Ulverscroft
3 total works
Lovely Annabel Gresham is worried about her financial future - and she has good reason to be. The codicil to her grandfather's will and her own father's recently altered will have been stolen. If the missing documents don't turn up post-haste, her rapacious half brother, Roderick, will inherit the family fortune and Annie will be left penniless.Rumour has it that Roderick's best friend made off with the documents - and hid them in a bawdy house somewhere in London. Annie's determined to find them - that is, when she isn't distracted by Richard Tregerran, the devilishly handsome, rakishly charming man she encounters at every turn. Annie had heard of his bad reputation and suspects that his morals are downright despicable. But he just might prove invaluable in this high-stakes game of hide and seek...
A proper young lady must hide her love for a lord who has even more to hide. Miss Roslyn Meredith had so many questions about Lord James Atherton. Why had this handsome, charming, sensitive aristocrat married the notorious Vanessa, society's most heartless and most scheming beauty? And what had happened to her? Had she vanished off the face of the earth? And now, why did Atherton invite Roslyn and her improvident portrait-painter father to his secluded estate in Foxcombe?But one question overshadowed all others. Could Roslyn trust this man who had no right to make her lose her heart to him - and could she trust herself...?
When Alabeth left London under a cloud of gossip as bride of notorious rake Robert Manvers, she thought never to return. But her beloved Robert was dead now, fallen in a duel encouraged by his supposed friend, Sir Piers Castleton, and Alabeth was free to come to London to guard her overly romantic sister Jillian from temptations that Alabeth knew only too well.But even Alabeth did not dream that Jillian would fall in love with so seductive a scoundrel as the handsome and heartless Piers Castleton himself. Even less did Alabeth expect to meet the very mirror image of her late husband in Count Adam Zaleski, the lover that every high-born lady in London vied for.Clearly it was Alabeth's duty to battle the man she hated to save her sister - and fight off the memory of the man she loved to save herself...