This is the third installment and the conclusion of the Scarlet series. Scarlet has been moved from one prison to another as Prince John tries to keep her location a secret. When he finally reveals his plan to kill the King and end her life, Scarlet finds a friend in one of the guards and manages to escape. Her Grandmother, the Queen, is telling her that the only way to escape with her life is to leave the country. Her heart is torn between leaving to ensure her safety and the safety of her beloved Robin, and returning to the only man she has ever loved. Will she return to Nottinghamshire and bring the wrath of Prince John with her? Read More »

As the clans gather for Lord Glengask’s wedding, Lady Rowena MacLawry is pondering her future. Since the bride is English, Rowena invites many of her London friends to travel to the Highlands to attend the wedding, and she hopes that one of the young lords present will propose marriage. Rowena loves the excitement of London, and had run away three months earlier in order to have a Season, leaving behind the man the MacLawrys-–and Rowena-had all assumed she would marry. Lachlan lets Rowena know he is nothing but another brother to her, but she refuses to let that crush her spirit. Read More »

Learning to be a peer of the realm is something John Fitzhugh Barrett was certain he would never have to do, being fostered out as an orphaned child that no one wanted in his early years. He is stunned when the Somerset family tracks him down, discovering that he is actually Lord Hartley and a legitimate heir to the family fortunes. Read More »

Lucy Upton has been considered “on the shelf” by the ton for a few years. She gladly holds the title of wallflower, since she is forthright and outspoken and tends to intimidate the men who might consider her a prospect. When her good friend, Cassandra, asks for her help in deterring a rather determined duke’s interest, Lucy relishes the challenge. Read More »

The young lady prayed that the Marquis of Steyne, whom she had married that day, would save her from her abusive, neglectful father. She knew she had been sold off as part of collection of gambling debts owed by the Marquis’ mother to her father, the Earl of Bute, but she hoped for rescue just the same. When the Marquis finally came to her room, she was nervous, but he boldly consummated their marriage and then told her she would never have to see him again. After leaving, he developed a guilty conscience and went back for her, only to find her missing. Read More »

Abigail Weston was not altogether happy about the family’s move outside of London, but she knew her father had dreams of being a country gentleman. Since the family had money but no pedigree, Mr. Weston hoped for an advantageous marriage for his daughters, possibly to an earl. Benedict Lennox is everything Abigail, and her parents, could want. Titled, wealthy, and handsome, Benedict does his best to woo Abigail, and even proposes marriage. Unfortunately, her heart was already lost to a completely unsuitable prospect. Read More »

Elektra Worthington is all too aware that the family fortunes will never be recouped unless she makes a good marriage, but her family’s reputation and lack of funds has led to a serious decline in the list of available suitors. Clever Elektra has researched possible suitors, and has concluded that Lord Aaron Arbogast is the perfect mate. He is heir to the estate of Arbodean, will become an earl, has been out of the country for ten years, and therefore knows nothing of the state the Worthingtons are in. To add to Elektra’s difficulties, she and her brother, Lysander, have been dispatched to a rural inn to wait for their cousin, Miss Bliss Worthington, who is coming to town to share the Season with Elektra. Read More »

Joan was traveling alone, disguised as a boy, in order to fulfill a deathbed promise she made to her mother. She was to deliver a scroll to the MacKay clan in Scotland, though Joan had no idea why this was so important, since traveling through England and Scotland during this era was extremely dangerous. While in disguise, she was set upon and beaten by a man because she refused to give up her bag, containing the scroll and everything she held dear. Read More »

Lady Ophelia Lyttleton is definitely one of the ton-an arrogant young woman who seems to care only for herself. She can be quite charming to the young dukes and lords, and others whom are titled, but there is one young man in their circle that she simply cannot abide, since he was low-born and adopted into a titled family. In addition to his low birth, Drake Darling is in business, managing an Read More »

Lady Tara Davidson was stunned when her father, the Earl of Tay, called her into his study one night and informed her she would be marrying within the hour. Tara had recently been left at the altar, so to speak, when her intended preferred her sister Aileen, and the stable master had rejected her when she threw herself at him for old time’s sake. She knew her father had a gambling problem, but was not Read More »

Lady Aileen Davidson has returned to the family home in Scotland after a scandalous divorce, and is relatively content until her sister Tara appears, running away from an advantageous marriage proposal. Soon their father, the Earl of Tay, and Blake Stephens, Tara’s intended, come to Annefield looking for Tara, determined that there will be a wedding, since the Earl has already gambled away the money settled on him by Mr. Stephens. Tara is in love with the horse master, and has returned to Annefield to rekindle their romance and spend her life as his wife, not as a fine lady in London. Read More »

Sabrina Davidson has learned to keep her emotions deeply in check, as an unmarried woman of twenty-nine must do to maintain the proper decorum. She acts as her father’s hostess, does the required charity work, and is well known for her musical talent. However, Sabrina wonders if there is more to life than what she is currently experiencing, but believes she will never have the opportunity to do Read More »

Lady Charlotte Hanover is on the fence, having lost her fiancé several years earlier, but she is willing to help her sister Jane with her Season. Suddenly Jane’s friend Rowena MacLawry appears at the house, all the way from Scotland, begging to be included in the Season with Jane. As the women begin making Rowena welcome, they are startled when Rowena’s brother, Ranulf, comes to the door insisting he take Rowena back to the Highlands immediately. Read More »

Lady Grace Walsingham hated barbaric Scottish Highlanders, believing herself to be high above them since she was a titled lady from London, but she was visiting for the grand occasion of her sister Ravenna’s marriage to Laird Ruairi Sutherland. Grace had traveled to Scotland with her younger sisters and her betrothed, Lord Daniel Casterbrook, and was now prepared to remain for the next month, hoping for some excitement to spice up her otherwise dull life. Read More »

Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants more from her life than a titled husband and a large brood of children. Lilly wants to go to university, to travel, and work if she so chooses, but her parents are against anything that might reflect badly on them. When World War I begins, Lilly feels the need to help in some way with the war effort, but her parents, highly conscious of their social status, will not allow her to join the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, or help in any other way. When Lilly’s correspondence with her brother’s friend, a doctor working in the war effort in France, becomes known, Lilly’s mother reacts violently and disapprovingly, causing Lilly to leave home and forge her own way in the world. Read More »

At the end of World War I, Charlotte Brown leaves her position as an associate nurse and returns to her job as a counselor for people in need of assistance. She takes her work very seriously and is determined to find resources for families devastated by the war. Her closest friend Lilly, formerly Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford, is finally to be married to her fiancé, Dr. Robert Fraser, and though Charlotte is very happy for them, she is reluctant to attend the wedding, knowing that Lilly’s brother, Edward, will be in attendance. Read More »

Lord Boyce Parker, the youngest son, had spent a lifetime feeling as if he did not fit in anywhere. His brother Richard, the war hero, definitely had his father’s respect, but all Boyce had was a tarnished reputation from arranging a pig race and co-authoring The Rake’s Handbook-–Including Field Guide. When an earl announced a race, from London to Paris, where young men would have to exemplify five character traits, Boyce decided to enter and win the earl’s daughter’s hand in marriage. Deciding that courage would be one of the traits he would demonstrate, he hired a balloon to fly him to Paris. Read More »

Lady Lenora Trevelyan had traveled from her father’s estate in England to her fiancé’s castle in Germany, in order to prepare to become a proper “prinzessin” and acceptable mistress of Rotenburg. However, Prince Kurt turned out to be abusive, taking pleasure in inflicting pain and humiliation on Lenora. At first, it was pinches and blows, but the abuse quickly escalated to Lenora being tied to the flogging post while Kurt called the village together, and announced her perceived sins before having the groom flick the whip, connecting painfully with Lenora’s back. Kurt finally stopped the groom, and rather than soil his own hands, he bade the blacksmith to carry Lenora to her chambers. Lenora became determined that somehow, she would escape Schloss Rotenburg and return to England. Read More »

Lady Araminthea Collins had been a paid companion for various titled folk since the death of her father several years earlier, but she had never had a proposal of marriage before. Recognizing that her brother was well on his way to becoming a drunken sot, and that she had to provide for her younger sister, Lady Thea accepted the proposal and the amount the Duke of Anselm was willing to settle on her. Still, Lady Thea was too afraid to tell her new husband everything that had happened to her while in service, even though he was well aware that paid companions had no protection at all. Read More »

Right before Christmas, Lady Joan finds herself in a bit of a predicament…she became intoxicated one night and fears she may now be ruined, and if anyone finds out, her good name, and that of her family, will be destroyed. She hurries to the train station, desperate to get to the house party her family was attending, but there are no seats left on the train. Fortunately, Dante Hartwell is traveling with his children and his sister, and offers Lady Joan a seat in their private car. Mr. Hartwell is in trade, so he is a less-desirable suitor than those who are titled, but Lady Joan had danced with him at one event and found him to be a decent man. Read More »