Anne Stuart
1) Tangled Lies
For fifteen years, Rachel Chandler's brother Emmett has been missing. Still, every year on her birthday another porcelain butterfly arrives postmarked from a new exotic place—a gift from Emmett, who's been on the run since being implicated in a bombing.
Now that he's been spotted in Hawaii, Rachel will stop at nothing to find him again. But the man occupying her brother's cottage is a stranger. A man haunted by his past. A man looking...New age shopkeeper Sybil Richardson loves Christmas - she just doesn't like the impossibly sexy, incurably grumpy professor who's come to the tiny town of Danbury, Vermont to debunk all her dearly held beliefs. She doesn't like his suspicious nature, and she sure as hell doesn't like the fact that he makes her dissolve into a puddle of lust no matter how much he annoys her.
Nick Fitzsimmons thinks most...
Next stop: Hell. Unless . . .
He was a driven, heartless businessman, trampling anyone who got in his way, until one night when his grinchy-heart exploded. Now, he's back on earth with a second chance to avoid his fate. His task? To right three of his wrongs. Fail, and he's not going to like how his story ends.
All her fault . . .
Carrie Alexander lives a quiet life in a tiny
...When Emma Langolet accidentally kills her rapacious uncle, she's certain she's bound for the hangman's noose. She never expected that a jaded, cynical aristocrat would come to her rescue.
James Killoran saves her because it amuses him, not out of kindness, and when he finds himself coming to her rescue once more, he decides she's the perfect instrument of his revenge.
Emma should be no match for a determinedly dissolute lord who cares
...6) Shadow Dance
Beneath the ruffles and frills of a demure woman, Valerian Romney is ingeniously disguised as his older brother Phelan's "wife" in order to escape a wrongful murder charge. All is well until he meets the charming Sophie, who never expected to have feelings for a "woman."
His brazen masquerade is not the only secret—the stable lad is actually Juliette, dressed in man's clothes, trying to escape her abuser, and Valerian's brother Phelan
...7) Moonrise
Annie Sutherland has come in search of her late father's protégé, James McKinley. Only he could know the answers to her father's death, just as he held the secrets of the dangerous work both of them did.
McKinley has always been a dangerous man, a killing machine, one with no human weaknesses except for the innocent daughter of his mentor. She's the last person he wants invading his bolt hole, but after all the years of fighting off his
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