Ian MacGregor is wooing a woman who's wrong for him in every way. As the new Earl of Balfour, though, he must marry an English heiress to repair the family fortunes.But in his intended's penniless chaperone, Augusta, Ian is finding everything he's ever wanted in a wife.

The last thing Asher MacGregor, newly titled Earl of Balfour, wants is a society wife, though he has agreed to squire Boston heiress Hannah Cooper about the London ballrooms. When he's met that obligation, he'll return to the Highlands, and resume the myriad responsibilities awaiting him there.At her stepfather's insistence, Hannah Cooper must endure a London season, though she has no intention of surrendering her inheritance to a fortune hunter. When she's done her duty, she'll re...

An underground classic, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister then the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary...

The elderly and ill fourth Viscount Longstreet summons Darius Lindsey to a discreet meeting, where he proposes the means for Darius to extricate himself from a life of shame and repay his family's debts. William offers him a chance at redemption: Spend a month with his wife, Lady Vivian; get her with child; and he can retire from his life of degradation.As weeks pass, Darius makes love to Vivian but also teaches her how to deal with the world after William has died. Vivian cannot c...

Handsome anddangerous, Patrick MacGregor is a wanted man, possessing the tough,tenacious spirit of his outlawed clan. He will stop at nothing to savehis people from destruction, even if it means marrying ElizabethCampbell, the daughter of his worst enemy. Yet the flaxen-haired beautydisarms him from the start. Her sweet, unspoiled softness touches thecold depths of his ravaged soul—and makes him want much more thanrevenge.Inside the ...

Tiberius Flynn travels to Scotland with orders to snatch his young niece away from her Highland relations. He thinks it's going to be an easy task, until he meets the feisty little girl and her fiercely protective step-aunt. A smart, headstrong beauty, Hester Daniels has no use for an English lord with high-handed ways, no matter how handsome or beguiling he may be.Tye sets out to seduce Hester and win over Fiona, only to discover that he's losing his heart to a woman who's as unta...

The ruthless enforcer of Scotland's most powerful clan, Jamie Campbellwill use any means necessary to vanquish lawlessness and unrest amongthe feuding Highland clans. Seduction is a game as easily played assubterfuge, but when Jamie poses as a suitor to a rival clan's daughterin order to expose treason, the line between duty and pleasure issuddenly blurred. Ebony-haired, ruby-lipped Caitrina Lamont defies him,denies him, and arouses him like no oth...

Framed for a crime he did not commit, Duncan Campbell, the illegitimateson of a chieftain, has returned to the Highlands, determined to clearhis name after ten years in exile. He is drawn to the unforgettablesensual beauty of Jeannie Gordon, the headstrong girl who once pledgedhim her love, gave him her innocence, and then betrayed him. Now, in theglow of the moonlight, she defiantly shows Duncan the bad end of apistol.Jeannie is stunned to...

Percival Windham is a second son and cavalry officer when he weds the beautiful Esther Himmelfarb, who bears her beloved husband four sons in little over five years of marriage. As Percival and Esther's finances become constrained, the ducal heir suffers an ailing heart, and the old duke becomes querulous and forgetful. Married life thus comes to feel like endless loneliness and tribulation. Esther is exhausted and emotional; Percival is considering the wisdom of finding a mistress; and th...

Percival Windham is a second son and a cavalry officer acclaimed and respected by his men. He is immensely attractive and distracts himself with the women who seem to throw themselves at him at every turn.At a country house party, Percy meets beautiful, retiring Esther Himmelfarb. Esther's wealthier relations are taking shameless advantage of her dependence on them, and only Percy seems to see the striking intelligence beneath her modest demeanor. Percy sees her as the perfect comp...

This sparkling short story by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes ties back to her popular Windham series.Archer Portmaine is investigating a plot against the Crown when he meets Morgan James, a young lady who believes her hearing problems make her a poor candidate for marriage, although her disability provides the key to unraveling Archer's mystery—and to capturing his heart.

Matthew Daniels is an English colonel who has been sent home from the Crimea in disgrace. Mary Frances MacGregor is a Scottish widow who loathes everything about the English military, and yet both Mary Fran and Matthew know more than they want to about being lonely and isolated, even amid family. They yearn to understand each other too, but old secrets and divided family loyalties threaten to cost them their chance at shared happiness.