"The Marquess of Chatton and his neighbor Fenella Fairclough have known each other all their lives. They refused to marry each other years ago when their parents demanded it, and they won't concede now - even if circumstances have brought these former enemies much closer than they ever could have anticipated ..."--Publisher description.

Adela, youngest daughter of Duke Wilhelm of Hagenheim, is never allowed outside of the castle walls. She sneaks away one day to the market disguised as a peasant, and meets a poor farmer with a kind heart. Frederick earns the income for his family and defends his mother from his father's drunken rages. He carves figures, animals, and scenes into wood, and he's asked to carve these scenes into cathedral doors when his talent is noticed. When he gets...

Caught in a web of lies, torn between duty and desire, what's a con artist to do but deceive all of London and steal the one lady who dared match wits with the devil himself?

On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season," and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric. From that moment on, Penric's life is irreversibly...

In medieval Hagenheim, Germany, Aladdin, a poor orphan from the Holy Land, tries to rescue and win the heart of Kirstyn, the Duke of Hagenheim's daughter, his friend since childhood who is now pursued by greedy men seeking her father's fortune.

Another laugh-aloud story of Blandings Castle, set in an idyllic part of Shropshire, England, where the sun always seems to shine, even when it's stormy.

Forced into a marriage of convenience with Evan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild, to save her sister, American heiress August Crenshaw pulls every stunt in the book to make him call off the wedding.

Grayson Christopher, Duke of Darlington, angrily complies with the Prince of Wales's plan to have him pose as Katherine Bergeron's lover and is shocked to discover that Katherine is far more appealing than he expected her to be. Once they fall in love Katherine refuses to remain his mistress; she wants to become his wife. But how can the duke bring a woman of such low birth into his august family--or publicly claim the woman the prince was set on...

Balogh introduces an extraordinary family-- the fiery, sensual Huxtables. Vanessa is a young widow who has her own reason for pursuing the most eligible bachelor in London. One that has nothing to do with love. Or does it?

"Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society--and now he wants to get even. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn't take into her home and her heart. When her imposing--and attractive--new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving...