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From a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Meg Church adores two things: life in a village of perennial Yuletide, and the freedoms of being a spinster with no reputation to protect. Oh, very well, three things: She's harbored a secret tendre for Christmas curmudgeon Lucien le Duc since the moment she first glimpsed him. But the sexy blacksmith won't give her the time of day, much less a night of torrid passion.Ever since Lucien le Duc was forced to flee his beloved France during the revolution, his all-consuming goal has been to recover not only his lost land and fortune, but also his rightful place among the French aristocracy. He would never be distracted by an English dairy maid's sultry glances... or her soul-consuming kisses... or the temptation to turn one night into forever...The 12 Dukes of Christmas is a series of heartwarming Regency romps nestled in a picturesque snow-covered village. Twelve delightful romances... and plenty of delicious dukes
He's poor. She's rich.He's a sub. She's a switch.It's not love.It's a marriage of Kink-venience.Gray is disowned by his family when his propensity for pain is discovered so he quits London for India to begin a new life in service to the Crown. But when his father and two older brothers are killed he's required by his Queen to return to London and take up the title of Warrick. Now he's honor bound to the Warrick's contracts--including a marriage meant for his dead brother--and the first thing required of him is to meet his bride.Lulu's in a scene with a client when she trips and falls, waking up in a strange house, surrounded by strange people. She thinks she's either part of an elaborate scene for another client or it's all just a dream. But she can't figure out how she got here and who this man is who makes her wish to live in this dream forever. When she's given the choice between running and hiding or completing the marriage contract to Warrick she chooses to marry the stranger who has her wanting.Warrick believes marrying Lulu is the best way to keep her safe but she compels this thing he buried deep inside threatening everything he's managed to obtain.Not yet believing this life to be her new reality Lulu is careless with his emotions-- anything to keep him from discovering how much her own feelings frighten her.As they begin this arrangement of husband and wife can these two--who've never known trust or love--learn to submit to each other?
Lady Lavinia Gillingham prefers rocks and dirt to marriage. Her passion is science, and she's determined to marry if--and only if--she finds a man who supports her interests and intellect. So far, she's managed to avoid attention on the Marriage Mart, but when the Duke of Seduction pens anonymous letters singing her praises, she suddenly become the toast of the ton and matrimony seems imminent.William Beckett, Marquess of Northam possesses the reputation of a rake but is secretly a romantic. Spurned at sixteen and knowing his sister was victimized by Society, he uses music and poetry to fill the void in his soul. As the Duke of Seduction, he uses his skill to help Lavinia, never anticipating she has no desire for assistance or that she could be the balm he needs. But when she's on the verge of becoming engaged, can Beck beat back the shadows of the past and open his heart again?
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Untouchables series comes your next Regency obsession: The Spitfire Society... Meet the smart, independent women who've decided they don't need Society's rules, their families' expectations, or, most importantly, a husband. But just because they don't need a man doesn't mean they might not want one.Notorious rake Marcus Raleigh, Marquess of Ripley, is gracing the gossip pages for a new reason: the rumors he may have murdered his swindling cousin. His quest for answers regarding his cousin's death leads him to an incomparable self-declared spinster, and he is--for the first time--beguiled beyond reason. Neither is what the other wants, and yet their intense mutual infatuation is inescapable.After abandoning her philandering betrothed at the altar, Phoebe Lennox fled from London only to return an heiress who refuses to follow the ton's rules. She won't risk a relationship of any kind--until she meets the scandalous Marquess of Ripley. Swept into his seductive embrace, her resolve falters in the face of a pleasure she never anticipated. But when the truth about Marcus and the murder come to light, Phoebe could lose everything she holds dear, including a love for all time.
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Untouchables series comes your next Regency obsession: The Spitfire Society... Meet the smart, independent women who've decided they don't need Society's rules, their families' expectations, or, most importantly, a husband. But just because they don't need a man doesn't mean they might not want one.After failing on the Marriage Mart, Jane Pemberton has two choices: submit to her parents' edict to marry their boring neighbor or become a self-declared spinster and take up residence in the official headquarters of the Spitfire Society. It's really no choice at all, and Jane is eager to embrace her newfound independence. She soon finds an unconscious viscount on her doorstep and nurses him back to health. When he offers to compensate her, she requests payment in the form of private instruction of a scandalous and intimate kind.Having spiraled into a self-destructive abyss following the murder of his parents, Anthony, Viscount Colton, physically recovers under the care of an alluring spitfire. But it is her charm and flirtatiousness that soothes his soul and arouses his desire-until an extortion scheme forces him to face the sins of his past. Now, to save the woman who's given him everything he lost and more, he'll have to pay the ultimate price: his heart.
Could a scholarly bluestocking ever win the heart of a duke?Ambrose Thorne, Duke of Huntsford, is intrigued when Miss Adela Swift, bluestocking and amateur archeologist, barrels over him while chasing the thief who stole her research papers. What starts out as a harmless diversion to assist her in reclaiming her stolen papers manages to embroil them in scandal, and Ambrose realizes he must do the honorable thing and marry Adela. But she's stubborn and not so quick to accept him. Can he convince her that she might love something beyond her ancient skulls and bones, namely him?Adela Swift's debut Season was an utter disaster and her second is no better until she accidentally knocks over Ambrose Thorne, the Duke of Huntsford. The man is magnificent in every way and London's most sought-after bachelor. He only meant to help her retrieve her stolen notes, but now he is insisting on marrying her. She is madly in love with him, but how can she ever compete with the ton diamonds who swarm around him? Adela wants a love match, not someone who will lose interest in her within a month of their marriage. Is it possible for a scholarly bluestocking like her to ever win the heart of this duke?Enjoy the entire series: My Fair LilyThe Duke I'm Going To MarryRules for Reforming a RakeA Midsummer's KissThe Viscount's RoseEarl of HeartsThe Viscount and the Vicar's DaughterA Duke for AdelaCapturing the Heart of a Cameron
DUKE OF YORK represents an accurately vivid depiction of American slavery. It presents detailed first-hand accounts-Stories-of slaves' suffering. The Stories, derived from slave narratives of the mid-1800s, enable slaves and former slaves to speak in their own words directly to you today. Abolitionists supplemented the Stories. The Stories portray slave's daily lives and the slave society's sadism. The society callously mutilated slaves and branded them as farm animals. More than half a century after the Declaration of Independence, the society burned slaves alive and chopped off rebellious slaves' heads for posting along roads. The slave society destroyed slaves' families, as slave traders routinely forced a million victims-women, men, children-in rags, often shoeless, to march chained 1,000 miles from Washington to New Orleans auctions, openly from town to town in a massive migration to the cotton South. Beginning in the 1660s, King Charles II, and his brother, the Duke of York, aggressively promoted the brutal form of American slavery and incentivized slave purchases. They sought governmental profit-taxes on slave commodities and slave-trading revenues for their governmental monopoly, the Royal African Company. The Duke shipped more than 100,000 captives under appalling conditions, branding many with his initials, "DY.