What a girl wants To survive her difficult childhood, Miss Hazel Lively relied on two things: a tough exterior and a love of books. Now, she's realized her lifelong dream of opening a school for girls. She's hoping the wealthy families who summer at the shore will entrust their daughters to Bellehaven Academy--and help pay for less fortunate students. All Hazel must do is maintain a flawless reputation. It's a foolproof plan ... until a handsome earl strides into her office. What an earl needs Gabriel Beckett, Earl of Bladenton, has had a monstrous headache since the day his teenage niece became his ward. She's already been expelled from two London schools, but Blade is determined to enroll her at Bellehaven Academy, where she'll be out of his hair. If only he can convince the buttoned-up--and unexpectedly intriguing--headmistress to take a risk. Lead to an irresistible deal Blade makes an offer that's impossible for Hazel to refuse, but she has one condition: The earl must visit his niece every other week. Soon, Blade discovers there's more to Hazel than meticulous lessons. Their sparring leads to flirtation ... and something altogether deeper. But the passion that flares between them poses a threat to Hazel's school and Blade's battered heart. They say a good thing can't last forever, but true love? Well, it just might ...
In Suzanne Enoch's Great Scot, Jane Bansil knows she will never have a fairy-tale life. But even at three-and-thirty, well past marriageable age, she has to admit that the architect the MacTaggerts have hired could turn even a confirmed spinster's head. In Amelia Grey's Christmas at Dewberry Hollow, Isabelle Reed has no plans to ever fall in love-and certainly not with Gate, a man who doesn't live in Dewberry Hollow. She will fulfill her duty and help him keep his promise to have his ill grandfather back in London in time for Christmas dinner. But the last thing she wants is for Gate to take her heart with him when he goes. In Anna Bennett's My Mistletoe Beau, Miss Eva Tiding is determined to cheer her widowed father with the perfect Christmas gift-even if it means breaking into the home of the rakish earl who swindled Papa out of his pocket watch and pretending to date him for the Christmas season.
A New York Times Book Review Summer Read Pick! Once upon a time in Anna Bennett's When You Wish Upon a Rogue, three young ladies vowed to record their first London seasons and to fill in the gaps of their educations. She knows what she wants. Miss Sophie Kendall is happiest arranging the secret meetings of the Debutante Underground, a group of women who come together to discuss the weekly advice column The Debutantes Revenge. What makes Sophie most unhappy is her impending march down the aisle to a man she does not love. But her familys finances are in increasingly dire straits. He makes an offer she cant refuse. Henry Reese, Earl of Warshire, hasnt slept in weeks. Desperate to escape his manor house and its haunting memories, he heads for one of his abandoned London properties. There he meets a beautiful, intriguing woman?trespassing. Reese is far less interested in Sophies search for a secret meeting spot than he is in her surprising ability to soothe his demons. So he strikes a bargain with her: his shop in exchange for spending one night a week with him. Is this love for real?or just a dream? Sophie never expected this to happen. But she cannot deny the fire Reese sparks in her?and soon their shared desire burns bright. Sophie is irrevocably promised to another. But maybe these two ill-fated lovers can find a way to risk it all?all the way to happily ever after
It all began with the intent to record their first London seasons-and to fill the gaps in their woefully-lacking finishing school educations. They were called The Debutante Diaries.and London will never be the same again. HE'S COME TO HER RESCUE Miss Lily Hartley is the infamous mastermind behind the ton's latest obsession: the Debutante's Revenge, a titillating weekly column with advice to young ladies on the marriage mart. To keep her identity a secret, she dresses as a chimney sweep while delivering her columns to the newspaper - which is all well and good, until an unfortunate run-in with a carriage horse leaves her in the streets. With the devastatingly handsome Duke of Ravenport sweeping in to rescue her. Dressed as a boy. And she's got the latest column in her hands. Drat. SHE'S LOST HER MEMORY Eric Knight, Duke of Ravenport, is shocked when a chimney sweep lad is nearly run over by a horse-and even more so when he learns there's a beautiful woman hiding underneath that chimney sweep cap. He'll happily help the woman home, except there's only one problem-in the accident, she's forgotten her name. Lily is welcome to rest at his estate until Eric locates her family-but the closer he gets to finding them, the more he doesn't want to let her go. BUT CAN THEY FIND LOVE? Lily knows perfectly well who she is, but she can't afford to let the Duke know she's the writer behind the scathing Debutante's Revenge. So she'll fake her memory loss. At least for now. Until she can figure out a plan. Before Eric finds her family. Before they fall totally, completely, and utterly inconveniently in love
A charming, delightful new regency romance series from author on the rise, Anna Bennett! She needed a husband of convenience. She got her one true love instead...Miss Fiona Hartley's huge dowry should have ensured that finding a husband would be quick. True, she's a tad older than the average debutante, and spends too much time sketching brutally honest character portraits. She desperately needs a husband so she can access her dowry, lest the man blackmailing her reveals a secret that would ruin her family. So desperate in fact, that she's willing to do the unthinkable-propose marriage to the most surly, irritable gentleman in town...As a matter of principle, David Gray, the Earl of Somerdale, avoids two types of women: those who are obviously desperate, and those who are stark-raving mad. And it soundly appears Miss Fiona Hartley is both. Yet David can't help but be drawn to her, and gives her a test-if she can spend one week in his dilapidated estate-the same one that caused his previous fianceé to jilt him-then he'll consider her proposal. But as the week goes on, Fiona's refreshing wit finds a way into his heart. What started out as a marriage of convenience has turned into love...but will Fiona have him for the rest of her days?
