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After the world’s worst timed and worst worded proposal, Fitzwilliam Darcy strives to understand and to accept the reasons behind the unexpected rejection he receives. With acceptance, comes the desire to become a better man, even if the lady who inspired that change will never know the result of her take down. At his ancestral home for the summer, he will conquer the biggest and most painful disappointment of his life.

Lady Andromeda Barrington is the most unsuitable young lady in London. At least in the Duke of Granby’s opinion. Granby doesn’t care for bastard relatives or tainted pedigrees and Andromeda possesses both. Nor does he like opinionated young ladies who enjoy hurling insults in his direction. Andromeda is, in short, the most annoying creature he’s ever met. When she arrives, uninvited, to a house party given at his estate, Granby can’t decide whether to kiss Andromeda senseless or send her packing. Andromeda is the victim of infatuation and bad luck.

Major Elijah Young never met his father, the Duke of Bradford, who believed his young wife betrayed him and gave birth to twins sired by another man. Now, two deaths have changed the trajectory of Elijah’s life—and he is the new duke. Elijah vows never to wed and father children, wanting the ducal line to end with him.

Unsettled with his new role in society, and being deemed one of London's most eligible bachelors, Hugh is happy to fall back on his Bow Street skills to track down Lady Redding—and to see Audrey again. But the viscountess's disappearance is only half of the puzzle. A long-lost ring worth a fortune could be the driving force behind the deadly events, and as Audrey and Hugh unravel the truth—along with the secrets and complications surrounding their future—a killer closes in on the house party . . . and selects a new victim.

For too long Miss Emily Parr has been subject to the whims of her indebted uncle and the lecherous advances of his repulsive business partner. Her plan to be done with dominating men forever is simple: find herself a kind husband who will leave her to her books.It seems an easy enough plan, until she is unexpectedly abducted by an incorrigible duke who hides a wounded spirit behind flashing green eyes.

You couldn’t design a better hero than the very eligible and extremely charming Earl Grantham. Unless, of course, you are Margaret Gault, who wants nothing to do with the man who broke her youthful heart. Widowed and determined, Margaret Gault has returned to Athena’s Retreat and the...

Her secret will save a legacy. But it could also break her heart when faced with a duke caught between two identities. The daughter of a famed architect, Rebecca Lambert has been raised among the nobility yet understands the circumstances of her birth. Becoming an architect is a dream, not an option, until she must assume an identity to protect her father’s name. No one was pleased when Valentine St. Vincent was shockingly named the Duke of Wyndham -- least of all Valentine himself. He has always led with his fists, but now he must become the man his brother was supposed to be.

Widowed at a young age, Molly is introduced to widower, Derek, by her fun-loving cousin, Philip. Their courtship by mail results in matrimony - on the very day they meet each other face to face for the first time! Molly adores her new husband and wants nothing more than to make him happy. But sometimes, his rules just get in her way. He wouldn't really take her in hand, would he? He's just joking, teasing her. Right? He'd been right about the rustlers, though. After a very tough night, they were caught, and now, surely, Derek could loosen up those rules.

1819. Jack 'Crow' Crowlas has married his feisty love, Hester, and with their baby daughter, settled down to enjoy their new life as Lord and Lady Lamorna of Nansmornow in Cornwall. But for Crow, trouble is never far away and as Cornwall seethes with rebellion, he is arrested for treason. Spared execution on condition that he undertakes a highly dubious mission to St Petersburg, he finds himself tangled in a snare of treachery and illicit passion, violence and sexual deceit.

Amy McCray is on a mission to clear her half-brother of a murder charge. He was with a married woman at the time and, to protect her reputation, he has forbidden Amy or anyone else to mention the woman to the authorities. Now, that woman has disappeared. Amy knows the only way to prove her brother's innocence is to find her and convince her to go back and testify. She only has one clue to go on: The woman has a sister in Big Rock. Even though Amy has never met her in person, Big Rock is a small town. Surely a red-haired woman won't be too hard to find!

In the first novel of Maya Rodale’s enthralling new series, an English duke vows to make an American seamstress his duchess... In Gilded Age Manhattan, anything can happen... Seeking a wealthy American bride who can save his family’s estate, Brandon Fiennes, the duke of Kingston, is a rogue...

Melvin Flack has given up on his dream of becoming an artist until he discovers 14 paintings hidden in a derelict building in the Bronx. To his shock, they're signed by his idol, Claude Monet. And the subject! Is it possible Monet designed Yankee Stadium in 1921? If these paintings are authentic, who gets the 600 million dollars they'll get at auction? And what's in the mysterious journal that Mel finds with the art?

Seitka is a young shapeshifter who has a hard time following orders. The evil leader of a rival wildcat shifter clan has left her with child, and she flees to the protection of the abbey, thinking this is best for her clan and her child. But Daniel, her fiancé, follows her, and a new alliance is formed between the lairds, their healer wives, and the shifter couple. Seitka has been told that her child is destined to do great things. Will the babe survive long enough to grow, train with the lairds, and fulfill that destiny?

Samuel Fox is shocked to find two small girls alone on the trail. After discovering that the wagon train had abandoned them, and their parents had died in their wagon, he takes them home to his childless wife. Together, they decide to adopt and raise the two girls Spring and Autumn, along with Brenden, the boy they took in several years previously.

Merrie adored Francis Adams when she was a child. But when she was 13, he scolded her and smacked her bottom and she decided then that she never wanted to see him again. Now, six years later, she is shocked to find that he wishes to see her again, and even more shocked when he asks to marry her. Merrie has been hoping for a marriage in which someone loves her desperately. She knows that she feels that way; but does Francis? The words 'I love you' seem as if they are destined never to reach her ears.

A curse haunts the MacFarlane clan: Any firstborn daughter of the laird must be given to Clan Grant in marriage, or she will die. Headstrong Sorcha MacFarlane flees the colonies to Scotland to meet the father she never knew existed. Tricked into a marriage she never wanted, she soon learns her new husband has some stringent rules she is expected to follow.

On her 18th birthday in April 1557, Rose Bingley is given a diary by her mother. In it, she records her feelings, thoughts, and the great love she bears for her childhood sweetheart Oliver Moore, whom she secretly plans to marry.

When Colleen, one of the healers in Wolf's keep, is threatened, she tries to convey her fears to the lairds. Assuming that the threat is coming from someone in his clan, Rolland sends his trusted elite guard, Michael, to protect her. No one will believe that Michael doesn't have Colleen’s best interests at heart until he savagely beats her in public and attempts to have her burned at the stake, labeling her a witch.