Jess Wainwright loves her teaching position at the village school.
Despite the occasional frog in her chair. What she doesn't love is the interfering school superintendent, Cadoc Morgan.
His niece and nephew attend her school and he thinks that gives him the authority to make unannounced visits to her classroom for observation, and remove the microscope she obtained for science lessons.
Jess and Cadoc are both firmly opposed to each other - until a reckless bargain exposes everything seething beneath the surface between them.
Four soldiers face their greatest battle yet—the Regency marriage mart! Fall in love with the first installment of the Season to Wedminiseries. A marriage made in haste… Repented at leisure? Major Adam Mayhew has returned from war to discover his family facing ruin. He no longer cares for the expectations of the ton, but he needs a wealthy, convenient wife fast! Heartbroken by a scoundrel and with her reputation mud, Gwendolyn Trym agrees to use her sizable dowry to restore Adam’s fortunes—and he can restore her good name! Then they can both dispense with the chore of marriage. Yet Adam is proving to be too clever, too rebellious and too attractive a husband…and Gwen's plan starts to unravel!
A marriage of convenience forces a powerful duke to choose between his ferocious pride and love that melts his icy heart. Reputation is everything in the ton. And no one's is more pristine than Constantine Buccleigh, Duke of Pryde's. But when a blackmailer threatens to expose his devastating secret and have him lose everything, he’s forced to marry Miss Modesty Fairchild, a woman far below his station. A budding archeologist, Modesty would rather dig in the dirt than host a gala. But a deathbed promise has left her the guardian of an orphaned baby. She’ll do anything to protect her little ward…even marry the heartless duke who made the most offensive proposal in the history of womenkind. Lonely in Pryde’s elegant Mayfair home, she despises the cold, unyielding duke who expects her to become his perfect duchess. She loathes his arrogance. He resents her defiance. But as dance lessons and etiquette tutorials force them together, Modesty refuses to shrink beneath his iron control. And with every act of rebellion, she shatters his carefully crafted armor, revealing the lonely, broken man beneath. Glimpsing the tender heart beneath her husband’s haughty exterior, Modesty dreams of a loving future. But a villain in the shadows plots Pryde’s downfall. And as the Seven Dukes of Sin hunt for clues, the blackmailer raises the stakes. Faced with a dreadful choice, will Constantine sacrifice his pride and his title for the wife and child he has come to treasure?
When Lady Grace Webster vows to avoid scandal, she doesn’t account for the irresistible Dane Ardeerton, the Duke of Pelham, when she agrees to help him find his perfect duchess.
Scandal is just another word for evening entertainment in Mayfair, and no one stirs up excitement quite like the Duke of Pelham and Lady Grace Webster.
In "A Simple Scandal," whispers turn into shouts when these two join forces—or rather, lock horns—in a battle of wits, wills, and romantic whispers.
Amidst a backdrop of glittering balls and clandestine meetings, will their hearts comply with society's rules, or will they write their own scandalous chapter?
Can the handsome duke teach the steadfast Lady Grace that sometimes, a little scandal is exactly what the heart needs?
