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Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fortune's whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables.

1912.

Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house.

During China's infamous Tang Dynasty, a time awash with luxury yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty, betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding.

Lady Celia Cleveden thinks of herself as eminently sensible from the tips of her sturdy boots to the top of her unadorned bonnet. It seemed logical she would marry an equally practical gentleman.

Charles Mountford, Marquis of Tonbridge, has long felt the weight of responsibility. He knows he must do his duty and take a wife.

To live the life of independence she craves, Jane de Weston disguises herself as a young man.

After one uncharacteristically wicked night, the once-reckless Eleanor Bracewell-Lowen now leads a safe and prudent life.

Meg eloped to escape her reverend father's iron rule. Now widowed, she's desperate to return to her sisters.

Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped.

When her boyfriend dumps her and she loses her job during the Great Depression, librarian Alice Grace Ripley agrees to help out in the library of the tiny town of Acorn, Kentucky, where she finds m

Seduced, abandoned and pregnant, Arabella Shelley is determined her baby's father will support them.

Rural switchboard operator Georgie Gail is proud of her independence in a man's world, which make it twice as vexing when the telephone company sends a man to look over her shoulder.

Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty.

Dark-hearted Sheikh Prince Jamil al-Nazarri commands his kingdom effortlessly, less so his difficult little daughter!