BEYOND THE SUNRISE 11/1992 ISBN: 0451403428 Jeanne Morrisette, the daughter of a French count, met Richard Blake when she was fifteen and he was the seventeen-year-old illegitimate son of an English lord. When they meet again they are older and wiser, cast into a sea of intrigue, as France and England fight a ruthless war. But not even the lies they are forced to tell each other can dampen their desire for one another - as this proud and bewitching beauty and this handsome and fearless officer come together in a passion that flares in the shadow of danger - and a love that conquers the forces of hate...
A CERTAIN MAGIC 2/1991 ISBN: 0451169166 Alice Penhallow and Piers Westhaven had always considered themselves to be best friends--that was until Piers called upon Alice's help and advice in his decision to marry a much younger woman. By the time they realize that it is love that is between them, it might just be too late.
A CHANCE ENCOUNTER 12/1985 ISBN: 0451140060 After Elizabeth Rossiter had suffered a broken heart and a ruined reputation, she left London behind and took a position as companion to the daughter of a wealthy country family. But now, to her horror, the one man in the world she hoped never to see again--Robert Denning, Marquess of Hetherington--has appeared in the neighborhood.
CHRISTMAS BEAU 12/1991 ISBN: 0451171020 Judith Easton had once jilted the Marquess of Denbigh for another man. Now she is widowed with two children, and the marquess is pursuing her again. He invites her to a Christmas house party in the country, his motive being revenge. But love--and the spirit of Christmas--conspire to spoil his plans.
A CHRISTMAS BELLE 11/1994 ISBN: 0451179544 Jack Frazer arrives at his grandparents' home for Christmas. He has resigned himself to announcing his betrothal to the young lady his grandmother has picked out for him. The family has always entertained itself with amateur theatricals, but this year his grandmother has an unexpected treat for them--the presence as an honored guest of the famous actress, Isabella Gellée, Comtesse de Vacheron. The last time Jack saw her was nine years before when he had loved her passionately. But she had been a struggling actress then and his mistress--and she had abandoned him without a word of farewell.
A CHRISTMAS BRIDE 11/1997 ISBN: 0451191447 To please his father, Edgar Downes, a wealthy merchant, agrees to choose a well-born bride by Christmas. He picks out a suitable young lady, but then finds himself caught up in an unconsidered passion for a widow his own age. Helena, Lady Stapleton, is hiding a deeply troubled past behind a cool, seductive, cynical exterior. Edgar takes his bride home for Christmas, but all the magic of the season is necessary to bring Helena pardon and peace and to bless their marriage.
A CHRISTMAS PROMISE 12/1992 ISBN: 0451173600 When the Earl of Falloden and Eleanor Transome meet, it is hate at first sight. For the earl is being forced by penury into marriage with this coal merchant's daughter, and Eleanor is being forced by her love for her dying father. The marriage begins with all the passion of intense dislike. But when Eleanor plots revenge by inviting all her loud and vulgar relatives to their home for Christmas, she has really plotted her own salvation and her husband's. For Christmas and the merry Transomes weave an irresistible spell about the unhappy couple.
THE CONSTANT HEART 7/1987 ISBN: 0451148835 Miss Rebecca Shaw had lost her heart once in her young life - lost it and had it broken. At last it had mended - mended enough for her to say yes when the handsome, high-minded young Reverend Phillip Everett asked her to be his wife and share a life of the purest propriety and best of good works. But now Christopher Sinclair had returned. He was fee now of the marriage that had given him fabulous wealth at the price of leaving Rebecca behind and betrayed. He was free now to turn Rebecca's head again... away from the man who soon would be her lawfully wedded husband. And Rebecca was also free to change her mind - but was she foolish enough to turn toward a love that had proven faithless once and now could be utterly ruinous...?
A COUNTERFEIT BETROTHAL 6/1992 ISBN: 0451172566 The Earl and Countess of Clifton parted bitterly and have lived separately for many years. But now their daughter has contracted an ineligible engagement, and they are brought together in a mutual attempt to save her from unhappiness. What they do not realize is that Sophia has staged the counterfeit betrothal with Lord Francis Sutton with the deliberate purpose of reconciling her parents.
COURTING JULIA 11/1993 ISBN: 0451177398 When Julia Maynard's step-grandfather dies, he leaves Julia nothing even though she has lived with him all her life and tended him in his last illness and loved him--and even though he appeared to adore her. But he does leave his precious unentailed home, Primrose Park, to whichever of his five nephews can win her hand within a month of the reading of the will. Four of them proceed to court Julia. The fifth--the new Earl of Beaconswood--does not. But then, he is the last man she would marry anyway.
DANCING WITH CLARA 2/1994 ISBN: 0451178734 Frederick Sullivan goes to Bath to find himself a rich wife in order to save himself from financial ruin. He sets his sights and his considerable charm on the plain and crippled--and enormously wealthy--Clara Danford. When she accepts his proposal, Clara is not for one moment deceived into thinking that he really cares for her. But she chooses to accept him anyway because her life has been almost devoid of beauty and Freddie is the most beautiful man she has ever seen.
A DARING MASQUERADE 1/1989 ISBN: 0451158865 When Nicholas Seyton plays highwayman in an attempt to regain his birthright, he kidnaps the wrong woman. When he devises another scheme under the alias of Sir Harry Tate, he encounters the same woman. Kate Mannering is attracted and infuriated by both men--without realizing that they are one and the same.
DARK ANGEL 8/1994 ISBN: 0451179536 Jennifer Winwood, newly arrived in London and betrothed to a handsome man she adores, is bursting with happy expectations. But she gets caught in the middle of a nasty feud between her fiancé and the Earl of Thornhill when each decides to use her to hurt the other. When the dust settles, she finds herself forced to marry the earl in a union that seems to have nothing but bitterness and despair to offer both of them.
DECEIVED 4/1993 ISBN: 0451404181 Lady Elizabeth Ward, about to step inside the church of St. George's, Hanover Square, for her own wedding, is suddenly whisked away by a masked horseman. Some hours later, in an escape attempt, she jumps from a carriage, bangs her head, and wakes up to the sight of the handsome Earl of Trevelyan, who claims to be her husband. She does not recognize him as her kidnapper--she is suffering from amnesia.
DESIRE AFTER DARK 1985 (originally A MASKED DECPTION) The Rivals...The handsome, dashing, wealthy Richard Adair, the seventh Earl of Brampton, was caught in a most devilishly difficult tug-of-war. Claiming his hand was shy and demure Margaret Wells, who became his bride in an icily arranged marriage designed to produce an heir in a boringly proper alliance. Claiming his heart was a nameless charmer who concealed her face behind a mask and displayed her body in a daring gown as she made the Earl give himself over to a scandalously improper passion. Both of them desperately wanted Richard Adair - and both dreaded to think what would happen should he discover that they were one and the same two-faced lady...
THE DEVIL'S WEB 8/1990 ISBN: 0451166949 Rekindled Desire... The last time Madeline Raine had seen James Purnell, she had been but a chit of a girl, and at his mercy. Purnell had held her helpless in his arms - but protectively above the abyss of her own dangerous hunger for him. He had left her then, not taking her innocence but taking her heart, as he vanished from England. Since then Madeline had reigned as society's most dazzling and heartless beauty, making all men pay for one man's rebuff of her. Now James was back, more handsome and arrogant than ever. And Madeline steeled herself not to fall under his spell again. But she soon discovered that the melting power of passion ignited by love would not easily die...
THE DOUBLE WAGER 6/1985 ISBN: 0451136179 Tomboyish Henrietta Tallant recklessly wagers her beloved horse that she will entice the toplofty Marius Devron, Duke of Eversleigh, into proposing marriage within six weeks. But unknown to her, the duke, hitherto a confirmed bachelor, has also made a wager--that he will choose a bride and marry within the month.
THE FAMOUS HEROINE 2/1996 ISBN: 0451187733 When Lord Francis Kneller first sees Cora Downes, she is tripping over her own feet, shrieking, and laughing rather too loudly. His conclusion is that she is a frightful young lady. When Cora first sees Lord Francis, he is wearing a bright satin turquoise coat with silver and turquoise striped waistcoat and silver knee breeches and copious amounts of lace. She immediately thinks of peacocks. Cora has a habit of getting herself into dreadful scrapes, and Lord Francis always seems to be close enough to get her out of them--at the cost of compromising her once too often. Soon this ill-assorted pair is forced into a marriage neither of them has sought. The book is a farce.
THE FIRST SNOWDROP 9/1986 ISBN: 0451145933 When Viscount Merrick inadvertently compromises plain Anne Parrish, he is obliged to marry her. But he has no intention of living with her or even seeing her again after settling her on his country estate. When he arrives at his grandparents' home more than a year later for the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary, he is enchanted by his first sight of a lovely stranger. Then he realizes that she is his wife....
GENTLE CONQUEST 12/1987 ISBN: 0451150996 It should have been the perfect marriage for beautiful Georgiana Burton. The husband her parents had picked for her, Lord Ralph Chartleigh, was wealthy, handsome, noble, and kind. Unfortunately, he did not measure up to Georgiana's firm notions of what a man should be. He was uninterested in society, impervious to fashions, had the worst of tailors, knew little of women - and was wary of the little he knew. Clearly Georgiana had to teach him a great deal about life and even more about love...forgetting until it was almost too late how much she had to learn herself...
A GIFT OF DAISIES 2/1989 ISBN: , 0451157559 Lady Rachel Palmer is beautiful, wealthy, and frivolous--as well as betrothed to someone else--when she meets and falls in love with the high-minded Reverend David Gower, who is devoted to a life of service and poverty. It seems like an impossible match, especially when David is so set against it. The impossible Mr. Gower. Lady Rachel Palmer was quite used to men falling helplessly in love with her. Every gentleman in aristocratic society, including her devoted fiancé, Lord Algernon Rivers, fell a willing victim to Rachel's dazzling beauty and bewitching charm. Every gentleman, that is, except Lord Rivers' closest friend, the studiously unfashionable and splendidly handsome Mr. David Gower. Mr. Gower made it clear that the ravishing Rachel represented everything he scorned, and that he was the very last man in the world she could ever ensnare. It was a challenge Rachel could not ignore -- from a man she could not resist... Rachel had never been held thus, against the full, warm length of a man's body. And she had never been kissed thus, with lips that moved over hers, parting and persuading hers to do the same. But she knew this was right. This was the way it must be. Then she felt David's hold loosen. "I have given into a temptation I thought I had under control," he said. "I had determined never to touch another woman this way until she had consented to be my wife." "I can marry you," Rachel said eagerly. He shook his head. "No, Lady Rachel, we can never marry.' Rachel's face was becoming stormy. "Give me one reason why I may not marry you." "Because I am not asking you," he coldly replied.
THE GILDED WEB 12/1989 ISBN: 0451163303 Twofold Temptation... Dark-haired and beautiful Miss Alexandra Purnell had a problem that most young ladies would have adored. Not one but two handsome lords had offered her marriage - and Alexandra had only to choose between distinguished Edmund Raine, Earl of Amberley, who was willing to give up his brilliant mistress for her, and his dashing younger brother Dominic, who vowed to abandon his wild ways. Unfortunately, both their proposals had been made out of duty rather than desire. And Alexandra had only one way to discover which one she should accept and where true love might lie - by following passion's uncharted path no matter how shockingly far it led...
THE IDEAL WIFE 10/1991 ISBN: 0451170431 The perplexing proposal... The Earl of Severn's question was simple enough. Would Miss Abigail Gardiner agree to become his wife? But a far more difficult question was why the most handsome and wealthy lord in London, with a ravishing mistress and his pick of the marriage mart, would want to wed a Miss Nobody like her. A Miss Nobody, to boot, who harbored a secret that could cover her with shame and fill a husband with horror. There was but one way for Abigail to find out what lay behind the Earl's proposal and what danger her dark past might pose. For better or worse, she had to say yes.
THE INCURABLE MATCHMAKER 5/1990 ISBN: 0451165411 Diana Ingram is as virtuous as she is beautiful. The Marquess of Kenwood is handsome and charming--and a notorious libertine. There can be no question of any connection between the two--until Kenwood's envious friends and acquaintances goad him into wagering that he can seduce Mrs. Ingram within a month.
INDISCREET 1/1997 ISBN: 0515120014 When Viscount Rawleigh attends a house party in the country, he plans to amuse himself with a beautiful young widow from a nearby village. He refuses to believe she is unwilling until it is too late. For her part, Catherine Winters has been living quietly in the village for several years, trying to keep a secret that could yet destroy her. She dare not give in to her attraction to the viscount. As her world falls apart, Rawleigh has to try to make amends and win her love at the same time, while Catherine has to face up to her past and take a hand in rebuilding her life once more.
IRRESISTIBLE 10/1998 ISBN: 0515123676 The widowed Sophia Armitage has a chance encounter in Hyde Park with three friends she had known during the Peninsular Wars when she was there with her husband. The three men remember her only as a dear comrade, but soon Nathaniel Gascoigne is seeing her in a different light. Sophie, though, harbors a dark secret she can confide to no one--least of all Nathaniel. His friend Eden, Lord Pelham, meanwhile, is engaged in his own volatile, humorous love story with Lavinia Bergland, Nat's prickly ward.
LADY WITH A BLACK UMBRELLA 9/1989 ISBN: 0451162226 Sister knows best...Lady Daisy Morrison, at twenty-five, considered herself too old to marry. But she vowed that her young sister Rose would achieve the ultimate in wedded bliss. Certainly Rose had everything in her favor. Stunning beauty. Vast wealth. Sweet innocence. And above all, Daisy at her side to win her the premier prize in the London marriage mart. When Daisy met the Viscount Kincade, she knew she had found Rose's perfect match...if only Daisy could keep this eminently attractive gentleman's attention fixed on Rose and not her - and if only Daisy had enough sisterly affection not to fall in love with him...
THE LAST WALTZ 11/1998 1998, ISBN: 0451191471 A year after her Puritanical husband's death, a woman must face the new master of the household - a man she once loved long ago, but now holds in the utmost contempt. Immediately, the rogue arranges to hold a Christmas party, shocking the woman with both his brazeness and refusal to behave according to the somber edicts of her dead husband. But at the Ball, the handsome man asks for her hand in the last dance, and she has no choice but to accept. For she cannot rightfully refuse the master of the house...or the rising flames of desire within herself!
LORD CAREW'S BRIDE 6/1995 ISBN: 0451185528 Love has not been kind to Samantha Newman, but friendship has. When her emotions are rubbed raw by the reappearance in her life of a villain who had broken her heart some years before, she turns with gratitude to the kindly Hartley Wade, with whom she had developed a warm friendship when she mistook him for a gardener during a visit to the country. She accepts his proposal, expecting a quiet, safe, undemanding marriage. She does not know that Hartley is the Marquess of Carew and that he loves her passionately--and believes she returns his feelings.
A MASKED DECEPTION 2/1985 ISBN: 0451134052 THE RIVALS...The handsome, dashing, wealthy Richard Adair, the seventh Earl of Brampton, was caught in a most devilishly difficult tug-of-war. Claiming his hand was shy and demure Margaret Wells, who became his bride in an icily arranged marriage designed to produce an heir in a boringly proper alliance. Claiming his heart was a nameless charmer who concealed her face behind a mask and displayed her body in a daring gown as she made the Earl give himself over to a scandalously improper passion. Both of them desperately wanted Richard Adair - and both dreaded to think what would happen should he discover that they were one and the same two-faced lady...

MORE THAN A MISTRESS 9/2000 ISBN: : 0440226015. She raced onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In the melee, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, was shot. To his astonishment, Tresham found himself hiring the servant as his nurse. Jane Ingleby was far too bold for her own good. Her blue eyes were the sort a man could drown in - were it not for her impudence. She questioned his every move, breached his secrets, touched his soul. When he offered to set her up in his London town house, love was the last thing on his mind..Jane tried to pretend it was strictly business, an arrangement she was forced to accept in order to conceal a dangerous secret. Surely there was nothing more perilous than being the lover of such a man. Yet as she got past his devilish facade and saw the noble heart within, she knew the greatest jeopardy of all, a passion that drove her to risk everything on one perfect month with the improper gentleman who thought love was for fools.
NO MAN'S MISTRESS 8/2001. ISBN: : 0385335296. Lord Ferdinand Dudley lives passionately, recklessly. And he is accustomed to getting what he wants...that is, until he appears at the door of Pinewood Manor, attempting to claim his rightful estate, and is met by the bewitching fury of Viola Thornhill. She refuses to cede him the home she calls her own. He refuses to leave. So the contest begins between these two foes to force one to acknowledge the other's claim. Nor will they acknowledge the passion brewing between them. But Viola knows it is a game she cannot afford to lose. Marriage is out of the question and she will be no man's mistress.
THE NOTORIOUS RAKE 9/1992 ISBN: 0451174194 Lord Edmond Waite is a libertine and rake; Mary, Lady Mornington, is something of a bluestocking. They have nothing whatsoever in common except for one shared night of passion during a severe thunderstorm. But Edmond cannot forget Mary, and soon she begins to learn that he is not quite the sleazy villain she had thought him.
THE OBEDIENT BRIDE 5/1989 ISBN: 0451159624 When Arabella Wilson makes a marriage of duty with Viscount Astor, she vows to be a docile, obedient wife. However, all her resolves are thrown to the winds when she discovers that her husband keeps a mistress. She becomes a force he must reckon with.
ONE NIGHT FOR LOVE 7/1999 ISBN: : 0440226007. Neville Wyatt, Earl of Kilbourne, awaited his bride at the alter - when a ragged beggar woman raced down the aisle instead. The cream of the ton saw him stare, shocked, then declare that this was his wife! One night of passion was all he remembered as he beheld Lily, the woman he'd wed, loved, and lost on the battlefield in Portugal. Now he said he'd honor his commitment to her - regardless of the gulf that lay between them. She said she wanted only to start a new life - wanted only a husband who truly loved her. She had to leave him to learn how to meet his world on her terms. So Lily agreed to earn her keep as his aunt's companion and study the genteel arts. Soon she was the toast of the ton, every inch a countess fit for the earl, who vowed to prove to his remarkable wife that what he felt for her was far more than desire, that what he wanted for her was much more than One Night for Love.
THE PLUMED BONNET 9/1996 ISBN: 0451190513 When the Duke of Bridgwater picks up Stephanie Gray in his carriage one day, she is wearing a fuchsia colored cloak and a bright pink, garishly adorned bonnet. He draws his own conclusions about her and listens to her story about being on her way to claim an inheritance with a great deal of amusement. By the time he realizes that she is telling the truth, it is too late--he has compromised her virtue and must marry her.
A PRECIOUS JEWEL 6/1993 ISBN: 0451176197 Luck is a Lady... Once Miss Priscilla Wentworth had been a well-bred young lady. That was before family tragedy left her without shelter from poverty and want. Now Priscilla supposed she should count herself lucky that a gentleman like Sir Gerald Stapleton wanted her to be his most favored favorite-someone who was worthy of being his mistress. But Priscilla was not foolish enough to think that lucky in lust meant lucky in love-just as Sir Gerald did not dream that Priscilla could be anything more to him than a plaything of passion. But though both Priscilla and Sir Gerald knew the ways of the world all too well, they knew all too little about the ways of the heart...
A PROMISE OF SPRING 2/1990 ISBN: 0451164040 When Sir Perry Lampman's dearest friend is killed in an act of brave self-sacrifice, he leaves behind a sister who will be destitute without him. Although he does not love Grace Howard, Perry offers her marriage. Even when she confesses part of her scandalous past to him, he continues to press his offer. And so begins a marriage that seems doomed to unhappiness. The fact that Grace is ten years older than Perry does not help the situation.
RED ROSE 3/1986 ISBN: 0451141571 The Earl of Raymore is as determined to marry off his newly acquired ward, Rosalind Dacey, as she is never to marry at all. They hate each other with a passion until they discover a bond in their shared love of music.
THE SECRET PEARL 10/1991 ISBN: 0451169913 Fleur. That was her middle name. The name she told the man to whom she sold herself out of desperate want. But her full name was Isabella Fleur Bradshaw, gently born and brutally expelled from her sheltered life. His name was Adam Kent, Duke of Ridgeway, the wealthiest lord in England, but scarred in war, bitterly betrayed in marriage. She feared his overpowering physical passion. He fought to keep from loving her. They each had so much to teach each other and so much to learn... in a drama of desire played out on a vast estate - where a man and a woman come closer and closer to their moment of heart-pounding truth...
SECRETS OF THE HEART 4/1988 ISBN: 0451152891 The marriage of Sarah Fifield and the Duke of Cranwell was a love match--until on their wedding night Sarah was forced to reveal the secret of her past. Amid great public scandal their marriage ended almost before it began. But now, several years later, they meet again in Bath.
SIMPLY UNFORGETTABLE 4/2005 ISBN:0385338228
SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS 6/2004 ISBN:0385338112 All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Some whisper of a tragic love affair. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke's eye - and she was the only female in the room who wasn't even trying. Christine Derrick is intrigued by the handsome duke - all the more so when he invites her to become his mistress. What red-blooded woman wouldn't enjoy a tumble in the bedsheets with a consummate lover - with no strings and no questions asked. An infuriating lady with very definite views on men, morals, and marriage, Christine confounds Wulfric at every turn. Yet even as the lone wolf of the Bedwyn clan vows to seduce her any way he can, something strange and wonderful is happening. Now for a man who thought he'd never lose his heart, nothing less than love will do.

SLIGHTLY MARRIED 4/2003 ISBN: 0440241049 Meet the Bedwyns
six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality
Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction
where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal
and where Aidan Bedwyn, the marriage-shy second son, discovers that matrimony may be the most seductive act of all.
Like all the Bedwyn men, Aidan has a reputation for cool arrogance. But this proud nobleman also possesses a loyal, passionate heart--and it is this fierce loyalty that has brought Colonel Lord Aidan to Ringwood Manor to honor a dying soldier's request. Having promised to comfort and protect the man's sister, Aidan never expected to find a headstrong, fiercely independent woman who wants no part of his protection
nor did he expect the feelings this beguiling creature would ignite in his guarded heart. And when a relative threatens to turn Eve out of her home, Aidan gallantly makes her an offer she can't refuse: marry him
if only to save her home. And now, as all of London breathlessly awaits the transformation of the new Lady Aidan Bedwyn, the strangest thing happens: With one touch, one searing embrace, Aidan and Eve's business arrangement is about to be transformed
into something slightly surprising.

SLIGHTLY SCANDALOUS 6/2003 ISBN: 0440241111 Growing up with four powerful brothers has made Lady Freyja Bedwyn far bolder than most society ladies. From feisty manner to long, tumbling hair, Freyja is pure fire, a woman who seeks both adventure and freedom. Adventure soon finds her on the way to Bath, when a handsome stranger bursts into her inn room in the middle of the night and entreats her to hide him. He is Joshua Moore, Marquess of Hallmere, a man with a hell-raising reputation of his own. They meet again in Bath, where sparks fly as two strong wills clash and each tries to best the other. But when Joshua needs sudden rescue from the matchmaking schemes of his aunt, it is Freyja to whom he turns because he knows that only she is reckless enough to engage in a fake betrothal with him for the sheer fun of it. And fun it is until the Duke of Bewcastle, Freyja's eldest brother, learns of the betrothal. And until passion blind sides them both. And until a danger more deadly than marriage threatens Joshua. While he tries desperately to preserve his freedom--in more ways than one--Freyja tries just as determinedly not to lose her heart--again. But there is no doubt about the fact that it admirably suits both Freyja and Joshua to be caught up together in something very slightly scandalous... RR@H's Novel Thoughts

SLIGHTLY SINFUL 5/2004 ISBN: 0440236606 Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle son, is cut off from his past--only to find his future with a sinfully beautiful woman he will risk everything to love. As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead--only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. Suddenly the dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there--yet of one thing he is certain: The angel who nurses him back to health is the woman he vows to make his own. But like him, Rachel York is not who she seems. A lovely young woman caught up in a desperate circumstance, she must devise a scheme to regain her stolen fortune. The dashing soldier she rescued from near-death could be her savior in disguise. There is just one condition: she must pose as his wife--a masquerade that will embroil them in a sinful scandal, where a man and a woman court impropriety with each daring step...with every taboo kiss that can turn passionate strangers into the truest of lovers. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

SLIGHTLY TEMPTED 1/2004 ISBN: 0440241065 Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent's most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself.until one night of shocking intimacy erupts in a scandal that could make Gervase's vengeance all the sweeter. There is only one thing standing in his way: Morgan, who has achieved the impossible-she's melted his coolly guarded heart. For Gervase, only the marriage bed will do, but Morgan simply will not have him. Thus begins a sizzling courtship where two wary hearts are about to be undone by the most scandalous passion of all: glorious, all-consuming love. RR@H's Novel Thoughts

SLIGHTLY WICKED 5/2003 ISBN: 0440241057 With his laughing eyes and wild, rakish good looks, Lord Rannulf Bedwyn is a hard man to resist. To Judith Law, a woman in need of rescue when the stagecoach in which she is traveling overturns, Rannulf is simply her savior, her dream come true, an heroic stranger with whom she will allow herself one night of reckless passion before she must settle to the dreary life of companion to her wealthy aunt. However, a shock is in store for her when that same stranger turns out to be the eligible, wealthy son of a duke--and when he arrives at Harewood Grange to woo her cousin. Judith holds firm against all Rannulf's advances, both honorable and otherwise. But then scandal rocks the household and threatens her name and her very liberty, and it is Rannulf who rides to her rescue--bringing all the considerable power and influence of the Bedwyns to her defense. But can a relationship begun in passion and culminating in gratitude offer them a future together? Can true love grow out of something very slightly wicked...
SNOW ANGEL 6/1991 ISBN: 0451169735 When the widowed Rosamund Hunter and the Earl of Wetherby are stranded together in a snow storm, they indulge in a brief affair that neither expects to affect their future. But when they meet unexpectedly again, the earl is betrothed to Rosamund's niece and the affair comes back to haunt them both.

A SUMMER TO REMEMBER 7/2002 ISBN:0385335350 He may be a lord, but he is no gentleman. Kit Butler, Viscount Ravensberg, is cool and dangerous - one of London's most infamous bachelors. Marriage is the last thing on his mind. But Kit's family has other plans Desperate to thwart his father's matchmaking, Kit needs a bride...fast. Enter Miss Lauren Edgeworth...A year after being abandoned at the altar, Lauren has determined that marriage is not for her. When these two fiercely independent souls meet, sparks fly--and a deal is hatched. Lauren will masquerade as Kit's intended if he agrees to provide a passionate, adventurous unforgettable summer. When summer ends, she will beg off the engagement, rendering herself unmarriageable and leaving them both free. Everything is going perfectly-until Kit does the unthinkable: He begins to fall in love. A summer to remember is not enough for him. But how can he convince Lauren to be his...for better, for worse, for the rest of their lives?...
THE TEMPORARY WIFE 5/1997 ISBN: 0451191439 The Marquess of Staunton cold-bloodedly advertises for a governess for his nonexistent children, chooses the plainest and dullest applicant, and offers her marriage. His only motive is to anger his estranged father, who has chosen a different bride for him. After he has presented her to his family, he plans to establish her somewhere with a great deal of money and never see her again. Charity Duncan agrees to the strange bargain because she is desperate for money to help support her brothers and sisters. But when she meets his family and recognizes the pain behind the estrangement, her warm heart cannot remain aloof. And when Staunton realizes that his temporary wife is in fact neither plain nor dull, his cold heart stirs to new life.
TEMPTING HARRIET 5/1994 ISBN: 0451179528 Once, when she was a mere lady's companion, Harriet Pope had spurned the attempted seduction of the Duke of Tenby. Now, six years later, she is the wealthy, titled widow of an older man, and she is the one who sets out to seduce the duke. Yet when she succeeds, it is to the discovery that an affair is not what she wants after all. An affair, though, seems to be all Tenby can offer.
THE TRYSTING PLACE 6/1986 ISBN: 0451143000 Felicity, Lady Wren, made a marriage of duty once. Now she is a widow and is determined to make a brilliant match. She enlists the aid of Tom Russell, a neighbor and old friend, without realizing that perhaps it is a love match she should aim for this time.
AN UNACCEPTABLE OFFER 5/1988 ISBN:0451153146
UNDER THE MISTLETOE 10/2006 ISBN: 0451209788 Dear Reader, Christmas has always been my favorite holiday, celebrating as it does all that is finest in the human experience—love, generosity, peace, and joy. I am delighted that this volume makes available again four of my older novellas along with one new one. They are love stories in which Christmas is shown to have the power to heal all the wounds of the human heart. My new story, A Family Christmas, brings together a couple estranged since just after their arranged marriage the year before, and gives them the perfect chance to start over. In the classic stories, The Star 0f Bethlehem features one betrothal ring lost but three that are mysteriously found as a broken marriage is abundantly mended. The Best Gift is the tale of a teacher who has never known family, love, or Christmas—then finds all three when asked to chaperon one of her pupils over the holiday. In Playing House, a lonely aristocrat and his daughter are drawn to an impoverished young woman and her siblings, who are celebrating their last Christmas together with brave gaiety. And an assortment of unhappy travelers stranded by bad weather at an inn on Christmas Eve encounter love after a young couple arrives to find that there is No Room at the Inn just as their child is about to be horn. I hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I did writing them. Happy Holidays! RR@H's Novel Thoughts
UNFORGIVEN 1/1998 ISBN: 0515122068 Moira Hayes and the Earl of Haverford share a past that began with love but ended in bitterness when each apparently betrayed the other. Now, eight years later, they meet again, and fate, in the form of a winter storm, rekindles their passion, but not their love. Forced into marriage, they each have to learn to confront and forgive the past so that they can have the chance for a future together.
THE UNGRATEFUL GOVERNESS 10/1988 ISBN: 0451157273 When the Earl of Rutherford tries to seduce Jessica Moore in her employer's library one night, she is blamed and loses her job. Rutherford offers her a position as his mistress, but instead Jessica enlists the aid of his own grandmother and sets out to teach him a lesson.
AN UNLIKELY DUCHESS 10/1990 ISBN: 0451167392 Josephine Middleton, faced with an arranged marriage to the Duke of Mitford, who has a reputation as a libertine, decides to run away to her aunt's. However, on the journey there she is rescued from an attacker by Mr. Paul Villiers. He quickly becomes her unwilling accomplice as she sets off in pursuit of the villain and her lost jewels. What she does not realize is that her hero's full name is Paul Villiers, Duke of Mitford. The book is a farce.
WEB OF LOVE 3/1990 ISBN: 0451164024 Enchanting young Ellen Simpson had been deeply in love with her husband Charles. Though many years older, he was everything she wanted in a husband - strong, kind, good-humored, and warmly devoted. After his tragic death, she was certain he would never be replaced. But then Ellen met Lord Dominic Eden, who was everything any woman would dream of in a lover - young, wealthy, titled, incredibly handsome, charming, dashing and ardent. Ellen never meant to find herself in Dominic's arms so scandalously soon. But she did. And now she had to answer the question: was she in Dominic's embrace because of irresistible passion...or irresolute weakness...? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THE WOOD NYMPH 1/1987 ISBN: 0451146506 Heartbroken at the loss of Elizabeth in A Chance Encounter, William Mainwaring retreats to his country estate and meets the unworldly Helen Wade in the woods one day. She soothes his soul until he flees in panic after seducing her. He then faces the almost impossible task of redeeming himself in her eyes.