When Bella Barstowe seeks out the notorious Captain Rose, who came to her rescue years ago, to help her exact revenge on her enemy, they are both plunged into a world of danger and forbidden passion.

At the age of seventeen, Christian Hill impulsively defends young Dorcas Froggatt's honor - and finds himself forced into marriage. That doesn't stop him from pursuing his military career abroad, where he swiftly puts his young bride out of his mind - until the past comes back to haunt him. Not long after her traumatic marriage, Dorcas heard that her new husband died in battle. Now she's shocked to learn that he's not only still alive, but searching...

A RITA award-winning novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of An Unwilling Bride.
 
“Today’s most skillful writer of intelligent historical romance” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) takes readers into the heart of the most mysterious, most powerful, most seductive Georgian aristocrat of them all: the Marquess of Rothgar.
 
Two of the strongest wills in England...

Young Rosamunde Overton is forced into a daring deceit when her elderly husband cannot sire an heir. So when she flees a masquerade and happens upon an injured nobleman, Rosamunde might just have the answer to her prayers. Lord Brand Malloren is far above her station, but he's smitten by this masked lady who has taken him captive. Rosamunde has also fallen in love, but her reckless plan depends on secrecy. And to reveal herself could cost her everything......

When he marries commoner Prudence Youlgrave to help her out of a difficult situation, and then unexpectedly becomes the Earl of Malzard, reckless adventurer Catesby Burgoyne is surprised to find love in the arms of his new wife.

Peregrine Perriam, son of an earl, has no desire to marry, but when he's named heir to Perriam Manor, he finds he has only a month to persuade a stranger, Claris Mallow, to the altar or the property will be lost to his family forever, and his line will be cursed. Having survived her parents' tormented marriage, Claris prefers poverty to any husband. When a high-born stranger demands her hand, she drives him off at pistol point. Perry finds weapons...

Lady Chastity Ware dresses as a highwayman to help her widowed sister and her infant niece escape a treacherous pursuer, and she accosts the first stagecoach she sees--capturing, among others, a handsome aristocrat eager for adventure.

Bored and frustrated, Lady Elfled Malloren disguises herself as a mysterious beauty at the Vauxhall Gardens Masquerade, only to find herself in bed with her family's most dangerous enemy, the elusive Earl of Walgrave. His control is indisputable, his power unquestionable, his attraction undeniable. After just one nigh, Elf knows she will never forget the man she is forbidden to love.

The Earl Con Somerford, the new Earl of Wyvern, returns to his fortress on the cliffs of Dover to find a woman from his past waiting for him, with pistol. The Housekeeper Susan Kerslake, the new housekeeper at Crag Wyvern, was drawn back to Con's home by rumors of hidden gold and to oversee its smuggling operation. The magic they once shared was destroyed by youthful arrogance and innocence. The years at war hav e hardened him, and the years...

Ruined through her vile brother's schemes, Eleanor Chivenham is offered rescue by marriage to a rake with an infamous French mistress. Eleanor accepts, determined to treat the arranged marriage with cool dignity. Then she meets Nicholas Delaney. Not only does he stir her senses, but the trouble and pain beneath his smooth exterior reaches her heart. Nicholas is indeed troubled. While serving his country by seducing secrets out of a French spy, he...