but dogs don't change ...

Stubborn hearts might be the last to fall, but when the hard tumble comes, it'll last forever.Jonathan Banshire, Viscount Trewellain, has become a bitter, sarcastic lord and against anything remotely smacking of romance. Though engaged to a woman whose hand he'd won in a game of cards years ago, he hasn't thought of her in years. But he's also a king's agent, and as his duty to the Crown, he's being sent to Spain to track down a missing peer. He goes to escape his personal...

At times a second chance at love and friendship is tangled in grief until one learns to forgive.Ex-spy and Home Office agent Elliott Thorne—Viscount Aldridge and newly minted Earl of Foxborough—is still a bachelor at the age of forty-one. Now that he's finally gotten his sister married off, he can turn his attention to perhaps entering the same state for himself, but oddly enough, he doesn't know how, so a harvest ball at his country estate seems like a good start....

Sometimes, the romance of a lifetime starts with one perfect night.It's the year 1885 and the world has just begun giving up its ancient secrets. Miss Charlotte Blakely is a librarian in Rome. She's researching evidence of the fabled Veil of Veronica, but her time abroad is drawing to a close. Her viscount father is dying and has called his children home, yet a chance encounter with a stranger one balmy night might change her direction.Mr. Everett Desmond is the En...

A proper gentleman. A desperate lady. One little indiscretion that will change their lives.Carew Harcourt Fitzwilliam—Duke of Edenthorpe—is dreadfully dissatisfied with his life. Engaged since childhood to a woman unsuited to him, he feels trapped and hopeless. What he needs is a distraction, which comes in the form of a possible jewelry heist. Too bad it has arrived with his best friend's sister, now a beauty he can't banish from his mind.Miss Leah Haddington, onl...

Searching for answers… Widowed Lady Elizabeth Dunston, daughter of the Earl of Hallewell, has lived a quiet life for years at her father's country estate, for it was her beloved husband's last request that she find peace. The last thing she wants is an attraction to the intriguing former soldier asking for work. Too bad anxiety continues to bedevil her and makes tranquility—and indifference—impossible.Distracted by forbidden desire… Captain Christopher Mowbray is ...

When the snow flies and the fire crackles, a man's thoughts turn to romance…Sebastian Farmingworth, Duke of Foxcroft, is having a wretched Christmastide season. After deciding to spend time at his country estate with his young daughter, everything goes wrong—a maid fell down the stairs, a random dog ran off with the Christmas goose, and now a wild snowstorm has prevented half his houseguests from arriving. He's ready to wash his hands of the holiday until the woman who got...