Elizabeth Johns

A fairytale Christmas setting with childhood friends thrown together at every turn. What could go wrong? Joshua Fielding is looking forward to a quiet Christmas-tide, something he has desperately missed during his time with the army. His loud, boisterous family celebrate the festivities in a manner far different from that of his aristocratic colleagues. It promises to be all he has hoped until a name from the past comes back to haunt him. His childhood nemesis: Barnaby Tremaine. Merry Roxton loves Christmas. This one promises to be the best yet, since Barnaby Tremaine, son of the local lord, has been courting her. Merry has never been permitted a London Season, due to her father's refusal to be shunned for making his money in trade. However, she is determined to make a grand match. Then Captain Joshua Fielding returns and challenges everything she thought she believed.

A humorous friends-to-lovers tale with a hoyden, a Corinthian, and lots of kittens The youngest of five beautiful sisters, Joy Whitford lacks both their femininity and sophistication. To wit: she is a hoyden. In fact, when trying to perform circus tricks on a horse, she suffered a brutal accident that left her vision impaired. Now it is time for her Season, and as each of her sisters have made brilliant marriages the same is expected of her. However, the last thing she wants is a husband, being the most ill-suited person imaginable to be a wife. She needs nothing more than her animals and good stories. Freddy Cunningham enjoys his life. The heir to a viscountcy, he has excellent friends, plenty of money and is never wanting for good sport. When his parents demand he either wed or face the consequences, it is enough to overturn even his most amiable nature. Joy and Freddy make a pact to help each other find suitable mates so they can remain friends, only to discover what they are looking for is right in front of them all along

A dreadful mistake, curses and feuds, can there be a happy ending?Grace Whitford made the mistake of having a horrible megrim at her sister's wedding on board Lord Carew's ship. This in and of itself should not have been a disaster, except she went to sleep it off with a draught in a small dark cabin, and no one remembered to wake her up. By the time she awoke, the ship was well into the Channel and could not be turned around.Carew had to leave as soon as the wedding was over and the guests disembarked. He'd just received a letter calling him back to Ireland and he had to make haste. When Grace Whitford was discovered as a stowaway, he cursed his fate. Not only was saving his sister in jeopardy, but his bachelorhood. The last thing he needed in his life was a wife, especially one who thought he was a better man than he'd ever be capable of being.Grace knew Carew did not want her, but since they were stuck together, could she convince him to love her back?Five sisters are thrust into London Society by their unexpected guardian. Follow their adventures through Regency England in this delightful series

Forbidden love. Duty. Danger. Will love be enough to conquer all?Max, Lord Rotham, has been browbeaten by his mother, the Duchess of Davenmere, to marry her choice for him. The more he resists, the more she schemes to force the match upon him. He became connected with the beauty Hope Whitford when her and her sisters were entangled in a dangerous situation, and while he feels drawn to her, he is not ready to commit to a lifetime because of his mother. But is losing Hope worth spiting his mother?Hope Whitford, the second of five sisters, has always dreamed of a grand London Season and match, despite their modest claims to the upper class. Their new guardian places them centre stage in the middle of the ton and in close proximity to its most eligible bachelors. When they are invited to a house party at a ducal estate, it looks as though her dreams may come true...except someone means to make certain that never happens...no matter what.Five sisters are thrust into London Society by their unexpected guardian. Follow their adventures through Regency England in this delightful series

A managing beauty. A determined bachelor. A delightful romp When their elderly guardian dies, Faith Whitford is determined to set up house in Bath and look for respectable country gentlemen for her four sisters. She has no ambitions for mingling with the ton. What she did not expect was a new guardian, in the form of a London Beau to be appointed over them, nor that he would take any interest in their care.Lord Westwood is London's most determined bachelor, and frequently finds himself bored with Society. When his beautiful new wards track him down at his hunting box, he decides to bring them out for amusement, anticipating the havoc their beauty will wreak upon the Beau Monde.Instead of watching as a bystander, he finds he finds his own existence being turned upside down as he is lured into one thing after another by his charming wards...including the ultimate trap

How can a reclusive earl convince the woman that he loves to give him chance?Orphaned as a child and raised by her uncle, Rose Sutton has spent the last five years helping him with her cousins and the parish while eagerly awaiting her sweetheart's return from the army. However, when it becomes clear her beau is not coming back, and her uncle decides to marry the meddlesome village busybody, Rose is desperate to leave.Gabriel Lloyd, Earl Mottram, is more suited to shadows and secrecy than glittering ball rooms, but he steels himself to return to England to fulfill his duties-which include finding a wife. The need to provide an heir is increasingly pressing since his cousin is a rake and a blackguard. On his first day in Nottinghamshire, Gabriel sees Rose Sutton and knows she is the one for him.Unfortunately, she does not care for him. How can he convince her he is not the cold, arrogant man she believes him to be?Gentlemen of KnightsDuke of KnightBlack KnightKnight and DayDark of KnightShining KnightDangerous KnightLord of the KnightReturn of the Knight

Young love torn apart by war and a cold marriage... is ten years too late to start again?Captain James Frome, seasoned veteran and war hero, is returning home after ten years away. He has sold his commission and must face what he left behind. Besides finding an estate that is in ruin and a family that is lost without his direction, he also runs into his past and the reason he was forced into the army in the first place. Lady Annag Calder has finally cast off her mourning blacks and escapes back to her family home in Scotland for some peace, except peace is not what she finds. Instead, she runs into the reason she was forced into a bad marriage in the first place. Seeing James again confirms her constant heart, but can he accept her love? After ten years, neither James nor Annag are the same people, but is there still enough love left for them to have a future?

Desperation, jealousy, intrigue...unrequited love.Lady Maria Mottram was plain by ton standards. Yet, gentlemen were drawn to her for her pleasing wit, ability to speak of their favorite pastimes, and for her lofty family connections which made her very handsome indeed. Until one wretched day when her family's name was attached to scandal. Swept away by friends to Paris, Maria is faced with a whole new heartache of watching the man she has loved forever be captivated by another, and her needing to marry quickly.Captain Lord Philip Everleigh was one of England's most dashing heroes. Every man wanted to be him and every lady wanted to have him. He was one of Wellington's most trusted spies, working under the cover of diplomacy. Numbed with the world of glittering intrigue, he finally finds a beautiful Archduchess who stirs his blood.Philip and Maria had been close friends since childhood, but Philip's good judgement appears to be lost to his infatuation.Will Maria be able to save him before it's too late? Will she lose Philip forever and resign herself to a loveless marriage?Gentlemen of KnightsDuke of KnightBlack KnightKnight and DayDark of KnightShining KnightDangerous KnightLord of the KnightReturn of the Knight

Book 3 in the Bestselling Gentlemen of Knights is now available Lord Edmund Knight has dedicated his life to rescuing unfortunates and prostitutes which he refers to as his doves. One of his rescues comes with more baggage than he bargained for, and he is forced to hide her at his brother's estate in far away Devonshire.Lady Isabella Hartmere was ruthlessly placed up for auction by her father to settle gaming debts, but is miraculously rescued by a vicar in the nick of time. As her father becomes desperate to find her, the situation becomes more dangerous by the minute.Both are drawn into the web of an old blood feud, but will keeping Isabella safe lead to an unlikely romance?

Lady Charlotte Stanton was officially on the shelf. Her first offer to be a chaperone had sealed her fate at the advanced age of eight-and-twenty. Yet, one magical evening a mysterious gentleman took pity on her and danced with her clandestinely under the stars. He refused to tell her who he was-other than unsuitable. It has ruined her peaceful existence as an aging spinster. Sir David Douglas, known to many as Captain Deuce the infamous smuggler, regardless of having changed his ways and made his fortune away in the Indies. His past was destined to follow him forever. Despite helping bring down a high level smuggling ring, the King wants him to do more to earn his pardon. Reluctantly, he is forced back into the dark trade of smuggling once again.As Sir David struggles to gain his freedom, Lady Charlotte tries to unravel his mystery and help him. But will she find her happily ever after or will she be caught up in the sins of his past?

Forced to leave the girls' school where she has spent the past six years as an orphan, Christelle Clement tries to find work in Paris. When her mother's reputation as a high-paid courtesan precedes her, Christelle decides to go to England in search of the father she has never met. A humble gentleman, Dr. Seamus Craig is in search of a wife who can provide him with the family he longs for. He moves his practice to London, but finds the long hours and constraints of Polite Society make it difficult to meet ladies. An accident brings Christelle and Seamus together, but will their romance withstand the reality of her father 's identity? Will his family accept her?

Lt John Holdsworth, an injured veteran from Waterloo, is now steward for a large estate in Scotland. Catriona Craig is the adopted daughter of Lord Craig, whose only interests lie in growing herbs and healing people. Can two unlikely friends find healing together? Can he overcome the shadows of his past and accept her love?

Five years have passed since Lady Anjou Winslow, one of the triplet daughters of the Marquess Ashbury, watched her love, Lieutenant Gardiner, leave for the war in America. They were secretly married just before his departure, and though the War Office has declared him dead, she refuses to believe it. No trace of him was ever found. Private enquiry agents, hired by Lord Ashbury, have searched to no avail, yet something inside Anjou refuses to believe her husband is dead. Despite her fears of the ocean, she therefore convinces her brother to escort her on the long voyage to America.Captain Edward Harris, the Wind's brusque master, does not want her on his ship. Nevertheless, he consents to her passage after her desperate pleas. As Anjou and Charles search for Lieutenant Gardiner, more comes to light than either expected. Will Edward somehow stand in the way of her lost love's return?

Along with her triplet sisters, Lady Beaujolais Ashbury is a celebrated beauty, but after five seasons she has yet to find a match she finds tolerable. Since her father refuses to arrange a marriage, it is rumoured in London society that she is holding out for a duke. Benedict Stanton, Duke of Yardley, vowed never to marry again when his first marriage ended in a scandalous divorce. Having retreated to the country for nearly a decade, he is thought to be a cold-hearted recluse. Now faced with leaving his dukedom to the Crown for lack of an heir, he sets out to find a bride in a manner more suited to generations past-through his solicitor. When Lady Beaujolais receives one of the Duke's impersonal proposals, she rejects it out of hand and in considerable anger. Little does she know she is soon to be forced into his company every day...

When two people have walked through fire, can love bring the healing and help they need?Spurned by love, Lady Margaux Winslow has no use for the other eligible gentlemen of London. Despite her beauty, her sharp tongue soon earns her a reputation as a dragon. Convincing her parents to let her retreat to their Scottish estate, a home for abandoned young women, Margaux feels she can do something meaningful with her life. At their wits' end, her parents believe a few months in seclusion will teach her to appreciate her privileged existence, and accept the next gentleman of worth who offers for her. Margaux has no plans to yield. But neither she nor her parents bargain for the proximity of the gorgeous, blue-eyed Scotsman on the neighbouring estate.Gavin Craig, content with his life as a country doctor, is unexpectedly thrust into the world of aristocratic society after the accidental deaths of his brother and nephews. With all the duties his new title entails, and his adoption of three orphans, Gavin desperately needs a wife. She should preferably a lady, trained since birth to manage a noble house, servants and family. His former disdain for a marriage of convenience has been rapidly overcome by the colossal task of learning to run a large Scottish barony. One lovely candidate is ri