Beverley Oakley
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A handsome libertine accepts a wicked wager to win the favour of his unscrupulous ladylove. A virtuous young woman is set to be ruined on the eve of her arranged marriage.
Charismatic rakes and dark agendas set the scene in this multi-layered Georgian mystery and romance in which innocent Celeste Rosington must play a risky game if she's not to fall victim to the greed and ambition of her powerful enemies.
But just who is the enemy?
When Celeste...
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Two nobly born debutantes and their illegitimate sisters - a governess and an actress - compete for love while bringing to justice a handsome, dangerous traitor in these passionate, intrigue-filled Regency romances.
HER GILDED PRISON - She was determined to secure the succession, he was in it for the pleasure. Falling in love was not part of the arrangement.
When dashing twenty-five-year-old Stephen Cranbourne arrives at the estate he will one...
3) Saving Grace
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Grace Fortune trusts no one after she was betrayed by the man she once loved.
Now, she's the most popular 'Cyprian' at Madame Chambon's high-class London brothel, consort of princes and society's 'Upper Ten Thousand'.
As Faith prepares for her next job as the special initiation 'gift' procured by a mother in fashionable Mayfair for her son's twenty-first birthday, Faith prepares for her revenge.
But revenge is a dish best left uneaten if the truth...
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She's torn between her heart's desire and her desire for justice...
Lady Athelton's St Valentine's Ball is a place for love, not vengeance.
Nevertheless, the once carefree Lisette plots to use the infamous gathering in her quest for justice.
But Lucien Monteil, handsome Vicomte and darling of post-revolutionary France, is more than the man who betrayed her father, sending him to the guillotine. He's also the man who stole her heart so many years...
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A handsome politician determined to stamp out corruption.A beautiful wife with a sinful past.And a burgeoning love threatened by more than a past liaison. Three years after her dutifully contracted marriage, Adelaide, Lady Leeson, has fallen in love with her husband.Desperately, unequivocally, and madly in love with the good, honest man who rescued her when she was at her lowest ebb.The problem is that Tristan, Lord Leeson, thinks she is indeed a...
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Branded a bastard in her village, Kitty Hazlett runs away to find a more appreciative audience in London as Kitty La Bijou, celebrated actress, desired by princes and aristocrats.
She's soon embroiled in a passionate but highly unsuitable love affair, despite the fact her greatest dream is for true love and respectability.
But when Kitty stumbles across Araminta, her nobly born half-sister, on the verge of giving birth barely seven months after...
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Marriage was not the intended outcome when loyal and determined Miss Rose Chesterfield made a wager with London's most eligible rake not to call in a debt that would ruin her family.Ashley Delacroix, Viscount Rampton is practised at resisting the lures of scheming debutantes to get him to the altar, which is why he only consorts with beautiful widows and willing matrons.When irresistible Lady Chesterfield indicates she's prepared to barter her wares...
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Lady Sybil expects Stephen, her husband's heir, to marry her beautiful eldest daughter, Araminta. But when Sybil and Stephen meet, a forbidden passion erupts between the two in this steamy Regency romance.
Despite proud, fiery Araminta and her shy, plain sister, Hetty, parading their very different charms before him, the young viscount-in-waiting is drawn to the quiet, unassuming Lady Sybil who has been trapped in a loveless marriage for twenty years...
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Two beautiful sisters — one an illegitimate governess, the other a celebrated debutante — compete for love amidst the scandal and intrigue of a Regency London Season.
Lissa Hazlett lives life in the shadows. The beautiful, unacknowledged daughter of Viscount Partington earns her living as a drudge to the social-climbing Lamonts while her vain and spoiled half-sister, Araminta, enjoys London's social whirl as its most feted debutante.
When Lissa's...
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1878 ~ Consorts to nobles and princes, the girls at Madame Chambon's House of ill Repute have wit, beauty, and cunning - and a determination to find love on their terms. Enjoy three wonderfully romantic second-chance Victorian Romances, with a touch of suspense! WEDDING VIOLET When Max, Lord Belvedere, is abandoned at the altar, he believes his dreams have come true! All that's needed to secure his freedom is to reassure his ailing Aunt Euphemia that...
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London, 1880 She's the secret daughter of London's most notorious pleasure-house keeper. He's the stranger who was captivated by her beauty and heroism when together they rescued a child from a deadly train crash. When Evelina Tarot arrives in London to find a husband in society's highest circles, matters take a dangerous turn as scandalous secrets tie her to the city's most infamous brothel. Already deeply in love with the beautiful debutante, ambitious...
12) Forsaking Hope
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Honour? Or her heart's desire?When Felix discovers the divine "Miss Hope" in his bed, his betrayal is acute.Two years ago, he'd been on the verge of proposing marriage to the beautiful governess who had taught his neighbour's children.But Hope had failed to appear for their secret assignation, supposedly rejecting Felix in favour of a position abroad.Now, to Felix's shock and dismay, Hope is the surprise gift his friends have sourced from London's...
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As the most dazzling debutante of 1811, beautiful and reckless Miss Olivia Templestowe scandalised society when she eloped with notorious rake, Lucien, Lord Farquhar. Five years later, she's paid the highest price for her impetuosity. Lucien is dead, branding his widow a whore and unfit mother, and willing the care of their child to a relative. Now Olivia is about to orchestrate a grand charade to reclaim everything she has lost. AFTER YEARS ABROAD,...
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Reluctant courtesan, Charity, has found true love with Hugo, her first and only client.As they prepare for their marriage, poet and artist, Hugo, is tricked into gambling away his impending inheritance; and Charity finds herself at the mercy of Madame Chambon and her infamous house of ill-repute as Hugo is sent away to work in the family business in India. Can Hugo and Charity find the ingenuity to thwart the conspiracy between Hugo's social-climbing...
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"Pretty Woman" meets "Romeo and Juliet" as a ruined governess and illegitimate nobleman's daughter navigate love, suspense, and redemption in this delightful, steamy duo of romances set in the infamous London Pleasure House, Madame Chambon's.In Wedding Violet, Max, Lord Belvedere, finds himself unexpectedly abandoned at the altar. Seizing the opportunity to secure his freedom, he devises a plan to reassure his ailing Aunt Euphemia of his commitment...
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1878 ~ The girls at Madame Chambon's high-class House of Assignation offer beauty, wit, and companionship to London's wealthy and titled gentlemen.In the first boxed set of the Fair Cyprians of London series, three courtesans-in-training at Madame Chambon's navigate danger and intrigue for a second chance at love.SAVING GRACEGrace Fortune trusts no one after she was betrayed by the man she once loved.Now, she's the most popular 'Cyprian' at Madame...
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A Season in DisgraceTwo Errant WardsA wholly Inappropriate AttractionWhen her unruly ward, Araminta Partington lands herself in a compromising situation withthe eligible Mr. Durham, widow Charlotte Wendover comes to the rescue.Durham and Wendover have reason to be allies.They both understand the significance of decorum.They both have wayward charges, hellbent on mesalliance.They both recognize the enthralling fascination burgeoning between them.But...
18) Loving Lily
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Lies brought them together.Truth drove them apart.Love made them whole. When beautiful Lily, Lady Bradden, is abducted and forced to 'summon the spirits' of a nobleman's deceased daughter whom she closely resembles, enigmatic newspaper editor Hamish McTavish vows to expose her as a fraud. But as he unravels the mystery shrouding the new sensation gripping London, an incendiary passion ignites between them. As shadowy dangers close in, Hamish must...
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In the thrilling conclusion to the Daughters of Sin series, the turbulent love affairs of four very different sisters are wrapped up.
Kitty is a celebrated actress with a heart of gold; Lissa is a shy yet daring wallflower with a talent for portraiture that has the potential to bring down the highest in the land. Their two half-sisters, shy, sweet Hetty and vain and spoiled Araminta who is the ton's reigning beauty, have enjoyed a life of privilege...
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Forced into marriage to legitimise her dead fiance's unborn child, Emily feels only resentment towards the noble soldier whose marriage proposal has saved her from destitution.She regards Major Angus McCartney's actions as opportunistic as she mourns her one true love, Jack.But Jack led a secret, double life, as Angus well knows.And Angus is not an opportunist. Too shy to declare himself, he has loved Emily from afar for five long years.With the loss...