Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy, especially since a freak accident took her husband much too soon. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her. Hugo never intends to kiss Lady Muir, and frankly, he judges her to be a spoiled, frivolous, if beautiful, aristocrat....

Frances Allard, daughter of a French emigrant, is returning to England to begin her teaching duties at Miss Martin's School for Girls when her carriage overturns in a snow bank. Rescued by Robert Marshall, they take refuge from the snowstorm in a nearby deserted inn and for two smoldering nights their passion keeps them warm. As they return to their lives, she has no idea if she'll ever see him again. Especially after finding out that he's heir to...

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.
Mary Balogh has no equal when it comes to capturing the complex, irresistible passions between men and women. Her classic novel, The Secret Pearl, is one of the New York Times bestselling author’s finest–a tale of temptation and seduction, of guarded hearts and raw emotion…and of a love so powerful it will take your breath away….
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In Regency England at the enthralling world of an elite academy for young ladies, amid music lessons and garden parties, whispered confessions and secret yearnings, one of the school's teachers--headmistress Claudia Martin--will find her well-ordered world jolted by love when she meets a man who would make the perfect husband...for somebody else. Tall, dark, and exquisitely sensual, he is the epitome of male perfection, but Claudia Martin is not looking...

Growing up with four unruly brothers has made Freyja Bedwyn far bolder than proper society ladies. Having loved and lost once, Freyja has sworn off men. But on a visit to Bath, a handsome stranger bursts into Freyja's room and entreats her to hide him. Known as a hell-raiser, Joshua Moore, Marquess of Hallmere, is so intrigued with her that he makes a surprising request: that she pose as his fiancee in order to help him thwart his family's matchmaking...

The arrival of Elliott Wallace, the irresistibly eligible Viscount Lyngate, has thrown the country village of Throckbridge into a tizzy. Desperate to rescue her eldest sister from a loveless union, Vanessa Huxtable Dew offers herself instead. In need of a wife, Elliott takes the audacious widow up on her unconventional proposal while he pursues an urgent mission of his own. But a strange thing happens on the way to the wedding night. Two strangers...

Lord Ferdinand Dudley is accustomed to getting what he wants...that is, until he appears at the door of Pinewood Manor, attempting to claim his rightful estate, and is met by the bewitching fury of Lady Viola Thornhill. She refuses to cede him the home she calls her own. He refuses to leave. So the contest begins. Each day under the same roof brings its share of frustration...and temptation. But Viola knows it is a battle she cannot afford to lose....

Mary Balogh returns to the elegance and sensuality of Regency England as she continues the enthralling story of four remarkable women-friends and teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls. At the center of this spellbinding novel is Anne Jewell, a teacher haunted by a scandalous past...until she meets a man who teaches her the most important lesson of all: nothing is simple when it comes to love.... She spies him in the deepening dusk of a Wales...

Mary Balogh spins two classic stories of Regency England. In "The Famous Heroine," Cora Downes has beauty, spirit, and money, but no breeding. When she gains renown for a daring rescue, Cora is thrust into high society and compromised into marriage. In "The Plumed Bonnet," Alistair Munro, the Duke of Bridgwater, rescues what he assumes to be a disreputable girl in a colorful bonnet off the side of the road. Yet Stephanie Gray, a former governess,...

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh brilliantly captures the passionate conflict of a woman caught between two loves in this classic tale of friendship, devotion, intrigue—and a love that is the most seductive trap of all….

He’d served with her husband on the battlefield—and secretly desired her for years....