Lord Michael Cynster, the duke's second son, and Miss Cleome Hendon must join forces to hunt down a hoard of gunpowders secretly carted from Kent to London.

Ardor burned brightly within them both, a near incandescent flame. It heated, it lured, it drove them on. A marquess in need of the right bride. An earl's daughter in search of a purpose. A betrayal that ends in murder and balloons into a threat to the realm.

Jaded and disillusioned with love, Dillon Caxton has no time for marriage-minded young ladies, but his plans take an unexpected turn when he meets beautiful Lady Priscilla Dalloway.

A gentleman of means. One of the most eligible bachelors in London, Lord Christopher "Kit" Cavanaugh has discovered his true path and it doesn't include the expected society marriage. Kit is all business and has chosen the bustling port of Bristol to launch his passion--Cavanaugh Yachts. A woman of character. Miss Sylvia Buckleberry's passion is her school for impoverished children. When a new business venture forces the school out of its building,...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the Cynsters's next generation with an evocative tale of two people striving to overcome unusual hurdles in order to claim true love.

A nobleman wedded to the lady he loves strives to overwrite five years of masterful pretense and open his wife's eyes to the fact that he loves her as much as she loves him.

Lord Devlin Cader, Earl of Alverton, married Therese Cynster five

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"Marrying the seemingly delicate Lady Edwina Delbraith, Declan Frobisher discovers that his new bride is unconventional and strong-willed after she accompanies him on a secret mission that leads them to unexpected enemies--and love."--

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the world of the Cynsters' next generation with the tale of an unconventional nobleman and an equally unconventional noblewoman learning to love and trust again. A jilted noblewoman forced into a dual existence half in and half out of the ton is unexpectedly confronted by the nobleman who left her behind ten years ago, but before either can catch their breaths, they trip over a murder...

In desperate need of a wife, Deverell, Viscount Paignton, enlists the aid of his aunt to find him the perfect wife, sending him to a country house party where he finds his prospective birde, Phoebe Malleson, with her nose buried in a book, determined to avoid marriage to promote the secret cause to which she is committed. (Baker & Taylor)

Penelope Ashford, Portia Cynster's younger sister, has grown up with every advantage --wealth, position, and beauty. Yet Penelope is anything but a typical ton miss --forceful, willful and blunt to a fault, she has for years devoted her considerable energy and intelligence to directing an institution caring for the forgotten orphans of London's streets. But now her charges are mysteriously disappearing. Desperate, Penelope turns to the one man she...