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Desperate to safeguard the future of her precious nephew, penniless Lady Artemis Dearing will do anything even marry the man whose brother ruined her darling sister!

Hadrian Northmore's suffered enough heartbreak he will not lose his brother's son, too. Calculating and deceitful as Lady Artemis may be, he will marry her if he must! But Hadrian isn't prepared for overwhelming desire, or his new wife's sweet disposition. There's been some mistake his hard–built defences are crumbling before his very eyes!

THE SCANDALOUS WIFE! When his beautiful, flirtatious wife scandalises Almack's by being caught in the arms of his enemy, Bennett Maitland, Earl of Sterling, finally ends his unsuitable marriage. He banishes Caroline to his remote childhood home – only to end up trapped there with her! Having lost the love of her cold husband, Caroline is outwardly defiant – yet her wounded heart aches for what they once shared. If she dares, she has one last chance to break through Bennett's icy reserve and rekindle the fiery passion that once consumed them!

Her hands bound by blackmail and duty, Laura Penrose was forced to marry her sweetheart's ruthless cousin. Now a widow, her sweetheart has returned.

Ford Barrett, Lord Kingsfold, believes Laura betrayed him and has a debt to pay she owes him a wedding and a wedding night!

Laura sacrificed herself once out of duty she won't be taken again for revenge. But this new, dark, dangerous Ford discards her pleas . Can she tell him she never wronged him, before he discovers her more innocent secret?

Edmund Fitzhugh was willing to thrust his head back into the matrimonial noose to protect Julianna from her wicked stepbrother. But the maiden was betrothed to his nephew, gone at sea. So their forbidden union was secretly a marriage in name only. Yet, sharing his home with the much younger beauty fuelled a passion he'd thought long buried.

Julianna Ramsay was at sixes and sevens! Who would have thought that Edmund's gentle care could ignite in her a woman's ardour that far eclipsed her girlish fancy for his absent nephew? And what of the day when her fiance returned? Would she then have the courage to choose love over duty?

A ship full of women could only cause trouble!

Of that Governor Sir Robert Kerr was certain, just by considering their chaperon! Though a widow, Mrs. Jocelyn Finch was young, vivacious and utterly determined to have her own way especially with him!

Challenging the governor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a duel was obviously a poor way to introduce herself. But when Sir Robert accused Jocelyn and her charges of something, well, less ladylike than husband–hunting, what else could she do? Besides, someone had to show this strait–laced, yet gloriously compelling figure of a man that there was more to life than doing one's duty!

Betrayed by his first wife, Simon Grimshaw won't marry again. But sultry nights in Singapore can be lonely nothing a beautiful English mistress wouldn't fix!

Bethan Conway answers an advert to become a wife, believing it will help her secret search for her missing brother. But Simon isn't the ugly old man she was expecting. He's a hot–blooded bachelor who wants a woman in his bed a position Bethan's more and more tempted to fill!