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IT'S MARRIAGE – OR THE WORKHOUSE!Sally Paul is down to her last penny. As she spends it on a cup of tea – to stave off being at the mercy of the workhouse – the last thing she expects is an offer of marriage…from a complete stranger! Admiral Sir Charles Bright’s seafaring days are over – and, according to society, that must mean he’s in need of a wife!Discovering Sally’s in need of a home, he offers a solution… They marry in haste – but will they enjoy their wedding night at leisure?'A powerful and wonderfully perceptive author' – New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney

BACK IN HER HUSBAND’S BED Alex MacKinloch is chief of his clan and, in these dark times of unrest, he has united his people. The void between him and his wife is proving a much harder challenge. When Alex discovers Laren has been keeping secrets from him, his thinly veiled frustration can no longer be contained…The pleasures of the marital bed seem long forgotten to Laren. Yet her warrior husband is looking at her with increasingly hungry eyes… This powerful Highlander has seduction on his mind and his wife in his sights! The MacKinloch Clan Highland warriors prepared to fight fiercely for their country…and for love

BEHIND THE HIGHLANDER’S SCARS…Reeling from betrayal, the once devastatingly handsome Andrew Gilvry has returned to Scottish shores to fulfil a promise made to a dying man. The widowed Rowena MacDonald has been entrusted to his care, and Drew must do all he can to protect her…LIES A DARK PASSION!But Drew’s honour is about to be tested – because there’s something in Rowena’s dove-grey eyes which awakens a flame long extinguished. And on a perilous journey across the Highlands, with only this alluring woman for company, how long can he deny his desires?The Gilvrys of Dunross, Capturing ladies’ hearts across the Highlands

Miss Bree Mallory has no time for the pampered aristocracy! She's too taken up with running the best coaching company on the roads. But an accidental meeting with an earl changes everything. . . . Soon, beautiful Bree has established herself in Society.She hopes no one will discover that she once drove the stage coach from London to Newbury. . . or that she returned unchaperoned with the rakishly attractive Max Dysart, Earl of Penrith.Bree's independence is hard-won: she has no interest in marriage. But Max's kisses are powerfully–passionately–persuasive!

CAN SHE EVER PEN HER OWN LOVE STORY?Meeting Alistair Devlin, London’s most eligible bachelor, causes Victoria Bretton no end of problems. Masking her attraction is even more difficult than concealing her alter ego – playwright Valentine Lawe – not to mention the fact that this man’s unsettling gaze is causing her the most terrible writer’s block!Alistair’s not in the market for love…although he can’t help but be beguiled by Victoria and intrigued by the secrets she’s hiding. As they grow closer the lines between fact and fiction become blurred. Can she be the heroine of her very own happy ending?

Marrying the Governess…Miss Christiana Daventry will do whatever it takes to keep from being thrown out on the streets – even accept the insufferably attractive Lord Braybrook’s proposition! Julian Trentham urgently needs to hire a governess and companion, and Christy is conveniently available. Headstrong, with charmingly mismatched eyes and soft tawny hair, Christy is unlike any woman he has ever encountered.But there is something so deliciously endearing about her that Julian quickly forgets how scandalous it would be to give in to the mounting attraction for his penniless governess…

THEY SAY HE CAN SEDUCE ANY WOMAN INTO BED......and now Sir Blaidd Morgan has turned his considerable charms on Lady Becca Throckton. She believes she will never make the perfect bride, yet this Welsh warrior makes her feel desired for the very first time!Sir Blaidd can ill afford a dalliance on this secret mission for his King, but nevertheless Lady Becca inspires a fire in him which cannot be extinguished. And, after a scorching kiss, Blaidd is surprised to find their passion has the feel of forever…

'Twas Said He Could Whisper A Woman To Bed……and now Sir Blaidd Morgan had turned his considerable charms on Lady Becca Throckton. But could she trust his intent? A childhood injury had made her fit to be no man's bride, and yet the Welsh warrior made her feel she'd a right to her woman's heart!The Lady Becca surprised him, and that was rare, Sir Blaidd mused. Indeed, she had a fire that stirred him in unexpected ways. Though he could ill afford a dalliance on this secret mission for his king, he found himself entranced. Surely this was no mere idyll. Nay, this had the feel of forever…!

'Vile seducer of women!'Of all the accusations Gregory, Duke of Halstead has ever had levelled at him, this is perhaps the most offensive and the least accurate. But as he has just woken naked in bed with no memory of the night before, next to a beautiful stranger, perhaps it’s time to re-evaluate!Innocent Prudence is just as shocked when she awakes! But as these strangers begin to unravel the plot behind the scandalous circumstances, she discovers the delicious consequences of finding herself in bed with…a duke!

The Lady Catrin Had Survived A Nightmarish PastNow her willful ways had plunged her headlong into danger – and into the arms of Nicholas Talbot, a man whose very presence stirred up emotions she had long thought buried forever.He Alone Could Protect The Lady Catrin From Her Enemies Yet Lord Nicholas Talbot felt like a fraud. For beneath his thin coat of nobility lay a troubled past, and an even more troubling passion for the lovely Catrin, a woman who could never be his… .