A secret stops Cassandra Seyton from accepting a flood of marriage proposals until Lord Ravenswold sees her. By then, it’s too late—her family hovers on the brink of financial disaster with another social catastrophe about to explode. But neither can resist an attraction that burns stronger than society’s dictates and their lack of trust—his of women—hers from a fear of discovery. First book in the series. RWA contest finalist. All books in the series are stand alone and HEA.

Rich widow, Elizabeth Shelton, secretly yearns to break free from the confinements of her placid life. Her late husband died a hero in the Peninsular Wars, leaving her childless and badgered by his greedy parents. Leaping into love and a dangerous scheme to serve king and country had never entered her mind, but she’s unable to resist the impoverished and dashing Lord Asterly when he asks her to become his wife and aid him in intrigue.

Society’s beloved wastrel, Sir Harry Collyns, pushes his popularity past the point of acceptability when he posed for a statue that creates a social uproar. People line up for blocks to see Handsome Harry in the nude, sculpted by a female artist! Bored with the fuss and scandal, Harry hitches up his fastest team, heads for the country, and a near fatal curricle accident. When the bandages are removed from his head days later, he discovers the angel-voiced widow who’d cared for him is neither elderly nor as mild as her tone, but a straight-laced do-gooder unimpressed with his flamboyant past and dashing good looks. Head-battered and heading for a broken heart, he falls into love with Widow Olivia St. Clair, who might be the one woman in England that Harry can’t charm into loving him back.

To protect her son Evangeline has hidden her identity. When she’s thrust back into society, no one recognizes her but she ignites the interest of a famed duelist, who decides he must have her. No matter what the cost.

Leticia Carlton has been told she has nothing to recommend her but an unsuitably clever intellect and a respectable fortune, but until she reaches the on-coming age of twenty-and-one, she can make no use of her few attributes. Her unsavory cousin holds the purse strings and has plans for her future, namely marriage to a frightening adventurer. What she needs is a shining knight galloping to her rescue, but the savior she ends up with turns out to be a friend from her childhood with a hair-trigger temper, tender heart, and tarnished armor.

Widow, Emily, Lady Fortesque, embarks on a quest to taste everything delightful and decadent, placing her in a position where she must remarry. Providence supplies a cousin, Sir Hugh Exton-Loyd, the original stick in the mud. How difficult could it be to twist him to her will? Sir Hugh considers Emily a brash and fickle a piece of work, but he requires a mother for his two, prank-playing boys. A chivalrous offer of marriage in Emily’s hour of need might be the perfect lever to curb her unacceptable habits. How difficult could it be to harness an aging hoyden? Neither of them paid any heed to the old adage of how opposites attract. ”I love every book in this series.” Judith Post, author of Fallen Angels

When Cameron Bradford is found bleeding and unconscious on the road, midwife Allison Davidson is asked to help him. The injured vagabond is soon discovered to be a local hero and thought to have died at sea. In him, she discovers a friend like no other. He finds a love that will not be denied, but Allison has a scandal in her past and will not tarnish a man so good at heart and courageous to a fault.

Most women would think it flattering to be the object of attention of more than one titled gentlemen. Not artist Agnes Bradford. One pursuer seeks to control her, to publicly ruin her if she refuses to submit. The other one is more difficult to resist and with him, its necessary to deceive. Recently found missing heir, Maxime Blayne, Lord Loverton, travels to England to take up his title. Or so everyone thinks. His true purpose is to find the murderer of his parents. Then he meets fragile, heartbroken Agnes and that changes everything.

Secrets from the past stand between Caroline’s determination to protect her mother and the struggle to hold fast to a love society deems above her station. In childhood, she and Alisdair were inseparable, but social rules and obligation to the title he will one day inherit tear them apart. When the truth is revealed, it isn’t Caroline whose station is lesser, but Alisdair, who must regain her trust and connive to bring the only woman he will ever love back home to Scotland.

Beatrice Allardyce is too busy for something as inconsequential as marriage. And love? A waste of time when there are so many books to read and a father who needs her care. Getting caught in a compromising situation with the haughty Sir Jocelyn Warfield is not part of her agenda. Intrigued by her intelligence and keen sense of social responsibility, Sir Jocelyn finds himself caught in fascination's snare with a female who has to be constantly reminded that he’s not a man easily discounted. Or discouraged. Quite the opposite. All he has to do is make her believe that he’s her best bet.