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By Arrangement
A noblewoman finds herself betrothed to a handsome merchant. She harbors a wish that the knight she loves will rescue her. He holds his secrets close, but vows to make her forget her foolish knight....
By Design
Bantam, Jan 2001, 4.99 ISBN: 0553582232 In the marketplace near the Cathedral, freemason Rhys observes a beautiful newcomer serenely and quietly trying to sell crockery. For some strange reason, Rhys finds himself enchanted by the “alien” and even more excited by her work that is geometrically perfect especially since he learns that she lacked the proper equipment. Reluctantly by gleefully for having met the latest hawker, Rhys finally mo...
Lord of a Thousand Nights
Bantam, Dec 2001, 6.50, 384 pp. ISBN: 0553583867 In 1357 on the Scottish border, widow Lady Reyna Graham concocts a dangerous but necessary plan to try to save her people. The siege led by English mercenary Ian Guilford and his ally Morvan Fitzwaryn (star of THE PROTECTOR) is working so well that it jeopardizes her clan. Reyna dresses up as a courtesan to gain access to her enemy's camp so that she can kill Ian, known for his military and ...
The Charmer
Bantam, Dec 2003, 5.99 ISBN: 0553585916 In 1831 King William sends Adrian Burchard to bring Sophia Raughley back to England though she feels her home is in Paris after eight years there. However, with the death of her estranged father, Sophia inherits the Duchy of Everdom. This means among other things she is considered now a key political person because she controls several rotten borough representatives in the House of Commons including her e...

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The Protector
Bantam, Jul 2001, 4.99, 339 pp. ISBN: 0553583549 In the middle of the fourteenth century in Breton, Morvan Fitzwaryn expects to soon die from the Black Plague if not from the angry peasants fearing his illness. However, Lady Anna de Leon, dressed in warrior garb, rescues Morvan from the irate mob and later helps nurse him back to health. Morvan, attracted to Anna, joins her forces not out of gratitude, but out of a desire to keep the ...
The Romantic
Berkley, Nov 2004, 7.50, 416 pp. ISBN: 0425199177 A desperate Penelope “Pen” Hampton returns from Naples to London seeking the protection of her trusty solicitor Julian Hampton. Pen tells Julian that her estranged abusive spouse demands she come to him so that he can impregnate her. Afraid of her husband, the Count of Glasonbury, and knowing he has the law on his side, she informs Julian that her odious spouse sent thugs to retrieve her; she ha...
The Saint
Bantam, Nov 2003, 5.99, 432 pp. ISBN: 0553585908 In 1823 Lord Vergil LaClare barely can hold his anger in check while the villainess white slaver Jane Ormond, a colonial, sings an aria. He informs Jane, companion to his mousy American ward, Bianca Kenwood, that her plot to kidnap his cousin failed and if she wants to avoid Newgate, she better flee for her homeland immediately. Jane looks Vergil in the eyes and blithely informs him that he got e...