Bertrice Small
21) Bedazzled
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In 17th century England, the headstrong Lady India Lindley elopes with a peer, heading for Italy. The ship is attacked by Barbary Coast pirates and Lady India becomes the slave of Caynan Reis, ruler of El Sinut, an Islamic state where women have a totally different position. A cross-cultural adventure.
22) To love again
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Britain, A.D. 451. Beautiful, headstrong, and defiant, Catlin Drusus possesses the strength and pride of her Celtic-born mother, though she has been reared amid her Roman father's wealth, and privilege. When Cailin's family is destroyed and their farmland seized, Cailin seeks refuge with her aging bitter grandfather, chieftain of the Dobunni. There, Cailin marries Wulf Ironfist, a Saxon of enormous strength and power, a gentle giant who opens the...
23) Skye O'Malley
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With her raven black hair, shimmering blue eyes and breathtaking sensuality, Skye O'Malley is a woman made for love. She has countless suitors, any one of whom would do anything to be chosen by her. But Skye's future has already been determined. Following 16th-century custom in Ireland, Skye was betrothed at birth to Dom O'Flaherty, the heir to a neighboring estate. Dom's handsomeness, however, cannot mask his malevolence and lecherousness--as Skye...
24) Betrayed
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When Fiona Hay offers Angus Gordon her virtue in exchange for a dowry for her sisters, she so intrigues the rogue that he demands a higher payment: She will be his mistress. Thus begins a battle of wills and sensual delights. Destiny soon draws the ardent lovers into the turbulent court of King James. But soon the king's political schemes force Fiona away from the man she loves ... and into the arms of a wild and passionate highlander, The MacDonald...
25) Deceived
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In the 17th century an English duke arrives on a Caribbean plantation to claim an heiress promised in marriage. But the lady hates gloomy England and arranges for her sister to take her place. The duke is fooled--for a while.
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Lovely Nyssa Wyndham, fair and proud as her mother, Blaze, is lady-in-waiting to Henry VIII's fourth wife ...
Scandalizing all of England, Henry has his marriage annulled, for the Queen cannot meet the bawdy desires of the insatiable king. Henry seeks a spirited, lusty new wife-and eyes the beautiful Nyssa. But in a land rife with conspiracy and rebellion, there are those in secret power determined to thwart Henry's intentions. A drugged Nyssa awakens...
27) The spitfire
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They cast their destinies to the winds of desire.
The year is 1483. Just as beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, the young cousin of England's King Richard III, speaks her wedding vows to Sir Jasper Keane, the Scotsman Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, abducts Arabella as payment for Jasper's murder of his fiancee. Irresistibly, deliciously, Arabella surrenders to her enemy with fierce abandon-knowing that there may be only one way to get what is rightfully...
28) Besieged
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Skye's legacy ; 3
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Nearly a spinster at twenty, Fortune Lindley is leaving Scotland to return to her birthplace at Maguire's Ford, a vast Ulster estate that she will inherit only if she marries an Irish Protestant. To that end, Fortune has agreed to consider a match with the Protestant aristocrat William Devers, a man suited to her wealth and status.
But it is the rebellious and disinherited Catholic elder brother, Kiernan Devers, who steals her heart, driving William...
29) A moment in time
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Young Wynner of Gwermach has no dreams of marriage. Innocent and pure of heart, she believes that love is an illusion. Instead she devotes herself to managing the great family estate nestled in the raw beauty of Wales, vowing to protect it and her younger brother until he comes of age to inherit. And then Madoc of Powys enters into her life, claiming his betrothat to Wynne when she was a babe.
30) A dangerous love
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Orphaned and betrayed, Adair Radcliffe is taken captive during a border raid and sold into servitude to Conal Bruce, the laird of Cleit. He seeks a housekeeper and bedmate, but she isn't what he expected. She will teach the stubborn Scot that love recognizes neither borders nor rank ...
31) The last heiress
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New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small concludes her acclaimed saga of Rosamund Bolton and her daughters with this tale of passion, intrigue, and seduction, set against the glorious backdrop of King Henry's court...
Elizabeth Meredith, the youngest daughter of Rosamund Bolton, is nothing like her sensible sisters. Impatient with fancy manners, the young beauty has shunned the royal court in favor of a quiet life at Friarsgate. But to protect...
32) Hellion
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A brave wife's search for her husband in the 12th Century. She is Isabelle Fauconier whose husband, Hugh, went missing in France while on a mission for the English king. Fighting off the king's attempt to capitalize on Fauconier's disappearance by seducing her, Isabelle goes to France and finds Hugh, suffering from amnesia and in love with another woman. But Isabelle will find a way to get her man back.
33) The love slave
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It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister's place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin's new husband. Come morning, her sister, carrying another man's child, resumes her place and Regan is spirited away to a nunnery.
But a more exotic fate awaits the fiery Celtic beauty: Regan is sold to a slave trader. It will be her destiny to come under the tutelage of Karim al Malina, master of...
34) Bond of passion
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Bertrice Small continues her sumptuous Border Chronicles series with Bond of Passion. Set in 16th-century Scotland, this breathtaking tale follows Angus Ferguson, Earl of Duin, as he reluctantly agrees to take a wife in exchange for some much-coveted land. Although the plain-faced Annabella Baird may not be the lass he had in mind, passion soon ignites between them.
35) Francesca
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New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small continues her glorious historical-romance series featuring four sisters in Renaissance Florence who have anything but marriage on their minds. Giovanni Pietro d' Angelos selected his oldest daughter's husband, and the marriage proved to be a disaster. He offers to give his next oldest daughter, Francesca, more latitude in choosing a husband than her sister had. But the arrogant beauty has no desire...
36) Adora
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Adora's mahogany hair and violet eyes captivated young Prince Murad the moment he saw her in a convent garden, and their love flowered like the peach blossoms surrounding them. But Orkahm, Grand Turk of an empire, claimed Adora for his bride, tearing her from her young love as she wept bitter tears. Destiny might carry them to other lands and other loves, but Murad and Adora were meant only for each other-forging a magnificent love that lies forever...
37) Beloved
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The daughter of a powerful chieftain, Zenobia witnesses at an early age the shocking brutality of renegade Roman soldiers and vows to hate all of the blue-eyed strangers forever.
38) Guilty pleasures
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Carla, Tiffany, Nina, and J.P. have gotten major play on the Channel in the past - and they're back for more. The secret women-only interactive cable network lets them carry out their wildest fantasies - steamy role plays with pirates, sultans and movie stars that must not spill into their everyday lives. Irish au pair Maureen Flynn is new to the Channel. Will her fantasy Celtic warrior conquer her innocence and turn her on to the Channel, too?
39) Lucianna
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After her two elder sisters become the scandals of Florence, Lucianna Pietro d'Angelo is in the difficult position of finding a wealthy man who will have her for his wife. She has little choice but to accept the proposal of an aging bookseller -- a not entirely disagreeable union in which Lucianna comforts the dear man in his final years. When he passes away, she inherits his shop and, with it, a sizable fortune. Lucianna is content with comfortable...
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Some think librarians are stuffy, narrow-minded prudes, but that's not true of Kathryn St. John. She runs Egret Point's library and is very involved in her community, even down to keeping them up with the latest trends. One major trend she turned the local ladies on to is the interactive network the Channel. It's there that Kathryn extends her occupational passions into the bedroom by playing out her favorite pieces of medieval English literature....