Sheila F. Walsh

Lady Olivia Egan’s father had helped drive Damian St. Clair out of England. Now her father is dead and Damian has come back from India with a fortune. He seems interested in Olivia but is it real or just part of a plan of revenge?

AN OLD WORLD TO CONQUER--AND A COLD HEART TO MELT When a fabulous legacy brought Cordelia Darcy from her home in America to a splendid townhouse in Regency London, the high-spirited young heiress took aristocratic society by storm. One man, however, was not moved by her beauty, wit and charm. Instead he considered her a rude, crude, unprincipled schemer who had gained her fortune by despicable trickery and who had become the toast of society by scandalous effrontery. That man was the handsome, blue-blooded, utterly icy Earl of Wyndham--the most infuriating man Cordelia had ever met...and the most irresistible....

Spirited young Lucia Mannering willingly let herself be offered as a prize in a shocking wager between her odious stepfather, Jasper Franklyn, and Hugo, Marquis of Mandersely. For this was her only hope of escape from a household where humiliation was her daily lot and degradation seemed her certain future. - It was only when the bet was settled and she found herself looking into Hugo's ironic, devilishly handsome face, that Lucia fully realized what she had done. She knew that this nobleman's reputation for cynical wit and scandalous living was the talk of all Regency London. And now she was his, to do with what he liked. Lucia's daring gamble had begun--and she trembled to think how it might end.

When Miss Perdita Grant came to the aid of an injured duke in the elegant resort of Bath, she little suspected the danger she was courting. For the duke was a gentleman whose conquests were as legion as his charm was legendary. If this peril were not great enough, the duke's son, Lord St. Ive, had a record as a rake that matched that of his father. And when the devastatingly handsome St. Ive decided that Perdita planned to ensnare the duke with her youthful beauty, he set out to stop her by every measure of strength and stratagem of seduction at his considerable command.

Position available: Wife, full-time, live-in. Alex Woodward - thirty-five years old, intelligent, successful, devilishly handsome. Why would a man with those qualifications want to hire a personnel company to find him a wife? Not any personnel company, mind you, but his friend Caitlin's company. For some reason that Caitlin couldn't fathom, Alec was counting on her to find him a wife! Well, there were some things a man had to do for himself, and Caitlin wanted no part of Alec's crazy scheme. But the question still rankled - why hadn't Alec thought to ask Caitlin if she was interested in the position?

Madalena de Brussec and her twin brother, Armand, are smuggled out of France in the Spring of 1812, when their father - at odds with the Emperor Napoleon - fears arrest as any moment. They come to England, to their aunt, who, used to her own conventional, biddable offspring, has never met anything quite like these two volatile seventeen-year-olds. She finds them a mixed blessing, particularly Madalena, who seems to he forever making scandals. A delightful mixture of innocence and Parisian maturity, Madalena meets and falls completely in love with the mysterious Devereux, Duke of Lytton, a government agent who allows her to believe he is a smuggler. Her love is to be tested throughout a series of events which would have daunted anyone less totally committed. Meanwhile, her brother Armand is following his own pursuits - pursuits destined to end in near disaster. And in France, their father is finally arrested. . Madalena is a refreshingly different heroine, whose effervescent character makes this a memorable romance of Regency times. When lovely young Madalena de Brussac first saw the Duke of Lytten, she was disguised as a boy, and he was cloaked in mystery as he rode his great stallion on a secret mission along the storm-wracked coast of Cornwall. The next time Madalena met the Duke was amid the dazzling brilliance of a London ball, as he paraded with his beautiful mistress to scandalized whispers. By now Madalena knew that no proper young lady would become involved with this man who had lost count of his conquests in love, and who revealed so little of the private, quite possibly evil, intrigues he pursued in Regency England and France. But Madalena was no proper young lady. She was a woman hopelessly in love - and heedless of the cost....

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Charity takes on the care of her orphaned niece and nephew but is faced with a dilemma when their grandfather, the Duke of Orme, refuses to recognize them as his heirs. The Duke’s remaining son Lord Alastair is more sympathetic but also suspicious of her motivations at first.

The Maddening Marquess Beautiful, flame-haired Kate Sheridan was far from home - and close to confusion. Her well-meaning parents had sent her from her beloved Ireland to the London Marriage Mart to make a proper match, and trusted their old friend, the wise and witty Marchioness St. Claire, to make sure their plan did not go awry and Kate did not go astray. Yet it was the marchioness's own son, the devastatingly handsome if thoroughly depraved Marquess St. Claire, who posed the greatest danger to Kate's dutiful designs. This man who mocked all morality, who made women his playthings and propriety the target of his scorn, was all that Kate told herself she loathed. But the tenor of her conviction and the voice of her conscience were drowned out by the pounding of her heart when he took her in his arms - not for marriage, but still for better or for worse...

When Serena's father dies he leaves the family in a perilous state. Unhappily, she has no choice but to make a marriage that will restore their fortunes. Serena is relieved to find the duke is a kind and considerate man. Perhaps their marriage could be a success after all. Then a chance meeting with the beautiful Melissa Glenville threatens any harmonious future. And Serena's own feelings towards the dashing but infuriating Earl of Lynton complicate matters even further.

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EVERYONE WAS EAGER TO PUT FELICITY IN HER PLACE Her cousin Amaryllis made it clear that Felicity did not belong in the fashionable drawing rooms of the great country house of Cheynings. Jamie, the six-year-old heir to Cheynings, marked Felicity as his latest victim in a long series of routed governesses. Lord Stayne, the infuriatingly handsome master of Cheynings, coldly informed her that her ideas and opinions were of no earthly interest to a supremely self-confident male like himself. And the vile Captain Hardman, whose devious designs Felicity threatened, did not bother to mask his intentions of removing her from his path by either brutal force or contemptible cunning. Felicity, however, had her own notions about what a woman’s place should be–as she set out on a campaign of conquest with only her wit and wiles as weapons, and love as a very treacherous ally….

As a result of her father losing at the gambling table, Lady Cecily must find a rich husband to save the family from penury. Marcus Anstruther is less than enthusiastic when commanded by his aunt to lend his countenance to her god-daughter's entry into Society. However, he changes his mind when he meets Lady Cecily.

This book is identical to The Nabob Lady Olivia Egan, in town for a very belated Season, was at a loss regarding Damian St Clair. Her father, eighth Duke of Meriton, had forced Damian to leave town in disgrace. Now the Duke was dead and Damian had returned as the wealthy Nabob who bought up all the Duke's encumbered estates. Surely that was enough? But Damian was openly pursuing Olivia - were his intentions truly honourable, or was she simply part of his revenge...?.

Miss Clementina Brady had heard that Paris was for lovers. But when this bold and beautiful young American crossed the channel from restrained Regency London to the pleasure-mad French capital, she found too many promising possibilities for comfort. There was her elegant if insufferably arrogant English cousin, the Marquis of Cadogon. There was the incredibly handsome though notoriously rakish Comte de Tourne. And there was the ravishingly rich if irrepressibly ribald Russian Prince Alexis. Never had a proper young lady been besieged by such an enticing international set of temptations. Never had an innocent from the New World been forced to wrestle with such an array of Old World experience. But then, never had even her suavest and most seductive suitors encountered anyone quite like her.