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) 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
...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) 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
...11) 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
...12) 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
...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) 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.
...15) 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
...16) Carolina Rebel
An ambitious MBA with a genius for opening her mouth when she shouldn't, Aurora Jenkins wants nothing more than to leave her suffocating rural hometown and run back to the big city where she belongs. Clay McCloud loves rural anonymity. After giving up his million-dollar lifestyle to pay back investors ruined by his MBA-wielding ex-fiancee, the last thing he needs is another woman with a fancy degree and rebellious plans. But a real estate scam
...Frustrated divorcee Amy Warren is striving to fix her life by helping her home town buy the local mill, and then she can put her Plan for the Rest of Her Life in action by buying a rundown cottage and turning it into her heart's desire.
Amy's 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,
...18) Rebel Girl
Ex-country musician Flynn Clinton retires from the road to raise his two boys in his old hometown. Only the sexy waitress who thinks she runs his new coffee shop has the means to carve what remains of his future into coffee grounds. Former beauty queen Joella Sanderson claims her first boyfriend ruined her taste for the stage, and the last ruined her taste for lying, cheating music men. She now serves coffee in the Stardust Cafe, singing funny
...Neville Perceval, the bankrupt Duke of Anglesey, has been burdened since youth with more responsibility than one man should handle. He has finally accepted that he needs to marry a wealthy, gracious lady who will ease his burdens and smooth his political path.
Fiona MacDermot, the rebellious, untamed cousin of an Irish earl, has the freedom and independence Neville has never known. Like the duke, she needs cash to help starving villagers and
...20) Imperfect Rebel
Cleo Alyssum's plan is simple: stay sober, stay out of trouble, and bite her tongue until Social Services sees she's pretty close to perfect and returns her little boy. But when an accident on her isolated property forces her to rent a cottage to celebrated cartoonist Jared McCloud, her carefully constructed comfort zone develops cracks. Jared has a deadline to meet or he'll forfeit still another lucrative career and be branded for life by his
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