Anya is a princess on the run. While she has a job as a companion, she learns that the man the is after her is in London and it is decided that she needs more protection. She moves in with her employer's nephew, the Earl of Mowbray, who lives in a gambling den he runs. But living in such close quarter just makes the attraction they feel for one another that much harder to resist.
Sebastien knows there is more to the story that his aunt and new house guest are not telling him, but he has promised to protect Anya and that is what he will do. With the attraction between them increasing with each passing day, they finally give in to it. But what will happen when Sebastian finally learns who Anya really is? Will this budding romance fizzle before it really has a chance to get started?
Emmy has loved Alex for years, even going so far as to kiss him one night at masked ball. Several years have now passed and she is fulfilling her father's wish of stealing all the jewels belonging to the French monarchy. The only problem is that Alex is the investigator trying to hunt her down.
Alex has never forgotten the woman that so intrigued him before going off to war. When he meets Emmy when he is in pursuit of the Nightjar, he feels that same intrigue. But what will happen when he learns that the woman he is starting to fall for is the same person he has been tracking?
Georgiana needs to get married so that her horrible cousin doesn't force her to marry him. She devises a plan to marry a convicted man that is about to be hung. This way she gets the benefits of having been married, without the hassle of actually having a husband. Unfortunately the man that was picked to be her husband has died before they can get married. The best the prison can do is to offer a man that is being shipped of to the penal colony. At least she'll probably never see her husband again.
What Georgiana doesn't know is that the man chosen to wed her, Benedict, is just there on an undercover mission. He really isn't a convict. When they run into each other at a ton event, the bargain they made has to change. They decide to act like Benedict is courting Georgia, they would get married again and then go their separate ways. But as they spend time together, the initial attraction they felt for one another grows stronger.
They married for convenience, but can this marriage be one in truth?
