Torn from her bed by an unknown abductor, heiress Gillian Forrester finds herself on the way to Gretna Green and a forced marriage with a wastrel she despises. If she must choose between her life or her innocence, she would risk disaster itself to escape ... and she does, only to end up unconscious on a country road, waiting for a rescuer.

Italy…fair Juliet… This isn’t the love story you think it is.

He loves me…

Scene: The Italian countryside, where Miss Juliet Windermere awaits a confession of love from the man of her dreams. What she gets is a declaration that she looks like the woman of his dreams…who is currently a thousand miles away—in Scotland.

Louisa Shelby's carefree life of elegant balls and beautiful gowns ended when her father died, leaving her penniless. With no hope of securing a proper marriage, she accepts a position as a companion to an elderly viscountess. But temptation in a most unexpected guise awaits Louisa in the dowager's home...

Determined not to follow in the footsteps of his weak-willed wastrel father, Adrian, Lord Marquand, has designed a life for himself based on order and reason . . . and a passion for creating the most beautiful gardens in England. However, he must keep his true identity as England’s most acclaimed landscape designer a secret. But when his father gambles away Adrian’s beloved ancestral estate, he’s sure all is lost . . . until he’s offered a way to win it back.

Anne Sutton has the beauty and breeding to make a gentleman’s wife, but not the dowry. When her parents offer her to the vile Calvin Vaughn, Anne does something a gentleman’s daughter would never do: she decides to ruin herself. And the best means at hand is Calvin’s prodigal older brother, Hew, lately returned from war.

A lady on a mission…
Lady Harriet Parrish never dreamed of having a London season. She’s been content to live a life of comfortable obscurity in her sleepy corner of Kent, but when her dearest childhood friend, the newly crowned Earl of Windham ends their secret correspondence and embarks on a ruinous path of debauchery, Hattie braves the grime and gossip of Town to snatch him back from the brink of destruction.

He wants revenge. She believes in his redemption. Loving her may cost him everything.

Lord Tristan is accustomed to taking what he wants—and now he wants Effie, the compassionate, quietly determined daughter of his business rival, the Earl of Winchester. Their connection is immediate, dangerous, and deeply forbidden.

1889

With the wild chase for the late unlamented duke's diamonds finally over, business is booming for Flora Flowerdew's seance society, but she's bored with summoning ghosts with the help of her psychic Pomeranian Chou-Chou.

Eight years ago, a usurping uncle drove Melisende and her father from their beautiful mountain home. Since then, Melisende has had one goal: find the document proving her father the rightful Grand Duke of Merania. The last step of her search brings her to London, where one unexpected obstacle stands between her and her birthright—Philip Devlin.

Sailing home to England with her two younger brothers, the intrepid Miss Zara Greeley plucks a half-drowned stranger from icy seas. The handsome man says he's a duke—a claim Zara is tempted to believe, for only a duke could be so impossibly arrogant, especially when their ship runs aground on a Scottish island during the storm, and they are forced to do manual labor in a brewer to earn their passage to the mainland.

A duke who needs to be tamed...a lady who refuses to be rescued.

No one expected anything of Adam Chamberlin, the third son of a duke, known for gambling and drinking. And then tragedy strikes. Now Adam is the new Duke of Rothford, determined to right his mistakes. Except a secret in his past means helping the one woman who doesn't want his help at all...

A gifted artist. A notorious rake. A wager that could destroy them both.

Alexandra Chilton longs for freedom—not marriage. Devoted to her art and intellectual pursuits, she has no interest in London society and its confining expectations … until she crosses paths with the dangerously charming Earl of Branford.