by Constance O'Banyon (2009)
With Egypt fallen under the mighty fist of Rome, young Julian Tausrat, prince of the Badari and blood kin to the late Queen Cleopatra, is forced to flee Egypt to train in the ways of the warrior and wait for the day he can return to claim his desert land and the girl who refused to betray him. Sabinah is no longer the young woman who had awakened his desire, but now holds a secret that could free Egypt from Roman tyranny, or sentence Julian and his people to death.
Diane Whiteside
In 1900, at the request of Theodore Roosevelt, Brian Donovan travels to the Grand Duchy of Eisengau to investigate rumors of a secret weapon. Meredith Duncan, a free love feminist, has the plans for the new cannon. They begin a love affair while competition for the weapon grows.
Cassie Edwards
Alone in the Kentucky wilderness, Pamela trembles under the gaze of the silent Miami warrior--and hungers for his touch. To Pamela, chief Strong Bear is the ultimate temptation.
Claudia Dain
On the night of her debut two years ago, Lady Louisa Kirkland fell for the devilish Marquis of Dutton. It's high time, she's decided, that he realized he loves her. Also, there is the matter ofLouisa's family pearls, which are in his possession. For both problems, Louisa will need the help of Lady Sophia, an ex-courtesan more clever than all the other ton matrons combined…
Barbara Ferry Johnson
Leah #2 LEAH... Heartbroken and tortured by desire for her aristocratic Creole lover, Baptiste Fontaine, she flees New Orleans on a paddle-wheeler bound for the North - bound for a new life with James Andrews, the lawyer who save her from the gallows. But as she ascends the gangplank for the sail upriver, and the first whistle of departure sounds its mournful tune, she gazes back to the cypress-shrouded levee, where the eyes of a wounded man burn deeply into her own. Try to forget, the eyes said. Someday you will long to sail southward on that river... This is the sequel to *Delta Blood*.