It is the story of Thalia, who is a milliner while she and her mother wait for her exiled father to return to England. She meets the Earl of Hellington in the dressing room of an actress and he becomes intrigued with her.

[from fictiondb] The Duke of Atherstone had been driven to a frenzy. Every debutante in London wanted to marry him. Their determined mothers had transformed all of England into a matrimonial obstacle course. Fleeing to the safety of his yacht, the Duke set sail for Monte Carlo. But even the dissipated society of the gambling tables provided no respite: Atherstone's charmingly jaded mistress soon launched her own marital plans. Furious, the Duke pulled up anchor again, heading for Algiers. Foolishly convinced that no eligible young lady was waiting to entrap him, the Duke allowed himself the luxury of admiring an exquisite young English girl on sale in the Algerian Slave Market. As he moved closer to appraise her beauty, the terrified girl looked straight into his eyes, whispering: "Save me... save me!"

[taken from fictiondb] Why does Phillip Manning accuse respectable Darcy Kincaid of being a high-class hooker? Why does Darcy's teenage sister hit him over the head with a gin bottle? Darcy doesn't know the answers only that Phillip conducts the strangest job interview. And that suddenly she's promising to soothe his fevered brow all night! Somehow Phillip's study of suburban prostitution has run amok. Now he's got a bump on his head and a longing in his soul for a woman who dyes his shirt pink, sets hamburgers on fire, and cures headaches with kisses! Can he survive such chaos? Or will Darcy's unique brand of hanky-panky drive him crazy in love?

[taken from fictiondb] Loren Shephard doesn't want his help, but the brawny stranger won't take no for an answer. Masterful Buck Leeds wins over Loren's tippling grandfather and flighty sister, bringing order to the chaos of her madcap household. He even becomes Mr. Fix-it in her work place. Then, having magically simplified her life, he adds the greatest possible complication: love. But Loren discovers that Buck is not what he seems, and it shatters her faith in him. Now she must choose -- between the bitter lessons of the past, and Buck's promises for the future.

Jeff Wright never saw it coming. One minute he was in the midst of a white-hot office fling and the next the lady was over him and leaving for Kansas City. He had no idea what went wrong…. Tori Adams wanted it all. Two years with Jeff had been long on passion but short on commitment, which is why she'd planned on a new start. But she hadn't intended to get pregnant, and that was about to complicate her life in ways she hadn't foreseen. Because the man who'd been a good boss and amazingly passionate lover would pull out all the stops over the next nine months to show what a doting dad and devoted husband he could be!

[taken from fictiondb] Laura had practically raised little Mandy, but she had no legal claim to the homeless child. And now the authorities wanted to take Mandy away. / Paul Penalis could help her to keep Mandy, but his price was marriage. Was the price too high for Laura to pay, or could she find true happiness in a marriage of strangers?

[taken from fictiondb] Lady Be Good Fiona Hawthorn would like nothing better than to venture out unnoticed. Alas, everywhere she goes, mayhem seems to follow. It isn't as if she invites trouble, it just seems to find her. Yet one gentleman refuses to believe the worst. Lord Wesmont, her devastatingly handsome neighbor and childhood friend, scoffs at the notion of a curse. But when Fiona all but offers him her love and he storms away, she is convinced that her bad fortune extends to matters of the heart, as well... Scarred by his hellish experiences on the battlefields of Spain, Tyrell, Lord Wesmont, has returned to England a changed man. Angry and brooding, he wants nothing to do with the eligible females his interfering mother insists on foisting upon him. But at a glittering ball, he finds himself reacquainted with the one human being capable of making him smile. Fiona Hawthorn has gone from mischievous imp to bewitching minx. And Westmont soon falls under the sweet smell of love...

[taken from fictiondb] IN FROM THE COLD... Tracey White had once been an actress, but in Scott Kingsly, her new employer, she found the first man ever to kindle in her the fires she had always shammed. Slowly they learned to trust, to share a passion and an intimacy she had dreamed of but had never found, creating between them a blaze strong enough to melt the Colorado snows and keep out the winter's chill.