For the women in London, the “chance of a lifetime” may prove to be their last.

Hidden among the romantic rendezvous and and secret messages in The Times of London’s Personal Column, a peculiar ad offers one young woman the opportunity of escape: travel, adventure, and a new life—no questions asked, all expenses paid. It seems too good to be true.

For Gwen, Charolette, and Lizzie, it was. Each woman responded. Each disappeared without a trace.

"...richly textured characterization for our reading pleasure." ~RT magazine

Seven years ago, a malicious lie caused Lady Miranda Grosvenor's husband, the Marquess of Sterling, to cast her off. Shunned by Society, Miranda now lives a quiet life as a recluse with her young son and husband‘s redoubtable aunt—until Sterling returns home from the Peninsular War.

Wounded in both body and

He set out to transform her… but she will undo him.

Lucasta Lithwick never asked to be fashionable. She only wanted to make music. But duty calls her to London to chaperone her cousin through a glittering Season—and into the path of Jeremiah Falstead, the new Lord Rudyard, whose cutting remarks earn him the nickname “Smart Jeremy.” When Lucasta dares to answer back, she becomes the target of his revenge. His plan? To turn her, the Season’s most unlikely wallflower, into its shining star.

Who is this man?

The Duke of Thanet may have hired Meriel Shelby as a governess to his six-year-old son, but there is something…different about the man standing before her today. He seems to study her with an intensity she never noticed before, and he is certainly more charming than the last time they met. Was there always an alluring glint in his dark eyes?

The British Museum gets one more corpse than they bargained for as doors open for their new Egyptian exhibit.

Excitement is palpable among London Society as the opening of the exhibit draws near. An invitation-only affair, it will be attended by the likes of the Queen, foreign dignitaries, and high-placed people in society, which most certainly includes Mikaela Forsythe and her great aunt, Lady Montgomery.

Dartmoor, 1891

Nothing exciting ever happens in Elizabeth’s life, especially when she stays on her family’s estate in Dartmoor. Endless moorland, cold weather, sheep, and only her governess for company.

Boring.

So when Christopher, a boy she’s never met, arrives at her house to stay for a while, she’s curious and thrilled. Her parents are clear, though: she mustn’t talk to him under any circumstances. Officially, he isn’t there. He’s confined to a room in the guest wing, never to meet anyone. Elizabeth is supposed to pretend he doesn’t exist. So of course, she wants to talk to him.

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.