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Although their engagement is just a rumor, East has now intention of marrying Lady Sophie Colley. But when he actually meets her, he is entranced. Now, eager to win her love, he must help her banis old family secrets before he can claim her as a bride.

Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed Brown are a family act with a hit record sitting atop 1959's country music charts. The world at their feet, lives of success seem to spread out before them like an unending highway. But celebrity has its price, and the times ahead will deliver more than their fair share of bumps in the road.

In 1895 Texas, Karel Skala enters the world while his mother dies in childbirth. Fifteen years later, guilt-stricken Karel puts his family's fortunes on the line in a horse race against a powerful Spanish patriarch.

Munro Forrest and Elen Burnard of Dunblane are fated to be enemies by a longstanding feud, but are unable to resist the spark of passion that ignites between them.

Photographer Dylan Cooper, returning home after the war, discovers that his wife Grace, believing that he had been killed, has vanished and, building a quiet life in a small fishing village, is only reconnected with his true love twenty years later.

James presents a dramatic slave narrative set on a 19th-century Jamaican sugar plantation. Ever since she was a small child, Lilith has been closely watched by a contingent of fellow slaves--calling themselves the Night Women--who have long planned a revolt. Though she does not yet know it, Lilith is the key to their carefully laid plans.

Handsome rancher Drake Kincaid faces a dilemma. He must take a bride before his rapidly approaching 30th birthday, or he will lose his ranch to his conniving uncle. Steamed, he vows to marry the least appropriate woman he can find.

Desperate to keep his vast estates in the family, the Duke of Belcraven chooses his illegitimate daughter, Beth Armitage, as bride for Lucien de Vaux, his only heir. Although both are intelligent and independent, Beth believes in women's rights, and Lucien is known as a rake. It will take more than satin and jewels to turn their union into a fairytale romance.

Young Miles Cavanagh becomes the improbable guardian to Felicity Monahan, a wealthy head-strong heiress who is only a few years younger than he. Felicity at first seems set on marrying Rupert Dunmsore, an unscrupulous cad, who clearly only wants to wed her for one reason--and that reason is not love. Dunsmore lusts after Felicity and her fortune, but Miles is determined to stop the match. As he and Felicity begin to have feelings for one another, their love must withstand the test of Dunsmore's fury.

When her vile brother's wicked scheming ruins her reputaion, Eleanor Chivenham is forced into a hasty marriage of convenience. She weds Nicholas Delaney, a hard-living scoundrel who is rumored to have a ravishing French mistress. Yet there is much more to Nicholas than meets the eye, and soon Eleanor's heart is filled with unexpected desires.