Devoted Hearts

Her social graces are lacking, his finances are in ruin, but together they can solve both their problems. As long as they don't fall in love. After years of escaping etiquette lessons in favor of the stables, Christine Devon's grand debut in London is only weeks away. However, her deportment lacks the sophisticated polish she needs to achieve her father's demands for a lofty marriage. Desperate to take her place in society, she needs someone to instruct her in proper behavior.Thomas Gilbert, newly returned from Italy, has long dreamed of founding a horse farm. But during his time away, his estate's finances have dwindled to almost nothing. Unless he finds a way to save his family from ruin, he will be forced to sell his horses and give up his dreams entirely.A chance meeting between them may solve both their problems. Christine gains a tutor in the finer arts of polite behavior, while Thomas is given access to the finest equine bloodlines in England. But as time passes, the arrangement is less about their mutual need, and more about love. Will they see it in time, or will Christine leave Thomas behind for the splendor of London's ballrooms?

A broken heart and past regrets keep a physician and spinster apart, but a second chance at love may heal them both.Banished from home by her angry father, Julia Devon travels to Bath to fulfill her role as family spinster by assisting her cousin, Lady Heatherton, in caring for her dying husband. Julia knows she must make plans for her future, as she refuses to go back to her father's home.Nathaniel Hastings's life runs in a predictable pattern, until a routine visit to one of his ailing patients brings him face to face with Julia. She broke his heart five years before when she turned away his offer of courtship, and he hasn't been able to forgive or forget her. Julia and Nathaniel find the spark between them very much alive as they work together to tend to the family's needs, fend off Lady Macon's scheming brother-in-law, and avoid confronting the pain of their shared past. But could this accidental meeting be their second chance at love?The Gentleman Physician can be read as a stand alone romance, though it is part of the Devoted Hearts Regency series. It is a second-chance romance.

He vowed never to risk his heart again. She has loved him in silence for years. A marriage of convenience was never meant to become something more.Overlooked by society and under appreciated by her family, Ellen Bringhurst has resigned herself to a quiet life of books and solitude. But when her well-meaning friends contrive to reunite her with the man she has secretly loved since childhood, Ellen finds her carefully ordered world suddenly upended.Marcus Calvert, the younger brother of an earl, must marry in order to inherit his estate. Still nursing the wounds of a broken heart, he has no desire to risk himself on romantic love again. A sensible marriage is all he seeks and Ellen, steady and kind, seems the perfect choice.Ellen accepts his proposal knowing he does not love her, determined to be a good wife rather than risk his rejection. Yet as the days of their marriage unfold, Marcus begins to see his childhood friend in an entirely new light.What began as a practical arrangement soon grows into something deeper. But when love was never meant to be part of the bargain, will Marcus find the courage to risk his heart again?