The Forgotten Heiress
Book One
Forced to Marry the Man She Danced with Only Once!
Miss Arabella Gledhill’s lonely upbringing has left her timid and ill-prepared to shine during her first season. But at four and twenty, her scheming aunt and uncle want her off their hands, pressing her to accept the first marriage proposal proffered.
It’s not the way Arabella dreamed it—what chance has she of finding a good, kind man who’ll offer her heart’s desire?
Liam, Lord Kenwreck, has grown weary of his life of licentiousness, although he’s in no rush to wear the parson’s noose, despite the efforts of his mother and sister to find him a suitable match. So how is that, by the end of the season’s first ball, he’s kissed Miss Gledhill in front of the ton and now they’re to wed?
This hasty union is not what Liam imagined, especially when he vowed never to bring dishonour on his family like his cruel blackguard of a father. But married he must be, to this beautiful bride Town gossips have branded the Forgotten Heiress. Who has no experience of the world, let alone a man of the world such as he…
A Duchess for Christmas
Book Two
Grace Banks is much looking forward to her first Christmas at the Home for Desolate Ladies. As its proprietress, she is keen to bring comfort and joy to the gentlewomen who have taken refuge there, and also enjoy the festivities herself. However, the sudden arrival of a visitor threatens her plans, for she and he are not strangers.
Edward, Duke of Tavistock, is searching for his young cousin. Winifred went missing after departing Bath under a cloud of gossip, and there is reason to believe she is currently residing at the Home. But he also has another motivation for visiting: Grace, the woman he loved and mysteriously lost, before learning she had married someone else.
Edward wants answers, but Grace is not sure she can bear raking over the past. He appears to believe she forsook him for another, when it was news of his engagement to a young heiress that sent her running. That, and a secret she feels she may never be able to share…
Can the spirit of Christmas and love from the past, heal the present, and bring a happy future?
It Started with a Christmas Kiss
Book Three
Forced to leave the family home a fortnight before Christmas!
While her employer and friend lay dying, Emme promised Mirabel Youngwin that her five young daughters would stay together, vowing to herself she would never be parted from them either.
Now, two years later, the children’s father has also passed. Thrown out of the family home, Emme must find somewhere for her and her charges to stay until their new guardian arrives—when they will most likely be taken to start a new life without her. With Christmas quickly approaching, and nowhere else to turn to, she heads to the Home for Desolate Ladies, to take refuge there and work out how she can prevent herself from being separated from her beloved girls.
Stranded on a roadside after their carriage breaks down, Emme is grateful when a gentleman stops to help. Lord Luke Parker is handsome, kind, and good with the children, and she can’t help being drawn to him. So when Luke arrives at the Home a few days before Christmas to announce that he’s been appointed as the sisters’ guardian, she’s presented with a heartrending dilemma. How can she persuade Luke not to dismiss her—and if she succeeds, stop herself from falling for him even more deeply?