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Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsEnter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made... unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves... -
Sin Like Flynn by Kathryn Le Veque, Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling author Kathryn Le Veque and #1 Amazon Bestselling author Alexa Aston, the Regency Duet you've been waiting for... meet the sensual, handsome, and naughty Sinning Flynns.London will never be the same...Mad King George III shocks Polite Society when he awards Cornish smuggler Sean Flynn, descended from an Irish pirate, an earldom and lands in Cornwall...Categorized as:
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To Wed a Highlander by Michele Sinclair
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn Arranged Marriage. . . Makenna Dunstan has never needed a man's protection before. But when her father's failing health places the safety of the clan in her hands, she has no choice but to marry Colin McTiernay. Fearing the emotions Colin awakens within her, she finds herself succumbing too easily to his lingering kisses and warm caresses...Categorized as:
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Conspiracy of Silence by Sabrina Flynn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAtticus Riot is left standing over a corpse holding a smoking gun. And he’s just realized a dead man could get him killed. Four words hold the key to his partner's murder. Four words marking him and everyone he loves for death.Harried and hunted from all sides, Bel and Riot uncover a web of secrets that ensnares them both... -
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Tamed by the Lyon by Chasity Bowlin
It was their first kiss, possibly her first kiss ever. All the more reason to get it right.Abandoned at the altar by her groom in favor of her younger sister, Miss Madeline Keyes has become an object of pity, scorn and scandal. Rather than flee to the countryside to rusticate as a spinster with her less than loving parents, she seeks the aid of Mrs... -
Highland Feud by Emma Prince
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTwo clans on the brink of war. A king hell-bent on keeping the peace. Let the forced marriages begin.Catlin MacRob is used to being called headstrong. In fact, she’s earned the title... -
Barefoot in Hyde Park by Chasity Bowlin
I’m not holding you to keep you from leaving. I’m holding you because it’s a way of showing you how precious you are to me. The wait is over! The anticipated "Barefoot in Hyde Park" is now available! Book 2 in "The Hellion Club" series. Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited! Lillian Burkhart could not be more different from her half-sister, Wilhelmina... -
Savage Paradise by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen Mariana Fowler arrives in the Minnesota territory, she is not prepared for the uncivilized world she encounters. What unsettles her most is the man who captures her attention, a handsome Chippewa brave named Lone Hawk - an enemy of her people...A fiercely proud warrior, Lone Hawk has every intention of resisting his powerful feelings for the beautiful woman whose life he saved... -
Entrusted to a Highlander by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnce upon a time, Purity, of the Clan Macara, shy, plain, and with a deformed hand that everyone believes is the mark of the devil, begged handsome, charismatic, devil-may-care Arran of the Clan MacKinnon to wed her and save her from a fate she feared. He turned her down.Five years later, Arran returns home after being taken captive by a group of mercenaries and forced to fight alongside them... -
Still Wicked by Kathleen Ayers
Lady Elizabeth Reynolds is perfectly happy living as a nun.Secure within the walls of St. Albans, Elizabeth is determined to take her vows and never return to London. Life in society holds no appeal and she has no desire to wed.Unfortunately, Elizabeth’s long absent mother has plans for her daughter. Taken from St... -
Truly, Madly, Daring by Emma V. Leech
To be revealed...**** This is the seventeenth book in the series and focuses on the children of The Girls Who Dare series. They can be read separate from Girls Who Dare; however, for a more intimate experience, one should read the Girls Who Dare first. The reading order for Daring Daughters 'Heat rating of 3' -Spicy, descriptive and provocative, but not erotica... -
The Hawk and the Dove by Virginia Henley
The Dove... She'd been bought for a strip of land, then abandoned: a bartered bride, married by proxy, determined to wreak revenge. As innocent Sara Bishop she'd paid dearly for freedom from her cruel, mocking family. As flame-haired, jade-eyed Sabre Wilde, she would scandalize Queen Elizabeth's court as she set out to seduce her unknown husband, become his mistress--and make him her slave... -
The Duke's Unexpected Bride by Lara Temple
From country miss to London duchess!Sophie Trevelyan has been enjoying her visit to London, even if her closest companion is an overweight pug! Then she encounters the dashing Duke of Harcourt, who intrigues her more than is strictly properMax knows he must marry... -
To Love a Lord by Christi Caldwell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAll she wants is security: The last place finishing school instructor Mrs. Jane Munroe belongs, is in polite Society. Vowing to never wed, she’s been scuttled around from post to post. Now she finds herself in the Marquess of Waverly’s household. She’s never met a nobleman she liked, and when she meets the pompous, arrogant marquess, she remembers why... -
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Bride of the Lion by Elizabeth Stuart
In an age of chivalry tainted by bloodshed and betrayal, two unlikely lovers are swept up by a passion strong as steel, sensual as velvet, and eternal as the stars... Jocelyn Montagne Reckless, exotic daughter of a Celtic noblewoman and a Norman knight, left to guard her father's fortress, she fought brutish takeovers with a dagger...Categorized as:
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Earl of Morrey by Lauren Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsLetty Fordyce knows three things about her future husband: Lord Morrey is a dangerous man.He frightens her.She desires him. Adam Beaumont, the Earl of Morrey, is full of dark secrets. His brooding and mysterious allure draws women to him like moths to a flame. But he fears he can never marry, not when his secret life is full of constant dangers... -
Surrender to the Highlander by Lynsay Sands
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEdith Drummond owes her life to Niels Buchanan and his brothers. Waking after an illness to a castle overrun by rugged Highlanders is disconcerting, but so is learning that she’s slowly being poisoned. Niels insists on staying by her side, and Edith soon discovers that even more dangerous is her wild attraction to the fierce warrior...Categorized as:
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Shadows of Scandal (Guardians of the Bones) by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsShe needs a champion willing to scandalize her. He doesn’t need anyone. Scandal turns into seduction when a not-quite-perfect heiress tangles with a lost son of society... -
My Captive Earl by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Earl of Rookdean did not want to host a house party. Miss Clara Lockwood did not want to attend the Earl of Rookdean’s house party. You don’t always get what you want… At a masquerade ball on the opening night, Rookdean encounters a captivating Grecian-dressed goddess... -
Second Duke's the Charm by Kate Bateman
Meet Her Majesty’s Rebels: three brilliant women who run King & Co., London’s most exclusive investigative agency...The wedding-night death of her much older husband left Tess Townsend the Dowager Duchess of Wansford—and still a virgin... -
The Marquess She Loved by Jessie Clever
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLady Adaline Atwood is the most beautiful wallflower in London. Cursed with beauty but no dowry, she has remained on the fringes of every ball for the four seasons she’s been out. It needn’t matter though as she has loved her best friend, Ashfield Riggs, since she can remember. The problem is Ash only has eyes for another... -
The Following Sea by Marsha Canham
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratings3rd in Canham's Pirate Wolf trilogy. This time the story focuses on Gabriel Dante, taking up where The Iron Rose left off as he sails away from battle with horrendous wounds and half a crew on board a captured ship. On his way home to the safety of Pigeon Cay, Dante crosses paths with a strange ship sailing in circles, showing no signs of life on her deserted decks... -
The Bride Chooses a Highlander by Adrienne Basso
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsScotland, 1335: Marriage between clans is a matter of property and power, rarely love. But the only daughter of Laird McKenna longs for passion—and finds it in a Highlander’s arms... The unconventional Lady Katherine McKenna has been granted a rare privilege: the right to choose her own husband. It’s a more difficult task than she expected...Categorized as:
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Raider’s Bounty by Leann Ryans
When Lyric’s quiet life is shattered by a group of alpha warriors attacking her village, she thinks her worse fears are going to come true...Categorized as:
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A Lady Never Surrenders by Bronwen Evans
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling Author, Bronwen Evans comes her new Sisterhood of Scandal series. A group of ladies whose friendship is based on ensuring they can take on the world dominated by their men folk. No male relative is going to choose their destinies.Shhh. Blue Stocking Miss Tiffany Deveraux has a secret. The poor orphan is not so poor...Categorized as:
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Wicked Scandal by Carole Mortimer
Wicked Scandal is the 3rd book in USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer’s, Amazon #1 Regency Sinners series. Author’s Note: All the books in the very sexy Regency Sinners series are complete and HEA stories. The stories are connected by the friendship of the eight heroes... -
The Elusive Flame by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
A woman in desperate straits ... A fearless man ... A marriage of convenience on turbulent waters ... Cerynise Kendall has been left destitute and in dire need following the death of her doting patron and protectress...Categorized as:
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Lyon at the Altar (The Lyon's Den Connected World) by Lily Harlem
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMiss Anna Toussaint’s first love is passionate, addictive and forbidden and leaves deep scars on her heart that can never be healed—or can they? With a scandal in her past, a dark smear of shame, Miss Anna Toussaint finds herself in dire need of a husband and under the rather dubious wing of The Black Widow of Whitehall...Categorized as:
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A Proposal of Marriage by Cheryl Bolen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe bespectacled, very bookish Miss Rebecca Peabody, who pens enlightening essays under the name P. Corpus, simply must marry. Since she abhors that disgusting “bedchamber business,” she decides Lord Aynsley is the perfect man to become her husband. At the advanced age of three and forty, he surely has gotten that repellant bedchamber business out of his system... -
The Devil's Necklace by Kat Martin
Ethan Sharpe is a privateer for the British government who has been held prisoner by the French for the last year. Ethan is embittered by the cruelties he faced in prison and is bent on revenge against Harmon Jeffries, the traitor responsible for his capture... -
Hannah and the Highlander by Sabrina York
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirst in a brand-new series about the bold, brawny men of the Scottish Highlands—and the lovely lasses who bring them to their knees… Highlanders are her weakness. Hannah Dounreay has no time for suitors who only seem interested in her family’s land, which she manages as well as any man. If she marries, she wants to be loved for the educated, independent woman she is... -
A Warriner to Protect Her by Virginia Heath
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn heiress in distress and an earl in disgrace… When heiress Violet Dunston escapes from an abduction, she finds an unlikely protector in Jack Warriner—a member of one of England's most infamous families...Categorized as:
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The Duke's Accidental Bride by Eva Devon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsNever trust a rake to find you a husband…Lady Jaqueline Peabody is extremely vexed. Her nemesis, the Duke of Stone, has just ruined her life by matching her sister with a perfect gentleman. Except the gentleman in question has little in the way of income... -
Rules of Their Royal Wedding Night by Michelle Smart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsComing soon! Rules of Their Royal Wedding Night by Michelle Smart will be available Dec 27, 2022... -
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The Holiday Hussy by Merry Farmer
Her life as she knows it is over… All Lady Alice Marlowe has to look forward to at Christmas is the cruel way her father has given her away as a prize to a man she barely knows. There is nothing she can do to save herself, and so she has resigned herself to her fate... -
Captivated by the Viscount by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA lot can change in four nights.... Ruination and kidnap were not on Miss Lucy Lazenby´s list of planned events for that week...even if it seems to be for her own good. Caught up in the lies and passion of Lord Danbury, Lucy finds the truth can never be hidden for long. Jasper Carnforth, Viscount Danbury is really doing the girl a favour by ruining her.. -
A Bargain with the Rake by Sadie Bosque
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA duchess determined to love...Evie Montgomery, the Duchess of Somerset, has promised her grandfather she will marry for love, and she is determined to keep said promise. Only, the man she loves is the most notorious rake in the country. And he hasn't spared her a glance in the seven years since she's known him...Categorized as:
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Princes Crave Curves by Jemma Frost
She's an escaped nun who's desperate to experience passion.He's coined the Prince of Proper because he never loses control.But one moonlit night and a marriage of convenience will change everything... -
Restless Rake by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsShe wants her freedom… Clara Whitney is desperate to leave London and return to her native Virginia. She'll do anything, even if it means striking a deal with the most notorious earl in England, to get what she wants... -
The Rogue by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 13 ratings1815 Along the wild and untamed coast of Cornwall, smuggling is not only a way of life, but a means of survival. Henrietta Morton knows well to look the other way when the free trading 'gentlemen' are at work. Yet when a notorious pirate, known as The Rogue, bursts in on her in the village shop, she takes things one step further... -
Highland Warrior by Monica McCarty
The ruthless enforcer of Scotland’s most powerful clan, Jamie Campbell will use any means necessary to vanquish lawlessness and unrest among the feuding Highland clans. Seduction is a game as easily played as subterfuge, but when Jamie poses a as suitor to a rival clan’s daughter in order to expose treason, the line between duty and pleasure is suddenly blurred... -
The Duke of Diamonds by Emily Windsor
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the coldest flint, there is fire...Casper Brook, the eighth Duke of Rothwell, has forever spurned frivolous pleasures, his restless emotions remaining buried beneath duty and command.Yet when a titian-haired minx perches upon his ducal desk and claims to know the whereabouts of his one burning obsession, a game of wits and passion erupts... Fire ignites from a spark..Categorized as:
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Never Kiss a Scot by Lauren Smith
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJoanna Lennox is a fine bred English lady. She's pretty, intelligent, witty and...on the shelf. With an influential baron as her brother and a hefty dowry, she should have gentleman lining up at her door but instead she seems doomed to become a spinster. Then one night a handsome highland lord steals a kiss from her in a library which stirs her deepest desires... -
Kill or Be Kilt by Victoria Roberts
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLady Elizabeth Walsingham pined after the same man for years. When she finally realizes the brawny Highland laird doesn't return her feelings, she decides to leave for London and start anew. It seems that her prayers are answered when she catches the eye of a charming actor at the Globe Theatre - a man who is the complete opposite of the Highlander she once loved...Categorized as:
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Knight of My Dreams by Lynsay Sands
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOriginally appeared in the print anthology A Mother's Way , under the title "Mother May I?" From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lynsay Sands comes a classic short story of a knight in need of a bride … Lady Alice knows she is not the type to entice a man. She's too voluptuous, too intelligent, too strong minded...Categorized as:
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His Jilted Bride by Rose Gordon
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIt's her wedding day and there is no groom in sight. But why should Amelia Brice be surprised? Hiram, Lord Friar is known for having no gentleman's honor to speak of and his jilting her on their wedding day makes it official. Elijah Banks cannot allow his childhood friend to continue to be shamed this way...Categorized as:
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Her Christmas Earl: A Regency Novella by Anna Campbell
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNo good deed goes unpunished… To save her hen-witted sister from scandal, Philippa Sanders ventures into a rake’s bedroom—and into his power. Now her reputation hangs by a thread and only a hurried marriage can rescue her... -
Lord of Seduction by Paula Quinn
By the king's order, Lady Tanon Risande is to be wed to a fierce Welsh prince. Headstrong Tanon has other ideas, and none of them involve submitting to Prince Gareth ap Owain. Yet she can't help but notice how the ladies of the court sigh at his mere glance. And when this rough warrior sets his penetrating gaze on her, Tanon, too wonders what it would be like to bed a barbarian.. -
The Magnificent Rogue by Iris Johansen
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFrom the glittering courts of Elizabethan England to the storm-tossed cliffs of the Scottish Highlands comes a dazzling tale of seduction, danger, and desire by one of America’s bestselling and beloved authors, Iris Johansen. She was a beautiful pawn in a game of love and death.. -
Duke of Every Sin by Stacy Reid
Ethan Benedict, Duke of Bainbridge, has been an object of fear, fascination, and salacious gossip for years. To many, his reputation would make him an unlikely savior of a baby left on his doorstep. But Ethan saw the child as perhaps a pathway to redemption...
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