A beautifully crafted and richly magical tale, featuring dark forces, god-like beings, and mysterious strangers.

Naomi’s world is falling into the palm of the Hand of Calamity—a god of death—and she is the one who must defeat the darkness to secure her world in the Hand of Protection.

England, 1070.
The last thing Steinar wants after losing his wife is falling for another woman for the wrong reasons. So when Cwenthryth, a Saxon he’s never seen before, comes knocking at his door asking for help, he refuses to listen to her plight. She’s far too beautiful for him not to fear losing his head over her.

How to plan the perfect heist? Take one bored viscount…

A night out leads fun-loving Viscount Archer to one of London’s less genteel music halls… and a muse for the frustrated composer. But nothing goes easy for the wild Windermeres, and Archie finds himself playing her knight in shining armor instead.

She fled with stolen jewels. He offered protection. Neither planned to risk their heart.

With her mother dead and her father lost at sea, Inez De Costa has nowhere left to turn. Alone in England, she is hunted by a dangerous man and hiding a fortune in stolen jewels—wealth that could save her or destroy her. When her employer leaves London to claim a forgotten Cornish estate, Inez makes a desperate choice and hides herself among his belongings…straight into temptation she cannot resist.

A war widow with nothing left to lose. A reckless pilot who never planned to fall.

Ann Prince knows love and loss too intimately. Widowed by war and struggling to raise her infant alone, she refuses to let grief defeat her—but determination doesn’t fix a leaking roof or stretch an empty purse. When desperation drives her to seek help from the Pilots’ Benevolent Association, Ann never expects to meet the man who will challenge everything she believes about love.

Hadrian Becket, the Earl of Ravenhurst, has always scorned the supernatural—until a head injury left him with the unnerving ability to see visions through touch. Though he loathes the curse, it’s proven invaluable in solving murder investigations alongside Miss Matilda Wren.

When Lord Andrew MacGalloway agrees to attend a house party, posing as his twin, he does so with good intentions. After all, it wouldn’t be fair to his brother’s fiancé if he did not assume his twin’s mantle. Though an inconvenience, he fully intends to make the event pleasant for Miss Eugenia Radcliffe, engaging her in idle chat, long, chaperoned walks, and dancing the appropriate number of waltzes.

Except carefully laid plans when one is impersonating his brother tend to go awry, especially given identical twins are not exact replicas of one another.

A reclusive widow known for her scientific scholarship, Lady Ciara Sheffield is shadowed by rumors that she poisoned her husband . . . A rakehell rogue notorious for his devil-may-care antics, Lucas Bingham--the Earl of Hadley--is not accused of murdering anything--save for the rules of Polite Society. The only thing they have in common is seeing their names featured in the lurid gossip columns of London's newspapers. Until an ancient manuscript draws them together.

The Ravishing Miss Burke has everything a young lady could want—beauty, status and suitors lined up just to beg for her hand. Until a blackmailer from her past holds her future for ransom.

A STRONG HIGHLAND LAIRD

The fate of his Highland clan rests on Laird Evander Mackenzie’s shoulders. The long winter killed his crops, and now the threat of famine looms over the land. To keep his people from starving, Evander needs funds—and he needs them fast. When an English earl offers him an exorbitant dowry to marry the man’s daughter, Evander thinks he’s found the perfect solution. There’s only one problem: his new bride won’t go back to his castle without a fight.

Noah Haskett, the Marquis of Hesterton, is a recluse due to the rumors surrounding his late brother's death. Staying away from the ton has been a reprieve from the debutantes who want him only for his title and wealth. After all, what woman would desire a beast of a man with a twisted leg? Never once has the idea of marriage, much less love, crossed his mind...until the day he saves a mysterious, dark-haired beauty.

From award-winning author Elizabeth Essex comes the adventurous final novel of the highly acclaimed Highland Brides, a quintet of bold, brilliant lasses determined to make their own happily ever afters.

A thing of beauty can be a joy forever.

But beauty lies…

Lord Archie Carrington knows a beauty when he sees one. Barmaids and countess alike fall beneath the charm of the youngest-ever editor of Edinburgh’s sharpest political and literary quarterly. So when he sets out to write an exposé on the new Lord Advocate, the clever Scotsman devises a plan to charm his opponent’s shy portraitist daughter out of her smock—and her family secrets.