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Lord Jakob Radclyffe thinks he left his past behind until a thief surfaces in London, threatening to ruin his daughter's reputation. With the clock ticking, Jake needs the scandalous Lady Olivia Montfort's connections in the art world to protect his daughter's future. Olivia, too, has a past she'd like to escape. She makes a deal but doesn't anticipate the temptation of the viscount. Soon, she has no choice but to rid her system of Jake by surrendering to her craving for a single scorching encounter.

When Spanish émigré Eva Galante meets French aristocrat Lucien Capet, it’s love at first sight. But their meeting isn’t by chance, and Eva isn’t who Lucien believed her to be. After a whirlwind romance and a flight to Gretna Green, Lucien learns the truth about what loving Eva could cost him.

Nylander has never known a real home. Now he is ready to leave the dangers of his past behind and put down the roots he has always longed for. The only thing standing in his way is a lanky aristocratic lady who is more at home on the farm than in the ballroom. And she has secrets. Nylander inspires a recklessness in Callie that she can’t control. Soon she finds herself conspiring with pirates and contemplating midnight trysts with the very Viking who has turned her life upside down...As midnight strikes, will all their secret, sinful dreams come true?

An absentee husband is one thing, but a dead husband is too much for Lady Mariana Asquith to ignore. When she travels to Paris to search for the body of the wastrel who broke her heart, she finds him—alive at the Opera and still far too attractive for her comfort. But not everything is what it seems with her husband…

A night out leads fun-loving Viscount Archer to one of London's less genteel music halls . . . and a muse for the frustrated composer. But nothing goes easy for the wild Windermeres, and Archie finds himself playing her knight in shining armor instead. Miss Valentina Hart may have the voice of an angel, but she has all the grit necessary to save her family after they were swindled out of their fortune. When Archie ruins her plans, she's ready to gamble all to take down the villain—which is where the horse comes in.

Ten years after his family gave him up for dead, British spy Lord Percival Bretagne is back home, but his mission is far from over. Playing the aristocrat in London gambling dens and at country house parties is just a cover for Percy's real quest. He's hunting the man who stole everything from him — his family, his marriage, even his identity. And this time nothing, and no one, will stand in his way.

Scene: The Italian countryside, where Miss Juliet Windermere awaits a confession of love from the man of her dreams. What she gets is a declaration that she looks like the woman of his dreams . . . who is currently a thousand miles away—in Scotland.

A little time in beautiful Italy is just what Lady Amelia Windermere and her eccentric family need while their latest scandal dies down. Amelia is hard at work on their triumphant return to London society when she meets Lord Tristan Carteret, Duke of Ripon, a sculptor who is too wild for any proper lady.

Miss Nell Tait is nobody's fool—at least not now. In her youth, a man had taken advantage of her and changed her whole life. Now she's left the East End behind and is a successful modiste to the ton—and will never fall for another man's lies.

Delilah is following her dreams . . . Every heroine needs a nemesis, and for Lady Delilah Windermere there's no more perfect villain than His Grace Sebastian Crewe, the Duke of Ravensworth. He ruined everything three years ago, but this time she won't let him stop her from living her dreams. The Duke is following Delilah . . . Sebastian has no desire to clip Delilah's wings. But when he finds her traveling with a troupe of actors, he can't just let her go on this adventure alone. When Delilah refuses to return to her family, Sebastian knows it's up to him to keep her safe . . . again.

Orphaned as a child, Hortense has had to fight her way to becoming the ton’s favorite private investigator. But for a woman who lives on the edge, the past is never dead. When her former spymaster asks her to find his wastrel brother Jamie, the Marquess of Clare, she thinks it’s just one more job uncovering the ton’s dirty secrets. She has no idea that she’s about to find her future…