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AN INVITATION TO SEDUCTION 6/2004 ISBN: 0060529466 Elegant Kitty Robertson is properly betrothed to a most eligible lord. Then another man becomes intent on her seduction. How can she possibly resist?
Sandra Heath
THE ABSENT WIFE 8/1987 ISBN:0451150600 Man of mysteries. Miss Roslyn Meredith had so many questions about Lord James Atherton. Why had this handsome, charming, sensitive aristocrat married the notorious Vanessa, society's most heartless and most scheming beauty? And what had happened to her? Had she vanished off the face of the earth? And now, why did Atherton invite Roslyn and her improvident portrait-painter father to his secluded estate in Foxcombe? But one question overshadowed all others. Could Roslyn trust this man who had no right to make her lose her heart to him - and could she trust herself?
BREAKING THE RULES 3/2001 ISBN:0451202694 When comely young Ursula Elcester learns that her father has arranged her marriage, she had no reason to celebrate. She is perfectly content to spend her days translating ancient Celtic texts and investigating the mysterious ruins in the nearby 'haunted' forests. And the last thing Ursula wants is a husband telling her to stop. But the arrival of her reluctant husband-to-be and his roguish traveling companion is only the beginning of her troubles. For there is something sinister afoot in the forest, and Ursula finds herself caught in a passionate pursuit to uncover the hidden treasures of the ruins - and discover an even greater treasure within her true love's arms...
BRIGHTON BETROTHALS short story in A REGENCY SUMMER 6/1992 ISBN: 0451174011
CAMILLA'S CONSCIENCE 2/1995 ISBN:451182596 "The Earl of Ennismount is the most despicable man in Britain." Beautiful widowed Lady Camilla Summerton meant every savage word of that 'scathing statement. She knew Dominic, the Earl of Ennismount, all too well. During her engagement to her late husband, Lord Harry Summerton, Dominic had tried to convince her to change her mind. During her marriage, he kept insisting she had made a mistake. Now Dominic had entered her life again. Again he refused to respect her words of rebuff But soon she noticed how faint the call of conscience was beside the rising clamor of desire. And Camilla had to wonder if the strength of her virtue could again withstand this masterful man's merciless campaign of conquest ...
A CHANGE OF FORTUNE 10/1985 ISBN:0451138546 Miss Leonie Conyngham was as wealthy as she was beautiful and proud -- until family disaster stripped her of fortune and left her with only her pride to defend her beauty. Rupert, the Duke of Thornbury, the most notorious and successful rake in the realm, made his designs on her clear. His companion in infamy, the shrewd and cynical Edward Longhurst, had his own plans to possess her. And most dangerous of all, Imogen Longhurst, the belle of the London season, set out to eliminate Leonie as a rival for the handsome, gallant Sir Guy de Lacy by the foulest means at her conscienceless command. Leonie knew all too well that a moment's weakness would leave her undone -- especially her weakness for a certain lord whom it was folly to love -- and would mean ruin to win... A Change of Fortune.
A CHRISTMAS COURTSHIP 12/1990 ISBN:0451167929 The Strong-Minded Miss. Beautiful Blance Amberley knew whom she loved. The lucky gentleman was Anthony Mortimer, a banker's son who offered her not only his heart and hand, but also a life of wealth and ease. Miss Amberley also knew whom she thoroughly disliked. That object of her instant aversion was Sir Edmund Brandon. Blanche was quite immune to the good looks and gallantry that made this arrogant blueblood the most eligible lord in the realm. But then, as Christmas approached, Cupid gave Miss Blanche Amberley a gift that came as a most shocking surprise.
THE CHRISTMAS GHOST short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS 11/1995 ISBN:0451180143
A COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE 9/1984 ISBN:0451131614 Scandalous success. Miss Caroline Lexham knew tongues would wag when she turned the elegant London mansion she had inherited into an aristocratic hotel. But she didn't expect that she risked far more than a fleeting breath of scandal. Here debauched cousin Dominic sought to trick her into the false step that would lead her to disaster and him to possession of her legacy. The ravishing Lady Chaddington sought to wreck her reputation and eliminate her as a romantic rival. A mysterious miscreant haunted her establishment, seeking to strike down her most illustrious guest. And most fearfully troubling of all, the irresistibly handsome and dashing Sir Henry Seymour made it heartbreakingly clear that he wished Caroline and her enterprise only the very worst.
COUNTERFEIT KISSES 5/2000 ISBN:0451200225 When Susannah Leighton left London, she was a young lady whose means had been reduced by her brother's foolish card playing. But when she returned, the deck was in her favor. Now a wealthy woman, she was ready to reclaim her family's loss and settle a score with Sir Gareth Carew, the man who had helped destroy her fortune - but who had also sparked her fiercest passions... Gareth enjoyed the attention of the beautiful new arrival in London - until he realized that she was the same woman who had despised him years before. He still remembers the night that her family's heirloom was gambled away. He also remembers that she mistakenly blamed him. Now, he wants nothing more than to win back her trust - and her love.
A COUNTRY COTILLION 8/1992 ISBN:0451171241 Beautiful Elizabeth French had learned both the pleasure and pain of love as the bride of James French. But now that irresistible and infamous libertine was dead-and Elizabeth chose to wed a handsome lord as different from James as day from night. Sir Alexander Norrington was dark where James had been cruel-and soothing where James had been so fiercely exciting. Surely it was better thus, Elizabeth told herself, until she met Marcus Sheridan, the Duke of Arlingham, so much like James as to set Elizabeth's pulse to racing...even as she desperately tried not to fall prey again to a man who would win her heart only to break it.
THE COURTING OF JENNY BRIGHT 6/1980 ISBN:0451092481 Jenny Bright. Accused of murdering the noblewoman she served. Locked into the living hell of a prison where a woman's honor was worth no more than a crust of bread. Rescued by the powerful aristocrat whom she adored beyond the point of folly. And plunged into a whirlpool of intrigue, treachery, vengeance, and disgrace.
CRUEL LORD CRANHAM 10/1993 ISBN:451177363 Lovely young Sarah Howard had to decide: Who was the real Nicholas Stanhope? Was he this dazzlingly handsome heir to a glittering title who won her heart with his wonderful kindness and wonder filled kisses? Was he the splendid suitor to whom she gave her heart and pledged her hand? Or was he a loathsome libertine who took advantage of her weakness after another man betrayed her? Was he a cold and calculating cad who seized on her father's folly to take possession of her family's estate? And above all, did she dare find out the truth about this man she could not help but love?
DIAMOND DREAMS 3/2005 ISBN:0451214498 Miss Ellie Rutherford has endured one tragedy after another. The deaths of her parents, along with the loss of the family fortune, leave her unsure of her future. Her only saving graces are her uncle, a pottery owner who gives her a home in Wales, and the mysterious stranger who steals a kiss-and her heart.. Athan, Lord Griffin, is so taken by the uncanny resemblance between Ellie and the portrait of a lady hanging in his home, he is compelled to kiss her. And though Athan is betrothed to another out of obligation, duty plays no role when it comes to fate.or to love. But neither he nor Ellie can guess that Athan's impulsive action will lead to an adventure in exotic St. Petersburg that will bring passion-and destiny-to brilliant light.
DINNER AT GRILLION'S short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS VI 11/1994 ISBN:0451182545
EASY CONQUEST 9/2001 ISBN: 0451204484 In the wake of her husband's death, Emily Fairfield is left with mounting debts and the future of Fairfield Hall at risk. To salvage the social standing of one of the most respected names in Shropshire, Emily has one recourse: to accept a proposal of marriage from Sir Rafe Warrender, a man who enormous wealth is exceeded only by his poisonous reputation. Then fate offers Emily a welcome surprise in the guise of a penniless drifter. With his piercing blue eyes, rugged bronze skin, and aggressively sensual nature, Jack Lincoln seems as out of place in London's high society as he is in Emily's passion-filled dreams. But his appearance is not by chance. Newly returned from Peru, the adventurer haS mysterious ties to Emily's past. He is also Sir Rafe's greatest threat--and the last chance for a woman falling helplessly, and hopelessly in love....
FALSE STEPS 1/2003 ISBN: 045120770X Mistakenly believed by the Queen of England to hold a tendre for her granddaughter, Cassian Stratford, Marquess of Lansdale, finds himself packed off to the south coast at Her Majesty’s request. In the wilds of Weymouth, the bored aristocrat suffers from the most exquisite ennui--until a mysterious beauty crosses his path….Assisting her mother in the day-to-day responsibilities of a lodging house, Miss Winifred Smith holds no illusions about her station in life. But when the dashing Lord Lansdale mistakes her for a lady of fashion, she’s far too smitten to correct him. And even though she fears what fate will befall her should he discover her charade, she cannot deny herself a chance at a passion she has never yet known….
FASHION'S LADY 10/1982 ISBN:0451149130 A proper young lady did not go into trade. But what was Susannah Garland to do, when she had only her dressmaking skill to keep her from the street? A proper young lady did not enter into partnership with a notorious seducer like Sir Jeffery Stratton. But what was Susannah to do, when she desperately needed his aid to open her establishment? And, above all, a proper young lady did not listen to the wooing of another lady's husband. But what was Susannah to do, when Miles Devereux, the young lord she long had adored, asked her to help him forget his mockery of a marriage? Susannah had to learn the price of making a profit in the business--and the high cost of falling in love...
THE FAUN'S FOLLY 6/1998 ISBN:0451186516 Plain, practical Anne Willowby would become mistress of one of the grandest Palladian houses in England when she married Gervase Mowbray, the new Duke of Wroxford, whom she had never met. His late father made the betrothal a condition of his wastrel son's inheritance; for Anne, it assured her family of keeping their home on the duke's estate. But Anne secretly dreaded the loveless marriage. So did Gervase, who, utterly appalled, fled England on an Italian holiday. Upon his return, Gervase was a changed man. No one dreamed that, addled by wine, the arrogant heir had run afoul of the god Bacchus himself. Only Anne could lift the enchanted spell that now held Gervase captive. All she had to do was declare her love for him - without knowing his identity. With a mischievous faun to keep tabs on him, a desperate Gervase sets out to win Anne's heart in a manner a-sparkle with merriment and moonbeams - and the transforming power of love.
FEBRUARY FALSEHOODS short story in TOKENS OF LOVE 1/1993 ISBN:0451173422
FINE FEATHERS 12/2003 Miss Molly Marriott has left the stifling confines of her aunt's home to live with her uncle and cousin at Underhill House and take her rightful place among the ton. But when she falls victim to a highwayman and is left for dead, she's rescued by the magistrate Lord Cordrey. Molly knows there's a plot against her life, but isn't sure whether or not she can trust Cordrey with her life-or her heart.
THE HALLOWEEN HUSBAND 9/1994 ISBN: 0451181549 Verity Windsor was startled beyond belief when the dazzlingly handsome, wealthy, and charming Lord Nicholas Montacute declared himself her smitten slave. What witchcraft was at work to make a man who could have any woman he desired want to have only her? And how could a country miss such as she resist the spell that made her senses swim when this lord and master of sophisticated seduction took her in his arms? All her doubts about this man's hunger and her own melted in his first burning kiss... only to return with a vengeance when she found herself fighting for his heart against the ravishing Judith Villiers, who knew every trick of tempting a man. Verity could only hope and pray that this wanton sensual sorcery could be bested by the mysterious magic of love....
HALLOWEEN MAGIC 9/1996 ISBN: 0451188632 Verity Windsor was startled beyond belief when the dazzlingly handsome, wealthy, and charming Lord Nicholas Montacute declared himself her smitten slave. What witchcraft was at work to make a man who could have any woman he desired want to have only her? And how could a country miss such as she resist the spell that made her senses swim when this lord and master of sophisticated seduction took her in his arms? All her doubts about this man's hunger and her own melted in his first bumming kiss. ..only to return with a vengeance when she found herself fighting for his heart against the ravishing Judith Villiers, who knew every trick of tempting a man. Verity could only hope and pray that this wanton widow's sensual sorcery could be bested by the mysterious magic of love....
THE HAUNTING OF HENRIETTA 12/1998 ISBN:0451186508 A hundred years ago, Miss Jane Courtenay and Lord Kit Fitzpaine sacrificed everything they had - even their families' approval - to be together. Then their lives were seized by tragedy - and their deaths enflamed the bitter animosity between their two families. A century later, Jane and Kit have not yet found peace. As ghosts, they must earn their way into Heaven by bringing a Courtenay and a Fitzpaine together in marriage. At first, the spirited matchmakers think they've found the perfect couple - Henrietta Courtenay and Marcus Fitzpaine, who resemble Jane and Kit both in countenance and in their unspoken passion for one another. But getting them to acknowledge their love proves more difficult than Jane and Kit expect. Henrietta and Marcus share a scandalous past-and in their present they face evil forces that threaten to destroy not only their love but their very lives...
HIDE AND SEEK 6/2001 ISBN:0451203453 Lovely Annabel Gresham is worried about her financial future - and she has good reason to be. The codicil to her grandfather's will and her own father's recently altered will have been stolen. If the missing documents don't turn up posthaste, her rapacious half brother, Roderick, will inherit the family fortune - and Annie will be left penniless. Rumor has it that Roderick's best friend made off with the documents - and hid them in a bawdy house somewhere in London. Annie's determined to find them - that is, when she isn't distracted by Richard Tregerran, the devilishly handsome, rakishly charming man she encounters at every turn. Annie has heard of his bad reputation - and suspects that his morals are downright despicable. But he just might prove invaluable in this high-stakes game of hide and seek...
A HIGHLAND CONQUEST 2/1994 ISBN:0451178750 The Innocent Abroad. Miss Lauren Maitland was American born and bred, but felt quite at home in London society when she came to England to claim a vast inheritance. Only as a guest in Glenvane Castle in the Highlands did she learn how little she knew about sophisticated life and love. Darkly handsome Rory Ardmore, Earl of Glenvane, made her senses swim though has was openly involved with the gorgeous Lady Isabel Maxby. Meanwhile, Rory's wickedly attractive brother Jamie unleashed all his worldly wiles to make Lauren his. Lauren was caught between a lord who had no room in his arms for her, and a rake who lusted for both her person and possessions, while around her other guests were pursuing shocking romantic intrigues. Lauren was losing her innocence rapidly, but could she find a way to win her heart's desire?
AN IMPOSSIBLE CONFESSION 9/1988 ISBN:0451155467 Miss Fairmead's Folly. Miss Helen Fairmead was an innocent in the ways of the world, so her older sister and sensible brother-in-law took pains to select for her a perfect suitor. His name was Mr. Ralph St. John, and he was everything a proper young lady would want in a gentleman. Lord Adam Drummond, on the other hand, was everything a young lady should avoid-with a shocking scandal in his past that belied his dashing good looks and devilish charm. It was clear which man Miss Fairmead should choose especially when the irreproachable Mr. St. John pressed her to give him her hand. But though Helen dared not give her sterling suitor's reprobate rival even her name, she found herself longing to give Lord Drummond everything else. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
LADY JANE'S RIBBONS 2/1987 ISBN: 0451147049 Lady Jane Derwent faced formidable odds as she set out to win the furious coach race to Brighton. She had to defeat the famous team--and the infamous tricks--of the ruthless king of the road, Edward Chapman. She had to best the finest entry that her sport-besotted brother Henry could buy with his wealth. And she had to prove to Lord Lewis Ardenley--who had flagrantly betrayed her with a beauteous new darling--that he was wrong in rating Jane as too frail either to stay the course or stand off his advances. Lady Jane knew how hard it would be to win, and how easy it would be to lose so much--especially her heart...
LADY SABRINA'S SECRET 5/1993 ISBN:451175883 Beautiful young widow Deborah Marchant came to Bath on a desperate mission. Her brother Richard stood accused of seduction and theft. Only Deborah could clear his name by unmasking his accuser; Lady Ann Appleby, and finding his love, the lady of mystery named Sabrina. But Deborah's search was blocked at every turn by the formidable figure of Rowen Sinclair; the domineering Duke of Gretton. Deborah had but one way to unravel the shroud of secrets surrounding her missing brothe1: Somehow she had to gain the upper hand over this maddening, masterful man who used women as his playthings-while she tried to keep him from getting a hold on her heart....
LAVENDER BLUE 4/2003 ISBN: 0451208587 Lady Anthea Wintour has steadfastly resisted marriage due to the Duke of Chavanage’s hold on her heart. The epitome of masculine beauty, the Duke was outwardly closer to perfection than any of his peers. Were it not for his unfortunate weakness for drink, he would have become Anthea’s ideal husband—and she would not be captive to the memory of the love that might have been. Now, Anthea’s stepsister, beautiful, young Corinna, has been summoned by a surprising development to the town of Cathness--which by a strange coincidence is near the Duke of Chavanage’s ancestral castle. But as Anthea accompanies the still-innocent Corinna, she will learn that the love she thought was irretrievably lost is about to flame unexpectedly brighter.
LORD BUCKINGHAM'S BRIDE 5/1991 ISBN:0451169573 Miss Alison Clearwell was a properly brought-up young beauty - but now she was far from home and close to scandal. On her way to her uncle in distant Russia, she was fair game for the dashing and determined Prince Nikolai, who had never met a woman he could not win. The only person to whom she could turn was Francis Buckingham, the fiancé of her dearest friend, and the most handsome lord in England. Buckingham offered her safe haven from Nikolai's campaign of conquest, but at a price. That price was high and kept getting higher. It began with risking her good name...then her virtue...and then her heart...
LORD KANE'S KEEPSAKE 1/1992 ISBN:451172264 Gerald Kane made Miss Emma Rutherford an offer unthinkable to refuse. The handsome lord had both title and wealth to support his suit, plus Emma's father's emphatic approval. He had even given Emma the fabulous Kane diamonds to seal their troth. How then could Emma let Lord Kane's affair with the most stunning beauty in London interfere with her engagement?
LUCY'S CHRISTMAS ANGEL 11/1995 ISBN:451185072 Lucy Was No Angel...Miss Lucy Trevallion might be an innocent young lady-but that innocence was in the gravest of danger. The infuriating but undeniably attractive Lord Geoffrey St. Athan was stirring her senses in a way that she would do anything to keep him from suspecting. The heartbreakingly handsome James Weybridge was laying siege to her virtue with the masterly skill of a sinfully sweet seducer. Lucy was discovering to her dismay that she was far from being an angel. Indeed, she was badly in need of one to watch over her before her honor; her fortune, and her very life were lost. Then she discovered she did have someone-as the battle was joined between heavenly help and devilish desire....
MAGIC AT MIDNIGHT 6/1995 ISBN:0451182618 At first she could not believe it. She was no longer Kathryn Vansomeren, a twentieth-century career woman trapped in a troubled marriage. Instead she was Rosalind, a Regency beauty torn between her husband, the cold but compellingly commanding Sir Dane Marchwood, and handsome, adoring Thomas Denham, who begged her to break her marriage vows. Common sense told her she could not have plunged back through time to find herself in this tangle of Regency romance and deception. But when Denham took her in his arms and whispered his pleas to her, and when Sir Dane showed her passion's power at its dizzying, dazzling peak, her senses could not deny what her heart knew was true.
THE MAGIC JACK-O'-LANTERN 10/1999 ISBN:0451198409 Heiress Polly Peach has brought Halloween to Bath a few days early--in the form of a disgruntled brownie. The invisible creature, once happy overlooking the family's country estate, has hitched a ride with Polly to search for his missing sweetheart. His inexplicable acts of mischief have society in an uproar--and everyone is pointing the finger at Polly, especially the pompous Sir Dominic Fortune. Tossed aside by a scheming mistress, Dominic haS come to Bath to heal his wounds, not to incur more. But every time he sees angelic Polly draw near, accidents happen. When an army parade dissolves into chaos, Dominic takes matters-- and Polly--into his own hands. Her unpredictable behavior has his head--and heart--spinning enough to trust her when she recruits him to help the brownie in his search. Though Dominic has never believed in magic before, as Halloween quickly approaches, he begins to belive that anything caN happen--even love....
THE MAKESHIFT MARRIAGE 1/1994 ISBN:0451147073 When lovely young Miss Laura Milbanke was asked for her hand in marriage in romantic Venice, the irresistibly handsome Sir Nicholas Grenville was at death's door. He had fought a disastrous duel to defend Laura's honor, and now he would defend her from poverty by leaving her his estate when he died. But Sir Nicholas did not die. He lived to bring Laura home to King's Cliff manor. Waiting for him was the fabulously beautiful Augustine Townsend, whom Nicholas had long adored and who would be his--if only Laura did not stand in the way. Should Laura try to fight this ravishing rival? Or should she give her husband his freedom by giving herself to the temptingly attractive Daniel Tregarron, who offered her all the love Sir Nicholas denied her? Never did a young bride find herself in a greater dilemma--as a marriage that broke all rules threatened to break her heart...
MALLY 8/1980 ISBN:0451093429 Mally came to her girlhood castle home in Wales to discover what should become of her as a woman. With her was Sir Christopher Carlyon. who begged her to be his wife and whose passion was devilishly hard to deny. Missing was her younger sister. who had vanished with - of all disreputable types of gentlemen - an American. And making her feel both all-too-comfortable and increasingly uneasy was her extraordinarily charming host. Richard Vallender. who claimed to be Christopher's most loyal friend even as he drew closer and closer to Mally. The questions of the heart and the seductive lies of love- twin puzzles for a young woman who found that all that was once so safe and familiar was now so menacing and strange....
MANNERBY'S LADY 8/1986 ISBN:0451074920 She refused to be a bartered bride -- and became a captive in an aristocratic cage. To some, the great manor of Mannerby might have seemed a lovely country retreat. To beautiful Sarah Jane Stratford, it was a hateful prison to which she had been consigned for the crime of spurning the odious boor whom her noble father had ignobly chosen to be her husband. Always close at hand was her captor, the infuriatingly arrogant Paul Ransome, who clearly believed every scandalous rumor about Sarah Jane. Frustratingly far away was the handsome, gallant Jack Holland, to whom Sarah Jane was eager to give her hand, her good name, and anything else he chose to desire. Sarah Jane vowed to brook no obstacle of social censure nor pitfall of prudish propriety on her path to true love -- only to discover what sinister snares passion could set, and how treacherous a guide her heart could be... Who was the least of three evils? There was Edward, who at best was an oaf and at worst a beast, but who at least promised Sarah Jane freedom from her ferociously dictatorial father. There was Jack, whose reputation was as unsavory as his appearance was splendid, and whose kisses had the virtue of supreme skill and the vice of past practice. There as Paul, who obviously believed that Sarah Jane was beneath his contempt, yet was strangely willing to stoop to conquer her. One of these men quite possibly was a wickedly cunning liar. One most probably was a monstrous murderer. And one Sarah Jane had to choose as her only hope for happiness. It was a devilish gamble -- and the besieged young lady had to play her cards exactly right...
MARIGOLD'S MARRIAGES 5/1999 ISBN:0451196821 Marigold Arnold had just lost a cruel and brutal husband. But her suffering was not over -- for his younger brother had produced a false will that declared her marriage a sham. Stripped of her good name, she faced the shame of being turned out into the street with her son robbed of his inheritance. Then she met the handsome Lord Rowan Avenbury, who first became her friend -- and within days proposed marriage! But this hasty betrothal had more to it than met the eye. An ancient family curse predicted Lord Roman's confrontation with mortal danger, and if the worst happened, he hoped to leave the wronged widow well provided for. Neither of them expected to fall in love -- or to fight against all odds for a happiness they'd never dreamed possible...
A MATTER OF DUTY 3/1988 ISBN:0451153359 Altar-bound... Handsome and wealthy Lord Christopher Highclare made it painfully clear why he was asking a virtual nobody like Miss Louisa Cherington to be his wife. He had made a promise to her dying brother to do so, and was honor-bound to keep that vow. Proud and beautiful Louisa made it just as clear why she was accepting this man who not only made no pretense of loving her, but made no secret of the ravishing woman who was his mistress. Louisa, too, was bowing to the wishes of her late brother, who wanted to rescue her from poverty and the peril of Captain Geoffrey Lawrence, the notorious rake who was in hot pursuit of her. Thus these two were bound to marry - and bound to wonder what would happen then... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THE MIDSUMMER VALENTINE short story in A REGENCY VALENTINE II 1/1992 ISBN: 0451171675
MISTLETOE AND FOLLY short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS III 11/1991 ISBN: 0451170865
MISTLETOE MISCHIEF 10/2000 ISBN: 0451201477 A lovely orphan who was unfairly dismissed from her last place of employment, Megan Mortimer can't believe her luck when the notoriously eccentric Lady Evangeline Radcliffe hires her as a companion. Evangeline is well aware of the unjust accusations that ruined the unfortunate girl's reputation-but she fully intends to make this Christmas one Megan will remember forever....Arriving at her home in Brighton with Megan in tow, Evangeline is surprised but delighted to find her distant cousin, Sir Greville Seton, already in residence. As the date of her annual holiday theater extravaganza draws near, Evangeline grows ever more determined to bring Megan and Greville together-despite the fact that Greville despises women who work as companions. But when this bitter bachelor embraces the spirit of the holiday season, his old grudges quickly give way to a joyful and precious new love. ...
MY LADY DOMINO 3/1994 ISBN:0451126149 Miss Adele Russell knew it was sheer folly to attend the Duke and Duchess of Bellingham's grand masquerade. A year ago, she would have been an honored guest--before the disgrace and death of her father. Now she was a penniless shop girl, scorned by society and mocked by the memory of her broken engagement to the elegant and handsome Lord David Latimer. But when by chance Adele found an invitation to the masquerade, the temptation was too great. What danger could there be in going masked to the dazzling affair? Adele soon found out. First, in the arms of a stranger as mysterious as he was overwhelmingly attractive. And then, face to face with the same David Latimer who had broken her heart once and still had to the power to do it again...
NEPTUNE'S QUIZZING GLASS 10/1999
THE OPERA DANCER 10/1981 ISBN:0451111125 She was whirled about in a dance of love and danger... All London wildly applauded beautiful young Nonna Lambert as she danced from triumph to triumph on the stage. But the aristocratic audience that adored her would have despised her had they known that only a short time before she had been a masked singer in a house of ill fame. Sir Philip Hasting knew her secret. He had rescued her from the lower depths and raised her to the heights. More than that, he had conquered her body and captured her heart, even though she knew that she was but a pawn in a game he was playing, to be tossed aside when she had served her purpose, Now her only hope of survival was to try to hate this man she loved - and to become a mistress of deceit in a scandalous Regency world where the one unforgivable sin was telling the truth...
THE PILFERED PLUME 10/1989 ISBN:0451162242 Lovely young Linnet Carlisle was a lady to her fingertips. Totally innocent of impropriety, and an heiress as well, she was a model future bride in the London marriage mart. Judith Jordan was her absolute opposite. Stunningly sensual from head to toe, she was the most sought after courtesan in the city. But when Judith lay claim to handsome Lord Nicholas Fenton, stealing away the man who had stolen Linnet's heart...and then launched a campaign to make Linnet the laughing stock of society...Linnet did what no lady would dream of-- and only a woman in love would dare to chance....
PLAYING WITH FIRE 2002 ISBN: 0451205502 Young, orphaned Tansy Richardson has agreed to accompany her spoiled, selfish cousin Amanda back to England - where Amanda is set to make a most memorable match! But once the two ladies are under way, their journey turns out to be more arduous than Tansy ever imagined... After surviving a shipwreck and being kidnapped by pirates, the two distraught travelers are finally rescued by Martin Ballard - a handsome spy for the British. Tansy's growing affection for Martin is soon apparent to the sly and avaricious Amanda. She just can't understand why Martin would be interested in her plain-faced cousin - and despite her upcoming nuptials, she decides to seduce him herself. Tansy's only hope is that Martin will soon come to his senses - and accept the love she is secretly so desperate to give...
RAKEHELL'S WIDOW 6/1984 ISBN:0451129709 When Alabeth left London under a cloud of gossip as bride of notorious rake Robert Manvers she thought never to return. But her beloved Robert was dead now, fallen in a duel encouraged by his supposed friend, Sir Piers Castleton, and Alabeth was free to come to London to guard her overly romantic sister Jullian from temptations that Alabeth knew only too well. But even Alabeth did not dream that Jillian would fall in love with so seductive a scoundrel as the handsome and heartless Piers Castleton himself. Even less did Alabeth expect to meet the very mirror image of her late husband in Count Adam Zaleski, the lover that every high-born lady in London vied for. Clearly it was Alabeth's duty to battle the man she hated to save her sister--and fight off the memory of the man she loved to save herself...
A SCANDALOUS PUBLICATION 10/1986 ISBN:0451145186 Wagging tongues declared that there was no woman, married or single, that the notorious Max Talgarth could not conquer with his arrogant good looks and devastating charm. It was common knowledge as well that there was no gentleman that Sir Max could not best on the dueling field with either pistol or sword. Against this formidable foe, Miss Charlotte Wyndham was equipped only with her pen, and the determination that it would prove mightier than the warm kisses or the cold steel of this infuriating man she had every reason to despise. But, as she launched her literary attack on Sir Max's infamous activities, there was one thing she had not guarded against...Cupid's arrows!RR@H's Novel Thoughts
A SEASONAL STRATAGEM short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS 11/1992 ISBN: 0451173414
SECOND THOUGHTS 7/2002 ISBN: 0451205898 A young widow seeks a position as governess to an orphaned girl-and is instead offered marriage by the girl's father. But something eerie is determined to keep this couple apart...
SHADES OF THE PAST 6/1996 ISBN:0451187520 Laura was a skilled actress but never had she played such a dangerously demanding role. For a plunge through a trapdoor in time had catapulted her from the modern London stage into the scandalous world of Regency England where a woman of the theater was little better off than a girl of the streets.
THE SHERBORNE SAPPHIRES 5/1982 ISBN: 0451115139 When beautiful young American Amy Van Allen arrived at the great English estate of Lord Jonathan Sherbourne, she was met with white-hot fury rather than a warm welcome. On her way Amy had dared spend the nght at the mansion of Sir Charles Pemberton, a man who Sherborne declared had been his late wife's lover, and had stolen the fabulous Sherborne sapphires. And now Amy went further, when she spurred Sherbourne's younger sister Oliva to rebel against the imperious lord, and to yield to the armourous entreaties of the same thoroughly detested Pemberton. Clearly it was to be open war between Amy and Lord Johnathan. But not so clear was what would happen if she fell in love with him.
THE SMUGGLER'S DAUGHTER 8/1979 Lovely young heiress Corralie Somerford had been raised as a most proper young lady in rural England, far from the luxury and license of Regency London. Her sheltered past left her quite unprepared for the seductive sophistication that now enticed her in the handsome face and elegant form of Sir Madoc Vaughan. Some called Sir Madoc a notorious rake in search of a fortune. Others declared him a brilliant, bitter man in exile from the highest circles of government. Corralie knew only that he was the man she had to have ... even if it meant following him into a world of shadowy intrigue and deadly danger ... and competing for his love against the unscrupulous ways and sensual wiles of the woman who was everything that Corralie never had been and feared to be.
THE SOLID SILVER CHEST short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS 9/2002 ISBN: 0451207254 An elf prompts a formerly engaged couple stranded together in a snowstorm to rethink their relationship.
SOPHIE'S SYLLABUB short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS FEAST 11/1996 ISBN: 0451190467
SUMMER'S SECRET 7/1997 ISBN:0451186524 Was Summer Stanway a beautiful young, 20th century American, mourning a lost love and facing an empty future? Or was she Olivia Courtenay, a stunning young widow in Regency England, following a path of fiery passion and flaming fulfillment ever deeper into a darkening maze of mystery and malevolence? Her head told her one thing, her heart another, and all she knew for sure was what happened to her when the devastatingly handsome, devilishly desirable man named Brand took her in his arms and stripped away her defenses. Was he the wrong man at the right time, or the right man at the wrong time? Summer no longer cared as his kisses lit up a past that seemed the greatest present of all...
THE UNWILLING HEIRESS 5/1981 ISBN:0451097718 Was she an aristocrat -- or an impostor? It took but a few words from the lips of a dying woman to change beautiful Janine Oldfield's life utterly. The woman was her mother, who declared that Janine was more than the daughter of the most notorious actress in Regency London: she was also heiress to one of the greatest family names in England. But when Janine came to the magnificent estate of Calworth to assume her place as granddaughter of proud and imperious Sir Adam Winterton, she discovered how perilous her exalted new position was... And as she fell in love against her will with handsome, scornful Richard Stuart, who accused her of being a pretender, she began to suspect that this man, who held her in such infuriatingly low esteem, might be actually, awfully, right...
THE WHISPERING ROCKS 6/2005 ISBN:0451215605 Beautiful Sarah Jane Stratford had only known poverty- until Fate thrust her into the glittering world of wealth and fashion, changing her life forever. But when she becomes the innocent cause of scandal, she must escape the ton's merciless gossip-and head for far-off Mannerby. There is safety in the manor that looms over the dreary moor. But it soon becomes her private prison-and her hateful guardians its wardens. Trapped and isolated, Sarah senses something sinister trailing her, and it might have to do with nearby Hob's Tor, which locals say is a place of evil. Now, strangers haunt her path and danger lies around every corner. And even as she begins to fall for a local nobleman, Sarah must watch her step.
WINTER DREAMS 7/2004 ISBN:0451212363 Judith Callard has a nagging fear about the safety of her twin brother, an attaché with the British embassy in Lisbon. Bowing to her feminine intuition, she follows the man responsible for her brother's position-Lord Penventon, whom she spurned years earlier-into one of the city's seedier districts. What she finds there not only inflames her jealousy, but places her life in grave danger... Daniel, Lord Penventon, is dismayed to discover that Judith has been spying on him-and her actions have placed his mission for the crown in jeopardy. With French agents watching their every move, Daniel must return to England, with Judith in tow, to ensure that King and Country are not compromised-and to soothe the fire that seethes within him for the woman he never believed he could love again...
THE WRONG MISS RICHMOND 3/1989 ISBN:0451159152 The Rival Sisters... No two sisters could have been less alike than Jane and Christina Richmond. Jane was a russet-haired beauty who adored society. Christina was dark-haired, demure, and had a passion for books. Nonetheless, both had in common a deep affection for each other. And now they had something else in common as well. Robert Temple, Lord St. Clement, was the handsomest lord in the realm. Willingly Jane pledged him her hand in marriage, and despite herself Christina lost her heart in secret - as this pair of loving sisters unexpectedly and unpredictably became rivals in love...
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