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The Last Shades of Scarlet: Wolves of Laconia is the tale of a young Spartan, Adronikos, and his mentor, Gylippus, during the Peloponnesian War. In youth, Adronikos is formally educated in the arts of hoplite warfare, survival, and assassination. Informally, he learns love from a childhood companion. Yet she is not Spartan, and his feelings for her are becoming dangerous. While he navigates this forbidden affair, Greece begins its steady descent back into chaos.

James Stuart Donovan Hastings, Earl of Billingswood, has had one headache after another. First, his home is in disrepair, his nephew is too young for his own good, his best friend thinks he's gone round the bend, and now someone just tried to kill him. If it wasn't for the angel with strawberry blonde hair and amethyst eyes, he might well be dead. Blasted horse, thinks he knows more than the master!

Bonnie, a naive and content 12-year-old girl had the life she knew tragically destroyed. Everything familiar was taken from her, except a few letters from a mysterious grandfather she had never met. Orphaned, she was placed into oppressive child labor. Bonnie took her anger, fears, feelings of rejection, isolation, and hopelessness, converting them into brazen, naïve, misguided determination. In 1886, 12-year-old Bonnie fled her bondage and sets out on an implausible quest to find her grandfather. How far will Bonnie’s determination take her?

It is the monsoon season of the year 1801 in Bhind, India. Margaret Harcourte senses the weather is worsening and decides to leave, taking her young infant son with her and traveling back to England to safety. Her husband, Michael Harcourte, earl of Lynshire, is on an archaeological dig far away for the next several months and will find out when he returns of her decision. What comes next is heart-wrenching.

Anna Wilson, a highly educated woman, finds herself a widow in the wilds of Southwest Montana. Praying for an escape back east, the thought of marriage to a man with three children was the last thing on her mind. But marriage to a stranger or working in one of the local saloons seems to be her last two options. Can she trust another man not to hurt her again?

With Lord Blakely off on a mission to recover the Waverly heiress, and the Duke of Hawkhurst on his honeymoon, only Emmett and Lord Cortland are left to man the Home Office, which makes it difficult when both are sent on missions of their own. The Earl of Billingswood, Lord Cortland’s uncle, offers help where he can but is not actually employed there. They need someone else they can trust to head up the office while they are away. Mrs. Penelope Smythe uses her position as headmistress at the St. Joseph’s convent school as a front for her work.

Cressie is a short novel about a young girl born in Southern Minnesota in the 1850s prior to the great Sioux Uprising of 1862. The story begins when Cressie is twelve years old on a homestead carved out of the Minnesota woods. She flees with her family southward into Iowa when the Sioux Indians go on the warpath. They are uprooted, fleeing for their lives, abandoning the only home she's ever known. Her family--her mother, father, and little brother Johnny--seek refuge at her Uncle Andrew's homestead in northwest Iowa.

Joseph Harwood has a problem: he has seven days to find a bride. If he does, he inherits his deceased uncle’s estate. If he doesn’t, he faces financial ruin and social ridicule. He has his eyes on Lady Rebecca, but his heart longs for her cousin Gwen, who’s out of his reach. Claude also has a problem: he has seven days to prevent his cousin Harwood’s marriage and receive the inheritance he believed would be his. Without the inheritance, he can’t pay off his insurmountable debt and will face servitude or death. His plan is to kidnap Lady Rebecca.

In the Regency era's glittering society, the Earl of Sheffield, Peter Mellingham, witnesses his cousin's murder and becomes a target himself. To escape the killers, he adopts a daring disguise as Cynthia Meadows, his best friend's younger sister. As Peter and his loyal friend Brendon journey to Worthing for the transformation, the villains are never far behind. Meanwhile, Cynthia's heart races with fear while also finding unexpected love in the form of Miss Elsbeth Palfrey.

As hysteria grips the town of Salem, Charity becomes the target of a relentless assailant. Her step-mother, accused of witchcraft, meets a grim fate at the gallows, yet the attacks persist. Seeking refuge, Charity's father, Osborne, sends her to the supposedly haunted Dansford's Farms near Boston—a distant and seemingly secure haven. Little does he know that the horrors awaiting Charity are far from over. Dansford's Farms holds secrets of its own. The former tenant, Philip, was executed for a crime he did not commit, leaving the property tainted with rumors of murder and robbery.

The Invisible Lariat recalls the story of a family that harbors resentments so deep the members are homicidal. Their saga starts in Kentucky in the early 1800s when young Douglas finally does the unthinkable in the very moment his mother is fighting for her life. The result of that night sets the background for the next twenty years of adventures lived by his brother, William, his daughter, Rose Mary, and Sam. This adventure captures the growing pains of a nation expanding through the lens of people who lived it.

Pipeline is the story of a rogue billionaire oilman. Story takes place in Texas. It is a story about the environmental impact of pipelines in the US and the dangers of mismanagement. It is also a classy love story, with history of the Texas ranching business.

When the notorious rake Viscount Alistair Upshire offers to forgive Kit’s father’s crushing debt in exchange for her hand in marriage, Kit faces a future bound to a man she despises. With her heart belonging to Marcus, the younger son of the Earl of Roxboro, she is determined to forestall the marriage.

It’s been over a year since the debacle with his runaway sister, but now that she’s happily settled with a husband and child, Lord Stephen Blakely can focus on other endeavors. Being named the heir to the Marquess of Bradford is a welcome challenge even if it has added much more to his plate than he is used to. Firmly ensconced at the Home Office, he’s sent on a mission to rescue a missing young lady who has been removed to a war-torn America.