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Moses Warwick, Duke of Chetnole, is not going to allow a literal stab in the back to slow him down. Getting robbed and left for dead? That might do it.Thankfully, someone finds him, drags him to their cottage, and tends to his wounds. When Moses comes round, he wants to thank the doctor who so expertly cared for him. That was when the woman he knew as Jenny Powell revealed that she was a doctor.Unable to call her such a ridiculous title, and trapped by his lost memory in her cottage until it returns, Moses struggles against his growing admiration for the woman who surprises time and again. But Jenny can't have this stranger in her home forever. She's hiding a secret no one has been told for three years-a secret that will change the way Moses looks at her.Good thing she gave him a good slap the first time he stole a kiss...right?With traitors in France on one hand, mistrust of a woman doctor on the other, and fierce attraction growing between the two unlikely friends, will a duke each day manage to keep away from this delightful doctor?This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

A broken engagement, a duke, and a house party...When Luke Beauchamp, Duke of Ashcott, was thrown from his beloved's home by her brother, there was only one thing to do: become a spy and run away to France.Perhaps not his finest moment-but he's learned from his mistake, and is determined to win Lady Margaret Everleigh, his one true love, back. The trouble is, she has absolutely no desire to see him, and plenty of witty remarks at his expense.When Luke knows what he wants, he gets it. He's the most scandalous rake in the ton, and he'll do anything, even orchestrating a "surprise" meeting at a fortnight-long house party, to win her back.Lady Margaret, or Peggy to those she loves, isn't buying it. All this remorse is too little, too late. Where's Luke even been since he abandoned her to the scandal of a broken engagement?Try as she might, Peggy can't entirely escape either Luke, or her feelings for him-but unfortunately a few other house guests at this party have plans for her that she may not like...Will Luke ever humble himself to reveal his true feelings to Peggy-and will Peggy finally admit to herself, let alone the man she once loved and lost, that the best things in life are dukes?This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

Can a man ever give too many gifts to a woman he refuses to touch?Daniel Vaughn, Duke of Thornfalcone, never expected to be a duke. Now he's attempting to pay off his dead brother's mistress, Nora Harvey, who is absolutely refusing to accept anything from him. His whole life has changed, people won't stop bowing when he approaches, and even his sister refuses to stop calling him "Your Grace". Daniel needs to just fix something, as he used to do in his old spying life.Nora Harvey, his brother's old mistress, will accept his beneficence. Whether she likes it or not. But Nora doesn't want this bizarrely kind Duke's help. She knows what men really want, and she's waiting for this Daniel to suddenly demand what every man demands.You know. That.But though his natural shyness keeps him back, the heat growing between them threatens to burn through all their good intentions and cross all of Society's lines. Such a shame that Nora has more than one secret which will soon radically alter Daniel's life and put them both in danger...Can Daniel restrain himself from kissing his brother's ex-mistress-and will Nora ever tell him that she never actually accepted his brother's attentions?This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

Samuel Dellamore, Duke of Chantmarle, is on a mission . . . but it's not the one everyone thinks.Samuel has turned up in Edinburgh and convinced Society that he's on the hunt for a wife. But his actual mission is to scour the city to discover the traitor spilling secrets to the French.Samuel's natural curiosity, good looks, and title have always been enough to get him what he wants-even when he's not on the hunt for a spy-but a chance encounter with a Miss Lucy Finch shows him that she may be the exception to that rule. This mysterious woman quickly becomes a baffling and intriguing distraction from his real purpose in Scotland.Unfortunately for Lucy.The last thing she needs is the attention of a duke while she's trying desperately to pay off her ruthless blackmailers. And she's determined to warn this Samuel away from her-for his own sake. She knows she's dangerous. Bad news.But the duke's curiosity and the growing attraction between them lands them both in a scandalous situation which only a marriage of convenience can set right.Will Lucy accept the offer of respectability just when she needs it? And, even more importantly, can she keep the scandal of her past away from the devastatingly handsome duke she may just be falling in love with?This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

Arthur Hebblethwaite, Duke of Fitzpaine is in rather a pinch. Firstly, he's not actually a Duke.It was such a clever idea. Pretend to be a duke, go to France, and live on the scraping and bowing of those desperate to impress a nobleman. All well and good, until someone recognizes him. Until he grabs a woman and uses her as a hostage to escape a French encampment. Until he looks at the woman and...oh, hell.Joanna Bettencourt doesn't know what's worse: being a shy heiress with a father desperate to marry her off, being captured by the French and held prisoner, or being dragged onto a horse by a maniac by the name of the Duke of Fitzpaine. Pretending to have a husband ready to protect her seemed the obvious option.But as the "Duke of Fitzpaine" and the "penniless Mrs. Epwin" arrive at the coast, desperate to return to England, they are faced with a problem: there's only one cabin. Cue a little pretence that this time they both share. A fake marriage.They're both lying to each other, and they both don't know it-but they can't lie for long about the heat searing between them, the affection growing as they slowly open up to each other.When the truth finally comes out, will there be a way for this "Duke" and this secret heiress to find happiness?¿¿This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

Joseph Chisholm, Duke of Wincham doesn't need a damn horse trainer to tell him what he already knows: the loss of his leg makes riding impossible.His doctor, on the other hand disagrees. Doctor Walsingham recommends a trainer who has never failed, and so Joseph begrudgingly agrees to meet the man. He'll soon see the situation is impossible.So when a dazzling beautiful woman-in breeches!-arrives at his door, even Joseph's self-imposed isolation isn't enough to make him forget the impropriety of the situation.But Harriet Godwin, or Hattie to her friends, doesn't care. This irritating Duke who's never cared much for his neighbors or his tenants can go to hell as far as she's concerned...Except that the debts her father left on her horse stud farm have to be paid, one way or another. An agreement is made and Hattie begins Joseph's horse training. But as the grumpy Duke re-learns how to ride a horse, could his heart be re-learning how to rejoin life? After such a tragedy, is there any point in returning to Society?And when danger strikes, just how far will Joseph go to protect this woman he's determined not to like?This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

Hugh Shardlow, Duke of Martock, is a Duke down on his luck, and determined not to get tangled into any other danger. That's why he's accosting this young woman in the middle of nowhere, France, in the middle of the night.He'd only come to France to drink, gamble, and escape the terrors of England. Even with his father dead and buried, the place held nothing but darkness for him...until his money ran out.Which is why the brightness of this mad Englishwoman, searching the French armies for her supposedly prisoner-of-war brother, is an absolute nonsense.Nice young ladies don't march into French encampments. They don't meander into French inns and accost the locals asking after her brother. And they certainly don't make bargains with strange penniless desperate Englishmen. But Beth Mead has never been one for Society's expectations, nor keeping them.And so a deal is struck: Hugh will help Beth find her missing soldier brother, and she'll pay his passage back to England. ¿Both think they've got the better bargain, but you can't put a price on trust-and as secrets and lies intermingle with hopes and expectations, Beth and Hugh swiftly discover that to protect themselves, they may have to betray the other...This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

yron Renwick, Duke of Sedley, is a man on a mission. Vengeance fills his soul, and he will stop at nothing to gain justice.Which is why he finds himself chasing after a mail coach in the dead of night with a mysterious and rather beautiful passenger. It wasn't supposed to be like this. After discovering the Glasshand Gang's plans to rob a mail coach, Byron was determined to catch them in the act and bring them to justice.Missing the mail coach, and accidently letting slip to a woman that everyone in the mail coach was in danger? Also, not the plan.Anne Mead has just put her darling younger sister on that mail coach and won't take no for an answer from the strange gentleman who seems to know the nine people on that coach are now risking their lives. She tells him in no uncertain terms: Anne is going with him. Together, they'll save her sister.But secrets on both sides threaten to surface in their race against time, as Byron keeps his title and more to himself, and Anne resists spilling the truth about her family.And a sequence of inns with only one bed available doesn't help...With nine lives hanging in the balance, will Byron and Anne be able to put their bickering aside to rescue them-or will their growing attraction prove more of a distraction?This full-length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

Montague Lancaster, Duke of Caefall, is in hiding in Oxford after a wartime injury, trying to ignore his doctor's advice.Because he'll definitely be going back to France to fight, right? He's determined not to leave his honor on the battlefield-but Montague has financial concerns to keep him occupied. The Duchy is bankrupt. He's got to keep it a secret and keep his presence in England quiet.Fencing is his only refuge, his passion, and Montague agrees to teach students to pass the time. Easier said than done when a poetess storms into his bedchamber and demands he help her finish her poem...Sarah Lockwood is tired of having her poetry diminished merely because she's a woman. Society holds no interest, and she's in search of a poetry professor in one of the prestigious Oxford colleges to help her finish it. She ends up discovering a hidden duke who fences like a soldier and kisses like the devil.Words cross blades with actions as both Sarah and Montague fight their growing feelings for each other, and the expectations of the world.She cannot be a poet. He must return to France to fight. So which is mightier: the duke or the sword?This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.Dukes in DangerDon't Judge a Duke By His CoverStrike While the Duke is HotThe Duke is Mightier than the SwordA Duke in Time Saves NineEvery Duke Has His PricePut Your Best Duke ForwardWhere There's a Duke, There's a WayCuriosity Killed the DukePlay with Dukes, Get BurnedThe Best Things in Life are DukesA Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAll Good Dukes Come to an End

Henry Everleigh, Duke of Dulverton, is determined to discover who's ruining his sister's reputation.That's why he's in the middle of nowhere, attempting to convince a blacksmith to take him on as an apprentice-undercover, of course.He's tracked down the source of the lying gossip to this forge, and Henry is not prepared to find a woman at the anvil.A woman blacksmith. What on earth next?Minny Banfield doesn't exactly expect respect, but she's never had a strange man march into her smithy and demand to be taken on and trained. If she didn't need the money, she could firmly ignore him.Him, and his handsome face, and broad shoulders.But the secret messages she's been passing have taken a toll and she needs work. So if this Henry Everleigh appears to be running from the law, what harm can it do to keep him around?Sparks fly as Henry and Minny clash, both of them keeping secrets they are certain will destroy them-as the heat builds between them, a fiery desire that soon neither of them can deny...