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When an old acquaintance asks Lord Sebastian Strong to look into the strange goings on at a remote family property, he agrees, naturally…. for a price. After all, as a younger son, he has to make his own way in the world. If that means convincing a gaggle of spinsters in the throes of senility that their ancestral home isn't haunted, he's game for it. But when he arrives at Evenwold Manor, the woman who greets him looks like no spinster he's ever...
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This is a historical erotic short story (word count 4,562).The Duke of Highgate is looking for a certain woman to satisfy his demands and believes he may just have found that certain someone when by chance he crosses paths with Chantelle at a masquerade ball.Chantelle on her part finds herself overwhelmed and excited by the Duke in equal measure. With it being rather daunting to think that on her first assignment as a Courtesan she will have to fulfil...
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One youthful indiscretion has left Kit Wexford with a reputation in tatters and an unfortunate nickname-Wicked Wexford. But it was her father's financial ruin that altered her life irrevocably and saw her scrubbing floors in her cousin's country home. Treated worse than the servants, she tolerates the lowering existence because to do otherwise would see her brother and herself in the workhouse. But when a stranger arrives in the small village of Lofton,...
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The MacKintosh clan somehow made love look so bloody appealing… James MacKintosh has watched his brothers find the perfect woman one after the other, but for him, he had yet to stumble across one who didn't make him want to put an ocean between them. So he did, thinking a life in New York would put his discontent out of sight and out of mind.Love was the last thing she wanted…New York suffragette Primrose Eames had more than enough men trying...
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When mill heiress Miss Emily Marsham agrees to a marriage born out of tragedy and hardheaded necessity, her hopes for future marital bliss aren't high. Adam Blackthorn, the ambitious manager of one of her father's mills is not what she expected in a husband. Can she make the best of her situation and be a dutiful wife, or will Adam challenge her to become something else entirely?
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Coming face-to-face with the scoundrel who broke her heart on the eve of her wedding to another man could not be more awkward or ill-timed for Lady Sally Ford. When she accepted London's most eligible earl, she hoped her heart had healed enough to learn to love him after they tied the knot. Her betrothed has no idea she was once engaged to an ambitious sea captain who betrayed her, and Sally has never forgotten or forgiven Captain Hastings for leaving...
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This is a steamy historical romance short story (word count 4,382).Charlotte's one desire comes in the extremely attractive form of William the Marquess of Chester.He has been the object of Charlotte's affection for so long to the point that she is now quite prepared to do everything in her power to secure his attention and attachment to her in turn. Even if it means submitting to the Marquess's very demanding ways! For William wishes to possess Charlotte...
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In this spicy, humorous addition to the Questions for a Highlander series, Angeline Fortin continues the adventures of the MacKintosh clan with the tale of how Harry met Fiona…And broke her heart.They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned but Fiona MacKintosh was more inclined to believe that after a long, furious journey through hell, no scorned woman was apt to be inclined to love and entrust her heart to a man so easily again. Especially...
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Lord Michael Sutherland, Viscount Ellersleigh, is infamous amongst the ton for his powers of seduction and his prowess as a lover. Running from his own ennui and a lover who fancies herself his future wife, Michael retreats to the country and a crumbling, haunted castle won in a game of chance... a castle occupied by an innocent and oh so tempting young woman, Miss Abbigail Barrows. But country life proves to be anything but quiet. At a debauched...
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With Uncle Charles away, the rakes are out to play...Every rakehell in London seems to believe Regina Darlington is ripe for seduction without a protector at her side. They are mistaken. She is well equipped to defend her virtue using an ancient warrior art she learned from her uncle. Protecting her heart is another matter. When a down-and-out thief knocks himself unconscious robbing her uncle's town house, Regina takes pity on him and discovers she...
12) Ruined by a Lady
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** Previously published in Evading the Duke *** There is nothing Samuel Storm wants more than to leave London behind him and return to his plantation in Barbados, until he sees a portrait come to life. At least he's fairly certain the girl across St. Paul's is the same one depicted in the scandalous painting he owns back in the Caribbean. But how can he be sure? And why would a lady pose for such a painting?Lady Jillian Simpson has made many mistakes...
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This is a historical steamy romance short story (word count 4,397).Lily is determined to rebel against her warden Lord Lucas Martin, hoping her disruptive behaviour will lead to her being sent away.Unbeknownst to her Lord Martin has no intention whatsoever of letting Lily just to walk off and leave him. Furthermore, he is certain that he knows just how to gain her obedience and complete submission to him. All it will take is one eventful lesson with...
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This is a steamy historical romance short story (word count 5,469) Hannah is having a passionate affair with her steward, David Grey. She is enjoying the private lessons in the bedroom that he is attentively bestowing on her, Hannah being a very willing student... However her enjoyment is soon to end. To her disappointment, David has to leave her country estate and her on an urgent matter. Hannah takes the opportunity to reluctantly end their intimate...
15) A Love So Dark
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Having no fortune, a negligible reputation, and an appearance that could only be described as plain, Miss Olympia Daventry has few prospects. Unless, of course, she elects to remain in her aunt's home dodging her uncle's amourous advances and his sermons, both of which are dished out in equal measure. Out of desperation, she accepts an offer of marriage from a man she has never met. Married by proxy, she travels to his home and at her first sight...
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In 1888, widowed Brianna MacAulay is an independent woman struggling to support her two sons. She turns her home into a boarding house, believing this will preserve her from accepting another unhappy marriage proposal. But her late husband's brother, Harrison MacAulay, has lusted after Brianna for years. Now that his brother is dead, he's determined to win and wed her. He journeys from Scotland to America to coerce her to move to his home in Edinburgh....
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Mary Soares was supposed to spend Christmas, nice and warm on her family's estate in Falkirk, Scotland, tending to their whisky business. However, the English have made smuggling almost impossible, and so order after order is waiting at the distillery until it's safe enough to continue shipments. Most customers understand this. Most customers are reasonable. The Duke of Danby is not most customers. So after a number of demands from His Grace, insisting...
18) Rhuddlan
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William Longsword, illegitimate son of Henry II of England, has been sent into exile in northern Wales. His nemesis, Earl Hugh of Chester, has retreated to a manor in Wales after a disastrous defeat at Henry's hands. The two resume their rivalry on this foreign ground, a conflict which expands to involve wives, lovers, local chiefs and a neighboring abbey.
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Money. Family. Love. Hate. Obsession. Duty. Politics. Religion - or the lack thereof. Sex -- or, once again, the lack thereof.Thomas Baldwin finds himself married to a woman he can't stand, while head-over heels in love with another woman he can't have. Talk about bad planning. He is something of a kite, buffeted by circumstances which blow him not only through personal crises, but also through some of the most significant events in Pittsburgh during...
20) The Leper Colony
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The story of a medical doctor in the period of the Civil War, a saga of the journey from his first posting in pre-war Louisiana to his death in the 1870s, the novel revolves around a fanciful form of leprosy called Cain's Leprosy and the search for its causes and development of a treatment regimen. The under-nurtured Andrew, a quick study in things scientific, is a slow study in things human.
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