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Eighteen-year-old orphan Harriet Thomson has resided with a distant cousin’s aristocratic household since the age of five, first as companion to Prudence, the youngest daughter of house, later as carer of Pru’s ailing father. When he dies, she has to make her own way in the world and finds work as companion to the elderly Countess Arden, who resides in the Dower House on the Hertfordshire estate of the dashingly handsome Duke of Fairbridge.

Lady Elizabeth Allgreave is a cool customer, proud of her independence and determined to prove she can manage Trentmere House and its surrounding estate. But, following her grandmother’s death, she becomes aware of the full extent of the estate’s neglect and sorry financial state. She must seek help or lose it. When the odious Sir Geoffrey Griseley reappears in her life, threatening to take it all away, she has little choice but to accept the services of the mysterious stranger who comes calling. Christopher Blake, not for the first time, is running for his life. He takes refuge in a ...

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Montana Department of Livestock Agent Deke Anderson finds himself in Maple Ridge, Montana, for work, only to uncover a life-altering surprise: a daughter with Ava Parsons from a fleeting encounter a little over two years ago. Determined to be involved in his child's life, Deke faces the challenge of their five-hour separation. Both he and Ava are rooted in their respective lives, Deke committed to his MDOL role in Clifton, and Ava steadfast in staying near her family. As tension mounts, Deke is prepared to overcome any obstacle to connect with his daughter. Yet, both parents grapple with ...

From the white, sandy beaches of the Gulf Coast to the tobacco farms in Kentucky, Brianna Cooper is headed for an unforgettable but heartbreaking journey. The strong-willed girl from Biloxi has always focused on her imperfections and doesn’t recognize her unique beauty and incredible talent. In the spring of ’79, when the guitar-loving baseball player from Kentucky lands at the same hotel as her, sparks ignite. They spend a weekend frolicking on the beach, dancing the night away, and sharing their undying passion for music. However, as the holiday weekend unfolds, and Brianna begins to ...

Twenty-five-year-old Lady Vanessa Templeton’s life is ruled by her aunt and uncle, who took over title, house, and estate following her father’s death. With no intention of escaping to marriage, she avoids society as much as possible. Following a rare visit to London to see an elderly aunt, she encounters an illiterate, ex-seaman who looks suitable for the footman’s position her aunt has been trying to fill, so she takes him home.

A summer job at the enchanting Columbus Park becomes more than complicated when privileged, sixteen-year-old Ellen Green develops a special friendship with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Ellen’s shy, handsome co-worker, Beau Langford, has nothing…or, so it seems. His daddy is the Harrison County bootlegger, and their home is a dilapidated shack overlooking the Mississippi River. Nonetheless, the highlight of Ellen’s day is simply being in Beau’s presence. As their friendship evolves into something more, the well-to-do girl from Hopewell begins to lose every piece of her ...

Over ten years have passed since Joanna fled her Yorkshire home in distress and shame. Now aged twenty-eight, she is established in London society. But she also has a secret life known to few. How unfortunate that she should come to the notice of Detective Inspector Matthew Harcourt, a senior member of the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch. His all-seeing eyes miss nothing. How long can she deceive him as to her real identity? If he discovers the truth, her work is over, along with her means of support and her claims on the neat Georgian house that is her home. When he commissions her to...

Twenty-five-year-old Lady Millicent Smythe has come a long way since her elder brother, as her then-guardian, tried to marry her off. It was a deal he’d made when she was but 17 with his friend Sir Montague Morton MP, in return for funds. Her escape all those years ago was not a little to do with Lord Charles Lombard, a chivalrous 20-year-old army officer who found her stranded on the road and carried her to safety.

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In the summer of ’75, listening to the Commodores, Barry Manilow, and Linda Ronstadt on her transistor radio is the highlight of Eden Randall’s day. Unfortunately, there is no groovy stereo in her room, no television set in the house, or anything else deemed “worldly” on the quaint, little farm Eden calls home. Her father is a preacher for their church, “The Assembly,” and the members don’t believe in those kinds of things. No, they certainly do not. Eden and her cousin Paul have spent sixteen years riding bikes in the country, playing games of croquet in the front yard, and ...

In the summer of 1889 15 year old Sam Masters rescues 8-year-old Lady Olivia Susannah Charlton from a Cornish cove. He’s only interested in a smuggling mystery, she only cares for her precious doll. Sadness awaits each of them back home for Sam’s father has died in mysterious circumstances and Olivia’s father has disappeared. Sixteen years later, Sam has become a senior customs officer. Olivia’s seemingly conventional life as a writer of children’s fiction masks a secret passion for speed and risk-taking, fed by the devil-may-care Harold Jenkins, whose family now lives in ...

As the youngest son and tenth child of a country parson, Piers Nugent soon realises he must make his own way in the world. After six years in the army, he’s looking for a new career and is mystified as to why he gets appointed to join the team of Equerries supporting the busy life of the Prince of Wales. An important part of the role is to ensure confidentiality is maintained in regard to courtly activities, whether he approves of them or not. Meanwhile, he comes into contact with The JMM Inquiry Agency, whose function is to uncover the truth in matters they are hired to investigate. When...

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Lady Susannah Thistlewood is determined never to marry, but to devote herself to charitable endeavours to help those less fortunate than herself. She is fairly confident no one will offer for her anyway. For a start, she has resisted being presented, added to which, she has a reputation for being somewhat outspoken and behaving inappropriately in society. Attending a friend’s wedding, she encounters Sir Edward Derringham, who has recently finished with his latest mistress and is open to new possibilities. When Susannah’s thoughtless behaviour causes him to land in undignified fashion in...

Francis Hampton, Duke of Abbeywell, rarely has cause to smile. Family responsibilities not only rule his life, they have also driven away the earl’s daughter he was to wed. When an unknown young woman suddenly turns up at his estate in Berkshire, he is suspicious and determines to investigate her origins. Charlotte Fielding is everything he is not, happy-go-lucky, cheerful in adversity, ever ready to see the good in all, and poor. Her arrival coincides with the start of six weeks of severe winter weather, confining most of the population to home, including the occupants of Abbeywell Park...

Seventeen year old Jane Waterford quits her step-mother’s house in Ireland after the sudden death of her father and takes a ship to England to get away from the threat of an arranged marriage. A friendly widow takes Jane under her wing, but their carriage overturns on the road and after that things never go quite as Jane intended. Unwittingly she takes a job as secretary to the grandmother of the Duke of Grantley, the mysterious stranger who rescued them after the accident. When Jane at last realises who he is she clashes with him over a number of things, since they are poles apart ...

A traditional Regency tale, in which an innocent rector’s daughter runs from the squire of the manor only to fall into the clutches of a handsome former army major who has just inherited a dukedom and whisks her off to his remote castle in Scotland. Light-hearted and a little bit sexy, a relaxing holiday read. NEW: AUDIO BOOK with British accents for the UK reader, obtainable from Amazon.com

This is more than a historical romance, for it illustrates the cronyism of mid-19th Century Britain, its class divisions and snobbery, where high position was not necessarily correlated with ability, or even common sense, and in which woman were beginning to make their mark, but not necessarily through common cause and co-operation, but in the kind of rivalry and conflict that characterised the nursing recruits to the Crimean War, one of whom was Daisy Ashton. Daisy knows little about her origins or how she came to live under the guardianship of the Marquess of Chantry, until an overheard ...

Captain Roland Burford, ex-Royal Navy, seeks a change of direction after being disappointed in love. He accepts a diplomatic post as Secretary to the British Legation in Turin, the capital of Sardinia and Piedmont, and arranges his passage on a naval ship heading for the Mediterranean. Lady Penelope Derwent was recently wed to the Marquis of Hartley’s son James Derwent, who immediately took up his commission with the Royal Navy, leaving her in her father-in-law’s care. Desperate to get away, Penelope secretly arranges to spend the summer at the Italian lakes. With few resources of her ...