When Pippa found out that her late husband had 2 other wives, she knew that her life would never be the same. But she never imagined that she would fall for her husband's brother.
Rhys is trying to clean up the mess his brother left behind, which also includes a child. This means that he ends up spending quite a bit of time with Pippa who is taking care of the child.
Both are trying to play down the scandal that are involved with. While they are both developing feeling for the other, they know that will just make the scandal worse. Are they willing to fight for their love?
Celeste was married a year ago. She hasn't spent much time with her husband, which was fine with her, as this marriage was to someone she wouldn't have chosen. When Owen shows up on her door step to tell her that not only is her husband dead, but that he has two other wives, she doesn't know what to think.
Owen was hired to investigate Celeste's husband, but when he arrives to confront the man, he finds him dead. He has now been tasked with notifying the wives and finding the killer. After meeting Celeste, he quickly rules her out as a suspect and asks for her help solving the murder. They are soon on their way to London.
What neither of them counted on was their mutual attraction. Can they solve the murder and find their own HEA?
John has been in love with his best friend's wife since he met her. She is windowed now and they are the best of friends, but he hasn't told her how he feels because he doesn't want to ruin their friendship. When she asks for his help for a party she is throwing, he of course agrees.
Emily has a plan for her holiday party. She wants to pair up all her attendees, whether it be for a dalliance or marriage. But all of her carefully laid plans seem to be going amuck. There is also the fact that she seems to be developing feelings for her best friend that are definitely not just those of friendship.
Could this holiday season bring Emily a new love and give John the love that he has forever hoped for?
Imogen has fallen on hard times since the death of her husband. With nothing else left to do, she goes to a brothel to try and find a protector. What she ends up doing is witnessing a murder and having to run for her life. Lucky for her, she literally runs into Oscar on her exit from the brothel.
Oscar is determined to find out what happened to his former mistress. She was last seen at the same brothel where he meets Imogen. Having not been able to save his mistress, he is determined to do what he can to save Imogen.
While Oscar is determined to never fall in love, he can't hide from his attraction to Imogen. In saving her, will he unknowing save himself?
Aurora fell in love when she was younger, but ended up marrying another. A recent widow, she is just trying to survive when her reputation is torn apart when trying to save a friend. Trying to restore her reputation, she agrees to attend a house party. She never imagined it would put her in the same place as the man she has loved for so many years...
Living between two worlds, Nicholas has never felt like he belonged. Losing Aurora the first time about killed him emotionally. He then joined the army and was almost killed in battle. Still trying to find his place in the world, he agrees to attend his brother's house party. When he sees Aurora again, he feels like his heart will break all over again.
Can these two find their way back to one another?
Selina doesn't like to mingle with the ton, but when her brother asks her to attend his house party she agrees. What her brother doesn't know is that Selina is the person known as the Faceless Fox and her next victim is one of his guests. Selina, as the Faceless Fox, has stolen some of the finest jewels belonging to members of the ton. Thinking that these jewels would be easy pickings, she didn't count on an investigator showing up at the party with the sole purpose of capturing her. Will she be able to evade her captor?
Derrick has spent his life maintaining control and discipline and never wavers from his duty. But when he is sent to locate the Faceless Fox, he keeps finding himself distracted by Selina. He can't seem to keep his mind on the case. Of course, what he doesn't know, is that Selina is distracting him on purpose. Will he be able to get his head in the game??
When Morgan wakes up at Newgate prison, the last person he wants to see is his brother. Especially when he tells him that he needs to get his act together. Morgan's brother finds him a job working for a friend. Morgan knows that he needs to change the way he has been living, so decides to take the job. He didn't count on meeting Lizzie.
Lizzie doesn't want some rogue coming to work for her brother after being ruined years ago. But when she mets Morgan, she senses that there is more to him than he presents to the world. As they get closer, Lizzie wonders if she can risk her heart again.
Can these two overcome their past to find their HEA together?
Juliana has spent her whole life being a part of a trio. So when her two sisters marry for love, she feels a bit lost. Always the one to clean up after everyone else, she is looking for something that is just for her. Looking for some of the desire that her sisters have found with their husbands, she ventures to the Donville Masquerade. She finds a masked man but soon learns that it is the man that she has been trying to forget...
Ellis hates that his actions caused Juliana to be injured. When he sees her at the Donville Masquerade, he knows that he needs to protect her. But his attraction that started when they first met, is still just as strong and his resolve weakens. He knows that he isn't any good for her, but he can't seem to keep away.
When Ellis and Juliana decide to help each other catch the person responsible for their families problems, their feelings for one another become undeniable. But will Ellis live long enough to stand a chance at getting his HEA?
Anne's father has arranged a marriage for her. But the man she is to marry, doesn't seem to care for her at all or be able to tell her apart from her sisters. So when a stranger starts to pay attention to her, she is intrigued. They continue to meet and right before her wedding, she sneaks off with him to get married at Gretna Green. But instead of getting married, she find herself being dropped off with a stranger and taken to a remote island. While scared at first, she come to realize that the man means her know harm. In fact, the more she gets to know him the more she wants to know more about him.
Rook has stopped being a part of his cousin's schemes a year ago and never wanted to be apart of them again, but he couldn't leave Anne to fend for herself. He gives her time to become acclimated to her circumstances, but once she starts to open up to him, he can't deny the attraction. Knowing that his cousin won't be back to claim Anne, they decide to get back to Anne's family. But their time together just brings them that much closer.
Can this grand adventure lead to their HEA?
Jasper has agreed to marry one of the Shelley sisters (triplets) because he needs the money that will come with the marriage. He really doesn't care which one. The girls' father chooses Anne as his betrothed. But the night of their engagement ball, her sister Thomasina shows up in her place pretending to be Anne. For some reason, he doesn't understand, he can tell Thomasina apart from her sisters, but not the other two. He doesn't know why Thomasina is pretending to be her sister, but he goes along with it. When Anne goes missing, Jasper finds himself engaged to Thomasina instead. While Anne didn't inspire any feelings inside him, Thomasina inspires too many...
Thomasina was instantly attracted to Jasper upon meeting him and was sorely disappointed when her father chose Anne to be his attended. Since that night, she has been trying to hide her feelings from one and all. Right before her sister's engagement ball, Anne asks her to be her for the night. She wanted one more night to herself before marrying. But later that night, Thomasina learns that her sister has run off. When her father decides to marry her off to Jasper, she realizes that she doesn't have to hide her desire anymore. But can their marriage become more than just one of convenience?
Hannah's father has finally followed through with what he has been threatening to do...arrange a marriage for her. Knowing that her father has been courting a disgusting older man for her to marry, Hannah wants to take things into her own hands. Knowing that she won't be wanted if she gives away her innocence, she takes it upon herself to get rid of it. She ends up at the Donville Masquerade where she meets a man that she is instantly attracted to. They don't exchange names as they are masked and will never see one another again. The next day, her father informs her that her betrothed is coming over to meet her. But when he arrives, she realizes that it is the man from the previous night.
Duncan is at the Donville Masquerade to forget about what he must do the next day. His brother has demanded that he settle down, or he won't be given his inheritance. Duncan's solution is to get married. When he arrives to meet his betrothed, he can't believe that it is the woman from the night before. After "meeting", they decide to go ahead and get married as it solves the issue of Duncan's inheritance and Hannah will get her freedom.
But the two are still wildly attracted to one another and both start to have feeling that both of them agreed would never occur. Will they take the chance to reveal their feelings to the other even when it means that they might be rejected?
A Lady's Gift for Seduction by Jess Michaels
Evangeline has no plans to marry anytime soon as she's found anyone that will make her happy. But fearing that her father may choose her spouse, she decided to find a biddable man that will let her continue as she has. Henry has just been told by his father that unless he stops with his astronomy research, he will be cut off. But when Evangeline starts to flirt with him, he thinks she might be the solution to his dilemma. But since she has never seemed to have an interest in him beyond a friend before this, he wonders what she is up to...
A Lady's Gift for Scandal by Elizabeth Essex.
Tamsin only wants to live the life of a bluestocking, but her mother is determined to marry her off before she is forced to marry her father's heir. Tamsin (along with Evangeline) come up with a plan to get her ruined just enough so that marriage to her cousin is not an option. They settle on Simon, who is a soldier having recently returned from war and a wallflower. But Tamsin soon realizes that there is much more to Simon than anyone would suspect. Could Tamsin's ruination turn into something much more exciting?
Several years ago, Claire Woodley found out a secret about her family that caused her to run into the arms of a criminal and be lost to her family for years. She now needs help in retrieving her daughter and the only one she can turn to is her family's house trainer, Warrick "War" Blackwood. A secret that he has kept hidden could be the key to helping her.
War has been in love with Claire since their first meeting and can't deny her anything, even if it means revisiting a past that is better left forgotten. Being with Claire again is torturing him and they soon give into their mutual desires.
Can War help Claire find her daughter without losing himself in his past?
Gabriel Woodley is obsessed with finding his missing sister, so much so that he doesn't have time for anything or anyone else. But when his mother invites the enchanting Juliet Gray to stay with them in London, he can't avoid her any longer.
Juliet didn't want to go to London knowing that she will be around Gabriel a lot more than back home. But she sees that her father and Gabriel's mother seem to be rekindling a friendship from years ago and she longs for his happiness. Resigned to spend time with the man that seems to hate her, Juliet is surprised when they start working together to find his sister.
Working this closely, they can't stop the attraction that finally combusts. Can Gabriel finally put his obsession away long enough to find happiness for himself?
Josie Westfall has been bullied her entire life and an incident involving her best friend's brother didn't help matters. Josie is resigned to the fact that she will never marry even if her mother does everything in her power to see that she does. Looking forward to spending some time in the country, Josie is dismayed to find out that the man that contributed to her years of loneliness will be there too.
Evan Woodley has always felt bad about what happened with Josie and has apologized numerous time, but it doesn't seem to help her animosity toward him. When he and his brother think that Josie might know something about their missing sister, her best friend, they concoct a scheme for Evan to seduce the information from Josie.
What happens when Evan starts to have real feeling for Josie and she finds out about his and his brother's plan for seduction? Can he make Josie realize that his feelings are real?
Lady Audrey Woodley has been in love with family friend, Jude Samson, since they met. Knowing that they can never be, she goes to the country to try to forget about him. She never imagined that her brother would ask Jude to go along with her and her mother.
Jude was born with the right family background, but circumstances beyond his control have forced him to go work for his best friend. Because of this and the fact that he is keeping something from her family,Jude knows that anything between him and Audrey would not be tolerated.
What happens when their passion for each other ignites while spending hours together in the country? What will Audrey's reaction be when she learns the secret that Jude is keeping from her whole family?
Mary Quinn must find someone to marry or her father will take her away from her sister and brother-in-law's protection. She meets Edward, Marquis Woodley, and are soon embroiled in scandal.
Can a marriage born of necessity turn into one of true love?
Georgina Hickson has spent her life doing what her family wants in order to secure a titled husband. When she meets Paul Abbot at a friend's gathering, she sees something that she wants for herself. But knowing that nothing can come of it, she settles for occasionally talking to him at parties.
Paul has been in love with Georgina since he laid eyes on her. When she offers him the opportunity to spend more time with her, he jumps at the chance. Taking Georgina to the wax museum, offers them a chance to get to know each other that polite conversation in a crowded ballroom would never allow.
What happens when they finally are able to spend time alone without the prying eyes of the ton.
Crispin Flynn has sunk deeper and deeper into depravity since he watched his brother forced to live a life he wouldn't have chosen. He never imagined that his drinking and card playing would land him a wife.
Having been sold into one marriage, Gemma, shouldn't have been surprised to learn that her father had wagered her hand in marriage to a perfect stranger. Knowing that there would be even more gossip if they refuse to marry, Gemma and Crispin decide to make the most of it.
While their passion for each other burns hot, can they get over learn to trust the other to find an everlasting love?
Annabelle Flynn is sister to two of London's biggest libertines, while she has gone in the opposite direction and tried to be the picture of purity. When her eldest brother inherits a dukedom, she thinks she can finally make her debut and find a proper spouse. But her priorities take a turn when her other brother starts spiraling toward destruction and she makes her way to the notorious Donville Masquerade where she meets the owner Marcus Rivers.
Marcus has been attracted to Annabelle since they were introduced even going so far as to drive by her mother's home just hoping to get a glimpse of her. Knowing that their stations are too far apart now that her brother is a Duke, Marcus has tried to squash his feelings for her. But that is hard to do when the woman of his dreams invades his club every night in hopes of helping her brother.
Can Marcus keep his desires in check when Annabelle makes her nightly visits or will it prove to be too much temptation?
