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Fils cadet d’un comte, Darius Lindsey n’a pas de fortune personnelle. Pour survivre, il n’a d’autre choix que de satisfaire les fantasmes coquins des dames de la haute société. Lorsque lord Longstreet, un politicien âgé en mal d’héritier, lui propose d’en concevoir un avec sa femme, Darius finit par accepter et rencontre Vivian. Une vraie lady prête à tous les sacrifices pour remplir ses devoirs d’épouse, mais totalement inexpérimentée dans le domaine de la volupté.

Ce qui ne devait être qu’une transaction va se transformer en une initiation sensuelle qui bouleversera leurs vies.

Christian, duc de Mercie, combattait aux côtés de Wellington lorsqu’il est tombé aux mains de l'ennemi. C'est donc un homme brisé qui, de retour en Angleterre, reçoit la visite de lady Gillian venue lui annoncer que sa fille Lucille dépérit, seule dans son domaine de Severn. Consciente que Christian n'est pas capable pour l'heure d'assumer ses responsabilités de père et de châtelain, Gillian accepte de l'assister. Après tout, elle aussi doit oublier ses propres démons et espère trouver l'apaisement à Severn. Elle ignore que si Christian s'est accroché à la vie, c'est uniquement pour assouvir le désir de vengeance qui lui ronge l'âme...

Ancien soldat, Hamish MacHugh s'attendait à tout sauf à hériter du duché de Murdoch. À Londres où ses manières frustres détonnent, tous regardent avec dédain et crainte celui que l'on surnomme le duc Meurtrier. Tous... sauf la discrète Megan Windham qui ne semble guère impressionnée par sa réputation. Charmé, Hamish trouve en elle une confidente dont l'amitié ne lui suffit bientôt plus. Et lorsqu'elle tombe dans les griffes d'un vil maître-chanteur, il se sent redevenir ce guerrier sanguinaire qui semait la terreur sur les champs de bataille...

Le banquier Quinn Wentworth est tombé dans un piège. Accusé de meurtre, il attend la pendaison dans sa geôle de Newgate quand il fait la connaissance de Jane Winston, une visiteuse de prison. Enceinte, celle-ci vit sous la coupe de son père, un pasteur rigoriste. Perdu pour perdu, Quinn épouse Jane afin de lui assurer un avenir. Coup de théâtre, il obtient la grâce du roi et hérite en prime d'un titre ronflant ! Le voici duc de Walden, nanti d'une duchesse qui attend l'enfant d'un autre. Une femme qu'il ne connaît pas, mais qu'il a désirée au premier regard...

Puisqu'un comte doit bien finir par se marier, Ian MacGregor est décidé à sauter le pas. Il voudrait sa promise loyale, pragmatique, et si possible dotée du sens de l'humour. Seulement, en tant que laird désargenté et conscient de ses devoirs, il ne peut pas se permettre de faire le difficile. Aussi invite-t-il en son fief la famille de la délicate Eugenia, qui répond aux deux critères essentiels : être anglaise et disposer d'une grosse fortune. Pourtant, c'est de sa jolie cousine Augusta dont Ian s'éprend. Hélas, si la belle a l'esprit vif, elle n'a pas un sou vaillant en poche...

Dukes in Disguise a Regency novella anthology

Grace Burrowes, Emily Greenwood, and Susanna Ives team up to bring you three Regency novellas, each featuring a young, wealthy duke who must spend two weeks masquerading as a commoner in the bucolic backwater of Lesser Puddlebury. Disaster will rain down if their graces’ titled status become public knowledge. Fortunately for our heroes, true love is no respecter of rank.

His Grace of Lesser Puddlebury by Grace Burrowes

Connor, Duke of Mowne, has been injured in a most delicate location, and needs a place to heal far from the eyes of Polite Society. When he takes refuge with the independent and impecunious Julianna St. Bellan, he suspects his wound was in truth caused by Cupid’s arrow!

Duchess of Light by Susanna Ives

In a tangle of lies and disguises, a brokenhearted duke and a desperate miss find truth in love.

Kiss Me, Your Grace by Emily Greenwood

Rowan, Duke of Starlingham, thinks love is for fools, though when he arrives at his hunting box to find an alluring but puzzlingly uncooperative woman pretending to be his cousin, he realizes he may be a victim of the most absurd malady of all: love at first sight.

Two Wee Drams of Love

Part of the Highland Holidays series

Two contemporary romance novellas featuring the kilted version of true love…

Kiss and Tell

Jane DeLuca, Esquire, thrives on advocating zealously for her clients in Damson County’s courts, but her solo practice leaves no time for a personal life. She’s opposed in a nasty divorce case by dour, stubborn Scotsman, Dunstan Cromarty. And yet, as the clients’ case grows more complicated, so do Jane’s feelings for Dunstan—and his for her.

Crossing personal lines in the middle of a case could cost each of them their license to practice law, and in a small, rural jurisdiction, they’ll oppose each other frequently. Neither can afford to give up their livelihood or their professional integrity, but can they give up each other?

Dunroamin Holiday

As a favor to his cousin, art history professor Liam Cromarty agrees to show American attorney Louise Cameron the Scottish sights. He doesn’t expect that his guest will challenge and charm him, until all he can see is the possibility of a shared future with Louise.

She’s at a professional crossroad, between the courtroom and the creative career she was robbed of as a younger woman. Liam is the perfect partner for exploring all of the wonders of Scotland, and he also inspires Louise to renew her artistic ambitions. When Liam realizes his actions were responsible for cheating Louise out of her dream years ago, he knows that whether he keeps silent about the past or reveals the truth, he could lose Louise forever.

Christmas in the Duke’s Arms

Part of the Holiday Anthology series

These yuletide tales are set in rural Nottinghamshire and feature couples who dream of holidays filled with true love, however unlikely that might be. A highwayman, a cozy country inn, a Christmas assembly and copious bundles of mistletoe contribute to merry, romantic holiday happily ever afters.

Thomas

Book 1 in the Jaded Gentlemen series

Thomas Jennings, Baron Sutcliffe, relinquishes his position as man of business for David, Lord Fairly, to take up life as a country squire. Thomas’s newly purchased estate, Linden, is managed by Miss Loris Tanner, daughter of the former steward who abandoned his post—and his only child—under a cloud of scandal. Thomas is willing to give Loris a chance to prove her competence in a profession uniformly undertaken by men, but the situation becomes complicated. Will Loris give Thomas a chance to become something more dear and lasting to her than simply her broad-minded employer, or will the scandal in her past come back to ruin her future, too?

A Kiss for Luck

A novella in the Sweetest Kisses series

Game designer Sadie Delacourt has moved to the peaceful, bucolic town of Damson Valley for a fresh start where she can keep an eye on a recently divorced sister and her small nephew. Sadie plans to focus on her business and her family, until handsome neighbor Gideon Granville turns his focus on Sadie. When Sadie learns where Gideon has been aiming his snooping skills, she’s ready to delete him from her plans entirely—though Gideon is all that stands between her and the trouble she thought she’d left behind her.

Welcome to Montana a land of fine whisky, big-spread ranches, and an open prairie of possibilities…

Scottish whisky distiller Magnus Brodie’s long-anticipated bicentennial batch of whisky has been sabotaged. His sole hope to prevent financial disaster? Buy the Logan brothers’ Montana distillery. It’s the only way to secure Bridget MacDeaver’s services as a “cask-whisperer.”

Bridget refuses to sell her grandpa’s distillery, even to save her brothers’ ranch. When an old enemy threatens, her only ally is the man who’s determined to steal her grandpa’s legacy—and her heart!

The Duke’s Disaster

Noah Winters, Duke of Anselm, exercises the pragmatism for which he’s infamous when his preferred choice of bride cries off, and her companion, Lady Thea Collins, becomes his next choice for his duchess. Lady Thea’s mature, sensible and even rather attractive—what could possibly go wrong?

As a lady fallen on hard times, Thea doesn’t expect tender sentiments from His Grace, but she does wish Noah had courted her trust, lest her past turn their hastily arranged marriage into a life of shared regrets. Is His Grace courting a convenient wife, or a ducal disaster?

The Heir

Book 1 in the Windham series

Anna Seaton is a diligent, superbly competent housekeeper who in addition has all the accomplishments of a well bred, well educated lady. She’s also beautiful and considerably younger than most other women similarly situated, leaving her employer, Gayle Windham, the Earl of Westhaven, with a puzzle. As Anna and Gayle grow closer, overcoming differences in station, personality, and expectations, Anna’s secrets threaten to bring the orderly earl’s life crashing down—and he doesn’t know how he’ll protect the woman he’s come to love from the problems she’s been outrunning for years.

A book in the Highland Holidays series

A collection of stories by Grace Burrowes and Patience Griffin

Dunroamin Holiday by Grace Burrowes

Art history professor Liam Cromarty agrees to show American attorney Louise Cameron around the Scottish sights as a favor to a cousin. He doesn't expect that his guest will challenge and charm him, until all he can see is the possibility of a shared future with Louise. She's at a professional crossroad, between the courtroom and the creative career she was robbed of as a younger woman. Liam is the perfect partner for exploring the wonders of Scotland, and he also inspires Louise to renew her artistic ambitions. When Liam realizes his actions were responsible for cheating Louise out of her dream years ago, he knows that whether he keeps silent about the past or reveals the truth, he could lose Louise forever.

The Laird and I by Patience Griffin

Last summer in the Scottish village of Gandiegow, Hugh McGillivray caught Sophie Munro's eye, but the dashing Laird behaved as if she didn't exist. Now Sophie is set to spend a week at his home, Kilheath Castle, housesitting and learning the art of kiltmaking. She's been assured the Laird is out of the country. When he shows up unexpectedly, embarrassment has Sophie wanting to flee back to her own village. She's not sure how she's going to unravel herself from this mess - being in his home, under what appear to be false pretenses. Hugh allows Sophie to stay... for now. He's impressed that, from the start, she's become indispensable at his wool mill as the kiltmaker's apprentice, and in his home, helping him to unconventionally heal from his sister's death. Will the Laird let Sophie leave without telling her how much she's come to mean to him? Or will he take a risk and ask her to tie the knot when her time at Kilheath Castle is up?

The Duke’s Courtship

Part of the Windham series

In addition to eight novels, the Windham family series also includes four novellas, each one a complete story of love triumphing over the odds. The Courtship chronicles the early days of Percival and Esther Windham’s romance, while The Duke and His Duchess finds Their Graces five years into marriage, with four little boys underfoot, coin in short supply, familial obligations dragging the couple apart, and Percival’s past coming between them. Morgan and Archer takes one character from The Heir, and one from Lady Maggie’s Secret Scandal, and rewards their tenacity and cleverness with true love. Jonathan and Amy appeared first in Lady Eve’s Indiscretion, and were such a lovely pair that their story became the last title in the Windham series.

If you’d like to read more in the Windham series, Douglas: Lord of Heartache is the prequel to the entire family saga, and we catch glimpses of the Windham siblings later in life in The MacGregor’s Lady, which is Grace’s third Scottish Victorian.

Two Novellas of the Windham series by New York Times bestselling author Grace Burrowes, for the first time in print.

THE COURTSHIP

The first novella to be published by New York Times bestselling author Grace Burrowes features the foundation story for her bestselling Windham series. This is the tender story of love tested and won, and how Percy Windham, the dashing and brilliant man who was never supposed to become the Duke of Moreland, wooed Esther Himmelfarb, the amazing lady who became his beloved Duchess.

THE DUKE AND HIS DUCHESS

In this second prequel novella to the popular Windham series, Grace Burrowes continues the story of the Duke and Duchess of Moreland through the tumultuous and bittersweet first years of marriage and parenthood. Percival Windham is a second son and cavalry officer when he weds the beautiful Esther Himmelfarb. Percy and Esther must grow into the nobility they've been resisting and stand together, or face the threat of destroying their young family and the beautiful love that started out with such promise...

The Duke's Obsession Regency Romance Trilogy

Part of the Windham series

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers remarkable characters, intriguing plots, and freshly imagined Regency settings in this unforgettable trilogy about three noble brothers. A Regency era battle of wits, wills, and the sexes, with a wily old duke determined to see the succession of his line secured, and his three headstrong sons equally determined to resist the bonds of matrimony.

THE HEIR: The Earl of Wyndham, weighed down by responsibilities, is determined to avoid the summer rounds of matchmaking mamas, so he stays in his London townhouse for the summer. There he discovers a potentially perfect duchess in his lovely, mysterious housekeeper.

THE SOLDIER: Devlin St. Just, the Duke's oldest, but illegitimate, son, arrives at his new estate weary in body and spirit. There he finds that the previous owner's bastard daughter and her beautiful cousin are his responsibility and are making his life almost unbearably complicated.

THE VIRTUOSO: Gifted pianist Valentine Windham, youngest son of the Duke of Moreland retreats to the country after an injury robs him of his musical ability. There he learns from beautiful young widow Ellen Markham that he can be loved even when his music falls silent.

Once Upon a Dream

Grace is very pleased to announce that she and Mary Balogh will co-publish a pair of novellas bundled together as Once Upon a Dream. Mary’s story is titled, “Another Dream,” while Grace calls hers, “The Duke of My Dreams.” Both are set at ducal house parties, and both feature heroines who’ve long since moderated their expectations where true love is concerned. Silly heroines!

We met Elias and Anne, Duke and Duchess of Sedgemere, in Grace’s novella, “May I Have This Duke” (in the Dancing in the Duke’s Arms, anthology). The Duke of My Dreams is their graces’ story, wherein we’ll see our friend the bachelor Duke of Hardcastle assisting the course of true love… and also herding ducks, Sedgemere stewards sheep races (every duke needs a skill to fall back on), and Anne teaches Sedgemere what lucky clovers are truly for…

In Another Dream, Miss Eleanor Thompson has done well as the proprietor of a respected school for girls. The life of a dedicated educator offers many rewards and much meaning, and also more loneliness than Eleanor anticipates. She accepts an invitation from her sister, Christine, Duchess of Bewcastle to attend a Bedwyn house party, never dreaming that the summer’s curriculum might include stolen kisses or true love.

My Favorite Rogue

Eight New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors bring you an exclusive collection of historical romance featuring dukes, rakes, rogues, and more!

The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan Ambitious

Driven Hugo Marshall has never met a problem he can’t fix. Then again, he’s never met Serena Barton - and she just may be his match.

Tempting Juliana by Lauren Royal

London, 1816: Lady Juliana Chase loves playing matchmaker - and she’s good at it. So why is everyone ignoring her good intentions and shaking up her sensible plans?

Worth: Lord of Reckoning by Grace Burrowes

(Part of the Lonely Lords series)

Consummate rake and man of business Worth Kettering repairs to his country estate to sort out complicated family matters, only to find his lovely housekeeper, Jacaranda Wyeth, takes on the challenge of sorting out him — and she means business!

Forever Betrothed, Never the Bride by Christi Caldwell

Hopeless romantic Lady Emmaline Fitzhugh is tired of sitting with the wallflowers, waiting for her betrothed to come to his senses and marry her. She decides to take matters into her own hands!

Forbidden (The Wicked Woodleys) by Jess Michaels

Just one kiss will lead to a forbidden affair, just one lie could destroy it all.

The Captain’s Bluestocking Mistress by Erica Ridley Spinster

Jane Downing wants off the shelf and into the arms of a hot-blooded man - Specifically, the dark and dangerous Captain Grey. How hard can it be for a bluestocking to learn the language of love?

Romancing Lady Stone by Delilah Marvelle

When Lady Cecilia Evangeline Stone finds herself robbed and stranded on the back roads of Russia, she has to depend on a reformed criminal to find her way home. Can she survive his unexpected charm? Or will her heart be robbed, as well?

Once Upon A Duke by Eva Devon Lady Kathryn

Darrel is fed up with being a perfectly behaved widow. She’s desperate to be seduced and the notorious Duke of Darkwell just might be the one to oblige. In this game of seduction, where both have vowed never to give their heart again, can love win the day?

Dancing in the Duke’s Arms

Why Do Dukes Fall in Love?

Every summer the cream of society gathers at the Dukeries, named for the ducal estates concentrated in one small corner of Nottinghamshire. While the entertainments include parties, balls, and a famous boat race, the ducal hosts and their guests find adventure, passion, and happy ever afters.

May I Have This Duke?

by Grace Burrowes

The trouble with houseparties…

Gerard Hammersley, Duke of Hardcastle, is dragooned by an old friend into attending a house party, though Hardcastle refuses to fall prey to the matchmakers who relish such gatherings. He recruits his nephew’s prim, prickly governess, Miss Ellen MacHugh, to preserve him from being compromised by the conniving debutantes, and offers in exchange to deflect the drunken viscounts who plague Ellen.

Is that they must end.

Ellen agrees to Hardcastle’s scheme for two reasons. First, she’s been attracted to His Grace since the day she laid eyes on him, and knows that behind Hardcastle’s lack of charm lies a ferociously loyal and faithful heart. Second, she’s departing from Hardcastle’s household at the conclusion of the house party, and two weeks safeguarding His Grace’s bachelorhood is as much pleasure—and as much torment—as she can endure before she leaves him.

Duchess of Scandal by Miranda Neville

After months of marriage, the Duke of Linton agreed to live apart from his wife. Thrown together due to a scheduling error, Linton finds Althea still has the power to make his heart race. Linton seems different from the critical, indifferent man she married. But though she burns for him as a lover, can she trust him to be the husband she needs?

Waiting for a Duke Like You by Shana Galen

Nathan Cauley, tenth Duke of Wyndover, is so handsome ladies swoon—literally swoon. His blond hair and blue eyes certainly draw attention at the Duke of Sedgemere’s house party, but Nathan doesn’t want a fawning young miss for his duchess. He stumbles upon a bedraggled woman sleeping under Sedgemere’s bridge, and his protective instincts stir. When he recognizes her as the princess he fell in love with eight years before, he’s determined to win not only her affections but her heart.

An Unsuitable Duchess by Carolyn Jewel

The duke of Stoke Teversault has well earned his reputation for bloodless calculation. Indeed, recently widowed Georgina Lark has no idea he’s loved her since before her late husband swept her off her feet. Stoke Teversault means to keep it that way. The cold and forbidding duke and the blithe and open Georgina could not be less suited in any capacity. And yet, when Georgina and her sister arrive at his home, his ice-bound heart may melt away.

A trio of Novellas in the Windham series

MORGAN AND ARCHER

This sparkling short story ties back to Grace Burrowes' popular Windham series with characters introduced in The Virtuoso and Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal. Archer Portmaine is investigating a plot against the Crown when he meets Morgan James, a young lady who believes her hearing problems make her a poor candidate for marriage, although her disability provides the key to unraveling Archer's mystery--and to capturing his heart.

JONATHAN AND AMY

In Lady Eve's Indiscretion, the Marquis of Deene wanted to wrest custody of his niece Georgina from her wealthy Irish father, widower Jonathan Dolan. Now Jonathan needs Deene's assistance to help him woo Miss Amy Ingraham, Georgina's proper, pretty governess. Jonathan must be clever, determined, and above all else honorable if he's to win not only Amy's hand, but the respect of a society only too willing to judge him harshly.

MARY FRAN AND MATTHEW

In The Bridegroom Wore Plaid, three of the MacGregor brothers found true love, while their widowed sister, Lady Mary Frances MacGregor, met her match in Matthew Daniels. Mary Frances has vowed she'll never succumb to manipulation by another handsome Englishman, but falls hard for lonely, outcast Matthew Daniels. But Matthew has a scandal in his past, and his conscience forbids him to persuade Mary Frances to marry him.

Christmas Ladies

Three luminous holiday tales of romance, passion, and dreams come true, from Grace Burrowes' enormously popular Windham series.

LADY SOPHIE'S CHRISTMAS WISH

Craving a bit of peace and anonymity, Lady Sophie Windham has maneuvered a few days to herself at the ducal mansion in London before she must join her family for Christmas in Kent. Suddenly trapped by a London snowstorm, she finds herself with an abandoned baby and only the assistance of a kind, handsome stranger standing between her and complete disaster. With his estate in ruins, Vim Charpentier sees little to feel festive about this Christmas. His growing attraction for Sophie is the only thing that warms his spirits-but when Sophie's brothers whisk her away, Vim's most painful holiday memories are reawakened. It seems Sophie's been keeping secrets, and now it will take much more than a mistletoe kiss to make her deepest wishes come true.

LADY LOUISA'S CHRISTMAS KNIGHT

'Tis the Season for Scandal...Years ago Lady Louisa Windham acted rashly on a dare from her brother, and that indiscretion is about to come to light. She knows her reputation will never survive exposure. Just as she's nearly overwhelmed by her dilemma, Sir Joseph Carrington offers himself to her as a solution. But Sir Joseph has secrets as well, and as he and Louisa become entangled with each other, their deceptions begin to close in on them both.

LADY JENNY'S CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT

What soft-spoken Lady Jenny Windham wants for Christmas is the freedom to pursue her artistic ambitions, though it will mean scandalizing her ducal parents and abandoning all hope of a family of her own. She confides her plans to successful artist Elijah Harrison, because assisting Elijah will bring Jenny that much closer to her heart's desire-or so she thinks. Elijah finds in his unlikely assistant not only an inspiring muse and unappreciated talent, but also a lovely and passionate woman. If Elijah supports Jenny's career, his own professional interests will suffer, but more significantly, he will lose Jenny forever. Both Jenny and Elijah must choose between true love and a lifelong dream.

When Scottish oil executive Declan MacLeod books a week’s stay at the Bar J bed and breakfast, ranch owner Claudia Jensen finds herself interested in a guy for the first time in years. Declan’s job is to buy the Bar J out from under Claudia, though, and she is not at all interested in selling. Sparks fly in the Canyon, when love rides in, Texas style!

A duet of Regency holiday novellas set at the time of year when toes might be cold, but hearts are warm, and true love earns a helping hand from some well-placed mistletoe.

Respect for Christmas features Henrietta Whitlow, who’s leaving behind the life of a very successful courtesan in hopes of making peace with her family in the shires. Michael Brenner’s family all but ignore him, despite his shiny new baronial title, and his errand along the Oxford road isn’t half so benign as Henrietta’s. While trying to settle a debt of honor involving Henrietta, Michael instead loses his heart, gains a friend, and learns an important holiday lesson.

Patience for Christmas is the story of advice columnist Patience Friendly, whose relationship with her stubborn, over-bearing, publisher, Dougal MacHugh, is anything but cordial. Dougal challenges is Patience to take on a rival columnist in a holiday advice-a-thon, and sparks fly clear up to the mistletoe hanging from every rafter. Will Patience follow the practical guidance of her head, or the passionate advice of her heart?

He left her standing in the cold…

As a girl of seventeen, Marielle Redford waited and waited for Leopold Drake, her first love, to meet her at their trysting place so they could elope. She got a bad case of lung fever and a broken heart for her troubles.

She sent him off to war…

Leo Drake was all set to share his future with the lady of his dreams, when he was told Marielle had changed her mind. Bewildered and heartbroken, he joined the army and sailed for Spain. It’s ten years later, and fate has thrown Leo and Marielle together on Christmas night. Will they say farewell for all time, or let the magic of the holidays rejoin their hearts?

A Regency novella trio with Grace Burrowes, Shana Galen, and Carolyn Jewel.

The various chapters of a priceless medieval manuscript, The Duke’s Book of Knowledge, have been the subject of legend and rumor for centuries. A group of London nobleman have promised their former professor that they’ll find the manuscript before the professor retires, and vindicate his faith in the Duke’s existence while rescuing a great literary work from obscurity. Each man becomes entangled with a lady in the course of his quest, and the objective shifts, from locating an ancient manuscript to also winning the lady’s heart—in just ten short days.

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For centuries, the volumes of a priceless Renaissance manuscript, The Duke’s Book of Knowledge, have been the subject of legend and rumor. Three members of London’s Bibliomania Club have promised a beloved professor they’ll find the manuscripts before the professor retires. They are determined to vindicate his faith in the Duke’s existence while rescuing a great literary work from obscurity. The problem? The book must be found in ten days. Matters of the heart intrude as each book hunter realizes that locating an ancient manuscript might just lead to happiness ever after. The Will to Love by Grace Burrowes His lordship has been looking for a rare manuscript in all the wrong places, but he might just find true love! The Earl of Ramsdale is convinced that his late uncle's will holds the key to finding at least one portion of a long-lost Renaissance manuscript. The only person skilled enough to translate the will in ten short days is Miss Philomena Peebles, who has no patience with handsome, presumptuous earls. Will Ramsdale find the fabled literary treasure, or lose his heart to the last woman he should propose to? How to Steal a Duke (in Ten Days, Give or Take a Few Days, But Definitely in Less than a Fortnight) by Shana Galen A haughty duke and an impoverished lady turned cat burglar travel to the wilds of Cornwall in search of a castle, a mad earl, and an arcane manuscript. Dominick Spencer, the Duke of Tremayne, is a powerful man used to having his way. When he and three other members of the Bibliomania Club set out to find the lost volumes of The Duke’s Book of Knowledge to present to their favorite Oxford professor, Dominick takes his task seriously, even hiring a cat burglar to help him gain entry to a remote castle in Cornwall inhabited by a mad earl. Rosalyn Dashner knows accepting the duke’s assignment is dangerous, but her impoverished family and sick brother need the money. The daughter of a gentleman, Rosalyn is not impressed by titles. She’s not impressed by the haughty duke until she comes to know the kind but lonely man under the gruff exterior. The duke might be looking for a manuscript, but she’s found a man she loves. When Rosalyn must risk her life to obtain the manuscript, will Dominick choose her or his quest for the Duke’s Book? The Viscount’s First Kiss by Carolyn Jewel Viscount Daunt and the painfully shy Magdalene Carter turn friendship into love in their search for a legendary medieval manuscript. For years, the Viscount Daunt has loved Magdalene Carter, the widow of a long-time friend and mentor. She’s a brilliant and original thinker whose shyness often paralyzes her, but no one is more knowledgeable about their shared passion for medieval tomes. When he enlists her aid in the search for the legendary Duke’s Book of Knowledge, a book he must find in just ten short days, he hopes to transform their friendship into love.

Two Regency novellas of true love deep in the English countryside….Legend says that the first gentleman a lady kisses on the Duke’s Bridle Path will become her true love. Grace Burrowes and Theresa Romain say it’s not that easy…

In His Grace for the Win, by Grace Burrowes, Philippe, Duke of Lavelle, has sworn off all things equestrian after his brother’s riding accident. Just one tiny problem: The woman who steals Philippe’s heart, Harriet Talbot, loves horses, and generally only notices men when they’re in the saddle. Will Philippe rise to the challenge, or come a cropper for the sake of true love?

In Desperately Seeking Scandal, by Theresa Romain, ambitious London reporter Colin Goddard follows a trail of scandal to the Lavelle seat in Berkshire, hoping to save his career with articles on how to snare a wealthy spouse. What was intended as a humorous series turns seductive, as Lady Ada Ellis, sister to the duke, uncovers Colin’s true purpose and challenges him to a battle of wits…and wills, and hearts. But if they fall in love, one of them will lose everything. Who will triumph?

It Happened One Night

Six Scandalous Novels

From the glittering ballrooms of England to the Scottish countryside, the promise of true love echoes down the ages in this sizzling collection of full-length Valentine’s Day romances from six of today’s New York Times and USA Today’s bestselling authors!

** Axel: The Jaded Gentlemen by Grace Burrowes **

Professor Axel Belmont would rather graft roses than solve crimes, but when his neighbor Abigail Stoneleigh is suspected of murder, he takes the case to clear her name-and loses his heart.

** For Love of the Duke by Christi Caldwell **

After the tragic death of his wife, Jasper, the 8th Duke of Bainbridge secludes himself in the dark cold walls of Castle Blackwood. Coaxed out of his self-imposed exile to attend the amusements of the Frost Fair, his life is irrevocably changed by his fateful meeting with Lady Katherine Adamson.

** The Impostor's Kiss by Tanya Anne Crosby **

Merrick Welbourne never expected to discover a long-lost twin! Particularly one who'd rob him blind and leave him senseless on the road. Now living his brother's life, he has new trials, tribulations, and temptations he'd never dreamed of--not the least being Chloe Simon, she of rare mettle, proud heart and unmatchable beauty.

** My Enchanting Hoyden by Julie Johnstone **

A bargain born of desperation ignites into passion as one lord’s quest to save his family leads to the discovery that he can never settle for less than love.

** Lord of Pleasure by Erica Ridley **

When a ẉallflower infiltrates the ton’s most scandalous masquerade ball, she finds herself in the arms—and the bed—of the one man she’d sworn to hate!

** Tempting Juliana by Lauren Royal **

Lady Juliana Chase loves playing matchmaker—and she’s good at it, too. So why is everyone ignoring her good intentions and shaking up her sensible plans?

Your invitation to delightful Valentine’s Day reading awaits in this breathtakingly romantic anthology.

*Please note that these stories were previously published by each individual author.