Daring Dersinghams

Lady Dorcas Dersingham is developing the rare and lovely yellow rose. Grant, the Duke of Blackridge, develops coal mines. Beauty meets Beast.Oblivious to the beauty of nature, Grant is the last person Dorcas should care for. He's a giant of a man and speaks his mind with blunt force. But she can't stop wanting him. When Grant damages her precious yellow rose, she spurns his courtship.Once he sees the spitfire lurking behind her shy exterior, Grant wants Dorcas more than ever. But somebody doesn't want them together. Somebody wants them dead.Grant follows Dorcas to the country and watches over her from a distance, disguised as the manager of his new coal mine. But Dorcas soon unearths his secret. Once she reveals the passionate woman she really is, he wants her more than ever.Dorcas can no longer deny that she loves her Beast. But as they are coming to a new understanding, a disaster forces her to take life-changing decisions.If they don't trap the person trying to kill them, they won't get their happy ever after.

The Earl and the Silversmith - can they defy convention for love?Gerald Dersingham, the new Earl of Carbrooke, is captivated by the woman who storms into his house demanding an explanation for a letter he had no idea he sent.After recently inheriting the earldom, Gerald has a new life to forge for himself and his sisters. About to become betrothed to the icy daughter of a duke, the vibrant, alluring Annie captivates his heart. But if he gives in to his desires, he risks a happy ending for his sisters, and they deserve their chance.Annie Cathcart is a widow from the City of London. Finally she has the chance to achieve her dream of creating silverware of her own. But she needs Gerald's old Shoreditch home to do it. Expecting a stuffy, pompous aristocrat she meets a man who sees right through her practical exterior to the passionate woman beneath. She wants him more than the house, her respectability and her independence.Annie and Gerald are faced with stark choices. Either they give in to the pressures forcing them into unhappy respectability apart, or they boldly defy convention in the name of love.

Companions aren't supposed to marry dukes.When Matilda, chaperone and aunt to the most scandalous family in London, takes a tumble from a tree, she's rescued by the most unlikely saviour. Toplofty stickler Harold, the Duke of Trensom, is more than annoyed to find Matilda on his property.Worse when he finds himself falling for her.Matilda is shocked at how much she wants Harry, and after all, what was wrong with a holiday fling? But when the rumour surfaces that Harry is about to propose to Delphi, her erstwhile charge, she wonders if he is playing her for a fool.And Matilda is far from being a fool. But this time, she dares to dream.

In a starlit garden, Lady Damaris Dersingham meets a man who makes her heart beat faster. But the next day, she is witness to the greatest humiliation of her life, when she is rejected from the Royal Society. That was all Damaris had ever wanted.Damaris is passionate about astronomy. But that's not good enough for the Royal Society, who rejects herbecause she's a woman. And the man from that starlit garden is none other than Logan, the Duke of Glenbreck, a member of the committee that rejected her.Discovering the transit of Venus seems ironic to Logan, the Duke of Glenbreck, once he discovers his greatest rival is the most fascinating woman he's ever met. Damaris deserves better, and Logan will ensure she gets it. The desire he feels for her has nothing to do with it. Truly it doesn't. When her work is stolen, suspicions arise between them. Did Logan show her work to somebody else? Can she really be in love with him?Although he has fought his desire for the lovely Damaris, Logan can't deny it any longer. And when the thief confronts Logan with a stark choicehis work or Damaris' lifehe has to trust his heart rather than his head.

One last attempt to make her accept his love...Rhona sent the love of her life away once, but now Frederick is back. He doesn't care that she's a housekeeper and he's a wounded soldier, the brother of a duke. For the three nights of Christmas, he'll give her three gifts; wooden figures he carved for her in the long nights before his last battle. They represent their past, their present, and what they could have in the future.If she doesn't accept his love this time, he'll leave for good.

Marrying the love of her life means Delphi might have to leave the family she is so close to. Forever.Marriage isn't for DelphiOnly one man ever penetrated Delphi Dersingham's obsession with the ancient world, and he abandoned her. She tells herself she doesn't need anything else. Until the morning she is seized and ruthlessly kissed on the steps of Trajan's Column. Until Adam comes backAstonished to see the love of his life in Rome, Adam, Duke of Kilsyth, claims the kiss he's been longing for. Under suspicion of being a Jacobite like his father, Adam is threatened with the ruin of everything he has worked for since the death of his father at Culloden. How can he drag Delphi into the mess his life has become? Except, by that impulsive kiss, he does.Can she marry a traitor? If he is a traitor, that isAdam and Delphi discover the dangerous Jacobite plot his brother Frederick is embroiled in. The hare-brained plot to assassinate King George in London threatens Adam and Delphi's happiness. Nothing is what it seems in this topsy-turvey world. Only one constant remains, their love for each other.But if they don't solve a devilish cipher and discover the true culprits, their future together is in peril.