Manda CollinsHow to Romance a Rake You can lead a wallflower to the ball, but you can't make her bloom--unless one daring young bachelor turns up the heat...What's a nice girl like Miss Juliet Shelby doing at a place like Lord Deveril's ballroom? With her shy demeanor, she's a total stranger to the dance floor and a source of mockery for the ton. So imagine her surprise when Deveril gallantly comes to her defense--and offers to teach her to dance! Juliet can hardly believe the most handsome bachelor in London would notice her, until he takes her in his arms and sets her heart ablaze...Lord Alec Deveril has never felt such a spark of attraction for an unmarried lady before. Unlike the "fashionable" ladies he's accustomed to, Juliet possesses a generous spirit, a fiery intelligence--and an explosive secret. Deep in the London underworld, a dear friend has vanished, and Juliet fears the worst. Deveril insists on helping, escorting her through the darkest alleys in town. But he too is hiding a shocking secret--and the only way he can defeat the devil in his past is to seduce the angel in his arms...

When Elizabeth meets Joe at the train station in 1938, she assumes he’s only interested in one thing, but she couldn’t be further from the truth. He is working for an American charity that helps children affected by war and wants to recruit the best people for his team of humanitarian workers. He whisks her away to Spain, where a civil war is raging, and they set up a relief hospital together. But soon the forces of fascism sweep them into a greater conflict – World War II – and they must fight hard to save the people they care about. An epic and sweeping love story, set in France, Spain, England and America.

He needs a wife to atone for his sins. He didn't expect to want her...Dorian, the Duke of Rath, is consumed by wrath and guilt. To save a family from the ruin he caused, the powerful lord will endure any torture—even a marriage of convenience to his victim’s youngest sister.His terms are simple: She must stay for one year. She must follow his strict rules. And he will never, ever touch her.He plans to protect the his new bride from the desire he has no right to feel. But he underestimated Patience Rose.Botanist Miss Patience Rose walks down the aisle with garden soil under her nails and sunlight in her soul. She is bright, determined, and quietly fearless - and completely unafraid of her brooding husband.Day by day, she breaks down his walls. Night by night, she tempts him to break his vows.When Patience inevitably breaks his rules, Dorian has to step in. He punishes her—with her consent—and she likes it...But just as love begins to transform Rath’s bleak mansion into a home, the past threatens to burn it all down. There is a ghastly secret keeping them apart—one that could send the Duke to the gallows.And Patience is putting her brilliant mind to work to uncover it.Welcome to the Seven Dukes of Sin. 7 Dukes. 7 Sins. 1 Scandalous Series.(Steamy, open-door Regency romance. HEA guaranteed.)(Reading Order)1 - Duke of Rath (Wrath)2 - Duke of Luhst (Lust)3 - Duke of Pryde (Pride)4 - Duke of Eccess (Gluttony)...

Mayfair, 1878 The scandal-soaked historical mystery that will haunt your dreams...A murdered courtesan. A clairvoyant's deadly masquerade. And a crusading editor whose pursuit of truth could destroy them both.When one of Madame Chambon's most exquisite "Fallen Angels" is discovered butchered in her silk-draped boudoir, Lily, Lady Bradden, feels the noose tightening around her own throat. Hidden within the pleasure house's velvet shadows, she's been playing a perilous game—masquerading as a spirit medium to keep her secrets buried. Now, with blood staining Mayfair's pristine streets, she must unmask a killer before she joins the dead.Hamish McTavish, the relentless editor of Manners & Morals, has built his reputation destroying London's frauds and charlatans. The enigmatic Lady Bradden should be his next target—if only her haunting presence didn't set his righteous heart ablaze with forbidden desire.When murder forces their worlds to collide, Hamish faces an impossible choice: expose the truth and watch the woman who's awakened his darkest longings burn, or protect her and become complicit in her deadly deception.But as Russian diplomats weave their web of intrigue, a vengeful husband stalks closer, and more bodies surface in London's fog-shrouded alleys, Lily and Hamish discover that in a city built on secrets and stained with blood, love may be the most dangerous weapon of all.A Fatal Rendezvous in Mayfair is Book 1 in the intoxicating London Ladies in Peril series—where Victorian elegance meets gothic terror, and passion burns brightest in the shadow of death.

Two souls bound together six hundred years apart. One sizzling hot attraction that could alter the fate of Scotland.What if I told you fairytales do come true and the man of your dreams existed six centuries before you were born? Then what if I told you the fairytale was wrong, and he was in love with someone else? You would probably tell me I was losing my mind, but I’m not. It was confirmed when I moved into my new home in New Hampshire and learned that the whimsical stories that had been born of my imagination since childhood were real.Very real and made up of a tall, handsome Highland dragon warrior.Yet when I’m whisked back in time, unlike my dashing hero of Yesteryear, as I so lovingly called him, Laird Broderick MacLeod is nothing like I imagined. He’s brooding and standoffish, pining over lost love, until a magical Viking sword draws us together, igniting a scorching passion that attracts the wrong kind of attention.The sort of attention that will turn the King of Scotland’s scrutiny our way and spark an age-old blood feud between the MacLeods and a rival clan that could threaten history unless I do the last thing I saw coming. Something that will tear me away from Broderick unless he defies his monarch and risks everything. I must become the enemy’s mistress to appease the king and bring peace. #Steamy #EnemiestoLovers #ForbiddenRomance #TwoPOVs #RatedR #HEA #ActionPacked #Fantasy #Shifters #PNRA MacLomain Series spin-off. For longtime readers, this series follows my usual way of storytelling. Every other chapter is seen/told from the hero or heroine’s POV (point of view).BOOKS IN SERIESHer Scot of YesteryearHer Scot of BygonesHer Scot of the MorrowHer Scot of Hereafter

1873 – Adam Gentry, heir to the celebrated Paradise Stables in Virginia, is haunted by the visions of his lost love. Feeling cursed by fate, he slips deeper into grief, shrouded in a cloud of liquor and depression, and neglects his duties and responsibilities. But when Adam is forced to accept that there’s nothing he can do to change his past, he knows he must move on. And he accepts his own destiny: that he will never love again.Emmaline Somerset finds herself in the worst possible position any unmarried woman can be in. She will have to abandon all of her plans, hopes, and dreams for an independence using her own talents. The only viable solution is to move to a distant relative’s home and reinvent herself as a widow with an infant. No one will ever be the wiser. Adam, now determined to secure the Gentry legacy, plans to save longtime family friend Emmaline from her embarrassment with an offer of marriage. But what Adam didn’t plan on was how his unexpected attraction to her would stir something inside of him, something he's kept locked deep within.Can love find its way between two troubled souls, one driven by duty, the other by honor, both determined to find their way home?The Gentrys of ParadiseBook #1 Prequel Novella Into the EvermoreBook #2 For the BraveBook #3 For This MomentBook #4 For Her Honor