Heather Boyd

Fortune hunters and fools. Those are the gentlemen Fanny Rivers has endured since her husband's passing. Men who believe women too feeble-brained to manage a fortune, much less help it grow. So for her sister's upcoming wedding festivities, she's combined her business acumen with her habit of collecting strays-hiring an actor to play her besotted beau. And it's working marvelously. Too marvelously. Before long, her attraction to Jeremy makes it difficult to discern fact from fiction, and Fanny herself is in danger of falling for her own scheme.Jeremy Dawes can scarcely believe his luck when Fanny Rivers agrees to be his patroness. Despite learning he's the latest in a long line of charity cases, he willingly takes on the most complicated role of his fledgling career-that of a proper gentleman. She'll never need know of his unsavory beginnings, though the closer they become, the more Jeremy wishes he could be what she deserves. It's only after a thrilling moment of intimacy-and a regrettable decision by Fanny-that Jeremy finds unexpected allies in the negotiation for his savvy lady's heart. Saints and Sinners series: Book 1: The Duke and I (Nicolas and Gillian)Book 2: A Gentleman's Vow (Gideon and Jessica)Book 3: An Earl of Her Own (Adam and Rebecca)Book 4: The Lady Tamed (Jeremy and Fanny)

Companion Lenore Griffin is in dire straits when a letter from a dear friend arrives, offering a new position. Relieved at her good fortune, Lenore packs up herself and her beloved dog, Hero, and makes haste for London. Upon arrival, however, not only does she find her old friend in a shocking state of dishabille, but she's somehow mistaken his offer. He has not written requesting a companion for his new wife. He's written to request Lenore become his companion...for the rest of their lives.Price Wagstaff, Earl of Carmichael, must have been deeper in his cups than usual when he wrote that correspondence. He doesn't remember a blasted word of it. Still, it is a disaster of his own making, and so he will do his duty by Lenore. He quickly decides his old childhood friend will make a sensible wife and an agreeable mother to his heirs. He can give her safety, protection and comfort. A marriage of convenience. Lenore need never know that Price's heart can never be won.Despite their intentions to live separate lives, the pair can't avoid the closeness that intimacy provides, and soon, Price no longer wishes to. Is it possible that he may find love a second time? Perhaps...if his secrets don't kill their chance at happiness.

When perpetual bachelor Sinclair, the Duke of Exeter, ventured out to old haunts in disguise for the short-lived thrill of a dalliance with a stranger-he's captivated by an equally secretive lady intent on the same purpose. Will he finally get what he's been waiting for his whole life?

On the surface, Raphael and James have everything they need until James' upcoming birthday forces both to reassess what James' well-ordered, respectable life lacks most-forbidden passion. Can James follow through with his well-reasoned, sensible decision when a man who knows what he wants, needs him too?

The Duke of Staines has the worst luck in lovers. A widow for fifteen years, Ambrose is busy running his gentleman's club, snatching pleasure from transient lovers, and relies on servant Francis Redding to provide intelligent companionship. There is only one problem with his relationship with Redding; the man would make the perfect lover.

When the Duke of Byworth's empty marriage is threatened by the revelations in his wife's diary, both he and his steward, Henry Stackpool, attempt to recover it separately. Yet they are drawn together by the secrets of their past and an intoxicating mutual lust. But is true happiness possible when their positions in society are so unequal?

The trappings of wealth and power give the Duke of Lewes little joy and certainly no pleasure. Tormented by his past, he's determined to end it all. Terrance Bridgewater is in London briefly en route to a ship bound for the continent to see the things he's only read about. Running into the dark Duke of Lewes is a complication he'd hoped to avoid

Victor Knight has never been able to juggle his work and love life to anyone's satisfaction. When an evening at the Hunt Club ends in blistering sex with the Earl of Beecroft, Victor welcomes the distraction from the problems afflicting his business until his lover appears entwined in them.

Angelo Marinari limped away from his life gravely wounded once but when fate lands the love of his life at his feet again-bloody and beaten and breathtakingly defiant-is he strong enough to abandon Lord Bracknell twice when he and his son are in grave danger?

When Mary Vine kissed a handsome stranger at the Fenwick Masquerade, she never imagined the extraordinary attraction could be for the most disgraceful rake in London. A man she knew far too well...

Jaded by her unsuccessful first season, Lady Jessica Westfall has returned home ... only to have a fortune hunter follow her from London. Jessica enlists the aid her dearest friend, Gideon Whitfield, to keep the scoundrel at bay...and to deliver her very first kiss.