Revolution and Regency

When a haughty Duchess is forced to become a peasant farmer, she doesn't expect to find redemption, or the love of her life. Celeste, duchesse de Saint Tours is forced into hiding with her peasant cousins to avoid arrest. She doesn't expect to be put to work as a peasant farmer. Neither does she expect to enjoy it. And she certainly doesn't expect to fall in love with her handsome cousin, Marcel. To her surprise, she discovers a feeling of purpose and belonging that she never felt before. But when her identity is revealed, Celeste and Marcel will need to fight, not only for their love, but for Celeste's very life.

Duty clashes with desire when Quincey agrees to give dowdy Felicity one night of passion. Lady Felicity Merryweather knows her middling looks and fortune mean she is unlikely ever to marry. But before she settles into a life of dull spinsterhood, she wants one night of passion to remember – no strings attached, no questions asked and no regrets. Her only condition – that the man never ask her to marry him. Who better to help her than her old friend Quincey, the Earl of Edenburgh? He reluctantly agrees to the tryst, only to find he craves more and more of Felicity's mix of fiery passion and shyness. Their single meeting turns into a passionate affair. When Quincey breaks his promise and proposes, Felicity is quick to refuse him, and decides to show London her true colors before she disappears from society. Now, Felicity is the toast of town – vivacious, talkative and colorful, sought after by the best of hostesses and pursued by the most interesting of men. But when one of her spurned swains schemes to ruin her reputation, she can turn to only one man to help her – the one man she has been trying her hardest to avoid – the Earl of Edenburgh.

Adventure, intrigue and romance combine in this sparkling tale of espionage and rescue. Young widow Lady Juliet Hampshire jumps at the chance to be involved in an espionage mission into France - she will do anything to avoid having to think about her dwindling finances and the necessity of catching a wealthy husband. It is just a shame that her traveling companion is to be the stuffy, snobby Lord Alistair Chisholm. But there is more to the wounded Lord Chisholm than Juliet can see. Alistair has been chasing redemption for years, ever since he accidentally killed his older brother in a drunken brawl. Now the heir to his father's Marquessate, he should be staying at home, finding a wife and siring children, but he can't rest until he atones for his grievous sin. And as an experienced spy, he can't understand why the untried, scandalous Lady Hampshire is involved in his mission. Thrown together and required to work closely, they quickly realize their first impressions of each other are mistaken, and passion flares between them, with both of them assuring the other the liaison will cease when they return to London. But when first one and then the other falls in love, can they overcome injury, familiar strangers, capture and the deepest of betrayal in order to claim their happily ever after?