Fulfilling a lifetime mission is much more fun when romance is woven into the adventure.The Honorable Charlotte Blakely is closing in on the actual location of the Veil of Veronica, carrying on her beloved late grandfather's quest. Satisfying his last wish is all she's ever wanted from life… until the possibility of a courtship with the handsome English ambassador to Rome made itself known. But does love mean giving up her hard-won independence?Mr. Everett Desmond ...

Surviving the wilds of Cornwall is more life changing than they thought.Miss Caroline Sloane is on her way to Poughill, Cornwall. In highhanded fashion, her estranged grandfather has arranged a marriage for her to a sea captain she's met but once, and she wishes to convince him otherwise. She'll marry for love or not at all, but an accident with the crowded mail coach on which she's traveling throws her existence into chaos.Alan Blackmore, the Earl of St. Clair, ha...

Sometimes, the greatest truths of life come on a midnight clear.Major Cecil Stapleton is struggling with his new life as a civilian after nearly twenty years in the military. Wounds received in the Battle of Toulouse left him angry, disfigured, and sent him home to England. All he wants now is to retire to the country and be left alone, especially since it's the Christmastide season. Finding his old lover in his cottage leaves him at sixes and sevens… and perhaps wanting m...

Being embroiled in an FBI sting isn't exactly conducive for book research or warm fuzzies—or is it?Samantha Arnold, prep cook and struggling romance novelist, believes adventure is right around the corner. Trouble is, nothing exciting happens in the small town of Newburg, Indiana. When a routine trip to pick up chicken results in meeting a guy too well-dressed to be a farmer, she can't help but hope things are about to turn.Special Agent Patton Mitchell isn't exact...

Sometimes, the romance of a lifetime starts with one perfect night.It's the year 1885 and the world has just begun giving up its ancient secrets. Miss Charlotte Blakely is a librarian in Rome. She's researching evidence of the fabled Veil of Veronica, but her time abroad is drawing to a close. Her viscount father is dying and has called his children home, yet a chance encounter with a stranger one balmy night might change her direction.Mr. Everett Desmond is the En...

Self-confirmed spinster Miss Anne Deighton wants to match her younger sister to a gentleman and see her happily married before settling into her fate… for her own previous two engagements failed.Quiet Reginald Marleigh, Viscount Ingleby, has come to the Wiltshire countryside to attend May Day festivities… and to turn his attention to the responsibilities of his title.Yet during the four days of the country festival, there are all too many opportunities for mischief and stol...

Trust can be a stumbling block, but it can also be freeing in the right circumstance.With only her reprobate, now-dead husband to judge by, Marjorie Attler doesn't trust men. The crumbling manor house by the sea is a fresh start, but when a privateer appears in her bed—while she's sleeping—he introduces her to a passion she'd only dreamed. Then he challenges her legal claim to the property and her justified distrust intensifies.After being at sea for five years, Cl...

It's Christmastide in London, and Lady Tabitha Sinclair, only child of the deceased Duke of Rathesborne is trying to figure out who she is. With her position inside the covert King's agents in flux, she has to decide what she'll do with her time, for it certainly won't be attracting a man as her mother wishes. A change meeting with a handsome stranger at a musicale changes her course as well as her thinking.The Honorable Duncan Beauchamp wants only one thing this Christmas season: ...

The most powerful form of magic is free will.Averell Woode is a huntsman's daughter, hidden away in an enchanted tree from the evils of the world. Though she's skilled in all things forest-related, she yearns for life beyond the trees. A chance meeting with a stranger seems the perfect opportunity to stretch her wings, and she falls for the charm he wields, especially when an exciting adventure has come to her very doorstep.Devon James Quinn Lansdowne, the spare pr...

Fighting against circumstances can usher in the greatest freedom.Peter Sammerson, Viscount Bingham, is a man tortured by his past. No matter that he wishes the beau monde would forget what he's done, he can't, and for that there's no peace, and definitely no future. During a walk to a friend's townhouse, he has a heated exchange in the rain with an interesting woman who might change his mind about wanting to avoid the ton altogether.Miss Katherine Davies i...

The quest to break a mummy's curse turns dangerous when a peer ends up dead.Miles Lawrence Hawkins, fifth Earl of Archewyne, is alone and the last of his line, save for a young daughter, and he's made peace with that…Yet unexpectedly finding an attractive female thief in his library searching for that same mummy gives him doubts. Drawn into the lady's insane plot to retrieve various stolen mummies from around London—including the British Museum—Miles accompanies her merely...

He accepts her but doesn't love her... Donovan James Arthur Sinclair, 8th duke of Manchester, is cursed to roam the Earth as a wolf-shifter. He doesn't mind the beast most days, for the life of a duke is quite splendid, but it is trying if he's honest with himself. When he saves a country miss from an out-of-control carriage in a rural village, it occurs to him that he might be wrong.She loves him but cannot accept what he truly is... Miss Alice Morrowe, is blind ...