Masquerade historical romances

Alone in the dangerous world of Victorian London, Miss Elizabeth Barclay seeks sanctuary at the opulent establishment of Madam Portunio. Unaware of her beauty and too innocent to understand why Madam Portunio has offered her shelter, Elizabeth is horrified to find herself sold to the recently blinded, enigmatic Lord Danewood, who takes her to his country estate and forces her to act as his wife. Elizabeth soon realises that she is at the heart of a sinister intrigue. But, after sharing briefly the life of a man who has lied to her and so obviously despises her, why does she suddenly no longer want to escape from the hated role he has thrust upon her?

Maria Elena is the proud and beautiful daughter of a Spanish grandee at the court of Elizabeth I. She is passionately torn between her love for a Scots privateer — the formidable Adam MacDonald — and loyalty to the men he has sworn to kill — her own father and brother. Against the turbulent background of 1586, with Philip of Spain massing his men and ships for an invasion of England and her own father secretly plotting to assassinate the Queen, Maria Elena is a fragile pawn in the political game. She finds herself facing a charge of high treason — or life with a man who has sworn he will never love her in return.

"Remember, from now on you are the daughter of the Lady Alys de Brusac. If you fall in any way you will die." In the turbulent early years of Henry II's reign. Kathryn's feudal overlord has dragged her from serfdom, scrubbed off her peasant dirt and moulded her into a noble lady. He intends her to impersonate the granddaughter of the dying Sir Piers de Brusac in order to gain his lands. Kathryn plays her part well - until she learns that the man she has been forced to marry, Sir Richard Tremaine, is plotting to slaughter the king. How then can she possibly sustain her role without committing high treason?

Amid the brooding mountains of Glen Coe and the bleak windswept Rannock Moor, the bitter enmity between the families of the Campbell's and the MacDonald's blazes ever fiercer. Though it is fifty years since that first terrible massacre, Catriona Campbell, daughter of the Laird of Darna, has been taught to fear and hate the black hearted MacDonald's. So when she meets Rorie the 'Red' MacDonald, she is amazed to find that he is not the monster she had always supposed him to be. But how, in the face of her family's implacable opposition, can she ever have the courage to live with the man she loves in that hate ridden atmosphere?

Adrienne’s parents are concerned that she is too clever and will never get married. By chance, she connects with a devilish lord who has to marry to regain access to his estates and agrees to a marriage of convenience. But as the couple grows to know each other better, stronger feelings emerge - even as they face danger from a French spy.

Adam-Leap-The-Mountain ... a Navajo half-breed Indian born of the wilderness in the Western plains of America a man capable of killing ruthlessly to survive. Deborah ... an English girl who has ventured into a savage land and been befriended by gentle Quakers in the Wild West. Then, horror strikes out of the lonely wilderness when the Quaker missionaries are massacred. Surviving the attack, Deborah finds her future can be guaranteed only as the woman of Adam-Leap-The-Mountain, who has already proclaimed his desire for her at their chance meeting beside a waterfall. How can she reconcile her strict Victorian upbringing with life as an obedient Navajo squaw? A man and a woman divided by civilization but bound by passions older than time itself ...