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A bold beauty. A brooding viscount. And two weeks that may change everything. Lady Alice Pickford is not the kind of woman who fades quietly into the background. With flaming red hair, a razor-sharp wit, and a smile that dares the world to keep up, she thrives on risk, rebellion, and romance—for others. Love, after all, is something she’ll only accept on her own impossible terms. Samuel Baldwin, Viscount Crewe, has spent years building a life of restraint and order.

"I will keep her safe, even if it means keeping her in the dark" Lady Arabella’s only hope of escaping a cruel home is marriage. But the heartless Duke of Sheffield was never supposed to be the one to offer it… Duke Harry never cared for love. But after being caught in a scandal, he is forced to protect a woman he never wanted to make his wife… Determined to thaw his icy heart, Arabella soon discovers that her new husband is hiding more than his growing feelings for her. A secret that will force him to decide whether it’s worth losing the only woman who’s ever made him feel alive...

Lady Amelia Whitcombe’s time is running out. With her third Season nearing its end and her mother’s pressure mounting, Amelia is overshadowed by her beautiful, vain sister and haunted by the memory of a love long lost. Could Lord Redford be the answer to her yearning for more than polite conversation and strategic matches? Lord Nathaniel Redford is a duke left with a crumbling estate. Burdened by duty, he must marry a wealthy woman to secure the Redfords’ future. When his aunt’s designs bring him into Amelia’s path, he sees in the wallflower much more than what he sees in her ...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER! From USA Today bestselling author Joanna Shupe comes a spicy Anastasia story full of secrets and betrayal, set among the glittering streets of New York City's Gilded Age. In 1880 a baby was stolen from the wealthiest family in America. Though no ransom was ever demanded...

Once the daughter of a respectable household, Charlotte Westbrook loses her parents in a tragic carriage accident, and with them, the illusion of security she once took for granted. When she steps into Ashford Manor as governess, she faces a grieving child and his father, the brooding Duke, whose dark gaze and quiet intensity unsettle her. Can her courage and warmth bring light back into a broken home? Widowed by illness and hardened by war, Edward Thornton, Duke of Averleigh, rules his household with rigid discipline and emotional distance. His unruly son has driven away every governess ...

Years ago, Lord James Harrington, the Earl of Manderly, saved Miss Evie Ashewood and made her his countess. Their marriage was meant to be a sanctuary—until a threat to Evie’s life shatters their fragile peace and exposes her hidden wounds. Now the quiet earl is tormented by an improper longing…for the wife he adores but cannot reach. Brilliant, shy, and far more comfortable in a greenhouse than a ballroom, Evie never intended to marry—least of all a man as impossibly perfect as James. Yet behind closed doors, his tenderness awakens dangerous desires.

Evie Jenkins didn't know what she was thinking by agreeing to switch places with her American heiress cousin. After all, she's naught but a poor—and usually quite sensible—companion. All she has to do is spend six weeks among London society, pretending to be an heiress . . . and ensure that absolutely under no circumstances does she accept any proposals of marriage.

For Allegra Proctor, tutoring the Earl of Wrexham's son has its disadvantages—namely the widowed earl himself. Arrogant, cold, and moody, Wrexham is also distractingly dashing. But Allegra only needs to to keep secret her real reason for taking a job in the wilds of Yorkshire long enough to right the wrong against her father, committed by the earl's dastardly neighbor. All is going according to plan–until the earl’s son discovers her quest for justice and demands to help. But when their first foray runs into trouble, Wrexham is quickly entangled in the scheming.

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Vivacious, bold, beautiful Madison Hutton is an instant success when she arrives in London for her debut season. While she has caught the eye of many an eligible bachelor, her head is not so easily turned. Madison is looking for one thing: a true love marriage. When she meets Henry, a dashing young marquess, she thinks she has found her perfect match.

Lady Rosaline Crowley has only ever longed for one thing: a child to call her own. Widowed before her marriage truly begins, she is left alone and vulnerable, pursued by her late husband’s ruthless cousin who seeks her fortune through marriage. As her independence slips away, Rosaline must choose between a safe union with an old friend or losing everything she has left. Lord Leonard Bryant, the overlooked second son of a Duke, never expected to inherit anything at all. When scandal shatters his family and his father’s life hangs in the balance, the title he never wanted suddenly depends...

Eliza Sinclair has lost everything. Her parents are dead, her fortune is gone and the man she planned to marry has abandoned her. Taking a new name, she becomes a governess at Ravenshire Hall, owned by the brooding Duke of Averleigh, where the halls are cold, the staff is suspicious and danger may be closer than it seems… Alexander Grey, Duke of Averleigh, keeps the world at a distance. He struggles to reach his son and still grieves the loss of his wife and brother.The last thing he expects is a governess who is brave, clever and able to stir feelings he thought were long gone. Can he ...

Lady Annabelle Rockwood, a timid debutante, invents a Scottish fiancé, Captain Campbell, to escape marriage. For years, she pours her secrets and desires into letters, believing no one reads them. When her uncle dies and leaves her a Highland castle, she kills off her imaginary fiancé, no longer needing him—but the real Captain Campbell soon arrives, claiming his right to marry her… Captain Callum Campbell never expected lovesick letters from a stranger, and yet somehow they become his lifeline during the horrors of war in France. Furious at his “death” in her final letter, he ...

Evie Stuart's uncle is the Spymaster to the Crown. Her cousins are spies. She wants to be a spy. When they turn her down due to her being a lady, she gathers her three best friends who are now debutantes during the Season to help her catch a traitor and prove to her family that anything her cousins can do, she and her friends can do better.

Orphaned and reduced from lady to little more than a servant in her aunt’s household, Clara Ashcombe survives on quiet resilience and a fragile hope for independence. London’s Season may be her only chance to secure her inheritance and the freedom it promises, until a chance encounter with a dashing stranger awakens feelings she cannot afford… As the youngest son of the Duke of Pennington, Nathaniel Harrowby carries grief and duty in equal measure while watching his father’s health fail. When he rescues a young woman on the verge of collapse, he offers her a position as governess to...

A ruthless tycoon Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. If he must take her virtue to...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a duke in possession of no fortune must be in want of a rich wife. Miss Kalina Little is not the debutante that Nathanial, Duke of Hereford, needs for his wife. What he needs is someone with a dowry hefty enough to pay off the debts left to him by his late father and skilled enough to help repair his family’s reputation and guide his sisters through the ton. As the head of his household, it’s his duty to provide that stability for his family, and the sisters who rely on him.

Father Cade Frederic is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there's a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he's tasked to become the priest in Festivale, Vermont, a town both beautiful in architecture and riddled with despair, his sickness sings, demanding he rid the place of evil.

Miss Prudence Adams, from New York, is a quiet force, often observing people from a distance with the aid of her sketches and journal entries. That until her dazzling sister’s search for an English nobleman, brings her to a Cornish port, changing her life forever. What will Prudence do when faced with a forbidden love that shakes her very core? Debt-stricken Percival Seymour, the Viscount of Falmouth, is still the perfect English snob with the gentlest of hearts. Left to care for his ailing mother and younger sister, he has only his title to vouch for…except if he married a wealthy ...

Helen Ravenel devait épouser le richissime Rhys Winterborne, propriétaire du plus grand magasin de Londres. Puis, sur un malentendu, leurs fiançailles ont été rompues. Le cœur brisé, Helen ose aller trouver Rhys pour lui clamer son amour. Mais l'irascible Gallois sait que les Ravenel s'opposeront désormais à leur union. Pour leur forcer la main, il lance un ultimatum à la jeune fille : elle doit s'offrir à lui le jour même.