Barbara Hazard

Possessed of an inquisitive and adventurous spirit, Lili Martingale has proved herself unsuitable for the daily grind of life on a farm. Fortunately, her family believes she'll thrive in London, where she can enter society and marry respectably. However, Lili's intolerance of the conceit of the ton is too evident to be ignored, and her outspoken nature seems to make her unsuitable among the gentry as well. Viscount Halpern is being groomed as the seventh Marquis of Braybourne, but he has yet to take a wife from the bevy of beautiful girls he encounters every season. Upon meeting Lili, he is taken aback by her brash, no-nonsense demeanor -- and finds it quite appealing. Halpern's parents, however, feel that Lili is too far beneath his station for consideration as a future wife. But true love respects no hierarchy.

Siblings Katharine and Edwin Whittingham have just inherited a mansion from a great-uncle they never met. But before Edwin can sign the deed to Bryce House, his uncle's will requires him to spend one full month there, nights included. But the will failed to mention one thing. Bryce House is already inhabited--by a family of ghosts. Now practical Katharine must convince herself that the phantoms she sees are mere tricks of the light.

Theodora Meredith is informed that she is to marry the Earl of Canford even though she has scarcely ever met him. She finds herself falling in love with him though but cannot be herself with him as long as her doubts about why they married continue. Her unruly family and his starchy sister come between them as they try to place their marriage on firmer ground.

Ella Carson was delicate, enchantingly lovely, and as furious as any woman could be. If she had a gun, she would shoot Harrigan Mahoney dead. He was the man her greedy relatives had hired to drag her from her aunt's Wyoming home and take her back - kicking and screaming - to Philadelphia. If he succeeded, Ella knew she'd be buried within the year, killed by the cold-blooded uncle who wanted her inheritance. But how was Ella going to convince this big, handsome stranger that she wasn't a spoiled rich girl, but a woman in real peril? She had already tried every trick she could think of to break free...and nothing had worked. Seducing him could be the answer...until Ella discovered that that plan was as dangerous as the villains closing in on her. For passion was a two-edged sword...powerful enough to send a strong man to his knees...irresistible enough to reveal a woman's vulnerability...and endearing enough to turn a man and a woman's heart toward love.

Sent away to the remote North by her frustrated father, a spoiled and wealthy young London lass learns that a pure love can be found in the most unlikely of places.

When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorney's home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom.

A saga covering the love story of vicar's daughter Camille Talbot, and nobleman Alexander Maxwell, taking place over almost two decades of heartache and bittersweet reunions.

After saving some ants, ducks, and bees from being killed by his two older brothers, the youngest Prince is rewarded when the animals help him break the spell cast on a castle and its inhabitants.

After a year abroad, Alannah was returning joyfully to her home in New Zealand - and to David; David whom she had loved for so long and whom she now hoped to marry. She would also, she realised, have to face the inscrutable Nicholas Challoner again; but perhaps by now he would have forgiven her for the tragedy she had unwittingly brought about - when she had accidentally caused the death of his wife. Nicholas, it soon appeared, had not forgiven her; but he had decided how she was going to make amends ...

Headstrong Lorna Jarrett manages to forestall Lord Peter Truesdale’s lackluster proposal to her young cousin Melanie, but is then a few months later forced by circumstance to marry him herself. Unfortunately she and her new groom had already spent so much time sparring with each other that neither seemed to notice that they were actually falling in love. Lord Peter’s meddling great-aunt meanwhile continues to try and get the two to recognize what they mean to each other.

LOVE'S DANGEROUS DREAM From the moment that lovely young Lady Catherine Cahill set eyes on Lionel Eden, Viscount Benning, she knew that he was the only man she could ever love. What matter if this lord was society's most handsome, sought-after gallant? What matter if disquieting rumors of his debauches reached even Catherine's innocent ears? What matter if he displayed a supreme indifference toward her girlish ways and lack of worldly wisdom? If she had to turn herself into a bewitching charmer who could stir even Lionel's jaded senses and storm the impregnable citadel of his heart, she would--in the most perilous campaign of conquest a young lady ever waged to win the lord of her dreams....

Lady Amelia Fairhaven and Lady Anne Fairhaven were twin sisters who shared more than their extraordinary beauty and their distinguished lineage as daughters of the Duke of Severn. They shared as well the same tastes, the same talents, the same deep fondness for each other, and the same bevy of suitors who swarmed around society's most sought after belles. But now they shared something else as well. A passionate attraction toward the Honorable James Galt, whom their father distrusted and neither of them could resist. Unfortunately, the good Mr. Galt could make only one of them the happiest young lady in the world - while breaking the heart of the other..

THE DESIGNING DUKE The devastatingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Duke of Rutland was sure that Miss Rosemary Barton was too good to be true--and too beautiful to be good. Surely this extraordinarily lovely young lady had put herself in his path so that she might wind up in his arms--and then in his marriage bed. Just as certainly, she had ingratiated herself with the duke's shut-in sister. Annabelle, to gain an ally in her campaign of coquettish conquest. The duke vowed not to be this doxy's dupe. Instead he would strip away her pretenses of propriety to reveal her for the title-hunter she was. And suddenly Rosemary, who knew so little of the world and even less of men, had to fight for her honor--against the seductive stratagems and intoxicating advances of this man who thought he had none... .

Can a man-hating beauty and a pleasure-loving lord make the inconceivable happen? He was a lord she would hate to love. There seemed no reason why Lady Juliet Manchester should not be wed. She was beautiful, well born, witty, charming, intelligent. But this Juliet allowed no male to play Romeo to her. For reasons that she kept very much to herself, she vowed that no man would ever have her as a woman or as a wife. The Duke of Severn was a gentleman who had never known denial or defeat. His slightest wishes were others' commands, and society's most ravishing belles were his for the asking. It was unthinkable that Juliet could long resist his advances or refuse his proposal. But when this iron-willed lord attempted to storm the defenses of this unyielding lady, the unthinable did happen—first to him...and then to her.

Emily Wyndham heartily hoped never to follow in her mother's straying footsteps, for Emily's mother had followed a path of love that made her the scandal of society—and her death left Emily not only penniless but branded with her mother's shame. Emily changed her name to Margaret Nelson and became a lady's maid. But one legacy of her mother she could not escape—the ravishing beauty that drew swarms of aristocratic suitors to her like bees to honey. One such gentleman was the devastatingly handsome, immensely powerful Duke of Wrotherham, whose imperious love Emily could not deny, but whose demand to wed her could bring only disaster to them both. Emily was far too sensible to allow that to happen...if she could just convince her foolish heart.