Derrings
4 primary works
Book 1
Book 2
This is an unconventional Regency-set romance from promising new author Sophie Jordan. We have a star in the making! The reluctant bride Lady Portia Derring has an impeccable pedigree and not a penny to her name. Sister to a duke, this impoverished bluestocking reluctantly travels to Yorkshire to meet the wealthy earl her family insists she wed. Meeting him, however, is as far as she will go. Refusing to be a sacrificial lamb on the altar of matrimony to satisfy her brother's debts, this determined lady will do everything in her power not to gain a proposal. After all, she has plans of her own and they don't involve matrimony. The unwilling groom Known as Mad Moreton to everyone in Yorkshire, Heath lives a life as untamed and wild as the moors. After all, he has a family reputation to live down. The bad blood that runs in his veins is more than enough reason to swear off matrimony. Not even the outspoken, infuriating Lady Portia will succeed in trapping him. Bright eyes and tempting smile aside, he will resist the chit even if it kills him.
Book 3
Anything can happen after dark ...Tired of being treated like a servant by her own family, Lady Jane Guthrie finally has a chance to escape ...at least for one night. Attired in a daring gown, she arrives at a scandalous courtesans' masquerade ball looking forward to her few hours of freedom. But when she sees Seth Rutledge, her skin begins to tingle with anticipation. Many years ago, Seth broke her heart by falling for her beautiful, title-hungry sister. But now here he is, right in front of her, offering her his lips ...Embittered by war, Seth returns home to inherit the title that would have once won him the woman of his dreams. Though duty demands he wed, he's convinced passion no longer has a place in his life ...until a masked siren sets his heart aflame. Desperate to find her again, he has no idea it's his childhood friend Jane-and that after one night together their lives will never be the same.
Book 4
For years Lady Astrid Derring has survived with a skeleton staff, borrowed gowns and cucumber sandwiches gobbled up at the galas she attends. Never having lived down the scandal of her husband abandoning her to avoid prosecution for his crimes, she has endured wagging tongues and indecent propositions from noblemen who deem her ripe for the plucking. When word reaches her that her husband is living under an assumed identity in Scotland and betrothed to an heiress, one course of action looms obvious. Astrid must stop that wedding. Only her journey to Scotland is fraught with mishaps, all which toss her in the path of Griffin Shaw - a rough, arrogant American who time and again threatens to melt her icy reserve. When Astrid's confrontation with her husband inadvertently results in his death, she finds herself under suspicion and on the run in a strange land depending on the help of the handsome American who scandalises her with his wicked gaze and bold words.