Patricia Rice
3) Merely magic
Her Scandalous Painting Ruined His Reputation
Lady Lucinda Malcolm Pembroke's paintings have been known to cause trouble, but never quite like this. Somehow she's painted the perfect likeness of a man she's never met and depicted him as a murderer! She never would have displayed the painting—for all London to see—if she'd suspected her subject was real. Fleeing the scandal, Lucinda escapes to a remote cottage and assumes a
...8) Devil's Lady
The Methodist and the highwayman: heaven, meet hell.
Her pious father's murder leaves Faith Montague orphaned and lost on the dangerous road to London , only to be rescued by a notorious highwayman.
Morgan de Lacy, a lawless rake with the bearing of a nobleman, treats her finer than those who should have loved and protected her. Recognizing a fine gem when he sees one, de Lacy sets about seducing his orphaned companion. His caresses
...An Irish rogue and a duke's daughter should have nothing in common except trouble...
Though enchanted by the selfless beauty of a duke's granddaughter, Michael - a man of many names but none his own - has wisely kept his distance. But two years after the disastrous fire that brought Lady Blanche Perceval into his life, he is saddled with a lost, lying Irish waif and needs a woman's understanding aid.
To his dismay, the generous lady he remembers
...10) Magic Man
He's a Lonely Highland Lord...
Aidan Dougal is deadly, and he knows it. His self-imposed isolation is to keep others out of harm's way. However, it also makes any kind of intimacy impossible...and certainly not marriage! Asking for help is beyond him until a woman unlike any he's ever met slips into his life like an answered prayer.
She's a Complication He Never Expected
Mora Abbott has been trained in patience, prudence, and
...Dorothea Franklin's life is sliding toward disaster just as surely as her house is crumbling into the Pacific. Her unusual talent for feng shui can't bring harmony to her invalid father or prevent her brother from dying in an experimental helicopter crash. Or has he?
She turns to computer genius Conan Oswin, whose brother also reportedly died that day. When Dorothea informs Conan that she didn't feel the vibrations of her brother's death, he
...12) Texas Lily
Lily Porter is newly a widow with a child to raise and a cattle ranch to run in the Texas frontier aflame with violence, and where a woman is to be seen not heard.
She needs a man to stand up for her land.
His name is Cade. Part Apache brave and part Mexican grandee, Cade has a past and a secret. But he possesses the power and passion to command all in his path.
Lily welcomes Cade into her struggle against treachery and terror—and discovers
...Evangeline Malcolm Carstairs, dog-walker and ghost-buster, has one goal—earning respect for her paranormal abilities. The moment ten-year-old Loretta Post walks into her Psychic Solutions Agency bearing two sad ghosts and claiming someone is trying to kill her, Evie is on the case.
When the child's hunky guardian shows up to drag Loretta back to boarding school, Evie is not about to send the grieving child into possible danger. Besides,
...14) Texas Tiger
The beautiful and restless heiress Georgina Hanover faces the perfect marriage.
Peter Mulloney is everything any woman could hope for in a husband—and all Georgina's father wants in a financial partner.
Then she meets the mysterious Daniel Mulloney, a crusading Texas journalist claiming to be Peter's brother. With his pen, Daniel attacks Peter's wealth and power. With stirring words, he makes Georgina question her choices. And with searing
...15) Wayward Angel
Her real name was Lady Alexandra Theodora Beaumont, the daughter of an abusive British lord. Rescued by Kentucky Quakers, little "Dora" lived as a typical Quaker child and no one knew of her first years—not even Pace Nicholls, "bad boy" son of a local plantation owner. And from the day they met, wherever Pace was, so was Dora, acting as his only conscience, loving him from a distance. Pace was a hellion as a boy—and a rebel as a man.
...16) Dixie Rebel
A ditzy dreamer with a well-hidden practical streak, Maya Alyssum has an impossible dream of opening a school where kids can find unconditional acceptance—acceptance she and her sister had never experienced while growing up in foster homes. But Axell Holm, the town council's representative, holds Maya's unconventional dream in his hands. Axell is the kind of uptight authority figure Maya loves to hate. So how is it that he's ringing all her
...17) Rebel Charm
Mara Simon, trophy wife turned high-powered Hollywood producer, isn't about to let TJ McCloud, the love who left her behind, shut down her movie set. There are too many livelihoods at stake. A forensic anthropologist more accustomed to studying bones than sizzling bombshells, TJ doesn't recognize Mara at first. But even the girl he used to love can't stop him from cordoning off her movie set while he investigates a possible murder site. Despite
...18) Texas Rose
Evangeline (Evie) Howell grew up in a genteel St Louis home, an abandoned love-child with no one to love her. Then a letter from Texas tells her where to find her true identity.
In desperate need of someone to escort her safely to Texas, the only man Evie can convince is Tyler Monteigne, a hell-raising, womanizing gambler scarcely suited to escort a lady. But he can shoot as well as any gunslinger, and is even better at conning his way out of
...She was woman enough to tempt a saint—and lady enough to be dangerous.
Lady Cassandra Howard has frequented gambling hells as her father's lucky charm since childhood—but luck ran out along the way. Now, her brother intends to sell her into marriage with a wealthy, dissolute rake. Cass has done many things for her family, but this won't be one of them.
Her neighbor, "Saint" Wyatt Mannering, Earl of Merrick, has chosen a bride—one
...20) Home Town Rebel
Determined to undo the damage her ex has caused in the small Carolina town she calls home, Amy Warren wants to save the local mill. Her plan shatters when Jean-Jacques St. Etienne arrives with loads of cash, charisma, and expertise, with every intention of buying the mill for its designs and then abandoning the community. A European playboy who lives a charmed life, Jacques has no interest in mills, communities, or anything except the designs that
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