When life is horrid without hope, it's time to change the status quo in whatever way possible…The year is 1807 and Lady Angelica Coatesfield, Duchess of Tittleford, wishes she were anyone but who she is. Married to a duke isn't everything wonderful the beau monde makes it out to be, especially when that duke has beaten and abused her for the duration of their twenty-year union. Trapped in her gilded, hellish cage, the only respite is seeing Mr. Marsden, her husban...

What doesn't kill you might make you stronger unless it forces you to become what you hate…Alexander Sutcliffe—the 8th Duke of Ravenhurst—has finally returned to England after a twenty-year absence, and he wants the man who destroyed his life punished. At the age of twenty-two, after being forced to witness his parents' brutal murder, he was kidnapped from his bed in London and shanghaied onto a ship to toil in the English navy. Finally able to escape that life and the com...

Trust can be a stumbling block, but it can also be freeing in the right circumstance.With only her reprobate, now-dead husband to judge by, Marjorie Attler doesn't trust men. The crumbling manor house by the sea is a fresh start, but when a privateer appears in her bed—while she's sleeping—he introduces her to a passion she'd only dreamed. Then he challenges her legal claim to the property and her justified distrust intensifies.After being at sea for five years, Cl...

Fulfilling a lifetime mission is much more fun when romance is woven into the adventure.The Honorable Charlotte Blakely is closing in on the actual location of the Veil of Veronica, carrying on her beloved late grandfather's quest. Satisfying his last wish is all she's ever wanted from life… until the possibility of a courtship with the handsome English ambassador to Rome made itself known. But does love mean giving up her hard-won independence?Mr. Everett Desmond ...

Decisions have consequences as do actions, but does a man's past mean he's stuck in a prison…Michael Charles Banshire, the sixth Duke of Darkemore—is a man who keeps to himself due to his disfigurement and mental anguish gained at the hands of a villainous foe he had never managed to capture or put down. That failure drove him to his estate in Cornwall, where he's remained in isolation for two years until rumors his quarry was seen in London draws him out. This is his last...

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...

When two people are too shy to give romance a chance, a little ducal interference is needed.It's Christmastide, and Griffin Ivy, Earl of Hollingsworth, has been summoned by his ducal parents to Ivy Castle, a monstrosity of an estate deep in the heart of Warwickshire County. He's terrified of taking the title of duke soon, and instead of mingling with society, he'd rather bury himself in books or walk the acreage, for then anxiety can't touch him… until he meets his father'...

Things are not always what they seem—in life, love, and murder.Ennui has taken over Major Felix Kourier's life. Retired from military service as well as Bow Street, which left him with an injury to his leg that required a prosthetic, he is missing the excitement and thrills he used to know. When his sister badgers him into attending a summer house party with her, he hopes it's exactly what he needs to stave off boredom with the caveat that he won't be matched; he doesn't n...

Nothing ushers in the holidays like mistletoe… and murder.Widow Mary Tomlinson isn't looking for romance. At four and thirty, she's content enough to keep house for her brother in London, but when the opportunity to act as chaperone for her niece at a Christmastide house party comes her way, she jumps at it. Even more when she discovers the party is hosted by Viscount Stanwick, a man she used to fancy in her youth. The fly in the ointment is his brother and the troubling a...

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 widow needing attachment. An earl searching for hope. A young girl wanting a family. A handful of days to change everything…Lady Lydia Kingston has pretended for years; it was easier that way. As headmistress and owner of a finishing school in London, people trusted her because they thought she was a proper woman of the ton, except all of that was a lie, but when her sordid past collides with the present she's worked to build, scandal follows an...

Fighting against circumstances can usher in the greatest freedom.Peter Sammerson, Viscount Bingham, is a man tortured by his past. No matter that he wishes the beau monde would forget what he's done, he can't, and for that there's no peace, and definitely no future. During a walk to a friend's townhouse, he has a heated exchange in the rain with an interesting woman who might change his mind about wanting to avoid the ton altogether.Miss Katherine Davies i...