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The last shreds of Cassandra Pomfret's reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her sister's future and her family's good name along with them. The Duke of Ashmont knows that damaging a lady's good name isn't sporting. The only way to right the wrong is to marry her, and hope she doesn't smother him in his sleep on their wedding night.

Sooner or later, Duke Robert Rothmere's enemies will try to seize his wealth. If Robert is to foil their schemes, he needs to marry a perfectly proper, blessedly boring, deadly dull duchess, immediately. Lady Constance Wentworth has cultivated a reputation for utter forgettability, and she longs to be his demure duchess, but little does he know that to marry her would be utter madness.

When the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to delve into the oldest magics and draw new alliances in aims of turning the women's movement into the witch's movement.

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.

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.