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Lady Cassandra Howard has frequented gambling hells as her father's lucky charm since childhood - but luck ran out along the way. Now, her brother intends to sell her into marriage with a wealthy, dissolute rake. Cass has done many things for her family, but this won't be one of them. Her neighbor, “Saint” Wyatt Mannering, Earl of Merrick, has chosen a bride - one as proper and virtuous as he. But when lovely Cass attempts to trick him into marriage with seduction, he's almost tempted - except she's much too nave to be a seductress and his conscience won't let him.

A sweeping Regency historical novel from NYT best-selling author Patricia Rice… England, 1814: Can a determined woman prevent a scarred nobleman from destroying himself and the ones he loves? As the daughter of a village vicar, Penelope Carlisle has accepted a life of quiet duty and near-poverty—until her peaceful existence is upended by the arrival of Viscount Graham Trevelyan. Scarred in body and spirit, Trevelyan has returned to his ancestral lands with a young daughter and a need for vengeance. For the sake of his silent child, Penelope accepts the viscount’s proposal of a ...

From Philadelphia salons to the untamed western frontier, a woman on the run must reinvent herself to survive…a page-turning Western from NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice In 1820, Alicia Stanford, a wealthy Philadelphia heiress, disappears from society after a devastating scandal. With no one to trust and nowhere to turn, she escapes east coast whispers and expectations by boarding a Mississippi keelboat bound for the raw and lawless frontier. Masquerading as a common traveler, Alicia must shed her aristocratic upbringing and face the stark realities of pioneer life. Navigating ...

Everything about Lord Harry's easygoing life is about to change. After unexpectedly inheriting the title of duke of Sommersville, he's also discovered it comes with a load of debt. To save the estate, he's going to need money. Lots of it - and quick.

Call her a petite princess or a paranoid neurotic, either way, Ana Devlin has the instincts of a chameleon. She can disappear into the woodwork, share tea with a queen, or flatten a thug with one swift kick, but what she really wants is to provide her dysfunctional younger siblings with the security of the home she’s been denied. When her sister's VIP father is accused of murdering his aide, she decides it's time to go home.

Boston 1765, a saga of colonial America from NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice In a city seething with revolutionary unrest, Evelyn Wellington struggles to hold her late father’s shipping business together. As Parliament’s new taxes spark more outrage, Evelyn discovers smuggled goods linked to the growing resistance in her family’s warehouse—placing her livelihood and her family’s safety at risk. Sent from London to investigate the misuse of his family’s shipping fleet, Alex Hampton, heir to an earldom, expects to find corruption among unruly colonials—not a capable, ...

Nora Adams believes she is only a schoolteacher and a poor seaman's widow until the day she inherits a fortune, and her mother sends her to London to deliver a mysterious message to a newly arrived foreign princess - who looks much like Nora. Once Princess Elena receives Nora's missive, she steals Nora's identity and vanishes. Left adrift in unfamiliar waters wearing ill-fitting royal shoes, Nora determinedly sets out in search of the real royal.

When Dylan "Oz" Oswin's son is kidnapped, the high-powered producer will do anything to get him back. Desperately following an anonymous tip, he seeks help from a former child singing sensation called Syrene, only to find she's vowed never to sing again. Immune to her voice but not her charm, Oz is convinced she holds the key to his son's disappearance - and he'll stop at nothing to make her break her vow.

Frustrated divorcée Amy Warren is striving to fix her life by helping her hometown buy the local mill, and then she can put her Plan for the Rest of Her Life in action by buying a rundown cottage and turning it into her heart’s desire. Amy’s plan shatters when Jean-Jacques St. Etienne arrives with loads of cash, charisma, and expertise, with every intention of buying the mill for its designs and then abandoning the community. A European playboy, he has no interest in anything except staying occupied so he needn’t remember the tragedy haunting him.

Having married once out of desperation, the virgin widow Lady Belden has no intention of giving up her independence - until her long-lost siblings arrive on her doorstep. By law their guardianship belongs to the power-hungry marquess of Belden, but Bell will defy law and society to keep her newly reunited family together. Formidable in trade, unlucky in love, Lord Quentin Hoyt has eyed Lady Bell from afar - not just because she possesses the family fortune but because she's the most desirable woman he's ever met.

Blake Montague's draconian temper and clever mind belong on the Continent, decoding French communications. Instead, as the youngest son of a baron, he's terrorizing London ballrooms in search of a wife who will buy the commission he can't afford. Jocelyn Carrington, after years of smiling through the pain inflicted by an uncaring family, has just inherited a fortune. Now she can buy the special home with an aviary her eccentric younger brother needs - but Blake Montague's family owns it.

Abused and thrown from her wealthy home as a child, taken in and sheltered by peace-loving Quakers, Lady Alexandra Theodora Beaumont tries to lead the religious, obedient life of her adopted parents. But despite all her efforts, Pace Nicholls brings out the willful child she'd once been. Raised by a ruthless family, Pace must conceal his weakness for defending the less fortunate. But little Dora acts as his conscience, bringing out his worst flaws. To survive and achieve his ambitions, he must avoid her at all cost.

Newly appointed priestess to the Temple of Aelynn Tasia Olympus is burdened with the greatest task to face any leader - saving her acolytes from a tsunami and finding them a new home. Her ability to communicate with the goddess cannot tell her how to protect three dozen virgins and an equal number of soldiers and sailors as they flee their doomed island. Experienced captain Nautilus the Navigator can tackle storms and sea, but obeying a Seer who tells him to sail impossible shoals requires too much belief.

Aidan Dougal is deadly, and he knows it. His self-imposed isolation is to keep others out of harm's way. However, it also makes any kind of intimacy impossible...and certainly not marriage! Asking for help is beyond him until a woman unlike any he's ever met slips into his life like an answered prayer.

Lady Leila Staines has always felt like an outcast among her magically gifted sisters. Desperate to discover her own talent, she seeks out Dunstan Ives, a dark and brooding aristocrat with a scientific bent who may hold the key to unleashing Leila's hidden powers.

Hard-living musician Flynn "Flint" Clinton has left heartache and his wild ways behind in Nashville, returning to his sleepy hometown of Northfork, North Carolina. There he hopes to start a new life as owner of the Stardust Caf, relaxing and raising his two preteen sons in peace and quiet. Then Flint meets the colorful, indomitable Joella Sanderson, a blond bombshell who serves a mean cup of caffeine at the Stardust - and whose amazing voice belongs at the top of the charts.

From bestselling author Patricia Rice, another classic western historical: Texas, 1835: a land divided by violence, where one woman dares to stand her ground. When her husband dies, Lily Porter is left with a child to raise and a ranch to defend. Texas is a land torn by rebellion, where women are expected to stay out of the way. But Lily refuses to submit to any man’s orders. Part Apache, part Mexican, a cowboy with no past he cares to share, Cade is the only man who comes to her aid. His strength makes him indispensable, but his secrets may prove as dangerous as the enemies at their ...

A sweeping post-Civil War saga from NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice In war-torn Kentucky, Laura Kincaid grows up with the fading traditions of Southern gentility and the harsh realities of a fractured nation. From a young age, she’s drawn to Cash Wycliffe—the headstrong son of a tenant farmer—whose ambitions stretch far beyond the confines of their divided homeland. Cash leaves to chase fortune in the rugged West, returning years later with gold in his pocket and his sights set on Laura’s cousin Sallie—a dazzling beauty with her own designs for survival in the Reconstruction ...

Samantha Neely thought she might have to kill Sloan Talbott. Talbott had already tried to run her and her family out of town, and now she finally had her chance to confront the man she believed responsible for her father's disappearance. To do so, she had to prove she was woman enough to bring down the handsomest, most sinfully dangerous man she'd ever met. Sloan Talbott called Sam a ragtag redheaded tomboy, but her honeyed voice taunted him. In denims, she made him crazy.

Another sweeping historical classic from NYT best-selling author Patricia Rice: England, 1745: She has no name and no past. He has everything to lose. What they discover could change their world. Abandoned as a mute child, Eileen has grown up with no memory of who she was or why she was left behind. Adopted by a kindhearted family, she builds a quiet life defined by her art and the security of her village. But when a Jacobite uprising threatens her fragile peace, she’s drawn into a conflict far larger than herself. Drake Neville, newly returned from a life abroad, has inherited the vast ...