-Could she sacrifice her happiness? Marriage to a man she hardly knew--what an appalling prospect! Yet Christa realized she had no choice. Ross Donahue would not negotiate. "I am not particularly interested in owning Liddiat Hall," he had told her, "but I am interested in acquiring you. As my wife." He would save her father from debt and probably prison, but his price was Christa. And despite her earlier intention, she knew she couldn't let her father sort things out on his own. She'd agree to Ross's terms, but could her heart survive such an inconvenient marriage? [From FictionDB]
Jack Maris is in a pickle. The confirmed bachelor has just landed the job of his dreams, but his new boss, a staunch family man, thinks Jack is engaged. Desperate, he talks pretty waitress Tess Donovan into posing as his fiancee. The little white lie seems harmless enough -- until news of their "engagement" spreads all over town. By then, however, the most delicious complication is the attraction simmering between the pair.
In the *Umi ga Tsumugu Kizuna* series: 1. *Ai, Michi Yuku Umibe de* 2. *Ai, Sazameku Nagisa de*
Taken from [FictionDB:] She was an authority on men... Kasey was an anthropologist, but her knowledge of men in general hadn't prepared her for one man in particular: Jordan Taylor. She was to help him with the research for his novel, but the study of the human heart soon took up all their time. Sensation was their textbook and passion their teacher as they searched for the meaning of love and tested the strength of their desire, day by day--and night by night.
[from FantasticFiction] Princess Marie-Therese and her brother elude their escorts to spend seven carefree days in Paris before she becomes engaged to an English Duke. In the glittering world of gaiety that marked the Second Empire, the Princess pretends to be Zena, her brother's mistress. This farce brings unexpected problems, especially when she falls in love with the Comte de Graumont. Can love triumph over a royal decree and her father's anger?
Dejected and jobless like so many other Servicemen after the end of the Great War of 1914-18, Tybalt Hampton escapes a ball in Berkeley Square and meets a delightful young girl who has also sought refuge in the little Temple in the nearby gardens because no one has asked her to dance. It is too dark to make out her face, but in an enchanted moment they kiss in the moonlight and a nightingale sings in the trees above as if just for them. Two years later the beautiful Aleta Wayte, the recipient of that anonymous kiss, and her brother, Sir Harry Wayte, are forced to let their beloved ancestral mansion to a millionaire American called Cornelius Wardolf, disguising themselves as servants in their own home and at their tenant’s beck and call. Of noble birth but penniless, Aleta still dreams of that handsome stranger. So, when Fate in the form of a road accident brings him injured to her door, her hopes are raised and then instantly dashed. In her guise as a lowly servant how can she reveal herself as Tybalt Hampton is now the fifth Duke of Stadhampton and anyway, because of his impoverished estates, he has been earmarked by Cornelius Wardolf to marry his attractive daughter, Lucy-May? Is it possible that Fate could be so cruel as to bring love so close only to snatch it away?
