Mad, Bad And Dangerous Heroes Series by Christina Skye

Versed in martial arts, Chessy Cameron embarks on a journey to retrieve an elusive jewel-encrusted pillow book, for which five men have died while trying to find.

A Dangerous Game... Driven to redeem her father's monstrous debts, Tess Leighton strikes a deadly bargain. Though gently bred, she dons a mask and cloak by night, running contraband brandy and silks across the sands of Romney Marsh -- the Romney Fox only a step ahead of government agents determined to see her dead. Smuggler or spy?  After crucial military secrets are captured enroute to Napoleon, London sends its toughest agent to trap the Fox... moreA Dangerous Game... Driven to redeem her father's monstrous debts, Tess Leighton strikes a deadly bargain. Though gently bred, she dons a mask and cloak by night, running contraband brandy and silks across the sands of Romney Marsh -- the Romney Fox only a step ahead of government agents determined to see her dead. Smuggler or spy?  After crucial military secrets are captured enroute to Napoleon, London sends its toughest agent to trap the Fox. Viscount Ravenhurst is determined to stop a spy. But after one reckless kiss by moonlight, passion grips the cynical naval hero. Tess excites him as no other woman can, making him remember his youth, his joy. And the heart he thought long dead. Pursued and seduced... Then Tess is betrayed and finds herself the captive of a notorious smuggler pirate. Now two unyielding rivals swear to claim her wounded heart. But a traitor watches from the shadows, and Tess must learn who to trust before she loses everything...everyone...she holds dear. less

Calling card of the infamous Romney Fox Smuggler, scoundrel, probable traitor, and spy, he plundered the rich and gave to the poor. Men toasted him, women whispered his name like a prayer. Deserted and deceived, exquisite Tess Leighton, emerald-eyed temptress, would do anything to save her family estate-even masquerade as the Fox himself.... A challenge to the Viscount Ravenhurst Scarred by war, betrayed in love, Dane St... moreCalling card of the infamous Romney Fox Smuggler, scoundrel, probable traitor, and spy, he plundered the rich and gave to the poor. Men toasted him, women whispered his name like a prayer. Deserted and deceived, exquisite Tess Leighton, emerald-eyed temptress, would do anything to save her family estate-even masquerade as the Fox himself.... A challenge to the Viscount Ravenhurst Scarred by war, betrayed in love, Dane St. Pierre returned from Trafalgar determined to wreak vengeance on Tess, the reckless, willful woman who had turned his heart to ashes yet still haunted his fevered dreams. Now he alone knew her dangerous secret and swore she'd pay the price... A summons to danger and adventure. In a storm of treachery and high treason, they would be swept into battle on enemy seas. From the rugged Sussex coast to the wave-swept isles of Brittany, a tender torment of remembered passion bound them, plunging them into a danger beyond imagining, a desire beyond restraining...into the dark, rapturous secrets of...BLACK ROSE less