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Sheila Rabe
THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE 6/1994 ISBN: 0821745972 Regency. Poor, plain Emily Vane! Her spoiled sister Elyza got the beauty and all the beaux. Now she had manipulated Emily into secretly exchanging costumes with her at a masked soiree so she could slip away unnoticed to a forbidden rendezvous, while wallflower Emily dreamed of being Elyza, the belle of the ball. It was so naughty a plan for such a nice girl...as was flirting with Charles Trevor. Emily hadn't meant to encourage the handsome suitor. Or to kiss him. Certainly, she never intended to become engaged. But Charles had long been smitten by the 'beautiful' Vane sister. And now, alas, quite by accident, he had proposed to the plain one! Honor-bound, Emily's groom was headed for the altar like a man condemned. Should she set him free? Or could she devise a most ingenious scheme to capture his heart before their June wedding day...and make the wrong bride the right choice after all?
THE ADVENTURESS 1/1996 ISBN: 0821751964 Regency. A Dangerous Liaison...Miss Diana Brown did what any impoverished beauty would do: She looked for a rich husband. Unfortunately, the one she found was a portly old miser whom she couldn't bear to kiss. Worse, no sooner had Diana accepted his suit than she fell in love...with the dashing Earl of Woodham, who valiantly rescued her from thieving highwaymen just like a hero from a novel. What was a lady betrothed to one man and in a swoon over another to do? A Perilous Desire...Resort to murder? Never! But a poisoned kipper had just finished off her bridegroom, leaving Diana suspected of the crime! Could an innocent miss clear her good name and land the biggest catch of the Upper Ten Thousand: The irresistible Earl of Woodham? Only by risking her pride, her future, her very life and, most of all, her heart.
BRINGING OUT BETSY 12/1994 ISBN:0821747886 Regency. The Duke of Littlefield is broke, so at the request of his family--but against his better instincts--he agrees to sponsor wealthy heiress Betsy Brightman's London season.
FAINT HEART 12/1990 ISBN: 1557734275 Regency. To uncover love in a Proud Heart... Courting Cecily Hammond seemed a hopeless cause for George Asherby. She was the belle of the Season, surrounded by elegant beaux, and intent on making a brilliant match. George had little to recommend him in her eyes -- as her chaperon's awkward country cousin, he boasted neither title nor polish, possessing only sweetness and sincerity... and an uncanny knack for embarrassing himself and upsetting their every encounter. But George was in love, determined to overcome his faint heart -- and win his fair Cecily. He plunged courageously ahead, entangling himself ever further in discouraging situations, until all seemed lost. Yet suddenly, Cecily began to find her sophisticated suitors eclipsed by the charmingly unpredictable George......
THE IMPROPER MISS PRYM 12/1991 ISBN: 1557736359 Regency. After a disastrous first season, Elizabeth Prym left London for her aunt's country estate. The plan was to transform her into a lady of gentility, to turn unremarkable Elizabeth into the belle of her second season. But no one expected her newfound beauty and popularity to go straight to her head! Dangling two rival suitors on a string, she toyed with the ton and played her role to the hilt. Only one man knew the true Elizabeth, the woman behind the powder and pearls. For it was her genuine beauty within that had already captured his heart....
Janette Radcliffe
THE BLUE-EYED GYPSY 5/1974 ISBN:0440014007 Regency
HIDDEN FIRES 5/1978 ISBN:0440106575 Regency. Lovely Deborah Stanton had sacrificed her own happiness to care for another. Now at last she was free....free to follow her heart's desire. Now Morgan Treverly was returning from war. She would know his tender embrace once more....But the newly titled Earl of Treverly sat cloaked in icy indifference. What had become of the warm, passionate man Deborah remembered? Was it too late to regain the rapturous heights.....to rekindle the burning desire that had sustained her through seven years of longing...to reclaim the passion that had once forged a promise of everlasting love?
LORD STEPHEN'S LADY 6/1976 ISBN: 0440097700 Regency
SCARLET SECRETS 1/1977 ISBN: 0440071780 Regency. Spirited young Vivian Lesley and her arrogant guardian, Lord Gilbert Seymour, were equally shocked to learn of each other's secret lives. Lord Gilbert could not condone his well-brought-up young ward's writing lurid novels under another name. And Vivian was enraged at learning that this man who so sternly rebuked her slightest impropriety was actually one of Regency London's most notorious rakes....Vivian vowed that Lord Gilbert would see himself mirrored as the villain her next romance. Lord Gilbert threatened to turn Vivian and her sisters out of his manor house if she dared write another line. Thus the battle between this strong-willed, hot-tempered pair was joined - with neither suspecting the other's most jealously guarded secret of all: the love that was blossoming deep in their secret hearts...
Debbie Raleigh
A BRIDE FOR LORD BRASLEIGH 5/2001 ISBN: 082176814X Regency. Philip Marrow, Lord Brasleigh, has no choice--he must force a lady to marry. He needs to get his troublesome ward, Miss Bella Lowe, off his hands. Finding a willing groom is no problem, but finding Bella is! The disobedient chit-actually a delightful young miss determined to marry for love-has run away to escape the match. Now an exasperated Philip is tracking her down to show her what happens to a foolish woman on her own. Since he has never met Miss Lowe, he plans on playing the role of rogue and scare her back to London. Yet he never expects to ignite a passion he can't control...or find a lady who fights fire with a clever scheme all her own....
A BRIDE FOR LORD CHALLMOND 1/2001 ISBN: 0821767712 Regency. Simon Townsled, Lord Challmond, is off to his Devonshire country estate after the war, where he is sure to be safe from feminine wiles. But he doesn't count on feisty do-gooder Miss Claire Blakewell. Her wealthy papa has threatened to remarry and beget a new heir if Claire doesn't quickly march down the aisle. So Claire pretends to be smitten by Lord Challmond simply to divert her father from his wedding plans. Simon, a veteran of deception himself, is piqued at her audacity. With the skill of a practiced seducer, he sets out to turn the tables. But love is no game-and even a rogue must sometimes surrender...
A BRIDE FOR LORD WICKTON 3/2001 ISBN: 0821767968 Regency. Barth Juston, Earl of Wickton, believes the institution of marriage is simply a business matter. Since he's handsome, wickedly charming, and rich, he assumes a woman would be grateful to accept an arranged marriage with him. What a shock that beautiful Isa Lawford is not! Rebelling against Barth's callous disregard for love, his chosen bride-to-be insists she prefers someone else! Barth is amused...at first. Sure he can win her, he plans a campaign of tricks and ruses. But this overconfident lord is about to enter the most perilous battle of all: a fight for a woman's heart...
A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE 2/2003 ISBN: 0821773755 Regency. Heiress Beatrice Chaswell always said she would marry only for true love. Shy, plump, and possessing little social grace, she fears she'll never find a husband--until fate smiles upon her in the form of the devastatingly handsome Gabriel Baxtor. To Beatrice's astonishment, Gabriel seems enchanted by her every move...and before long, she gladly surrenders her heart--and her hand in marriage. But after the wedding, Beatrice discovers the true motives behind Gabriel's sudden seduction...When Gabriel inherits a crushing family debt, he knows he must wed a woman of wealth to replenish his meager funds. Beatrice Chaswell is the perfect choice--until she learns of the real reasons he took her as a wife. Suddenly, the warm-hearted creature Gabriel had grown fond of becomes cold and distant, even turning his servants against him! Now, to save his marriage, Gabriel must start from the beginning. He must woo Beatrice all over again, and somehow find a way to mend her broken heart...even as he realizes that the lady he married for convenience may be the woman of his dreams.
THE ELUSIVE BRIDE Short Story in A TASTE OF CHRISTMAS 10/2002 ISBN: 0821772880 Regency. Amanda Worthington has no intention of marrying wealthy, annoyingly handsome Lord Barclay in order to cancel her selfish father's gambling debt. Her only hope is to delay the wedding long enough to sell her delicious jam cakes, repay the lord in sterling, and be done with him forever. The canny aristocrat has other intentions. And once he uncovers her game, he devises one of his own where the only prize is the lady's willing heart...
LORD CARLTON'S COURTSHIP 1/2000 ISBN: 0821764632 Regency. Lord Giles Carlton's first encounter with Miss Roma Allendyle had been, to say the least, indelicate. First he rescued her, even as she disguised herself as a grubby lad, from a mysterious ambush. Then he had no choice but to tend to her bullet wound. And now, decked in the very latest London mode, there stood before him that exquisite figure he had seen unclothed. When he learned of her secret search for a vanished brother, an agent of the Crown, Giles was impelled by honor-and nothing more-to offer his masterful assistance to this madcap pint-sized chit. Roma detested behaving like a proper lady, and scorned every dandy who danced attendance on her. Nor was she awed by the Season's prime catch, darkly aquiline Lord Carlton and his imperious interest in her affairs. Why she, who could outride and outshoot any gentleman, was perfectly able to locate her brother alone! But Roma would find in Giles a will to match her own, a passion to rival her fierce pride, and an outlandish stratagem of feigned love that could, for both of them, become too real to resist...
LORD MUMFORD'S MINX 8/2000 ISBN: 0821766732 Regency. When a woman appears at Stanholte Manor, claiming to be the real heir to the family fortune, Miss Cassandra Stanholte determines to prove her a fraud. Cassie´s one clue leads her to the most notorious neighborhood in London where she takes the drastic and dangerous measures of disguising herself as a courtesan. But her plan is hampered by the utterly charming Lord Mumford,. He´s a devilish nuisance, following her in the streets and appearing quite uninvited at her door! Cassie prays he´ll tire of his ridiculous obsession before he discovers the truth...and falls any deeper in love. ...Lord Luke Mumford is bored with his new responsibilities as heir to a ponderous fortune and vast estate. Once life was an endless adventure. Now it is a dull round of meetings and paperwork. Then the rakish earl stumbles upon an elusive and intriguing Cyprian, and suddenly, life seems very exciting indeed. Mumford determines to discover whatever secret the young miss is hiding. What starts out as an exciting game becomes something far more serious when the dashing earl finds he is losing his heart...
THE NAUGHTY KITTEN short story in SPRING KITTENS 3/2000 ISBN: 0821765388 Regency. When a wickedly handsome stranger lands in a ditch and loses his memory, all because of Wellington, Abigail Stadford's mischievous kitten, the least Abby can do is take him in. She's made a habit of nursing strays, but her gentle touch sparks more than healing in the bewitched and befuddled Lord Hugo Mumford.
A PROPER MARRIAGE 10/2002 ISBN: 0821773747 Regency. Coming from a family of gamblers, artists and poets, Adele Morrow has lived an eccentric, free-spirited existence. But her new role as wife to a noted scholar and prominent government member has forced her to conform to a life of dull duty and perfect order. Discarding her vibrant, daring gowns, Addy is outwardly the very model of propriety, though secretly she longs to be carried off by a dashing rogue--the sort of devilish man who could drive her wild with desire...At first, Adam Drake felt quite pleased with himself--he'd managed to turn a wild scrap of a girl into a quiet, unassuming wife who'd be no trouble at all...and no joy. A year later, unhappy and bored, Adam realizes that he has the compliant wife he demanded but desires the uninhibited beauty he once knew. Now, it is Adam's turn to change, and the quiet, conservative scholar will need a great deal of tutoring if he's to become a daring rake who can turn a perfectly proper wife into a very willing woman...
THE VALENTINE WISH 1/2002 ISBN: 0821771701 Regency. Driven to distraction over her feckless father's lawless shenanigans, lovely Emma Cresswell has traveled to Kent to start a new life--far from the glittery, gossip-plagued London ton. But her new job as a lady's companion proves far more difficult than she ever anticipated. For she must tend to the luckless lady and her witless, eccentric relations. And things only get worse when she encounters her employer's raucous, reckless nephew…Cedric, Lord of Hartshore, would rather tend to his farmland than attend social gatherings--and he's far friendlier with fortune tellers and actors than with stiff-necked aristocrats. Yet he somehow senses that beneath Emma Cresswell's conservative veneer lies a soul as passionate as his own. Now, as Valentine's Day approaches, Cedric resolves to look past her prim frocks and proper manners--and into her wild, rebellious heart...
THE WEDDING WISH 4/2002 ISBN: 082177171X Flirtatious Rachel Cresswell is always looking for fun--and so, on a lark, she cooks up a playful plot to seduce the man her aunt intended for her own daughter! To Rachel's delight, her plan meets with success--the good lady is shocked, indeed. As is Rachel when she finds herself striking up a friendship with her young, sheltered cousin, Julia. Rachel is determined to show Julia how grand life can be--and just as determined to keep her sly seduction scheme secret from her new suitor, Anthony Clarke. Having endured personal challenges that could easily have embittered a lesser man, Anthony has proven himself brave, serious, and deeply honorable. Surely if he learned of her rascally ways, he would think Rachel no more than a twit. It's a thought she simply can't countenance. Especially since, with Anthony, she's finally learning what it is to truly love...
Lindsay Randall
A DANGEROUS COURTSHIP 4/1999 ISBN: 0821761846 Regency. Lady Veronica Carstairs formed the secret Venus Society to investigate the most untrustworthy of all creatures--men! Her latest "case" let her onto the windswept Yorkshire moors to intercept a package being left for a rapscallion viscount. Veronica believed the packet contained proof the viscount was betraying his fiancée. But as she approached a deserted abbey, wild dogs picked up her scent. If it weren't for a dark-eyed stranger, this adventurous lady would have been in terrible danger. Julian Masters, known only as "The Riverkeep," prowled the moors like a soul in torment. No one knew he was the seventh Earl of Eve or that he was relentlessly searching for the villains who killed his family. Then a woman of gentle beauty wandered into his lair, threatening to breach the walls around this wounded heart. Why, he demanded, was Veronica on the moors? Who, she wondered, was this lowly Riverkeep to question her? Both hid their secrets, but not the attraction between them. And neither suspected that dangerous currents would soon sweep them into intrigue, and on an unpredictable journey of the heart.
LADY LISSA'S LIAISON 8/1998 ISBN: 0821759574 Regency. Upon the death of her beloved father, Lady Lissa Lovington found herself the heiress to a staggering fortune and the prey of too many eager suitors. Knowing the young men who flocked to Clivedon Manor were interested only in her wealth, the spirited Lady Lovington had no intention of marrying. In a bold hit of deceit, she created the illusion of a liaison with none other than Gideon Gordon, the sixth earl of Wylde, whose reputation was so frightful, no sensible suitor would dare venture where he believed the dangerous Lord Wylde had trod. The last thing Lord Wylde wanted was a romantic attachment, particularly with a lady who so reminded him of a painful past. Just as Lissa hadn't counted on losing her heart to the black-haired Lord Wylde, he hadn't counted on falling in love with the blue-eyed Lady Lovington and discovering her plot to use him! It would take a villain's desperate act and the courage of true lovers to unravel a tangled affair of the heart and find joy everlasting.
MISS MARCIE'S MISCHIEF 1/1995 ISBN: 0821748149 Regency. Running away from school, a mischievous heiress falls for the handsome driver of the London Mail Coach, not realizing that he is really a handsome aristocrat who has disguised himself as a coachman to escape the attentions of marriage-minded young women.
TWO HEARTS TOO WILD 11/1988 ISBN: 0517007215 Renaissance. Brigitta is a blond and beautiful country girl, summoned to attend the princess Thora-Lisa in the magnificent castle Vardighet. Devon is an ebony-haired adventurer, secretly returned to the Sweden of his birth to secure the documents that will entitle him to his inheritance. They meet by chance and clash as adversaries, but the spark struck between them immediately illumines both their hearts. Theirs is a love that has to be, despite the treachery of enemies and the vagaries of fate. Through tragedy, violence and betrayal, from the frozen wastes of Scandinavia to the lush meadows of England, Brigitta and Devon valiantly battle against all odds, on a quest into the past - to ensure the future of their coming dynasty.
Ellen Randolph
THE RUSHDEN LEGACY 1/1986 ISBN: 081614088X Regency. Desperate to discourage an undesirable suitor, Lady Diana Bellrose invents a prior engagement. The name she chooses for her fiance however, is a real one: Baron Rushden. When gossip carries the story to the ears of Rushden himself, the enigmatic Baron decides to let the engagement stand. Soon Diana learns with horror that for 27 generations, every Rushden heir has died before his 30th birthday and the Baron, who has just begun to feel a stirring something like love, is twenty-nine!
Karen Ranney
ABOVE ALL OTHERS 8/1996 ISBN: 0821753770 Regency. The daughter of an impecunious baron - and a woman with few illusions and even fewer assets - Katherine Sanderson has just accepted the position of governess to the infant daughter of the Earl of Moncrief. The notorious, sinfully handsome nobleman has deposited the babe at a crumbling country estate, to be raised by servants. Although it is more than many an aristocrat would do for a child born on the wrong side of the blanket, Katherine disdains his selfish arrogance...even as she finds herself falling beneath his sensual spell... For Freddie Lattimore, Earl of Moncrief, his illegitimate child is a constant reminder of a life he would rather forget. But the exquisite Katherine tempts him as no woman ever has. When he devises a scandalous scheme for conquest, Katherine doesn't merely accept his outrageous proposal, she astonishes him with a passion that exceeds his own...
AFTER THE KISS 10/2000 ISBN: 0380812983 Regency. No longer the proper English wife she always was, Margaret kissed a handsome stranger. Now the dashing earl will not rest until the beautiful widow he held in his arms so briefly is his forever...
A DANCE IN THE DARK short story in AFTER DARK 11/1998 Regency
THE GLENLYON BRIDE short story in SCOTTISH BRIDES ISBN:0380804514. Georgian
Alicia Rasley
THE WILDER HEART short story in VALENTINE'S DAY TANGLE 2/1993 ISBN:0821740504 Regency
Helena Ravenscroft
STAND AND DELIVER 5/1999 ISBN:0352333405 (Erotica) Georgian. 1745, and England is plagued by the lawless. Lydia Hawkesworth feels torn between her love for Drummond, a sea-faring adventurer turned highwayman, and her all-consuming sexual passion for his decadent younger brother Valerian. With the arrival at Hawkesworth Manor of the icy French beauty, Madame de Chaillot, Valerian's plans to usurp his brother's position and steal his inheritance turn down a sinister and darkly erotic path - one which Lydia is drawn to follow.
Ellen Rawlings
A LARCENOUS AFFAIR 10/1991 ISBN:1557735999 Regency
A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT 9/1992 ISBN:155773772X Regency. Of all her many suitors among the ton, Lady Susan Brooke found herself strangely drawn to a man unlike any of the others....Dashing widower Alan Houghton hardly seemed aware of this impulsive beauty, but he was willing to hire her when her headstrong actions caused his governess to quit her post. It was more than an act of graciousness when Susan stepped in to care for Alan's children--for she was undeniably attracted to this kind of steady man who seemed so reluctant to love. But was her heart ready for a true and tender romance?
A SERIOUS PURSUIT 1/1991 ISBN:1557734518 Regency. Wishing to pursue his scientific studies undisturbed, Lord Justin Darvey kept his life simple--and the hiring of charming Elizabeth Hanley as a companion to his elderly aunt seemed just the thing. Elizabeth, too, was intent upon doing her own work...
Angie Ray
A BRIDE MOST COMMON 7/1999 short story in VEILS OF TIME 7/1999 ISBN: 0425169707 Regency
A DELICATE CONDITION 11/1995 ISBN:006108378X Regency. Determined to escape her stepmother's household, Miranda Rembert prayed that her arranged marriage to Lord Huntsley was not a mistake - though in her heart she thought it might be. Once Miranda arrived at Lord Huntsley's home, though, it seemed possible that her outrageous ways and daring schemes might thaw the icy formality that had kept the couple at arm's length since their vows. And yet, there was one aspect of matrimony about which Miranda remained poignantly innocent: the marriage bed. So no one was more shocked than his lordship when his wife made the most astonishing announcement...
GHOST OF MY DREAMS 12/1996 ISBN: 0061083801 Regency. "Dear Mary, Although I arrived here at Helsbury House a week ago, I miss you terribly, my love. I wish we could marry immediately, but it is impossible. Being an earl in this huge old barn of a place is more difficult than I thought it would be. There is one more thing I must tell you-now, promise you won't laugh. I think this house is haunted. Will it bother you to live in a haunted house, Mary? I will protect you from the ghost, I promise. I will hold you in my arms and never leave your side. Especially at night when ghosts are known to roam. Yours, Jason.
A KNIGHT TO CHERISH 9/1999 ISBN: 0515125679 Medieval. Young, prim Francine has everything she wants--a polite, responsible fiancé, a safe, secure accounting job, and a future with no surprises. That is until an eccentric old neighbor gives her a magical charm which propels her back in time. England 1214. Trapped in a brutal time, Francine sets out to change her new world for the better. But to do that she must first overcome Lord Garrick, a brave but barbaric knight who sees her more as a nuisance than as a woman.
MY LADY IN TIME 2/1998 ISBN: 0515122270 Medieval. A 1998 playboy is lured back to 1498 England to prevent Lady Allison Petswroth's marriage to a wretch named Wilfred. To keep his promise to Lady Allison and find his way back to the 20th century--the playboy must prove himself a worthy, honorable knight.
SWEET DECEIVER 5/1995 ISBN: 0061083798 Regency. It was a risky game, spying for English and French intelligence at the same time, but Hester Tredwell would do anything to keep her struggling family out of debtor's prison. But her inventive duplicity was no match for the boldly seductive maneuvers of handsome Nicholas, Marquess of Dartford, however, who awakened both passion and treachery in Hester's own heart. It came as no surprise to Nicholas that the dowdy Miss Tredwell was the devilishly clever double agent who was unwittingly placing England at the mercy of Napoleon's forces. But the closer he drew to apprehending her, the more he hungered to uncover her deepest secrets - and capture a love that could prove to be her downfall.
Francis Ray
THE BARGAIN 11/1995 ISBN: 0821766163 Victorian. A Deal With The Devil... Eccentric heiress Alexandria Carstairs has vowed never to wed. Raised by her father to be independent, she is headstrong, opinionated, and inclined to do exactly as she pleases. So she is outraged to discover she is expected to become the docile and obedient wife of Thorne Blackemore, the notorious Earl of Grayson. ....Or A Marriage Made In Heaven? Thorne Blakemore, a handsome rakehell known as 'The Devil's Angel,' is equally appalled - even after he discovers the wild Carstairs hoyden has grown into a tawney-haired beauty. As the marriage contract is unbreakable, Thorne proposes a bargain that makes Alex his reluctant bride - until one kiss ignites a passion that burns them both with its intensity. Now Thorne must turn a willful rebel into a willing wife...
Jaclyn Reding
CHASING DREAMS 10/1995 ISBN: 0451405595 Renaissance. In a court of deadly intrigue, she was ice. He was flame. They called Cassia Montefort 'Lady Winter' because amid the mad flirtations of the Restoration court, she was the unsullied ice princess who had become a favorite of his majesty, Charles II. No one knew how she suffered at her own father's hand, or of her real reason for meeting with the King. Now Lord Montefort had been murdered, and the jewelled lords and ladies whispered that Cassia, sole heir to his fortune, should hang. Rolfe Brodrigan, Lord Ravenscroft, was sent by royal decree to help clear her name. Brodrigan became a summer wildfire for Lady Winter - maybe a little dangerous, but a relief from royal schemes and deadly secrets. Now beautiful Cassia, cold for so long, began to feel a passion that was warm and healing, a love to save her life...
STEALING HEAVEN 9/1996 ISBN 0451406494 Renaissance. Abducted by greed - rescued by love...Heiress Gillian Forrester found herself on the way to Gretna Green and a forced marriage with a wastrel she despised.
WHITE MAGIC 8/1998 ISBN 0451408551 Regency. A love too magical to resist. Lady Agusta Brierley had decided to live life on her own terms, not the ton's. She did things ladies were forbidden to do; she shunned society; she studied the stars. But was she the temptress who had lured Lord Noah Edenhall's best friend to his death? Her seal was on the envelope Noah found in the dead man's hand, her initial on the letter that provoked the tragedy. Noah knew how deceptive women could be; he had been wounded by their tender lies. Yet nothing could have prepared him for Lady Agusta - or the instant attraction that soon ignited in a desire that branded his very soul. And Agusta never imagined an encounter like the one with Noah...his fiery anger, his brazen kiss, his lingering touch. But this lovely young innocent had her own secrets...secrets that threatened her future with the magnificent nobleman who had swept into her life demanding revenge - and awakening her heart to a love she passionately yearned to fulfill.
Reed - Donnelly - Holden
MY SWEET VALENTINE 2/2002 ISBN: 0821771841 Regency
Joy Reed
ANNE'S WISH 5/2001 ISBN: 0821768107 Regency. Legend predicts that when a lady gazes into the old wishing well of Honeywell House, she will see the reflection of the man she is destined to love. Now, as a heartbroken miss and a gallant gentleman enter into matrimony in Regency England, they discover that convenience can become a passionate necessity. Anne Barrington's hopes for escaping an unhappy life in the court of Queen Charlotte are shattered when the young courtier she loves jilts her for an heiress. Her devastation is witnessed by James, Lord Westland, who - moved by her fragile, ethereal beauty - offers marriage as a solution to both of their dilemmas: Anne is desperate to leave the Queen's service; James needs a wife to provide him with an heir. As the new mistress of Honeywell House, Anne finds her days and nights filled with romantic wonder in the arms of her new husband. But misunderstandings and jealous rivals soon threaten her newfound happiness - and only fate can decide if true love will be the victor.
A CAT BY ANY OTHER NAME short story in MAGICAL KITTENS 9/2000 ISBN: 0821766910 . Miss Miranda Strong Believes herself destined for spinsterhood. The only comfort she finds is from Tom, the golden--eyed kitten that was given to her by a wise village woman who everyone claims is a witch. But when she loses Tom, she finds the most unexpected treasure in Lord Longworth.
CATHERINE'S WISH 7/2000 ISBN: 0821766457 Regency. Miss Catherine Summerfield is a lady with a scandalous past for whom no gentleman will offer. Longing for a chance at love and happiness, she takes a secret peek into the waters of an old wishing well one magical night. Never did she imagine to see the handsome face of Lord Meredith--already engaged to her closest friend--reflected in the waters. However, this was no mere apparition, but the gentleman himself in the flesh. And before she could even protest, she found herself in his arms, responding to his lingering kisses. But Catherine and Lord Meredith both know their union can never be--unless a twist of fate intervenes and makes both of their wishes come true.
THE CHRISTMAS BEAU short story in A CHRISTMAS COURTSHIP 11/1996 ISBN: 0821754645 Regency. A rugged Highlander turns the holidays--and the heart--of a London debutante upside down when he comes between her and her fashionable suitor.
THE DUKE AND MISS DENNY 7/1998 ISBN: 0821759310 Regency. Some might disapprove, given the difference in rank, but the Duke of Ashland was charmed by Miss Judith Denny's beauty, serenity, and quite reserved. Now refreshing to meet a young lady who refrained from throwing her cap at him. Whether dancing with Miss Denny at Almack's or enjoying a Venetian breakfast with her, Ashland found himself to be completely captivated. But Miss Denny believed his grace to be far beyond her touch and vowed to govern her heart, little knowing that her seeming indifference would only fan the flames of the duke's adore. Between Judith's natural modesty and the ladies of the ton who were after Ashland's title, these two willful hearts were caught up in a reckless and whimsical game that could only be called love...
EMILY'S WISH 11/2000 ISBN: 0821767135 Regency. Desperately fending off the advances of her late employer's nephew, Miss Emily Pearce fears she may have killed the man and flees into the night. Stumbling across the grounds of Honeywell House, she looks into the old wishing well-and is stunned to see the face of a handsome gentleman reflected back. No ghostly vision, it is Honeywell House's summer tenant, celebrated author Sir Terrence O'Reilly, who catches her as she faints into his arms! Drawn to this captivating beauty and her mystery, he offers he a position as his secretary. But as their passion blossoms, so does a merry chase of wits and wild hearts. For despite the unexpected arrival of his former fiancée, Sir Terrence's only desire is to convince Emily she is the true heroine of the greatest love story of all- their own.
AT FIRST SIGHT short story in MY SWEET VALENTINE 2/2002 ISBN: 0821771841 - Regency. Miss Phoebe Fairchild's intricately laid plans to have Mr. Randolph Harris be the first man she sees on Valentine's Day--thus becoming her future husband--are crushed when a handsome stranger opens her eyes...and her heart...
HUSSAR'S KISSES short story in SWEET DELIGHTS 9/1999 ISBN: 0821763245 Regency. After enjoying a successful London season, the news that Hussar Captain Lawrence Westmoreland is returning a hero from Waterloo sets Camilla Leslie's heart aflutter. For it was this gallant soldier who left her without an expected proposal. It will take more than a plate of her delicious confections, known as Hussar's kisses, to settle matters between them. Though a kiss from a real Hussar makes an excellent beginning.
AN INCONVENIENT ENGAGEMENT 1/1994 ISBN: 082175839X Regency. Two could play this game! Miss Rebecca Wentworth was furious when she saw her betrothed waltzing with another woman. Deciding that what sauce for the gander was sauce for the goose, she resolved to make him jealous - by flirting with the handsomest man at the ball. But when Rebecca coyly dropped her fan at the feet of the rakish Earl of Stanford, she suddenly found herself gazing into a pair of eyes so magnetically attractive that her errant fiancé was soon utterly forgotten....John Collingwood, Earl of Stanford, knew exactly what the enticing honey-haired Miss Wentworth was up to--and the "wicked" nobleman was only too happy to play along. But when the powerful passion flaring between them led to a compromising situation, he behaved as any gentleman would and made a proper proposal. It wasn't just a matter of honor--he had gone and lost his heart to the incomparable Rebecca. But before she could accept his devotion, they would face a storm of gossip that threatened to end their romance before it scarcely had begun!
LORD CALDWELL AND THE CAT 10/1999 ISBN: 0821763563 Regency. Victor, Lord Caldwell, couldn't believe his ears. To be berated in such fashion by the owner of a smug ginger tomcat who had just set upon his faithful hunting hound! A paragon of manhood, Victor possessed one flaw - he disliked cats. And his charitable visit to the new tenant of his estate cottage turned even more awry when he assured the irate lady he expected no rent due to her sudden reduced circumstances. The lovely but proud Miss Catherine Everhart, whose fiery temper and red locks matched her pet's, thought that the height of condescension Now the fur began to fly when the hapless but obstinate lord became determined not to let this exasperating female - and her frisky feline - thwart his benevolence. But never did he dream their battle of wits would touch a chord so tender that purrfect bliss with Catherine might depend on his courtship of a contentious ginger cat!
LORD WYLAND TAKES A WIFE 10/1997 ISBN: 0821757679 Regency. She had thought him an incorrigible wastrel, a man deserving of her contempt. Instead, Mary Grant found the new Lord Wyland to be fair, just-and handsome. He offered her everything she wanted to stay on at Wyland Manor to help him put his affairs in order. Then he offered marriage to keep her by his side, and Mary instantly accepted. Even though he had never mentioned the word love... Wyland thought he'd married a woman whose virtue and beauty outshone the rest. But was Mary what she seemed-or merely a fortune hunter who was cleverer than most? All he wanted was a woman who wanted him for himself. But did his reticent bride love him? And how could he convince her that theirs was no marriage of convenience, but a match made between two loving hearts...?
MIDSUMMER MOON 2/1997 ISBN: 0821755757 Regency. No one had really taken notice of Miss Jane Reynolds before. Although she was an heiress, her quiet life with a widowed aunt had left her on the shelf at six-and-twenty. Now she was spending the summer with her irrepressible cousin Cynthia in the country, a poky place with nary a suitor in sight...until two very eligible gentlemen arrived. Roger Manfred, just from Oxford, was handsome and possessed of great charm. Sir George Overton, one of the most fashionable Pinks of the ton, soon had the women all aflutter. Naturally Jane assumed they'd be courting Cynthia. Yet Sir George seemed quite taken with...plain Jane! But when the night of the Masquerade arrived, Sir George scarcely recognized the sophisticated beauty who danced into his arms for an elegant quadrille. For, with her blue eyes sparkling, her raven hair cascading down her shoulders, and a costume that displayed her lovely figure to perfection, Jane was the undisputed belle of the ball. A smitten nobleman well on his way to losing his heart didn't stand a chance...or did he?
MINCE PIE AND MISTLETOE Short Story in A TASTE OF CHRISTMAS 10/2002 ISBN: 0821772880 Regency. Ellen Roswell is far too sensible to believe her mother's tradition--that serving mince pie at Christmas brings good fortune--but she is happy to assist in the holiday shopping. While walking through her snowy village, Ellen finds a guinea on the street and begins an adventure in generosity that leads to a mysterious stranger with romance on his mind. And where luck leads, can love be far behind?
MISS CHAMBERS TAKES CHARGE 4/2000 ISBN: 0821765817 Regency. Pretty of face but plain of lineage, Miss Claudia Chambers is compelled to take a position as companion to Lady Rexford, a widow who is trying to hold on to her dowager’s inheritance against the wishes of her husband’s relatives, who believe her to be a fortune hunter. Claudia must accompany her to Yorkshire, where she comes into contact with their most prodigious opponent Lord Rexford, Lady Rexford’s dark, ruggedly handsome nephew and heir to the estate. Though secretly enamored of Claudia’s spirit, Lord Rexford makes her blood boil with his disrespect of her elderly companion. Tossing her lovely head, Claudia vows to ignore the intriguing, but infuriating, lord even if it may be at her peril. For soon she’ll have dire need of Rexford--and he of her--in a circumstance that could kindle love between the most contentious of hearts and the most mismatched of fortunes.
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