Ambrosia

Charlotte Mabry loved Simon Browning, the elder brother of her dearest friend, right up until the moment he broke her heart and humiliated her in front of half of London. In the years since, she has rehabilitated her public image and climbed to heights she would never have dreamed she could reach, but experience has taught her better than to love or trust in any man ever again. Instead, she has turned her attention to business. It is a secret that could ruin her if it ever fell into the wrong hands-after all, who would ever expect the darling of the Ton to be the owner of an illicit ladies' club?Simon Browning, Baron Clybourne, has recently returned to England, ten years removed from the worst night of his life which sent him fleeing from his home in shame. He is haunted by what might have been had he only owned up to his feelings for Lottie-and now he must contend with the fact that the sweet, shy girl he had once known has been replaced a veritable jewel of the Ton. But even her perfect, glittering façade cannot hide her lifeless eyes and smothered spirit.Simon is ready, at last, to be the man he ought to have been ten years ago, and he is certain that there must be something of the girl he still loves buried beneath the armor of the consummate lady that she has donned in his absence. But if he cannot uncover the dangerous secrets she holds and protect her from the consequences thereof, she may be ruined. Worse still, if he cannot win her forgiveness and convince her that he loves the Lottie who hides behind the mask she wears, he may lose her forever.

Wrongfully accused of the murder of her husband, Geneviève Amberley, the Duchess of Venbrough, buried her past before it could bury her. In the twelve years since, she has reinvented herself from runaway duchess into Jenny Laurent, the manager of an exclusive ladies' club. No one is looking for a criminal in the woman she has become, and the murderous duchess is so far in the past that she might as well truly be dead and buried-or so she believes.To Sebastian Knight, there is nothing quite so interesting as a mystery to be solved, and the woman who calls herself Jenny Laurent is the most fascinating mystery he has ever encountered. She is his latest obsession-an enigma so tantalizing, so alluring, that he cannot help but to make himself known to her.An affair with the perceptive Mr. Knight is the last thing Jenny needs, but she finds herself charmed by his candor and his persistence-even if his unique talents make him the most dangerous man in all of England to a woman like her. He could very well burn her carefully constructed façade to ashes…and destroy her in the process.

Determined to find the man who ruined her sister and force him into matrimony at the point of a pistol, Lizzie Talbot hatches a plan to abduct the blackguard responsible. A plan which might have gone perfectly-had she not abducted the wrong man, and then shot him besides. With three siblings to support in a derelict manor house crumbling around them, and a wounded marquess to nurse back to health, will there be no end to her troubles?Forced to rusticate in the countryside, Lucas Godwin, Marquess of Ashworth, can think only of enacting his vengeance upon the murderous harpy responsible for it. At least until Lizzie Talbot and her brood of unruly siblings begin to grow upon him, bringing a man long dead slowly back to life.When Luke offers her a bargain-become his marchioness in exchange for his protection and support-Lizzie knows she must accept to secure her family's future. But the man he is in London is so far removed from the man she thought she had known. Can there be any hope of warming her husband's cold heart?