Those Wild Whitbys Series by Gemma Blackwood

With her family facing bankruptcy, Cassandra Whitby does the only thing a young lady of gentle birth and little beauty can Dress in her brother’s clothes and enter a fencing competition, of course!She just needs to persuade her sworn enemy, Lord Kendrick, to help her do it.Hugo Kendrick is as cunning as he’s charming, scarred inside and out. Cassandra knows his help will come at a price – but the prize money could secure her sisters’ future, and that’s worth risking everything... moreWith her family facing bankruptcy, Cassandra Whitby does the only thing a young lady of gentle birth and little beauty can Dress in her brother’s clothes and enter a fencing competition, of course!She just needs to persuade her sworn enemy, Lord Kendrick, to help her do it.Hugo Kendrick is as cunning as he’s charming, scarred inside and out. Cassandra knows his help will come at a price – but the prize money could secure her sisters’ future, and that’s worth risking everything.She didn’t expect she’d be paying Hugo’s price with breathless moonlit kisses. Or that the only thing to drive her crazier than his mocking smile might be the glitter of starlight in his dark eyes.Or that he’d enter the tourney himself, just to spite her. No, wait. Perhaps she should have expected that. The treacherous cad!Swords clash, sparks fly, and before Cassandra knows it, the fencing trophy is no longer the only prize in contention. Hugo has his sights set on her.And he always fights to win. less

There are some young women who do as they’re told, and there are other young women who run away with devilishly handsome naval officers.Miss Jennifer Cartwright is as surprised as anyone to discover that she is the second type of woman.But since her only other option is marrying the terrifying Lord Beeston, she’ll fling herself on the mercy of anyone who can smuggle her off to the safety of her sister’s country cottage... moreThere are some young women who do as they’re told, and there are other young women who run away with devilishly handsome naval officers.Miss Jennifer Cartwright is as surprised as anyone to discover that she is the second type of woman.But since her only other option is marrying the terrifying Lord Beeston, she’ll fling herself on the mercy of anyone who can smuggle her off to the safety of her sister’s country cottage.It’s just her luck that the man she flings herself upon is Captain Sebastian Whitby, who – quite apart from his rough manners and pistol-toting reputation – happens to owe Beeston his life.Sebastian takes paying his debts very seriously. He’ll do anything to persuade her to give Beeston a chance. Anything except stop kissing her, that is, because that keeps happening with alarming regularity.And, though Jennifer is certain she’s never met a ruder, more reckless, more impossible man in her life, she doesn’t want to stop kissing Sebastian, either… less