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Indentured bondsman Ashton Markham was forced to wed wealthy Tory Bethany Winslow to escape the gallows. Bethany had loved Ashton from childhood, but never imagined that her bold ruse would result in their marriage. Surely such a marriage of convenience was doomed. But she would match his defiant bravery, challenge his pride-and claim her place in his fiery heart forever.

In this vivid tale of medieval England, beautiful heiress Briar Rose longs to find a man whom she can love. Then she meets the dashing but disgraced Lord Gareth Hawke, who has fallen on hard times. But there are those who seek to do anything they can to thwart such a union, including her spiteful stepmother and Hawke's arch enemy.

Caitlin MacBride, mistress of an Irish castle, is loyal to her countrymen and determined to remain strong for them. Yet a wish for true love one evening at sunset from John Wesley Hawkins yields what may sway her resolve, until she discovers he is one of the treacherous Englishmen whom she has spent her life fighting.

Michelle Turner lost everything at seventeen and fled to Seattle. But now her son is lost to her, a troubled teen on the verge of self-destruction, a boy who blames her for the absence of his father and grandfather. And then her father calls to tell her he is dying. He has only one chance to live: if she will donate a kidney to save him.

Stephen de Lacey is a cold and bitter widower. He regards his new bride as utterly inconvenient-though undeniably fetching. Juliana Romanov is a Russian princess forced into hiding by the traitorous cabal who slaughtered her family. What begins as a mockery of a marriage ultimately blossoms into deepest love.

One of Napoleon's mercenaries sent to conquer the Hospice of St. Bernards, Daniel Severin, falls in love with Lorelei du Clerc, the illegitimate daughter of King Louis XVI, who is cloistered there, and the two risk their lives for a passion that cannot be denied.

Feisty orphan Pippa de Lacey lives by wit and skill as a London street performer. But when her sharp tongue gets her into trouble, she seeks the mercy of Irish chieftain Aidan O'Donoghue. Their unlikely alliance reverberates with desire and the tantalizing promise of a life each has always wanted but never dreamed of attaining.

Mistress Lark needs no other excitement than thwarting the queen's executions with a group of Protestant dissidents, until the roguishly handsome Oliver de Lacey drops through the hangman's door and into her life. As their fates become inextricably bound together in a struggle against royal persecution, both Oliver and Lark discover a love worth saving, even dying for.

In London, a woman escapes from a burning warehouse only to realize she doesn't know her own identity. Nor does she know why two very different men want her, the devilishly handsome Scotsman Ian MacVane and Lord Lucas Chesney, the nobleman who claims to be her betrothed. All of her beliefs are tested as she seeks the truth about her past, and finds an unexpected passion within.

Filled with dreams of a better life, seventeen-year-old Genevieve Elliot makes the perilous journey from England to colonial Virginia, where she and handsome frontiersman Roarke Adair tame the savage wilderness and survive the sorrows of war to make a home.