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Five stern lords, five naughty wives, and Fifty Shades of Hot! This collection of historical romances will have you reaching for your smelling salts... These books contain sassy wives, their stern husbands, and discipline.

Alexander Kuprin prefaced his novel The Pit about the lives of early 20th century Russian prostitutes as follows, "I know many people will find this novel amoral and inappropriate, but nevertheless I dedicated it from the bottom of my heart to mothers and young people" Indeed, the novel's publication was followed by an explosion of outrage. The "good" society accused Kuprin of slander and forever exiled him from its sitting rooms, charity auctions, and holiday balls. Progressive intellecutals winced and shuddered, but could not help admitting Kuprin had a point.

When Apache warrior Gabriel Golden Eagle escorts his sisters to England to live with his mother's family, he only intends to see them safe and claim the family inheritance so he can free his village from the white man's cruel tyranny. What he doesn't count on is meeting Riley Flanders. Infatuated with another woman, Gabriel doesn't pay much attention to Riley...until the day she is kidnapped.

When her home situation becomes unlivable, Lydia hopes to escape through a marriage and her qualifications for her new husband are not long. Unfortunately she's a too-old bluestocking with nothing to tempt a man into wedding her, but desperate times call for desperate measures. The Duke of Manchester has been tricked and trapped into marriage with the quietly stunning Miss Lydia Stafford - he just doesn't know why. She's not a fortune hunter, she's not a social-climber, and she's still a virgin.

Minuet Dewin, eldest daughter of the wizard Razzmorten, practically raised her half sister Leeuh, who was abandoned by her mother. For many years, Minuet is Leeuh's passionate champion. As time passes, Leeuh becomes increasingly hard to defend as she grows determined to be awful at every turn. Whilst undoing her dangerous pranks, Minuet finds herself the target of her hatred and jealousy. And when they fall for the same prince, it looks like war.

For the Elves, it's the very worst time to be in the woods. Trolls are hunting them down. Will they live long enough to reach a safe place to live? Oisin’s plan is to come with his bow to help Aedan and Doona lead a party of children into the forest to gather the maidenhair seedlings his people would take across the sea as they flee the trolls who hunt them as prey. Maybe he can be back in time for supper. And if he only dares to dream, he might also be back in time to speak with Doona alone.

While the underground frantically works to mount a resistance against Pandora and the World Alliance, the potentate’s evil grows. She stages withering chemical attacks wherever the underground may survive. She passes more laws to hamper their movements. And new inventions to control their minds. And as Nia grows heavy with the potentate's child, her desperation to escape before the birth turns to panic. Get ready for hours of entertainment, from the busy pens of Carol Marrs Phipps and Tom Phipps.

When Children and Family Assistance police drag her mom, her dad, and her beautiful sister out the door into the night and beat her senseless, Tess Greenwood finds herself alone, her every move watched by the hidden World Alliance. Almost blind after her beating, she flees to the forbidden Broadstreet compound and a troll named Maxi.

Lydia's Penance: Lydia is desperate to escape her stepfather's household, so when she hears the Duke of Manchester say that he doesn't care who he weds, she decides his reputation for being an honorable man and his indifference to who his wife will be makes him the perfect husband. Unfortunately, the Duke is not pleased to be trapped into a marriage with a woman who is keeping secrets from him. Can love still find a way?

Iceland has always been known for its unique history and insanely beautiful landscapes; however, for Ingrid it has become a battlefield where she constantly fights herself. On the outside she seems relatively calm to the world, portraying a regular sane person; but in her mind she is slowly breaking down from years of silent torment, loss of loved ones, and the inability to heal herself. With the help of magic realism woven between love and mental health, Ingrid starts to find herself, and finally begin to heal - something that she has been aching for for so long.

Zen self-cope and Zen self-love yourself mentally and physically. True love requires trust, and trust requires honesty. Never, ever, forget that you are important, too.