Böcker av Cassie O'Brien

Young lovers, torn apart, are each dreaming of a second chance at love.Mrs Evanna Percival-Smyth, a widow of independent means, has agreed to chaperone Lady Cairstine McColl during the young lady's stay at Corbridge. An act of kindness it may be, or perhaps an undertaking prompted by curiosity-for Cairstine is the daughter of the man she once hoped to marry.Hot on the trail of a would-be blackmailer, the Duke of Glenard arrives in the town of Corbridge to prevent his beloved daughter from paying the price of the fiend's ransom demand. What he does not expect when he gets there is to find her in the company of his first love-the woman who threw him over in order to marry someone else.His love for Evanna still burns bright at the centre of his soul. Many years ago he believed she loved him too. In the aftermath of a tragic fire, he will discover the truth.

A daring rescue plan leads to unexpected consequences. Could it also lead to love?Grace Foston concocts an audacious ruse that will enable her sister to marry her one true love. However, it goes awry when she finds herself misguidedly rescued by the chivalrous intervention of George Armstrong, Baron Renfrew. Grace is not impressed and tells him so. She needs neither rescuing nor saving and doesn't appreciate his interference.George is intrigued by this feisty lady and determined she won't fall into the clutches of scoundrel Adrian Corbett. When Grace informs him just why she is with Corbett, George realizes they need to work together to foil the man. Love and life work in mysterious ways, and they manage to achieve what they set out to do.Falling in love wasn't on their agenda. How could it be? When Grace is already married...

“We play by your rules, Ellie. Not mine.”Sporty and fiercely ambitious, Ellie McAllister has rules to protect her career. Mark Walker would like her to break them.Ellie has a deeper need to achieve success than mere ambition and that precludes any open admission that she’s in a relationship with Mark, no matter that he’s the man to whom no other compares, in or out of bed, until…Christmas looms on the horizon and Ellie receives a job offer that will allow her relationship with Mark to become public knowledge. Mark appears delighted when she tells him the news but Ellie’s jealousy surfaces when a beautiful rival walks into the bar and claims Mark’s attention.Ellie must return to her parents’ village home for Christmas and face the demons that traumatized her past and Mark is in hot pursuit to prove to her that she’s the one he loves.