In this heart-warming collection of all-new Regency stories, five bestselling authors--Fairchild, Carla Kelly, Allison Lane, Edith Layton, and Barbara Metzger--share the one gift that lasts year round: the gift of love.
Chloe Fields returns home after her father's sudden death--and to the presence of a man she's loved for years. Wounded at Waterloo, Captain Andrew Seabrook is recuperating at Seabrook Manor when he's asked to investigate the mysterious death of Chloe's father--and finds passion once again ignited by the woman he believes he dishonored 11 years ...
A plain, bespectacled young woman is berated by the handsome Lord Wylie, a great arbiter of fashion for London society. Neverthless, the woman cannot forget his dashing demeanor. It will take a public scandal, and a private passion, to bring them together.
Five award-winning authors--Nancy Butler, Diane Farr, Allison Lane, Edith Layton, and Barbara Metzger--celebrate Christmas with five love stories set in Regency England on the eve of the holiday, a time for falling in love.
Five favorite Regency authors contribute to this collection of holiday stories. Includes romantic tales by McCabe, Allison Lane, Edith Layton, Barbara Metzger, and Sandra Heath. Original.
Emily Hughes has her sights set on Jacob Winters, Earl of Hawthorne, but he is betrothed to another. Emily then accepts the proposal of another man--until one kiss changes everything. Original.
Antiquarian Alexandra Vale is more interested in artifacts than love affairs. But her diabolical father has different plans for her. Soon Alex is caught up in a cunning deceit with a notorious rogue--but the clever twosome may learn they can't outsmart their very own hearts.
independent widow Diana Reynolds has vowed to never love again even as she witnessed the London Season matchmaking. Then Nicholas Barrington walks into her parlor and sets long-buried feelings alight. As an innocent girl of 17, she'd loved him. Until harsh words tore them apart. Now he's back, but can she forget accept the past?
She has already fled once from the Earl of Bridgeport--at the altar no less--and now he has found her in the remotest corner of England. She has heard the stories of his increasingly infamous womanizing, but will she be able to yield to his irresistible, seductive wiles, even when the revenge he seeks is so sinfully sweet?
She had adored her older brother's best friend since childhood, but that was long ago. Now an orphan in a household that has reduced her to stocking servitude, he has suddenly returned. But why does he propose marriage, when it is clear that he loves another? Is he paying a secret debt, or simply intent on making a fortune through her? She must ...
A daring young lord, seeing a young woman floundering in an icy river, immediately dives to her rescue. But in saving her life, he almost loses his own! When he comes to, he finds himself alone with the mysterious lady in a small country cottage. And though he had successfully avoided the marriage-minded maidens of the "ton" for years, he felt ...
With only a single London Season to become betrothed, a young woman begins a passionate affair with a known scoundrel and social outcast, while at the same time being courted by the dashing darling of legitimate high society. Torn between society's demands and her heart, she must risk a lifetime of ruin for a lifetime of love.
A fiery-tempered beauty not only has to save her family estate and rescue her brother from financial ruin, but must also contend with the unwanted advances of a proud and powerful lord. He is everything she detests in an aristocrat, continuously mocking her and her ambitions. In short, he makes it painfully clear that he considers her no lady. But ...
After an absence of many years, a strapping young man returns to England to assume the responsibilities of an earldom after the murder of his twin brother. Despite his grief, he succeeds his brother honorably, and vows to bring the killer to justice. The only joy to be had upon his return is the opportunity to see his former love, now a Baron's ...
Young, awkward Mary Seabrook is delighted when handsome Lord Grayson enters her life. But she soon discovers that danger follows him at every turn--and that his many mishaps may be more than mere coincidence.
Rebellious Rafe Thomas has just sworn to marry the first girl he sees on the road. But when that first girl turns out to be the breathtaking temptress Helen St. James, Rafe wonders what he has gotten himself into. Original.
Hope Ashburton is dismayed to learn that her family home has been gambled away to a disreputable earl. But the new owner, the notorious Maxwell Longford, seems genuinely interested in restoring her ruined estate--and stealing her heart as well.
Young and inexperienced Lady Melissa Stapleton was adrift in a world of deception and desire. When Lord Charles Rathbone offered her a chance to escape from the clutches of an odious and rapacious rake, Melissa immediately agreed. What she didn't know was that Rathbone wanted Melissa to pose as his bride-to-be--with seductive consequences.
Much to her father's displeasure, a proud beauty finds herself increasingly attracted to an arrogant but handsome duke. "A dazzling new talent . . . a superlative storyteller" says the Romantic Times of Allison Lane.
While visiting an historic mansion, a beautiful young woman is rendered unconscious, only to awaken as a famous lady of English aristocracy in 1812, who had died suddenly, never wedding her intended. Posing as the Regency lady, she is determined to give this couple a second chance at marital union, and end the curse that brought tragedy to them ...
Haunted by his family's legacy of cowardice, Colonel Jack Caldwell returns from the Battle of Waterloo to his estate a man broken in body and spirit. But a chance encounter with Marianne Barnett, a feisty beauty from his past, offers him the chance to redeem himself and claim a passion like no other. Original.
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