When the Marquis of Amberley's coach is waylaid by highwaymen and his coachman shot, he is forced to take shelter at the first house he finds and is subsequently trapped there for a week by a severe snow storm.Oakleigh Manor is the home of Rosalind Vernon who lives alone but for her devoted servants and an ill-natured parrot, cut off from the outside world by the tragic result of a childhood accident. But Rosalind is brave and bright and totally devoid of self-pity - and it is these...

Max Brandon is receiving bills for services he never ordered and goods he did not buy. (In 250 years' time, this will be called identity theft – but Max doesn't know that.) What he does know is that, for reasons he can't begin to guess, some unknown person is targeting him personally.And when the games move closer to home, almost forcing him to fight a duel – when they draw in Frances Pendleton, a lady he never expected to see again – Max vows to catch the man behind them, no matter...

It is time for the actor known to Paris as L'Inconnu to resume his real identity and become Francis Adrian Sinclair Devereux, Earl of Sarre ... a man he no longer knows how to be and whose name, thanks to the malice of a friend turned enemy, remains tarnished by an old scandal.Revenge, so long avoided, slithers temptingly from the shadows.Grand-daughter of a wealthy wool-merchant, Caroline Maitland is not finding her Society debut either easy or enjoyable ... but to Marcus Sh...

At the end of his Grand Tour, somewhere between Athens and Constantinople, Christian Selwyn, the young Earl of Hazelmere disappeared.Searches for him yielded nothing. He seemed to have vanished into thin air.Time passed. In London, his uncle and cousin moved into his home … while his unofficial fiancée, Sophia, was left desolate and in limbo.Finally, in desperation, his friends – loyal and close as brothers – search in person, determined to find him and bring him home....

For two years, England has been in the grip of Civil War. In Banbury, Oxfordshire, the Cavaliers hold the Castle, the Roundheads want it back and the town is full of zealous Puritans. Consequently, the gulf between Captain Justin Ambrose and Abigail Radford, the sister of a fanatically religious shopkeeper ought to be unbridgeable. The key to both the fate of the Castle and that of Justin and Abigail lies in defiance. But will it be enough?A Splendid Defiance is a dramatic and encha...

By July 1639, England has become a simmering cauldron of discontent. Less concerned by this than by his ailing finances, King Charles seeks ways of filling his empty treasury. Enter Luciano Falcieri del Santi - master-goldsmith and money-lender; a man known to London as The Italian ... and possessed of a hidden agenda.From his seat in the House of Commons, Richard Maxwell watches the inexorable approach of Civil War. His eldest son, Eden, struggles to save his marriage to Royalist-...

The marriage of a well-bred Royalist lady and an illegitimate Roundhead Colonel is less a match made in heaven than a union doomed to hell. Unfortunately, Sir Robert Brandon's last will and testament leaves Venetia Clifford and Gabriel Brandon with little choice in the matter - deeply though they both resent it.Their tempestuous relationship is reflected in the stormy events buffeting the nation as England slides inexorably into a second Civil War. Gabriel continues to serve in the ...

England, 1666: the year when people who take prophecy seriously believe that the world is going to end.For Chloe Herveaux, marriage to wild, unpredictable Alexander Deveril offers escape from a home she hates. For Alex, waking up with an epic hangover, the discovery that he has acquired a bride is an unwelcome shock. But while the marriage remains in name only, other forces are gathering.England is at war with the Dutch and Prince Rupert suspects that sabotage is at work with...

Had it not been for the scent bottles, it is unlikely that Daniel Shelbourne, Viscount Reculver, and Anna Hawthorne of Hawthorne's Porcelain would ever have met.Daniel's late father left him an impoverished estate – which he had expected – and unexplained debts, which he hadn't. Anna inherited a thriving business, along with the knowledge and passion required to run it.Daniel needs money quickly if his family is to avoid ruin.Anna wants to create a tribute to her fa...

BRAG Medallion Honoree and 2022 Global Book Award Gold Medallist!Meet Adam Brandon … acutely intelligent and master-swordsman but gradually realising that he isn't yet ready for the future he had previously planned.And Camilla Edgerton-Foxe … her future destroyed by a cruel deception. A lady with a sharp tongue, even sharper wits and possessor of an extraordinary talent.An unexpected encounter promises Adam temporary employment that will exercise his mind as well as hi...

Still tied to his desk in the Intelligence Office, Colonel Eden Maxwell has become increasingly disenchanted with both Oliver Cromwell and his own daily existence; and with the advent of new Royalist conspiracies, he despairs of ever getting away.Then a brick hurled through the window of a small workshop sets in motion a new and unexpected chain of events. After all, who would want to hurt Lydia Neville – a young widow, giving work and self-respect to maimed war veterans considered ...

Lord and Lady Sarre cordially invite you to spend Christmas at Sarre Park …Celebrate among old friends … and perhaps a gate-crasher or two. There will be wassailers and kissing-boughs; music, dancing and romance; laughter and some tears. Above all, expect the unexpected because at Christmas anything can happen.So accept your invitation for what promises to be the most talked-of house-party of 1778 … and is also a last Huzzah to the Rockliffe series.