Scots & Scoundrels

When your heart is on the line, you can't afford to lose. When Gia Landon is tricked into a London season by her father, she is pleased to have found a friend who shares her love of horses in the Duke of Roxburghe. The surly Scot enjoys living in London and hates the country, while Gia despises everything about society. Hale knows Gia has no intention of marrying. She is simply biding her time until her father gives up and allows her to return to the country. Which means there is no danger in spending his days in her company discussing their one true love... race horses. But soon, their shared love of all things equine begins to grow, and a friendship they thought was safe tempts them into crossing the line into scandal. Contains mature themes.

When digging for treasure, you never know what your heart might find. Julian Huntly, Earl of Melville, is being forced into marriage to a proper woman by his dead father. If he doesn't wed before he's thirty, he will lose everything. Even worse, the workers counting on him will be in danger. But he has a year to have one last great adventure before being shackled to someone for the rest of his life. Miss Elaina Bantham has had an exciting existence away from Society as she's traveled the globe and uncovered treasures with her aunt and uncle. It has been a wonderful distraction from her disastrous come out years ago. Too freckled, too tall, and too worldly, she's settled contently into spinsterhood. But now, the man who'd destroyed her chance for a traditional future, is set to join their expedition to Egypt and ruin her life. Julian could be happy with Elaina, but she is not proper enough to satisfy his father's demands. He must decide if he will lose everything or give up his chance on love. Contains mature themes.

Can their friendship survive when they accidentally cross the line. After being forced into a brief marriage with an elderly earl, Celia Dorsett is ready to embrace her freedom, and take a lover. A masquerade with the demimonde sounds like the perfect way to find a companion for the evening without revealing her identity. But days after the most perfect evening of her life, she comes to realize her Lord Desire is none other than Christopher Sinclair, Viscount Stormont, her younger brother's best friend. The man who sits with her at the breakfast table nearly every morning making her laugh. The man who, years ago, had let her down in the worst possible way by not saving her from an unpleasant fate. Kit still carries the scars from Celia's rejection when she'd chosen money over happiness. But he is no longer a destitute nobleman. He now has the funds to take care of a wife and family properly. He's ready to marry, but Celia is not interested in giving up her independence. Can they heal from the pains of the past and find their way back to that night of happiness? Contains mature themes.