Daring Charades

As the most dazzling debutante of 1811, beautiful and reckless Miss Olivia Templestowe scandalised society when she eloped with notorious rake, Lucien, Lord Farquhar. Five years later, she's paid the highest price for her impetuosity. Lucien is dead, branding his widow a whore and unfit mother, and willing the care of their child to a relative. Now Olivia is about to orchestrate a grand charade to reclaim everything she has lost. AFTER YEARS ABROAD, fighting for king and country, Max Atherton has returned to the estate he's inherited and to take responsibility for his cousin's child.When he discovers a young woman, unconscious, on his land, he's fired up with new purpose as love blossoms when he nurses the beautiful and fascinating Mrs Olivia Templestowe back to health. But Olivia possesses a secret far darker than simply her identity. A secret that threatens the future of the honourable man who has fulfilled her heart's desire, As Olivia struggles to choose between Max's future, and safeguarding her son's, Max must discover the key to the puzzle that will free them all – before it's too late! A sweet, passionate love story with an intriguing mystery at its core. Get your copy now!

When spoiled heiress Lady Sarah Miles assumes the identity of a drowned governess to escape an undesirable marriage, she never expected to fall in love with her employer or become so attached to her difficult charge, Caro.After a month living at the grand estate of reformist MP Roland Hawthorne where she is governess to the widower's rebellious sixteen-year-old daughter, Sarah is greatly changed. Gaining Caro's trust and earning Roland's love is much more important to her than new ballgowns and dancing slippers.But Sarah's deceit has played into the hands of an unexpected adversary; a man who wants to punish Roland and who uses Caro as a pawn in a high-stakes game of revenge.Now Sarah must risk everything she holds dear if she's to save Caro, protect Roland from the past - and redeem herself.

Marriage was not the intended outcome when loyal and determined Miss Rose Chesterfield made a wager with London's most eligible rake not to call in a debt that would ruin her family.Ashley Delacroix, Viscount Rampton is practised at resisting the lures of scheming debutantes to get him to the altar, which is why he only consorts with beautiful widows and willing matrons.When irresistible Lady Chesterfield indicates she's prepared to barter her wares for the short time she's in England in return for not calling in a ticklish debt, Rampton eagerly sets up the perfect seduction.But Lady Chesterfield is not what she seems and Rampton's anger at being honour-bound to offer her matrimony is equalled only by his anger at the lengths to which Miss Chesterfield will go not to marry him.Rose, now married to the man who's enthralled her from the moment she arrived in London, is determined to prove her worth to her new husband.But her beautiful, scheming sister-in-law Helena – the real Lady Chesterfield – is furious that Rose has ruined her plans for happiness a second time.She's intent on orchestrating the perfect poetic justice she believes Rose deserves.And a husband full of mistrust with a penchant for beautiful matrons is just the tool for revenge she needs.Previously published as A Little Deception and shortlisted for an Australian Romance Readers' Award