Emma Jensen

Jason and Aurelia needed each other. Both were being pushed by their respective relatives into marriages with persons they did not want to espose. Neither was going to allow others to dictate their futures. But when Jason answered Aurelia's newspaper advertisement, he started a chain reaction neither one would ever have imagined.

As the daughter of the choleric Duke of Earith, Lady Chloe Sommersham doesn't have an easy time. Now her father has decided that it's time for his most troublesome offspring to marry. He doesn't much care whom she marries as long as he had a rank of earl or better. It seems an impossible task until Chloe meets the new Earl of Montraith and realizes he is the man she wishes to marry. Unfortunately, Liam is not equally struck by Cupid's arrow and now Chloe has to convince him that what Chloe wants is the best for both of them.

Seven years ago Deidre had been a pawn in her parent's hands to improve their social status. A runaway match had put paid to their ambitions as well as reduced their errant daughter to near poverty. Now a widow, with a sister in law to launch upon society, she must once again face the cruel ton and in particular their darling, her former fiancé, the Duke of Conovar. But life - and love - isn't always as straightforward as it seems. Can she let go of the past and embrace the future? Is the duke really as black as she's painted him? Speaking of paint, this season the exhibition at the Royal Society is creating some unexpected reactions.

Tarquin turned slowly to see the bane of his existence crawling out from beneath the Henry IV table.

"May I be of assistance, Miss Cameron," he asked blandly. She was missing a shoe.

"No, thank you, my lord." She blinked. He blinked. And realized he had been staring. It was disconcerting, being caught by those eyes when there was so little else to note. But those eyes...

The Earl of Hythe, Tarquin to his family, had decided to marry. As everything else he did for his large inheritance, he was determined to get the best bred, most beatiful, graceous, intelligent Countess the Ton could provide. After several years search he had now narrowed his selection down to three, whom he had invited together with their parents to his main seat to determine which one would best suit. A simple plan - until his mother invited her old friend Lady Leverham that arrived accompanied by her pet monkey and Sybil Cameron, the earl's own Nemesis. After that nothing went according to plans and Tarquin found that in his quest for the perfect Countess he had forgot all about love.

Ailís knew what she wanted. She wanted to continue her drawings for the forthcoming natural history of Ireland. What she didn't want was her mother's attempts at matchmaking. The local bachelors interested her not at all and, as for Lord Clane, she absolutely detested the man. The only man that she'd vowen romantic thoughts about was the local rebel An Cú and him she'd never even met. But Lord Clane was impossibly insistent with his unwelcome attentions. And now her brother was up to something havey-cavey as well. Ailís longingly wished for a nunnery but admitted to herself that if life was less peaceful it certainly was also more exciting.

Secretly working in her uncles' struggling architect business, Cate is relieved when they land the job to restore Lord Tregaron's townhouse. Eight years ago he was hounded out of town by rumors his wife's death was no accident. He's now back and, at the urgings of his grandmother, looking for a new wife.Fierce Cate from the Scottish highlands is the last women he's make his bride.