Governess seeking position with many young girls—and no handsome lords. Maeve longs to find a place where she can belong, and forever hide herself. But she winds up making a deal with Lord Rothe—she'll look after his sixteen-year-old niece until she can find a new position. She's soon caught up in the lives of this troubled girl, and this troubled lord. How can she leave this family that needs her so much? How can she stay when she is falling in love with a man far above her lowly position? Lord seeking governess to tame his niece—and teach him how to love again. A younger son, he was meant for a military career and he's made himself into a hard army man. But now he is Lord Rothe, with a title he never wanted, relatives who resent him, and a desperate need for Maeve's help. But will he lose her due to her stubborn determination to make everyone follow orders...and to a heart which has forgotten how to love?

"Delicious, delightful, and devilishly good reading..." — Emily Hendrickson, author of The Rake's Revenge Reformed rakes make the best husbands—or do they? The beautiful and willful Clarissa is on the hunt for a rake who an reform, and can give her the passion she needs to keep from becoming a vain, unhappy woman like her mother. When she meets Lord Wolviston, the ‘lone wolf’, she he might be it. No other man makes her heart beat so fast. But can she reform his wicked ways...and is he even all that wicked? Is he out to save her heart, or keep it for himself? The new Lord Wolviston has come to London to sow a few belated wild oats. When he overhears that a beauty won't look twice at a respectable gentleman, he decides she needs a lesson—and this is just the lark he wanted. He’ll pretend to be a rake she won’t be able to reform. But he starts to glimpse the passionate woman underneath Clarissa’s defenses..and then she attracts a real rake to her side. Now he must save Clarissa from herself. But how can he do that when he’s starting to want to seduce her himself? Award of Excellence Finalist Holt Medallion Finalist Laurel Wreath Finalist

Will posing as a mistress make her one in fact? Glynis must regain the evidence that proves she and her brother are not bastard children. But her plans lead her into the bedchamber of the notorious rake Lord St. Albans—once she has caught his interest, there is no escape. When he offers to help her, she is wary but she thinks she can make use of this idle lord. But how can she resist the seductive skills of the worst rogue in England when she is falling in love with the wounded heart behind his rakish ways. Will it take a Gypsy thief to steal the heart of a rake? Jaded and bored, the Earl of St. Albans lives only to please himself. And it pleases him give into a whim and assist the lovely gypsy thief he finds in his bedchamber at an inn. He does not believes her story of wicked uncles, secret marriages, and stolen inheritances, but she amuses him as no other woman has. He wants is Glynis in his bed—and he wants her there willingly. But he does not work into his calculated seduction that Glynis, with her sharp mind and stubborn ways, is the one woman he cannot live without.