Anne Gracie

Lord Leominster married Camilla for convenience only - yet she found herself falling ever more deeply in love with him! At a time when England and Napoleonic France were about to lock horns, Leominster embarks on a secret diplomatic mission to Portugal, where the French army is about to strike. Camilla and her flighty sister-in-law accompany him and cruel circumstance plunges them all into disaster. Separated from her husband, Camilla spends the winter in hiding from the French and more intimate enemies. But after a harrowing escape, their reunion is fraught with surprise - for Leominster, it was the most incredible surprise of all.

Ellie Carmichael was an heiress when she married, but her husband drank and gambled away her money. Now he is dead, and all Ellie has is their three-year-old daughter and her reputation. But when a handsome stranger turns up on her door on a perilously cold night, Ellie must put her virtue on the line...

Earl's son Rafe Ramsey postpones an unwanted marriage of convenience by tracking down Ayisha, a young woman from a wealthy English family who went missing in Egypt six years earlier.

"On the eve of the London season, Jane Chance is about to make her entrance into high society. And after a childhood riddled with poverty and hardship, Jane intends to make a good, safe, sensible marriage. All goes according to plan until a dark, dangerous vagabond helps her rescue a dog. Zachary Black is all kinds of unsuitable- a former spy, now in disguise, and wanted for murder. His instructions: to lie low until his name is cleared. But Zach has never follwed the rules, and he wants Jane Chance for his own." -- back cover

Society rogue Sebastian Reyne's search for a practical wife comes to a crashing halt when he dances with the effervescent Hope Merridew--and is seduced into a delicious intrigue of sensuality and desire.

Lady Erica had tried to bring peace to her people, so that they could join forces against the Normans. Instead she became captive to the Saxon warrior, Saewulf Brader! Wulf was, in truth, a Norman captain spying on the enemy. Chaste yet fearless Lady Erica wasn't part of his plan. Her beauty was as disarming as it was captivating, but Wulf knew that once she discovered his deception, their fragile bond of trust would be destroyed....

After being nursed back to health by Maddy Woodford, a lovely country girl who has five orphaned half-siblings in her charge, diplomat Nash Renfrew pretends that he still has amnesia so that he can stay by her side.

Shy young heiress, Lady Lily Rutherford, is in no hurry to marry. She dreams of true love and a real courtship. But when disaster strikes, she finds herself facing a scandal-forced marriage to her rescuer, Edward Galbraith, a well known rake.

The younger son of an earl, Gabriel Fitzpaine earned glory and honor on the battlefield, but now, without purpose, he finds himself deliberately courting danger at every turn. Then one night he races his horse along a death-defying moonlit cliff-and stumbles upon a princess on the run.

After being nursed back to health by Maddy Woodford, a lovely country girl who has five orphaned half-siblings in her charge, diplomat Nash Renfrew pretends that he still has amnesia so that he can stay by her side.

"Eight years ago, Lieutenant Luke Ripton made a hasty wartime marriage-in-name-only to protect a young girl from a forced union and left her protected in a remote mountain convent. Now, Luke is Lord Ripton, but he has been unable to obtain an annulment. ... For nearly a decade, Isabella has waited like a princess locked in a tower, dreaming of her handsome, dark-eyed prince. ... And while Luke and Isabella's fiery personalities clash at every turn, they remain bound to their vows, never expecting that the passionate fury they share could be come passion of a different kind"--Page 4 of cover.

Marriage-phobic Damaris Chance finds herself trapped in a compromising situation with the handsome rake Freddy Monkton-Coombes; she has no choice but to agree to wed him.

Abigail Chantry, her sister Jane and friends Damaris and Daisy attempt to survive in London after a series of misfortunes. When Abigail explores a mysterious house near their lodgings, she is startled to find an old women left ill and uncared for inside. Lady Beatrice has been taken advantage of by unscrupulous servants, but the four young women resolve to help her, and soon her condition improves. But when Lady Beatrice’s nephew Max, Lord Davenham, unexpectedly returns from ten years in the East Indies he has trouble accepting his aunt’s new “nieces.”

In this sparkling holiday collection, eight acclaimed authors unwrap the most daring of Regency delights. . . Christmastime in England--a time for passionate secrets, delicious whispers, and wicked-sweet gifts by the fire. From a spirited lady who sets out to save her rakish best friend from an unsuitable engagement, to a bold spy who gets the unexpected chance to win the woman he's always loved, to a vicar's daughter who pretends to be a saucy wench, these holiday tales will make you curl up in front of the fire for a memorable season of mischief and mistletoe. . .