As the most dazzling debutante of 1811, beautiful and reckless Miss Olivia Templestowe scandalised society when she eloped with notorious rake, Lucien, Lord Farquhar. Five years later, she's paid the highest price for her impetuosity. Lucien is dead, branding his widow a whore and unfit mother, and willing the care of their child to a relative. Now Olivia is about to orchestrate a grand charade to reclaim everything she has lost. AFTER YEARS ABROAD,...

Una mujer con un secreto escandalosoDentro de las cámaras secretas del club más decadente de Londres, donde la élite gobernante se entrega a todos los vicios, ella encuentra libertad y placer al someter a aquellos que dominan. Un hombre que nunca esperó perder el controlLord Henry McCaulay ve a las mujeres con desdén. Es decir, hasta que conoce a la enigmática Mademoiselle Noire, la atractiva anfitriona de su club, que lo fascina y lo enfurece....

** Previously published in Evading the Duke *** There is nothing Samuel Storm wants more than to leave London behind him and return to his plantation in Barbados, until he sees a portrait come to life. At least he's fairly certain the girl across St. Paul's is the same one depicted in the scandalous painting he owns back in the Caribbean. But how can he be sure? And why would a lady pose for such a painting?Lady Jillian Simpson has made many mistakes...

The MacKintosh clan somehow made love look so bloody appealing… James MacKintosh has watched his brothers find the perfect woman one after the other, but for him, he had yet to stumble across one who didn't make him want to put an ocean between them. So he did, thinking a life in New York would put his discontent out of sight and out of mind.Love was the last thing she wanted…New York suffragette Primrose Eames had more than enough men trying...

When mill heiress Miss Emily Marsham agrees to a marriage born out of tragedy and hardheaded necessity, her hopes for future marital bliss aren't high. Adam Blackthorn, the ambitious manager of one of her father's mills is not what she expected in a husband. Can she make the best of her situation and be a dutiful wife, or will Adam challenge her to become something else entirely?

This is a steamy historical romance short story (word count 4,382).Charlotte's one desire comes in the extremely attractive form of William the Marquess of Chester.He has been the object of Charlotte's affection for so long to the point that she is now quite prepared to do everything in her power to secure his attention and attachment to her in turn. Even if it means submitting to the Marquess's very demanding ways! For William wishes to possess Charlotte...

Can love survive when generations of hatred threaten to tear it apart…? Lady Eleanor Hawthorne never planned on falling in love with a Firthley. The Hawthornes and the Firthleys have been enemies since before Lady Eleanor was born, but when Eleanor's sleigh is stranded in the snow she cannot bring herself to forget her handsome rescuer, even when she realizes he is David Firthley.Likewise David Firthley finds himself entranced by the sweet violet-eyed...

Having no fortune, a negligible reputation, and an appearance that could only be described as plain, Miss Olympia Daventry has few prospects. Unless, of course, she elects to remain in her aunt's home dodging her uncle's amourous advances and his sermons, both of which are dished out in equal measure. Out of desperation, she accepts an offer of marriage from a man she has never met. Married by proxy, she travels to his home and at her first sight...

Mary Soares was supposed to spend Christmas, nice and warm on her family's estate in Falkirk, Scotland, tending to their whisky business. However, the English have made smuggling almost impossible, and so order after order is waiting at the distillery until it's safe enough to continue shipments. Most customers understand this. Most customers are reasonable. The Duke of Danby is not most customers. So after a number of demands from His Grace, insisting...

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.