by Miranda Neville (2010)
"Diana Fanshawe has always wanted to be a duchess. She uses Sebastian Iverley to get to his ducal cousin, but finds she can{u2019}t forget the brilliant, unconventional viscount and his sizzling kiss. Sebastian Iverley has no time for women until he meets the beautiful Diana. When he learns she is trifling with him, the scholarly bookworm studies what it takes to please a lady. He initiates a game of seduction and revenge that can only end in disaster ... or true love."--Author's website.
Christi Caldwell
Adair Thorne has just watched his gaming-hell dream disappear into a blaze of fire and ash, and he's certain that his competitors, the Killorans, are behind it. His fury and passion burn even hotter when he meets Cleopatra Killoran, a tart-mouthed vixen who mocks him at every turn. If she were anyone else but the enemy, she'd ignite a desire in him that would be impossible to control.
Alana Clayton
AN UNASSUMING LADY For newly married Cassandra Crawford, there was no courtship, simply a written proposal from Jared Moreland, Viscount Carlisle, which her debt-laden stepfather quickly accepted on her behalf. And so she finds herself wed to a handsome, wealthy, and very distant stranger. Jared seems determined to avoid her, leading a life of angry, drunken abandon, Cassy has plenty of love to give, but how can she convince her husband to accept it? AN UNREPENTANT RAKE Jared Moreland is bent on revenge against his own father, for wooing away the woman he once loved. Since then, Jared has done his best to humiliate him by revelling in public debauchery - but his most golden opportunity presents itself when he is told he must marry to continue the family line. Cassandra Crawford - a social and financial nonentity- is perfect. He intends to ignore Cassy completely, thereby ensuring that no heir is produced. But Jared never counted on his new wife's unexpected charm, compassion, and strength. Suddenly, his heart is launching a rebellion of it own, gradually drawing him into an unexpected love ...
Georgette Heyer
The only question which hangs over the life of Sir Richard Wyndham, notable whip, dandy and Corinthian, is one of marriage. On the eve of making the most momentous decision of his life, while he is contemplating a loveless marriage with a woman his friends have compared to a cold poultice, he is on his way home, a little worse for drink, and finds a perfect opportunity for escape by her boring destiny. He discovers a beautiful young fugitive climbing out of a window by means of knotted sheets, dressed in boy's clothing lovely Penelope Creed is fleeing from London. She is a brilliant London heires with and lavish life, and a proposed marriage to her repulsive fish-lipped cousin, a man she loathed. She has a shimmering dream of a love she had known once--and lost. Discovered by Sir Wyndham, he can't allow her to travel to the countryside all alone, so he offers himself as her protector. And with her in flight across a landscape of excitement was a man like no other she had known-- handsome, sophisticated, but cynical. They had met by accident, been drawn together by danger. And now only his masked emotions and the shifting impulses of her own wild young heart would tell what their destiny would be.... When their stagecoach overturns, they find themselves embroiled with thieves, at the center of a murder investigation, and finally, in love.
Dana Marton
"For Prince Miklos, a royal wedding was a royal duty, one more step toward saving his beloved, beleaguered country. Unfortunately, his chosen bride-to-be--beautiful, brainy Judi Marezzi--didn't realize that her vacation included an arranged marriage. In fact, from the moment they met, nothing went as planned. A dagerous conspiracy threw him and his princess together, and dragged the ill-matched pair off to an Alpine prison. With his military training, Miklos took charge and made plans to bring them to safety. Danger surrounded them, but so did a shared passion--for his kingdom, for the honor of a free land and for a love that had been foretold since birth."--p. [4] of cover.