Millicent Dunsworthy has done her duty by seeing that her two nieces have made good matches. She does not expect to make one of her own, though, until a very determined Alexander, Lord Marlesquin comes back into her life. Even though Lord Marlesquin recently inherited his title, he still prefers being called "Quinn." Not because he is accustomed to the nickname, but because he cannot forget how Millicent once whispered that name as he held her in...

Rory Mullen pretends to be a boy while working in Yellow Hal's place in the pirate haven of Port Royal, Jamaica. Her aunt was the pirate's mistress, but is dead. Where else could Rory go? Her father betrayed her mother, who died at Rory's birth. Or so she believes until Nathan Lawler comes into Yellow Hal's place looking for the answers to a puzzle that leads to treasure. A treasure that once belonged to her father and which he hid to keep it from...

Philippe de Villeneuve, a vicomte, knows he must act before he ends up on the guillotine as his brother did. Otherwise how can he repay the person who betrayed his brother? He needs to show the foolish revolutionary government that he has embraced their ideals. When his mistress suggests that he marry her servant to show he has set aside his old-fashioned ways, he proposes to Lirienne Gautier. Lirienne wonders if he has lost his mind, but maybe she...

A woman must choose between the life she has known and the charismatic stranger who offers her a world beyond her utopian community in the second novel in Jo Ann Ferguson's passionate and poignant Haven Trilogy River's Haven, Indiana, governs its inhabitants by rigidly imposed laws, including some highly unusual ones about marriage and family. Defying the town-and its all-powerful Assembly of Elders-Rachel Browning takes in orphaned Katherine Mulligan...

A small town in 1870s Indiana is the perfect place for two people to fall in love while fleeing their pasts and searching for their futures in the first novel in Jo Ann Ferguson's captivating Haven Trilogy The bucolic town of Haven seemed like the perfect place for Emma Delancy to make a new life far from Kansas-and away from the threat of the hangman's noose. For seven years, her secret has been safe. Until she rescues an orphaned boy . . . and...

Hamilton Windham's first meeting with Miss Nerissa Dufresne is nearly his last, because she is knocked from her feet when his horse takes a hedge near where she is walking. The viscount feels responsible for hurting the charming young woman and escorts her to where she lives in Bath with her stepbrother. She doubts she will ever see the handsome, kind man again, because his social circle is far beyond hers. But events conspire to bring them together...

Lorenzo Wolfe (previously seen in A Phantom Affair) has recently become Lord Moorsea, with lands in southwestern England. When he goes to claim them, he finds he already has company. Lady Valeria Fanning (previously seen in Rhyme and Reason) has come with her 8-year-old nephew to live with the man who was once her guardian, the previous Lord Moorsea. Now they are Lorenzo's responsibility, because she lost everything she owed when her late brother's...

Gizela de Montpellier travels to Wales to meet the man she has wed by proxy, a man who swore when they were children to keep her safe-as she was not in the home of her abusive father. By a fire one night, she meets a handsome man who calls himself Rhys. She admires his strength of will and gentle compassion when she is endangered. When they part ways, she doubts she will ever see him again. Then she learns her husband is dead. Unwilling to return...

The Viking threat is a shadow over England. Cyndra, the daughter of an ealdorman (a lord), understands when her father accepts an offer of marriage for her from Morcar, whose lands are far inland away from where the Norse warriors raid. When her heart draws her to Brenwyn, the Morcar's army, she resists, wanting to honor her betrothal vows even though Morcar is abusive. When the Vikings attack, Morcar flees, leaving her and his people behind. She...

Evan Somerset is on a quest to find a unique vase with a thunderbolt painted on it. He sees it in a small French restaurant in London. Brienne LeClerc, the owner, isn't interested in selling the family heirloom-the only thing, besides Brienne, that her grandmother brought from France while escaping the French Revolution. No matter how much of a charming scoundrel Evan is, she won't budge. That decision leads to disaster. In the wake of the destruction...