Jennifer Wilde

Marietta Danver: book 1 The turbulent story of an English beauty -- sold at auction like a slave -- who scandalized the New World by enslaving her masters. Marrietta Danver was a woman wronged--raped by her employer, charged with theft by her jealous mistress, and shipped to the Colonies to serve fourteen years as bound servant to the man who bid highest. But Marietta was beautiful, educated and resilient, with a provocative body meant for love, and she was determined to prevail. Over the handsome, silent planter who bought her to be his housekeeper. Over the dashing entrepreneur who supplied girls to the New Orleans red light district. Over the wealthy sadist who used her in his madness. She would conquer them all--if she could subdue the hot, unruly passions of her heart. Marietta Danver Trilogy: Love's Tender Fury (Marietta Danver Trilogy, #1) Love Me, Marietta (Marietta Danver Trilogy #2) When Love Commands (Marietta Danver Trilogy, #3)

The weathered blood of Henrietta Stern still stained the veranda of the dilapidated seaside mansion she had willed to Emmalynn, who lapsed into a state of amnesia rather than remember the horror of the ax murder she had witnessed. But perhaps it would be better to close the case as the police had done when Burt Reed, the accused murderer, died in jail. Certainly it would be wiser, for Burt's brooding, attractive son George would stop at nothing--not even endangering Emmalynn's life--to clear his father's name. And as the bedazzling Boyd Devlon, who kept suggesting an intimacy with Emmalynn, was quick to point out, if Burt were indeed innocent, the actual killer would be adroit in his ability to muffle Emmalynn's smallest mote of memory. And then Emmalynn found Henrietta's diary... and a lurid nightmare of a killer in pursuit of her oblivion began...

In the menacing wings of a Victorian mansion actress Jennifer Randall plays her most terrifying role. When the advances of her employer force her to abandon her promising acting career and leave her penniless, Jennifer Randall agrees to pose as Edward Baker's wife in order to help him secure his fortune.

The incomparable saga of Miranda James, a child of the streets who found fame in eighteenth-century literary London. There has never been a heroine as feisty and bright as Miranda James... never a hero as sexy and masculine as Cameron Gordon... Meet Miranda James. As a ragged pickpocket, she stole the Londoners' money... As a celebrated novelist, she stole their hearts... But only one man could capture Miranda's love...

One dear friend--One deadly foe One day lovely young Angela Todd was a seamstress struggling to sustain herself in London; the next, she was independent and owner of a charming country cottage. Her legacy gave her everything she had ever wanted. Not even a series of cruel pranks, strange "accidents" and shrill threats could shake her resolve to remain at Dower House. Gentle Greg Ingram, the local schoolmaster, was protective and kind. Arrogant Roderick Mellory, obsessed with the lavish reconstruction of Phoenix Hall, was determined to have Dower House back. From the moment she arrived, Angela knew a mysterious enemy wanted her to leave. But with the discovery of an ancient diary, a pistol, and a strange key hidden in a secret drawer, it became desperately clear--one of these men truly loved her and one wanted her to die.

He was a tall man in a wide, checked cloak, and when the swirling London mist could not hide his face, he slipped into the shadows... Someone had been following Julia Meredith night after night - someone whose footsteps rang on the fog-wet cobblestones when she walked, and stopped when she stopped. And so her guardians sent her to the country to stay with an old friend, Corinne Lyon, mistress of Lyon house. But even there, protected by fever-scarred Corinne and Edward, her handsome, erratic nephew, Julia still felt that unseen eyes were watching...waiting.... And then the stranger moved into nearby Dower House - a tall man who owned a checked cloak, who knew more about Julia than he should. He and Edward disliked one another immediately, and Julia, confused by her attraction to both men, knew instinctively that one of them wanted to kill her... But which one? And why?

Rings of doom. The phone calls had started again, even after Lynn had the number unlisted. They were always the same, the same low, husky voice saying "Lynn, Lynn, it's Daddy." They were sick, someone's poor idea of a joke. Lynn's father had been dead for years. Then one night Lynn's aunt phoned, tried to warn her about something and was disconnected by death. The police said that her murderer was found dead, that there was no connection between the tragedy and the calls, but Lynn knew differently. Somehow, someway, someone was drawing her back into the past for dark mysterious reasons -- insidiously evil reasons designed to lead her to the brink of madness... and beyond death.

Born in the backwater bayous of Louisiana, beautiful Dana O'Malley fled the squalid farm and heavy work that had killed her well-born mother. With the pride and intelligence that was her heritage, Dana soon achieved wealth, fame... and the avid attentions of four different men. Set against the glittering panorama of the nineteenth-century South, here is the story of an indomitable woman who would let no man stand between her and destiny, who would let nothing keep her from discovering the secret of her birth....

As modern Christians shift their focus back to orthodoxy, a corresponding resurgence of interest in monastic life and thought has emerged. Hannah Ward and Jennifer Wild, longtime collaborators, believe that much wisdom can be gained from those who have lived the monastic life. Their Monastic Way offers inspirational daily readings drawn from the writings of monastics in all the major spiritual traditions of the Eastern and Western churches -- Benedictine, Franciscan, Orthodox, Carmelite, and so on. Covering a year's time, The Monastic Way links the qualities of everyday monastic life to the practical everydayness of all human life. Each month focuses on a specific theme -- living with others, balancing life, working for justice, etc. -- and each theme is introduced by quotations from one of the great monastic Rules. For every day of the year there is an excerpt from the writings of men and women across the centuries, from fifth-century Desert Mothers to Basil Hume, Joan Chittister, Thomas Merton, and hundreds of others. At once practical and sublime, this collection will prove valuable to students of ancient culture, those intrigued by monastic life, and all who are looking for ancient wisdom relevant to modern living.

Young Jane Danver was coming home to a past she could not remember... to a guardian who terrified her...to a handsome, violent cousin who shocked her and filled her with desire at the same time... to an evil that had let her escape once but surely would not again... And in all the hostile world there was just one person to whom Jane Danver could turn for help--the beautiful, bewitching, yet fearfully mysterious creature called Jamintha...

ONCE UPON A TIME.... There were three young women who dreamed of glittering, magical lives, of living with Prince Charming happily ever after. Yet even they could never have guessed how magnificently their prayers would be answered-and the prices they would pay for having their fantasies fulfilled.... NORA LEVIN A saucy, wisecracking girl from Brooklyn, she went to college in the Midwest full of her dreams to write. After a stint in the fast-paced world of New York publishing, she got her wish. But a blockbuster novel could not take the place of love. CAROL MARTIN Cool and elegant, she was the quintessential blonde beauty who wants more than anything to be a movie star. Little did she know what it would take to see her name in lights.... JULIE HAMMOND She was the most gifted of the three, a luminescent actress who was transformed from a shy, self-effacing girl to a dynamic performer on the stage. But though she loved to act, she loved her husband even more--and would give up everything for him....

In New York Times–bestselling author Jennifer Wilde’s spellbinding tale of romantic suspense, an ominous horoscope proves eerily accurate for a woman visiting a quaint English town “You will make a sudden journey and meet a dark stranger . . .” Author Jane Martin doesn’t believe in fate, so when she stumbles across her horoscope in the newspaper one day, she decides to disregard it. But then her widowed brother calls, asking her to take care of his children while he’s away at a science conference. He’s even booked her a first-class train ticket. En route to her brother’s house, Jane is accosted by one stranger only to be rescued by another. One of these handsome men is destined to come back into her life, because peaceful, centuries-old Abbotstown has been rocked by a string of bizarre burglaries—and a murder. There are no leads or suspects, but Jane’s precocious niece Rebecca insists she knows things the police aren’t aware of. After someone tries to break in to the house, Jane finds herself surrounded by too many men who say they want to protect her and the children. Suddenly she fears she is a pawn in a sinister intrigue in which she will not be able to distinguish hero from villain.

Lauren Gray leaves England for exotic India after finishing school, but on the way her caravan is attacked by ritual murderers and her life barely saved, she begins her great adventure.

As a child, Carolyn Dawson had love playing on Greycliff, an island off the Cornish coast owned by the rich and powerful Brandon family. There, she had met dashing once with Grey Brandon, the heir to the estate, and she had never forgotten him. Yet he had no memory of their brief, but shattered past. Now, he wanted to make her mistress of Greycliff Manor, his magnificent but eerie estate. Long-lost love propelled lovely Caroline into a whirlwind romance--and a hasty wedding! Several years later, she returned to the island-and Greycliff Manor-as the bride of romantic, mysterious Grey Brandon. Before long, however, her bliss turns to uneasiness as she realizes that she is an unwelcome intruder to the other residents of Greycliff: Helen, Grey's coldly contemptuous aunt; Evan, his taciturn, broodingly attractive brother; and Burke, the stolid, intimidating servant who seems to dominate rather than serve the household. Even more disturbing, she finds Grey himself increasingly preoccupied and distant. Suddenly Caroline is thrust into a frightening world of grim discoveries that could threaten not only her marriage--but also her very life. For something sinister lurked in the woods surrounding Greycliff Manor. Terror shrouded its majestic walls. One night Carolyn is awakened by strange, unaccountable cries of anguish emanating from a basement room. But they are the sobs of a heartbroken child, yet there are no children in the house. Neither then nor all on subsequent nights will anyone explain the cries-or even acknowledge them. Who and what is in the room at the bottom of the stairs? As the mystery deepens, she grows more and more determined to unravel it. But she soon finds that her efforts are placing her marriage in jeopardy and her life in peril. As she struggles to save both, the pieces of the puzzle come terrifyingly together in a shattering climax.

When night must fall London's East End was in the grip of terror. The madman they called The Ripper was still on the loose and Susannah's aunt, the earthy, flamboyant Marietta, had been his latest victim, leaving Susannah stunned, alone in the world but for Nicholas Craig, the handsome cousin she'd never known, who now became her guardian. But from the moment Nicholas brought her to the quiet house at Nine Buck's Row, Susannah knew she was falling in love... falling in love with a man who refused to answer questions about his past... falling in love with a man who dared not offer her a future... falling in love with a man who, under the cloak of darkness, might well be her murderer....

"Since finding out his father had another family on the side, Ian Dare swore to be the upstanding, responsible man his cheating parent had never been. When it comes to his relatives, he gives his all but in relationships he offers the bare minimum. But one glimpse of sensual Riley Taylor arouses his dominant and protective instincts and Ian is entranced. He will do anything to possess her...and does. But any future with Riley must include him extending an olive branch to the half-brother who is a constant reminder of the pain he'd rather forget."

The weathered blood of Henrietta Stern still stained the veranda of the dilapidated seaside mansion she had willed to Emmalynn, who lapsed into a state of amnesia rather than remember the horror of the ax murder she had witnessed. But perhaps it would be better to close the case as the police had done when Burt Reed, the accused murderer, died in jail. Certainly it would be wiser, for Burt's brooding, attractive son George would stop at nothing--not even endangering Emmalynn's life--to clear his father's name. And as the bedazzling Boyd Devlon, who kept suggesting an intimacy with Emmalynn, was quick to point out, if Burt were indeed innocent, the actual killer would be adroit in his ability to muffle Emmalynn's smallest mote of memory. And then Emmalynn found Henrietta's diary ...and a lurid nightmare of a killer in pursuit of her oblivion began...

Marietta Danver: book 3 Savagery & Splendor This tumultuous love story continues the rapturous adventures of Marietta Danver, a woman whose beauty sets men's hearts aflame. Marietta races to London by carriage to start a new life with the only man she has ever truly loved-Jeremy Bond, the renegade soldier of fortune who has saved her life more than once. But after a horrifying crash, her whole world goes black. When she regains consciousness ten days later, she finds herself in the care of Lucie Orlov, and her uncle-- the tall, broodingly handsome, wildly passionate Russian--Count Gregory Orlov, notorious as Catherine the Great 's uncrowned emperor and now her banished lover. Never has Marietta encountered such frank sensuality in a man-never has she been so vulnerable. For she has learned that Jeremy left London, taking all of her money and a bewitching blonde with him! With no place else to turn to, Marietta agrees to act as Lucie's companion during the Orlovs' journey back to Russia, and thereby earn her return passage to America. As her conveyance sped across the wintry Russian landscape, not even her sumptuous furs could keep out the sudden chill of apprehension. Was she letting wounded vanity lead her into danger? Her heart had been broken... but could she really forget by running off to St. Petersburg with Count Gregory Orlov? Soon it was too late for regrets. Gregory revealed the violent nature which took pleasure in her torment. Forced to masquerade as his mistress in the imperial court, she finds she is no more than a prisoner under his iron rule. Snared in the intrigues of a glittering imperial court... pursued by the rage of a jealous empress... thrust into the savagery of revolution. In a daring escape attempt, Marietta sets out across the frozen landscape towards freedom-only to be captured by a mob of bloodthirsty, revolutionary peasants. But she would rather die than succumb to their leader. In the darkest hour of her life, caged like an animal while she awaits certain death, she dreams of the man she has tried desperately to forget... the man who had promised her a lifetime of happiness so long ago... Defenseless and nearly broken, she resigned herself to death, or worse. Yet the man she had run from, trying to forget, had not forgotten her... or the dreams of love they once shared.

Angela Howard was the toast of London -- a breathtaking vision every woman envied and every man longed to possess. Few would have dreamed this violet-eyed beauty was the precocious child of a country schoolmaster... the feisty girl who had spurned Lord Clinton Meredith, the "fairy tale prince", to surrender her innocence to Hugh Bradford, his illegitimate brother... the young woman who had come to London with nothing but a broken heart -- and a fierce determination to survive. Now she was a celebrated actress; immortalized on canvas by Gainsborough; adored by Jamie Lambert, the playwright who made her his star; desired by the golden-haired lord obsessed with making her his lady... and still tormented with longing for the man who had branded her very soul with his passion, and who has now returned to reawaken past splendors of a love he means to reclaim....