What if the biggest scoundrel in town has been by your side all along?
Phaedra Sharp is an heiress with a mind of her own—and her mind is dead set on becoming a cat-loving spinster and avoiding the scheming entanglements of men. But her plan goes awry when she is suddenly thrust into a whirlwind of wagers, fortune-hunters, and indecent encounters with the earl-next-door.
Marcus Lawson, Earl of Deerhurst, is a man with secrets. Secrets that will cost him his future if they’re ever revealed—perhaps even his life. He is also a man of many, many mistakes, and his latest include kissing Phaedra and letting her take sanctuary in his home. But the biggest mistake of all: entering into a fake courtship to foil the very rogues he accidentally set on her trail.
When secrets are exposed, Phaedra is mortified to discover the biggest scoundrel in town has been by her side all along. Will Marcus’s mistakes—and the dark secret he keeps locked in his heart—be too much for her to overcome
If he intends to fight dirty, so will she . . .
Lady Harriet Hillstow never imagined even in her wildest dreams that she’d discover her father had arranged a marriage for her with the wicked and wily Marquess of Leeds on the very day he shows up with a special license! Never mind the man’s unnerving handsomeness, Harriet made a vow to her mother that she would never marry a man who would not fight for her. Can she allow such injustice to occur all because the men are worried about of a few silly wagers circling about town? Certainly not! Leeds is about to discover she is not so timid as the gossip rags claim.
William Fitzgerald Hamilton, the Marquess of Leeds, has never been an opportunist. Until the moment a chance to marry the woman of his dreams fell into his lap. There’s only one problem. For some reason, Harriet loathes him. William has no choice but to go all in to discover why and win her over, lest the spirited beauty slip through his fingers forever.
Will this proposed arrangement become the source of their greatest misery or the surest passion that might just set their marriage aflame?
What happens when a lady who refuses to play by the rules meets a knave willing to break them all alongside her?
Selena Savage hates being told what to do. Had she been born a man, she’d have boxed her brother’s ears and left him in the dust. Not only is he the cause of all her recent misfortune, but he also assigned a guard dog to fend off the very rogues he is responsible for setting on her trail! Unfortunately, it’s one guard dog she cannot shake . . .
Phineas North, Marquis of Warrick is having a terrible season. He lost Avondale’s list of heiresses, which led to nightmarish wagers, he was attacked by a woman brandishing a candelabrum, and now he’s been charged to play wet nurse to his best friend’s sister.
A reluctant alliance forms between them, and together they work to find a secret woman’s club, perhaps break a family curse, and fight the growing attraction that unfurls between them. When Warrick is trapped in a conniving plot by the very people Selena is searching for, a choice must be made.
Give up everything she had hoped to find or save the ‘guard dog’ she wanted to shake in the first place.