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To save the man she loves she will sacrifice everything family, friends, honor . . . even her lifeWhen Marielle Petersham gives her heart to a man he dies. Then a small indiscretion destroys her reputation and her chance at true love. When the British government sends a former beau to investigate her connections with France, she's torn between fury and longing for a man she should not love. Captain Richard Campion desired her once, but she rejected him. He dare not trust her with his love a second time. Convinced she is plotting a royal assassination, he must see her hang for treason, even ...

The Church insists he marry her, but England's King will kill him if he does.The king’s best knight hunts a runaway bride. This woman is no pampered lady but a woman of extraordinary depth. A determined lady on a mission. Rather than submit to king and church and fail in her mission, she would choose death. The knight yearns to love her but is duty-bound to guide her on a journey to a royally arranged marriage. On the brink of torture and death, she must forsake this man she has come to love. Star-crossed, the passion they ignite is forbidden. When he is forced to compete for her favor, ...

He'd rather die than marry her. She's his best friend's widow and a traitor to England. She'd rather die than marry him. It's his fault that she is homeless, powerless, and might literally lose her head. Now the king wants them married and living in Wales to help quell the rebellion there. Edward 1 is a very smart king, but a marriage based on betrayal and distrust can't possibly bring peace to a conquered territory. It's more likely to get them both killed. Can these two enemies overcome stubborn hatred, and a nation full of problems to earn a lifetime of love, or will their mutual ...

Years of work to erase a shame-filled past go up in smoke with one fiery encounter.San Francisco, 1870, Boston-born Blueblood, Edith Alden never quits. Hiding both her fears and her identity, the spinster searches a notorious bordello to find a missing sibling. However, due to an interfering, holier than everybody, stranger who insists on her rescue, she discovers nothing but resentment and aggravation, Dutch Trahern buries a shameful past beneath hard-earned respectability. The last thing this escapee from the Barbary Coast gutters needs is a disdainful prostitute refusing his valiant ...

A duke in disguise, a creole miss determined to get her own way, a curse, and two nations at war, is love even possible? New Orleans Creole, Miss Celestine St. Cyr-Duval refuses to live under the thumb of some man chosen by her parents. Celie will do everything to keep freedom of choice for herself and others. But fate interferes in the form of a duke disguised as British businessman, Caleb Elmond. A relationship with Caleb would find approval with her mother, but both Celie and Caleb have secrets that put them on opposite sides of a great conflict and could destroy them both. With the ...

They both believe she is timid and fragile, until her grandfather's will forces them to learn how very strong she truly is.Living in fear, Mae Alden learned cowardice could protect her. Now, with her tyrannical grandfather dead, she dares imagine life can be different, until a flood of disasters spew from his horrifying will and extinguish all but the tiniest hope. In despair, this Boston blueblood seeks help from the attorney who executed the will, but after making a disastrous first impression, she doubts he will assist her. James Collins thinks quiet Mae would make an ideal wife. When ...

A woman on the run plus a lawman in hot pursuit equals passion hot enough to burn down the Wyoming mountainsides.Wyoming, 1870, Kiera Alden’s constant companions are trouble and woe. This Boston Blueblood has been in so many chancy situations she’s used to anxiety and stress, but her habitual fear is tiny compared to the fright she takes when she’s accused of murder. Desperate and unable to evade the relentless marshal hounding her every move, Kiera turns the tables and ambushes him, which only makes the lawman more determined to see her pay for her supposed crimes. Every outlaw’s ...

He betrayed her before. Now he suspects her of treason. Can they find love together, or will the past destroy them both? The man she loved deceived her once. Now he’s returned and their passion flares stronger than before, even though she believes he will dupe her again. In search of traitors, he returns to the home and the woman he once loved to discover his love for her never ended, but he dare not trust her. Reserved and secretive, she’s not the love he remembers. She’s stronger and more determined to make her own way. Can they cooperate long enough to discover who is betraying ...

She would never wed a Scot. He would prefer death to marriage with an English woman. So why do these two natural enemies each pretend to agree to marry? She wants a life dedicated to the support of a nunnery not a loveless political marriage to an overbearing enemy. A growing passion for the man spoils all her plans. A weak simpering English woman is not his idea of the ideal wife. But when she turns out to be more than a match for him, he cannot help but fall in love. Even when they discover love, can these two enemies create peace or will the hatred between countries separate them forever...

Losing Caibre MacFearann’s love once hurt so much that Aisla MacKai wants nothing to do with him when a blizzard brings the man to her doorstep. Kindness and human charity require that she give him shelter, no matter that her poor heart had never mended. The last thing Caibre MacFearann wants is to return to Scotland let alone be forced to stay there. But the chance to rekindle the lost love of his youth is too tempting to resist. However, Aisla MacKai refuses to listen until her clan’s fate and a royal decree force Aisla to give him a chance.

The fate of two strangers collides in a midnight brawl. Esmeralda Crobbin inherits her ship and her letters of marque from her adoptive father, an infamous privateer. She plans to leave the sea on a quest to find her birth family when she encounters a man who haunts her dreams. Brandon Gilroy will inherit a duchy but would prefer to remain a captain in the royal navy. Then he meets a sunset haired woman more alluring than the endless changes of the ocean. He expects he will never see the her again, yet she fills his every fantasy. Fate tosses Esmeralda and Brandon into destiny’s path more...

Is it a case of identity theft or murder?She claims to be Lady Larkin Rosham. But that woman, along with her entire family, was murdered years ago. He's under orders to force his estranged father to answer the king's summons. However, he discovers the man's corpse behind locked doors, and the woman, who cannot be Lady Larkin, haunting the castle. Even though each expects to be sole heir to the dead man's fortune, they discover an irresistible passion for each other. But an ancient evil prevents any compromise, and neither can trust the other. Murder is in the air and trust may be vital to ...

She’ll stop at nothing for revenge. He wants to save her from the gallows. When their past collides, will painful secrets end any chance for love?” Elise Van Demer is determined on vengeance. Pampered and privileged then betrayed and disowned, she hides in plain sight and plots to kill the men who destroyed her life. She’s almost ready to spring her trap, when she encounters a man from her past. Boyd Alvarez could ruin everything, and the last thing she needs as a passion for a bull-headed, interfering man. Because he failed to save his home and family from raiders, bounty hunter Boyd...