Jennifer Ashley
In The Longest Night, Mary, sister to Egan MacDonald of Highlander Ever After, encounters Baron Valentin, a Nvengarian shape-shifter who had acted as bodyguard to her brother's wife the year before. Now Valentin is back in England, sent by Grand Duke Alexander (The Mad, Bad Duke) on a mysterious mission.
Emily Bryan
In My Lady Below Stairs, nobody misses Lord & Lady Hartwell's Christmas Ball, . . . but they all go for different reasons. When Lady Sybil runs off with an Italian portrait painter, her bastard half-sister Jane Tate goes in her place. Lord Eddleton plans on proposing to "Sybil" under the mistletoe. Lady Darvish is on the hunt for her fifth husband. And Ian Michael MacGregor is determined to show Jane that love doesn't have to pretend.
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ISBN-13:978-0843962505
Publisher: Leisure Books
Release Date: Sept 29
Pages: 336
Retail Price: $7.99
A Christmas Ball - Various
ISBN-13:978-1420101706
Publisher: Zebra
Release Date: Oct 6
Pages: 352
Retail Price: $5.99
While Olwyn Gawain lives as a virtual prisoner in her home, her scientist father conducts chilling experiments on stolen corpses in the dungeon of their keep. One night, Olwyn is shocked to discover that her father's latest subject - a breathtakingly handsome young man - is still clinging to life. Refusing to let him die, Olwyn stops her father at gunpoint and flees, determined to bring the innocent man to safety...
The son of aristocrats, Aidan Mullin doesn't know what to make of the unusual, intriguing Olwyn. But as the pair make their way toward Aidan's home, he finds himself drawn to the alluring young woman who saved him from certain death. Fiery and sensual, Olwyn's very touch fuels a desire in Aidan too fierce to deny. But when Olwyn learns he is hiding a heartbreaking secret, Aidan must face a difficult choice - or risk losing forever the love he so desperately needs...
Tracy MacNish
ISBN-13:978-1420101706
Publisher:Avon
Release Date: Sept 29
Pages: 384
Retail Price: $6.99
A bride on the run . . .
A young lady escapes to Scotland in the dead of night, desperate to avoid the horrid marriage her guardian had arranged. Traveling alone, fearing for her safety, Brianna Munro finds shelter at the imposing Castle Glenloch. She intends to stay for just one night . . . but then Brianna encounters Hugh Christie, Laird Glenloch, and all her best-laid plans vanish into the Highland air.
The stubborn chit says she's a lady's maid, running from a vengeful employer on the way to Dundee. But Hugh can see that the bold beauty is hiding something, just as plainly as he can see that he won't be able to resist her. Brianna's tempting body was made for pleasure, and Hugh has never been one to deny himself the delight of sin. He'll have to convince Brianna that he's not like the other men she's known—and that being taken by a laird one stormy night is just the beginning of a lifetime of ecstasy.
ISBN-13:978-1416547129
Publisher: Pocket
Release Date: Oct 20
Pages: 384
Retail Price: $7.99
Kate Bergeron is the beautiful and mysterious former mistress of a cloth merchant...and the latest beauty to capture the interest of the Prince of Wales. Mired in a disastrous divorce, the Prince attempts to distract attention from his next amorous pursuit by ordering Grayson Christopher, the eligible Duke of Darlington, to pretend to London society that he is having the affair with Kate.
When Grayson reluctantly agrees to his Prince's demand, he finds the lady no more willing than he is. Kate will grudgingly act the part in public, but her favors are not for sale to any man.
As Grayson and Kate mimic ardor for the world to see, they find what started as a deception becoming all too real. And when passion flames into love, their predicament becomes extreme. For while marriage between a duke and a courtesan could never happen, Kate knows in her heart that she is willing to accept nothing less...