A traditional Regency novella about a marriage of convenience that quickly proves to be quite otherwise. On their wedding trip, Lady Elaine and Philip, Lord Halsey, were blissfully happy, and now their first child is on its way. But neither is prepared for the sacrifices and challenges ahead. Elaine, who must relinquish her dream of a London Debut Season, is resentful and frightened by the changes in her body, while her devoted but befuddled husband can't seem do anything to please her. A story about a new marriage, the making of a family, and the triumph of love.

A RITA Award Finalist for Best Regency RomanceThey were both quite sensible. Until they met.A FOOTLOOSE BEAUTYHow dare her guardian stop sending her allowance? The very independent Miss Jillian Lamb leaves her beloved countryside and travels to London to set matters straight with the obviously pompous and old-fashioned Earl of Coltrane. She's been on her own for quite some time, thank you, and has devoted her life to helping the widows of war veterans. She has no desire to enter society or have a stranger meddle in her life.Nothing prepares her for the shock of discovery. The Earl, a veteran himself, suffering from permanent injuries, is hardly old and out of fashion. In fact, he's fairly irresistible, with extraordinary blue eyes. He is, however, stubbornly prepared to do his duty as her guardian. His immediate mission? To present his wayward ward to the ton and find her a husband...

Abandoned in childhood by feckless parents, Lady Magdalen Drewe has devoted her life to her younger sisters. A fashionable houseparty at Falconthorpe, seat of an eccentric duke and duchess, offers a perfect opportunity for Yvette to select a husband and Allegra to mend her troubled marriage. As always, Maggie plays chaperone, and when her eagle eye spots the notorious Earl of Keverne circling Allegra with prey clearly on his mind, she resolves to send him packing.But Keverne has another target in mind. To Maggie's astonishment, he swoops in her direction, undeterred by her sharp tongue or firm orders to take himself elsewhere. Instead, he takes her elsewhere, to his house by the ocean, sleekly covering his tracks and hers. No one will miss her for a fortnight, he says, during which he will try to fulfill her every dream. So of course, she shoots him. And after that, things get really complicated.

A traditional Regency romance novella, chock full of humor, trouble, and the mysterious ways of the human heart.At his first meeting with Miss Penelope Wright, Colonel Lord John Corbett fell head over heels in love and immediately tripped himself up. After proposing a speedy marriage, he is on his way to the London wedding when he spots her scarpering full speed in the opposite direction.

Her eloquent prose makes you feel the character's torments and indecisions, as well as their gradually evolving, soul-deep love." —The Old Book Barn GazetteMiranda "Mira" Holcombe has only one goal in life: To destroy the Duke of Tallant, Jermyn Keynes. Simply for the pleasure of it, he ruined her life, robbed her family of their land and valuables, and now threatens to destroy them entirely. How can a young woman caring for her disabled father bring down a powerful aristocrat? Only her father knows her deepest secrets, and he hopes that in London she will find a kind and gentle man to wed. But Mira is focused only on vengeance, whatever the cost. As she devises a plan to kill the duke, she discovers that Tallant's dark-souled younger brother, Michael, is bent on the same course. Can she believe he'll help her? Dare she trust him?Michael Keynes once burned with dreams and goals, but all have been consumed by his determination to rid the earth of his...

Love cannot be bought or bartered, and a marriage may be built on the finest of threads.Delilah, the smart and likable daughter of an ambitious merchant, fell in love with Charles Everett from afar. While she married for love, Charles only married her to salvage his aristocratic family's disreputable accounts. Believing she had no more interest in a real marriage than he did, he abandoned her after their wedding night to seek honor in the war against Napoleon.Now, six years later, he returns, vested as Lord Dragoner but embroiled in secrets and controversy, to insist she free herself by divorce. Delilah has never stopped hoping he would one day return to her, the beautiful man with pain blazing in his eyes. She longs for them to build a happy family, like the one she grew up with, and she'll do whatever it takes to win him over.English divorce laws require the wife be discovered in an act of adultery, and Charles decides he cannot subject her to such an ordeal. He...

A deceptively demure beauty. A man of such breathtaking appeal that women compare him to the angels. Can their sensual attraction overcome a veil of secrets that links her to his bitter enemy?Book Three of Lynn Kerstan's elegant trio of Regency historicals.Miss Helena Pryce continues her journey through Regency society as an intriguing, modest, and respectable mystery. Confident servant, dutiful secretary, or something far less tame? Her confidence only seems to waiver in the presence of Lord Varden, a worldly bachelor who astounds his vivacious female relatives by deciding to settle down. He'll marry within the next year. And his intended? The amusingly unsuitable Miss Pryce. She just doesn't know it.Can a lowly secretary marry an Earl? And what of his notoriously unpredictable affections? Can she overlook the propriety of society to find her heart's true desire?Varden finds himself in quite the predicament when his unlikely temptress insists they avoid romantic...

Will the twelve days of Christmas bring them together or leave his family in ruin?Jane Ryder is innocent, plain, poor, and eager for adventure. After taking a job as a secretary with the notorious gossip, Lady Eudora "The Tongue" Swann, she is given the task of transcribing Lady Swann's scandalous history of the aristocracy, featuring the many promiscuities of the Fallon Marquesses.When the Fallon heir, Charles, returns from India with a self-made fortune, he dedicates himself to restoring the derelict manor house and the infamous family name. Face-to-face, he orders the crafty Lady Swann to leave his family out of the book.Lady Swann offers a sly trade: If he agrees to confide intriguing tidbits of his family history (and of his own rise to fortune) to Miss Ryder, she will tone down his family's sordid tales in Scandalbroth.At Wolvercote, the centuries-old and long-abandoned seat of the Fallon family, a snowstorm strands Charles and Jane. They're drawn together in...

“Trust an ex-nun to write the hottest, most desperate and exhilarating romance of the year . . . ” (Contra Costa Times) Lady Jessica “Jessie” Carville gave up on up men six years ago, after being deserted by Lord Hugo Duran, the man she loved beyond all reason. She has carried on with her life and . . . shockingly . . . with her career. Although most of Society frowns upon a woman in business, Lady Jessica is a natural at collecting and selling antiques. She’s put the past behind her until one night at an auction, when Duran shows up. He’s back in England, and he has plans that involve her. Can she resist what he has in mind?Duran, though willful and mysterious, is a gentleman—when it suits him. Yet he left his lover without so much a note saying why. Now he’s on a mission filled with danger. If he doesn’t succeed, he will die. Can he convince Jessica to help him without endangering her as well?Lynn Kerstan, former college professor, folksinger, professional bridge player, and nun, is the author of sixteen romance novels and four novellas, all set in Regency England.A RITA winner and five-time RITA Finalist, her books are regularly listed among the best in the Regency genre. The Golden Leopard and Heart of the Tiger were selected by Library Journal for its Best Books of the Year list (2002 and 2003), and Dangerous Passions was named by Booklist as one of the Top Ten Romances of 2005.

She tried to rob him. And then she stole his heart.If a mysterious assassin gets his way, Ashton Cordell, the Earl of Ravensby, will die without leaving an heir. Five years ago, that assassin murdered the Earl's wife and unborn child, and Ashton has dodged repeated attempts on his life since then. Now reclusive and wary, he takes no chances when two highwaymen attempt to rob him one dark night. Killing one of them, he takes the other prisoner, only to discover a beautiful and sharp-witted young woman beneath a robber's hood.Glenys Shea is at his mercy, and she knows it--even more so after her devoted young brother, an apprentice street thief, barges in to save her. Ashton quickly realizes that the pair are good-hearted and loyal despite following in the footsteps of their father--the robber Ashton killed. Glenys wins him over with her kindness, intelligence, and empathy for the tortured life he leads. Together they concoct a scheme to lure the assassin to light, but as their plan progresses, danger lurks at every turn, and their growing love only serves to make the stakes even higher.