The final instalment in Viveka Portman's sexy, sinful Regency Diaries sees an unhappy wife desperately seeking love—and her taciturn husband who doesn't know how to reach her. My husband, though I do not doubt his goodness, does not love nor want me. He married me for pure convenience. He needed a bride and I was the one offered to him. Thus I find my pleasures where I may...Mrs Maria Reeves has been married for six years. Six long, lonely years. She craves love and affection, but married to a handsome but pious vicar she receives little in the way of earthly pleasures. The Reverend Vicar Frederick Reeves is a man of principle and morals, and is more likely to provide his wife with suggested Bible readings than carnal knowledge. If her husband will not please her, then she will find a man who will.But infidelity doesn't come naturally to the vicar's wife. Though Maria finds herself getting the sexual pleasure she desires,...

This bundle contains stories 1-3 Series Description:Selene is stuck in a rut; she hasn't had a boyfriend in years and she's drowning in debt.She had almost resigned herself to life alone, when an ad for a wealthy man seeking a woman to have a baby, catches her attention. She decides it's time to change her life and agrees to the arrangement.But who is this man? Why is he willing to pay her so much money to carry his child? Selene soon finds herself caught in a whirlwind, when her attraction to him becomes more than professional.A tale of money, deceit and love in this new steamy erotic romance.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a friend from Oxford. The young woman introduces Mary to her current enthusiasm, a strange and enigmatic woman named Margery Childe, who leads something called "The New Temple of God." It seems to be a charismatic sect involved in the post-World War I suffrage movement, with a feminist slant on Christianity. Mary is curious about the woman, and intrigued. Is the New Temple a front for something more sinister? When a series of murders claims members of the movement's wealthy young female volunteers and principal contributors, Mary, with Holmes in the background, begins to investigate. Things become more desperate than either of them expected as Mary's search plunges her into the worst danger she has yet faced.

Cat McDaniel is the new senior reporter with baseball’s hottest team, the Las Vegas Chips. Along with a dream job, she has two admirers-a wealthy boss and a gorgeous neighbor. Also an enemy, a reporter passed over for her position. Life is heaven … until a star outfielder’s heart stops. Suspecting foul play, Cat starts nosing around. Will she be the next player to be taken out of the lineup?

Powerful and seductive. Max Roberts. When the wealthy hotel owner focuses his attention on Becky, she finds it difficult to resist him. He is determined to make her his no matter what it takes. Too bad Max doesn't realize running away is easy for Becky. Little does she know, he isn't the type to give up so easily.

The ghosts that haunt us are not always strangers...When his elderly father suffers a stroke, Christopher Beal returns to England.He has no home, no other family. Adrift, he answers an advert for a live-in tutor for a teenage boy. The boy is Lawrence Lundy, who carries with him the spirit of his father, a military pilot – missing, presumed dead. Unable to accept that his father is gone, Lawrence keeps his presence alive, in the big old house, in the overgrown garden. His mother, Juliet, keeps the boy at home, away from the world; and in the suffocating heat of a long summer, she too is infected by the madness of her son.Christopher becomes entangled in the strange household, enmeshed in the oddness of the boy and his fragile mother. Only by forcing the boy to release the spirit of his father can he find any escape from the haunting.

From Publishers WeeklyNashville PI Harry James Denton is hired by an old flame, Rachel Fletcher, to help her settle her husband Conrad's gambling debts--Conrad has been getting pay-up-or-else messages. Harry decides to drop in on Conrad, a surgeon, at the local hospital--and finds him sprawled on a bed, unconscious and near death. Harry is then whacked on the head by an unseen assailant. He later learns from forensic pathologist Marsha Helms that a narcotic injection caused Conrad's death. Strongly intimating that she would like to turn to him for comfort, Rachel pulls Harry off the case. Nevertheless, he is determined to find Conrad's murderer. Attending the wake, he finds that Conrad was rather unpopular; the guests have come less to pay their respects than "to make sure he was really dead." There is a lot to like in Womack's ( Smash Cut ) hard-boiled murder mystery--an engaging sleuth, a convincing setting, a passel of folks to distrust and some good minor characters (notably Marsha). But while the book's payoff has a tidy surprise in it, it also fails to tie up some important strands of the murder scenario. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review"Steven Womack has done for male private eye fiction what Grafton and Paretsky did for women operatives in the eighties . . ." -- Mostly Murder (_UNKNOWN_ )

Jaci Eastman believes only reality can be photographed. So how can she photograph a man who doesn't exist in her time beside a carousel horse that doesn't exist in his? When Jaci is inadvertently drawn through time to 1874 while photographing a restored carousel from that period, she lands at Wildwood horse farm and must reply on the good graces of its owner, Nicholas Westbrooke. Nicholas is a man who likes routine, but Jaci unwittingly shatters his illusions about women, passion and love. She tells stories of flying machines and teaches science to his niece. She's outrageous in her dress, manners and language, and yet he finds her irresistible. Jaci has adjusted to life in the nineteenth century and finds herself falling in love with Nicholas. But when he begins carving the exact horse that transported her through time, will she use it to return to her present, or stay and create a new reality?

Hilda's 6th book, in which she goes on quite a remarkable sailing trip and ends up in place no one knew exists.