Lady Angeline Dudley, who harbors a secret desire for a simple marriage in spite of expectations that she marry a wealthy, titled man, must must come up with a plan when she falls for an earl who does not return her feelings.

After the deaths of his father and brothers leave Harrison Thornwick an earl, the prince regent threatens to have him arrested unless he marries Angelina Rule, but she is reluctant because she loves someone else.

Attending Queen Victoria as a court maid of honor, Lady Rebecca Marshall is seduced by royal agent Rupert St. John, the ne'er-do-well cousin of one of Rebecca's former suitors, with whom she is forced into marriage when she becomes pregnant.

Andrew Alexander, who blames himself for a tragic yachting accident, returns home from his self-imposed exile to find that the love of his life, Astrid Worthington, has recently been widowed under mysterious circumstances.

British-born Sebastian St. Clair, who was forced to join the French army in the Napoleonic Wars, returns home to England, where he falls in love with his aunt's companion--only to discover that someone is plotting against him.

"Threatened by powerful enemies, William Blackburn, Earl of Ketterham, lives in exile in the Scottish Highlands with his daughter Vanessa. When she comes of age William urges her to return to her mother in England to make her debut. Raised with all the advantages and freedom a boy would have, Vanessa doubts she can fit into the mold of a proper young lady. Still, she agrees to re-enter fashionable society, determined to end the vendetta against her...

"Letty Banks is a reluctant courtesan, keeping a terrible secret that brought her, a vicar's daughter, to a life of vice. While becoming madam of Viscount Fairly's high-class brothel is an absolute financial necessity, Letty refuses to become David's mistress--though their attraction becomes harder to resist the more she learns about the man. David is smitten not only with Letty's beauty, but also with her calm, her kindness, her quiet. David is determined...

Having resigned herself to life without love, Claudia Martin, headmistress of Miss Martin's School for Girls, is drawn to Joseph, the Marquess of Attingsborough, who is willing to defy convention and break every rule in society to make her his.

Finally putting his troubled past behind him to run London's Neville Shipping, Gareth Lloyd is stunned when the Duke of Warneham is found murdered and it is discovered that he is the dynasty's last living heir, a situation that becomes complicated when he meets the former duke's beautiful and aristocratic duchess.