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Amanda Scott
AN AFFAIR OF HONOR 9/1984 ISBN:0451131606 Regency. Eleanor met the man who had been selected as Aurora's perfect match--the handsome, wealthy Philip Radford, Earl of Huntley. And Eleanor discovered that though she might be old enough to be wise, she was still young enough to fall foolishly, helplessly, and hopelessly in love.
BATH CHARADE 7/1991 ISBN: 0451169948 Regency. Miss Carolyn Hardy adored novels of the most romantic sort - and longed for a man to equal their dashing heroes. With her beauty and charm, Carolyn had a swan of suitors to search among. There was the wealthy Brandon Manningford. The rakish Viscount Lyndhurst. The daunting Duke of Cumberland. And most handsome and romantic of all, an actual gypsy prince who called himself only Salas. How eager Carolyn was to find her heart's desire. How willing she was to risk danger to do it. How angry she was at her guardian, the elegant Sydney Saint-Denis, for trying to keep her in check. And how little did she realize how much more startling and wonderful true love could be than romantic fiction.
THE BATH ECCENTRIC'S SON 2/1992 ISBN:0451171705 Regency. After losing her family estate to her distant cousin Jarvis, Nell flees to Bath to escape Jarvis' marriage offer and meets a rake who wants to be saved from ruin by marrying her. Now she's caught between a ruthless scoundrel who's stolen her birthright and a shameless libertine who's stolen her heart.
THE BATH QUADRILLE 1/1991 ISBN: 0451168755 Regency. Lovely Lady Sybilla Calverton refused to show her rage when she spied her husband, the devastatingly attractive Earl of Ramsbury, in the arms of notorious Lady Fanny Mandeville. Instead Sybilla chose to show the errant Earl that she, too, could wander beyond the bounds of wedlock, in the close company of the elegant Sydney Saint-Denis. The spirited Sybilla and the masterful Ramsbury were in a contest to surpass each other in scandal - with their unyielding pride at stake, and nothing to lose but their undying love...
THE BAWDY BRIDE 9/1995 ISBN: 0786001828 Regency. An arranged marriage has just made Anne Davies the bride of Lord Michael St. Ledgers - a man she scarcely knows. Accompanying her new husband to The Priory, his ancestral estate, she finds herself embroiled in a world of intrigue and adventure. Who is responsible for the mysterious events there - including the suspicious death of St. Ledger's brother, the duke? Are Anne's near-fatal brushes with fate the random events they seem, or is there something more sinister going on at her new home? And is the man she married the perfect gentleman she's tempted to love, or something darker and far more dangerous?
DANGEROUS GAMES 6/1996 ISBN: 0786002700 Regency. When Nicholas Barrington, eldest son of the Earl of Ulcombe, first met Melissa Seacourt, he suspected something was amiss. The desperation he sensed beneath her well-bred beauty haunted him. He didn't realize how desperate Melissa really was...until he found her again at a Newmarket gambling club - being auctioned off by her father to the highest bidder. So, for a mere twenty thousand guineas, Nick bought himself a wife. But their troubles were just beginning. With a villain hot on their heels, and a fortune - and their lives - hanging in the balance, Nick and Melissa would soon gamble everything on the most dangerous and irresistible game of all: their growing love.
DANGEROUS LADY 2/1999 ISBN: 0821761137 Victorian. Accompanied by her chaperone, dresser, and pet monkey, Lady Letitia Deverill had arrived in London to take up her new duties as maid of honor to queen Victoria. Loyalty to her Majesty came above all. So when Letitia unexpectedly inherited an elegant house in Mayfair, inhabited by two eccentric gentlewomen, she vowed she would not let her windfall distract her. She didn't care that everyone else at court ignored her because she was a Tory - or that Viscount Raventhorpe was the most intriguing - and interfering - gentleman she'd ever met. She was too accustomed to her independence to accept unsolicited advice...and from a Whig no less! But when Letty's mischievous monkey uncovers the secrets of her inheritance, she has no choice but to turn to Raventhorpe for help. And even as Letty and Raventhorpe scramble to avert a scandal that threatens their growing passion, they must join forces to thwart a sinister plot against their young queen - and save a love that could only be called dangerous...
HIGHLAND SPIRITS 10/1999 ISBN: 0821763431 Georgian. He was the darkly handsome man who haunted Pinkie MacCrichton's dreams since childhood, a ghost who wandered the woods with his deerhound near her brother's Highland castle. Over the years, Pinkie's imagination had endowed her apparition with many virtues, so that he had become the perfect man against whom she judged all others. But then Pinkie travelled to England for her London Season—and encountered a brooding stranger to whom she felt a compelling attraction. Michael Mingary, Earl of Kintyre, was disturbed by the shy Campbell heiress, and bedevilled by his own troubling dreams of a ghostly Scottish castle. But he couldn't afford to be distracted from his family's crushing debt to the Campbells. An arranged marriage between his sister and Pinkie's wealthy brother seemed the only way out, until Pinkie made an outrageous proposal of her own to this man she barely knew—gambling everything on a magnificent dream of love.
THE INDOMITABLE MISS HARRIS 11/1983 ISBN:0451125622 Regency. The immensely wealthy and powerful Marquis of Landover was fiercely determined that his innocent but audacious ward Miss Gillian Harris, should not stray into the scandal that her adventurous spirit courted in the sophisticated circles of Regency London. For her part, Gillian was just as determined to guard her guardian against the designs of the bevy of gold-hungry beauties who had made the Marquis the most sought-after prospective bridegroom in the aristocratic marriage mart. But when this lord who would brook no defiance, and this young lady who would not be restrained, each set out to protect the other from temptation and seduction, one question still remained: Did either have the power to prevent the ultimate folly of falling in love...?
Regina Scott
THE BLUESTOCKING ON HIS KNEE 5/1999 ISBN: 0821762095 Regency. Wealthy heiress Eugennia Welch thought herself perfectly content, living alone with her treasured books. So why, pray, did she find herself wishing for companionship--male companionship at that? Then, as if in answer to her prayer, Kevin Whattling strode into her drawing room, announcing his intention of marrying her. And once the handsome suitor began to court her, Eugennia soon understood the charms of proper romance...even though she suspected Kevin loved her fortune more than he did her. Dashing Kevin knew that marriage to an heiress was all that stood between him and Debtor's Prison. Soon, however, he found Eugennia's reserved demeanor masked an enchanting young woman who took a childlike delight in shopping with him for fripperies, and a womanly fascination in waltzing in his arms. He never expected to find love with Eugennia. Until he lost his heart to her...
CATCH OF THE SEASON 11/1999 ISBN: 0821763903 Regency. The beautiful and strong-willed Allison Munroe has long awaited her Season in London. Vowing to show her family, who believes her high spirits are signs of immaturity, that she can be just as demure as the next young debutante, Allison will let nothing ruin her coming out ball…including the arrival of her sister’s brother-in-law, the infuriating Geoffrey Pentercast. Yet instead of behaving like the less-than-proper boy she remembers from her childhood, Geoffrey seems to have become a gentleman! But with the charming and distinguished Marquis courting her, how could she even be tempted to choose the rash--but very thrilling--Geoffrey? Geoffrey Pentercast thought he would never have to witness his own dear Allison displaying herself like a prize mare in front of a host of crotchety suitors--all possessing more wealth and class than he. It was no surprise to Geoffrey that Allison was indeed the catch of the season. But he was not about to let his lack in finances and social graces deter him from winning the only lady he’d ever loved…even when he learns he has a most formidable opponent. Determined to prove he can be as respectable and gallant as the Marquis DeGuis, a bitter rivalry ensues. Yet Geoffrey and the Marquis soon discover that their efforts to woo Allison are all in vain. For only true love will win this duel of hearts…
A DANGEROUS DALLIANCE 5/2000 ISBN: 0821766090 Regency. David Tenant, a Boston-bred master of fine leatherwork, has just unexpectedly inherited the rather sizable English estate of Brentfield Court--and a conniving widow in the process. For Lady Sylvia Tenant is determined to control the fortune of her late husband…even if that means bringing home her seventeen-year-old niece Priscilla in hopes that the new earl will woo her. But David has eyes only for Priscilla’s art teacher and guardian, the lovely Miss Hannah Alexander…When Hannah, who eschewed marriage for the life of a painter and tutor, is required to escort a pupil to Brentfield, she meets the kind-hearted Lord Tenant. In private, she sketches his portrait so that she will always have a remembrance of the handsome man she can never have. But when she agrees to aid David in his search for missing art heirlooms, she enters into a partnership as perilous to her life as it is to her heart…
THE INCOMPARABLE MISS COMPTON 8/2001 ISBN: 082176991X Regency. Tired of being beholden to relatives, Sarah Compton jumped at the chance to gain a life of her own--even if, in exchange, she had to guide her beautiful, headstrong cousin through the SeasonS and into a successful marriage. But Sarah never expected that her unconventional ways would attract the eminently proper Lord Malcolm Breckonridge--and challenge her heart in surprising ways. To augment his fast-rising political career, Malcolm wanted a bride who would surpass the most exacting standards. But from the moment he encountered the passionately intelligent, straightforward Miss Compton, he discovered his sudden desire for her was casting doubt on all he believed in. Now, between misunderstanding and near-scandal, he and Sarah would have to break their own rules to embrace a perfect true love that would last forever.
THE IRREDEEMABLE MISS RENFIELD 12/2001 ISBN: 0821769928 Regency. With her older sisters miserable in their carefully arranged marriages to wealthy, titled gentlemen, Miss Cleopatra Renfield has vowed to wed only for love, passion, and thrilling excitement. Her family has proposed an arranged match to Leslie Petersborough, Marquis of Hastings, which simply will not do. But the mischievous miss has a daring plan to convince her family that Les Petersborough is really a rogue--and that she is unmarriageable. All she has to do is persuade Les to help. Always ready for merriment and certainly not ready to settle down, Les thinks Cleo's plan sounds terribly amusing. Her scheme? He is to lead her into the life of a libertine in the hope that her family will call off the nuptials. Soon Cleo has cut her hair, joined in a horse race, and danced the waltz. The ton is abuzz, Les is amused, and Cleo? She has succeeded all too well, for her reputation is in danger...but so is her heart.
THE JUNE CONSPIRACY short story in HIS BLUSHING BRIDE 5/2001 ISBN:0821768158. Regency.
LORD BORIN'S SECRET LOVE 5/2002 ISBN: 0821772791 Regency. Katherine Collings has never been more distressed. With no means and few prospects, she is financially beholden to her stepsister, Constance, who stands to inherit a large fortune--if she marries before she turns twenty. Fearing for her own future, Katherine decides to play matchmaker, and begins to spy on Alexander Wescott, Lord Borin, the object of her stepsister's devoted affection. A man of the world, Alex has always been more interested in becoming a spy than in taking a wife. So imagine his shock when he discovers that someone has been spying on him! Determined to prove his talent for subterfuge, he makes it his mission to track down the culprit. But he's puzzled when the trail of clues leads him straight to the Collings' household…and delighted when it leads him into the arms of beautiful Katherine.
THE MARQUIS' KISS 10/2000 ISBN: 0821767054 Regency. Thomas, the decorous Marquis de Guis, is considered the catch of the season. Only he knows that two of his brides-to-be have cried off when he sealed the bargain with a kiss. Now, bent on marriage but certain he can never conquer a lady's lips, this all-too-proper paragon has chosen a miss he's sure cannot reject him--impoverished, eccentric Margaret Munroe. But the lord will find there's more to learn along the road to love and matrimony than the perfect kiss. They don't call her an Original for nothing. Lovely, lively Margaret flouts convention by racing her horses and working ceaselessly to help fallen women. She cannot believe the rich and reserved Thomas--whose sea-blue eyes dizzy her with desire--truly cares for her. Yet he seems quite besotted…except for a steadfast refusal to kiss her. How can she entice him into the impassioned love she hopes--nay, intends!--to be theirs for eternity?
A PLACE BY THE FIRE short story in MISTLETOE KITTENS 11/1999 082176303 Regency.
SWEETER THAN CANDY short story in A MATCH FOR MOTHER 4/1999 ISBN: 0821761854 Regency.
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS 12/1998 ISBN: 0821760734 Regency. Genevieve Munroe was the toast of the town until her father's death left the family destitute. Now she's hoping for one last happy Yuletide at Wenwood Abbey, and a season of peace with their ever-feuding neighbors, the Pentercasts. But Gen's good will is strained when Squire Alan Pentercast, the object of her secret tendre since childhood years, proposes a bold wager: if he can contrive to send her; on each day of Christmas, the exact gift celebrated in the old song (without spending a penny!) he will claim her as his bride. Such arrogant folly...! In no time at all the peace of a country Christmas--and Genevieve's heart--is turned upside down by birds and rings, drummers and pipers, and a generous helping of old scandal and new intrigue, before the romantic and insistent Alan can draw Gen beneath the mistletoe...
THE UNFLAPPABLE MISS FAIRCHILD 3/1998 ISBN: 0821758721 Regency. From outrageous wagers to somersaults in the Park, Chas Prestwick delighted in shocking the ton. After all, as the younger brother of an earl, he had nothing to lose. Only Miss Anne Fairchild, whom fate seemed bent on thrusting in his path, was unruffled by his escapades--even when a chance encounter made her his passenger in a wild carriage race to Kew Gardens. But Chas, entranced by her beauty, was far from complaining! Except that this angel, whose good sense rescued him from scrape after scrape, might be on the hunt for a titled bridegroom--which made him no catch at all...From pompous to vain, the most unsuitable suitors courted Anne Fairchild. Tolerant of all foibles, unschooled in flirtation, she was the despair of her family. Worst of all, only Chas Prestwick's dazzling smile could bring a blush to her demure cheek--and Anne's match-making aunts soon made clear their preference for a more lordly and less dashing husband. But beneath Anne's polite exterior, her heart beat only for the handsome rakehell who made her long to trade in a life of propriety--for one that promised to a love filled with unpredictable delight...
UTTERLY DEVOTED 8/2002 ISBN: 0821772821 Regency. Thanks to the kind ministrations of her dearest friend, spirited Eloise Watkin has been transformed into the perfect lady--radiant, alluring, and ever-so-slightly mysterious. Now she has a coterie of ardent admirers and every hope of making a splendid match…unless, that is, someone finds out about a certain scandalous episode in her past. But wicked Jareth Darby, the shameless rogue who led her astray, is safely out of the country, or so Eloise thinks, until he suddenly turns up--as impossibly handsome as ever--and intent on renewing their acquaintance. Jareth Darby cannot resist the deal proffered by his upstanding brother: an estate and the fortune to maintain it will be his if he can gain the forgiveness of every woman he's ever wronged! Jareth sets out to charm each one of them and meets with his usual success, until he approaches Eloise Watkin. All grown up and damnably beautiful, the green-eyed minx makes it perfectly clear that Jareth will have to earn every ounce of her clemency But what Jareth doesn't foresee is that the day will come when he'll want far more from Eloise than her pardon…he'll want her love.
Margaret SeBastian
BYWAY TO LOVE 5/1980 ISBN:0449500446 Regency. Lovely young Sophie Sandringham knew whom she wanted to wed--Oliver Grantford, her childhood sweetheart. Happily, Oliver shared her desire. One obstacle stood in their path: Oliver's father, whose threat to strip Oliver of funds and future prospects stopped Oliver in his tracks--and spurred Sophie into action. With her twin sister Sarah, Sophie stole out of London on a mission to turn an aristocratic ogre into a doting father-in-law only to have her journey take a devilish turn with consequences no one could have predicted.
DILEMMA IN DUET 11/1979 ISBN:0449500039 Regency. It was difficult to say who was the more beautiful and enchanting--Sophie Sandringham or her sister Sarah. In fact, it was quite impossible. For Sophie and Sarah were as lovely a pair of identical twins as ever baffled their suitors, bewildered Regency society, and wreaked havoc with the rules of romance in a game of delightful deception that could win them their hearts' desires...Or else leave them playing double solitaire forever...
A KEEPER FOR LORD LINFORD 2/1982 ISBN:0449502716 Regency. When Lady Gordon's lovely daughter, Ancilla made up her mind, it was most difficult to change it. And that spirited female had decided that young Lord Linford was an incompetent, graceless fool. As for Lord Linford, he had decided that Ancilla was a strange and enigmatic female, and promised himself to ignore her existence. But both of them had reckoned without the rascally and dashing Captain Wildish, who would stop at nothing to marry an heiress. When he decided to marry Ancilla, Lord Linford made some plans of his own...
MISS KEATING'S TEMPTATION 12/1981 ISBN:0449502260 Regency. Obtaining a voucher to Almack's was about as easy as obtaining an audience with the Queen. And the ladies in charge were about as merciful as dragons. But Miss Keating, whose heart quickened at mere thought of attending, managed a bit of fancy footwork and maneuvered her way in. Once there, she found herself the victim of a curious scandal. She also discovered Lord Blayde in the process, which was well worth her disgrace...
THE PLIGHT OF PAMELA POLLWORTH 12/1980 ISBN:0449501191 Regency. For want of a cook true love was stirred. Actually, it was for a French chef that the lovely and honorable Pamela Pollworth was hunting. Since her family had moved to London they would be deeply embarrassed if they did not have a French chef in residence. that is why Pamela decided to call upon the Duke of Pevensey.
Maura Seger
FOREVERMORE 5/1994 ISBN: 0061081620 Renaissance. The mystical stones of Avebury. In a time of swashbuckling daring and deadly danger, one man and one woman confronted a mystery of the ages, William Devereaux Faulkner, warrior and diplomat, was sent to investigate a series of murders in the seemingly bucolic English village of Avebury. It was there he found Sarah Huxley, a prim and proper spinster. But Faulkner soon learned that there was another Sarah, one linked by an unbroken line to Avebury's distant past, and the covenant forged there between the earth and her children. In fire and magic, life and death, Sarah and Faulkner risked everything to discover the truth about the danger stalking Avebury and about themselves, a truth only love could reveal.
FORTUNE'S TIDE 5/1990 ISBN:0380753391 American Revolution. England 1771-America has lost her noble fight for freedom...A spirited Irish beauty, fleeing the slums of Dublin,enters London high society posing as a Boston socialite. A daring privateer embarks on a deadly mission to rescue America's captive rebels. Two fiery souls tossed together on the raging tides of revolution.
TAPESTRY 4/1993 ISBN: 0061080187. Medieval. An aristocratic Saxon woman loses her heart to the Norman man who rules her conquered people. Lady Aveline lives quietly in a Saxon convent designing tapestries until she falls desperately in love with a man who should be her enemy, Renard d'Agounville, the Norman high sheriff of Medieval London.
VEIL OF PASSION 12/1996 ISBN: 0451406214. Medieval. Lord Hugh of Castlerock, England's most feared knight, strode along the high battlements above the wild west coast of Britain. Yearning to join the great struggle brewing in the land, he fought the raging sea instead - to rescue a maiden from the waves. A woman mysterious, Irish, and so lovely she became the tempest in his soul. Fionna O'Riordan escaped the water only to land in fire - the burning desire of a brooding lord who didn't trust her. She became tried to Sir Hugh by strands of fate spun long ago, a convergence of myth and destiny that would take them both into a maelstrom of treachery, where murder would stain the English crown with blood. Where love could save their lives. And where, in joining their valiant hearts, they could save a kingdom - and a dream.
VEIL OF SECRETS 2/1996 ISBN: 0451406206. Medieval. When Conan, Baron of Wyndham, is sent by the Queen of England to investigate the brutal murder of a monk, he discovers the accused is a lady of mystery and fire. She is Alianor of the Lake, gifted with a healing touch -- or is it witchcraft? And as they search for the ultimate truth -- with Alianor's life hanging in the balance -- these unlikely lovers find their growing attraction may well be as dangerous as the mysterious killer they seek.
Ana Seymour
LADY OF LYONSBRIDGE 7/2000 ISBN: 0373291205. Medieval. Men wanted one thing -- and noblewomen had no choice. Certainly her forced betrothal did nothing to convince Lady Alyce Sherborne otherwise. Would that she could choose HOW to live her life -- and with WHOM! But given that freedom, would she turn down the subtly seductive Sir Thomas? The man who'd secured a king's ransom -- AND taken her heart in the bargain? Women he was learning, were dangerous -- and of that lesson, there could be no better teacher than the deceptively sweet, distractingly beautiful Lady Alyce. Truly she was a maid who bore watching -- and Thomas Brand was only too happy to keep his eyes EVER upon her!
LORD OF LYONSBRIDGE 8/1999 ISBN: 0373290721. Medieval. Determined to successfully manage the castle so newly in her care, Ellen Wakelin carried out her duties with ruthlessness. Yet she could not help seeking out the company of Connor Brand, for it was only with the mysterious horse master that she could let down her guard and be her true self. The moment he discovered Ellen Wakelin in his room, Connor knew the new mistress of Lyonsbridge would be trouble. And as the former lord, the current horse master now had a problem even more pressing than regaining his heritage - for the raven-haired beauty was driving him to distraction.
MOONRISE(#290) 10/1995 ISBN: 0373288905 Renaissance. Mistress Sarah Fairfax was playing a dangerous game, for she had sworn to fight back against the injustices done to her people, a vow that had made her an enemy of the formidable Lord Rutledge, and put at risk not only her freedom, but her guarded heart, as well. Lord Anthony Rutledge knew he would soon catch the thief who had brought his wealthy countrymen to their knees, for he was a man who loved a challenge...and Sarah Fairfax was fast proving that her enchanting beauty hid as many secrets as the north country moors.
THE ROGUE 2/2000 ISBN: 0373290993. Medieval. He swore he was a changed man. When Nicholas Hendry returned safe from the Crusades, he vowed he would no longer woo every comely wench in the shire. But he hadn't counted on the fiery charms of the innkeeper's daughter, Beatrice Thibault. A young miss with no room in her life --- or her heart --- for him! If Beatrice Thibault had her way, Nicholas Hendry would never learn of the son he had sired. Indeed, the man was more knave than knight in her eyes --- no matter how winning his ways or warm his smile, she would never succumb to his charms..
Colleen Shannon
THE GENTLE BEAST 10/1996 ISBN: 0505521431 Georgian. Raised amid bountiful wealth and enlightened ideas, Callista Raleigh was more than a match for the radicals, rakes and reprobates who railed against England's King George III. Then a sudden reversal of fortune brought into her life a veritable brute who craved revenge against her family almost as much as he hungered for her kiss. And even though her passionate foe concealed his face behind a hideous mask, Callista believed he was merely a man, with a man's strengths and appetites. But when the love-starved stranger swept her away to his secret lair, Callista realized that wits and reason weren't enough to conquer him -- she'd need a desire both satisfying and true if beauty were to tame the beast.
PRINCE OF KISSES 5/1997 ISBN: 0505522004 Victorian. The Princess: Daughter of wealth and privilege, lovely Charlaine Kimball was known to Victorian society as the Ice Princess. But when a brash intruder dared to take a king's ransom in jewels from her private safe, indignation burned away her usual cool reserve. And when the handsome rogue presumed to steal a kiss from her untouched lips, forbidden longing set her soul ablaze. The Frog: Illegitimate son of a penniless Frenchwoman, Devlin Rhodes was nothing but a lowly bounder of the British aristocrats who snubbed him. But his leapfrogging ambition engaged him in a dangerous game. Now he would have to win Charlaine's hand in marriage -- and have her begging for the kiss that would awaken his heart and transform him into the man he was always meant to be.
SURRENDER THE NIGHT 7/1992 ISBN: 0515107301 Regency. Fleeing Devon Cavanaugh, the man who rescued and seduced her, Katrina Lawson hides from him in a Cornish village, but when poverty reduces her to a life of smuggling, she realizes she must return to Devon.
WILD HEART TAMED 6/1986 ISBN: 0441888135 Leanna, kidnapped and sent to a brothel in London, found herself with Jason Blaine, an American attempting to right a wrong and foil Sir Gavin Redfern's vicious scheme. The adventure follows them to Georgia where their wild hearts are entwined forever together.
THE WOLF OF HASKELL HALL 1/2001 ISBN: 0505524120 Victorian. Forbidden desires. With the coming of the moon wild happenings disturbed the seaswept peace of Haskell Hall. And for the newest heiress, deep longing mingled with still deeper fear. Never had she been so powerfully drawn to a man as she was to Ian Griffith, with his secretive amber eyes and tightly leashed sensuality. Awash in the seductive moonlight of his tower chamber, she bared herself to his fierce passions. But had she freed a tormented soul with her loving gift or loosed a demon who hunted unsuspecting women as his prey?
Juliette Shapiro
EXCESSIVELY DIVERTED, The Sequel To Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice 9/2002 ISBN: 1589392647 Regency. Newlyweds Mr and Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy begin their married life at Pemberley quite blissfully, but it is not long before the tranquility they relish is cut short by a series of traumas. The formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh makes little attempt to hide her disdain for her nephew's wife. She is joined by Caroline Bingley, as sharp tongued and resentful as ever, in the shared amusement of criticizing Elizabeth. But the new mistress of Pemberley soon has more pressing matters on her mind, the fact that she is carrying the Darcy heir being the most pleasant of them. The sudden return of her sister Lydia brings cause for concern. Alarming reports of a seduction, blackmail and the need to keep news of another's confinement secret dampen even Elizabeth's notoriously high spirits and Darcy shows his true character when faced with the most difficult decision of his life. Has he been softened by his love for Elizabeth or is his former remoteness about to be resurrected?
Francesca Shaw
A COMPROMISED LADY 5/1999 ISBN:0373303262 Regency
THE UNCONVENTIONAL MISS DANE ISBN:0373303645 Regency. A dashing neighbor and a stolen kiss…Antonia Dane had returned to her recently inherited family home, Rye End Hall, to discover that the house and surrounding grounds were in a horrendous state of disrepair. Her neighbor, Lord Marcus Allington, offered to buy the grounds, and Antonia was tempted--until he kissed her! She would not sell her precious land to such a man! But eccentric Antonia found herself having to accept Marcus’s support when she decided to rent her home--and put up with his relentless pursuit of her. But Antonia soon realized that she probably meant nothing to Marcus at all when lady Reed arrived in Hertfordshire…
Kathern Shaw
A DISTANT SHORE 2/1999 ISBN:0821762397 Victorian
Barbara Sherrod
THE PLAYERS 3/1986 ISBN: 0446329304 Regency. Sparks will fly! When the four Sparks sisters met the Earl of Hammond, the handsome, wealthy lord who was heir to their father's estate, chaos was bound to ensue. Rescuing the four young beauties from the specter of genteel poverty, Hammond spirited them off to London, determined to find them suitable husbands among the cream of the ton. But the Sparks soon had London all ablaze with outrage: Martha writing poetry that delighted and scandalized the beau monde; Caroline mooning desperately over an unscrupulous fortune hunter; Muffin horsewhipping a lord in the park; and Irene, the dutiful eldest, enacting countless masquerades to save her sisters from ruin-and at the same time, hide from Hammond how totally he had conquered her heart.
Valerie Sherwood
BOLD BREATHLESS LOVE 8/1981 ISBN:0446936510 Renaissance and Colonial. He called her his Golden Bird of Love and he had wanted her from the day he'd first seen her on the balcony next to his in Amsterdam. Clad only in her nightdress, her golden hair catching the rays of the sun at dawn, her voice softly raised in song. And so Verhulst Van Rappard married Imogene and carried her off to America as his prize. He did not know that the song she sang was for another man, a copper-haired Englishman who had made her his on the sea-washed sands of a distant isle and who had promised to come to her again on the wings of Bold Breathless Love.
BORN TO LOVE 7/1984 ISBN:0446300675 Saga-Renaissance and Colonial. She was the Beauty--reckless Dorinda Meredith, heiress to the wind! He was the Blade--dark, debonair, most dangerous of highwaymen to rove the colonial highroads. A world of intrigue and danger stood between them, but they were star-crossed lovers--born to meet, born to clash, and Born to Love.
NIGHTSONG 9/1986 ISBN:0671498398 ISBN:0671498398 Far from the sensuous shores of love's embrace...the gallant buccaneer Kells sailed away again to win his fortunes. Yet no intrigue of the seas could ever fade the image of his Colonial belle, the glorious Carolina. Then nature's rage destroyed the small Jamaican port that was to be their rendezvous...and Kells, a dazed survivor, no longer knew his own bewitching bride. Sold into his household as a maid, Carolina must once more entice him into love. For Kells believes himself to be a Spaniard, surrounded by the Spanish King's grandees...a desperate plight, for he is their most hated foe! Now he must dare to trust this silverblonde beauty who stirs his blood anew...or lose forever the haunting, faint refrain of their...Nightsong.
THIS LOVING TORMENT 8/1977 ISBN:0446826499 Renaissance and Colonial. Perhaps she was too beautiful! Perhaps the brawling colonies would have been safer for a plainer girl, one more demure and less accomplished in language and manner. But Charity Woodstock was gloriously beautiful with pale gold hair and topaz eyes--and she was headed for trouble. She was accused of witchcraft by the man who had attacked her. She was whisked from the stake by a highwayman in whose arms she found joy but no sanctuary. Fate flung her from the manor of a Dutch patroon to the simple hut of a Quaker, from pirate ship to plantation. Beauty might have been her downfall, but Charity Woodstock had a reckless passion to live and a fine determination to give herself only for love. She would challenge this new world--and win.
THIS TOWERING PASSION 11/1978 ISBN: 0446814865 Renaissance. They called her 'Angel' when she rode bareback into the midst of battle to find her lover. They called her 'Mistress Daunt' when she lived with Geoffrey in Oxford, though she wore no ring on her finger. Wherever she traveled men called her Beauty. Her name was Lenore--and she answered only to 'Love.
WILD WILLFUL LOVE 10/1982 ISBN:0446303682 Renaissance. She was once the Buccaneer's Lady.. but when beautiful, willful Imogene was tricked aboard a ship bound for England, she vowed to forget Captain van Ryker, the man who had filled her life and heart - only to banish her so cruelly...
WINDSONG 3/1986 ISBN:067149838X Renaissance and Colonial. The Caribbean and Virginia 1689...Adrift upon the surging tides of love...The incandescent beauty Carolina and her dashing buccaneer, Kells, sail from his Caribbean stronghold to her native Virginia...there to await his royal pardon and their glorious wedding. But when an imposter masquerades as Kells, savaging British ships, he is once again outlawed. Fleeing to England, the lovers are swept into a torrent of danger, treachery and desire. Their vows are doubly threatened...by the rich ransom for Kells' capture, and by a sultry Spanish duchess who claims him as her own. Carolina, wed in her heart and wed forever, embarks on a desperate voyage that may cost her Kells' love and his life...and cast into the raging seas the shimmering promise of their Windsong.
Kathleen A. Shoesmith
RELUCTANT PURITAN 1973 ISBN:0441712967 Renaissance. Love or honor? Rowena made a choice that would give her everything…or nothing. The year is 1655 and Oliver Cromwell rules England with an iron hand. Rowena Tindall professes herself eager to help Edward Beverley lay the groundwork for a Royalist plot.
Kate Silver
ABIDE WITH ME 4/2000 ISBN:0821766376 Renaissance. A prim and proper Puritan, Charity Irving was shocked to the core to discover a man in her bedchamber. When the handsome intruder boldly confessed to being a traitorous Cavalier, she knew she should turn him out. But something about the gray-eyed stranger drew her to him, and only when forbidden passion flared did Charity realize that her heart was in danger. Determined to see Charles II restored to England's throne, Charlie Dubkins had daringly acted the spy, and barely escaped with his life. But now, to his chagrin, he found his fate firmly in the hands of a comely lass who thought him kin to the devil himself. Yet as the days turned into nights, Charlie discovered that the fire burning beneath Charity's prim facade warmed his very soul. If only he could find a way to fulfill his duty and still win sweet Charity for his own.
ANNA AND THE GENTLEMAN 7/2000 ISBN:0821768891 Renaissance. A gentle beauty. When her father died, leaving her alone with her ailing mother, Anna Woodleigh envisioned a life of hard work and precious little security. Dashing and worldly, Lord Thomas Ravensbourne was everything her Calvanist father had preached against...yet he was also generous, charming, and in Anna's eyes, dangerously attractive.
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