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Phoebe Conn
MANGO SUMMER 1/2008 ISBN: 0843960094 A woman may give a man all the sensual pleasures he desires, but she must never give him her heart. This was the lesson Delphine Antoine's mother had taught her from birth. A rare beauty, Delphine was trained to be an alluring temptress meant for a life of pampered luxury as the mistress of a rich man. Eager to put her erotic training to practical use, Delphine relished the challenge of seducing the dark, brooding Earl of Clairbourne, Lord Michael Elliott Mallory. Alone together on a lush, tropical Caribbean island, Delphine was sure Michael would be eager to indulge in her talents. Yet despite the freedom of their exotic surroundings, he proved resistant to even her most intimate persuasions. Was there more to making love with a man than physical pleasure? In the sultry heat of the mango summer Delphine and Michael discovered that perhaps her mother had it wrong, and only by giving their hearts could they find the greatest ecstasy. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Vivian Connolly
CECILIA 9/1981 ISBN:0449502112 Cecelia Annesley, with flaming auburn hair and a temperament to match, galloped over hill and dale, trying to help the poor-- and earning a reputation for being quite improper. Aside from her scandalous work, she lived a quiet life...Francis felt it his duty to find Cecilia a proper husband. As fast as he could. Whether she wanted one or not. For what Francis felt for the headstrong Cecilia was quite a bit stronger than cousinly fondness....
Jan Constant
THE BERINGER HEIRESS 7/1992 ISBN: 0449221377 'I have no intention of allowing you to besport yourself in a manner likely to provoke gossip.' Newly returned from the Peninsula after the death of her father, Emma Beringer is shocked to find that her appointed guardian, Sir Julian, is not the octogenarian she anticipated, but an arrogant and disturbingly handsome rake. Much to her surprise, she is also an heiress. So her new guardian, in his notoriously heavy-handed manner, takes it upon himself to protect her from myriad fortune hunters and false friends. As for Sir Julian, Emma's arrival in London had set his well-ordered household and romantic life into an uproar. He'll have to keep a sharp eye on her, he has determined, even as she has decided quite the opposite. And when a young lady unafraid to speak her mind meets a stubborn lord, unafraid to follow his desires, anything can happen.
THE ONLY HOPE 6/1994 ISBN: 0449222969 There was much more at stake than affairs of the heart. Miss Amy Standish could hardly refuse to help young, desperate Clarissa Dysart, whose autocratic brother, Sir Hugo, intended to marry her off despite her love for a young soldier. Now, as the girl's companion, it was Amy's job to keep the girl in line. Yet Amy had taken the position for another reason. Dark and dashing Sir Hugo was guardian of Amy's nephew following the scandalous marriage of her sister and Hugo's brother-and an equally scandalous estrangement that had cut off all contact with the child's maternal family. That won't stop clever Amy. But the one thing she wasn't prepared for was Hugo himself, a man who would be hard to keep secrets from, especially affairs of the heart.
Madeleine Conway
THE ERRANT EARL 8/2004 ISBN:082177641X When Earl Lazenby of Edenbridge is grievously injured by a carriage accident in a small Cheshire town, the local doctor appeals to Miss Francis Wilbraham to take him in while he recovers. Though the earl is known for his seductive and dissolute ways, Fran nonetheless makes him welcome in her home.and, much to her surprise, finds her patient to be a kind and intelligent man. But others are quite unhappy about their growing friendship-including Miss Wilbraham's other suitor...Alexander Ferrars, Lord Lazenby, is weary of the mess he's made of his life, the years he's wasted in gambling and debauchery since leaving the army. But now, though both body and soul are damaged, a bright, unspoiled country lady has somehow filled his worn heart with warmth and hope. Her relations, however, have another, more respectable match in mind for the lovely Miss Wilbraham.especially when the earl's former mistress turns up murdered, and all clues point to him. Now, in his darkest hour, Alexander vows to spare Fran from the trouble that's engulfed him. But love-and Miss Wilbraham-won't be so easily defeated.
THE RELUCTANT HUSBAND 2/2004 ISBN:0821776401 Young Cecilia Marchmont is appalled at her father's announcement that he's gambled away her hand in marriage to the son of a wealthy friend. Nonetheless, she agrees to the union...with the caveat that upon her groom's return from his upcoming European tour, an annulment may be arranged. Cecilia is smitten by her fiance's dark good looks, but shattered when she overhears the sullen aristocrat express utter contempt for her. Outraged, she vows to become an attractive and charming woman...the kind who can seduce her own "husband" and teach him a lesson he won't soon forget.
ROSAMUND'S REVENGE 1/2005 ISBN: 0821776428 A Miffed Minx. He vexed her… Once, Rosamund Lovelace believed Rory Buchanan was the answer to her dreams. Now, seven years later, she’s quite certain she wouldn’t have him if he were the last man on earth! Gone is the green girl whose affections he coolly spurned. In her place is a woman to be reckoned with: an exquisite beauty who is determined to show this former soldier that in the heat of battle, it is he who may fall…A Wary Rogue...She infuriated him…True, he had hurt her, but the lovely Rosamund has had her revenge. When their paths crossed again, Rory was entranced and intrigued, only to be unceremoniously dismissed. Today, he’s older, wiser, and considerably harder of heart…or so he thinks. But when his friends, amused by their bickering, decide to make each of them think the other cares, will two stubborn people cease their war of words long enough to discover a tantalizing love? RR@H's Novel Thoughts
SEDUCING SYBILLA 9/2003 ISBN: 0821775685 Sybilla Smethwick cannot help but feel protective of her older sister, Honoria, who upon the tragic death of her husband Henry was left alone to raise their son. So when Sybilla hears that Henry's brother Augustus, the ninth Earl of Ampthill, has recently returned from India and desires to meet them, she is distrustful of his motives. Why after seven years of ignoring Honoria's and little George's very existence, should this no-doubt arrogant aristocrat appear now? Certain that his younger brother's widow is an unprincipled adventuress, Augustus Swaffham nonetheless hopes that his nephew will prove a worthy heir. But when the earl finally meets his late brother's family, it is his sister-in-law's sister who presents the greatest challenge. Uncommonly beautiful and outspoken, Sybilla obviously doesn't trust him. Why that should irk him so he cannot fathom.until he realizes that he has never wanted a woman more. Yet seducing Sybilla won't be easy, for no sooner has the family arrived at his estate than accidents begin to befall his heir. Someone wants to harm George, and now Augustus must keep the boy safe, even as his growing passion for Sybilla proves a powerful distraction.
Kristina Cook
TO LOVE A SCOUNDREL 6/2007 ISBN: 0821779818 HE’S NOTORIOUS FOR HIS WICKED WAYS… Frederick Stoneham thoroughly enjoys the life he leads as one of London’s most disreputable rogues. When his father arranges for him to wed Lady Eleanor Ashton, he believes his decadent lifestyle can carry on uninterrupted. After all, he remembers Eleanor to be plain and timid—not the kind of wife who will demand attention or insist he leave his mistress. But Frederick has a change of heart when he sees the striking beauty Eleanor has become… CAN SHE REFORM HIM? Eleanor is stunned to discover she is to wed Frederick Stoneham—the man she has secretly pined after for years, despite his reputation. When Frederick’s former mistress tells her a horrible lie, Eleanor feels betrayed. But Frederick’s persistence—and a passion that refuses to be ignored--are slowly melting Eleanor’s resolve. Now Frederick must prove to Eleanor that his days as a rake are in the past and that she is the only woman he will ever love…RR@H's Novel Thoughts
UNDRESSED 6/2006 ISBN: 082177980X Although Colin Rosemoor’s reputation for fast living is well earned, he is not guilty of cheating at cards, a charge that casts him from polite society. Since his accuser has convinced the lady Colin planned to marry of his guilt, Colin enlists the help of his friend, Hugh Ballard, to win her—and his honor—back. Yet a chance meeting with Hugh’s long-lost sister may change everything. An exceptionally intelligent Highland lass with an interest in astronomy and an independent streak, Brenna Maclachlan is wholly unique—and therefore irresistible. Brenna is capable, outspoken, and perfectly able to manage the Scottish estate where she was raised. But she’s completely unprepared when an English earl and his wife appear on her doorstep and inform her that she is really their daughter. Whisked off to London, completely out of her element, she is gradually drawn to Colin—and horrified to learn her new family has betrothed her to Colin’s worst enemy! Yet the twists of fate pushing them apart quickly transform into passionate adventures that draw them closer than ever—and expose everything. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
Catherine Cookson
THE BLACK VELVET GOWN 1984 ISBN: 5550049260 There would be times when Riah Millican came to regret that her husband had learned to read and write, and then shared his knowledge with her and their children. For this was Durham in the 1830's, when employers tended to regard the spread of education with suspicion. But now Seth Millican was dead and she was a widow with the need to find a home and a living for herself and her children. The chance of becoming a housekeeper didn't work out, but it led to Moor House and a scholarly recluse obsessed with that very book learning that could open so many doors and yet create so many problems; especially with her daughter, Biddy, who was not only bright, but witful...
Katy Cooper
LORD SEBASTIAN'S WIFE 2/2003 ISBN: 0373292384 The story of Sebastian Benbury and Beatrice Coleville Manners. One Twelfth Night when they were young and impetuous, Beatrice and Sebastian promised to marry each other, never realizing that the promise they made bound them for life. When the test of their young love came, they both failed it. Each felt betrayed by the other's failure; in the five years since, love has become anger and distrust.
Parley J. Cooper
MY LADY EVIL 7/1975 ISBN: 0671680137 'Nina! Come away!' I pleaded. 'Come down before the waves pull us into the sea!' But she did not obey me. She turned her wet face up to mine. 'Andre!' she cried against the din of the waves and wind. 'Andre, do you truly love me?' 'I love you! I love you more than life itself!' Her lips parted in a satisfied smile and I was filled with foreboding. She reached up, clutched at my neck and bent my face down to hers. 'Look into my eyes, Andre. See what it is that you must do.'
Christina Cordaire
BELOVED STRANGER 2/1995 ISBN: 0515115509 Sarah must keep nine-year-old Viscount William safe and she doesn't know whether the swarthy, blue-eyed stranger who came to their rescue at the river is a friend or part of the plot against William! Dare she let her heart decide?
DARING ILLUSION 4/1994 ISBN: 051511362X Rosalind Winston sets out to save the family castle by disguising herself as the housekeeper and renting out her home for the summer, but her masquerade becomes complicated by the arrival of her dashing tenant, Viscount Moreland.
HEART'S DECEPTION 10/1992 ISBN: 0515109541 Everyone agreed that Alaina St. Clair was the loveliest debutante of the year, but her come-out season was soon foiled by a wicked scheme to steal her inheritance. Overnight, Alaina became Alan the stableboy, escaping her ancestral home for work in the stables of the Duke of Ware. The handsome Duke seemed a somewhat gruff employer, but in fact he harbored his own family secret. When he accidentally uncovered Alaina's disguise, she was determined to unmask him. But a deeper desire was hidden in the Duke's private heart - the sweetest secret of all...
LOVE'S TRIUMPH 5/1993 ISBN: 0515111023 Following the death of their parents, Elizabeth Chanders and her younger siblings move into the home of their guardian, the Earl of Wynmalen, a handsome war hero who proves to be more than a friend.
LOVING A LOWLY STRANGER 12/1997 ISBN: 0449183351 Instead of claiming the coal mines he inherited, Adrian Ashe keeps his identity a secret. For bitter reasons of his own, he takes a job in the mines, becoming a champion of the workers. As Adrian's deception grows, Lady Elise Danforth finds herself irresistibly drawn to this man who stirs up a storm of forbidden desire...
PRIDE'S FOLLY 9/1993 ISBN: 0515112216 When love changes a lady's mind... It was Johanna Austen's sincere wish to never wed - but instead to devote her spirited heart to her small country school. Only to please her beloved aunts does she leave her work behind to partake of a London Season. Her striking beauty was sure to attract many eager suitors, but pure chance - and a tumultuous coach ride - introduced her to London's star bachelor, the dashing and arrogant Viscount Hawkenhurst. Only he, too, was persuaded to play the part of a dandy - when all he desired was this lovely angel before him...
SPRING ENCHANTMENT 6/1996 ISBN: 0515118761 For the first time in over a century the ghost of Castle Caldon was hopeful. Not too hopeful, mind you, since Lady Anne and Sir John Kent seemed determined to thwart most attempts at companionship. But Jared St. Legere had to help those two mortals find a true, forever love so that he could be reunited with his ghostly beloved.
Lucy Cores
FATAL PASSION 1989 ISBN: 0802710840 She was lovely -- that was certainly true. And sufficiently charming and clever to have secured a position as companion to the Dowager Duchess of Karr. Lotta Chilton was fine company at dinner, as delightful a lady as one could wish to have for a walk in the garden, but she was emphatically not the type of female with whom an attractive, unattached peer of the realm should fall in love, much less seek to marry. But there it was. From the Duke of Karr's first glimpse of Lotta at his mother's gala winter festivities, he had followed the girl around the splendid halls of Grasmere Castle like a lovesick puppy. Unshaken by his mother's dire warnings about Lotta's Italian parentage, unfazed by the whisperings of the other guests, the Duke sets out, vowed to claim the adorable nobody -- despite the protestations of propriety on the part of almost everyone, including Lotta herself. As Timothy, Duke of Karr, presses his suit amidst the extravagant entertainments of a winter house party, secret, scandalous forces are at work which could well alter the destinies of himself, his beloved, and the eighteen visitors to Grasmere Castle.
THE YEAR OF DECEMBER 1974 ISBN: 0070131287 Running away from Europe to the furthest point possible--Russia--following a tumultuous love affair with Lord Byron, Claire Claremont must keep her identity as Byron's mistress secret in order to obtain employment as a governess, the only way a woman of 1825 had of making a living...One look magnetically draws Claire into a passion-filled relationship with an eighteen-year-old Prince, Grisha Volyniski. Claire's emotions, bottled up since the death of her daughter, Byron's love child, come pouring out. But is her attraction to the Prince for himself alone--or for the memories of Byron he rekindles in her? Swept up in the politics of the first Russian Revolution, the tragic, abortive, Decemberist Uprising, Claire and Grisha move from an idyllic country estate to the Moscow salons where the conspirators rendezvous, to the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg and the dank dungeons of a Czarist fortress, where Claire asks herself again and again: does she love the man--or the memory?
Nicola Cornick
THE BLANCHLAND SECRET 11/2000 ISBN: 0263168700 Miss Sarah Sheridan lives a quiet life in Bath as companion to her cousin. Then two events upset her calm existence. The first is the delivery of a mysterious letter from her deceased brother, hinting at a mystery only Sarah can solve. The second is the arrival in Bath of Guy, Viscount Renshaw. Guy is the son of Sarah's godfather and has a shocking reputation as a rake. And when he sets his sights on Sarah the sparks of attraction fly... But does Guy have another interest in Sarah apart from the romantic? Is he also interested in the secret that Blanchland Hall is hiding?
THE CHAPERON BRIDE 3/2003 ISBN: 0263834980 Annis Wycherley is a very proper chaperon to society misses. Widowed young, she does not look to marry and has a reputation for being able to find a husband for even the most difficult of debutantes. When her work brings her home to Harrogate, the fashionable spa town set on the Yorkshire Moors, Annis finds her life becoming decidedly complicated, for whilst she tries to catch a husband for her two charges, Adam, Lord Ashwick, seems determined to catch her...After an idyllic marriage and the tragic death of his young wife, Adam Ashwick has no thought for remarriage. Yet when he meets Lady Wycherley in the gardens at midnight he begins to see the chaperon in a new light and vows to persuade her that marriage is not only for her charges...Adam has come home to Harrogate on business. His estate is threatened by the shady dealings of rival landowner Samuel Ingram, a man bent on violence and extortion. And whilst Ingram tries to blackmail Adam, he also turns the screws on a local populace driven to starvation by his high rents and extortionate tolls. Then The Washburn Men, a shadowy band led by a mysterious gentleman, claim their revenge on Ingram - a revenge that sweeps Annis and Adam into passionate adventure.
A COMPANION OF QUALITY 9/2001 ISBN: 026382845X Miss Caroline Whiston has come down in the world. The daughter of a spendthrift baronet, she now has to earn a living as a governess companion. Then her old friend Julia Chessford invites Caroline to come to work for her at Hewly Manor, near Steepwood, the home of her guardian Admiral Brabant, who is dangerously ill. Caroline's arrival co-incides with the return of the Admiral's son Lewis, a sea captain reluctantly returned home to take up his inheritance. As Caroline is drawn into the lives and intrigues of the Abbey villages, the scheming Julia spins a web to catch Lewis. But how long can Caroline stay at Hewly when she is so deeply attracted to Lewis herself?
THE EARL'S PRIZE 12/2003 ISBN: 0563831442 Amy Bainbridge is the daughter of a baronet who ruined his family through his gambling. Now her brother is going the same way as his father, and Amy has sworn never to touch the cards herself. But there are other ways to gamble as well as in play... When Amy finds a winning lottery ticket, her troubles are only just starting. Which of her brother's ramshackle gambling cronies could be the real owner of the ticket? Is it: The Duke of Fleet - handsome, charming and fabulously wealthy? Sir Humphrey Dainty - a country squire out of his depth at the London card tables? Mr Bertie Hallam - a childhood friend who has proposed to Amy every year for the last seven years? Or is it Joss Tallant, the most hardened rake and gamester of them all, whom rumour has it does not have a heart to lose... ... Joss has no intention of marrying for love. Amy has no intention of marrying a man who is just like her father. So why are Joss and Amy so attracted to each other and what are they going to do about it?
LADY ALLERTON'S WAGER 4/2003 ISBN: When Marcus, Earl of Trevithick, is challenged to a wager by a beautiful Cyprian, he can see no reason why she would set Fairhaven Island as the stake. As far as he is concerned, Fairhaven is a lump of rock which supports nothing but a few villagers and a flock of sheep… Beth, Lady Allerton, is no Cyprian, but she is passionately attached to Fairhaven Island, lost by her grandfather through Trevithick treachery two generations before. For centuries Beth and Marcus’ families have been at each others’ throats. Is it possible that the handsome Earl and the lovely Lady Allerton can end the feud? And when it comes to the choice, which does Beth Allerton love more - the Earl of Trevithick or her beloved island?
LADY POLLY 8/2001 ISBN: 0373291744 Polly Seagrave is a typical debutante, privileged and protected. Although she is flattered by the attentions of Henry Marchnight, a notorious rake, she is too immature to have any deep feelings for him. Five years later, however, she is all too aware of what she has so carelessly thrown away…
THE LARKSWOOD LEGACY 3/1999 ISBN: 0263161153 Despite her unhappy first marriage, the widowed Mrs. Annabella St Auby found herself hugely drawn to Sir William Weston, and he in his turn made his interest in her very clear. But then Annabella found that her sole inheritance, Larkswood, was of prime importance to Sir William and she began to wonder if his pursuit of her was for herself… or her legacy.
MISS VEREY'S PROPOSAL 4/2000 Reissued 4/2002 ISBN: 0263168565 Jane Verey and her friend Sophia are fifteen when they discover the Legend of the Eve of St Agnes and go supperless to bed, convinced that they will dream of their future husbands. Four years later, a marriage is arranged for Jane with Lord Philip Delahaye. But Jane is determined she will not marry Lord Philip. He is rude, insulting and a drunkard and at the thought of spending a lifetime with him, Jane would even stoop to deception in order to dissuade her boorish suitor. But Philip's handsome brother is not so easily fooled...Alex, Duke of Delahaye, has arranged the match and is determined that it will go ahead. Yet every time he sets eyes on Miss Jane Verey, Alex find himself wanting a match of his own...
THE NOTORIOUS LORD 2004 ISBN: 0373293593 The sight of Cory, Lord Newlyn, rising naked from the Midwinter river, is enough to send ripples of shock through Rachel Odell's carefully ordered life. He has always been a friend, although now she is aware of him as a man--an exceedingly handsome man. But she can't possibly entertain romantic ideas about this adventure seeker...and rogue. It does appear that Cory is waging a deliberate campaign to seduce her. What is his true intent? Can he simply wish to claim his best friend as his bride...?
THE NOTORIOUS MARRIAGE 5/2002 Marry in haste... Debutante Lady Eleanor Trevithick's elopement with Kit, Lord Mostyn, was enough to have the gossips in an uproar. Then it was heard that her new husband had disappeared a day after the wedding...and their marriage became the most notorious in town! Repent at leisure... Kit returned five long months later, not at liberty to explain the secret assignment that had forced his departure. He was determined to win back his bride's affections. Eleanor could not deny that she was still in love with her husband, but she not forgive him his desertion and she also had a heart-breaking secret that she had sworn never to tell him...
THE NOTORIOUS WAGER 6/2003 ISBN: Just when it seems that Marcus and Beth are about to lay the centuries-old Mostyn and Trevithick feud to rest, their relatives are busy causing a scandal of their own! Marry in haste... Debutante Miss Eleanor Trevithick's elopement with Kit, Lord Mostyn, is enough to have the gossips in an uproar. Then it is heard that her new husband has disappeared a day after the wedding...and their marriage becomes the most notorious in town! Repent at leisure... Kit returns five long months later, not at liberty to explain the secret assignment that had forced his departure. He is determined to win back his bride's affections. Eleanor cannot deny that she is still in love with her husband, but she cannot forgive him his desertion and she also has a heartbreaking secret that she has sworn never to tell him...
ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL 1974 ISBN: 0373293631 Widowed Mrs Deborah Stratton needs to find a gentleman to act as her betrothed in order to foil the plans of her matchmaking parents. The last person she would voluntarily choose is Lord Richard Kestrel, who is too arrogant, too attractive and simply not biddable enough to fulfil the part. So she decides to advertise for an obedient gentleman to pretend to be her betrothed... Yet when Deb looks around for a lover to show her what was missing from her unhappy marriage, it would seem that for that particular purpose, Richard would be the perfect choice...
THE PENNILESS BRIDE 11/2003 ISBN:0263835308 Lord Robert Selborne intended to kiss the chimney sweep's daughter for luck at his cousin's wedding - not marry her! But of all the ladies assembled, she was the only one who captured his interest. And unless she became his wife in name only, he would forfeit his inheritance. Having been raised by a brutal father on the London streets, Jemima Jewell had few illusions about life and love. Until Rob's lips met hers in a soul-stirring kiss and he impulsively made her his wife. And his penniless bride now hoped her love would provide Rob with a fortune far greater than the one he sought...
THE RAKE'S BRIDE short story in THE LOVE MATCH 3/2002 ISBN: 037329199X When Jack Merlin is called upon to extract his cousin Bertie from an undesirable match to a scheming older woman, he finds himself intrigued. Not only does Miss Thea Shaw bolt at the altar but she has five younger siblings to care for and has no time for Jack and his rakish tendencies. Yet when they are thrown together Jack finds himself reforming against his will and Thea feels her prejudices slipping...
THE RAKE'S MISTRESS 12/2004 ISBN:0263839885 Courted by London's most notorious rake...Lord Lucas Kestrel's anger turns to desire when he meets Miss Rebecca Raleigh. He believes that she's one of the scandalous Archangel courtesans, but he quickly discovers that not only is she innocent she is, in fact, the woman he's been seeking...Lucas has an agenda. He has to get close to Rebecca, court her, even seduce her, to try and discover if she's smuggling secrets that are threatening England's security! But Lucas, the rake without a heart, hasn't bargained on falling in love with the one woman he can't have.
TRUE COLOURS 3/2001 ISBN: 0373511345 The first person that the Marquis of Mullineaux meets upon his return to England is the very last person that he wants to see --Lady Carberry, the woman who scandalized the Ton by breaking off their engagement. She is just as displeased to meet the man who sacrificed her reputation to save his pride… Thrown together by circumstance, Alicia and James find themselves constantly at war with one another, but James is determined to discover the truth about their past…
AN UNLIKELY SUITOR 6/2002 ISBN: Lavender Brabant is a bluestocking who finds herself drawn irresistibly to Barnabas Hammond, the adopted son of the draper in Abbot's Quincey. Lavender is an heiress and the daughter of an Admiral. Barnabas is an enigma - his parentage is shrouded in a scandalous mystery and he is far below her on the social scale. How can Lavender follow her heart and find true happiness with her unlikely suitor?
THE VIRTUOUS CYPRIAN 6/1998 ISBN: 0373291663 A courtesan suddenly inherits a property. Add the twist of twin sisters, one a bluestocking and the other an infamous cyprian, plus one very charismatic Lord of the Manor, and you have The Virtuous Cyprian…
WAYWARD WIDOW 7/2003 ISBN:0263835146 Lady Juliana Myfleet scandalizes the ton with her risqué behaviour - and gets more outrageous by the day. Her reputation is nearly in tatters. One thing only will save her from ruin - marriage - but Juliana has vowed never to marry again!
Patricia Coughlin
THE BLACKMOOR DEVIL short story in WHEN YOU WISH 11/1997 ISBN:0553576437
LORD SAVAGE 12/1996 ISBN: 0553575201 She had eight weeks to tame a savage--and to fall in love. The request was impossible. Unthinkable. And unavoidable. Ariel Halliday couldn't refuse the head of Penrose School when he asked her to take on a particularly difficult assignment--not if she wanted to remain in his good graces. But nothing in her experience had prepared the schoolmistress for the darkly handsome "pupil" who greeted her, wearing only tight-fitting breeches that announced he was very much a grown-up male, and an air of threatening silence. Black-haired, golden-eyed Leon Duvanne was the heir apparent of the Marquis of Sage. Yet, raised under the burning sun of a distant Pacific island, he looked more ready to feast on the ton than with them. Now Ariel has only eight weeks to transform this savage into a gentleman. It will take a miracle...or maybe just falling in love.
MERELY MARRIED 11/1998 ISBN: 055357521X Life for Adrian Devereau, the sixth duke of Raven, was flawless, but for one nagging detail. Try as he did to live down the reputation as the Wicked Lord Raven, the ladies persisted in viewing him as desirable husband material. So he conceived a bold solution to foil them once and for all-he would marry a woman on her deathbed and adopt the role of grieving widower. He even found a most suitable wife: Leah Stretton, overtaken by a sudden illness while journeying to London. But with Leah's 'miraculous' recovery, Adrian found himself properly wedded to a beauty as headstrong as she was healthy. Now his only chance at freedom was playing her game. More adept at writing about romance and adventure than living it, Leah could not permit a new family scandal to ruin her sister's launch into society. If Adrian played her devoted husband, she would grant him an annulment later. There was only one rule: neither of them could fall in love. Of course, rules were made to be broken.
Vivienne Couldery
THE SWANS OF BRHYADR 3/1981 ISBN: 0698109457
Catherine Coulter
THE AUTUMN COUNTESS 1/1979 ISBN: 0451084632 Romantic dreams held no charm for lovely young Miss Andrea James. What Andrea wanted in a husband was the elegant, elderly Earl of Devbridge and the safety he promised from the world of base behavior that Andrea's rakish father had made her loathe. Thus the bargain was struck. Andrea would make an enchanting hostess at the Earl's great family manor. In return, the Earl would give Andrea a glittering title and his word of honor to respect her person. Only when Andrea arrived at Devbridge Manor to meet the Earl's devilishly attractive grown-up son...to learn of the Earl's mysterious young daughter...to hear rumors of the fate of his previous wife...did Andrea realize how much her marriage contract did not cover. Andrea's marriage might be in name only - but that name was danger!
CALYPSO MAGIC 4/1988 ISBN: 0451408772 It is 1813 in London. The Earl of Saint Leven, Lyonel Ashton, doesn't like women, and he's got every reason not to. But fate, in the guise of Aunt Lucia, intervenes. She presents him with Diana Savarol, a young lady newly arrived from her family's Caribbean island and very unhappy at being forced into frigid England and tossed headlong into the marriage market. These two very strong willed individuals eye each other, then go for the gold in an insult competition. The earl calls Diana an eavesdropper; she says he looks pale and unhealthy. He says she has big feet; she says he suffers from "Charlotte's Disease." When Diana insists upon returning home, she doesn't expect to have the earl share her cabin aboard ship. Then there's the ship's captain, Rafael Carstairs, who isn't just any ship captain sailing the seven seas. And on Savarol Island, there's a mystery to solve and wrongs to right.
THE COUNTESS 10/1999 ISBN: 0451408586 Andrea Jameson, unlike the conventional Gothic heroine, isn't a destitute governess. She's young, rich, and toothsome, and adores her Dandie Dinmont terrier, George. However, Andrea doesn't have a single dream of meeting Mr. Right, marrying, and living happily ever after. Go figure. She strikes a bargain with an older widowed earl who promises her all the razzle-dazzle without the obey part. She's perfectly happy with the deal until she meets the earl's nephew and realizes fairly quickly that she might have made an exceptional blunder. But she doesn't have much time to ponder her dim-witted choice for husband because someone is trying to kill her. Will she survive to marry the man of her dreams?
THE COURTSHIP 1/2000 ISBN: 0515127213 Confirmed to the max bachelor Spenser Heatherington meets his sexual and intellectual match when the enchanting Lady Helen Mayberry offers him a chance to help her retrieve the mythical Aladdin's Lamp.
THE DECEPTION 10/1998 ISBN: 0451408586 The Duke of Portsmouth offers an impecunious half-French relative a job as his young son's nanny. What he quickly discovers is that he wants her, badly. What he discovers far more slowly is that she isn't at all what she seems. Evangeline de Beauchamps is in way over her head. She has far more to cope with than a nineteen-year-old virgin should ever have. To top it all off, she must play an experienced widow with a man who knows women as well as he knows his horses, or so he thinks.
DEVIL'S DAUGHTER 5/1985 ISBN: 0451158636 The devil's daughter is Arabella Welles, daughter of Anthony Welles, Earl of Clare, of Devil's Embrace. Independent and strong-willed as her father, she is a blonde-haired hellion with eyes as black as midnight revels. When Arabella goes adventuring to Naples, Italy to solve the mystery of her father's missing ships and cargoes, she discovers that the person behind this thievery is an enemy from her father's past who packs Arabella off to a harem in North Africa. Arabella finds the harem a frightening yet fascinating place, a golden prison from which there is little chance of escape. Her master is Kamal, the Bey of Oran, a man who must be her enemy but who is unlike any man she has ever known. And Kamal suddenly finds himself faced with a woman willing to fight him to the death - a woman who both bewitches and infuriates him.
THE DUKE 11/1995 ISBN: 0451406176 Ian Carmichael, Duke of Portmaine, is proud, aristocratic, handsome as the devil's right hand, and kinder than any grousing Robertson has a right to expect. Brandy Robertson - the old earl's granddaughter - takes one look at the duke and her heart goes ballistic. The problem is, the duke is already engaged, and if that isn't bad enough, someone wants to kill him.One of the embittered Robertsons? There are lots of juicy suspects to choose from.
THE GENEROUS EARL 7/1981 (Reissued as THE DUKE) Ian Carmichael, Duke of Portmaine, is proud, aristocratic, handsome as the devil's right hand, and kinder than any grousing Robertson has a right to expect. Brandy Robertson - the old earl's granddaughter - takes one look at the duke and her heart goes ballistic. The problem is, the duke is already engaged, and if that isn't bad enough, someone wants to kill him.One of the embittered Robertsons? There are lots of juicy suspects to choose from.
THE HEIR 10/1996 ISBN: 0451188616 Justin Deverill, the new Earl of Strafford, is a military man who's strong, shrewd, stubborn and very possibly one of the most handsome men ever to become an earl. As for his cousin, Arabella, whom he must wed or gain nothing but an empty title, she is more like him than either of them would like to admit. Faced with an order from her father's will to marry this man, she rebels. Since her father is dead, she has no other target except the new earl. However, in him, Arabella meets her match. These two flamboyant people do wed, despite the fact that Justin believes she has betrayed him before their wedding, and thus, married or not, there is hell to pay. Who does the earl believe is his wife's lover? There is only one snake in the garden, the young and charming Comte de Trecassis, a relative visiting from France. The earl wants to kill him, but he holds off because he knows the young man came for a reason. The earl wants him to under his eye until he figures out why. He knows he is up to no good; he just doesn't know what the no good is.
THE HEIRESS BRIDE 1/1993 ISBN: 0515111317 Sinjum Sherbrooke is now nineteen, blessed with Sherbrooke blue eyes, wit to burn, and a wonderful sense of humor. She is also bored with the London Season until she spies Colin Kinross, the Scottish earl of Ashburnham, across the dance floor at a London ball. When she overhears Colin complain that he must find a wealthy bride quickly in order to survive, Sinjun promptly introduces herself as the toothsome heiress she is. Despite all odds, Sinjun manages an elopement to Scotland to begin her life in a drafty old castle that holds more revelations and surprises than Sinjun could ever imagine.....
THE HELLION BRIDE 11/1992 ISBN: 0515109746 Ryder Sherbrooke is a fun-loving rake with a secret. When he travels to Jamaica to solve the mystery of the supernatural goings-on at the Sherbrooke sugar plantation, he finds another mystery as well - a sophisticated nineteen-year-old girl, Sophia Stanton-Greville, who wants to bed him. And not, he believes, because she is simply enthralled with his handsome self or his boundless charm. Sophia has successfully controlled every man in her orbit until she meets Ryder Sherbrooke, a man she knows immediately is different from the others, a man she sees as one of hell's own sons. Ryder, confident as only a successful rake can be when it comes to knowing women, sets out to teach her who is in charge. It's said she already has three lovers. Is she indeed the outrageous tease she appears? A seductress? Or is she an innocent with an ugly and terrifying secret?
AN HONORABLE OFFER 12/1981 (Reissued as THE OFFER) Sabrina Eversleigh runs away from home after her new brother-in-law attempts to rape her. She would surely have died in a blizzard if Phillip Mercerault had not rescued her. He nurses her back to health only to find that he is not a hero. Instead, he's a gentleman who has compromised a lady. Now there's only one thing left for him to do - marry her. But Sabrina turns him down, leaving him completely baffled. However, things don't turn out quite the way Sabrina planned and it is she, then, who must propose, sweetening the pot with a big dowry and an offer of freedom for Phillip. But what's a husband to do when he knows his bride is afraid of men? And more important, what is the bride to do when she follows her husband to his mistress' lodgings and discovers him on the point of indulging?
AN INTIMATE DECEPTION 4/1983 (Reissued as THE DECEPTION) The Duke of Portsmouth offers an impecunious half-French relative a job as his young son's nanny. What he quickly discovers is that he wants her, badly. What he discovers far more slowly is that she isn't at all what she seems. Evangeline de Beauchamps is in way over her head. She has far more to cope with than a nineteen-year-old virgin should ever have. To top it all off, she must play an experienced widow with a man who knows women as well as he knows his horses, or so he thinks.
LORD DEVERILL'S HEIR 5/1980 (Reissued as THE HEIR) Justin Deverill, the new Earl of Strafford, is a military man who's strong, shrewd, stubborn and very possibly one of the most handsome men ever to become an earl. As for his cousin, Arabella, whom he must wed or gain nothing but an empty title, she is more like him than either of them would like to admit. Faced with an order from her father's will to marry this man, she rebels. Since her father is dead, she has no other target except the new earl. However, in him, Arabella meets her match. These two flamboyant people do wed, despite the fact that Justin believes she has betrayed him before their wedding, and thus, married or not, there is hell to pay. Who does the earl believe is his wife's lover? There is only one snake in the garden, the young and charming Comte de Trecassis, a relative visiting from France. The earl wants to kill him, but he holds off because he knows the young man came for a reason. The earl wants him to under his eye until he figures out why. He knows he is up to no good; he just doesn't know what the no good is.
LORD HARRY 1/1995 ISBN: 0451405919 Henrietta Rolland reigns as queen of the London Season, winning men's hearts and women's envy with her beauty, charm, and wit - until she discovers that a notorious rake, Jason Cavander, the Marquess of Oberlon, is responsible for the death of her brother Damien at Waterloo. Determined to avenge her dead brother, Henrietta disguises herself as the fictitious Lord Harry Monteith, hoping to fool Cavander and challenge him to a duel. Needless to say, her plan does not unfold quite the way she has anticipated. Henrietta's adventures as a rakehell young gentleman in Regency England will touch and amuse you. She sees the marquess in as many guises as he does her. But the time has come for all pretenses to be stripped away as Henrietta and Jason together track down Damien's real killer and learn in the process how powerful love can be.
LORD HARRY'S FOLLY 12/1980 (Reissued as LORD HARRY) Henrietta Rolland reigns as queen of the London Season, winning men's hearts and women's envy with her beauty, charm, and wit - until she discovers that a notorious rake, Jason Cavander, the Marquess of Oberlon, is responsible for the death of her brother Damien at Waterloo. Determined to avenge her dead brother, Henrietta disguises herself as the fictitious Lord Harry Monteith, hoping to fool Cavander and challenge him to a duel. Needless to say, her plan does not unfold quite the way she has anticipated. Henrietta's adventures as a rakehell young gentleman in Regency England will touch and amuse you. She sees the marquess in as many guises as he does her. But the time has come for all pretenses to be stripped away as Henrietta and Jason together track down Damien's real killer and learn in the process how powerful love can be.
LYON'S GATE 8/2005 ISBN:0515138975 ....twins James and Jason Sherbrooke, two of the handsomest, most charming young men ever to grace the Sherbrooke family. James, the elder twin, is devoted to his family's land, and is now settled and married to the girl next door. Jason, however, can't forgive himself for his role in the events of five years ago, when his own willful blindness endangered the lives of his father and twin. He fled England, unable to face his family's love and acceptance, and has spent five long years in exile, trying to learn how to live again. Now Jason has returned, and his family will do anything to keep him in England. When he shows interest in purchasing Lyon's Gate, a stud farm near Northcliffe, they are overjoyed-but there is a complication, in the lovely form of Miss Hallie Carrick, an impetuous, outspoken young lady who may have just what it takes to fire the spark of life in Jason again.
MAD JACK 2/1999 ISBN: 0515124206 Mad Jack is in reality Winifrede Levering Bascombe, who, happily, has her name changed very quickly in the story. She arrives in London with the aunts, Mathilda and Maude, to beg the assistance of Lord Cliffe, Grayson St. Cyre. He welcomes the aunts, briefly spots the valet, Jack, and proceeds very quickly after their arrival to fall down the rabbit hole. He catches the valet, Jack, stealing his horse, Durban, chases Jack down, and then all sorts of interesting things happen. Enter Sinjun with her frantic husband Colin, on her trail. Amidst all the laughter lurks a deadly secret that's ready to crush both Jack and Gray.
MIDSUMMER MAGIC 12/1987 ISBN: 0451408705 Philip Hawksbury, the Earl of Rothermere, obeying his father's dying wish, hies himself to Scotland to offer for one of the daughters of Alexander Kilbracken, the Earl of Ruthven. Frances Kilbracken, informed of the earl's arrival and his mission, disguises herself as a bespectacled dowd so she won't be the one selected by the young earl. But choose her he does, and for all the wrong reasons. The newly married couple return to England, together but not at all happy. Philip dumps Frances at Desborough Hall, his ancestral estate, and heads back to his old life in London. Ah, but Desborough has a stud farm and racing stable, and Frances is magic with horses. When the earl returns to his home, driven by guilt, he discovers the woman he married has grossly deceived him. What follows is a battle of the sexes that will have you chuckling, maybe even howling with laughter.
MOONSPUN MAGIC 8/1988 ISBN: 0451408845 You've already met Rafael Carstairs, the mysterious sea captain who worked against Napoleon in Calypso Magic. He's a civilian now and traveling to see his twin brother, Damien Carstairs Baron Drago, in Cornwell. In the middle of a moonless night, Rafael rescues a young girl, Victoria Abermarle, from smugglers, only to find that she's trying to escape his twin, Baron Drago, who tried to rape her. What's a retired spy to do with a young girl whose nubile body and sizable fortune are threatened by his own brother? He does the noble thing, finally. He marries her. And that's just the beginning of their adventures...
NIGHT FIRE 2/1989 ISBN: 038075620X Areille Leslie is a sixteen-year-old girl forced to wed Paisley Cochrane, a sadistic old man who abuses her. When he dies, she believes herself free. But she’s not. Burke Drummond, Earl of Ravensworth – a young man she’d worshipped three years before – is home from the wars, and he wants her. When he catches her, he’s in for an appalling surprise.
THE NIGHTINGALE LEGACY 12/1994 ISBN: 0399139702 Caroline Derwent-Jones is at the eve of her nineteenth birthday. She's chomping at the bit to get out from under the control of her smarmy guardian, the frighteningly obsessive Roland Ffalkes. But Ffalkes has other plans for Caroline. She manages to escape him only to find herself in the fascinating company of Frederick North Nightingale, Lord Chilton. As tragedy and mystery thicken the air, Caroline finds herself more and more drawn to Lord Chilton, a man who claims he's a lonely beggar, his soul suited for solitude and for walking his hounds on the moors. Mysteries old and mysteries new, misogyny is rampant in Lord Chilton's house, Mount Hawke, filled only with men. But to his surprise, Lord Chilton finds he wants nothing more than to have Caroline Derwent-Jones in his life.
NIGHT SHADOW 8/1989 ISBN: 0380756218 Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, first appeared in Night Fire. He is the quintessential Regency bachelor who plans to marry and impregnate his wife just before he croaks, and thus his heir will be raised without the vagaries of his sire. Yes, Knight is a very happy camper, what with him being the center of the universe. Then the unthinkable happens,. A woman shows up on his doorstep claiming to be the widow of his murdered cousin, Tristan Winthrop. As if that isn’t bad enough, with her are his cousin’s three children. If that still isn’t enough, they are destitute and have nowhere to go. To top it all off, Ugly Arnold is hard on her heels. What is Knight supposed to do now? Why, he takes them in and bids his former life goodbye. You’ll laugh until your belly aches at the antics of Laura Beth, Sam, and Theo. You’ll enjoy how the very clever, creative Lord Castlerosse deals with this new species. But how will he deal with his cousin’s widow Lily?
NIGHT STORM 2/1990 ISBN: 0380756234 You first met Alec Carrick, Baron Sherard, in Night Fire. He returns full force in Night Storm – and believe me, this man’s got force in spades. He decides he wants to merge with a shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland, and knows he won’t have a problem brining the owner around to his way of thinking. Unfortunately, this is where the owner’s daughter, Genny Paxton, comes in and presents herself to Baron Sherard as “Eugene” Paxton. Alec, a man of great insight, knows exactly what lies beneath those britches. He gets Genny’s goat more times than she can count.
THE OFFER 10/1997 ISBN: 0451407946 Sabrina Eversleigh runs away from home after her new brother-in-law attempts to rape her. She would surely have died in a blizzard if Phillip Mercerault had not rescued her. He nurses her back to health only to find that he is not a hero. Instead, he's a gentleman who has compromised a lady. Now there's only one thing left for him to do - marry her. But Sabrina turns him down, leaving him completely baffled. However, things don't turn out quite the way Sabrina planned and it is she, then, who must propose, sweetening the pot with a big dowry and an offer of freedom for Phillip. But what's a husband to do when he knows his bride is afraid of men? And more important, what is the bride to do when she follows her husband to his mistress' lodgings and discovers him on the point of indulging?
PENDRAGON 1/2002 ISBN: 051513225X It's time fort a bit of cat racing, a sinister mystery, and a light touch of gothic menace. Add the signature Sherbrooke grit and wit and voila, you have Pendragon. Here's to the next generation - Tysen Sherbrooke now has four sons and Meggie, age nineteen. Her almost-cousin Jeremy Stanton-Greville - Sophia Sherbrooke's brother, and the man Meggie has held in silent adoration since she was thirteen years old - unknowingly breaks her guileless heart. Deeply depressed, she rallies with a hasty marriage to Thomas Malcombe, the earl of Lancaster and a brand-new card in the Sherbrooke deck, in the spring of 1824, despite a very nasty rumor involving a local girl. Thomas takes his bride to Pendragon, a castle on the southeastern coast of Ireland. A monstrous old place, filled with very eccentric folk, Pendragon nonetheless charms Meggie, until she discovers that she's there for a reason that could lead to disaster.
THE REBEL BRIDE 12/1979 ISBN: 0451404327 The rebel bride is Katharine Brandon, a hoyden with hair as red as a stormy sunset whose fierce independence masks her loneliness. When Julien St. Clair, Earl of March, sees her for the first time, she is dressed like a boy while engaged in a rather mock duel with her brother. And since it's her turn to be fatally wounded, she dies dramatically at Julien's feet. A powerful, sophisticated nobleman who is bored and restless with a life that holds little more interest for him, the earl finds himself suddenly and thoroughly bewitched by this unusual young lady. But when he decides he wants her, he discovers that all is not what it seems. From the glittering Regency ballrooms of 1814 London, to Paris, and finally to Switzerland, the earl and his unwilling bride play a dangerous game of passion, until everything changes irrevocably between them...and Julien discovers Katharine's terrifying secret.
THE SCOTTISH BRIDE 1/2001 ISBN: 0515129933 All the Sherbrooke clan are alive, well, and in rip-roaring spirits in August of 1815. Two months after Napoleon's defeat of Waterloo, Tysen Sherbrooke, the youngest of the three brothers, now thirty-one years old, a vicar, a widower, and the father of three children, has just been told by the earl that he's become the new Baron Barthwick of Kildrummy Castle in Scotland. Tysen feels it is his duty to visit his new holdings. His ten-year-old daughter, Meggie, insists she should accompany him. Tysen refuses, but Megie is blessed with a full measure of Sherbrooke's resolve, and a wily plan of action. Devout, thoughtful, honorable to his soul. Tysen's narrow, sober world explodes when he steps into a beehive of complications-facing down dreadful people who would as willingly slit his English throat as look at him. Then the Local Bastard, Mary Rose Fordyce, a remarkable young woman blessed with a soft, steady heart and a courageous spirit, comes unexpectedly into his life, in desperate need of his protection.
THE SHERBROOKE BRIDE 4/1992 ISBN: 0515107662 Douglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, is a man besieged. He must have an heir. Thus he must first provide himself with the requisite bride. Alexandra Chambers, youngest daughter of the Duke of Beresford, has loved Douglas Sherbrooke since she was fifteen. Unfortunately, it is her sister, the incomparable Melissande, he wishes to wed. But life never ladles out what one expects, and Douglas finds himself wed to the wrong sister. If having an unwanted wife isn't enough, he is also plagued by The Virgin Bride, a ghost that is reputedly seen in the countess's bedchamber. Does the willowy phantom really appear to Douglas? Does she speak to him?
THE VALENTINE LEGACY 10/1995 ISBN: 0515118362 In the early 1820s, horse racing was a down and dirty sport. James Wyndham, who owns racing stables in both England and America, finds his racing nemesis in red-haired Jessie Warfield, renowned hoyden and champion jockey, who knows as many dirty racing tricks as James does. When either wins a race, the other's nose gets rubbed in the dirt. Jessie has known James for six years, since she was fourteen years old. She often wants to kick him for the way he treats her, but more importantly, she adores him. She just doesn't know how to show it. When chance throws Jessie out of a tree, landing her on top of James, she is pronounced Ruined. When she decides to run, she really goes for it, all the way to England, to James's cousins, Marcus and Duchess Wyndham. James arrives, laden with guilt, to find a Jessie who sounds like the old Jessie but isn't. Jessie has undergone a transformation worthy of Pygmalion. Will James do the Right Thing and undo Jessie's Ruin? What about Jessie's nightmares that seem to call up something terrible from her childhood?
THE WILD BARON 4/1997 ISBN: 0515120448 Rohan Carrington, Baron Mountvale, proud scion of a family renowned for its philandering and charm, is bewildered. He has received a letter stating that his late, younger brother, George, ruined a young lady. But how could this be possible? George was a scholar, a serious young man; without mincing words, he was a prude and a stick. Whereas Rohan enjoys the reputation of being a womanizer, George had the reputation of cold porridge. Enter the ruined young lady, Susannah, who claims she wasn't ruined. She claims she's a Carrington, but George didn't leave her in fine fettle. She has a three-year-old daughter, very little money, a younger brother, and a wastrel father. In short, she's not in very fine fettle. She and her daughter are also in danger. When Rohan and Susannah team up, they find themselves on the trail of a legendary treasure somehow connected to MacBeth, eleventh-century king of Scotland-a fantastic legacy of ancient good and evil.
WIZARD'S DAUGHTER 1/2008 ISBN: 9780515143942 Dear Reader: When Ryder Sherbrooke finds a child nearly beaten to death in an alley in Eastbourne, he takes her home to Brandon House. She doesn't speak for six months. Her first words, oddly enough, are a haunting song: I dream of beauty and sightless night I dream of strength and fevered might I dream I'm not alone again But I know of his death and her grievous sin. Ah, and just what does this strange song mean that was seemingly imprinted on the child's brain? She names herself Rosalind de la Fontaine since she cannot remember who she is. In her first season in London in 1835, under the aegis of the Sherbookes, she meets Nicholas Vail, the 7th Earl of Mountjoy, newly arrived from Macau. It is instant fascination on both their parts, but for different reasons. With Grayson Sherbrooke, they are led to an ancient copy of a mysterious book written by a sixteenth-century wizard. The book is written in a baffling code that neither Grayson nor Nicholas can read. But Rosalind can, easily. Strange things start happening. Both Nicholas and Rosalind know it has to do with the old book and, perhaps, even her past, particularly the song she first sang as a child. The urgency builds as they realize Rosalind is the key to a centuries-old mystery. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
THE WYNDHAM LEGACY 2/1994 ISBN: 0515114499 Marcus Wyndham never asked to become the Earl of Chase. The Duchess never asked to be illegitimate. And neither of these two asked that their fates become entwined. Marcus is passionate, quick to rage, just as quick to laughter. He's tough, opinionated, domineering, known as the devil's own son. The Duchess is serene and aloof - she has silence down to a fine art. She is always in control, her smiles are rare as bawdy jests in the pulpit. She is self-reliant once she realizes that a very special talent can make her so, a talent no one suspects.
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CHRISTMAS EVE KITTENS 10/2001 ISBN: 0821770381
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THE LADY AND THE FOOTMAN 12/2004 ISBN:082177719X Twenty-four and unattached, Lady Allyson Crossleigh considers herself happily free of the marriage mart frenzy. If she has her way-and she usually does-her future will be one of independence and adventure. But adventure comes sooner than expected after an attempt to kidnap her is foiled by a handsome laborer whom Allyson's father then hires to protect her. Having Nathan Christopher shadowing her every move is at first infuriating-yet as she begins to know him better, Allyson feels her heart opening up...to a man Society will never accept! Nathan Christopher Thornton is a gentleman with plans-and trolling the ton for a wife isn't among them. So he's at a bit of a loss when he finds himself acting as protector to one of Society's most attractive ladies. On medical leave from the army, Nathan agreed to assist the Earl of Rutherford with some delicate undercover work which has since come to include watching over the man's daughter. At first, Lady Allyson is merely a very pretty nuisance-yet she soon becomes a great deal more. And if Nathan thought concealing his true identity was difficult, keeping his love under wraps will be even more so...
MISS RICHARDSON COMES OF AGE 11/2001 ISBN: 082177042X A little wild, a lot mischievous, heiress Annabelle Richardson set society abuzz by rejecting three suitors in one season. Two were disreputable rakes after her fortune. The third, Timothy Wainwright, was simply too foolish and too young. Nonetheless Annabelle never would have written a scathing satire making them the laughingstock of the ton if the spurned trio hadn't tried to tarnish her name...Now Annabelle has made three enemies--and sent Timothy's older brother into a rage. Thorne Wainwright, the handsome Earl of Rolsbury, angrily intends to put Annabelle in her proper place...until one look, one touch, one kiss convinces them both that her proper place is in his arms. But in a London where gossip thrives and reputations falter, a dastardly plot is under way to force Annabelle to the altar with the wrong man. Will Thorne be able to rescue her--and make her his bride--in time?
MY LADY GOVERNESS 2/2000 ISBN: 0821764837 When Elinor Richards' guardian attempts to barter her in marriage to an unsavory gentleman, the desperate heiress can only see one solution. Disguising herself as "Miss Palmer," she takes the post of governess to the twin children of the Marquis of Trenville. Yet, when the proximity of her attractive employer heightens her senses intolerably, Elinor sees how rash she has been. For propriety requires Adrian to fancy none but a lady--or a courtesan--and "Miss Palmer" is neither! Adrian, a widower set against remarriage, dedicates himself wholly to serving his country as a diplomat--and, lately, to uncovering a spy in his household. He is not, however, impervious to the half-glimpsed charms and sprightly mind of the new governess. But when he suspects there’s more to "Miss Palmer," he finds himself in quite a quandary. For this apparent imposter might very well be the traitor he is seeking--and the only woman who has managed to unlock his heart...
RULES OF MARRIAGE 5/2002 ISBN: 0821770438 When, at the height of the Peninsular War, she is offered on the auction block by her lowlife husband, lovely Scotswoman Rachel Cameron fears the worst. To her great relief, she is purchased by Lord Jacob Forrester, a rugged English officer whose life she once saved. She becomes Jake’s right hand on the bloody campaign trail…and, when fiery passion flares, his mistress…Back in London, where propriety rules, Jake is faced with the incontestable impropriety of his relationship with Rachel. To save her from the scathing tongues of the gossipy ton, he casts her aside--never dreaming a stunning revelation will foil his plans to reclaim her with a proper offer. Now Jake must vie with viscounts and barons for the hand of a woman he once bought in a tavern…and convince a reluctant lady that his love is true…and truly forever…
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRIET 7/2001 ISBN: 0821770411 Once Harriet Kingsley was an impoverished, starry-eyed schoolgirl. Now, a little older and much wiser, she is a young widow with vast riches--and a life of her own. No high-and-mighty gentleman, not even Lord Marcus, can tell her what to do...especially about her ward, Annabelle. What is wrong with Lady Harriet, according to Marcus, is that she will not listen--and that she is so maddeningly lovely! Worse, their shared guardianship of the rebellious Annabelle has brought her into his household to handle the chit...and she's turning his life topsy-turvy. With a battle of wits soon raging over politics and a woman's proper place, Marcus is incensed--and intrigued. Then an impetuous kiss turns into a burning passion. Now the pros and cons are melting into sighs, but for Marcus the trouble with Harriet is only beginning....
THE VISCOUNT'S BRIDE 7/2003 ISBN: 0821770446 A devoted champion for the less fortunate, Hannah Whitmore passionately pursues improvement of the dangerous working conditions in the textile mills-especially for the children. She is stunned, then outraged, when a handsome new laborer turns out to be a gentleman in disguise, an heir to a local mill testing the mood of the workers. Yet their heated debates cannot conceal the fierce attraction they share...Theo Ruskin, Viscount Amesbury, is caught in the middle of a dangerous controversy- accused of sedition by his peers and threatened by agitators for reform. Struck by Hannah's fiery courage and certain she is treading dangerous waters, he becomes her champion-a move that finds them both with enemies who plot their ruin. Forced into a compromising position, they must marry. And though each yearns to speak words of love, they have yet to realize that adversaries need not be enemies...especially in affairs of the heart.
THE WAGERED WIFE 2/2001 ISBN: 0821768069 When the Honorable Trevor Jeffries loses everything at cards, there's only one way to cancel the debt--by marrying his opponent's unwanted ward, Miss Caitlin Woodbridge, a country girl fresh from the schoolroom. Their forced union proves to be a glum affair; and Trevor, leaving Caitlin well provided for, hastily escapes from it by enlisting for the Peninsula and urging her to seek an annulment. Seven years have transformed Caitlin into a nonpareil of style and charm, adept in the enrichment of her long--lost husband's estate. Though her senses flame at the sight of her handsome bridegroom, she cannot forget his abrupt abandonment and long silence. But before she will surrender to him his heritage, and her heart, Trevor will have to vie with half the young bloods of London in an ardent courtship—of his own wife!
THE WAY TO A MAN'S HEART 7/2000 short story in SWEET TEMPTATION ISBN: 0821766562 After sampling the poor fare at a soirée, Nicole Beaufort´s cousins challenge her to do better. Disguising herself as a cook, Nicole finds work at a nearby estate, where the health of her new employer, the handsome Earl of Thornwood, depends on her cooking. But she never expects to tempt his heart as well as his appetite.
WILLED TO WED 9/1999 ISBN: 0821763237 Her Grandpapa's will was outrageous. Lady Emily Longbourne would inherit only if she wed the heir to the adjoining estate. Of course, Grandpapa thought her fiancé‚ would be sweet Robert Markholme. But the young man's drowning changed everything. Now the independent lady must marry a stranger! Marriage, let alone an arranged one, was simply out of the question for Matthew Cameron. Having once been betrayed by love, he now mistrusted all women. Yet the well-managed lands of Miss Emily--surely a gorgon of a spinster--would pull his new estate out of debt. He never expected a captivating beauty. She never expected a dashing gentleman. And both were stunned by the effect of a single kiss. Now only true love could determine whether two very willful hearts would indeed say "I do..."
THE WILLFUL MISS WINTHROP 10/2000 ISBN: 0821767062 Braving the censure of the ton, Cymberly Winthrop decides to follow the drum by joining her father, Colonel Charles Winthrop, in Portugal. No sooner is Cymberly in Lisbon than she witnesses a handsome man rescuing a drowning child. That man is Geoffrey Ryder, a distant member of the family that cruelly disinherited Cymberly's mother. She'd rather ignore her attraction to him--and welcome the attentions of another soldier--even though it is Geoffrey's kisses, and not her suitor's, that light the deepest ardor in her...Geoffrey Ryder has never come upon anyone like Cymberly Winthrop. Unlike most well bred ladies, Miss Winthrop is not above the unpleasant task of caring for the wounded. If only she weren't so besotted with Lieutenant Fleming, a man of deceptive character. But Geoffrey is up for the challenge, and somehow he will find a way to convince the woman he loves that he isn’t the rogue she believes him to be--and that her heart belongs with him…
Caroline Courtney
ABANDONED FOR LOVE 2/1981 ISBN:0446325899 The Duke of Lyveden needed a wife--but which of the three eligible ladies of the Ton would be most suitable? The best way to choose, he decided, was to arrive in London with a fraudulent fiancee--and judge the ladies' true characters by how they behaved toward her. And what better choice to play the role than a beautiful young woman from Yorkshire whom no one in Society knew? Antoinette Aston was ready to accept the offer for the Duke had rescued her from a fate worse than death, and she did not know where else to go, whom to trust--or even who she was!
CONSPIRACY OF KISSES 1986
THE COURIER OF LOVE 1/1982 ISBN:0446909610 She revealed the foibles of the ton in the local paper, but kept her name as secret as her hidden love.
DANGEROUS ENGAGEMENT 12/1979 ISBN:0446940526 The Earl of Templecombe had dared to kiss Miranda Melbury at first meeting. Perhaps he had been provoked--she had been wearing boy's clothing, had spoken to him with most unladylike acerbity and had required rescue when her horse bolted. But surely a man so ready to take advantage of a lady in distress deserved the slap she gave him. Now it was rumored that the earl, somewhat the worse for gambling losses, was looking for a new source of funds. Was he planning to offer for Miranda because she had become an heiress--or did he plan to finance his future by other, more criminal means?
THE DARING HEART 6/1982 ISBN:0446909637 Lucilla won Lord Childs's anger and his admiration -- had she also won his heart? Lord Childs -- her best friend's guardian -- was a cold, brooding aristocrat who disapproved of Lucilla's boldness. And he told her so. She visited fortune-tellers, appeared uninvited in his stables, and invaded his library. But all his admonitions had a hollow ring when Lucilla found him, too, consulting with the forbidden gypsies -- and when Lucilla's reckless curiosity awoke in him a strange desire.
DESTINY'S DUCHESS 10/1982 ISBN:0446946109 Her fiance was a stranger, but Candida must make sure her husband was not...The Duke of Stratton agreed to marry Candida Wellesley sight unseen. he had looked at the size of her fortune, and since wealth was what he sought in a bride, he asked for no portrait so that he might judge her beauty. And since the Duke had never seen her, Candida was able to engage herself as governess to his ward. In his own household, she could observe him at work, at play, and in his cups--and she could decide whether she wanted to wed the Duke of Stratton.
DUCHESS IN DISGUISE 6/1979 ISBN:0816130027 The Duke of Westhampton had a wife in the country--and a mistress in town. This suited the Duke of Westhampton, but his young wife, whom he'd wed and tucked away on his estate was not pleased. So, being as audacious as she was innocent, she undertook to win his attention, to charm and undo him, in the world of the Regency haut ton, where he was very well known--and she was not.
FORBIDDEN LOVE 12/1980 ISBN:0446942979 The Comte de la Valle was a spy. Of that, Harriet Willoughby was certain. He was the same man who, dressed as a smuggler, had accosted her on the marsh and had dared to claim a kiss as the price of her passage. He had the same disturbing gray eyes. And, when he kissed her again, the same disturbing effect upon her senses. But why did all the ton accept him as an emigre? Why did Lord burbridge regard him so highly? Harriet was new to London, an unsophisticated girl just coming out, but she knew her duty. She must see the truth was revealed.
THE FORTUNES OF LOVE 1/1980 ISBN:0446940550 The Duke of Strathavon had the ladies of Bath all agog. But not Davinia Sinclair. He did not frighten her, even when he chased her from her perch in an apple tree on his estate. His newly acquired wealth did not impress her, for she did not seek a rich husband. Nor did his darkly handsome appearance engage her, for she was already in love with Lord Maunsell, who intended to ask for her hand as soon as he found his treasure. They should live happily ever after -- for a gypsy had foretold that Davinia would wed a man whose name began with "M."
GUARDIAN OF THE HEART 11/1979 ISBN:0446940534 The Marquis of Rossington was a libertine. The ladies of the London ton and the Versailles court loved him far too well for their own good and learned too late that he loved no one. To this handsome, bitter man, Sir John Lawley had, by mistake, assigned the guardianship of his beautiful young daughter. No man, save the Marquis, could look upon her silvery blonde innocence and deliberately plan her undoing. Any man, save the marquis, would have seen that he, as much as she, would soon need a Guardian of the Heart.
HEART OF HONOR 5/1980 ISBN: 0446942944 Sir Andrew Grantley had saved Beth's life when he reined in her startled runaway horses. He was handsome, charming, and when his blue eyes met her own amber ones, Beth Merridew had instantly fallen in love. But Sir Andrew's family had fallen on hard times. His father and left gambling debts that had drained his estate. Society now regarded Andrew as a pauper, a bearer of his father's bad blood. Bad blood-that's what the gossips had said Beth had inherited from her mother. Even in misfortune, Andrew and Beth had a bond. Surely two so suited deserved to become one-thought Charles Carrington, the suitor Beth's aunt had foisted upon her, schemed to keep the lovers apart.
LIBERTINE IN LOVE 1980 ISBN:0446942952 The Marquis of Peterborough had kissed Juliana in public-in order to win a bet. Now, she was the subject of another, even more degrading wager. His gambling companions had given him six months to win her hand in marriage. Juliana was new to the ways of the ton. Her father had taught her different values-he did not approve of libertines who wasted their lives on games and wagered their lives on whim. Her father had married for love-and so, Juliana was determined, would she.
LOVE IN WAITING 4/1982 ISBN:0446909629 Young orphaned Camilla Fernaby discovers she is a French countess, and as the sole surviving de Courville, her only relative, the Marquis de Fouchet, adopts her as his ward
LOVE OF MY LIFE 9/1981 ISBN:0446946095 Lord Desmond Shayne had gallantly rescued Jessica Court from highwaymen and had made her feel welcome in his home. Now he had asked Jessica's help as he struggled to win the hand of the beautiful Lady Olivia.
A LOVER'S VICTORY 9/1981 ISBN:0446906115 Sir Edward Fairmount had decided that his daughter Valeria must marry Perry Adaire. Despite her own opposition to the match, Sir Edward took her to Vienna, where Perry's regiment was stationed, to make sure the betrothal took place. In Vienna, the Peace Congress was in progress, and amidst the intrigue and excitement, love touched Valeria at last. But it was not love for Perry. Valeria had lost her heart to a man who seemed to have no heart of his own.
LOVE'S MASQUERADE 1/1980 ISBN:0446942928 He wagered he'd win her hand and Leonora encouraged his suit--to settle a score of her own!
LOVE TRIUMPHANT 3/1980 ISBN:0446942936 The Comte de la Valle was a spy. Of that, Harriet Willoughby was certain. He was the same man who, dressed as a smuggler, had accosted her on the marsh and had dared to claim a kiss as the price of her passage. He had the same disturbing gray eyes. And, when he kissed her again, the same disturbing effect upon her senses. But why did all the ton accept him as an emigre? Why did Lord burbridge regard him so highly? Harriet was new to London, an unsophisticated girl just coming out, but she knew her duty. She must see the truth was revealed.
LOVE UNMASKED 10/1979 ISBN: 0446040542 The Duke of Lexburgh - that was what Charles Somerford intended to be. And he intended that the beautiful Lady Lucinda should be his bride. But Lucinda was in love with a man whose entire face she had never seen. His hair was blue-black, his eyes gray and his lips burned as they kissed her hand. But he wore a mask on those fateful occasions when he had come to Lucinda's aid: saving her from the clutches of a highwayman and the embrace of an unwelcome lover. Could he now save Lucinda from marriage to a man she despised? Or would she become a disappointed Duchess with only dreams of what might have been when love unmasked?
THE MASQUERADING HEART 2/1982 ISBN: 0446906123 They were twins who looked exactly alike - to strangers. Those who loved them recognized the spirit in Serenity's eyes, the gentleness in Sylvana's. But when Sylvana was invited by her godmother, who'd not seen her in four years, to come to London for the Season, Serenity felt safe in taking her place. After all, Sylvana would far rather remain in the Cotswolds near the man she loved. Serenity had a lesson she must teach to a certain man in London-a man who had teased her when she was just sixteen-with a dare, a laugh, and a kiss.
THE ROMANTIC RIVALS 10/1980 ISBN:0816131988 Man against maid, wile against will, a fiery free-for-all that leads to a wonderful match.
THE TEMPESTUOUS AFFAIR 4/1981 ISBN:0446946087 The late Sir Charles Stanton had written before he died to his estranged father-in-law Prince Kuragin in Russia-entrusting him with the care of Charles's daughter Lucy. The prospect of traveling to St. Petersburg-far away-was frightening and exciting. Though without chaperone, Lucy knew she need not fear for her virtue , one look at the cold, green eyes of her escort , cousin Nikolai, revealed a nature as frozen as the Russian steppes....
A WAGER FOR LOVE 6/1979 ISBN: 0446940518 The Earl of Saltaire had a reputation as a rakehell, an abductor and ravisher of women, a dandy and a demon on horseback. Much of what was said about him was true. Then what lady of means and of irreproachable character would consider marrying him - especially if she knew the reason for the match was primarily to win a bet? Certainly not Lavinia Davenham, a beautiful lady whose wealth was newly acquired, but whose independence and integrity were lifelong qualities. Why, he'd have to carry her off by force in the dark of night! And so he did.
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