Meet the Merry Widows, a secret society of respectable ladies...with some scandalous ideas... Assured of both money and position, none of the give friends who form the Merry Widows need ever marry again. But they have no intention of forsaking physical passion for the rest of their lives. So they make a daring pact- each will consider taking a lover for the pure pleasure of it. Marianne Nesbitt adored her late husband, David, but the racy reminiscences of the Merry Widows make her wonder if she missed something special. Might she find it now through a love affair? Uncertain how to go about it, she asks Adam Cazenove, an old friend and notorious rake, to tutor her in the arts of seduction. The brazen request turns Adam's world upside down. He never imagined his best friend's very proper and exceedingly attractive widow would seek out a lover. If not for his recent betrothal, he would jump at the chance to warm her bed. Since he cannot bear the thought of another man doing so, he foils her every attempt at seduction. Until one night of unintended passion changes everything,

When she embarks on an affair with the Marquess of Thayne, the most sought after bachelor in London, Lady Somerfield, who is busy chaperoning her own young daughters and niece, must make a difficult decision—stay his mistress or become his wife despite her vow never to marry again. Original.

When John Grayston, Viscount Rochdale, bets his fellow scoundrels that he can bed prim and proper Grace Marlowe, the widow of a famous bishop, he finds himself falling in love with this fiery beauty and realizes that the truth of his seduction could destroy everything. Original.