Louisa Darling

A LADY FORTUNE HUNTER

Lady Gemma Lively’s life as the darling of London’s fast set was carefree and fun, filled with exciting friends, daring fashions, and scandalous parties. But when the death of her father leaves her family with nothing but a dilapidated coaching inn at the end of the Earth, it’s up to Gemma to change their fate. She needs a rich husband immediately—but the only bachelor in sight is a devilishly distracting barkeep who doesn’t know the peerage from a pint glass.

A DUKE IN DISGUISE

When Hal Deveril meets the new owners of Five Mile House, he sees right away that they’re Trouble. The eldest Lively sister is an unabashed fortune hunter, so Hal hides his true identity in the first place he can find—behind the bar of his local pub. He doesn’t have time for Gemma’s wild scheme to entice eligible gentlemen to the inn and seduce one into marriage—he’s too busy trying to rebuild his crumbling estate.

AN IMPOSSIBLE MATCH

Except Hal can’t seem to resist seducing Gemma himself. Every sizzling argument, every tempting touch, every secret kiss draws them closer together, but while he might not be the barkeep she thinks he is, he’s also not the wealthy Duke she’s hoping for….even if he wants to give her everything he has, including his heart.

The Duke of Ashbourn has a secret: he is the Berserker, the undefeated king of London’s brutal underground boxing ring. The nightly bareknuckle fights are his only release from the darkness that drives him…until he collides with the one woman he’s vowed not to touch.

Bess Pickford would do anything to aid her friends, even chaperone Ashbourn’s half-sister in Society. Though she’s drawn to the cold, stern Duke, pragmatic Bess knows he’ll never want her. She must look elsewhere for a scoundrel to ravish her…

When her search puts Bess in the path of The Berserker, Ashbourn’s tight control snaps and he claims one night with her as his prize. Masked and nameless, they surrender to a hunger too seductive to be denied. But one night could never be enough for the wild passion that burns between them—and when their secrets are bared, they will have to risk everything to face the world together.

Lady Lucy Lively despises the Duke of Thornecliff. Arrogant, cruel, and dangerously seductive, Thorne is the exact opposite of The Gentle Rogue, the mysterious highwayman Lucy adores. She has no idea they are one and the same man…and when Thorne suffers a terrible accident after a masked night of stolen passion with Lucy, neither does he.

Now Thorne has no memory of her—nor of lying about his secret identity. Furious and betrayed, Lucy introduces herself…as his fiancée. She intends to punish his deception, and she is desperate to know: Who is the real Thorne? 

As they uncover Thorne’s past, Lucy finds herself falling for the man behind the mask. But The Gentle Rogue’s enemies are circling, threatening all he holds dear. Thorne will have to battle his darkest demons to win a chance at a future with the woman who sees every broken piece of him…and loves him for all that he is.

She’s the beauty and the brains…

Miss Caroline Quick is desperate to escape London for the freedom of the wilds and her career as a naturalist—but she must get her widowed mother married before she can go. It’s a simple enough idea; track down Mama’s first love and engineer a meeting…with the help of the gentleman’s alarmingly charming son.

He’s just Fitz.

The bored, scapegrace younger son of a disapproving Earl, Fitzwilliam Drake is no stranger to madcap schemes, but the proposition put to him by the delectable Caroline is the wildest he’s ever heard. Of course, trapping his father into marriage is better than tumbling into the pit himself, but Fitz will need to exercise caution around Caroline, who is too tempting by half. Unfortunately, Fitz has never been the cautious type…

They might make the ideal match…

From “surprise” encounters in the park to scandalous country house parties, Caroline’s plans quickly spin out of control. But Fitz is there to help…and to drive her to distraction with his irresistible kisses and strong embraces. Because Fitz may not be a genius, but he’s smart enough to see that with a woman like Caroline, matrimony is no trap—it’s the start of the grandest adventure of them all.