One magical Season. One fake courtship. One deeply vexing peacock.Lady Juno Starbrooke is no stranger to the unusual. After all, when one’s familiar is a grumpy peacock and your family’s power comes from an ancient Roman Bath, life is hardly ever dull.But carrying a secret deadly curse into the London Season is another matter entirely.After her presentation to the Queen ends in magical catastrophe and ruin, Juno attracts the attention of Major Augustus Hawkins—a deco...

Heavens above! Being an opera goddess is frightfully exhausting work—all that floating about in silk and diamonds, pretending one hasn't a care in the world while creditors circle like hungry cats at a fishmongers.The Ton calls me La Luminosa, their divine songbird, but I fear my golden cage grows rather cramped.A wealthy husband would solve everything quite nicely, and this charming country house musicale promises at least one eligible earl's heir.But oh! Nobody wa...

They call me Lady Luck—quite the joke, really, since luck left me the moment I bolted from my own wedding.Five years have passed since that mortifying day, and I have declared myself quite done with matrimony, and spend my days managing my father’s stable of racehorses.But now Papa has sold my beloved thoroughbred to the Prince of Wales himself, and I find myself contemplating the most shocking scheme to win him back.Even more vexing is the constant...

Oh, dear reader, let me confide in you the most delectable predicament!I, Miss Daphne Davenport, am treading a scandalously thin line between desperation and brilliance.With family fortunes dwindling like a candle's last flicker, I've become Lady Spellwater—a secret perfumer whose fragrances have the ton positively intoxicated.My life is a delicate dance of survival, crafting scents so exquisite they could make a gentleman swoon.Little do th...

I confess that growing up in our humble parsonage, I never dreamed my decorating talent would lead me to London's grandest townhouse.Yet here I stand, paintbrush in hand, ready to transform Lady Hartley's residence into something magnificent.Unfortunately, Lady Hartley’s son, Lord Ashcroft, is a handsome but grumpy obstacle to my plans.If it were up to him, I would be bundled into a carriage and sent back to the parsonage without a backward glance.And though...

I confess, dear reader, that being the daughter of England's most notorious card sharks presents rather unique challenges to one's social calendar. My parents, fresh from their exile and carrying scandal like a fashionable accessory, have presented me with two options: either I employ my unfortunate talent with cards to restore their fortunes, or I wed a brute whose only redeeming quality is his well-tailored coat.But fortune, that fickle mistress, has dealt me an unexpected hand in...