Scandalous Brides

Starting over is never easy but letting go might prove impossible for this pair.After disappearing nearly two years ago, Lady Laura Sweet has returned to Ravenswood Palace, home of her estranged husband. The place where she suffered his neglect, as well as emotional and physical abuse at the hands of his late father the duke. Laura has only come home to demand a divorce from her husband, but his brother, the new Duke of Ravenswood, is determined to make things difficult and demands they thrash out the failures of their marriage for his benefit.Nash Sweet spent years under the thumb of his cruel, evil father. Even in death, the man is proving hard to shake, and Nash is only now discovering all the ways the old duke interfered in his marital affairs. But that doesn't mean he forgives his wife for abandoning their sons and forsaking their marriageespecially when she returns bearing an infant daughter he knew nothing about! Nash is equally willing to discuss divorce, but with proximity comes the resurrection of old feelingsand perhaps some new ones he was not prepared for.Surrender Becomes Her is the fourth steamy regency romance novel in the Scandalous Brides series.

Algernon Sweet, Duke of Ravenswood, has a plan. Travel to London. Propose to the rich titled widow who can solve all his financial woes. Easy. Or it would be if he weren't trapped at a country inn by rising floodwaters where he encounters a childhood friend who once read poetry to his dog and questioned him about everything under the sun. Margaret Black turned grown-up is a distraction, even more a bluestocking, and inconveniently attractive, too. When it becomes clear she needs help to reach her father, he offers a seat in his carriage-purely out of politeness, of course. And not at all because she makes him laugh like no woman ever has. Maggie Black has never quite belonged-not in drawing rooms, not in London, and certainly not stranded at an inn with a duke. Trading stories about their very different lives and discussing books over bad stew and too much brandy late at night isn't a good idea for a spinster traveling without a chaperone. But it's hard to resist a man who's both familiar and frustratingly handsome-especially when he hangs on her every word as if she were the only woman in the world. Somewhere between road delays, accidental confessions, and a scandalously intimate stop in a bookshop, Maggie finds herself falling for the one man who absolutely cannot be hers. Because dukes don't marry poor bluestockings with a passion for books and a tendency to argue…or do they? USA Today Bestselling Author Heather Boyd believes every character she creates deserves their own happily-ever-after-no matter how much trouble she puts them through. With that goal in mind, she writes steamy romances that skirt the boundaries of propriety to keep readers enthralled until the wee hours of the morning. Heather has published over fifty regency romance novels and shorter works full of daring seductions and distinguished rogues. She lives north of Sydney, Australia, with her trio of rogues and a four-legged overlord. Find out more at: www.Heather-Boyd.com