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Solving a murder is dangerous business. So is falling in love…
Chastity, daughter of the Duke of Daventry, will not stand idly by while her sister is suspected of murder. Since no one wants to help, she’ll take matters into her own hands. The plan? Simple. She’ll disguise herself as a servant and investigate. But when her ruse leads her to the enigmatic Lord Kendall, Chastity soon realizes nothing in her life will ever be simple again…
As much as Valentine would like to ignore the scheming beauty who claims to be a servant, he simply can’t. He needs her. Bringing his footman’s killer to justice would be impossible without her, because the vivacious Chastity can do what he can’t—talk to people and gain their trust. So, he’ll accept the chaos she brings into his life. Accepting her into his heart, however, is another matter entirely…
Fortunately for Chastity and Valentine, intrigue has a way of putting lovers on the path to happily ever after. But first, they’ve got a killer to catch…
One encounter changes everything.
When the Earl of Rancliffe suffers humiliation at the hands of a mysterious woman, he vows revenge.
However, his anger soon becomes obsession, as she leads him into ever more dangerous games.
As cruel as she is beautiful, his nemesis has no intention of revealing her true identity, nor of entangling her heart.
But in a world of vice and dark desire, what does she secretly yearn for?
Conscienceless seducer, cunning spy, confident scoundrel. Trevor Hunt, the Duke of Ridgely, has been called many things, most of which are true. Reviled by his family, hated by many, he’s earned his reputation in the seedy streets of London and in more than his fair share of bedchambers. But battling deadly foes and irate husbands failed to prepare the duke for the most troublesome role he’s played yet: guardian to one maddening hoyden.
Lady Virtue Walcot has spent most of her life abandoned, ignored, and forgotten. She’s used her unfortunate circumstances to her advantage, filling her time with books and knowledge, yearning to build an independent life for herself. When her father’s sudden death leaves her the ward of a ruthless former spy, her world is instantly upended.
An innocent ward is a burden Ridgely never asked for, and he’ll do everything he can to see the chit wedded and his duties happily ended. There’s just one small problem. He can’t stop thinking of ways he might put the luscious Lady Virtue’s sharp tongue to better use than pointed barbs in his direction. And then there’s the matter of the unknown villain who’s trying to kill him. Best make that two small problems, one deuced enticing and the other downright dangerous…
A determined lady, a grumpy duke, a scorching Christmas bargain…
When the new Duke of Metford cuts off the funding to Banton University’s Ladies’ College on Christmas Eve, Doctor Lily Reagan resolves to persuade him in person before the term resumes. Surely she can make him see how valuable women’s education is?
Beckett Winchester isn’t a dissolute wastrel like his father, and his first act as Duke is to tell all the tarts and actresses his father wasted money on that they won’t be bleeding the Metford estate dry any longer. The arrival of beautiful Lily Reagan in the snow isn’t going to change his mind.
But Lily proposes a bargain. A game of chance. If she wins, he’ll finance her precious Ladies’ College. And if he wins, this tempting siren will do anything he wants…
He must steal a lady…then steal her love.
Desiring a man and never being noticed as more than his best friend’s little sister has Lady Ellie Trentbury finally consigning herself to the truth. She must move on, and preferably with a man who lives far away from her home in London where she need never be reminded of the duke who stole her heart. An elopement with an honorable American shipping merchant sounds perfect.
The Duke of Ashten has no choice but to bound into his best friend’s carriage when he discovers little Ellie is inside and intent on eloping with a man to Gretna Green who she barely knows. He can’t allow her to make such a terrible mistake, yet convincing her might mean giving into his desire for the golden-eyed enchantress who has followed him around since he was a lad.
Her pouty lips and bountiful charms can no longer be ignored, only convincing her of the truth of his intentions will mean jeopardizing both his sanity and a lifelong friendship as well.
Major Lord Philip Avondale had last seen Junia Reynolds as she was leaving the British warship that brought her family from slavery in Maryland to freedom in England. So why was she now working for the villains who abducted him from his brother’s doorstep?
When she formed a desperate plan to rescue her beloved father from kidnappers, Junia Reynolds never imagined seeing the man of her girlish dreams as another of their victims, especially when he claimed to be his own twin brother. Can she trust him to help save her father when she cannot trust her own heart?
The beast only wins the beauty’s heart in fairy tales. In real life, he destroys it…and her.
Malcom Barton is what the man who murdered his wife made him—a beast. Scarred and broken in mind, body, and spirit, he lives his life in the shadows.
Until he sees her.
Julia Harlow is the only light and warmth to shine into his cold, dead heart for years. Wild, spirited, and free, she’s…everything.
She’s also the daughter of the man who burned his life to the ground.
Kidnapping Julia and keeping her prisoner to his dark, deviant desires seems like the perfect way to destroy his enemy.
He never expected her to enjoy her captivity.
It’s not long before she makes him want things he thought he’d never have again. He wants her.
But if the cost of his much-deserved revenge is a happily ever after with Julia, is it a price he’s able to pay?
Davien Elswood, the Duke of Blackburn, isn’t an ordinary man. Twenty years ago he was cursed with the powers of an aswang, and now he’s forced to fight the beast within. But is it only metaphorical, or in truth? He is a member of the Order of the Friars of St. Francis, a cult where men of high standing perform any number of rituals. Because of these scandalous proceedings, they must protect the truth at all costs—even if it means sacrificing one of their own.
Cosette du Bouir is a poor, French orphan who spends her nights toiling as a seamstress in London while calling a dilapidated workhouse home. The only key to her past is a plain, silver locket with the cryptic inscription—To Mine … Be Mine. One fateful evening she meets the duke. He’s fearsome and intimidating, and she prays that she never sees him again. However, this encounter sparks the return of her mysterious blackouts, where a phantom voice calls out to her.
Thrown together in the midst of magic and secrets, their paths intersect amid desire and chaos, until it all comes to a dramatic end. But who will be crowned the victor of this miserable fate?
Secrets, Lies, and a Lock
Ever since her father’s unexpected death, Cecilia Chenoweth has felt like the heroine of a bad Gothic novel. In addition to leaving her alone and destitute, her father made a deathbed confession that it was no mere fever that took her mother’s life some twenty years ago. Then he pressed a sinister key into her hands, bidding her to go forth and uncover the truth. If only she knew where to find the lock that will open to the mysterious key…
Cold, Bold, and Dangerous to Know
There is one man who recognizes the black key bearing the emblem of a snake: Marcus Latimer, the newly minted Duke of Trevissick. Now that his abusive father is rotting in hell where he belongs, Marcus is eager for his life to stop resembling a bad Gothic novel. No one would ever have thought to pair the dangerously handsome duke with the meek little rector’s daughter. But as he helps Cecilia on her quest, Marcus discovers a well of passion hiding behind her sloe eyes that may just be a match for his own.
Two Hearts on a Perilous Path
But Cecilia’s search for the truth about her mother’s death unearths dark secrets from Marcus’s past, secrets that will destroy the new life he has built for his beloved sister and condemn one of the few people he cares about to death. What will he do when he is forced to choose between loyalty… and love?
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