Emma Lane has spent twelve years being indispensable. Taken in as an orphan by the Sterling family, she repaid their kindness by becoming the woman who holds everything together — managing four aristocratic households, raising children who aren't hers, and folding her own wants so small they nearly disappeared. Now twenty-nine, crossing the Atlantic aboard a Sears shipping vessel as four families race to reach a dying patriarch, Emma can feel the role she's built her life ...

Series Note:The Children of Scandal series moves forward in time to the early Victorian era, following the next generation — the sons and daughters of the American Heiresses couples — as they get their own happily ever afters. Each book is a standalone romance.Rose Sterling has spent her life proving she's more than an earl's decorative daughter.She's traded ballrooms for factory floors, leveraging her title and her mother'...

She'll risk everything to save her family. He'll risk nothing—until her.Lucy Livingston has one goal: save her brother from ruin. When a ruthless London lord offers her a devil's bargain, she's prepared to accept—until Marcus Hale, Marquess of Pembrey, intervenes with a counter-offer that stops her cold:Marry him instead.Marcus doesn't believe in love. He believes in control, strategy, and keeping his distance. But Lucy is neither controllable nor p...

She trusts only science.He believes only in desire.Miss Abigail Sears has no intention of leaving her future to chance.Armed with her meticulously designed Husband Compatibility Assessment, she plans to choose a husband with precision—and avoid every known risk.Especially men like Julian Lockhart.Viscount. Rake. Duelist.An immediate and emphatic failure.Julian has spent his life avoiding responsibilit...

The ton calls her dangerous. They're not wrong.London, 1819. Lady Juliette Harcourt once leveled a pistol at a lord who mistook her widowhood for weakness, and Mayfair has not stopped whispering since. Now she returns for one purpose only: to secure a brilliant Season for her sister. Every smile is strategy, every alliance calculated, and even the diamonds at her throat are not what they seem.Alexander Bentley, a physician with no title and no patience for ...

She meant to rescue a frightened woman. She accidentally knocked an earl unconscious.Lady Rose Sheffield has spent her life being everything a proper lady should not be: outspoken, stubborn, and impossible to control. But after her father dies only days after disinheriting her for refusing to marry her insufferable cousin, Rose begins to wonder whether her rebellious nature has cost her everything.Determined to become the quiet, obedient woman her father wa...

She struck him with a bronze statue and ran.Lady Elizabeth Ashworth had no choice — not when Lord Mordaunt's hands were at her throat, not when his threats made clear that their betrothal would end in her ruin. She brought the statue down, fled into the Yorkshire storm, and tumbled into a ravine where the moors swallowed her whole.She woke in the arms of Lucian Rothwell, Earl of Thorncliff — a man she'd never met, with eyes too sharp to fool and a voice tha...

Ze heeft een puntensysteem voor echtgenoten. Hij scoorde een nul nog vóór het ontbijt.Miss Abigail Sears, Amerikaanse erfgename, amateur-lepidopteroloog en de minst romantische vrouw van heel Engeland, is niet van plan haar toekomst aan het toeval over te laten. Ze heeft een beoordelingssysteem: honderd punten voor intellectuele compatibiliteit, goed karakter en financiële stabiliteit — plus één automatische diskwalificatie.Duelleren.Wat bijzonder o...

Jane Seymour has one dream left: publish the bird illustrations she has spent a year perfecting.But when a scandal forces her into a marriage of convenience with Sebastian Westwood, the reclusive Viscount of Westwood Manor, Jane finds herself trading London’s drawing rooms for a crumbling country estate — and a husband who disappears each morning before dawn and returns long after dark.Sebastian is hiding something. Jane is certain of it. His young ward, Anabelle, adores hi...

When duty collides with desire, can love conquer all?Diana Wakefield is no ordinary American heiress. Independent, sharp-witted, and fiercely loyal, she’s crossed the Atlantic to confront the future her family has arranged—a proxy marriage to a powerful English duke she’s never met. But instead of accepting her fate, Diana strikes a bold deal with her calculating grandmother: she’ll pose as a governess to observe her new husband in secret. If he proves unworthy of ...

Jane Seymour has one dream left: publish the bird illustrations she has spent a year perfecting.But when a scandal forces her into a marriage of convenience with Sebastian Westwood, the reclusive Viscount of Westwood Manor, Jane finds herself trading London’s drawing rooms for a crumbling country estate — and a husband who disappears each morning before dawn and returns long after dark.Sebastian is hiding something. Jane is certain of it. His young ward, Anabelle, adores hi...

She scored him zero on her marriage assessment. Fate had other calculations in mind.Miss Abigail Sears, American heiress and devoted scientist, has created the perfect formula for matrimony—her meticulously designed "Husband Compatibility Assessment." With her stepfather's ultimatum hanging over her head like a guillotine, she has until season's end to secure a husband of her choosing before he selects one for her.When Abby witnesses Viscount Julian Lockhar...