Under Cover of Night, He Awaits Her.... Byron Stratford, Duke of Raeburn, walks in shadow. Spoken of only in whispers, he lives alone in his crumbling manor, a cold, enigmatic recluse. Rarely appearing by the light of day, he moves as a wraith in the night, answering to no man. He cares little for those who dwell outside and does not abide the intrusion of others, lest they discover his secret shame.... Lord Raeburn is the sinister man Lady Victoria Wakefield must confront if she is to save herself from her family's ruin. Little does she suspect that she will become his shining star—or that the passion radiating between them will be their only defense against the true darkness threatening to destroy them both....

Sarah Connolly leaves a bleak past in London to help an old friend in Venice. There, she discovers dark secrets and a mysterious, rather shadowy figure—he is Sebastian Grimsthorpe, Earl of Wortham. Grimsthorpe once lead a carefree life, but is now bent on exacting revenge on the man (Bertrand de Lint) who had nearly destroyed him. His plot is obscured when he discovers Sarah, whose tragic eyes mystify him and seduce him (and her) into a world of secrecy and deception.

When four London seasons fail to find her a suitable match, Alcyone Carter does the unthinkable and treks across Europe to marry a foreign nobleman she's never met. But on her wedding night, she discovers her handsome, enigmatic husband is not the man he claimed to be—and when a more sinister secret emerges, she escapes from his estate into the darkness rather than live a lie with a man she feels she can never know. Ignited by his desire and pride, Dumitru Constantinescu, Count Severinor, risks everything to follow her from the depths of the Romanian forests into the decadent heart of Istanbul. It is there that they will become unwilling pawns in a game that forces them to confront the sensual passion they've discovered—and the dire threat that could cost them both their lives.

Lord Edgington, in order to win a high-stakes wager, must transform Maggie, a street girl, into a lady, which is no easy task when passion, love, and a ruthless villian from her past enter the picture. Original.

Fern and Colin Radcliffe had a conventional courtship and expected a conventional marriage. But Fern's wedding night leaves her shaken —- and reborn. Driven by a desire to control her own destiny, she strikes out at her new husband in a passionate fir of independence. In doing so, she awakens a secret craving in the recently bound couple —- an exquisite erotic delight that ignites their love and creates an insatiable hunger for more. To encourage this new, forbidden love, they spend their honeymoon alone at Colin's isolated estate —- the perfect setting to explore a world of pain, pleasure, and power. But their exploration is interrupted by a devastating secret from Colin's past —- a secret that threatens their future together ... and their very lives.