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A CRIME OF MANNERS: The Cats of Mayfair 5/1996 ISBN: 0449224570 Giles Vayne, the eighth Duke of Winterton, was rich, handsome, and arrogant enough to assume that every eager mother was throwing her daughter at him. He was right, of course. Unfortunately that cynicism, plus an ill-mannered comment, made a charming country miss the subject of town scuttlebutt before her first ball! True, Henrietta Lanford had dreamed endlessly about his lordship - until his scandalous comment fueled her ire and her brazen public rebuke delighted the gossips to no end. She decided to encourage the attentions of another, unaware of his lascivious designs. Soon scheming and seduction of all sorts compelled Giles to become her reluctant protector, as fair Henrietta discovered that the hero of her fantasies was quite real indeed...
HOW THE ROGUE STOLE CHRISTMAS 11/1998 ISBN: 0449001997 The yuletide season has always cursed Lady Margery Fortescue with bad luck. This year the cottage roof caves in. So she reluctantly accepts an invitation to a house party - only to be accosted at a nearby inn by a rogue too handsome and too rich to have any sense. While he does graciously propose, after he realizes she is a lady of Quality, Margery ungraciously declines. But when the arrogant Lord 'Reckless' Reckford and his wicked grin appear at the same holiday gathering as Margery, she mistakenly concludes that the unrepentant rake is determined to steal her Christmas - or even worse . . . her heart!
LORD AND MASTER 12/1997 ISBN: 0786251506 Miss Daphne Kendall, infuriated at the mistreatment of a lovely cat, rushed to save the poor creature. But for Lord Ravenswood--a man determined never to let any woman influence him beyond common sense--a spontaneous act of gallantry earned him the dubious honor of being the feline's new master. As Daphne's attraction for his lordship drew her into a tangled maze of sinister doings, Lord Ravenswood--ardently shopping for an uncomplicated, biddable wife--could not resist the most unsuitable Daphne . . . a miss who threatened to inspire in him that most uncontrollable of all emotions: love!
MISS PYMBROKE'S RULES 3/1997 ISBN: 0786251514 When Verity Pymbroke inadvertently rented her London house to Lord Carrisworth, she broke one of her most stringent rules *condoning the presence of a rake. Clearly, the man was a practiced scoundrel. The sensations he provoked in her were most unsettling, though not entirely unpleasant. His Lordship couldn't resist this Miss with the face of an angel and a prim and proper nature that tempted him without reason. With one kiss he dared to find out if a passionate nature lay beneath her sensible gowns and strict rules of conduct. But who was more surprised, himself or Miss Pymbroke? And how could he possibly convince a lady with too many rules to break several . . . all in the name of love?
THE TAINTED SNUFF BOX 2001 ISBN: 0425179486 In the days of Regency England, Beau Bramble stood as the uncrowned king of genteel Society. Whatever he wore was the height of fashion. Wherever he went was the place to be seen. And the last place one would expect to find him was in the middle of a murder mystery... After receiving a series of death threats by post, the Prince of Wales feels that some time spent away from London will calm his frazzled nerves. So he escapes to Brighton - where Beau Brummell joins him as a guest. With guards posted at every door, the atmosphere is tense - especially under the scrutiny of Sir Simon. Hired by the Prince as his personal 'food-taster,' the odious baronet is a poor substitute for the polite company of London society that Beau is used to. Some refinement appears in the form of a new blend of snuff prepared by Beau's good friend Petersham. Sir Simon insists on sampling it before the Prince - only to keel over dead. Now, Beau's friend is suspected of trying to assassinate the Prince. In order to clear Petersham's name, Beau will have to turn his quizzing glass on the crime...
Stephanie Stevens
DEFIANT ANGEL 6/1991 ISBN: 0380764490 Born with the bloodlines of an aristocrat and a spirit as wild as her prized Arabian stallion, willful young Lady Tiffany Courtland is sent to France to be schooled and presented to the crème de la crème of society. Blossoming into a rare beauty, she catches the eye of every man in Paris-including the rich and powerful Clinton Barencourte, the Duke of Wentworth, whose arrogant charm infuriates her while his aggressive masculinity makes her body tremble. A handsome and notorious rogue, Clinton takes Tiffany as his bride even as she vows to defy him. Determined to teach her the roles of lover, mistress and wife, he forces her into a battle of wills.until his passion turns her fury into fiery desire.surrendering them both to the ecstasy of a love too long denied.
Lois Stewart
THE BARTERED BRIDE 9/1995 ISBN: 0821750798 The widowed Lady Diana had only one passion: her ancestral estate at Abbotsleigh. Her brief, disastrous marriage had been arranged to save her family from financial ruin, and she vowed she would never again wed for money. Then she attended a masked ball in London... and was soundly kissed by a handsome stranger. He made her knees weak, her blood race, and her reason flee....The son of a British banker and half-caste Calcutta woman, Jared Amberly had returned to England from India to seek revenge against the society that had scorned him. Having made his fortune, he proceeded to purchase the gambling debts of Lady Diana's wayward brother. But his generosity came at a cost: the lovely Diana as his wife. Yet, beginning with a stolen kiss, his best-laid plans went awry. Amberly had thought to buy a bride. Now it was he who was at the lady's mercy -- ready to pay any price... for love.
THE DUKE'S MISTRESS 9/1993 ISBN:0821743007 Jonathan Rayner, Duke of Alverly, might indeed own half the county -but it didn't give him the right to rule it with an iron fist! Hilary Vane was determined to succeed in her daringly advanced plan to open a school for the young ladies of Wycombe Valley, despite the Duke's high-handed objections. The country lasses had much to learn from the city-bred schoolmistress...as did the splendidly handsome Duke himself. For much as he infuriated her, Hilary could not help but be intrigued by the enigmatic, strangely solitary nobleman who made her heart beat a little faster every time he happened near...
A HOLIDAY BETROTHAL short story in A CHRISTMAS DELIGHT 11/1991 ISBN:0821735837
AN INDEPENDENT LADY 3/1991 ISBN:0821733478
A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE 10/1996 ISBN:0821754270 Lovely Sophia Ashley gave up all thoughts of a love match when she wed a much older man. Widowed now, she has inherited his fortune, but lacks the proper station to find titled husbands for her marriageable sisters. In fact, the London season will be a disaster if Sophia herself doesn't marry the Earl of Leyburn. When this notorious rake first rescued her from a coach accident, she thought him an intriguing stranger; now his desperate financial state has led him to Sophia's door to propose a union of mutual convenience. But as soon as she says 'I do,' Sophia suddenly realizes she doesn't...and won't. For the unthinkable has happened: She has fallen in love with her handsome husband who, unbeknownst to Sophia, has also lost his heart to her....
A RELUCTANT HEART 9/1994 ISBN: 0821746960 Zoe Bennett was in a terrible fix. A sheltered vicar's daughter, she had stars in her eyes when a handsome lord asked her to dance.....and nearly swooned when he kissed her. Then he proposed that they elope---and she said yes. If only she'd said no! For Zoe, it was love at first sight, but for the inebriated Jerrold Layton, it was a night he didn't remember. Wooed, won, and wed in hours, Zoe was the Honorable Mrs. Jerrold Layton...for life. But no one knew except the Scottish preacher who'd secretly joined them in marriage. Now, seven years later, the reformed Lord Layton is astonished to learn that he possesses both an heir and a wife. Zoe claims to despise him; Jerrold demands they reunite...in name only. In either case, the ton is headed for a scandal. For when a warring couple starts fencing and flirting, true love can't be very far away!
ROMANTIC MASQUERADE 11/1990 ISBN: 0821732218 Lovely Sabrina Latimer had come to London incognito on a fortune hunt. Disguised as an Hungarian countess, the young widow meant to secure the ten thousand pounds her brother needed to pay a gambling debt. His debtor was that notorious ladies' man, Lord Jareth Tremayne, the self-same scoundrel who had introduced her innocent sibling to the gambling tables - and he would make a perfect, most deserving victim for her ingenious schemes. If, that is, she did not become her own worst victim. For the devilish aristocrat was an expert at gambling. And he always played to win...
AN UNCOMMON AFFAIR 9/1992 ISBN: 0821739123 The one person to whom sensible, strong minded Camilla Rayburn had ever allowed herself to become indebted was her godfather, the Earl of Sheringham. That dearest of all men once helped Camilla escape from a dreadful and ill-suited marriage, and she'd do anything in return. So when Uncle Nigel entreated her to shepherd his heir, Jean Hilliard, for a London season, Camilly graciously agreed. That is until she met the man - a fur trader from faraway Canada, who cared nothing for the ways of London society. His rakish manner only served to distract Camilla completely from her duties as a hostess and caused her heart to pound in a most alarming way...
AN UNSCRUPULOUS BRIDE 1/1992 ISBN:0821736388 Chandra was in need of a proper husband. She had returned to England to find her father's killer, a blackguard who traveled in the highest circles of London Society. Her goal. . . To lure him into betraying himself. But first, she had to establish a reputation as a successful hostess. The Honourable Julian Ware could provide the required social standing, not to mention a most handsome escort, but after one glance at this nobleman's deep blue eyes Chandra knew she would have to tread carefully indeed.
THE UNWILLING BRIDE short story in VALENTINE LOVE 1996 ISBN:0821751999 Caught in a snowstorm on her way to a Valentine's Day houseparty, Lucinda Vernon is forced to put up at a crowded inn. To her dismay, she learns that her estranged husband has engaged the last available room. Forced to share his suite, can she remain unmoved by his appeals for forgiveness...or will her heart answer his?
Lucy Phillips Stewart
BRIDE OF A STRANGER 11/1979 ISBN:044010808X They all agreed she'd made a brilliant match. He was handsome, dashing, fabulously rich, the catch of London society. Adrianna, orphaned daughter of an impoverished peer, had only her flame-haired beauty as dowry. Ivor had no intention of ignoring his ravishing young wife. All too soon, Adrianna was desperately in love with him. But the nagging questions remained. Who was this stranger, her husband? Had he truly abandoned his notorious past?
BRIDE OF CHANCE 1978 ISBN:0440108101 How could the lovely Lady Jessica hope to be happy in the arms of a dissolute duke who had won her hand in a card game? How could she hold her own in the glittering, titled society of Regency London -- when only the luck of the draw had made her a duchess?
BRIDE OF TORQUAY 7/1979 ISBN: 0440220009 The alliance of the ruggedly handsome Earl of Torquay to the ravishing Lydia of Weldon seemed nothing less than a perfect match. They were wealthy young aristocrats--and Lydia was deeply in love with her headstrong Scottish husband. Never once did she suspect that her marriage would whirl her into the depths of vengeance and intrigue. From out of the Earl's silent past came the beautiful and powerful Myrna McDougall, naming Torquay as the father of her illegitimate son. Her friend, the impoverished gambler Sir Charles, would stop at nothing to get a new fortune--and his beautiful young cohort would stop at nothing to get Torquay. Surrounded by envy, Lydia became the object of their hate--and their treacherous plots. Her life and new love constantly endangered, she boldly aided her husband in his defense of their home and family--even while her heart suffered its first troubling doubts.
THE CAPTIVE BRIDE 1978 ISBN: 0440177685 The most dazzling beauties of London would have given all to trade places with Miss Annette Redding--yet this spirited young lady fought with fury against her fate as unwilling bride of the wealthy, the handsome, the insufferably arrogant Earl of Ardley.
DESTINY'S BRIDE 1979 Kidnapped, swept from Regency England to the Ottoman Empire, she was an unwilling wife, a Sultan's slave... From the green English countryside to the burning sands of the exotic East... Bold, beautiful, and free-spirited, Natia came to Regency England from her native Russia to be Lord Devon's wife. But he was not the aging gentleman she expected. This insolent rake who plied her with kisses was not at all the kind of man she'd planned to marry - and nothing could force her to remain at his side. But her daring, impetuous plan to flee to her homeland led her into the arms of a savage slaver who saw Natia as a jewel fit for the Sultan's harem. Relentlessly, Devon pursued her across oceans and deserts to rescue her from a horrible fate. He was determined to have her, to school her in the arts of love, to make the tempestuous Natia his... in more than name only.
Marcy Stewart
A BRIDE FOR LORD BEAUMONT 4/2000 ISBN: 0821765825 Roslyn Andrews once fancied herself in love with Miles, Lord Beaumont, but that was when she was still in the schoolroom, and before his attentions had inexplicable drifted away. Now on the brink of her betrothal to a local landowner, Roslyn is determined to put the past behind her – and that means seeing Miles wedded too. So she invites four eligible ladies for a visit, certain that among them is a suitable bride for Lord Beaumont – only to realize that she wishes to occupy the position herself! Lord Beaumont was dismayed to learn of Roslyn's engagement. But how could he stop the only woman he'd ever loved from marrying if he was secretly promised to another? His father's debts had ensnared him in a most unpleasant alliance, and Miles was resigned to what would surely be a miserable existence – unless fate could change the course of two destined hearts….
THE BRIDEGROOM AND THE BABY 6/1999 ISBN: 0821762184 On the morning of the arrival of Miss Madeleine Murrow, Lord Ethan Ambrose awoke to find an abandoned infant by his bed. Is the little tyke the offspring of his deceased brother, Lucan? There is no question but to assume responsibility for the child. But Ethan must also marry the wealthy, conservative Miss Murrow or fail to keep his promise to Lucan to restore their crumbling ancestral home. If Miss Murrow takes offense at the babe's presence and unknown parentage, the engagement is off! Miss Madeleine Murrow may indeed be quiet, but her opinions are intelligent and her sense of mischief strong. When she demonstrates tenderness toward Ethan's new charge, her fiancé is delighted to learn he'd completely underestimated his future wife. Together, Madeleine and Ethan set out to uncover the child's identity—and the secret of Lucan's untimely death-only to discover that in joining forces, they've also become partners in love.
CHARITY'S GAMBIT 4/1994 ISBN: 0821745379 Desperate circumstances have reduced Charity Abercrombie to giving lessons on the pianoforte. But while music may feed the soul it cannot provide a secure future...nor can the kiss she shares with mysterious Dominic Castille, who falls from a tree---practically at her feet--as she strolls through the woods...Determined to forget the incident--romantic as it was--Charity reluctantly embarks on a London season in hopes of making a suitable match. She cannot know that the dark and dashing captain harbors a dangerous secret that will soon ensnare them both in its web--leaving Charity to risk certain pain in a gamble that could cost her the man she so passionately loves...
DARBY'S ANGEL 7/1996 ISBN: 0821753568 He thought she was a ghost. She thought he was an angel. Were ever two hearts more perfectly matched?. . . . When actor Simon Garrett left America to travel to England, he was still recovering from the tragic loss of his wife and child. But as he wandered through his late wife's estate, he unwittingly stepped through a gateway to the past-and came face to face with. . . A ghost? She seemed to be flesh and blood; she certainly shrieked loud enough when she saw him. But she was unmistakably Darby Brightings, a woman who died nearly two centuries ago. Darby was astonished when the handsome stranger appeared out of nowhere, claiming to be her guardian angel. Surely it was improper to feel an earthly tendre for him! Perhaps her mysterious visitor was not just a spirit from above, but a passionate man determined to save a Regency lady from danger...and offer her his timeless, heavensent love.
THE DARING MISS LASSITER 5/2001 ISBN: 0821768131 Will an outrageous deception break a lady's heart? Audrey Lassiter never dreamed of being an impostor -- until she was offered £10,000 to pose as Lady Hastings's long-lost daughter, Roxanne. The dying Lady Hastings had a last wish: to see her child again.... or so her solicitor said. For the sake of her penniless family, Miss Lassiter agreed to the deception, never expecting to be placed in danger at opulent Hastings House... or to fall in love. Though Lord Harry, heir to the Hastings fortune, thought Audrey a fraud, he could not resist her dazzling charm or the dizzying attraction of her smile. Deeply troubled by it all, he needed to uncover the truth, while never letting the lovely pretender out of his sight. But soon, fate would lead Harry and Audrey into an affair of the heart -- one perilous enough to bind them in love forever... or tear them from each other's arms.
THE ENCHANTED BRIDE short story in MY DARLING BRIDE 5/1998 ISBN: 0821759043
A HALO FOR MR. DEVLIN short story in SEDUCTIVE AND SCANDALOUS 8/1997 ISBN: 082175713X A gambler and a runaway heiress share a coach --only to find themselves on the road to danger and desire.
LADY CONSTANCE WINS short story in LORDS AND LADIES 5/1996 ISBN: 0821753231 A lovely noblewoman risks her heart when she asks a wickedly handsome American to engage in a scandalous deception.
LADY SCANDAL 8/1998 ISBN: 0821759558 Who is Lady Scandal? Whispers around in Bath over the identity of the mysterious new playwright in town. Rumor has it that the author, whose witty pen parodies the foibles of well-known Society members, is herself a lady. And it's unthinkable that a gentlewoman should earn her living especially in such an unconventional way. Yet Gwendolyn Devane will risk anything to provide for her daughter anything except marriage, of course. After her disastrous experiences with the male species, the beautiful widow prefers to gamble her reputation rather than her heart. But her determination falters when a handsome stranger comes to her with a proposition. Glassmaker Sir Maxim Hastings has only one thing on his mind to recover the missing formula that will restore his family's fortune and honor. When he asks Gwendolyn to help him, she knows she should refuse, but she reckons this is the only solution to keep the dashing nobleman out of her affairs. Now, neither Maxim nor Gwendolyn is ready for the havoc their carefully devised scheme will create especially when they find themselves falling in love!
LORD MERLYN'S MAGIC 10/1995 ISBN: 0821741123 At a magic show featuring Merlyn the Wizard, Abigail is whisked on-stage and held spellbound by the man behind the magician's mask, who whispers, "You must marry me!" This may be her only chance for love--but it could also be dangerous! What will she decide?
MY LORD FOOTMAN 3/1995 ISBN: 0821748777 Ever since her sister had been kidnapped and held for ransom the summer before, Lady Druscilla Selby was no longer the carefree miss she'd once been. To make matters worse, her father now kept her practically under lock-and-key. But this latest security measure was too much to bear. Kyle Duncan was certainly a fine specimen of manhood - but a mere footman...as her protector?! The real problem, of course, was that the enigmatic green-eyed Scotsman awakened feelings Druscilla couldn't explain. His laugh filled her heart with joy...and outrage. How dare he take such liberties! How dare he make her happier than any man had a right to! And how dare he not return her love now that her life was in danger...and now that she had fallen for a footman who had turned the tables and become lord of her heart!
THE VISCOUNT TAKES A WIFE 5/1997 ISBN: 0821756478 What Happens When Fate Brings Together A Widow Lord, His Two Unruly Daughters And One Outlandish Lady? The widowed Lord Grayson Kendall was in a predicament: He could not make his two daughters behave like young ladies. What he needed was a wife who was the very model of fashionable behavior...certainly not someone like Deborah Atwood, the outrageous heiress who urged her horse to race against his coach- and-four. Worse, Miss Atwood had red hair, a sure sign of a fiery temperament. And yet Grayson couldn’t take his eyes from the lovely miss who was as unbridled as her notorious brothers. Deborah didn’t give two figs about snaring a husband. But Lord Grayson Kendall set her pulse racing in a way that brought the roses to her cheeks. And here he was, courting the most whey- faced, simpering misses of the ton. What he needed was a high- spirited wife...someone very much like her. But with his own daughters scheming to keep their father single, the viscount would never wed...unless one determined lady set her cap for the man who was rapidly becoming lord of her heart!
Lyn Stone
MARRYING MISCHIEF 3/2002 ISBN: 0373292015 He had played her false once....she would not trust him again!... Inheriting an earldom had obviously gone to Nicholas Hollander's head. After he'd left Emily's reputation in tatters years before, how could he expect that she would ever agree to marry him? Yet still he insisted that her rash efforts to find her missing brother had left them no choice but to wed, and straight-away. The prodigal son had become the heir...and been given the chance to redeem himself... Nick's youthful defection had ruined Emily Lovenye's prospects. So it was no wonder that the vicar's daughter still wanted nothing to do with him. Unwittingly compromised into a hasty marriage, his courageous Emily was giving him the devil of a time as he struggled to win back her trust and turn their inconvenient union into wedded bliss.
WORD OF A GENTLEMAN short story in THE WEDDING CHASE 6/2003 ISBN: 0373835752
Penelope Stratton
THE DEVIL'S BRIDE 10/1997 ISBN: 0449225976 Even before Lord Rupert Glennister arrives in Bath, he is the subject of dark and devilish rumors. But after he steals a kiss from the virtuous Calvina Bracewell, dreadful repercussions ensue. With nowhere to run, she appears on his lordship's doorstep. By night's end, they are married. Calvina is shocked by her own madness - for she is the bride of a man believed to be in league with the Devil! And soon she will learn just how dangerous - and wondrous - that can be. . . .
THE UNROMANTIC LADY 3/1996 ISBN: 0449223868 Diantha Halstow liked to declare that love was nothing but a mere illusion to trap fools. Rexford Lytham, Earl of Chartridge, couldn't agree more. He was, Diantha thought, a most sensible man. And theirs was a most sensible marriage: her money for his title. What more could two cynics want? There was, however, one aspect of their union that did not answer to reason and good sense: the marriage bed. Here, passion ruled most insistently, wild and unpredictable, like the tide of new emotion that threatened to engulf Diantha entirely. And now she despaired at having become that most ridiculous of creatures: a woman in love with her own husband!
Anne Stuart
THE HOUSEPARTY 4/1985 ISBN:0449207803 He was so coldly handsome, it was positively criminal. Why, his icy blue eyes made Elizabeth's heart flutter at their first meeting. No doubt about it, the rumors were right: this stony-faced soldier, Michael Fraser, was a traitor, a spy, a scurrilous French agent. Yet her hapless cousin had invited him for the weekend! What mad mischief might this cur cook up in the course of a three-day houseparty full of distinguished guests? Now Elizabeth is surely scandalized, for she hears that this stealthy spy has been querying the servants about her. Her own brother is off on a secret mission against Bonaparte--that must be the reason for Michael's monstrous attentions. If only his gaze weren't so penetrating, his voice so hypnotic, his kiss so treasonously sweet. She never imagined a French agent could be this dangerous!
LORD SATAN'S BRIDE 3/1981 ISBN:0440147875 They called him Satan. His arrogant good looks compelled. His black eyes seemed able to see into one's very soul. Nicholas, the Viscount Wyndham, was deemed a dark and dangerous man, outcast from polite society, hardly a fit companion for an innocent new arrival like Sylvie Wetherall. But beneath the angelic facade of the vicar's daughter beat a heart that longed for passionate adventure... a heart irresistibly drawn to the piercing gaze where she sensed not danger but aching need and her own inescapable destiny.
SHADOW DANCE 9/1993 ISBN: 0380767414 Wrongly accused of his father's murder, handsome Valerian Romney must flee his vengeful pursuers - ingeniously disguised as his older brother Phelan's 'wife.' But desire endangers the Romneys' brazen masquerade. For ruffles and lace cannot hide Valerian's fevered passion for the lovely and confused Sophie - while Phelan yearns for the tormented beauty Juliette, who has dressed in man's clothing to escape a heartless abuser. And now both peril and ecstasy await them all as they move in a seductive dance of deception - where every false, protective mask must ultimately be stripped away...to reveal the true, radiant and rapturous love beneath.
THE SPINSTER AND THE RAKE 1982 ISBN:044018597 Having rescued 30-year-old Gillian from a coach accident, the formerly shunned Marquis seems determined to rescue her from her straitlaced life as well, returning to liven up her prospects, much to her family's dismay!
Dee Stuart
THE INNOCENT ADULTERESS 11/1981 ISBN: 0440140455 You'll live like a canary in a golden cage," he promised, But Miss Selina Fanslowe had no wish to be confined by anyone...
Annette Summers
THE SURPRISING LADY ROCHDALE 10/1992 ISBN:0373311842 He Would Rue The Day She Had Agreed To Be His Wife As the daughter of a British doctor stationed in India's most discursive hospices, Miss Candace Marston was not typical of the gently bred ladies to be found in British High Society. Yet Lord Rochdale pronounced her exactly right for his urgent requirements. To inherit his fortune, they would marry instantly and divorce in one year, with no one the wiser and she a rich and free woman. There was much Candace dreamed of doing with wealth and freedom and she accepted his terms. Last to know was Lord Rochdale, that her terms would not only shock Society, but most probably land him in Bedlam!
Faye Summers
STORMSPELL 2/1990 ISBN: 0843929057 Catherine Presentine came from a family of ne'er do wells, villians who would stoop to anything for gain. So when Charles de Morney returned to Creighwell Hall to find the beautiful young widow in control of his inheritance, he was appaled. Commanding and arrogant, he burned to put her in her place, and soon discovered a way to do it. Beneath the onslaught of his fiery kisses, Catherine's icy reserve melted and she was helpless to resist his heated caresses....
Margaret Summerville
BEWITCHING LADY 9/1997 ISBN: 0451193245 A brilliant young lady forgoes the rules of prim and proper behavior, and concentrates instead on her ancient books filled with natural medicines and folk magic. But when a dashing lord representing everything about society that she despises falls under her care, she cannot stop herself from falling sick with love.
THE COTTON CALIPH 1981 ISBN:0451151348 Beautiful young Lady Davinia Fitzhugh, the belle of the London aristocracy, found Lord Stachan, the Baron of Strangewood, quite the most odiously arrogant so-called gentleman she had ever met. First he had used wealth amassed from common trade to buy his title. Next he had used it to cut a wide and handsome swath through high society. And now he actually had the insufferable effrontery to offer to buy Davinia's hand in marriage. Davinia vowed to teach the audacious baron that her love was not for sale, only to discover that this man she was determined to despise had far more glittering lures than gold.
THE CRIMSON LADY 12/1995 ISBN: 0451185226 Miss Phillipa Grey, better known as Pippa, could not imagine why all of London looked upon the Viscount Allingham as a paragon of perfection. Pippa vowed that never would this embodiment of arrogance make her follow his lead or dance to his tune. When Allingham told her to avoid Lady Isabelle Granville, Pippa promptly made that scandalous beauty her best friend. When he warned her about the silky-smooth Baron Seagrave, she let that lord of seduction weave his wily web around her. And when Allingham dared to tell her what to wear, she dressed in a way sure to make him see red..
DOUBLE MASQUERADE 4/1995 ISBN: 0451183878 Lovely Miss Serena Blake desperately wanted to stop her father from marrying fortune-hunting Arabella Lindsay. She hired an eligible gentleman to steal Arabella's heart--and her plan might have worked, if only she had remembered that it was Arabella who was to be conquered by the irresistible gentleman, and not herself.
THE DUKE'S DISAPPEARANCE 4/1985 ISBN: 0451135210 Lady Julia Granby wanted no man. This ravishing young widow preferred to remain faithful to the memory of her husband and to go into hiding from the self-seeking suitors who swarmed around her and her fabulous fortune. The Duke of Wayland trusted no woman. This arrogant, outspoken lord had been betrayed once, and that was enough to make him flee a London filled with beautiful and faithless women. Both Julia and the Duke made it emphatically clear to the world that they would have nothing to do with love. So it was not surprising that when love came to them, it came in the only way it could, in a most devilishly devious disguise.
FORTUNE'S FOLLY 5/1994 Miss Pandora Marsh was a very proper young lady who was quite content to live out the social whirl with her aristocratic but impoverished family. Then without warning her life was abruptly altered. A man of mystery sent her a priceless emerald necklace to exquisitely complement her red-gold hair. A rising wave of rumors cast her as the ardent mistress of a nobleman lately passed away. Nothing this paragon of virtue could do or say could keep a bevy of lusting lords from competing to be her new lover - chief among them the imperious Viscount Sarsbrook, freely using his vast wealth and charm to make his conquest. Even worse, in Sarsbrook's arms, Pandora herself found it hard to believe protests of innocence...
GENTLEMAN JACK 3/1999 ISBN: 0451197976 Hounded by his illustrious father to change his spendthrift ways, the Viscount Warrington agrees to the most consequential bet of his life: give up gambling for a month...or marry the woman of his father's choice. An unapologetic rake, Warrington cannot bear the thought of marriage, especially to the respectable...and dull...society ladies a man of his position is expected to wed. According to the terms of the bet, Warrington must leave London and not use his title or real name. On his way to Shropshire, he is robbed of his horse, his clothes, and the money he had planned to live on for a month. Beaten and left for dead, he wakes up in the arms of an angel: Antonia Richards, a governess on the estate of a provincial baron.
HIGHLAND LADY 1985 ISBN: 0451138031 Beautiful young Lady Alison Murray was shocked to learn that the estate neighboring hers had been sold to a lord from distant London. She was even more troubled when she saw the interloper--Robert Manville, Fifth Marquess of Ravenstoke, dressed in his elegant finery, with his flawless manners and sophisticated ways. More disturbing still was the discovery that Ravenstoke was grandson to a brutal English general whose suppression of a highland rebellion made his name infamous amongst her family and people. But most dismaying of all was the effect this handsome, high-handed lord had on her--as he like his ancestor began a campaign of conquest. But this time it was not of a proud land--but of Alison's suddenly treacherous heart....
AN IMPROPER PLAYWRIGHT 3/1992 ISBN: 0451171969 Beautiful young Lady Verity de Lacy had a shocking secret talent and an even more scandalous hidden ambition. She wrote rivetingly romantic plays, and longed to see them performed in public. Should the truth come out, her parents would be furious, her engagement to the sterling Marquess of Dorchester would be ended, and her reputation would be ruined. Yet she sent her latest dramatic creation to the handsome Brutus Ranley - a lord of the realm, a reigning star of the theater, and king of rakes - even though she might lose not only her good name but her virtue and even her heart...
THE INFAMOUS EARL 1/1997 ISBN: 0451188225 Georgiana Morely could see only one way to wed the devastatingly handsome but dismally penniless Lord Thomas Jeffreys. She had to convince her disapproving parents that she would otherwise make an even more disastrous match - with none other than the notorious Earl of Dunraven, whose libertine ways shocked even London's sophisticated society. True, Dunraven did not know of her plan. True, when he found out, he proved eager to take her imaginary intimacy much further that Georgiana ever dreamed it might go. Georgiana was sure she could manage this most dangerous deception, even when Dunraven began to show the seductive skills that made him the premier rake in the realm. But that was before Georgiana discovered that the fire she was playing with was in her own passionate heart.
INFAMOUS ISABELLE 6/1980 ISBN: 0440138671 'That woman is but a sophisticated fortune hunter,' he thought, 'out to ensnare a wealthy man.' Archenemies--that was how Isabelle Clairemont, the most notorious beauty in all London, and Lucius, Lord Biddleton, saw each other. Certainly, the mischievous Isabelle did nothing to dispel his lordship's doubts. Although he was only twenty nine, 'Biddle' struck her an an insufferable old puritan. And he regarded her as an affront to English propriety! Not until a series of incredible misadventures threw them together could he begin to glimpse the loving woman beneath the breathtaking facade. Would Isabelle--expecting an arrogant taskmaster--discover in 'Biddle' a brave, tender--and altogether irresistible young man?
KNAVE'S GAMBIT 9/1986 ISBN:0451144872 Miss Valeria Harwood had heard of the Earl of Traverhurst long before she met him. Not only was he renowned as one of the wealthest and certainly the handsomest of the lords of the realm, he was also notorious as the most scandalously successful rake ever to leave feminine hearts in tatters and reputations in shreds. Naturally when Valeria heard that her niece Kitty, barely younger than herself but far more foolish, was openly enamoured of the earl, Valeria had to return to the London social whirl she scorned to protect the giddy girl. One thing, however, Valeria had not counted on. She was fully capable of guarding Kitty from Traverhurst's dangerous charm and dreadful designs-- but when the earl laid seige to Valeria's own heart with weapons that had never failed, there was no one to save her in a battle of wits and wills that she feared to lose…or to win…
LORD WICKED WOLF 1982 ISBN: 0440149967 He was a handsome rogue who had already cost her a job...and heaven knows what else! But Cassandra Covington couldn't afford to think of the scandalous Lord Wolverham. She was alone and penniless.
MY LORD TYRANT 6/1993 ISBN:0451176170 Lord Alexander Moncrief, the sixth Earl of Glencairn, stood for everything that Miss Athena Blair was against. Athena was passionately opposed to aristocratic titles and extravagant wealth, and Moncrief not only possessed but flaunted both. Athena wished to be judged by her brilliant intellect, while Moncrief seemed to be taken only by her dazzling beauty when they met. Moncrief seemed to feel that his rank and riches, coupled with his good looks and charm, could win him any woman he wanted - and Athena vowed to prove him wrong, even when this lord she loved to hate turned out to be a man she hated to love.
ROGUE'S MASQUERADE 1981 ISBN: 0380784696 Whip in hand, Georgina can often be seen driving her own carriage at breakneck speed through the finer streets of London...Lady Georgina Suttondale--a breathtaking beauty so high-spirited that her brother would rather marry her off to a man she detests than risk further scandal. Georgina is a woman no man will attempt to tame. No man except Lord Hugh Ballanville...
A ROYAL CONNECTION 4/1998 ISBN: 0451194837 A beautiful lady possesses the rank, fortune, and looks to be a prize in the marriage mart, but the men who court her bore her to sleep. Only the Earl of Heathfield, a reputed seducer, attracts her attention. But when his cousin, a prince from a far-off land, arrives, she is suddenly caught up in a whirlwind of royal intrigue and romance. A lady could be spoiled by a misstep--unless she stumbles into the right gentleman's arms!
SCANDAL'S DAUGHTER Like Mother, Like Daughter? Miss Gillian Ashley was a virtuous lady-but she bore a legacy of shame from her late mother's indiscretion with Sir Hewitt Gambol, the most notorious libertine in London. But now Lady Meg Fairfax, wealthy and bored, had decided to make Gillian the belle of the London season for the sheet sport of stirring up staid society. And Sir Hewitt Gambol himself offered his dubious aid and outrageous advice in advancing Gillian's cause...
SENSIBLE CECILY 5/1980 ISBN:0440179084
TOWN TANGLE 1986 ISBN: 0451142268 Miss Camilla Selwyn had to admit that the arrogant Viscount St. John had a great deal to be arrogant about. He was titled, handsome, wealthy, accomplished--but nothing could justify the way he looked down on all whom he considered his inferiors, which included almost all the human race. When the Viscount snubbed Camilla's brother while that impetuous young man was trying to make his mark in London--and when St. John went on to forbid Camilla's childhood friend, Charles MacNeil, to see the Viscount's sister Elizabeth--Camilla decided that this high-handed lord had to be cut down to size and brought down to earth. And the only way to do it was to have him fall in love...
THE VISCOUNT''S LADY 1979 ISBN: 0671831437 She followed her love to England's glittering city where evil tried to embrace her... Lovely, red-haired Boadicea Halkyard cared little for the lavish fripperies of London's ton. She attended its gala coming-out balls and parties only to forget - or possibly find again - the shy viscount who had captured her untouched heart. Soon, the enchanting country girl was the surprise sensation to the season, surrounded by ardent suitors... A handsome foreign prince offered to make her his pampered mistress... A wealthy English squire threatened to make her his wife - by brute force or blackmail... And the timid heir to a fabulous dukedom was transformed by fury and outrage into her bold protector!
THE WICKED WAGER 1987 ISBN: 0451147057 There was no doubt that Lady Olivia Dunbar was the most bewitching beauty in all of London. Every man dreamed of making her his own, yet none could capture her, for the elusive Olivia left her swarm of suitors with only dashed hopes.
A WIFE FOR WARMINSTER 6/1991 ISBN: 0451169751 A Difficult Duty...At first it seemed that Miss Elizabeth Newmarch had found a perfect position as companion to wealthy, witty and kindly Lady Honora Trevor. But Elizabeth's new position soon became awkward in the extreme. Honora was determined that her notorious nephew, the Earl of Warminster, enter into wedlock. And Elizabeth was enlisted to find a bride to make Warminster mend his wicked, wicked ways. How could Elizabeth induce a dazzling beauty like Lady Georgina Barkley to wed Warminster? How could she possibly put this tender young innocent into his callous hands? And more to the point, how could Elizabeth allow another woman to possess this libertine lord she wanted so desperately for herself...?
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