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Lord Alistair Bevan, Viscount Farnham, has the weight of the world on his shoulders. With his father’s health ailing, the time has come for him to find a wife, produce an heir, and do his duty. But Alistair knows a traditional life is not for him, especially when a chance meeting with valet Joseph Logan turns his world upside down.

Oakley Manfred has lived a charmed life of wealth, success, and any glittery boyfriend he wants—until a midnight crash leaves him with a spinal cord injury that might never heal. Anger over everything he’s lost nearly consumes him, until gorgeous, cocky physical therapist Will walks into his life and rearranges everything.

As the owner of an orphanage in a poor neighborhood of London, Stephen Siddel has the weight of the world, not to mention the care of tender souls, on his shoulders. He is a devoted father to dozens of children and an upstanding member of the community, in spite of his rivalry with the local nuns. But his heart and his reputation are overwhelmed by temptation the moment Max walks through the orphanage’s doors.

When Heath Manfred is left in a lurch after an acrimonious divorce, he turns to the Brotherhood for help with finding a nanny for his three-year-old daughter. But the last thing he expects is for the nanny who shows up to interview for the job to be a hunky man. Correction, the last thing he expects is for Aubrey to assume the nanny position is live-in…and for him to go along with that and have Aubrey move in.

For Corva Collier, life as a mail-order bride in the quirky town of Haskell, Wyoming is her last chance for escape. She longs for a peaceful life away from the darkness of her past where she can create the paintings that are close to her heart, and where she hopes she can grow to love her husband. But how do you love a man who was persuaded to marry you against his will?

At 27 years old, Mariah Travers has become what she most feared - a spinster and a perpetual adolescent in the eyes of her family and the law. But her fortunes change when her father announces that he has promised her hand in marriage to an old friend and colleague in the House of Lords. Lord Peter deVere, Earl of Dunsford, is not at all who Mariah imagined marrying, but she is willing to take a chance on the older man in order to gain the freedom that only married women are allowed.

She was at the end of her rope, looking for a final chance… Amelia Elphick may have been born a London lady, but when her lover leaves her pregnant and desperate, the only hope for her and her secret baby comes in the form of rugged Montana cowboy, Eric Quinlan. All she has to do to start a new life in the American West is pretend to be his bride. He must save his ranch before time runs out… It doesn’t take Eric Quinlan long to discover the key to saving his home and his heart lie in Amelia's hands. She’s everything he wants in a woman. She may be his fake wife, but the passion ...

When a fire destroys the factory where Willow Miller works, her only choice for a secure future comes through becoming a mail-order bride to ex-Amish Amos Stoltzfus and moving to her ancestral home of Pennsylvania. Hope carries her forward into a new life, but guilt over her part in the fire that destroyed the factory threatens to hold her back.

Lady Chloe O’Shea lives life with her head in the clouds—or rather the stars. As a budding astrologer, she thinks the course of the world and her life is written in the stars, and if she just looks hard enough, she can see where the future will take her. But the last thing she saw coming was a handsome duke with a secret. Deane Crenshaw, the Duke of Blackburn, is in Ireland looking for a bride after an embarrassing scandal that has turned all of the eligible English maidens against him.

Luke Chance has always been considered the life of the party, the bad-boy troublemaker, known more for his winning smile and entertaining exploits than his character. But in his heart, Luke knows it's time to be a man. While others laugh at his antics, he longs for respect and the chance to prove he can be a leader. The first step toward becoming a leader is to send for a mail-order bride from Hurst Home. Eden Gardner is more than ready to leave her shady past and her even shadier family behind for a normal life.

Lady Marie O’Shea lives life by her own rules...but her days of running free end when her brother, Lord Fergus O’Shea, returns from England, intent on marrying his sisters off to keep them from being the scourge of the county. And when Marie lands herself in a scandalous amount of trouble, she ends up as the first sister doomed to whatever marriage of convenience her brother can arrange. Bad boy Christian Darrow is having too much fun to be tied down, and as the younger son of an earl, he isn’t expected to amount to much.

What starts out as the most awkward, uncomfortable marriage in all of England turns into something else entirely when Lavinia and Armand discover that they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. And when they make a deal to combine forces in order to defeat an old foe, both awaken to a whole new world of possibility and love.

Lady Colleen O’Shea simply cannot stand Lord Benedict Boleran. He is overbearing, he is arrogant, he is opinionated, he is handsome and has lovely eyes and a fine form and…oh dear. But no, she most definitely cannot abide him. And she won’t fall victim to her brother’s marriage machinations and marry the man.

Industrial heiress, Marigold Bellowes, knows that marriage is just another business transaction. She would, seeing as she’s been pursued by greedy men who only want her father’s fortune for years. But she’s determined to take her fate into her own hands and not to be a prize in a merger. So when she meets rising star of Parliament, Alexander Croydon, she sees a merger that would benefit them both instead of turning her into a useless ornament. But Alex carries secrets that shield a broken heart.

Jamie didn’t go looking for the perfect dom, but during one, wild weekend that was supposed to be a rest before the storm of the new school year, the perfect, newbie dom found him. He’s never connected with a play partner like that before, and once the weekend is over, his deepest wish is to find him again and build something true and real outside of the scene.

Lady Shannon O’Shea has seen all of her sisters married off by their brother, Fergus, in order to keep them out of trouble. She is determined not to encounter the same fate. She has far too many other things on her hands, including her secretive, scandalous, and growing beer brewing business. She is convinced that the end of the century will be the beginning of a new world for women, and the last thing she has time for is a man.

This novella--prequel to The Brides of Paradise Ranch series--was originally published as part of the Love's Prelude box set. Elizabeth Ayers is done with her stuffy, city life. Engaged to a man who couldn’t care less about her to further her father’s business dealings, she longs for adventure and the chance to see the newly opened West. But time is running out as her wedding draws near and the walls of her constricted world close in on her… Howard Haskell is a man who knows what he wants, and from the moment he sees Elizabeth across a Cincinnati ballroom, he wants her. The rules of ...

Lucy Haskell has a passion for danger and isn't afraid to let everyone know it. The Oregon Trail is the perfect way for her to travel home to her father's ranch in Wyoming, and to meet new friends and talk their ears off along the way. But Lucy's talking and risk-taking masks a darker fear - that no one could possibly love or even like a woman as unconventional as her.

She thought she could escape to the West and start a new life… People are hunting Charlotte Baldwin, missing heiress--but no one is looking for Charlie West, bride of humble frontier shopkeeper Michael West. Marrying him was the cover Charlotte needed to keep her secrets hidden. But what starts as a marriage of convenience turns hot in a hurry. He believed the sins of his past were behind him… The final piece of Michael West’s plan to become a proper businessman is a respectable wife. Charlie is beautiful, intelligent, and surprisingly sensual. They’re a perfect match in every way. ...

(Please note that this is the spicy version of Bonnie: The Secret Bride) Bonnie Horner, madam of Haskell, Wyoming’s house of ill repute, Bonnie’s Place, has worked hard to make a better life for the girls unfortunate enough to end up in her employ. In fact, her Place serves more as a shelter and refuge than a brothel. For years, Bonnie has sacrificed her own happiness for the sake of her girls, going so far as to manufacture a sham engagement to local cattle baron Rex Bonneville in order to keep her Place financed. But when Rex demands the wedding take place, Bonnie finds herself in an ...