Lord Thorpe's new business partner is not what he expected.With her billowy black hair and creamy skin, Alexandra Wardis stunningly beautiful, brashly outspoken…and the perfectimage of a wealthy woman long thought dead. Straight from America, Alexandra finds London fraught withdanger. Her appearance on Thorpe's arm sends shock ripplingthrough society and arouses hushed is she a schemerin search of a dead woman's fortune, or an innocent caught upin circumstances that she doesn't understand? Someone knows the truth, someone who doesn't wantAlexandra to live long enough to learn anything. OnlyLord Thorpe can help her now—if he can overcome hisown suspicions.

A beautiful thief... Lord Lambeth can't help but be captivated by lovely Marianne Cotterwood though he knows she's hiding a secret. The desire he feels for this mysterious woman is powerful, as is his need to unravel her mystery... A lost legacy... Marianne can't remember anything of her life before she ended up in an orphanage. Her future changes again when she is taken in by a warmly eccentric family of pickpockets and thieves. Marianne's inborn grace makes her a natural thief, mingling with ease among the wealthy to find pigeons to pluck. Then Lord Lambeth catches her in the act. A reckless passion... But someone else is interested in Marianne's secrets, as well. A dangerous shadow from her past is closing in, and Marianne finds she has no choice but to place her trust in the one man she fears may be as reckless as she...

Urgently on her way to the earl of Exmoor's estate,Nicola Falcourt's carriage is waylaid by a notorioushighwayman known as The Gentleman. But there isnothing gentlemanly about the masked bandit'sbreathless kiss. The stranger believes Nicola is the wife of Richard Montford,earl of Exmoor, whom he despises and is intent on destroying.But he could not be more mistaken, for Nicola bears no lovefor the cruel earl who'd killed the only man she'd ever loved. Determined to uncover the rogue's real identity and hisreasons for bringing down the earl, Nicola gets perilously closeto him. But to save those she loves, she'll have to put all hertrust in a man as dangerous as he is desirable.