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Her secret will save a legacy. But it could also break her heart when faced with a duke caught between two identities. The daughter of a famed architect, Rebecca Lambert has been raised among the nobility yet understands the circumstances of her birth. Becoming an architect is a dream, not an option, until she must assume an identity to protect her father’s name. No one was pleased when Valentine St. Vincent was shockingly named the Duke of Wyndham -- least of all Valentine himself. He has always led with his fists, but now he must become the man his brother was supposed to be.

Journey through the colonies of 19th-century Australia with three stand-alone novels of love, loss, survival, and redemption. In 1806, a fateful decision sends Eleanor Marling from the salons of London to a prison ship bound for New South Wales. She is put to work at the female factory of Parramatta. English settler Grace Ashwell flees an abusive lover in Hobart Town, with six-year-old Violet in tow. Deep in the wilderness, they find a crude hut inhabited by an escaped convict long presumed dead.

Charlotte MacGregor lost the thrill of conquering mountains five years ago when her sister disappeared on a hiking adventure without her. Still guilt-ridden, Charlotte heads for a vacation to rustic Vermont with a friend - where she's surrounded by reminders of her devastating loss and plagued with unanswered questions. Matiu Christiansen is an outdoors buff. He works multiple jobs to save for his dream of owning an outfitter in New Zealand. He's never quite felt at home in the United States, and he yearns for his Maori roots, but his attraction to Charlotte puts a kink in his plans.

44 Brick St is a house with a terrible past built on the site of a plague pit. In the 1600s a woman accused of being a witch was tortured to death just yards away. In 1973 work on building a school uncovered 5631 coffins piled 16 deep in a 40meter square. The coffins were unnamed and the mass grave unmarked.

In a world where vampire DNA has allowed people to relive youth, Katelyn Matthews enters a second phase of her 20s. Yet when she gets involved with a vampire, her life is turned upside down.

Desire comes in many forms that raise the temperature, and the stakes, higher. When tensions soar in Africa, Olivia has to rise to the new set of challenges she faces. Having six husbands to keep happy and satisfied was never going to be easy, and soon she finds herself caught in the middle of a whirlwind of uncertainty and a cyclone of illicit desires. Throw in dangerous creatures, someone who just won't conform to his new role, and a volatile relationship within her harem, and she knows she's playing with fire.

Amy Coleman on a mission to find her son, the only problem was - up until two days ago she never knew she had a child. Life for Amy is not worth living anymore. She was brutally attacked, and that nightmare of an abandoned child is seeping into her reality. There is only one person who can stop her mission for death, a fallen Angel by the name of Stephen. However, what Amy doesn't realize is falling helplessly in love with this Angel will just lead her down a dark and deadly path and right smack in the middle of an Angelic War. After spending seven years on a self-destructive path of abuse, she will start to unravel the secrets and lies of that awful night she was attacked sending her world upside down.

Scarlett Bailey has left home with a knife in her hand to search for the father she has grown up believing dead. Determined to punish him for abandoning his family, Scarlett finds herself drawn into the world of a local press gang, where smugglers rub shoulders with naval officers and the revenue men are full of surprises.

For 30 years, Elaina has sat in her tower, fingers caught in an eternal dance, cursed to weave the tapestry of life on her loom. Bound by an enchanted mirror whose magic shows her the distant lives of the people of Camelot, she must forever watch a land which remains ever beyond her reach. Elaina despairs that she will ever experience more than just the shadows of life, until one day, a face appears in the mirror that will change her life, and possibly her fate, forever.

Seven hundred years in the future, the Jegg - a powerful alien race - invade Earth, wiping out half of the Terran Confederation. In a hidden base under the Sahara Desert, a team of scientists works to mount a resistance against the invaders. Their plan is to fit an Earth ship with Jegg folding-space technology and travel to the other side of the galaxy to find a mysterious energy source...one that could help them defeat the Jegg. But just before departure, catastrophe strikes.

English settler Grace Ashwell flees an abusive lover in Hobart Town, with six-year-old Violet in tow. In her head, escape is easy: find work in the northern settlements and earn enough for passage home to London. But the terrain beyond the settled districts is wilder than Grace could ever have imagined. She and Violet find themselves lost in a beautiful but deadly land where rain thunders down mountains, the earth drops away without warning and night brings impenetrable darkness.

Australia, 1857. Life is brutal on the goldfields of Castlemaine. With death around every corner, people are all too willing to believe in ghosts and embrace the spiritualism movement finding its way across the seas. For Lucy Earnshaw and her husband Tom, their arrival in Australia is marred by unimaginable grief. In the wake of her loss, and amid a failing marriage, Lucy is drawn into the world of spiritualism and theater—and into the path of dashing young playwright, Will Browning. Lucy’s new obsession leads her into the dark underbelly of the goldfields.

As a Suntouched Soul, the first born in generations, I've lived a life of privilege. With the guidance of the Elders, I'm on track to take over leadership of the wolf tribes. There's just one catch: I have to marry Corvin, a high-ranking male in our army, to attain the throne. Problem is, I have no interest in Corvin—or any male for that matter. While the Elders plot my wedding, set for the next solar ascension, the panther tribes nip at our heels, causing strife and distracting me from my duties.

Lord Andrew Masterson, Earl of Windenshire, has had a string of bad luck with women. While his best friends are all getting leg-shackled, he can’t seem to get a lady to stay in his presence long enough to court them. Not sure what he might be doing wrong, he turns to Madame Evangeline. Betrothed since before her birth to Lord Masterson, Miss Miranda Beauchamp has prepared to be his countess ever since. Can Madame Eve show Andrew and Miranda there is more than a contract between them?

“I have no use for a baby girl. Get rid of her tonight!” He towered over her as she cringed in fear. But Hansa, a 13-year-old child bride in rural India, refuses to remain a victim of the oppressive society where a female child is an unwanted burden. Instead of drowning her baby, Hansa escapes from her village with three-month-old Tara. Hansa soon discovers that life as a teenage mother is fraught with danger. But a single lie opens the door to a promising opportunity far from home.

This is why fallen angels fear the light.... Snatched to the under world, Violet discovers that the father who abandoned her as a baby is the tyrannical king of hell. She's forced to battle in the bone carnival to prove her loyalty in a court of the wildest vampire rebels ever to be cast out of angel world. Or else she won't be able to save the angels...or her sister. When she defies the anarchic vampire court, she's tested in three impossible Devil's quests, which risk letting out the worst monster of them all: and it's inside her.

Multiple husbands, a group of kids, the Australian Outback...complicated much? Oh yeah! When Olivia sets foot in Spain, her life becomes an explosion of the unexpected. With husbands, mothers-in-laws and children thrown into the mix, she finds her head spinning - when her body isn't writhing in pleasure, that is. But there is trouble in paradise, and she soon finds herself on the move again, but will it be to permanently put down roots with her men? Can she hold it together when the going gets tough? And will Australia be the ultimate challenge?

1645. Naseby, England. Baroness Margaret Elizabeth De Meaux knows exactly where she fits in the hierarchy of society, of her family, and in her life. However, one thing sets her apart from all those she loves: her visions. They have always shown her wondrous lands, but she accepted long ago they were strictly illusions. Despite the fact that they are pure fantasy, she relies on them to provide solace from the monotony of her existence. When her mother suddenly passes away, her own grief pushes her to the brink of insanity.

In Albia, the fourth realm, the precious Artesan gift is dying. Although born to the craft, Taran is struggling to achieve his potential. Against his friends' advice, he embarks on a foolhardy plan to acquire the teaching he craves. Alone, he crosses into Andaryon, the fifth realm, but instead of finding a mentor, he stumbles upon a treacherous plot.

Druid Twilight is an allegorical tale of our times: an age of transition in which ancient powers conflict with the emergence of a new way; a new system of beliefs that may either engulf the archaic ways or force their unexpected evolution. Nature, the elements, and time itself are at play in this intense and engaging shamanic narrative. It is an omnibus publication that includes both original books, plus the author’s notes regarding story locations, and more. A love story at heart, it is a tale of the clash of enormous powers, betrayal, retribution, and rebirth.