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A WILL OF HER OWN 2002 ISBN: 1587493217 Miss Patricia Mayfair is a Regency bluestocking who has vowed never to marry a man who gambles-until she meets Lord Andrew Aragon and he swears to give up that pernicious habit forever if she will gift him with her hand. But these two wealthy members of the ton never suspect that someone close to them wishes them dead.and will stop at nothing to make that wish come true.
Laurie McBain
DEVIL'S DESIRE 4/1975 ISBN:0380002957 Orphaned and imperiled by the cruel hand of fate, young innocent Lady Elysia Demarice was driven by sinister forces into the arms of the handsome rakehell known as "the devil." She swore Lord Alex Trevegne would never possess her in flesh and spirit...until the clashing of their wills set their twin passions gloriously ablaze with the white heat of desire and destiny.
Amanda McCabe
THE ERRANT EARL 6/2002 ISBN: 0451206290 After the untimely deaths of his estranged father and actress stepmother, Marcus Hadley returns home for the first time in years. Desperate to make amends for protesting the doomed couple's marriage, he has decided to take charge of the young stepsister he never knew...But Julia is not a child any longer. She and group of her actor friends have been living on the estate Marcus once called his home -- and she knows Marcus will not approve. After all, he despised her mother-- and she was an actress. To save her friends from his scorn, Julia demands that they play new roles in her household--as servants. But when she discovers that Marcus is a changed man, she stops worrying about losing her home--and starts to wonder if she's losing her heart...
THE GOLDEN FEATHER 11/2002 ISBN: 0451207289 After the death of her husband, Caroline Aldritch is shocked to learn his only legacy to her is the Golden Feather, a gaming establishment. Faced with a life of poverty, the genteel widow hatches a desperate scheme: She will don a silk mask, call herself Mrs. Archer, and risk great scandal by running the Golden Feather. No one must ever discover her secret--not even the dashing Lord Lyndon. Once a notorious rake with a penchant for duels, Lord Lyndon has become a perfect gentleman after serving with his father's former regiment in India. Upon his return to England, he devotes himself to his relatives--never expecting to fall under the spell of the exotic Mrs. Archer. Bewitched, bewildered, and bemused, he soon vows to use all his charm and cunning to unmask the dazzling beauty and claim her love for his own.
LADY IN DISGUISE 9/2003 ISBN: 0451209648 Lady Emma Watson is desperate to explore the streets of London without the tiresome accompaniment of chaperones. She knows her stern aunt will never approve, so she dons a most unflattering maid’s outfit, steals out of her house, and has the most wonderful day of her life. Then, just when she thinks it may be time to end the charade and return home, she encounters the most dangerously sexy servant she’s ever seen…A veteran of the Peninsula campaign, Jack Howard, Viscount St. Albans, may be simply dressed, but he is by no means a servant. But when he comes across the lovely Lady Emma clad as a simple housemaid, he all too willingly plays along. Seduced by her snow-white skin and her dazzling features, he soon realizes he’ll do anything to make sure this game of theirs never comes to an end…
LADY MIDNIGHT 5/2005 ISBN:0451215036 A courtesan in training...Everyone that Katerina held dear has perished in a tempest off the coast of Italy. With not a penny to her name, the once-moneyed Venetian lady knows she must travel far to forge a new life. No one would ever accept her if they learned that her mother was Lucrezia Bruni, the infamous courtesan grooming young Katerina to fill her shoes someday...A governess in hiding...Still mourning his late wife, Michael Lindley knows life must go on-and that his little sister and daughter need a woman's nurturing. When a dark-eyed beauty alights on his doorstep, claiming to be a widowed governess, Michael feels a fire rekindle in him that he thought had been snuffed out long ago. And in Katerina, who thought her capacity to love had gone down with the ship, there flares a yearning that only Lindley can subdue. A woman in danger-and in love...But just as Michael and Katerina give in to the desire that knows no words, a stealthy enemy plots his revenge. And the newborn passion that brought them together will be tested as his vicious plan threatens to tear them apart.
LADY ROGUE 2/2002 ISBN: 0451205219 When impoverished Alexander Kenton falls deeply in love with Georgina Beaumont, an independently wealthy artist, he learns some difficult lessons about marriage-and money... Although she is not one of the ton, independently wealthy Georgina Beaumont is accepted by them--not merely because of her lifelong friendship with a titled lady, but because she is an artist whose portraits grace the walls of Society's elite. A fiery spirit with a strong, independent will, she has proven herself the equal of any man--and she believes she doesn't need one to make her happy. Alexander Kenton, the Duke of Wayland, retired from military service and discovered that his brother had gambled away his family's fortune, laving his mother and sister nearly destitute. Only by marrying within the aristocracy can he help his family regain their place in Society. But Alexander has fallen in love with Georgina, and he's afraid that she'll think he's after her money. Even worse, he's afraid that she truly doesn't want to be married...
A LOVING SPIRIT 2/2003 ISBN: 0451208013 England is a cold, forbidding place for Miss Cassie Richards, who has spent most of her life in Jamaica. Fortunately, she’s found warmth in the care of her aunt who’s enjoying introducing her niece in high society circles. Their latest visit is to Royce Castle, reputed to be haunted by the family’s ancestors. Cassie is intrigued not only by the possibility of glimpsing a specter or two--but by the enigmatic lord of the manor. Phillip, Earl of Royce, has no interest in his mother’s frivolities among members of the ton, or in the rumors of ghosts residing in his home. His scholarly pursuits in Greek history take precedence over the attentions of young ladies seeking a husband, until Cassie’s refreshing presence makes him wonder if he’s been spending too much time with his nose in a book. But for Cassie and Phillip to embrace their love, they’re going to need a little spiritual guidance…
ONE TOUCH OF MAGIC 6/2003 ISBN: 0451209362 When her husband passed away, Sarah, Lady Iverson, was expected to live off her substantial inheritance until she remarried. Instead she chose to forge ahead with her late husband’s work in the excavation of an ancient Viking village discovered near York on the Ransome estate. Believed to be buried there is a treasure, tainted by a witch’s spell that proclaims only the pure of heart can touch it. Sarah has no time for such superstitious nonsense as she fears the new Lord Ransome intends to remove her from the property. Miles Rutledge inherited his uncle’s estate and was dismayed to discover an archeological dig being performed on the grounds best suited for growing crops. Although his intellectual curiosity is piqued by Sarah’s scholarly pursuits, it is his heart that finds an almost otherworldly connection with her--a connection he prays she feels in return…
A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS IX 10/2002 ISBN 0451207254 Seeking an heir to her fortune, a widow challenges her family to a holiday scavenger hunt.
THE RULES OF LOVE 4/2004 ISBN:0451211766 Rosalind Chase would be quite content running her conservatory for young girls-if it wasn't for the constant antics of her brother Allen, constantly led into trouble of all sorts by that insufferable rake Lord Morley. As the secret author of a popular book on etiquette, she knows every rule Morley breaks.and she cannot stop thinking about him. When circumstance brings the two closer together, however, she learns that there is more to the man than pleasantly meets the eye. And though he lives by his own rules, they just might be the right rules for love.
SCANDAL IN VENICE 4/2001 ISBN: 0451202864 Lady Elizabeth Everdean was forced to abandon her staid existence when she accidentally killed the wretched man who was to be her husband. Now she has fled to Italy, hoping to become a great artist--and vowing never to let another man control her destiny. Sir Nicholas Hollingsworth survived the wars to become a lone wolf of the ton--where he is renowned as a rake, a rogue, and a man not to be trifled with. But when the man who saved his life in battle asks him to find his missing sister, he cannot refuse. So he departs to Venice, determined to ensnare the runaway Elizabeth. Only in this hunt, he never expects the prey to capture him, and his heart.
THE SPANISH BRIDE 5/1998 ISBN: 0451204018 Six years after being separated from her new husband, Peter Everdean, the Earl of Clifton, on the battlefields of Spain, Carmen Montero, a Spanish countess, is reunited with him, only to discover that pride and dark secrets threaten to destroy their love.
THE STAR OF INDIA 10/2004 ISBN:0451213378 Lady Emily Kenton has a parade of suitors, yet nothing excites her-or worries her-more than the unexpected return of her best friend from childhood to English society. David left for India when she was eight, after his father presented her family with the precious Star of India for safekeeping. Now Emily bears a terrible secret about the jewel-one that's certain to drive David away forever...Duty has called David Huntington, Earl of Darlinghurst, to his English estate, and now he must fulfill the promise he made to his grandmother to retrieve the Star of India. This task leads him to Emily, whom he's never forgotten-and whose delicate beauty makes his heart ache with love. David will do anything to uncover the secret she's keeping from him-and to prove that she's worth more to him than any jewel...
A TANGLED WEB 2/2006 ISBN: 045121787X The Dowager Viscountess Ransome simply must find something to fill the endless days of summer. So she invites a party of young people to her estate and sits back to watch the sparks fly. The guests look forward to a respite in the idyllic countryside. But instead they find treachery, secrets—and that most inconvenient bother, passion.... Frederick Parcival wants to to win over wealthy Lady Diana, but the young widow can't take her eyes off her long-lost first love, Sir Thomas Cole. However, Tom's ambitious mother is determined that he wed Lady Caroline Reid, who would prefer to marry Lord Edward Sutton, who loves Diana's sister, Charlotte, who is intrigued by rakish Roland Kirk-Bedwin. In such a very tangled web, tempers will surely flare—and desire bloom—as what should have been a relaxing holiday turns into anything but....RR@H's Novel Thoughts
McCarthy-Madl-Raleigh
ONE NIGHT WITH A ROGUE 6/2003 ISBN: 0821775324 Includes "Lady Jane's Lover" by Candace McCarthy; "Beyond Temptation" by Linda Madl; and "Night of Seduction" by Debbie Raleigh.
Candace McCarthy
LADY JANE'S LOVER short story in ONE NIGHT WITH A ROGUE 6/2003 ISBN: 0821775324 Journeying to Essex, Jane Graham never expects to be set upon by highwaymen. Nor does she anticipate having a mysterious stranger ride to her rescue. But Jane is in for an even greater surprise when her hero turns out to be Broc Lawson, the wickedly handsome nobleman she once worshipped from afar...a man who's about to tempt her at very close range...
Kathleen McCarthy
A TREASURE TO HOLD 2/2003 ISBN: 084395146X A treasure stolen, a man murdered, two keys missing: one held by Sebastion Merrick, the other by Isabelle Saint-Simon. Both the rogue Englishman and the aristocratic lady seek Reynaud Andrassy. Sebastion blames the Frenchman for his cousin's death and wants vengeance. Isabelle believes her stepbrother innocent and plans to clear his name. In desperation, they form a tenuous truce. But the path they traverse is marked by betrayal, greed, and death, and leaves them clinging to each other for survival. United by desire, divided by duty, they realize only one question remains: have they unlocked a love strong enough to overcome the treachery of the past?
Teresa McCarthy
THE CONVENIENT BRIDE 9/2005 ISBN: 0451216377 A Dangerous Liason.... Facing financial ruin, Lord Clayton Clearbrook inherits his uncle's fortune with the stipulation that he must marry within three weeks-an opportunity he dare not refuse. Not many weddings in the ton are based on love, after all-and a bride of convenience would suit Clayton perfectly. Knowing time is of the essence, he sets his sights on Miss Briana Garland, a bluestocking who has adored him since childhood. But to Clayton's dismay, the lady shuns his advances. Though Briana still has feelings for the handsome lord, she has vowed never to marry. Besides, she has other things on her mind, namely taking part in a secret mission to break up the assassination attempt of the Prince Regent! However, her rejection does not stop Lord Clayton. And as he intensifies his pursuit of her, the lady finds herself falling in love...and in more jeopardy than she ever bargained for.... RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THE REJECTED SUITOR 4/2004. ISBN:0451211804 Lady Emily Clearbrook's brothers claim they are looking after her best interests when they take on the duty of finding her a husband. But Emily will not trust matters of her heart to another-especially after the love of her life professed his undying devotion, then ran off with another woman. When Jared, Earl of Stonebridge, returns from the war a widower, he vows to set things straight with Emily, the girl he left three years earlier. Though he expects resistance from her weapon-wielding brothers, he has no defense against Emily's anger. Yet Jared still yearns to spark even the least hint of desire in his old flame, and with his disarming kisses, he might just succeed...
TO MARRY A MARQUESS 8/2004. ISBN:0451212711 The Marquess of Drakefield knows firsthand the costs of marrying a pauper-both in heartbreak and in coin. But his dying best friend has asked Drakefield to look after his widow. Winning over the wary girl is one thing-but accepting his love for her is another.
THE WAGERED BRIDE 12/2004. ISBN:0451213726 When Lord Stephen Clearbrook, the fourth son of a duke, enters a high-stakes card game, he acquires more than just another debt-he acquires a bride. He owes a large sum to one William Shelby, a wealthy businessman who always gets what he wants. And what Shelby wants is for his lovely daughter Elizabeth to marry a man with a title, so he's offered to waive Clearbrook's debt if the Lord is willing to take her hand. Having learned too well from her obstinate father, Elizabeth positively refuses to marry for anything other than love. But when she meets the handsome Lord Clearbrook, it seems that fate may have dealt a perfect pair after all...
Sara McCulloch
NOT QUITE A LADY 2/1981 ISBN:0449501620
Susan McDuffie
AN UNUSUAL CORRESPONDENCE short story in A REGENCY SAMPLER 10/1999 ISBN: 1929085001
Corey McFadden
LITTLE BEAST short story in IN OUR DREAMS 10/1998
WITH EYES OF LOVE 6/2003 ISBN:0843952172 Poor spinster Elspeth Quinn's relatives bring her to Bath for a coming-out Season, but it is a bit painful to know she was only invited to provide a dowdy contrast to her cousin Caroline. Yet when Elspeth unexpectedly attracts the interest of the most eligible bachelor of the moment, she decides it is the outside of enough. Julian Thorpe might claim he'd rather spend time with his prize pigs than chatting up marriage-minded mamas, but all the world knows he is on the verge of proposing to her cousin. So why does he seek her out on moonlit terraces and kiss her senseless? The bespectacled bluestocking soon realizes her fuzzy image of the man is fast becoming a very clear fantasy of passion. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Dorothy McFalls
THE MARRIAGE LIST 5/2005 ISBN: 0451214994 Radford, the fourth Viscount Evers, is known for his harsh bearing, stubborn pride--and skillful avoidance of wedding vows. Then a brush with death in the Peninsular campaign reminds him of his responsibilities to his family and his title, and he creates a list detailing the perfect wife. But all his criteria go out the window when young May Sheffers wishes him to the devil—and captures his heart. May Sheffers is faced with an uncertain future. Her parents disappeared years ago in a South American jungle. Her uncle has had the courts seize control of their money—and arranged a marriage for her to a very old man. And now she keeps running afoul of the confounding, though handsome, Viscount Evers. But her life might take an unexpected turn for the better after she and the roguish peer share a passionate kiss...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Nelle McFather
DARK REFUGE 1976 ISBN: 044138080X
MOONSPELL 7/1994 ISBN: 050551964X Legend says that the moonstone will bring love and good fortune to whoever possesses it. Just one touch of the magic stone sweeps Annabel back to an ancient English castle, where she is drawn to a virile nobleman whose secrets threaten untold peril - while his touch promised undreamed ecstasy.
THE RED JAGUAR 1974 ISBN 044171107095 It was an ancient stone idol, but it had the power to destroy a frightened young girl's life...gothic suspense.
Gladys McGorian
THE PRINCE REGENT'S SILVER BELL 1987 ISBN: 0802709540 Katherine doesn't want her uncle's money-even though there is a considerable amount of it. She would rather be training racing horses. But the will demands she spend a year with her aunt, after which time the solicitors will decide if she has been a proper lady, and can inherit the money, which she needs to pay for medical care for her father. She soon learns that her cruel Aunt is bent on having the money for herself.
Lindsay McKenna
KING OF SWORDS 5/1992 ISBN: 0373287259 Devlin Kyle was bound to serve in Napoleon's army, but the Irish patriot vowed that someday he would make the English pay for their crimes against his family. So when he inadvertently captured Englishwoman Thorne Somerset, the lovely young lady fell very neatly into his plans...A Gypsy raised among the well-heeled, Thorne understood her captor's bitterness. But beneath Dev's hard-edged soldier's exterior, she also sensed the gentleness of the man. Could she convince him to deny his thirst for vengeance and give that place in his heart to their love.
LORD OF SHADOWHAWK 1/1992 ISBN: 0373287089 Half brother to a brutal Redcoat, Tristan Trayhern was familiar with English cruelty. But when he found Alyssa Kyle more dead than alive aboard his sibling's prison ship, the Welsh nobleman was outraged. Blinded during her captivity, the lass was an innocent victim of the recent Irish Rebellion, and Tray vowed to give her his protection. Tray's tenderness awoke Alyssa from her nightmare of darkness. Although the comforting seclusion of his home, Shadowhawk, soothed her fears, she knew that she was tempting fate by deceiving Tray. For Alyssa was no victim of circumstance, but an enemy to the Crown
Dixie Lee McKeone
DAUGHTERS FOUR 4/1988 ISBN:0373310196 He was the ideal husband, for her sister! The Earl of Beresford was the perfect husband, wealthy, charming, and wickedly witty. Veronica determined he should marry her sister Rachel. Sister Charlotte had also found the perfect man, for Veronica. Now she must escape the boring baron and deal with the antics of her madcap youngest sister, too. Her matchmaking seemed highly successful, so why did the happiness of Rachel and Beresford make Veronica so miserable? Sadly, she resigned herself to life as a spinster schoolteacher. But she reckoned without the Earl of Beresford and his devilish sense of humour!
SWEET DORO 9/1989 ISBN:0373311095 Four and thirty and a widow, Lady Dorothea Sailings thought nothing could surprise her anymore. But upon arriving in London from the country with her two young charges, Doro was met by Garreth Amberson...
THE WINTER PICNIC 4/1987 ISBN:037315156X Miss Amethy Portney would make a delightful mother...or so thought four-year-old John William Farringham, tenth Duke of Lowestroft. Jackie, as his intimates called him, was being raised by his cousin, the Earl of Northford, and he wanted Miss Portney to become his guardian's wife. Unfortunately, Amethy and Northford weren't cooperating. She had heard about the ear's outrageous reputation during her seasons in London and wanted nothing to do with the handsome rake. And he regarded Amethy as yet another female setting her cap for him. But Jackie wasn't easily discouraged. When he wanted something, he usually got it.
Meagan McKinney
NO CHOICE BUT SURRENDER 10/1987 ISBN:0440164125 Lady Brienne Morrow returned to Osterley Park, her father's opulent mansion, only to discover that he had gambled it away. Penniless and alone, she was ready to admit defeat and face the new owner, Avenel Slane, an American with brooding looks and a barely leashed, mysterious anger. A pawn in Avenel's hidden plans for revenge, Brienne was now being held against her will. Brienne did not know what secrets brought him here, or what fate awaited her. She was certain of only one thing...that Avenel's tender kisses would soon make her yield to the scorching desire quivering within her.
Lesley-Anne McLeod
CLEMMIE'S MAJOR 9/2002 ISBN: 158749292X Clementina, eldest daughter of the Marquess of Cheriton, has always been able to solve her family's little problems and discontents. Now the widowed Countess of Carmelth, Clemmie finds herself facing problems she cannot solve alone. Someone is trying to harm her young son, and her brother is missing in action following the Battle of Waterloo. Major Gideon Rhyle may be able to help, but his assistance becomes another problem. For Clemmie falls in love with him and he, wounded and facing an uncertain future, is thoroughly ineligible for marriage.
THE RAKE'S REFLECTION ISBN: 1587493446 The fifth Earl of Torgreave Rupert Manningford has determined to reform his rakish ways. He will return to his estate, mend his relationship with his brother, and possibly even find a virtuous lady and marry. Miss Cordelia Tyninghame of Edinburgh has determined to travel to London. She is to stay with the fourth Earl of Torgreave, a friend of her late father. She believes she has been in correspondence with the fourth earl. However, the old earl is dead, and unknown to everyone, the fifth earl's housekeeper has answered Delia's letters. Delia's arrival holds surprises for everyone. Her appearance reveals a remarkable mystery. Solution of the mystery will alter Delia's past, Rupert's future, and the lives of everyone around them. Their search for understanding takes them from the ice of the Frost Fair to the beginning of the London season. The love they discover brings them only anguish before it heals their hearts and transforms their lives.
Barbara McMahon
BANISHED 2/1999 ISBN: 1582000867 Arabella, Countess of Waverly, was banished to the North of England four years ago by her irate husband. Falsely accused of scandalous behavior, she had no recourse but to acquiesce to his harsh decree. Now she's come into an inheritance which will enable her to return to London. Justin, Earl of Waverly was reported killed by Napoleon's troops in Spain. When he returns home unexpectedly on the eve of Arabella's return to London, the sparks fly. Scandal is one thing Justin refuses to allow taint his name. But his control over his wife has lessened in the intervening years and she is now capable of setting up her own home in London. Which would feed the gossip he is trying to avoid. They strike an agreement. He will lend his countenance if she will agree to behave with propriety and assist in launching his younger sister to the ton. Justin vows he will watch her every move. Arabella agrees, determined to find a way to clear her in her husband's eyes and prove once and for all she was innocent of the scandalous behavior he believes of her.
Kay McMahon
DARA'S DESIRE 8/1985 ISBN: 0821716425 Alluring and headstrong, Dara Brandon left her family home to search for her missing brother, but discovered instead the secrets of love in the arms of a mysterious stranger. His cold piercing eyes turned her blood to liquid fire. His tender caress aroused her raw naked desire. And though she knew she should run from his ardent embrace - she became a willing captive of her newly awakened passion. Pirate, traitor, rogue...Justin Whitelaw always took what he wanted no matter what the cost. And once he found Dara on the dark deserted pier, he knew he had to have her, had to make her his own. Never had he seen such fragile beauty. Never had he tasted lips so sensuous or sweet. She was a treasure, a temptress, a luscious dream come true - and he vowed that he'd be the only man to ever fulfill...Dara's Desire.
Michelle McMaster
THE MARRIAGE BARGAIN 8/2000 ISBN: 0843947500 A golden-curled beauty hidden in a rubbish heap, clad only in a filthy nightgown, was the last thing Lord Beckett Thornby expected to stumble across in the dead of night, in a London back alley. But there she lay cold, wet and unconscious. Beckett felt compelled to rescue her, drawn to care for the mysterious angel who had fallen into his life. Bathed, changed and rested was the last condition in which Lady Isobel Hampton expected to find herself. Especially when shed awoken in an unfamiliar bed, next to an unfamiliar-- yet devastatingly gorgeous--aristocrat. And until a marriage of convenience became a meeting of two soul-mates, the last place they expected to find true love was in each others arms
Alisa McNair
PEARL BEYOND PRICE 10/1996 ISBN: 0843940824 After her husband's death, Allana finds herself drawn to London to seek solace--and her husband's murderer. Soon, Allana is the toast of the town. Spurred by rumors of Allana's moral lassitude, her dead husband's best friend Alexander finds himself acting in her defense. For the bachelor knows that despite the rumors, her beauty and spirit are truly a Pearl Beyond Price.
McNaught-Deveraux-Barnett-Lamb
A HOLIDAY OF LOVE 11/1994 ISBN: 0671502522 Includes "Miracles" by Judith McNaught; "Change of Heart" by Jude Deveraux; "Daniel and the Angel" by Jill Barnett; and "Hark! The Herald" by Arnette Lamb.
Judith McNaught
ALMOST HEAVEN 4/1990. ISBN: 0671742558. Love and Dame Fortune have played havoc with beautiful Elizabeth Cameron. The impoverished orphan has survived a storm of scandal in London...and now her uncle, who holds her estate in trust, commands her to choose among three unlikely suitors. Only Ian Thornton, a bold, handsome rogue who has made his fortune from exploits on the high seas, captures her fancy. But passion must conquer pride - for he wrongly sees the lady as a frivolous flirt, and she mistakenly disdains him as a fortune-hunting gambler!
SOMETHING WONDERFUL 4/1988 ISBN: 0671737635 The story of Alexandra Lawrence, an artless country girl, and her tempestuous marriage to Jordan Townsende, the rich and powerful Duke of Hawthorne. Swept into the endlessly fascinating world of London society, free-spirited Alexandra becomes ensnared in a tangled web of jealousy and revenge, stormy pride and overwhelming passion. But behind her husband's cold, arrogant mask, there lives a tender, vital, sensual man...the man Alexandra married. Now, she will fight for his very life...and the rapturous love they alone can share!
WHITNEY, MY LOVE 1/1985. ISBN: 0671737643. Under the dark, languorous eyes of Clayton Westmoreland, the Duke of Claymore, Whitney Stone grew from a saucy hoyden into a ravishingly sensual woman. Fresh from her triumphs in Paris society, she returned to England to win the heart of Paul, her childhood love..only to be bargained away by her bankrupt father to the handsome, arrogant Duke. Outraged, she defies her new lord. But even as his smoldering passion seduces her into a gathering storm of desire, Whitney cannot, will not, relinquish her dream of perfect love.
Melinda McRae
A COUNTRY WEDDING Short Story in A REGENCY SUMMER 6/1992 ISBN: 0451174011
THE DEFIANT MISS FOSTER AND A HIGHLY RESPECTABLE WIDOW 8/2003 ISBN: 0451209508 The Defiant Miss Foster: Valentine Debenham has just learned that since his father’s death, he himself has been responsible for the welfare of a family of orphaned children, including a young girl on the brink of womanhood. Finding a husband for Kat Foster is a responsibility he doesn’t take lightly--but he never considered that the only man perfect enough to be Kat’s husband was himself…A Highly Respectable Widow: The Earl of Knowlton believed no woman could resist him--nor satisfy him. Then he met Katherine Mayfield, a widowed beauty with an air of unassailable virtue who was determined to keep the infamous earl at bay--and her own heart in check…
THE DUKE'S DAUGHTER 4/1991 ISBN: 0451169743. Elizabeth Granford firmly resisted Somerset Graham, the Earl of Wentworth, as he sought to uncover the secret she was determined to hide. Elizabeth also rejected the Earl's proposal of marriage most ladies would have leapt at. For she was someone who wanted nothing to do with wedlock and even less with love.
HIDE-AND-SEEK Short Story in RAKES AND ROGUES 6/1993 ISBN: 0451176391. Miss Juliet Waldron, takes care of the illegitimate children of George Atwell, Viscount Belmont, the man she loves, and goes to a masquerade to meet him incognito.
THE HIGHLAND LORD 12/1992 ISBN: 0451174690 Dazzling Lady Harriet Winterbourne had her pick of the finest English gentlemen in the marriage mart. Certainly any one of them would have been a better match than Alasdair MacKyle, a Scottish lord forced to come to London against his will. This strikingly handsome stranger to society was arrogant, opinionated, and unbending. Even worse, he had no use for anyone or anything English. Unfortunately, Harriet had to face the fact that she was in love with him. For only love would make her attempt the impossible, as she set out to make this stubborn Scotsman stop her as an English lady and start seeing her as a woman...
A HIGHLY RESPECTABLE WIDOW 1/1992 ISBN: 0451171268 The superbly handsome Earl of Knowlton was a rake without equal. No woman, whether wanton or well-born, could resist him, just as none could satisfy him for long. But Knowlton had grown bored with easy conquests. He sought a sterner test of his powers of seduction to stir his jaded sense of sport. Then he met Katherine Mayfield. This widowed beauty with her air of unassailable virtue and flaming red hair provided the spark to set Knowlton's passion ablaze. Thus the struggle was joined between this licentious lord and a perfect lady who had to keep the infamous earl at bay and her own heart in check.
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Short Story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS III 11/1991.ISBN: 0451170865. Lord Ashby Sutton returns after years in America to find his family home vacant except for the governess, Miss Rosalie Norris
LADY LEPRECHAUN 5/1993 ISBN: 0451175247 Though she was a widow with a school-age son, Emily, Viscountess narrow was still young and lovely. But she had no wish to wed again. Her late husband had granted her an independence no other man would-and she preferred the struggles of being single to submitting to male tyranny. The Duke of Hartford was all Emily abhorred in the opposite sex. This handsome, wealthy and powerful widower thought women no more than pretty playthings. And when Emily and Hartford were thrown together in a cross- country hunt for, two schoolboy runaways, Emily had to teach this arrogant aristocrat that a lady could be as strong as any lord-even as he expertly probed for the weakness she dared not admit yet could not deny. ...
MARRIED BY MISTAKE 5/1992 ISBN: 0451202686. Jessica O'Neill's stage career made her the toast of London society. But no one suspected her true identity as a high- born young lady risking her good name to save her family from total ruin. And when the handsome Earl of Linton approaches her with an offer she can't possibly reject, Jessica must learn to play a wealth-hunting wanton to the hilt--and avoid falling in love....Florence Washburn had Kit Swinton firmly in mind as her intended mate. So how on earth did she stumble into marriage with his infamous elder brother instead? Viscount Alford wasn't the man she planned to wed, and now it seems he's not the notorious rake he pretends to be either. In fact, Florence is charmed by the frightfully clumsy oaf he actually is. Perhaps this marriage will turn out to be the best mistake she ever made....
MISS CHADWICK'S CHAMPION 12/2000 ISBN: 0451198573 Lord Gareth would do anything to ensure that his family's eight-hundred-year-old castle survived. But as the walls fell down around him, and as Gareth's youngest brother incurred huge gambling debts, things did not look promising. The only way to restore the family fortune was to marry an heiress-a rare commodity in the dales of Yorkshire... Susanna Chadwick knew that being an heiress offered its share of problems. Her greedy cousin had already attempted to force her hand in marriage in order to obtain her inheritance. And now, after trudging through the mire and pouring rain to escape his clutches, she had ended up here-in this crumbling old castle, with Lord Gareth and his brothers watching over her. She wouldn't dare tell them her secret. And while she didn't want another suitor to steal her hand, she didn't expect that one of them would instead steal her heart. ...
PRINCE OF THIEVES 5/1994 ISBN: 0451404890. They called him "Gentleman Jack." Darkly handsome, irresistibly charming, and devil-may-care wild, the mysterious rouge had cut a swath through polite society as a thief, hiding his hurt and his secret past behind a chilling facade....Honoria needed "Gentleman Jack" Derry for just one reason-- to steal back her inheritance. But joining her destiny with this sensual outlaw might unleash the passion beneath her innocence, freeing her yearnings to know a man's sensual touch....Together on a luxurious estate, they were playing a hazardous game of deception. But together they were discovering the desire between them was no game. Kisses were robbing Honoria of all reason, carrying her toward a midnight vale of seduction and awakening a powerful love that only the birth of trust between them could save...or a hangman's rope could end.
THE RESCUED HEART 4/1997 ISBN: 0451406486. Beautiful young Bess Williams was resigned to living a quiet life of genteel poverty in the English countryside after her officer father died fighting Napoleon. Then one day a stranger arrived, the most handsome, irresistibly gallant man she had ever met. His name was Kit Swinton and he claimed to be the younger son of an earl. With him he brought a parting gift from Bess's father--a fabulous necklace that would be her passport into the London world of wealth and pleasure. Bess surrendered to the temptation of selling the necklace and entering London's social whirl--only to find herself in a maze of intrigue and deception where one man could guide her to safety. Kit Swinton was the only man she could turn to, the only one she could trust. But Bess could not trust herself when he took her in his arms, and she could only follow her heart when he gave her the greatest, most perilous gift of all--the gift of fiery love....
STOLEN HEARTS 10/1995 ISBN: 0451406117 Death was his enemy, and Stephen Ashworth fought it with his skill as a surgeon, though his methods shocked all of London and made some call him a devil. With his flashing eyes, firebrand ideals, and unyielding passions he was a fallen angel who could damn a day's heart....Linette Gregory felt the young Dr. Ashworth must be stopped, and she was the woman to do it. She believed him a cold, unfeeling scientist, and yet from their first meeting, she felt flames of passion coursing through her blood....In a London awhirl in pestilence and turmoil, Linette and Stephen were rivals. She held the power to ruin his career, and he could break her heart, sweeping away her innocence in one savage kiss. Yet when they were thrust together to save a young girl's life, a tenderness that blossomed between them grew into the healing power of love....
THE TEMPORARY DUKE 7/1998 ISBN: 0451195779 Lady Rosemary, the Duke of Alston's lovely sister, faced a dreadful dilemma: Her brother had disappeared during an Alpine hike, and his wedding had to proceed as planned in order to satisfy their grandfather's will. No less than the Alston fortune was at stake! Worse, the husband-hunting Lady Rosemary couldn't not go to London for the Season without him. Desperate times called for desperate measures - in the person of a Latin teacher named Adrian Stamford, who bore a remarkable resemblance to the missing duke. A tantalizing offer concerning Adrian's passion for archaeology was too irresistible for the country scholar to resist. Lady Rosemary expected to have her hands full teaching Adrian to behave like a faultlessly mannered gentleman of the ton. But the handsome imposter had his own lessons to give - in laughter, in democracy, and in desire. Then the unthinkable occurred: Rosemary fell for her brother's double, and he for her. But she was titled; he was a commoner. She lived in splendor; he in a cozy cottage. To wed was impossible. Yet two hearts would break unless love found a way...
AN UNLIKELY ATTRACTION 9/1991 ISBN: 0451170636. The exquisite Sophrina Lady Teal and the arrogant Earl of Penhurst had but one thing in common. Both had been betrayed by love. Sophrina's handsome husband William and Penhurst's ravishing wife Lea had run off together. But when Sophrina and Penhurst met, it was not to exchange condolences. It was to trade barbs. For Sophrina found the Earl insufferably domineering. And Penhurst found Sophrina infuriatingly independent. The only think they agreed on was that love between them was unthinkable-never dreaming that love had another devilish trick to play on both of them.
THE UNREPENTANT RAKE 3/1999 ISBN: 0451197798. Ariel Tennant, the lovely young sister of the Viscount Derring, is relieved to be returning home from three weeks with her overbearing aunt. She still has to endure her aunt's company during her journey, for she is not permitted to travel unchaperoned. Their trip comes to a sudden halt when a treacherous blizzard leaves them stranded. With no nearby lodgings available, Simon Granville Thorson, the tenth Earl of Milford, generously consents to allow the strangers into his home. Ariel's aunt is horrified, for Milford's reputation as a notorious rake precedes him in polite society. However, Ariel is immediately intrigued by her host, and his socially unacceptable house guests. Milford, captivated by Ariel's innocence, begins what he thinks is a harmless flirtation. He knows that to pursue her seriously would damage her reputation. Then a series of harmless pranks among the snowbound guests turns dangerous--and Milford discovers that what he really wants is to protect Ariel, always. But is the infamous lord worthy of her innocent heart?
Judith McWilliams
BETRAYED 12/1994 ISBN: 0373288492 Forced to play the pauper in an England racked by war, American Eleanor Wallace vowed to help her country in any way she could. Yet the intrigue was becoming difficult, for she had somehow lost her heart to the formidable Duke of Ryland, a man who would never forgive her for what she'd done. James Wolf, Duke of Ryland, sought a life of honesty over artifice - a quality hard to find in London's pretentious ton, until the arrival of peerless Eleanor Wallace. But though the woman intrigued him, he had yet to unveil her secrets. Secrets that she guarded as carefully as she did her heart.
DECEPTION 1/1999 ISBN: 0821760998 Philip Moresby, Earl of Chadwick, believes love and marriage shackle a man. But if masquerading lovely, penniless Margaret Abney as Lord Henricks' long-lost daughter requires that he wed her first, he is willing to do so to enlist Hendricks' help in the House of Commons. Then passion persuades Philip that his casual disregard for Margaret is the most dangerous deception of all.
SUSPICION 4/1994 ISBN: 0373288158 The Heiress - Held hostage to Napoleon's war, Lucy Danvers had been forced into thievery in order to return to England. And Robert Standen was the only man alive who knew her scandalous secret. The Colonel - Colonel Robert Standen knew full well he held the fate of the lovely Miss Danvers in the palm of his hand. And he was determined to use that knowledge to bind her to him forever.
Katie MacAlister
NOBLE DESTINY 5/2003 ISBN: 0843951435 A poor widow, Lady Charlotte Collins returns to England eager to take her place in the ton, only to find herself shunned by all. Her one choice is to marry a groom with wealth, a title, and good looks, but Alasdair McGregor cruelly refuses to be the answer to her problems. In fact, she is forced by Dare's obstinacy to take extreme action--the faulty codpiece that leads to this marriage, the wedding that is literally a circus. But nothing can stand between Charlotte and what she wants most: the love of her husband.
NOBLE INTENTIONS 2/2002 ISBN: 0843949651 Noble Britton had suffered greatly at the hands of his first wife, and he refused to fall into the same trap again. This time he intended to marry a quiet, biddable woman who would not draw attention to herself or cause scandal. Gillian Leigh's honest manner and spontaneous laughter attracted him immediately. It mattered little that she was accident-prone; he could provide the structure necessary to guide her. But unconventional to the tips of her half-American toes--toes that one of them was constantly tripping over--his new bride turned the tables on him, wreaking havoc on his orderly life. And worse, demanding he surrender his heart. Perpetually one step behind his beguiling spouse, Noble suffered a banged up head, a black eye, and a broken nose before he realized Gillian had healed his soul and proved that their union was no heedless tumble, but the swoon of true love.
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY 7/2004 ISBN: 0843951443 1. He was Plum’s new husband. Not normally a problem, but when you consider that Harry advertised for a wife, and Plum was set to marry his secretary, there was cause for a bit of confusion. 2. He has a title. Plum had spent the last twenty years hiding from the ton, and now Harry wanted her to shine in society? Horrors! 3. He didn’t know about her shocking secret. How on earth was she going to explain about the dead husband who wasn't a husband . . . and who now seemed to be alive again? 4. He had five offspring whose sole purpose in life seemed to be sending their new stepmother to Bedlam. If she weren't so busy protecting the little devils from mysterious attacks, she'd be very cross with their attempts to do her in. 5. He’d fallen in love with her. And yet, the maddening man refused to confide in her. The former spy harbored more secrets than Plum herself, leaving her no choice but to solve the riddles of his past. For Plum knows the real trouble with Harry was that he’d stolen her heart. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Maggie MacKeever
A BANBURY TALE 3/1977 ISBN: 0449231747 They called her eccentric. Lady Mathilda Tyrewhitte-Wilson didn't care. A widow at 29, Tilda was free to go on in the spirited way that was uniquely her own. She was not going to marry again. Micah Marryat, Earl of Wilmington, had asked before. And Tilda knew he would ask again. But she had made her intentions very clear. Then lovely Madelleine de Villiers made her debut. Every London gentleman stood up and took notice. Especially the most eligible--Micah Marryat. Suddenly Madeleine and Micah were at the center of every social event. Tilda wasn't about to give up her place as society's darling. She'd still keep them guessing what wild and slightly wicked thing she'd do next.
CUPID'S DART 9/2003 ISBN: 0821775642 Miss Georgiana Halliday never expected that an accidental meeting with her old acquaintance, the notorious Lord Warwick, would end in a passionate kiss. Common sense decrees that she put the impetuous embrace out of her mind at once, especially when she should be occupied in helping her dear, unconventional friend Marigold out of a precarious fix. Not easily accomplished when every meeting with Garth stirs up feelings that are quite distracting...if maddeningly delicious....To A Perfect Romance. Garth had long wondered whether he would enjoy kissing Georgie. The fact is that he likes it far too well. However, Garth's reputation has been ruined by the ton's gossip-mongers, and it is hardly fitting for a rake to offer courtship to a respectable young lady with responsibilities of her own. But Cupid will not be so easily denied, and when Georgie becomes entangled in a scandal of Marigold's making, Garth seizes an opportunity to offer her his assistance...and, if the lady is willing, his heart...
AN ELIGIBLE CONNECTION 3/1980 ISBN:0449500292 Impish young Delilah wasn't at all prepared to live at the home of her cousin, the fierce but attractive duke. Her red hair and freckles were clues to her mischievous ways that seemed to make her unacceptable to society. One of her most outrageous acts was the tendre she developed for her younger cousin Neal, despite his engagement to a very proper girl. Delilah's mischief went even further out of bounds. For she could not but notice the strain between Sandor and his beautiful cousin, Binnie. She learned that years ago Binnie had laughed at the duke's proposal, and from then on, there was no stopping Delilah and her meddling...
AN EXTRAORDINARY FLIRTATION 11/2004 ISBN:0821776819 Beautiful and reckless, the Loversall women have been notorious for loving unwisely and all too well. But Cara, now the widowed Lady Norwood, refuses to follow family tradition. Instead, she is quite happy rusticating on her estate in the Cotswolds, tending to her garden.until the day her brother arrives requesting her help. It seems that her niece, in the manner of all true Loversalls, has developed a most unsuitable tendre. And the object of her affection? None other than Mannering-the most irresistible, infuriating, indecently handsome rake in all of London. But Since When Is Love Sensible? To the world, Nicholas, Lord Mannering can seduce the birds from the trees. But unbeknownst to Society, there has been one conquest who got away. Now, Nick has devised a shameless scheme to lure a certain defiant lady back to London-and into his arms. Alas, he never counted on Cara's niece being so devilishly determined to hold onto her prize. Suddenly the most worldly and sophisticated of rogues is caught between two stubborn women.one he will do anything to entice, the other he wants only to escape. In this scandalous tangle of hearts, does love stand a chance?
FAIR FATALITY 11/1980 ISBN:0449501167 She was beautiful and tempting but the scourge of society. How would independent ill-mannered Jaisy become the fantastically rich Lady Easterling? How would this societal outcast seduce Lord Carlin, London's most dashing and notorious bachelor? How would the enchanting Lady Easterling earn the nickname Fair Fatality?
FRENCH LEAVE 8/1988 ISBN:0449214079 Barbary is just about finished with men. First, her scoundrel of a husband, Conor, runs off with an opera dancer. Then her own special friend jilts her for marriage to another, leaving her with a broken heart and debts to the skies.
JESSABELLE 6/1981 ISBN:0449501906 When Jessabelle ran off after a fight with her husband, the Earl of Pennymount, she had not expected to be kidnapped by a highwayman! Nor had she foreseen the divorce that would follow and her exile form Polite Society. Jessabelle knew her revenge would be sweet--if her passion for her ex-lord did not betray her first!
LADY BLISS 12/1979 ISBN:0449500101 When the impetuous and lovely Jynx Lennox suddenly asked her childhood friend Shannon (now Viscount Roxbury) to marry her, he was shocked. "Don't refuse me," she implored. "At least not before you've given it some thought. You see, I do not expect to marry for love. A marriage based on mutual esteem is far better." At the time Jynx said these words she believed them--but not for long.
LADY IN THE STRAW 3/1982 ISBN:0449502759 It all began with a misunderstanding. Well, more of a hoax actually. Because when Vashti Beaufils, a beautiful French émigré, learned she had inherited her cousin Marmaduke's gothic mansion in England, she knew there must be some mistake. She had never even met Marmaduke. She accepted anyway, only to find that her notorious cousin Valerie, who was very free with her favors, had impersonated her and had an affair with Marmaduke. Vashti discovered that the mansion was really a gambling establishment--and that the handsome Lord Stirling, one of Valerie's old beaux, thought she was up to no good...
LADY SHERRY AND THE HIGHWAYMAN 8/1986 ISBN:0449208052 What a loss to the ladies of London---a most handsome highwayman must be hanged! Celebrated writer Lady Sherris Childe is perhaps the only female in England eager for the execution of the notorious Captain Toby. The event will surely inspire her next novel, especially when Captain Toby escapes, having forced Sherry at gunpoint to help him! The ensuing escapades rival one of Sherry's plots. That is, until Sherry begins to fall in love with a man she is sure she can never have...
LADY SWEETBRIAR 2/1982 ISBN: 0449502708 Lady Sweetbriar had always led a pragmatic life for a proud but not so proper English woman caught in a world where single women were scorned with scandal. She fought gossip with gumption and poverty with a preposterous plot to keep her family jewels. But the plot goes awry and amorous missteps manage to threaten the one thing that propels the soft center of Lady Sweetbriar...
LORD FAIRCHILD'S DAUGHTER 1/1976 ISBN: 0449026957
LOVE MATCH 12/2003 ISBN: 0821775650 Newlywed Elizabeth Chavers is beside herself with shock. It seems her groom, Lord Charnwood, has not only been married before, but his former wife Magda has turned up on their wedding night! Stifling her own independent nature, Elizabeth had entered the nuptials determined to become the proper, biddable wife she thought Justin wanted-all the while being believing that at least his character was beyond reproach. But now that she knows otherwise, she sees little reason to play the prim and proper miss any longer...A Perfect Love...Lord Charnwood can scarcely believe his damnable luck. He'd never expected Magda would be forced to take refuge with him and his new bride. And he'd certainly never imagined that Elizabeth would reveal a most unexpected spirit by taking up with one of the ton's handsomest rogues. There's little help for it now.and even less time to lose. To salvage this marriage, Justin will have to show his adorably determined wife just how much he has grown to care for her-and turn an impossible situation into a perfect match.
LOVER'S KNOT 6/2004 ISBN:0821776800 Notorious rake Conor Melchers enjoys nothing more than pleasing his bevy of female companions, though he has little interest in making any of them his wife.
THE MISSES MILLIKIN 7/1980 ISBN:0449500748 Why, oh why, did she have to be the ugly duckling when she so wanted to be a swan? Then one day a charming, green-eyed rogue came her way and caught a glimpse of the special beauty that was hers. Suddenly Angelica became the loveliest swan...
A NOTORIOUS LADY 2/1978 ISBN:0449234916 Lady Phillippa Harte.her friends called her Pippin, and she was a striking creature with fair flawless skin, slanting emerald eyes, and a curlimg mass of reddish-gold hair. Her appearance alone was enough to shock the tame Scottish countryside. But then there was her behavior to whisper about as well--stopping at a public inn owned by the scandalous Lord Afton. He may have been in flight from the London drawing rooms, but he was certainly far from abandoning the suave and devilish ways he had learned there. And so they talked about Pippin and her daring escapades. None of it mattered to Pippin--until suddenly there was a force so strong, so maleovent, it could topple even the cool Lady Phllippa.
OUR TABBY 11/1987 ISBN:0449210294 She had never before suffered so keen an awareness of just how far she'd come down in the world... If it weren't enough that Miss Tabitha Minchin's carriage broke down and she was late presenting herself as the Elphinstones' governess, Mr. Vivien Sanders would come crashing into her room at the inn, half-foxed, in the dead of the night! Lest she land in a scandal broth, Tabby withheld her name from that wickedly handsome gentleman and proceeded to the Elphinstone manse, where a rackety lot awaited her attention. Between foiling elopements and retrieving letters to ladybirds, Mr. Sanders was forever popping up in her path. But in playing the coy miss, she had allowed Sanders to think the worst of her. And as time went on, she cursed herself for a fool and risking his regard, perhaps forever...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS 6/1982 ISBN:0449502929 When Lady March's charming and devoted husband, Marriot, disappears for six months, everyone is at a loss to understand his absence. Especially his lovely wife, Nell, who loves him dearly. Suddenly, on the eve of a friend's visit, Marriot reappears, his six-month adventure a total blank. He can remember nothing--and cannot explain the case of priceless jewels he is carrying. Has he stolen them? A rollicking search into a vanished moment--and the triumph of true love.
SWEET VIXEN 4/1979 ISBN:0449239020 Lady Tess had no idea of the trouble she would stir up by masquerading as her sister's servant when they paid a visit to some distant relatives. She simply had no wish to fritter her time away in polite society and did not want her true identity known....
Julianne MacLean
TO MARRY THE DUKE 6/2003 ISBN:0060527048 American heiress Sophia Wilson arrives in London in search of an English lord to wed, since marrying a nobleman is one way of gaining the acceptance, which her mother desperately craves, of New York's old society. James Nicholas Langdon, the "Dangerous Duke," needs money to keep his family's estates afloat, and marrying Sophia seems to be the perfect solution. Their marriage would be a simple business arrangement since Sophia wants his title and he needs her money. The only flaw in James' plan is that after having spent his life learning to control his passions, he now must give into desire if he is to successfully seduce the heiress he needs. An unconventional, genuinely kind American who isn't afraid of breaking the rules of society teaches a cynical Englishman the true meaning of love in this sexy historical. MacLean gives readers a fascinating glimpse of a time when American women were accused of "buying" husbands in England as she fluently blends history into an emotionally compelling love story. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Anne MacNeill
A MIND OF HER OWN 9/1983 ISBN: 0451124820 A determined young beauty courted danger when she decided she would be more than an English Lord's perfect wife.
Amanda Mack
MAKESHIFT MISTRESS 1/1981 ISBN:0440158745
Dorothy Mack
THE ABDUCTED BRIDE 8/2005 ISBN:0451216199 Amy Cole wants the freedom to take care of herself while her brother, Robert, is away from home. But he has left her under the care of a friend-and she cannot even leave the estate without being followed! Then, one day in town, she manages to escape her escort- and runs into a former soldier in search of his missing bride. Sir Jason Archer is convinced that Amy is his beloved Désirée -and drugs her so he can take her home with him. When she awakens, Amy finds herself in a foreign manor, surrounded by strangers, all of whom believe she is Désirée. No matter how much she protests, Jason refuses to accept her story. So she resigns herself to playing along until she can manage an escape. But much to her surprise, Amy starts to grow fond of this insistent, enigmatic man. She can only hope that when he finally discovers she is truly not his Desiree that he will love her just the same.
THE AWAKENING HEART 11/1993 ISBN:0451178254 Everyone devoutly desired Dinah Elcott to wed. Her wealthy father sent her to London with enough funds to outfit a princess and orders to put herself on display in the Marriage Mart. Her worldly wise hostess launched her into the social swim. And suitors scenting her fortune closed in on her like ravenous sharks. Dinah, however, had other ideas. She preferred drawing to dancing, painting to persiflage, and freedom to wedlock...
THE BELLE OF BATH 7/1981 ISBN:0440106176 "Deception!" Such an ugly word. But the correct word for what she had done. And yet her position as governess to the Brewster family was her lifeline. She had seized it as the only possible means of survival. And there had been no problem. None at all. At least not until he arrived. But what would she do now if Mr. Simon Kirkland saw through her disguise? If, underneath the gray powder and dark shadows that made her look a fading spinster, he should discern Virginia Spicer, the very girl he had laughingly called "Miss Ginger Spice" only six months ago. The Belle of Bath!
THE BLACKMAILED BRIDEGROOM 1984 ISBN:0451127684 As soon as they were man and wife, Adam Glenville would no longer be at her mercy. April Wendover would be at his, and April could be sure that Adam would have as little mercy as she did...
THE BLACKMAILED BRIDEGROOM-THE LUCKLESS ELOPEMENT 5/2001 ISBN:0451203577 In "The Blackmailed Bridegroom", Miss April Wendover forces Lord Adam Glendale into marriage, lest he be exposed to ruinous scandal. But once they are wedded, it will be Glendale who'll have the upper hand. In "The Luckless Elopement", beautiful Victoria Seymour meets roguish Andrew Massingham, a man no sensible woman would trust, and no wanting woman could resist.
A COMPANION IN JOY 9/1980 ISBN:044011263X Given the choice of wedlock or a debtor's cell, the dashing Nicholas, Viscount Torvil, agreed to marry a woman he had never met. Of course, he would continue his scandalous affair with the flame-haired Cecile, Lady Montaigne. Hadn't Katherine Harmon, bartered bride-to-be, overheard his plans for future infidelities before they were even wed? She would make him rue the day he bought his bride...and the night he tried to melt her with kisses. She was determined to do anything--but fall in love with the rake she had wed!
THE COUNTERFEIT WIDOW 11/1996 ISBN: 0451188837 When Charity Leonard's mother died, leaving the flame-haired young lady without either father or fortune, it was up to Charity alone to protect her all-too-innocent sister Prudence from the evils of the world and the mischief of men. If Charity had to pose as a respectable widow to act as Prudence's guardian in the marriage mart, so be it. Now, however, Charity's plan to win Prudence wedded bliss was threatened by a man as monstrously cynical as he was highborn and handsome. Not only did Lord Tyndale mock morality by flaunting his mistress in public, he seemed bound and determined to prove that Charity's propriety was merely a pose. It was bad enough that this libertine lord was out to destroy Charity's disguise. Even worse, he was equally intent on breaking down her defenses. And if she did not stop him, she would be unmasked as well as undone...
THE COURTSHIP OF CHLOE 9/1992 ISBN:0451173481 Miss Chloe Norris was a most sensible young lady. But now her good sense faced a stern test. She had to straighten out the affairs of the aristocratic Montroses, a tangle of star-crossed loves and matriarchal meddling. And she had to deal not only with the amorous attentions of the dazzlingly handsome younger Montrose son, but with Lord Ivor Montrose, who arrogantly ignored her long-standing engagement to the upright Captain Bertram Otley. Chloe had to keep her head when all around her were losing theirs. And she had to keep her heart from being stolen by a many all too practiced at getting what he wanted...
THE GAMESTER'S DAUGHTER 3/1998 ISBN: 0451195299 Claudia Herbert was the talk of Paris, charming every gentleman at her father's fashionable gambling hell - including Lord Pelham. But despite an instant tendre, Pelham believed that Claudia - in truth as innocent as her adorable dimples - was no lady. And Claudia was too proud to convince him otherwise. Then her father was murdered, and Claudia was forced to flee in disguise. Quite by accident, she landed at Pelham's estate, where his five nephew and nieces desperately needed someone to care for them. So did Pelham - and her name was Claudia. As for the gamester's daughter, she couldn't protect her heart from this dashing, tender man she was suddenly seeing in a new light. Even if it meant risking everything for his love.
THE GENERAL'S GRANDDAUGHTER 1990 ISBN:0451165403
THE GOLD SCENT BOTTLE 4/2000 ISBN: 0451200039 Max Waring, Viscount Edgeworth, left London after his fiancee broke off their engagement and married his father instead. After four years aboard in the military, he has returned, only to be waylaid by his 'stepmother' and coerced into visiting his family - a prospect that fills Max with dread. Abigail Monroe's brother foolishly lost a wager to Lord Edgeworth. So he offers Abigail's heart-shaped gold scent bottle - a gift from their late mother - to his opponent without her permission. To get her property back, she will have to pose as Max's bride-to-be while staying at his family's estate. But pretending to be in love awakens passions more intense than Max and Abigail could ever have imagined..
THE IMPOSSIBLE WARD 1978 ISBN:0440139945 Things were awkward, mused Lady Marianne Carstairs, deuced awkward. She was grateful for the unexpected inheritance, of course, but she might have wished that the late Earl of Melford's choice of trustee had been someone other than the handsome and charming Justin, Lord Lunswick. She sighed. Ruefully, she was forced to confess to herself that life on a Yorkshire farm had ill prepared her for the elegant fencing and flirting of the ton. And now Andrew's henwitted scheme for saving Justin from the bewitching Aurelie St. Clarie...Yes, things were very complicated indeed.
THE LAST WALTZ 1986 ISBN:0451141563 Miss Adrienne Castle had inherited only one thing beside debts from her dashing, feckless father. She had learned from him a remarkable skill of cards--and that skill now was all that could keep her and the rest of her family from ruin. In disguise she mastered every gentleman at the gaming table, but there was no disguising the fact that one gentleman had become master of her heart. Lord Dominic Creighton had everything--wealth, charm, good looks, and the most ravishing woman in England as his fiancee. Clearly a young lady without fortune and with a scandalous secret life faced the most daunting odds in trying to capture this most perfect of men--unless she played her every card just right and didn't miss a trick...
THE LOST HEIR 7/1993 ISBN: 0451176383 Miss Brianna Llewellyn had every reason to distrust Christopher Cardorette. His older brother had betrayed Brianna's innocent sister Meg, and Christopher was as handsome and charming as that cad had been. Even more to the point, Meg's child now had an ironclad claim to the title Christopher held and might well do anything to keep. Brianna had to defend her little nephew against whatever plot Christopher might hatch. She had to defend herself against this masterful man's seductive skill. And above all, she dared not fall in love with this lord who would do anything but love her in return...
THE LUCKLESS ELOPEMENT 1984 ISBN:0451129695 Beautiful, charming, and witty Victoria Seymour was everything an aristocratic gentleman could want in a wife. But unfortunately for her swarm of suitors, none of them was with Vicky wanted in a husband. She vowed that if she did not fall deeply and hopelessly in love, she would never marry, even if it meant fleeing the London marriage mart once and for all. On the highway to her country retreat, Vicky met Mr. Andrew Massingham, an unscrupulous fortune-hunter no sensible young woman would ever be foolish enough to trust. But knowing the danger of falling in love with him and avoiding that perilous pitfall were two very different things. And Vicky was horrified to discover that her heart was capable of betraying her to a man who might betray her still more...
THE MOCK MARRIAGE 6/1991 ISBN:0451170199 Beautiful Miss Claire Yelland was most accomplished at the art of imposture. She played an actress named Clairisse Deschamps so well that all London thought her a light-skirted lady of the stage, and rich rakes swarmed after her. But now she had a far more demanding role. The handsome, heartless Sir Egon Hollister offered a sum she could not refuse to act as his wife.
A PRIOR ATTACHMENT ISBN:0451159640 The Duke of Carlyle had found the perfect husband for his beautiful daughter, Lady Gemma Monteith. John Delevan was handsome, intelligent,witty,charming, and above all, very very wealthy. But the duke had neglected one detail. Gemma happened to be head over heels in love with her childhood sweetheart, Captain George Godwin, and now that gallant officer and gentleman was coming home after heroic wartime service to claim Gemma as his bride. Wedding bells were ready to ring for Gemma-but who would be the one to put the ring on her finger...?
THE RAVEN SISTERS 7/1977 ISBN:0440172551 Regency London was abuzz at the arrival of the two Raven sisters -- classically beautiful Elizabeth, an heiress who was every fortune hunter's dream, and the younger Carina, whose loveliness won admirers even as her shocking independence alarmed aristocratic society. But Elizabeth and Carina were elusive as they were irresistible, and beneath their masks of glittering gaiety each knew she had found the only man she could love -- if foolish pride didn't destroy all chance of happiness....
THE RELUCTANT HEART 1/1990 ISBN:0451163605 Beautiful young Lady Serena Whitlow had a very brief but violently bitter taste of men and marriage. The fourth Earl of Whitlow taught her how horrendous a husband could be -- before his sudden demise delivered her from bondage to that handsome brute. Now Serena meant to stay free -- even when the elegant Lord Peter Phillips chose her as his future bride... and even when Adrian, the dashing fifth Earl of Whitlow, proposed that he take his late cousin's place with her in the marriage bed. Serena might be single-minded -- but her vow not to wed faced double danger as the two most attractive lords in London attacked her resolve with all the weapons of love at their command....
THE STEADFAST HEART 12/1988 ISBN:0451156013 Beautiful and spirited Miss Natasha Phillips was enraged by the arrogant effrontery of Major Cameron Talbot. First the major arrived in London to take command of Natasha's entry into society, ordering her to behave like the most boringly stuffy of young ladies. Next he demanded she wed him in order to save the reputation that her scandalous conduct had brought to the edge of ruin. It was demeaning being his charge. It would be humiliating to be his wife. And it would be disaster to give this maddeningly masterful man the whip hand by letting him even suspect that she was in love with him...
THE SUBSTITUTE BRIDE 1978 ISBN:0440183758 Angelica Wayne was in a most devilish dilemma! It began when she was forced to take a post as a governess to Lord Giles Weston's motherless daughter. It grew more difficult when Angelica lost her heart to this dazzling viscount who once had been wed to the reigning beauty of the realm and now was linked with the most desirable lady of the London season. Angelica was resigned to forever masking her feelings until Giles made a proposal that might be the answer to her wildest dreams. Sure of Angelica's indifference to him, Giles asked her to be his wife in name only, with each of them free to lead separate lives. Thus only by living a lie could Angelica keep the only man she had ever wanted, as this spirited Regency heroine staked all her happiness on a man who was afraid to love!
A TEMPORARY BETROTHAL 5/1995 ISBN:0451184696 A Second-Best Bargain. Belinda Melville knew it was folly to be head over heels in love with Captain Anthony Wainright. The handsome officer made it clear that he far preferred Belinda's heartbreakingly beautiful and calculating cousin, the newly married but ever enticing Lady Deirdre Archer. The captain's proposal that he and Belinda be betrothed was nothing more than a shameless ruse to shield his shameful passion for Deirdre from scandal. Which left Belinda with a decision that no young innocent in love should have to make. Should she hold out for a man who would be hers only? Or was being second best to a man she adored at first sight better than nothing?
THE UNCONVENTIONAL COURTSHIP 8/1987 ISBN: 0451149254 For one of her tender years, Miss Cleone Latham had a great number of things to do. As a grateful poor relation to an aristocratic household, she had to manage affairs so that her great uncle, Lord Brestwick, would not topple over the abyss of financial ruin. As a fond cousin, she had to help headstrong Phillip Hardwicke escape the dreadful consequences of his folly at the gaiming tables. And as a yong lady of good conscience, she had to make the enamored Earl of Altern see the selfish, shallow nature that lay under the surface of her ravishing cousin Emerald Harwick. Of course, the only way to save Altern from Emerald's clutches was to take this heartquickening gentleman in hand herself, it was a task that Cleone was happy to undertake. It was in fact, a labor of love.
THE UNLIKELY CHAPERONE 2/1991 ISBN:0451168933 When Alexandra Farrish had to shepherd her younger sister Didi through a London season, there was one worry she did not have. There was no problem finding suitors for her charge. Every man who met Didi became a slave to her sensationally stunning beauty. Didi's list of instantly captivated conquests included even the magnificent Marquess of Malvern, the most irresistible lord in London. Alexandra should have been dutifully delighted for her sister. But the call of duty was no match for the siren song of love, urging Alexandra to open the ryes of a man who had to learn that the most bewitching beauty was more than skin deep...
Jeanne Mackin
DREAMS OF EMPIRE 4/1996 ISBN:1575660202 The year is 1799, a time of dreams and a time of conquest, a time of discovery and a time of greed. Epic in scope, played out on a grand , lavish, scale,"Dreams of Empire" also surges with intimate human drama.
THE FRENCHWOMAN 1989 ISBN: 031203346X From her childhood in the grim slums of pre-Revolution Paris to uneasy refuge in, improbably, the Pennsylvania countryside, Julienne, illegitimate daughter of a Paris prostitute, lives a life of astonishing changes, astonishing adventures, and no little tragedy. Fleeing her grandmother's squalid home to avoid a forced marriage to an elderly lecher, she finds work as a seamstress and eventually is singled out by Marie-Antoinette herself as a favored dressmaker. When the revolution threatens, the Queen entrusts Julienne with what is, in effect, an attempt to ensure the future of the young Dauphin; a heavy burden on the young woman but one she accepts faithfully. Carrying with her the Queen's secret, threatened by the enmity of a wicked and powerful duke, Julienne, tragically widowed and with an infant girl, flees to America and the log-cabin colony called French Azilum. But danger follows Julienne to the New World, and French Azilum provides, along with a new love and a new life for Julienne, a danger that reaches out from across the sea to threaten her.
Dawn MacTavish
THE MARSH HAWK 7/2007 ISBN: 0843959347 It was to be a gala three-day event at Moorhaven Manor, the rambling country estate of Lady Jenna Hollingsworth's betrothed, Viscount Rupert Marner. To be attended by half the Cornish nobility, not to mention a host of peers from London, it would be a diversion of picnicking, riding, archery, and shooting. It would end in Jenna marrying another. But was her new husband the same man who had killed her father? After one night of passion, she began to wonder. The jarring aroma of leather, tobacco and recently drunk wine drifting toward her on the breeze—she remembered it so well, as well as the tall, muscular shape beneath the multi-caped greatcoat, and those eyes of blue fire through the holes in his mask. Oh yes, she remembered the man with whom she shared a secret past. He was the highwayman known as...The Marsh Hawk...RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THE PRIVATEER 1/2008 ISBN: 0843959819 Lark at first hoped it was a simple nightmare: If she closed her eyes, she would be back in the mahogany bed of her spacious boudoir at Eddington Hall, and all would be well. Her father, the earl of Roxburgh, would not be dead by his own hand, and she would not be in Marshalsea Debtor’s Prison. Such was not to be. Ere the Marshalsea could do its worst, the earl of Grayshire intervened. Lark shivered, considering the mysterious stone-faced noble. He’d paid her bond while the rest of London turned an eye as blind as the one beneath his eye patch. But while his touch was electric and his gaze piercing, for what purpose had he bought her freedom? It was a plan including Cornwall, return to the world of the haute ton, and embroilment in a struggle against both England’s own Admiralty and the French. But even more perilous, the ex-sea captain might plunder her heart. No, this was not a dream. As Lark would soon learn, her dreams had never ended so well. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Sandra Madden
THE ADMIRAL'S DAUGHTER 4/2003 ISBN: 082177526X When Nantucket whaler Benjamin Swain joins the Navy, his plan is straightforward. Work his way up to officer, marry a pleasant woman and use his newly honed skills to design revolutionary ships for the Navy. Beginning as a lowly seaman, his first assignment is to teach sailing at the fledgling Naval Academy at Annapolis, a simple enough task. Until he meets Sophie Harrington, the admiral's daughter. Impulsive and rebellious, Sophie is also beautiful, a fact Ben vows to ignore. Nothing will ruin his well-laid plan quicker than an entanglement with his superior's only child. But Sophie, balking at her father's insistence that she marry an officer and dreaming of writing a novel, is determined to learn to sail. Ben is the logical teacher - but nothing like the man he knows her father envisions for her. Arguing with Sophie is like shouting at the wind, however, and soon Ben wants nothing more to silence her protests with kisses, so she can hear him say "I love you."
COMFORT AND JOY 10/2001 ISBN: 0821772171 When spirited Maeve O'Malley stumbles upon an unconscious man one snowy night in December, she doesn't think twice before coming to his rescue. But her good intentions are no match for her brother's sense of propriety, and before long Maeve is married to the nameless-and irresistibly attractive stranger. It doesn't matter who he is, because Maeve is certain he's a gift from above -- one she means to keep. An art collector from one of Boston's oldest and wealthiest families, Charles Rycroft is astounded to learn that he's a married man when his memory returns -- and that his lovely Irish wife is one of Boston's serving class. Intending only to give Maeve a bit of polish before ending their hasty union, Charles's primary concern is finding the valuable sketch of St. Nicholas that was stolen when he was robbed. Yet Maeve's presence in his home is a dazzling ray of light, and as Christmas nears, he suspects her love may be his greatest joy.
Carolyn Madison
THE SCOTSMAN AND THE SPINSTER 7/2000 ISBN: 0821766546 Ross MacCailan, a lifelong Army man, never wanted his newly-inherited title. And as a proud and rugged Scot, he never dreamed that he would become a member of effete English society. But his stern sense of duty brought him home from the front, to campaign for war funds in the House of Lords. His first priority was learning the ways of the ton--and the lady assigned to tutor him, Miss Adalaide Terrington, was as exacting as a drill sergeant! Adalaide, “the Terror of the Terringtons,” had transformed many an awkward relative into an elegant gentleman. But this headstrong soldier was her most challenging pupil yet! As Ross made his bow to society beside her, they were about to find the maneuvers of the heart were as intricate as etiquette and as dangerous as any battle...
THE SINISTER SPINSTER 8/2001 ISBN: 0821768263 A Passionate Spirit... Adam Darrach, Marquess of Falconer, is on a mission to enlist the wealthy Earl of Derring's support for a diplomatic cause. Duty has its limits, however, and spending time with the earl's insufferable family has Adam at the end of his tether. His saving grace is Miss Elizabeth Mattingale, the household's only genuine treasure. Despite her efforts to appear diffident and demure, the charming young lady captures Adam's attention - and more - with her quick wit and feisty nature. But attraction battles suspicion as he learns more about her past... Or A Treacherous Soul? It is difficult indeed for a woman of Elizabeth Mattingale's caliber to tolerate the indignities of her employment as Lady Derring's companion, but she has her reasons for doing so, and will bear the drudgery for as long as she must. Only the dashing Lord Falconer treats her with respect. From the moment he intervenes on her behalf in a potentially dangerous situation, she is drawn to the enigmatic man who has appointed himself her protector. But even in love Elizabeth must tread carefully, for she harbors secrets that could endanger both their lives, forcing her to choose between old loyalties and new desires...
Liz Madison
SEASON OF SPLENDOR 8/2002 ISBN: 0821773992 A Scandalous Attraction Love. Claire Rushmoor's family believes it has little to do with finding her an appropriate husband, and with time running out as she embarks on her third Season, they tell her to dismiss such a foolish desire. But stubborn Claire is determined to wait for the kind of man who will stir her soul and arouse her senses, though she is unprepared for the man who does - Devon Blake. Recently hired by the Rushmoors as a footman - yet unlike any footman Claire has ever known - his utterly masculine allure puts the gossiping dandies of the ton to shame... Raised in London's notorious underworld, Devon never believed he would feel such an aching yearning for a woman like Claire - wealthy, privileged, the very essence of the aristocracy he loathes. He sought employment with her family solely to avenge a cruel wrong to his closest friend, but getting close to Claire is a spark that flares to undeniable need. Society forbids their powerful passion, but each stolen kiss makes Devon long to claim the woman who has captured his heart forever...
Linda Madl
THE SCOTSMAN'S BRIDE 3/1999 ISBN: 082176151X When her fiancé begs off quite publicly, Cassie St. John is determined to prove to London society that she doesn't care one whit about Dudley Moncreff's betrayal - and the outrageous escapades she's always adored seem like the best way to do it. Saved from a disastrous adventure by a mysterious, black-clad stranger, Cassie discovers he is the notorious Lord Ramsay Forbes, the sworn enemy of her sister Charlotte's betrothed, Connor McKensie. A courtship would be deliciously dangerous, until Cassie realizes that her feelings for the brooding lord are more than just a game to her...Rumor has it that Ramsay Forbes has no heart, and when it comes to battling for the coveted St. John land, he is the first to agree. With his rival McKensie set to wed Charlotte St. John, Ramsay plans to woo her twin Cassandra - even if a loveless marriage is the result. But when Ramsay finds himself bewitched by the beautiful Cassie's reckless charm, he is a man bound only by his heart's demands - willing to risk everything to win her hand - and her love.
THE SCOTSMAN'S LADY 9/1998 ISBN: 0821759892 Prim bluestocking Charlotte St. John rued the day she agreed to switch places with her daredevil twin and attend a boxing match. There she was instantly drawn to Lord Connor McKensie, a magnificently tall and powerfully built Scottish fighter who stirred an unrelenting desire deep within her. Confused by her own longings, Charlotte thought she could forget him. Until they met again... Having earned the reputation as a rough and ruthless leader, Connor McKensie couldn't believe his stroke of good fortune. The heiress to the heather-covered moors, which he was determined to reclaim for his clan, wanted to reform his wicked ways. Now, the impoverished Scottish lord could marry Charlotte instead of using his boxing winnings to buy back the land. But after spending time in the company of the gentle, blue-eyed beauty, Connor knew it was she that he truly wanted, and to win her heart, he'd gladly wage the greatest battle of his life...
A WHISPER OF VIOLETS 4/1997 ISBN: 0821756338 Glamorous madcap heiress Dorian St. John is the darling of London. Naturally, everyone expects her to shun Nicholas Derrington, Earl of Seacombe, a man branded as a French spy. But Nicholas may possess a rare musical score Dorian has been searching for, and the headstrong beauty is willing to enter into a dangerous liaison amid the glittering country estates of the aristocracy to get what she wants...A false charge of treason has blackened Nicholas's family name and personal honor. To clear himself, he must find the mysterious turncoat, whose identity is tied to a note written on a missing piece of music. Dorian St. John's overtures arouse his suspicions, and he decides to use her to gain entry back into high society, where the real traitor hides...Soon Dorian and Nicholas are swept up in a crescendo of rising desire, where daring to trust could mean their downfall...or bring the fulfillment of their dreams...
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