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.

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From vengeance and strife, a legend is born

The Pirate Lord Rowen the Restless is one of the bastard triplets of King Edward III. At birth, the king ordered them killed, fearing the superstitions of triplets being evil spawns of the devil. They would only bring him bad luck. But when someone doesn't want the babies to die, the boys' lives are saved in secret.

Cozy up with six Regency and Victorian stories from six beloved, bestselling authors—Jennifer Ashley, Kerrigan Byrne, Darcy Burke, Christi Caldwell, Tanya Anne Crosby and Erica Ridley.

• A Rogue Meets a Scandalous Lady by Jennifer Ashley
• The Earl on the Train by Kerrigan Byrne
• The Rigid Duke by Darcy Burke
• Only For His Lady by Christi Caldwell
• A Perfectly Scandalous Proposal by Tanya Anne Crosby
• Dukes, Actually by Erica Ridley

Please note: These are all previously published books together for the first time in a limited-time collection.

The year is 1585. As a mysterious comet blazes across the sky, one woman embarks on a dangerous mission that could determine the fate of two kingdoms.

Cast out from her clan, fiery Irish warrior, Catriona O'Hanlon has pledged her fealty to the Lady of Faire Isle. But Cat's courage and devotion will be put to the test when Ariane asks her to find the young girl known as the Silver Rose.

A Heartbroken Widow Vows to Never Love Again — A Reclusive Millionaire Plans to Change Her Mind

Time has a way of healing broken hearts, but not for widow Nancy Grayson. She has never stopped loving her deceased husband Hal. For years, she has found contentment in tending her family—until a chance encounter with reclusive millionaire Dawson Crane pries open her lonely heart. Dawson reawakens her spirit and her need for love. She longs for his companionship, but each step that takes her closer to Dawson betrays her love for Hal. Is it possible to love two men at the same time? Can she let go of the love of her past and embrace a future with the man who offers her a second chance at love?

As one of the youngest earls in the empire, Brandon doesn’t find true friends easily. Everyone wants something from him—favours, money, help. So when he meets Emily on the Flying Scotsman, she wins him with her honesty and charm. The fact they have the same taste in books doesn’t hurt either.

Society’s most exclusive invitation…

Welcome to the Phoenix Club, where London’s most audacious, disreputable, and intriguing ladies and gentlemen find scandal, redemption, and second chances.

Can magic and mortality survive once they become entangled?

All of Society is wondering: Who is the beauty in the scandalous nude portrait hanging in one of London's most fashionable clubs? Is she truly a member of the ton? Who would be so daring, so reckless?

Julian Delane, Earl of Parkhurst, is so certain he knows the truth that he's willing to make a wager on it. But there’s more at stake—clearing the family name from a scandal that claimed his father's life. Julian believes the ravishing model will lead him to answers.

Matthew and Branwen have nothing in common. One was raised as a noble, the other is a poor villager. He is determined to resist the temptation women present, while she would like nothing more than to be free of men’s attention. He is English, she is Welsh.

Yet between them the attraction is immediate.

What is real or only an illusion?

Ghostly images that appear and float across the stage, objects that levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant who disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at the Crystal Palace, including amateur investigator Mikaela Forsythe, watch the performance.

Is it real? Can the audience believe what they see?

A lonely woman with far too many secrets…

Greer Gunn feared for her life every day that she breathed the same air as her father. An unwanted reminder that he had no heir, Greer employed her greatest defense. She looked and learned, tucking away her clan’s secrets that she used silently to defend her people against her father’s inept leadership and to keep their enemies at bay. When her father’s death leaves her adrift among a clan that no longer wants her, Greer turns to her longtime friend for shelter. But it’s her friend’s brother who plagues her every waking and dreaming moment. Can Greer put aside the secrets she shares with him and find happiness with a man who was once her adversary?