Alina K Field

The Matchmaker A promise to his long-dead sister forces Lord Grigsby back into society to broker the marriage of his disreputable nephew to the heiress whose money can save the earldom. The Matchbreaker Liliana Ashford has been hired to help an heiress pass muster with the ton and snare a titled husband. Though, if she had a magic wand, she'd turn her charge's fianc back into the toad he truly was. Scandal and a New Match But she never plotted murder As the young Earl's sordid death evokes the scandal of the season, a shadow from Liliana's own past appears, threatening her carefully crafted world. Grigsby sets about finding his nephew's killer...and Liliana's secrets. Meanwhile, she scrambles to make a new match for the girl, because finding a husband of her own is out of the question-or is it? Liliana's Letter is the exciting prequel to author Alina K. Field's RONE finalist, Bella's Band.

A Midsummer Night's masquerade at her family's country home presents the Honorable Nancy Lovelace with the perfect opportunity for revenge against the man who ruined her first London season-a man she's known since childhood, a man she'd once thought she loved.Simon Crayding's newly inherited properties are in disarray, and, thanks to his bad behavior, he's now known to society as the Swilling Duke. When an old school chum invites him for a Midsummer Night's party, he jumps at the chance to lick his wounds among friends... as well as apologize to his friend's sister, Nancy, because apparently, he'd done something to hurt her, he just didn't remember what.It soon becomes clear that Nancy will not easily forgive. Never one to resist a challenge-or a beautiful woman-Simon vows to find out why. As the night unfolds and passions rise, will Simon be well and truly punished, or will Nancy be caught in her own game?

After years of tolerating her late husband's rowdy friends, Honoria, Lady Twisden, has escaped to York where she can paint, investigate antiquities, and enjoy her freedom. Then her stepson appears with a long-lost cousin in tow, the perfect image of an ancestor whose fierce portrait made her shiver with mad imaginings. Promised York's marriage mart and the hospitality of his cousin's doddering stepmother, Major August Kellborn is shocked to find that his fetching hostess is the one woman who stirs his heart. To win her heart and hand, however, he must convince her he's not just a perfect image of his ancestor, but her perfect match. Previously published in Desperate Daughters, a Bluestocking Belles with Friends Collection

A Scottish Earl on a quest for the elusive Comtesse de Fontenay, rescues a French lady smuggler from the surf during a devastating storm and takes shelter with her. As the stormy night drags on, he suspects his companion knows the lady he's seeking, the lady who holds the secret to his identity. When she admits she's in fact the Comtesse Fontenay, just not the particular one he's seeking, she dashes all his hopes-and promises him new ones. Previously published in Storm & Shelter, a Bluestocking Belles Collection with Friends

When a storm blows off the North Sea and slams into the village of Fenwick on Sea, the villagers prepare for the inevitable: shipwreck, flood, land slips, and stranded travelers. The Queen's Barque Inn quickly fills with the injured, the devious, and the lonely. Intrigue crackles through the village, and passion lights up the hotel. One storm, eight authors, eight heartwarming novellas.An Improbable Hero: Mary LancasterWhen Letty's ship founders in a violent storm, she forges a rare bond with her rescuer.Simon is a troubled man on a final, deadly mission-until Letty makes him question everything. Hiding in plain sight among the refugees at The Queen's Barque, Simon is more than capable of protecting them both. But when the floods recede, can either of them say goodbye?Lord Stanton's Shocking Seaside Honeymoon: Cerise DeLandJosephine is so young. In love with life. His accountant in his work for Whitehall. Her father's heir to his trading company-and his espionage network.Lord Stanton cannot resist marrying her. Far from home, amid a horrific storm, Stanton discovers that his new bride loves him dearly.The Tender Flood: Caroline WarfieldZach knows Patience is far above his touch. But he has been enchanted by her since she raced out of the storm and into the Queen's Barque with a wagon full of small boys, puppies, and a bag of books. When the two of them make their way across the flooded marsh in search of a missing boy, attraction deepens. She risks scandal; he risks his heart.Before I Found You: Sherry Ewing Miranda has only one goal in life: to find a rich husband who can change her status from Miss to My Lady.Jasper has no plans to become infatuated during a chance encounter.Their connection is hard to dismiss, despite Miranda's quest for a title at all cost. What if the cost includes love?The Comtesse of Midnight: Alina K. FieldMalcolm rescues a French lady smuggler from the surf during a devastating storm, and takes shelter with her. As the stormy night drags on, he suspects his companion knows the woman who holds the secret to his identity. When she admits who she is, she dashes all his hopes- and promises him new ones.Wait for Me: Rue AllynEnemies by nature- Esmeralda and Brandon have met and fought before.When a fierce storm creates a chance encounter and forced proximity, Brandon learns the pirate is a woman of serious honor. Esmeralda discovers the naval captain is more than a uniform stuffed with rules. Both love the sea with boundless passion, but can they love each other?A Dream Come True: Jude KnightVicar to a remote parish, Barnaby Somerville stretches his tiny stipend to adopt his orphaned niece and nephew and his time to offer medical care as well as spiritual. A wife is a dream he cannot afford.But the storm sweeps into his life a surprising temptation. God knows, he will forever be richer for having known Theodosia Conroy, even if he must let her go.A Kiss by the Sea: Grace BurrowesThaddeus Pennrith finds a way to recover from multiple griefs when he accepts the blacksmith's post at Fenwick on Sea. Village life gives him a sense of belonging that Polite Society never could, though he must resume his aristocratic responsibilities soon. Along comes Lady Sarah Weatherby, refugee from an engagement gone badly awry, and Thaddeus is faced with both a compelling reason to reveal his titled antecedents, and a longing to keep them forever hidden....

A penniless widowed countess with trade in her blood descends upon the country manor of her sons' negligent guardian, intent on confronting him about her boys' futures. Instead, she finds his younger brother, a business-minded aristocrat with a penchant for widows and a distaste for emotional entanglements. A man who once witnessed her greatest humiliation. A man offering enticing distractions that threaten to derail all her plans. Called home at Christmas to bring his older brother to heel and sort out the family finances, a baron's younger brother wishes nothing more than to finish the task and return to his railway project. But when he finds his mother entertaining a fetching widow he met many years earlier as the unfortunate bride of a ne'er-do-well earl, temptation steers him along a different track, one that may derail all his plans. Can he convince the reluctant countess to set a course for her future that includes him? Previously published in the Mistletoe & Mayhem Regency Holiday Romance Anthology

He's the most irritating, inscrutable, insufferable lord in the kingdom. Also nosy, managing, and manipulative, and a man who's made an art of revenge. She ought to know better than to encourage his attentions. But...he's rich, and when an impossible debt from her past comes due, theft seems the only answer. What had he missed about her? She's nobly born, and proper, and if--or when--he wanted a wife, she would be perfect. Yet though the long war is over, honor requires vanquishing one last enemy before making time for romance. But when the lady he longs for disappears with a priceless painting and interferes with his plot, his enemy strikes at her. And then nothing else matters but avenging his lady.

Freedom Vowing she'll never submit to an arranged marriage, an earl's daughter bolts for the remote seaside cottage that should be hers upon marriage. But instead of a quiet respite from her controlling family, she finds her refuge occupied by the last man she ever wants to see again-an American artist, who's also a thief... And quite possibly one of her father's spies. This story includes a rebellious heroine, a determined spy, a meddling father, a vicious villain, a cast of free-thinking free-traders, and possibly a ghost or two