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Long-held secrets rise to the surface in a battle of wills that threatens to tear apart everything Kitty and William thought they knew about each other and about love. Because sometimes, happily-ever-afters aren't just granted . . . sometimes, they must be fought for.

All of the young ladies whispered about the Duke of Mondvale in hushed tones, their eyes following his tall, dark figure with barely disguised lust. For the newly-ostracized Lady Constance Thornton, he is magnetic and altogether desirable. Irresistibly so. Since her reputation is already ruined in London society, why shouldn't she be impudent and dance with the scandalous "Lord of Sin"? Little does she know of his plans.

Amelia Nichols’s life changes dramatically when her uncle announces plans to marry her off to a ruthless earl. Following her aunt’s advice to seek love, she is thrust into the dazzling but treacherous London season—however, her heart still yearns for an enigmatic stranger she met back home… Simon Campbell, Duke of Barrington, returns from India scarred and disillusioned. Rejected by his fiancée and pressured to find a wife, he finds no spark among the eager debutantes, his thoughts instead lingering on a captivating girl he met in Kent. When his sister’s debut takes him to London...

When the charming man Laura encounters at a ball turns out to be the very gentleman intended for her cousin, Laura is forced to ignore her absurd hopes and enact a ruse that will lead Mr. Huntington to pursue her cousin. With everyone’s expectations placed upon her and her position at Linwick Manor at stake, there is no room for error. Especially when Mr. Huntington’s intentions begin to shift to Laura.

On a splendid August afternoon, Susanna Osbourne is introduced to the most handsome man she has ever seen...and instantly feels the icy chill of recognition. Peter Edgeworth, Viscount Whitleaf, is utterly charming - and seemingly unaware that they have met before. With his knowing smile and seductive gaze, Peter acts the rake; but he stirs something in Susanna she has never felt before, a yearning that both frightens and dazzles her.

Orphaned and alone, Isobel Leighton has survived years carrying the weight of a mother she barely remembers and a father imprisoned for debts. When he dies, he leaves her one chilling command: Stay away from Blackmoor Hall. However, with no family, and a desperate need for work, she has no choice but to accept a position at the very estate he warned her against... Theodore Ashcombe, Earl of Blackmoor, is exhausted by responsibility and haunted by the past. Governing his estate, managing his mischief-making younger sisters, and fending off a scheming uncle leaves little room for hope—until...

Delicious presents Verity Durant, an irresistible woman of a more elegant age. Verity is renowned from London to Paris for her succulent cuisine - and for her rapacious carnal appetite. And she's determined to tempt prim and proper politician Stuart Somerset with forbidden fruits he's never tasted.

Romance ought to be that simple. But with no dowry, Victoria cannot marry a pauper. Nor can Oliver wed the daughter of the woman who nearly ruined his parents’ life 30 years ago. Surely, a marriage based on mutual affection and friendship is enough.

Lady Tricia Riley is the sweet daughter of a duke until her family's ailments force her to breech societies’ dictates and go where no lady should. When a tall, strong, and handsome stranger helps to keep her safe, she agrees to keep their meeting secret. She’s has no interest in marry him; actually, she has no intention of marrying at all. She plans to dedicate herself to charitable pursuits. But Ryker Pembroke, Duke of Landon, will marry eventually, as duty requires him to do. It is a fate he regards with a certain amount of dread, until an auburn-haired minx bursts into his life.

Since his wife was killed in an accident that stole his happiness and left him injured, William Helling, the Duke of Aubrey, is a broken man. Neither strong drink and loose women nor the power he wields as leader of the Brethren of Lords can free him from the nightmares that haunt him. He prefers to be left alone, and has no desire to heal the wound his life has become. Then one day Miss Elsie Allenby, rumored to be a skilled healer, enters his household. He should send her away and yet he’s enthralled by the mysterious stranger.

Lady Janine Cook, daughter of the Duke of Sussex, is in turmoil. Her father's insistence on marriage by her next birthday leaves her in distress, especially since the match he's chosen is the oppressive and controlling Viscount Shardwood. To complicate things even further, although she can hardly admit it to herself, Lady Janine’s true feelings lay with another. Douglas Irvin, the Viscount who stole her thoughts, might be a friend of the family, but she knows her stubborn father will never change his mind. She can at least confess all of her heart’s secrets to her dear diary… When the...

Grace Whitford made the mistake of having a horrible megrim at her sister's wedding on board Lord Carew's ship. This in and of itself should not have been a disaster, except she went to sleep it off with a draught in a small dark cabin, and no one remembered to wake her up. By the time she awoke, the ship was well into the Channel and could not be turned around.

Raina Bretton is a rag woman in London's East End when a handsome stranger appears in a dank alley and offers her a glittering smile and a chance for adventure. Rothburne Abbey has a unique position for her, one that will take her away from her hardscrabble life and give her a chance to be a lady. Things she could only dream of might be coming true. But some dreams turn out to be nightmares. Though Raina has traded squalor for silk and satin, something about the abbey is deeply unsettling.

Disguised as a man, Josephine O'Malley strolls into a Dodge City mercantile with one thing on her mind: to even the score with the man who murdered her husband. What she doesn't count on is Fletcher Collins - the handsome and irresistible new marshal in town - bursting through the doors of the mercantile with guns blazing...and a plan to stop her from pulling the trigger.

Rose “Tilly” Carnack has always lived in the shadows of her distracted father and indifferent aunt, crafting her own independence in a world that refuses to see her… Everything changes when a handsome stranger mistakes her for his sister, threatening to unravel the carefully built life she is desperate to protect… Sterling Framleigh, newly titled Duke of Daneford, never wanted the burdens of nobility after years as a soldier. When he uncovers a secret clause in his father’s will forcing marriage to an old ally’s daughter, he faces even more challenges. Yet, when the girl who ...

London, 1885. Amelie Hampton is a hopeless romantic, which makes her the perfect columnist to answer lonely heart letters in The Marriage Gazette. When Amelie plays matchmaker with two anonymous lonely hearts, she also decides to secretly observe the couple’s blind date. To her surprise, the man who appears for the rendezvous is Harold Radcliffe - a grieving widower and a member of Amelie’s book club.

Eventually, all wallflowers will have their chance at love...this is where it begins. Lottie Hughes likes people, as long as they aren't too close. Does it bother her that no one asks her to dance? Yes, but she's not sure how to drum up dance partners when she has almost no dowry and no title, and freezes up when anyone tries to talk to her. Ellen might be beautiful and considered a diamond of the first water by Society, but she is so very tired of the pressure to marry a titled gentleman. Charlotte Winters is destined to spinsterhood until she turns down an unwanted proposal.

“Shiveringly Gothic.”—New York Times Book Review A PopSugar and BookBub Best Romance of 2022! A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger. Tall, dark, and dour, the notorious Captain Jasper...

Six years of battle has changed Nathaniel: older, wiser, the conqueror of the addictions that drove his misspent youth, he’s avowed to start afresh. But a chance meeting with Lydia unnerves him; she is so very keen to speak to him, yet he cannot fathom why. Has she waited for him all these years? He is unfit for her and is focused on making amends for another’s life that he ruined, and he urges her to forget him.

In New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle's fourth novel in the Rhymes With Love series, a resolute young woman goes toe-to-toe with the Beast of Mayfair She has no desire for love . . . As she arrives in Mayfair, Louisa Tempest is horrified when her incorrigible cat bolts from the...