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Haunted by the death of her sister, Finola Shanahan has resolved that she's not worthy of a family of her own and commits to spending her days caring for immigrants in the slums. Unwilling to consider marriage, Finola has perfected the ability to sabotage the relationships her parents arrange for her. At wit's end, her father calls upon the local Irish matchmaker, who pairs her with successful wagonmaker Riley Rafferty.

I woke up in jail with three men fighting over who gets to claim me—and none of them are even human. Number One is a leather-clad demigod with a belt that does more than hold up his jeans. Number Two is a rogue secret agent with a habit of giving orders like he expects to be obeyed. Number Three is a flirty charmer who's convinced I'm his soulmate.

Cordelia Fletcher awakens in a stranger’s home with no memory of who she is or how she came to be lying alone on the prairie. What she does know is that the quiet strength of the widowed rancher who rescued her stirs something deep within her, something that feels both dangerous and safe all at once. Micah Redmond has lived three years in the shadow of grief, his heart buried alongside the wife he lost. Devoted only to his daughter and his ranch, he never imagined fate would place a mysterious young woman in his care, one whose presence unsettles his resolve to remain alone forever. As ...

A. D. 1326 - Tate Crewys de Lara is the son of kings. The illegitimate son of Edward Longshanks, Tate has the qualities of a magnificent king. But fate is cruel, leaving him a mere knight protecting young Edward III during the uncertain days following the horrific murder of Edward II. While gathering allies for the young heir in Northumberland, he meets the Lady Elizabetha "Toby" Cartingdon. Daughter of the Lord Mayor of Cartingdon Parrish, Toby is a gorgeous woman with a mind for business. It is she who runs the parrish, not her father.

Ya plenamente asentados en Carolina del Norte, Claire y Jamie deben hacer frente al estallido del conflicto entre la Corona inglesa y las colonias americanas en 1767. Mientras Claire procura salvar a su marido de los acontecimientos históricos próximos que ella conoce, Jamie debe decidir si seguir los requerimientos de los partidarios de la Corona y hacer aquello que es mejor para su familia o seguir sus propias convicciones y arriesgar la estabilidad de sus seres queridos.

When Enoch Balfour's eldest brother tragically dies, the weight of family responsibility falls on his shoulders. Now this Montana rancher must train for his role as the next Duke of Clarence—and marry the mail-order bride his brother sent for. Hardened by loss, Enoch has no intention of opening his heart to a stranger, but duty demands he produce an heir.

A marble Apollo should not fall on a patron in the middle of a tasteful Mayfair preview. It certainly should not do so in Lord Darnwick’s brand new Hellenic Society rooms while half the ton is watching and the victim is a man who has been hinting all evening that he is about to ruin someone important. This is a cozy Regency mystery of love, murder, and very badly behaved antiquities. Miss Adelaide Pembroke, impoverished gentlewoman and professional copyist of ancient inscriptions, is paid to notice small things. Uneven wedges under a plinth. Dust disturbed in the wrong direction. Patrons ...

Sir Jareth de Leybourne is the moral compass of the legendary Guard of Six—a noble knight known for honor, logic, and restraint. But when his wealthy uncle dies, Jareth inherits far more than land and coin. He inherits a scandal that could destroy everything he stands for. Jareth discovers his uncle's fortune was built on a discreet but wildly profitable enterprise: Aphrodite's Feast, an elegant brothel and gambling hell quietly tolerated for its philanthropy.

“A must read if you love dragons, magic, and time travel!” Strong modern-day women unite with alpha Viking dragon warriors in five action-packed, scorching hot Dragon Shifter Romances. Kingdoms are warring in turbulent medieval Scandinavia, as fated mates deal with relentless villains, unexpected allies, and riveting intrigue in jaw-dropping plots you won’t soon forget! Her Viking Dragon King- Sparks fly when a modern-day woman ignites a passionate war between Viking dragon kings. Her Viking Dragon Warrior- She’s a modern-day scientist determined to save the world. He’s a medieval...

Nobody knows the truth about newly knighted Lord Thomas Balfour. He doesn’t deserve the being honor showered on him, so after this last trip with his brother and sister-in-law to Butte for supplies, he’ll leave this territory behind completely. But once he reaches town, he’s blindsided to discover his brothers have ordered him a bride by post. A woman complicates everything. And even worse—the bride has brought her sister. Kate McKinney masterminded this journey west to rescue her younger sister from their controlling mother’s plans. Yet one look at the groom’s scowl, and Kate’s doubts bloom.

A Sunday sermon in the village of Redfield should involve hymns, not a man collapsing at the foot of the pulpit while his “heart draught” perfumes the air with bitter almonds. Naturally, the congregation responds with prayer, panic, and the swift conviction that someone else is to blame. Rosamund Keeley, the vicar’s daughter, has a weakness for order, ink, and other dangerous substances. So when poison starts masquerading as respectable medicine, she does what any sensible woman would do: she makes lists. Illnesses, households, dinners, debts, grudges. Unfortunately, the village would...

Lady Rebecca has spent ten years trying to forget the boy who stole her heart—and destroyed her family. Now Lord Nathaniel is back, still recklessly charming and absolutely forbidden. A man who cares for nothing but his own pleasure. Or so it seems. Beneath Nate’s carefully crafted façade are secrets that could tip the war against Napoleon. Nate is a spy, and he desperately needs Rebecca's help. But can she trust a feckless rake in defiance of their family feud and her brother’s mysterious plans?

Cheltenham is meant to cure delicate lungs, not finish off guests behind a pianoforte. Miss Verity Sedgewick, Lady Dowager Barham’s overworked social secretary, can organise a drawing room with a card tray and a smile. Unfortunately, someone has organised a death the same way: neatly, quietly, and with the sort of poison that leaves everyone insisting it must have been a faint. Deputy coroner and surgeon Gideon Wainwright refuses to call murder “unfortunate”; Verity refuses to let the town invent a prettier story. Together they sift calling cards, stolen names, and poisoned tea, while...

The lion sneezes, the viscount dies tidily, and Miss Imogen Aldridge would very much like everyone to stop implying these facts are related. As a clergyman’s daughter and uncredited assistant to the Tower of London menagerie, she is meant to sketch lions, not explain why a peer of the realm has been found neatly strangled in a locked inner corridor with her spare key obligingly in the door. Unfortunately for Imogen, the Crown has sent Mr Felix Seward, a very calm, very inconvenient inspector who thinks in ledgers and does not believe in accidents. Between them lie: an enraged but innocent...

Raised in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee in the 1820s, sixteen-year-old Emma Simms dreams of the day she'll escape her life of poverty to start over in the big city of Knoxville. But when her mother dies, she's left with no one but her drunk, abusive stepfather, Luke Simms, and her dream abruptly becomes a nightmare. Luke plans to literally sell Emma down the river—to a notorious brothel in Knoxville. River Joe, the mysterious Cherokee-raised frontiersman, knew from the first time he set eyes on the beautiful Emma that he had to have her as his own.

Miss Elinor Gresham makes ghosts for a living. It is the living men who cause trouble. Fake ghosts, real corpses, deeply inconvenient feelings. Hired to stage elegant terrors in a ruined cliff top chapel, Elinor arrives at Wynthorpe Castle with her lenses, her invoices, and very little patience for talk of curses. The duke needs his houseguests terrified of a fashionable White Lady and impressed by his proposed harbour, not whispering about bad luck and walking away with their money. Unfortunately, once the lights are arranged and the gauze is hung, someone obligingly provides a very real ...

Larkspur Hall wants a quiet redemption: a reformed sea lord, a curated Christmas guest list, a new housekeeper with keys at her waist and nothing left to lose. It receives a corpse on polished boards, a snowstorm that seals every exit, and Cecilia Arden calmly deciding the house is hers to defend. His past vanished with a condemned ship and a missing report; her future depends on order, accounts, obedience. The first death is almost courteous. The attempts that follow are not. Shelves loosen. Leather parts. Laudanum thins. Every guest has touched the old scandal, profited from it, or buried...

Myra Aldridge, an ambitious Boston journalist, didn't travel two thousand miles to find a husband—she came to be a partner in the town's struggling newspaper. Disgraced editor Nathaniel Sinclair has retreated to Wyoming to bury a career-ending scandal. He needs a silent typesetter, not an opinionated partner with radical ideas. Convinced his tarnished reputation is contagious, he is determined to keep his distance from the spirited woman who challenges his every headline. But when Myra fearlessly chases a dangerous lead into the heart of a corruption scandal, Nathaniel realizes she ...

On a lonely cliff above the harbour, Crowthorne Observatory is meant to produce neat numbers and impressed Admirals, not corpses in the courtyard. Cassia Fenwick, resident calculator with an inconvenient conscience, is already in trouble for insisting the western chronometer tell the truth. When the director walks up to the rooftop for a triumphant comet demonstration and instead takes a very efficient one way trip over the parapet, her columns of figures become the least comfortable thing in the building. Enter Captain Edmund Verney, the Board of Longitude’s problem solver of last resort...

If anyone insists Christmas at Drury Lane is wholesome, do not look above the scenery. Miss Sybil Merriweather, wardrobe mistress and sworn enemy of insolent seams, can mend a sagging stocking in three stitches and silence a chorus with one look. She cannot, however, persuade the theatre’s fake snow to stay in its sack, or its leading man’s waistcoat buttons to stop tattling. “Buttons are honest creatures. They told the truth when men did not.” The season, naturally, takes that as a challenge. Enter Gideon Ashe of the Society for the Improvement of Public Morals, armed with ...