Masquerade historical romance

Travelling to a new position as governess in Cockermouth, Miss Dorcas Minster views with dismay the bleak, snowy fells of the Lake District. When an accident forces the passengers of the stage-coach to seek refuge in a lakeside inn over Christmas, she surprisingly finds herself wishing she could stay there indefinitely. For so stimulating are her fellow passengers, particularly the dashing Colonel Sir Richard Severall, en route to stay with his sister after being wounded on the Peninsula. Sir Richard's thoughtful consideration is an entirely new experience for Dorcas, used to being treated as little better than a servant. But do his natural good manners really mask more serious intentions?

Asked to act as chaperon on a long and difficult journey across Russia, the widowed Mila de Romarin willingly accepts the chance to escape her life of penury … and in Moscow she once more meets Igor, the man who loved her twelve years ago, and who she naively refused. Now his kindness overwhelms her, but how can she expect him to forgive her youthful folly? For a long while it looks as if time has taught them nothing, and all their old mistakes must be repeated…

Even though she had known from the beginning that he had eyes only for her cousin, Jane had given her heart of Captain Stuart Smithson. When she learned that he had drowned at sea she tried to hide her grief, but the memory of him haunted her dreams, and she knew that she would never love again. When the stern missionary Obadiah Thorne and his sister Sarah came into her life, she decided to sacrifice herself for the girl's sake. After all, she had nothing to hope for herself. Fate, however, had a few surprises in store.

FLIGHT FROM THE EAGLE On the run from Napoleon's Grand Army, commanding a pathetic column of wounded men, Major Lev Orlov had the misfortune to discover the Countess Irina Barova sheltering in a desert inn. She was an unwelcome complication, but how could he abandon her? Yet to offer her his protection was a step that would alter his life... THE EAGLE'S FATE Condemned to a life of poverty in the back streets of Moscow, Princess Nadya Serova was forced to walk to safety with her possessions on her back when the French army reached the city. Her only protection came from Count Andrei Valyev - but he seemed to hate her. Why then did he rescue her from a fate worse than death?

“Find me a wife and I'll marry her now!” Overwhelmed by pity and believing he had only a few hours to live, Roxanna agreed to marry the stranger she met in a Cornish inn. How could she have known that she would find herself caught up in a web of intrigue and treachery, where jealousy wrestled with a new found love. Snatched from death by the husband she thought dead, could she trust the stranger who demanded his rights, handsome enigmatic Ross whom she suspected of being not only a smuggler but a traitor to his country?