In the wake of a horrible accident that killed the wretched man who was to be her husband, Lady Elizabeth Everdean has fled to Italy, where she vows to become a great artist—and to never let another man control her destiny. Sir Nicholas Hollingsworth is as renowned as a war hero as he is as a rake. When the man who saved his life in battle asks him to find his missing sister Elizabeth, he departs at once for Venice. Only he never expects the object of his search to become the object of his desire…

Six years after being separated from her new husband, Peter Everdean, the Earl of Clifton, on the battlefields of Spain, Carmen Montero, a Spanish countess, is reunited with him, only to discover that pride and dark secrets threaten to destroy their love. Original.

Impoverished by his brother's gambling debts, Alexander Kenton, the Duke of Wayland, discovers that the only way to preserve his family's position is to marry within the aristocracy, a situation that is complicated by Alexander's love for Georgina Beaumont, a headstrong and independently wealthy artist. Original.

Lady Emily Kenton was eight years old the last time she set eyes on David Huntington. She's elated that he has finally returned from India, but now she bears a terrible secret-one that could drive him away forever.