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A Bargain with the Devil Duke: A Historical Steamy Regency Romance Novel (Dangerous Gentlemen Book 2)
“He needed a wife by Friday and she needed one night. Neither of them planned to fall.”
Jayden Preston, the fifth Duke of Ravenhurst, has perfected the art of feeling nothing. London calls him the Devil Duke, sinner, seducer, breaker of hearts and conventions alike, and he has never once corrected them. Then a solicitor arrives at midnight with a copper-haired little girl who has his eyes, and the carefully ruined life he’s built comes crashing down. His grandmother’s terms are simple; marry respectably in six weeks, or watch his daughter pay for his sins.
There is exactly one woman in London with hair the right shade of scandal-concealing flame.
Vivienne, Dowager Marchioness of Vaughn, buried a husband who spent five years making her small, and she will never belong to a man again. She wants one thing from the Devil Duke, and it isn’t his name. It’s a single night, on her terms, taken and not given. So when he answers her wicked proposition with an offer of marriage, she should laugh in his beautiful, calculating face.
Instead, she says yes.
It’s only a bargain. Separate rooms, protected fortune, no tender feelings, just a convenient duchess, a borrowed shade of copper, and a contract neither intends to break.
But contracts say nothing about the way he looks at her in the dark. Or the small, fierce child learning to call her Mama. Or the dangerous, undoing truth that the rake who feels nothing has begun to feel everything, for the one woman determined never to be caught again.
A marriage of convenience was supposed to be safe.
This one is going to ruin them both.
A heartfelt slow-burn steamy romance about learning to trust again, finding comfort where you least expect it, and falling for the one person who truly sees beyond your defenses. Perfect for readers who love emotionally rich, Beauty and the Beast–inspired love stories.
Blending sparkling banter, irresistible chemistry, and deeply tender moments, this captivating historical romance delivers a love story that will stay in your heart long after the last page.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a wonderfully satisfying happily ever after.
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The Duke’s Convenient Wallflower: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (Spinsters and Lords Book 6)
Tell me the truth, Cecily. After four Seasons of being unnoticed by every gentleman in England, do you truly believe a fifth will be any different?
Cecily could not tell her sister the truth, because the truth was that Theodora Davies had been overlooked so completely, for so many years, that all of London had quite forgotten she existed, until the afternoon a startled horse in Hyde Park sent her stumbling, mortified and blushing, straight into the arms of the most pursued Duke in England.
Edison Cavendish, Duke of Westmere, has spent fifteen years being hunted by every ambitious mother in London, and beneath the marble the ton calls icy lives a man who has not been truly seen by a single soul in his entire adult life. He should release this blushing stranger and walk away, yet for the first time in years someone has looked up at him without seeing the title, and he finds that he cannot.
He offers her an arrangement that seems perfectly sensible, a pretend courtship for the Season to spare them both, with an end agreed upon before it has even begun. What neither of them counted on was how dangerous it becomes to pretend, when the woman who has spent her whole life being unseen is finally, properly, attentively looked at, by the only man in England who has been waiting just as long to be seen in return.
But the gossip columns are sharpening their pens, and when the truth of their pretend courtship comes out, only one of them will have the courage to admit they were never pretending at all.
A clean, slow-burn Regency romance about a wallflower the world had forgotten, a duke the world had never known, and the quiet ordinary miracle of being seen at last by exactly the right person.
No cliffhanger. Guaranteed happily ever after.
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The Notorious Duke’s Governess: A Historical Regency Romance Book (Beastly Dukes of the Ton 2)
“No one had stayed for Mel Grace since she was sixteen years old, and the most scandalous duke in England was the last man on earth she expected to ask her to.”
Mel is a governess of twenty-six, practical, observant, with no family and no fortune and one quiet certainty no one knows she carries: that hoping for more than she has is the surest way to be disappointed. Her father walked out of her life when she was a girl, and she has not allowed herself to wait for anyone since.
So when Hartfell House in remote Cornwall offers her a generous salary to teach three wild little girls no one else can manage, she takes it expecting nothing. A roof. A wage. Three difficult children she can probably handle. The same arrangement she has had in four other houses.
What she finds is something else.
Annabelle, Viola, and Thistle are six years old, brilliant, and being raised on three days of attention a month from a mysterious benefactor named Mr. Langford. Within a week, Mel has earned their trust. Within a month, she has worked out the truth their benefactor has spent five years hiding. These are not his nieces. They are his daughters. And Mr. Langford is not a quiet country gentleman at all. He is Rhys, Duke of Trevane, London’s most notorious rake, who has spent fifteen years building a fortress of scandal around himself because the truth is too painful to carry alone.
He expected her to leave the moment she discovered it. He did not expect her to stay.
Rhys has never met a woman who looked at him without seeing the title, the fortune, or the scandal sheets. Mel sees a tired father trying to be better than he was raised to be, and she tells him so, plainly, the way she tells everyone everything. And slowly, evening by evening in a study lit by a single fire, the rake and the governess discover that being seen by one honest person is more terrifying, and more healing, than either of them is prepared for.
But society does not let men like Rhys keep secrets forever. And when the truth about his three little girls is finally dragged into the light, Mel will have to decide whether the woman who has spent ten years not waiting for anyone is brave enough, at last, to stay.
A deeply emotional Regency romance about loneliness, healing, found family, and the courage to believe in love again when life has taught you not to hope for it.
Filled with tender moments, slow-burning passion, and a brooding duke no one truly understands, this heartfelt story will stay with you long after the final page.
No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a beautifully satisfying happily ever after.
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The Cruel Duke’s Practical Duchess: A Historical Regency Romance Book (Sensible Marriages 2)
“No one had truly looked at Josephine Woode in years, and the man who finally did was the one they all called cruel.”
For eight long years, Josephine has been a governess, raising other people’s children, wearing the grey dress that lets the world look right through her. She has trained herself to want nothing she cannot earn, and to ask for nothing at all.
Then, across a windy churchyard one Sunday morning, the Duke of Blackmere meets her eyes and does not look away.
Jack Harrod is the most hated man in the county. The papers say he tore down a village out of cruelty. The drawing rooms say worse. He has never once defended himself, because the truth he carries is too heavy to hand to strangers. He has lived alone for so long that he has forgotten what it feels like to be looked at without fear, and a governess in a grey dress, who looks back at him as though he were simply a man, undoes something in him he thought was permanently fixed.
When a quiet country vicar suggests the unthinkable, Josephine finds herself agreeing to a marriage that was never meant to be more than practical. Separate wings. Mutual respect. An heir, in time. And yet, evening by evening, in the library of a cold Northumberland hall, two people who had each given up on being known begin to know each other.
But the Duke has a cousin who has spent his whole life waiting to inherit, and who will spread any rumour and ruin any reputation to take what he believes is his. If Josephine wants to keep the first home she has ever truly belonged in, she will have to step out of the shadows she has lived in for years and let the whole county finally see her.
A clean, slow-burn Regency romance about the man no one understood and the woman no one noticed, and the quiet, ordinary courage of choosing each other in plain sight.
If you love historical romances filled with unforgettable characters, healing hearts, and marriage of convenience, The Cruel Duke’s Practical Duchess is a story you won’t want to miss.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a deeply satisfying happily ever after.
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To Love a Guardian Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (The Midnight Rose Dukes Book 4)
“Four governesses had broken under his roof in eight months. Jane Lacey did not intend to be the fifth.”
The Duke of Caldwell can manage a dukedom of forty thousand acres. He cannot manage bedtime.
His cousin’s two orphaned boys have been falling apart under his guardianship for nearly a year. Arthur is five, and barricades himself in pantries. George is nine, and conducts his grief like a war, locked behind a door he refuses to open. Every governess the London agencies have sent has fled in tears.
Then a quiet young woman arrives with one trunk, plain references, and the unsettling habit of catching wooden soldiers thrown at her head without flinching.
She does not coax George out from behind his walls. She gives him a book and tells him she will be there when he is ready. She does not punish Arthur’s chaos. She gives it a channel. Within a single day, Jane Lacey has done what eight months and four failures could not.
The duke who has spent his life keeping people at a distance finds himself watching her from doorways, listening for her step in the corridor, wondering how a stranger has settled the household his own father raised him to command.
What he cannot know is that Jane Lacey is not her real name.
The references are forged. Somewhere in London, a man with damp hands is waiting for her, and the uncle who promised her to him is closing in.
When her past finally finds her, the duke who has never trusted easily will have to decide whether protecting her means letting her go, or never letting her go again.
A slow-burn clean Regency romance with a brooding guardian duke, a governess who is more than she seems, two grieving boys worth saving, and a love that proves the bravest hearts are the ones that learn to stay.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Only a warm and satisfying happily ever after.
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To Love a Guardian Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (The Midnight Rose Dukes Book 4)
“Four governesses had broken under his roof in eight months. Jane Lacey did not intend to be the fifth.”
The Duke of Caldwell can manage a dukedom of forty thousand acres. He cannot manage bedtime.
His cousin’s two orphaned boys have been falling apart under his guardianship for nearly a year. Arthur is five, and barricades himself in pantries. George is nine, and conducts his grief like a war, locked behind a door he refuses to open. Every governess the London agencies have sent has fled in tears.
Then a quiet young woman arrives with one trunk, plain references, and the unsettling habit of catching wooden soldiers thrown at her head without flinching.
She does not coax George out from behind his walls. She gives him a book and tells him she will be there when he is ready. She does not punish Arthur’s chaos. She gives it a channel. Within a single day, Jane Lacey has done what eight months and four failures could not.
The duke who has spent his life keeping people at a distance finds himself watching her from doorways, listening for her step in the corridor, wondering how a stranger has settled the household his own father raised him to command.
What he cannot know is that Jane Lacey is not her real name.
The references are forged. Somewhere in London, a man with damp hands is waiting for her, and the uncle who promised her to him is closing in.
When her past finally finds her, the duke who has never trusted easily will have to decide whether protecting her means letting her go, or never letting her go again.
A slow-burn clean Regency romance with a brooding guardian duke, a governess who is more than she seems, two grieving boys worth saving, and a love that proves the bravest hearts are the ones that learn to stay.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Only a warm and satisfying happily ever after.
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Falling for a Silent Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Book (Icy Arrangements 4)
“Molly Fieldmore is starving to death, and she is being terribly polite about it.”
For nearly a year now, she has been quietly giving her food to her invalid mother. She mends shirts for threepence apiece. She smiles at the neighbours who pretend not to notice how thin her wrists have become. And every single morning, she tells herself she is perfectly fine, until one grey November afternoon, on a muddy lane three miles from home, her body finally decides it has had enough.
The man who finds her in the road is the last person in Hertfordshire she would have chosen.
Adrian, the Duke of Thornfield, has not spoken a kind word to anyone in ten years. He doesn’t entertain. He doesn’t visit. He certainly doesn’t rescue chattering young women who wake up in his guest chamber and tell him his eyes look like weather. But Molly Fieldmore weighs nothing in his arms, and her quiet bravery, the smile she offers from the mud, the apology she makes for the inconvenience of fainting, lodges itself somewhere behind his ribs and refuses to leave.
He cannot stop riding past her cottage.
He cannot stop hiding medicines beneath the cheese in her hampers, because she is too proud to accept them any other way. He cannot stop, and he doesn’t entirely understand why, until a sharp-eyed aunt and a meddlesome housekeeper arrange for Molly to spend her days at Thornfield, and Adrian discovers that the silence he has hidden inside for a decade is no match for a girl who fills it with stories about wallpaper birds and opinions on local cheese.
Then there is Sir Gerald Pomeroy. The neighbour who calls himself a benefactor. The man whose patience is running out.
The silent duke is going to have to find his voice at last.
Before the world Molly has been holding together by sheer willpower finally falls apart.
A tender, slow-burn clean Regency romance featuring a silent grumpy duke, a starving sunshine heroine, hurt/comfort, found family, a meddling aunt, a fierce housekeeper, and a love that says everything important without ever quite saying it out loud.
No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a beautifully satisfying happily ever after full of romance.
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Tempted by the Duke: A Historical Steamy Regency Romance Novel (Dukes of Temptation Book 2)
“He had not allowed himself to want anything in four years.
Then she walked through his door.”The Duke of Ravenswood returned from the war alive. That was as far as he had managed in four years, alive, and no further. He pacing his frozen halls at midnight. He drank alone in his library. He could not bring himself to open the door to the orphaned boy his closest friend died asking him to raise.
Lorraine Weston was hired for three months and triple wages.
She was twenty-six years old, ruined for a scandal that was never hers. She had given up her name to save her sister and had received, in exchange, a quiet life of borrowed rooms in other people’s houses.
She had not come to Yorkshire to fall in love.
She had come to teach a silent boy his laughter back.
But the duke watches her across his library at midnight, and his hands shake when she is near, and one evening when the candles have burned low he says her name in a voice she has never heard from him, and Lorraine Weston, who has been very practiced at not being wanted, finds that she does not know how to be wanted by him.
Some people are saved.
Some people do the saving.
And some, very rarely, are given the chance to do both.
If you love steamy Regency romance filled with scandal, longing, sharp banter, and irresistible chemistry, this sweeping love story is for you. Featuring a grumpy duke, a curvy spinster heroine, forced proximity, and slow-burning passion that turns utterly consuming.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a beautifully satisfying happily ever after.
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Eine Schönheit für den wilden Herzog: Ein historischer, erotischer Regency-Roman (Skandalöse Herzöge 5) (German Edition)
„Er ist der gefürchtetste Duke Englands.
Sie ist die einzige Frau, die keine Angst hat, ihn zu berühren.“Vor fünf Jahren machte ein verheerendes Feuer aus Gideon, Duke of Montrose, eine düstere Legende – das Biest von Ironwood. Vernarbt, zurückgezogen und eiskalt hat er sich vor der Gesellschaft verborgen … und vor jeder Form von Verlangen.
Bis Seraphina Vance vor seiner Tür steht.
Um ihre Familie vor dem Ruin zu retten, geht sie einen gefährlichen Handel ein:
Drei Monate in Ironwood Hall.
Drei Monate, um die verfallene Bibliothek des Dukes wiederherzustellen.
Im Gegenzug wird die Schuld ihres Bruders beglichen.Es gibt nur eine Regel.
Sie darf ihn niemals berühren.
Doch Regeln verlieren ihre Macht, wenn die Versuchung unter demselben Dach lebt.
Gideon ist Dunkelheit, Kontrolle und unterdrückte Begierde.
Seraphina ist Wärme, Mut und eine Versuchung, die alles in ihm entfacht, was er begraben wollte.Jeder Blick brennt.
Jede beinahe Berührung wird gefährlich.
Und mit jeder Nacht kommen sie der Grenze näher, die sie niemals überschreiten dürfen.Denn die größte Gefahr in Ironwood Hall ist nicht das Biest …
… sondern das Verlangen, das Gideon nicht länger kontrollieren kann.
Ein leidenschaftlicher Regency-Roman voller Slow-Burn-Spannung, verbotener Nähe und unwiderstehlicher Anziehung. Perfekt für Leserinnen, die vernarbte Herzöge, düstere Atmosphäre und intensive Leidenschaft lieben.
Kein Betrug. Keine Cliffhanger. Nur ein emotionales und sinnliches Happy End.
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Die Versuchung des zurückgezogenen Herzogs: Ein historischer, erotischer Regency-Roman (Skandalöse Herzöge 3) (German Edition)
„Eine mutige Blaustrumpf-Dame. Ein verschlossener Duke. Eine verbotene Leidenschaft, die sie beide zerstören könnte.“
Miss Eveline Whitcombe kennt ihren Platz in der Gesellschaft – und weigert sich, dort zu bleiben. Klug, unabhängig und unerschrocken nimmt sie eine Stelle an, um die private Bibliothek des Duke of Everleigh zu katalogisieren, obwohl Frauen wie sie sich eigentlich nicht in die Welt der Männer einmischen sollten.
Adrian Blackburn, der zurückgezogene Duke of Everleigh, hätte nie erwartet, dass die scharfzüngige junge Frau aus der Buchhandlung seine ruhige Welt erschüttern würde. Ihre Intelligenz fordert ihn heraus. Ihre Leidenschaft weckt Sehnsüchte, die er längst begraben glaubte.
Doch als ein Skandal Evelines Ruf bedroht, schlägt Adrian eine Scheingefährtschaft vor – ein riskantes Spiel, das sie retten oder vernichten könnte. Zwischen gestohlenen Blicken, verbotenen Berührungen und gefährlicher Anziehung verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Pflicht und Verlangen immer mehr.
Von glamourösen Londoner Bällen bis zu den stillen Ecken der herzoglichen Bibliothek entfaltet sich eine leidenschaftliche Liebesgeschichte voller Spannung, Sehnsucht und verbotener Gefühle.
Ein sinnlicher Regency-Roman voller prickelnder Chemie, scharfem Schlagabtausch und emotionaler Tiefe – perfekt für Leserinnen, die starke Heldinnen und düstere Herzöge lieben.
Keine Cliffhanger. Kein Betrug. Nur ein leidenschaftliches Happy End.
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Tempting the Cold Duke: A Historical Steamy Regency Romance Novel (Sinful Lords of the Ton Book 1)
“She was too much for the ton. She was exactly enough for him.”
Evelyn Gerard is eight-and-twenty, unmarried, and standing on the front steps of the only home she has ever loved, refusing to move.
The Duke of Shrewsbury came to take it from her.
Raymond Jones rebuilt the Shrewsbury name from his father’s ashes through ten years of cold political precision. He has no use for sentiment. No tolerance for distraction. And absolutely no business noticing the soft, freckled, defiant spinster who just grabbed his hand and made his pulse stop.
You may stay, he hears himself say.
He does not plan to return and he returns three weeks later…
A Crown Commission forces them under one roof. He is supposed to be ignoring her. She is supposed to be ignoring him. Neither of them is doing a particularly good job.
He cannot stop watching her.
He cannot stop wanting her.
And when his oldest enemy notices exactly how much the cold duke wants the curvy spinster who refuses to be small, Raymond will burn down half of England before he lets her be touched.
A duke does not fall for his tenant.
A spinster does not undo a man like this.
They do it anyway.
A deeply emotional slow-burn steamy Regency romance about learning to trust, surrendering to desire, and finding love in the one place neither of them expected. Perfect for readers who adore grumpy dukes, curvy heroines, forced proximity, and fiercely protective heroes.
Filled with sharp banter, aching tension, and breathtaking chemistry, this richly layered historical romance blends tender vulnerability with heart-racing passion in a story that lingers long after the final page.
No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a deeply satisfying happily ever after.
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How to Tempt a Tortured Duke: A Historical Steamy Regency Romance Novel (The Rules of Ruin Book 1)
“They said the Duke of Ravensfield came back from the war wrong.
They were lying. He came back wounded.”And the only person who knows the difference is the herbalist who finds him shaking on a forest road, counting his breaths in sets of four.
“Five things you can see. Four things you can hear. Three things you can touch.”
That’s how she keeps him in the present. That’s how she keeps him alive.
Nathaniel Warrick should be in London charming the ton. Instead the seventh Duke of Ravensfield is hiding at a forest lodge, praying no one catches a duke shaking like a boy on an empty road.
No one does.
Except her.
Marian Farrow has dirt beneath her nails and lavender in her hair. Her mother taught her to mend soldiers, body and mind, and the broken duke at her cottage door is just another patient.
He is not just another patient.
A duke does not kneel for a herb-witch in a forest cottage.
A herb-witch does not let a duke take her on her own workbench.
They do it anyway.
But Lord Hadley wants Ravensfield’s land, and a duke who flinches at thunder is a duke who can be declared unfit.
There is a price for loving Nathaniel Warrick.
She would pay it twice.A scandalous, steamy Regency romance of passion, danger, and forbidden desire. Perfect for readers who crave dark-edged dukes, electric banter, forbidden touches, and scorching Regency tension. This story brings intensity, heat, and a love that refuses to be denied.
No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a beautifully satisfying happily ever after full of romance.
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