Self-effacing, overworked bookkeeper Elie Benezet doesn't have time to be in love. Too bad he already is-with his favorite client, Augustus Brine. The Royal Navy sailing master is kind, handsome, and breathtakingly competent. He's also engaged to his childhood sweetheart. And now that his prize money is coming in after years of delay, he can afford to marry her.once Elie submits the final prize paperwork. When Augustus comes home, determined to marry by the end of his brief leave, Elie does his best to set his broken heart aside and make it happen. But he's interrupted by one thing after another: other clients, the high holidays, his family's relentless efforts to marry him off. Augustus isn't helping by renting a room down the hall, shaving shirtless with his door open, and inviting Elie to the public baths. If Elie didn't know better, he'd think Augustus didn't want to get married. To cap it all off, Augustus's fiancée arrives in town, senses that Elie has a secret, and promptly accuses him of embezzling. Has Elie's doom been sealed.or is there still time to change his fate?

Sailor's Delight

Goldengrove's towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone's throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room. I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion. I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn't stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Tabby's mother, Sir Kit's companion, and Goldengrove's new mistress. All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her. Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on my guitar, why all the doors inside the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night. "It gave me nightmares.a furious, tender, aching, incisive masterpiece of a book." -Olivia Waite, author of The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

The Wife in the Attic - Rye Bay, #1

***This novella originally appeared in the Hamilton's Battalion anthology with linked stories by Courtney Milan and Alyssa Cole.***Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happily-ever-after.Donning men's clothing, Rachel left her life behind to fight the British as Corporal Ezra Jacobs-but life catches up with a vengeance at the siege of Yorktown, when she arrests an old love as a Loyalist spy. At first she thinks Nathan Mendelson hasn't changed one bit: he's annoying, he talks too much, he sticks his handsome nose where it doesn't belong, and he's self-righteously indignant just because Rachel might have faked her own death a little. She'll be lucky if he doesn't spill her secret to the entire Continental Army. Then Nathan shares a secret of his own, one that changes everything...

Promised Land: a Revolutionary Romance

She's a maid-of-all-work, and he's a valet of no play... John Toogood always prided himself on being the perfect gentleman's gentleman: skilled, discreet, and professional. But now he finds himself laid off and blacklisted, stuck in tiny Lively St. Lemeston until he can find a new job. Any job. His instant attraction to his happy-go-lucky maid Sukey Grimes couldn't come at a worse time. Her manners are provincial, her respect for authority nonexistent, and her outdated cleaning methods...well, the less said about them, the better. Sukey can tell that John's impeccably impassive facade hides a lonely man with a gift for laughter-and kissing. But she also knows he'll leave her sleepy little town behind the moment he gets the chance, and she has no intention of giving him her heart to take with him. John learns that the town vicar needs a butler-but the job is only for a respectable married man. Against both their better judgments, John and Sukey tie the knot. The ring isn't on her finger long before Sukey realizes she underestimated just how vexing being married to the boss can be...

Listen to the Moon - Lively St. Lemeston, #3

**All or Nothing originally appeared in the Gambled Away limited-time historical romance anthology.**England, 1819-the hottest summer in years.Simon Radcliffe-Gould's career as an architect is stalled and his bank account is almost empty. Yet every week he finds himself losing money he can't afford at Maggie da Silva's bohemian gambling den, just so he'll have an excuse to see the beautiful, irrepressible hostess. Maggie thought she had her life sorted out. She has a best friend (with benefits), a successful business, and a truly spectacular wardrobe. But lately she's been.bored. Intrigued by serious, shy Simon, she finds a way to draw him into reluctantly betting on her favors at the faro table. A few glorious nights are all she expects. But when an old flame hires Simon to design a folly during a scandalous house party at his country estate, Simon asks Maggie to pose as his mistress so he can actually get some work done. Sure, she'd rather be his mistress, but she jumps at the chance for a well deserved, all-expenses-paid vacation. What could go wrong?Turns out, everything: Simon has unresolved issues with his ex, it's impossible to keep kosher, and worst of all, Maggie is in danger of losing her heart.

All or Nothing

John Toogood, qui vient de perdre son emploi de valet, rencontre Sukey Grimes, petite bonne impertinente dont la beauté piquante déchaîne aussitôt ses fantasmes les plus osés. Mais elle est trop innocente pour qu'il profite d'elle. Quand on lui propose un poste de majordome à la condition expresse qu'il soit marié, John demande la main de la jeune fille, qui accepte. Très vite, ils découvrent qu'ils s'entendent à merveille au lit. Pourtant, Sukey la rebelle a bien du mal à supporter l'autorité d'un époux si autoritaire et protecteur.

Lively St. Lemeston Tome 3

Jeune veuve désargentée, Phoebe Sparks est contactée par un agent électoral versé dans le clientélisme, qui lui propose de se remarier afin de transmettre son droit de vote à son futur époux - qui saura bien sûr mettre le bon bulletin dans l'urne. Outrée, Phoebe le flanque à la porte. Quelque temps plus tard, débarque chez elle le frère du candidat des Tories. Nick Dymond est en effet missionné pour la convaincre et lui présenter d’éventuels maris. Sauf qu'entre-temps Phoebe a appris que sa jeune sœur était enceinte et avait besoin d'argent. Cela change la donne, même si son cœur penche plutôt pour le parti opposé. Mais bientôt, il va pencher encore plus pour Nick.

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