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Secrets, Lies and Scandal...Selina Rosewall had given up on love, but while helping her brother further his merchant fleet business, she meets Sir James Mitchell, Lord of Penventen. Their attraction is mutual, but what James wants from the relationship goes further--much further--than Selina could have expected. And she learns that in the world of the Ton, scandal and deceit are commonplace.For James, it's hard to say which is more dangerous: being a spy or being considered husband material by the Ladies of the Ton. With political machinations threatening to draw England into the violent wake of the French Revolution, the last thing James expected was to fall in love with the daughter of an untitled seafaring family. But when his investigation stirs up a hornet's nest, can he protect Selina from danger that threatens her very life?Moonstone Obsession is a Regency romantic suspense novel by Elizabeth Ellen Carter, author of Dark Heart, Warrior's Surrender, and the three book Hearts of the Corsairs series. Nominated in the Romance Writers of Australia Emerald Awards, Moonstone Obsession was first published in 2013 and re-released in 2018 with a new cover by acclaimed designer Dar Albert.Moonstone Obsession has a sequel, Moonstone Conspiracy, also in print.

Revolution in France, rebels in England, and one woman caught in the crossfire... The powerful sequel to Moonstone Obsession For her unwitting participation in a plot to embezzle the Exchequer, Lady Abigail Houghall has spent the last two years exiled to the city of Bath. A card sharp, sometime mistress, and target of scandalous gossip by the London Beau Monde, Lady Abigail plots to escape her gilded cage as well as the prudish society that condemns her. But the times are not easy. France is in chaos, the King has been executed, and whispers of a similar revolution are stirring in England. And because of Abigail's participation in the robbery plot, the Spymaster of England is blackmailing her into passing him information about the members of London's upper crust.When dashing English spy Daniel Ridgeway takes a seat at her card table and threatens to expose her for cheating, Abigail has no choice but to do as he demands: seduce the leader of the revolutionaries and learn what she can about their plot. As she's drawn deeper into Daniel's dangerous world--from the seedy backstreets of London to the claustrophobic catacombs of a war-torn Paris--she realizes an even more dangerous fact: she's falling in love with her seductive partner. And the stakes of this game might just be too high--even for her.

A shared secret from their past could destroy their future...Northumbria, 1077. In the years following William the Conqueror's harrying of the North, Lady Alfreya of Tyrswick returns to her family home after seven years in exile. But instead of returning victorious as her dead father had promised, she returns defeated by Baron Sebastian de la Croix, the Norman who rules her lands.To save her gravely ill brother's life, Alfreya offers herself hostage to her enemy. As Alfreya gets to know her new husband, she finds he's not the monster she feared, and their marriage of convenience soon becomes a bond of passion. But Sebastian is a man with a secret--one that could destroy him.As a series of brutal murders haunt their nights, the man who betrayed Alfreya's father returns claiming to be her betrothed. He has learned Sebastian's secret and will use it to further his own ambition--using Sebastian's own family--which will destroy Sebastian and mark him a traitor, and plunge an unprepared England into war with the Scots...

The Past Casts a Shadow Over a Second Chance For Love.... Palermo, 1810 Morwena Gambino is struggling to keep her family's business going against mounting troubles. Her widowed father, once shrewd, is now increasingly forgetful, letting debts mount and disavowing his sons. Morwena runs the shop behind his back, forced to hide her enterprise not only from her father but also her bitter older brother. In Tunisia, Tewodros "Jonathan" Afua is struggling to stay alive. Once an Ethiopian prince, he is a captive of the corsairs who slaughtered his wife and children. When a US naval bombardment provides an opening for escape, Jonathan falls in with a seemingly deranged English pirate. Aboard Kit Hardacre's rundown ship with its ragtag crew, Jonathan learns the real reason he was taken by slavers. Reluctantly joining Hardacre's crew, he meets Morwena in Palermo. The fiery young Sicilian woman is the opposite of his quiet reserve, but he is attracted to her despite mourning for his late wife. As he and Morwena grow closer, it emerges that they have something in common - secret betrayal by those close to them - and they must count what they're willing to risk for a future together. ***** Read all three books in the Heart of the Corsair series: Captive of the Corsairs Revenge of the Corsairs Shadow of the Corsairs

Hate brought them together. Will love tear them apart?Welcome to book 1 in the exciting new series from USA Today Bestselling Author Elizabeth Ellen Carter.William Musgrave, Duke of Auchen, is dying. When he goes to his grave, he will take with him the opportunity to right a wrong that has left Lady Ruby McAllister impoverished.Ruby has the contract that pledged her father a one-third share in a successful Scottish textile mill. But Auchen never made good on his promise before Ruby's father died. Now Ruby has lost her beloved Strathaird, home to the McAllisters for centuries. Her only hope is to confront the duke before he dies. And her chance comes when a vacancy arises for a new night nurse in his London household.Standing in her way is Seth Musgrave, the duke's estranged son, who despises his father for deriding him as an imbecile. In truth, Seth is the driving force behind his father's successful enterprise. William Musgrave has heeded no one in his life except for his wife. She died twenty years ago, but Ruby hears him call for her in his nightly delirium.What if Ruby answered his call, pretending to be the only woman who could ever persuade the duke to do the right thing?How long can Ruby keep her secret when Seth is trying to distract her with his kisses? And what if Seth learns the woman he's falling in love with is deceiving the Duke?Gems of LondonDeceiving the DukeA Curio for The CountThe Elusive EarlThe Matchmaking Marchioness

To find his future he must own his past...Raised as an Englishman, Armand Danger, Comte de Ytres, is troubled by a dream from his childhood that leaves him speculating on his French past.He is convinced an elaborate clock belonging to his late father, executed in the French Revolution, holds the answers he seeks.Miss Jade Bridges works as a valuer in her family's London antiques shop and auction house. One day she receives mysterious letter from an anonymous client willing to pay any price for a very specific statue clock.While in pursuit of the clock, Jade and Armand meet and there's immediate attraction. But how can it amount to anything when they are rivals for the very same object?As the couple grow closer and attraction deepens, they agree to join forces to find the timepiece together.Then an antiques dealer is killed. It appears someone else is willing to extract a fatal price to possess the clock for themselves.What is it about this curio for the count that someone is willing to commit murder for it?Gems of LondonDeceiving the DukeA Curio for The CountThe Elusive EarlThe Matchmaking Marchioness

Heav'n has no Rage like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury like a Mother scorn'd. Rescued after two years as a concubine in an Ottoman harem, former debutante Laura Cappleman faces a difficult journey back to normal life. As she travels to Palermo aboard Kit Hardacre's ship, the Calliope, she is deeply traumatized - and pregnant by her kidnapper. Laura rejects the emotional support of her long-time admirer, Calliope First Officer Elias Nash, and her cousin, Sophia, Kit's wife. She withdraws into herself and her art. Finally, after giving birth, she decides to return to London, hoping to erase tormented memories. Emir Selim Omar died on the day of Laura's rescue, but his wickedness lives on in his third wife, Rabia, in whose household Laura was held. The ruthless widow may yet hold on to the power she wielded as mother to the Emir's only male heir. However, as opportunists pick his empire apart, her child dies. When Rabia learns Laura has given birth to a boy, the solution is obvious - the concubine is stolen property and so is the child sired by her late husband. She will take the boy and kill anyone in the way. As Rabia's assassins close in, Elias - both embraced and rejected by the damaged woman he loves, uncertain she will ever return, and alone in Palermo with the child he has given his name - must take the battle to the enemy. Otherwise, there may be nothing for Laura to come home to.