Rowena's childhood friend, Evan, has returned home from war a handsome, but mysterious stranger. In an effort to bring happiness to her father, not to mention uncover the Evan she remembers from their youth, Rowena seeks to unite their parents. Who better to match a lonely widow and widower together than their adoring children? Her matchmaking game could help their parents find happiness and draw out her childhood friend buried beneath Evan's new reserve … or it could break more than one h...

For once, Phillip would like to be seen as more than the younger brother of a duke. When he unexpectedly meets the one girl in all London who doesn't give two figs for his rank in society, she won't give him the time of day. Determined to gain her attention, he accidentally tips over her boat and dumps her into a river--not the best way to convince a lady of worth that he is a gentleman of promise! Frustrated, Phillip makes a rash wager with a friend: he vows he'll not only gain her forgiv...

Abby refuses to marry the monster to whom she is betrothed. As she flees, she meets a mysterious stranger at a wayside inn. His startling proposition will either save her, or leave her mired in scandal.

A ENGAGEMENT OF CONVENIENCE by Regina Scott: Kitty Chapworth is nearly a spinster, and an orphan living on the charity of her uncle, with nothing to recommend her for the marriage mart. Her primary purpose is relegated to acting chaperone for her cousins until she can see them successfully married. Kitty remains focused on her duty even though she knows her future is bleak. When Quentin Adair returns from a long ten years working in Jamaica and proposes a wild charade to Kitty, she agrees,...

When her parents and twin brother die within weeks of each other, Alicia and her younger sister are left in the hands of an uncle who has brought them all to financial and social ruin. Desperate to save her family from debtor's prison, Alicia vows to marry the first wealthy man to propose. She meets the dashing Lord Amesbury, and her heart whispers that this is the man she is destined to love, but his tainted past may forever stand in their way. Her choices in potential husbands narrow to ...

For weeks, Sabrina daydreams about a mysterious gentleman who frequents the lending library. Is he perchance an agent for the crown? A returning war hero? A highwayman? A fateful public assembly introduces her to the mystery man as well as an intriguing newcomer. Now she is torn between a charming rake promising the adventure she craves, and a handsome barrister who offers security. Only one will stand by her when it matters most.

Clarissa's coach breaks down in front of the most forbidding estate in the county, Wyckburg Castle, a place where young brides have been murdered for generations by their husbands. Clarissa is horrified yet curious all in the same breath. When she meets widower Earl of Wyckburg, she must decide if she should flee or uncover the greatest secret in the county about her handsome rescuer.

An artist, a grieving gentleman, a forbidden love.Isabella dreams of little but renown as an artist and the local competition offers her one chance at an apprenticeship under the town's most celebrated master. But when a grief-stricken gentleman of mysterious circumstance beseeches her aid in locating his late brother's lost love, she cannot bring herself to refuse him. The search draws her from her canvas and into his world, and, most perilously, into a regard she has no right to ...

A stolen Christmas kiss leaves them bewildered and breathless.A charming rogue-turned-vicar, Will wants to prove that he left his rakish days behind him, but an accidental kiss changes all his plans. His secret could bring them together...or divide them forever.Holly has two Christmas wishes this year; finally earn her mother's approval by gaining the notice of a handsome earl, and learn the identity of the stranger who gave her a heart-shattering kiss...even if that strang...

This beautiful, collector's edition contains tells the complete story of Christian and Genevie, book 3 of the award-winning, best-selling Rogue Hearts Series, A Perfect Secret, and its prequel, the novella, "A Perfect Match."A PERFECT LOVEGenevieve can't wait to meet Christian Amesbury, the paragon that her dearest friend vows to marry, and to determine if he's good enough for her friend. After meeting the object of her friend's desire, Genevieve determines Christian is per...

Horrors! Emma's favorite Gothic novel seems to have come true...but reality is not as fun as fiction. The only man she's ever loved is home from war, but he has changed in a terrifying way. Unless Emma's wild imagination is wrong, the love of her life is a vampire! Now she must decide if she can love a creature of darkness, or reveal his secret and lose him forever.This tongue-in-check novella plays with themes of paranormal fiction, but stays in the realm of clean and wholesome ro...

The scandalous Lady Amelia Dasherwood would rather thumb her nose at the society who shunned her for getting a divorce, but must now face those who rejected her in order to solicit aid for a forgotten orphanage dear to her.Newly returned from the horrors of war, Dr. Reed St. Ives plans to make a new life as a country doctor and forget Amelia ever existed--after all, she broke his heart when she married another man. Yet she keeps invading his thoughts and showing up when he least ex...