King's Girls

She wants no husband. He wants no wife. Jailed for crimes unbecoming a lady, Marie yearns for liberty even as she refuses the one choice that will set her free: An arranged marriage with a frontier stranger. Then a brawny ex-soldier offers a more dangerous proposal. Spend one winter as his wife in name only, and come spring he will set her free…

THE AUTUMN WIFEA runaway wife. A dangerous man. A passion worth the peril.Cecile Tremblay vows she'll never be a victim again. The twenty-four-year-old King's Girl escapes an abusive husband-a hanging offense, by the frontier laws of rough-and-tumble Montreal. Determined to avoid the noose, Cecile grasps a last-ditch way to secure sanctuary by joining a convent.But she didn't expect to meet Theo Martin, a burly, broad-muscled stonemason overseeing the building of the convent's nearby chapel. Hiding a troubled past of his own, the protective giant gently hammers at the walls around her hardened heart. As Cecile's emotional defenses weaken, the law closes in, forcing her to make an impossible choice.Can Cecile trust this unsettling stranger, or should she seal herself behind convent walls forever?

She's A Riddle He Can't Solve Orphaned and destitute, Marietta agrees to become a King's Girl, one of many women shipped to Quebec to be married to ungovernable settlers. Determined not to be rushed into matrimony, she challenges every bachelor to solve a riddle before courting her. The scheme buys her time-until the knotty riddle is solved by a most unlikely suitor….