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As Napoleon's French force bears down on them, Major Harry Trentbury works diligently with a team of engineers in Portugal to protect the city of Lisbon. At every turn, he clashes with the professor's daughter, a beautiful and quick-witted lady who stokes both his anger and passion to rise, his need for her an infuriating emotion he can't seem to shake. As tensions increase and a battle becomes imminent, he rides out and fights on the front line, only disaster looms - she has followed him, disguised as a lad.

Following the brutal murder of his father and elder brother, James Hargrove, the Earl of Donnelly, comes into a title he never expected. His future was set and he was to join the 18th Royal Hussars and dedicate his life to his king and country. But now, he's been dragged into the shadowy depths of the underworld, as he seeks to discover the impossible: to uncover who murdered his loved ones.

Regina Brooks thinks finding a box of abandoned kittens on Christmas Eve is a disaster in the making. Fortunately, her hunky neighbor Ric is eager to help her out - in any way he can! A sweet and sexy short Christmas story - with kittens.

Lucian was told that Sarah's little sister was his mate, but Marienne was wrong about one thing. It's not the little sister who makes the dragon shifter's heart pound. It's her older sister Katerina, whose curves and abundance stop him dead in his tracks.

Elizabeth Seymour has watched both brothers fall in love and marry. But one mistake has left the youngest Seymour destined for spinsterhood. Reputation in tatters, and ostracized from the ton, Lizzie’s only allies are family and her loyal best friend, Carson. The boy she’s known her whole life is now a man who makes her heart pound and pulse race.

February 1816. Fabien, Comte de Mont Clair, once a highly decorated officer of the exiled Napoleon, cuts a dashing swathe through a London society ball, his eyes only for the glittering ladies of the ton. His heart jolts at the sight of a woman sitting in a shadowed corner. Not just any woman, but one he would have once given the world for.

With a baby on the way, Maria thought her troubles would be over, but a new storm is brewing with the power to sweep away everything she holds dear.

Kayla fell in love with Anselm the first moment she laid eyes on him. What she didn't expect was that, after an amazing night of passion with him, he would disappear, leaving her pregnant and alone. She's gotten by just fine on her own, and there's no way she's letting Anselm stroll back into her life after what he'd done.

Sense and Sensibility follows the fortunes of sensible Elinor and her volatile younger sister, Marianne, as each searches for a spouse—a quest made urgent by the family’s financial embarrassment. While Elinor pursues the heart of clergyman, Edward Ferrars, Marianne impulsively falls in love with a glamorous but unscrupulous adventurer, Willoughby. Elinor sees trouble brewing but the enraptured Marianne does not. The sisters question each other’s choices in love.

All Maria wants is to live happily ever after with her husband. But between the crazed crabs, a mysterious illness, and a monstrous shark, Maria may need all her skills as a siren to succeed.

Lizzie Somers is a widow with means. But instead of retiring to her country estate, she’s off to London in search of a husband. She’s certain she needs a respectable, faithful man to give her the family she desperately desires. Until she meets notorious rake, Rupert Willoughby. He’s the opposite of what she wants, but exactly what she needs. And her heart leaps before her head can catch up.

The novel opens with Mr. and Mrs. Parker’s visit to Sanditon, a village on the coast of Sussex. Sanditon is being developed into a bathing-place under the patronage of the two principal proprietors of the parish, Mr. Parker and Lady Denham. Mr. Parker suffers an injury and receives assistance from a local farmer, Mr. Heywood. The latter’s daughter, Charlotte, is of marriageable age and has three eligible suitors: Lady Denham’s foppish son, Sir Edward; Mr. Parker’s devil-may care brother, Sydney; and Arthur, who is an unemployed hypochondriac.

My whole world crumbles when the sorcerer Anthony reveals to me that Iain is my Fated Mate. Having been raised as cousins, we are familiar and not in a good way! All my life he has belittled me, annoyed me, and ignored me. He’s exerted his authority over me at my expense and has never shown an ounce of regret for it. I don’t know whether Anthony speaks the truth—my heart wants to believe his words are lies—but I refuse to remain and find out. And so, I flee to the mortal realm, where Iain is no longer my problem! Or at least, I thought so.

American Heiress, Hannah Turner, has been shipped ‘across the pond’ in search of a husband. Although considered a spinster by some, she’s young enough to indulge in a little fun while abroad. Ignoring the stifling expectations of the English aristocracy, Hannah spends carefree days at her cousin’s estate donning breeches and riding astride. Accused of impropriety by infamous rake, Lord Dunford, she suppresses her wild side to become a picture-perfect English Lady.

Anthony has a secret that he’s been hiding from everyone. Something he’s ashamed of, and something he has no control over. He has magic, more magic than any dragon shifter in history, and in his eyes that makes him a freak. An abomination. Not worthy of love, especially from that of his fated mate. Charity’s life as a restaurant manager is rudely interrupted when she’s attacked, then saved by a dragon shifter and prince of alternate realm.

William said that Singapore would fall, but Sirena didn't expect it to happen while she was there. With a submarine on her tail as she tries to preserve her grandfather's precious treasure, Sirena finds herself on the other side of the ocean from her daughters…and with no choice but to fight to protect the human city she once called home.

Lady Susan Vernon, middle-aged and recently widowed, has retained her looks and appealing vivacity. She makes use of her bereavement and her loss of wealth by imposing herself on the hospitality of relatives, and by amusing herself in flirtation with the various men who fall under her spell. Lady Susan has a daughter, Frederica, who is bashful and innocent—in stark contrast to her unfeeling and manipulative mother. Her mother is anxious to marry Frederica off to a spouse of appropriate wealth and social standing, and also, perhaps, to capture a new mate for herself.

Fainting at the feet of the handsome, extremely eligible young duke she is introduced to at her first London ball is the single most humiliating experience of Diana Creighton's life. Learning she's been nicknamed The Fainting Flower by the ton's young bucks means her prospects aren't likely to improve any time soon, so when Diana and her sister Clarissa are asked to accompany their aunt and her new husband on their honeymoon trip to Italy, they jump at the opportunity.

Katherine's relationship with her daughter, Chastity, goes from bad to worse when the hot-tempered mother finally speaks her mind—loud and clear—and in public. Now, Chastity has cut her out of her life and the two families are at odds. But that's not the end of Katherines problems It seems the stork has paid Patrick and Kaiti an unexpected visit and the over forty couple must learn to navigate life as new parents a second time over.

The story concerns the young and vivacious Emma Watson, one of six children of a widowed clergyman. Emma has spent most of her life under the care of a wealthy aunt of liberal views, and has received a good education. However, when her aunt enters into a second marriage, Emma is forced to return to the family home, where she is affronted by the crass hunting for husbands undertaken her sisters, Penelope and Margaret.