In order to avoid further scandal, Carter Alexander Harford, Seventh Viscount Devereaux, and estranged wife, Miranda Harford, move forward with plans for a holiday party while living beneath a conspired cloud of misunderstanding. As family, career, and social pressures threaten to keep them apart, can love have even a glimmer of hope? Set in Dorset, England, late December 1807.

"Does it matter how a heart is broken when all that is left are shattered remains? Lady Virginia Macon, the recently widowed Baroness of Heatherton, has an impossible decision to make. Her late husband's unscrupulous brother demands guardianship of her sons. The courts are on his side, unless she marries someone willing to stand in her late husband's place. Locking her heart away and devoting herself to her children is the only way Virginia can countenance...

Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict the life of aristocrats during the French revolution.

"Banished from home by her angry father, Julia Devon travels to Bath to fulfill her role as family spinster by assisting her cousin, Lady Macon, in caring for her dying husband. Nathaniel Hastings's life runs in a predictable pattern, until a routine visit to one of his ailing patients brings him face to face with Julia, the woman who broke his heart five years before in London. Julia and Nathaniel find themselves unlikely allies as they work together...

William Blackburn, Earl of Ketterham, lives in exile in the Scottish Highlands with his daughter, Vanessa. When she comes of age, Vanessa returns to her mother in England to make her debut. Lord Montgomery Townsend, a visitor at the Countess of Dawton's home, watches his hostess try to match her estranged daughter with the pompous son of a powerful family. Monty wonders why the independent-minded Vanessa wants to marry the arrogant rogue, but nonetheless...

"Miss Suzanna Spencer has successfully avoided marriage, waiting for love and equality in a husband, but when her father suddenly becomes ill, she agrees to his dying wish to marry Mr. Lacy and secure her future. Cast suddenly into a mourning period, Suzanna and Mr. Lacy agree to keep their engagement a secret until the proper six months have passed. But when Suzanna and Mr. Lacy find themselves thrown together with Miss Grysham and her handsome uncle...

Follows the relationship between Berengaria, who is forced into marriage with a nefarious squire, and her beloved Raven, a Scottish soldier determined to save her from an evil fate.

In faux foppish style, the master of disguises proclaims: "They seek me here, they seek me there. Those Frenchies seek me everywhere!" Yet those Frenchies cannot get their hands on the Scarlet Pimpernel as he rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens presents the first book in the Adventurers Quartet, a riveting blend of Regency-era high-seas adventure.How does marriage work? If convention is set aside and is no longer there to guide ... what then? The instant Captain Declan Frobisher lays eyes on Lady Edwina Delbraith, he knows she's the woman he wants as his wife. The scion of a seafaring dynasty accustomed to success, he discovers that...

"Florence Prescott and her family live in fear of her father's vicious outbursts. Lord Prescott rules his household with a cruel and violent hand, and when one of his drunken rages leads to the abuse of Florence's beloved younger brother, Florence boldly confronts her father--and pays the price for her insolence. Broken and hopeless, Florence feels like a prisoner in her own life. As a former stablehand for the Prescotts, Evan Avery is all too familiar...