Jane Lambert is not exactly a woman of means. She is a merchant’s daughter but what she lacks in monetary value and peerage, she makes up for in wit, intellect, charm, and beauty.
Jane’s father is quick to be rid of her though, and thus arranges a match between a colleague, William Shore, and Jane.
William is much older than Jane and clearly not interested in her female charms….under any circumstance but he hopes a marriage to her will mean advancement for his business.
The negotiations move forward but Jane still holds out hope that a mysterious man she met by chance in the street will speak for her hand instead, the handsome and dashing Tom Grey.
She meets Grey in secret and tells him her father plans to marry her off unless he stands up and asks for her hand. She has no idea that Master Grey is really Lord Thomas Grey, the 1st Marquess of Dorset, the King’s step son. Grey rejects her because he is already married, and confesses that he really just wanted to bed her, not marry her.
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Nestled away in the fjordlands of Norway lies a little farm, home to Oleanna and her family–but Oleanna’s family is about to change.
Russian art critic, Vadim, sees a beautiful woman in a café one day and is immediately captivated by her beauty and sparkling aura.
Lady Emily Ashford is not in love with her new husband, the Viscount Philip Ashford. In fact she hardly knows him. So when she receives word that her husband died on safari in Africa, she can hardly morn a man she barely knows.
While Ireland might have been neutral during WWII, it doesn’t mean that the war didn’t effect the lives of it’s Irish residents. Kitty in Dunkerrin, a small town in the middle of Ireland. One morning she wakes up to find a parachute hanging from one of her lime trees.
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