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1) Lara
Author
Series
World of Hetar volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author and master of romance Bertrice Small welcomes you to the magical, sensual World of Hetar. For Lara, a half faerie, half human, her beauty is a blessing and a curse. Sold into a Pleasure House by her father, she commits herself to a lifetime of servitude. But even in a place where pleasure is not censured but encouraged, her otherworldly beauty proves too much for her suitors. When Lara escapes, she is...
Author
Series
World of Hetar volume 5
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Mourn me but briefly. Then find your destiny, Lara, my love, my life. Now let me go. With those words, the spirit of Magnus Hauk, Dominus of Terah, departs his body--leaving the fate of his nation to his wife, the half faerie Lara. While Lara's son Prince Taj is well loved by the people of Terah, he is too young to rule, so Lara must obey Magnus's dying command and govern in his stead. Yet some in Terah still believe that a female must never wear...
3) Until you
Author
Series
Friarsgate inheritance volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 16th century, Until You tells the tale of a young heroine who discovers the love of a lifetime. Beautiful Rosamund is introduced to the Earl of Glenkirk, and they immediately fall in love. Their growing passion is stifled, however, when war breaks out between England and Scotland.
Author
Series
Border chronicles volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Adair Radcliffe is only a child when her family perishes in the War of the Roses, so her real father, the womanizing King Edward IV, takes her in, honoring his promise to her mother. Once Adair turns sixteen, the king marries her off without her knowledge-and to her later outrage-in a wedding by proxy. But when tragedy leaves her a widow twice over, Adair realizes that her already tenuous social position has sunk even lower. Now, all she can do is...
5) The duchess
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In this lush new novel, Bertrice Small has created a moving story of consuming passion and undeniable love set against the noble splendor of Georgian England ...
As the daughter of the richest man in England, Allegra Morgan attracts a number of fortune hunters willing to overlook her flawed pedigree to gain her enormous wealth. Her most ardent suitor is the arrogant but impoverished Quinton Hunter, duke of Sedgwick, who has little to offer a prospective...
Author
Publisher
Brava/Kensington
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Meet the daughters of King Arthur's descendant, Merlin Pendragon:
Averil: She may be the Lord's eldest-and illegitimate-daughter, but Averil knows her dazzling beauty can buy her what she wants most: marriage to a great and powerful lord. But fate has other plans in the rugged form of Rhys FitzHugh. Thinking her the sole heiress, the penniless bailiff kidnaps the beauty. Now, to salvage his honor, he must marry the openly hostile Averil and accept...
Author
Series
Border chronicles volume 5
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After her grandfather announces a contest of strength to decide who will marry her, Maggie soon falls in love with Fingal Stewart, but the two lovers must defend themselves against those who will do anything to gain control of Maggie's inheritance.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
In eleventh-century Wales, a land steeped in ancient Celtic lore, two lovers discover a passion that journeys beyond time.
Young Wynne of Gwernach has no dreams of marriage. Innocent and pure of heart, she believes that love is an illusion. Instead, she devotes herself to managing the great family estate nestled in the raw beauty of Wales, vowing to protect it and her younger brother until he comes of age to inherit.
And then Madoc of Powys enters...
Author
Series
Border chronicles volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author comes the third passionate romance in the Border Chronicles series.
The year is 1461, and the winds of war rage across England, uprooting Alix Givet, the daughter of Queen Margaret's physician, and the rest of Henry VI's court. Alix's plight becomes bleaker still when, out of duty to her queen, and to her ill, widowed father, she's locked into a loveless marriage to a cruel Northumbrian. But when her luck...
10) Bedazzled
Author
Series
Skye's legacy volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
What the lady wants, the lady gets. And then some ...
Lady India Lindley is accustomed to having her own way in everything, and marriage is no exception. Determined to elope, she boards a ship bound for Italy with her intended. But when Ottoman pirates capture the vessel, Lady India finds herself a slave to the mysterious and very commanding Caynan Reis, ruler of the Barbary state of El Sinut. He makes it quite clear that she is no longer in charge-and...
Author
Series
Border chronicles volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lady Cicely Bowen, daughter of the Earl of Leighton, is sent away by her father when her jealous stepmother threatens her safety. Soon the exiled Cicely becomes best friends with Lady Joan Beaufort, the king's cousin, and when Joan is married to King James I of Scotland she chooses Cicely as one of the ladies to accompany her north.
At Scot's court, Cicely finds herself pursued by two men-elegant Andrew Gordon, the laird of Fairlee, and Ian Douglas,...
Author
Series
O'Malley saga volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A pawn in the bitter war between England's Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, and Mary Queen of Scots, Skye must once again, unprotected and alone, fight for her children.
At Elizabeth's command, she marries the Duc de Beaumont de Jaspre, whose Mediterranean principality is vital to England. Her new world, though tortuously cruel at first, is transformed by Skye's hot-blooded desires-only to be shaken with the news that her beloved former husband may be alive...
13) Vixens
Author
Series
Skye's legacy volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Fancy: Surrounded by mystery and scandal, the widowed Fancy Devers, Fortune and Kieran's last child, arrives in England only to catch the roving eye of King Charles II-who makes the raven-haired, turquoise-eyed beauty one of his many lovers. But when their fiery romance settles into a comfortable friendship, the king is determined to find his glamorous mistress a husband-no matter her strenuous objections...
Siren: The lovely Lady Diana Leslie, Patrick...
14) A memory of love
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A tale of stunning passion, reckless danger, and the fierce will of a remarkable woman who can wield a sword as powerfully as any man-and who dares to fight for her most uninhibited desires . . .
Spirited, iron-willed Rhonwyn is the bastard child of the Prince of Wales, raised more boy than girl, able to ride and fight with the best. Against her wishes, she is married off to an English lord, Edward de Beaumont, who is stunned to discover that his...
15) Besieged
Author
Series
Skye's legacy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Nearly a spinster at twenty, Fortune Lindley is leaving Scotland to return to her birthplace at Maguire's Ford, a vast Ulster estate that she will inherit only if she marries an Irish Protestant. To that end, Fortune has agreed to consider a match with the Protestant aristocrat William Devers, a man suited to her wealth and status.
But it is the rebellious and disinherited Catholic elder brother, Kiernan Devers, who steals her heart, driving William...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d'Angelo and his wife want nothing more than to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son's dangerous indiscretion implicates him in a tragic accident, it is their eldest daughter who must pay the price. Blackmailed by the powerful and debauched Sebastiano Rovere, the Pietro d'Angelos must give beautiful Bianca in marriage to Rovere to buy his silence. With the aid of her mother,...
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