An English Entanglement

(Gilded Age Belles Romance)

A comic illustrator with dreams of artistic freedom falls for a nobleman on the brink of financial ruin. Will Lucy find her place or lose her heart?

Lucille Van Zandt has always been more captivated by her whimsical newspaper strip, Lucy LaMode’s Fashionable Frolics, than Manhattan’s social whirl. Her parents insist she abandon her career as a comic strip artist and travel to London, where marriage to a titled gentleman could secure their place among the elite. Determined to play by her own rules, Lucy resolves to continue her illustrations in her new surroundings.

London’s aristocracy proves as elusive as New York’s famed Four Hundred. But Lucy is undeterred when she crashes an exclusive ball, catching the eye of the Marquess of Harlington, whose ancestral home is on the brink of ruin.

Frederick, Lord Harlington, sees Lucy’s creativity—and substantial dowry—as the solution to his financial woes. As their romance deepens, can Lucy pursue her artistic ambitions without sacrificing her heart? Will Frederick find a way to reconcile his feelings for Lucy with the crushing demands of his estate? Or must their aspirations force them to choose between love and their dreams?

The Courtesan’s Christmas Wish

(A Victorian Christmas Novella)

Lunette Sauvage is a London courtesan living a double life. By night, she attends parties, dinners, and jaunts to the theatre with her wealthy clientele. By day, she risks everything to save foundling children from sharing her fate. When by chance she meets Jarrod Mackendale, a shrewd, middle-class businessman spending time in town for Christmas, Lunette longs to show him who she truly is.

Can Jarrod see through the seductive façade? Or will he write Lunette off as an idle, frivolous woman without ever coming to know the generous, caring spirit within?

Promised to the Duke for Christmas

(A Victorian Christmas Novella)

Aurelia Goldsworthy is both an orphan and an heiress—a lady of no known origin, whose anonymous benefactor spared no expense on her wardrobe and education. For five years, she has believed herself to be the promised bride of the Duke of Brantingham, a man she has never met. She travels to London to take her place in His Grace’s life, only to realize that she’s been the victim of a bizarre, misguided prank.

After mourning the death of his mother, Selwyn Charlton, the Duke of Brantingham is ready to return to society. He is excited to host his family’s annual Christmas gathering in London, yet an unannounced visit from a beautiful young lady throws his steady, dutiful life out of order.

Selwyn longs to celebrate the festive season with Miss Goldsworthy, as the mystery of her origin—and the identity of the person who’d involved them both in a marriage scheme—intrigues him. But when the truth of Aurelia’s birth comes to light, she and Selwyn must join hands, stand strong in the face of scandal, and place their trust in the healing spirit of Christmas.

The Runaway Heiress and the Baron

(From Manhattan to Mayfair, Book One)

Lenore Webber-Garvey is a New York railroad heiress with a fortune as eye-watering as her family’s ambitions. Promised to a cold English duke in a transatlantic alliance, Lenore refuses to become another pawn in her family’s social ascent. On the day of her wedding, she flees the church, vanishing into the busy streets of London.

She is taken in by Auberon, Baron Ivestone, an aristocrat with radical views on prison reform and no patience for scandal. Yet Lenore unsettles his orderly, purposeful life. She’s clever, opinionated, entirely inconvenient, and impossible to ignore.

Society does not easily forgive a runaway bride, and neither do the powerful men her disappearance embarrassed. So when the duke demands her return—threatening to derail Auberon’s hard-won progress—will Lenore choose the world that shaped her or the man who loves her as she truly is?

The Dollar Princess and the Duke

(From Manhattan to Mayfair, Book Two)

New York heiress Annette Donovan knows exactly what she wants: a titled husband and a life far from the gossip-ridden drawing rooms of Manhattan. When her family travels to England in pursuit of nobility, Annette sets her sights on the most eligible—and most desperate—bachelor in the British aristocracy.

Thomas, the Duke of Sandridge, has inherited generations of debt, an estate he can’t afford, and the weight of a proud family name he’s determined to protect. A wealthy American wife seems the only solution, but he’s been jilted before and doesn’t intend to be ensnared again.

Then Miss Donovan does the unthinkable: she proposes to him!

What begins as a marriage of convenience soon turns into a battle of wills and hearts. Can love flourish in a union born of necessity—or will pride and past wounds will tear them apart?

The Gilded Wallflower and the Earl

(From Manhattan to Mayfair, Book Three)

Jordana Braddock is a New York City heiress with a sharp mind, a love of rare books, and absolutely no say in her future. Trapped under the control of her ruthless stepfather, she is sent across the Atlantic—promised in marriage to a man she has never met.

The Earl of Ashburnham may hold a title, but his family’s fortune is in ruins. After generations of waste and mismanagement, he’s left with one option: marry for money. He expects a business arrangement. What he doesn’t expect is Jordana, an intelligent, perceptive young woman, fully aware that she’s being bought and sold.

Neither wants this bargain. Both are ashamed of the terms.

Powerless to refuse, Jordana must marry, but she will not go quietly. Ash, haunted by the cost of his survival, is unwilling to treat her as a commodity. Thrust together by circumstance and bound by mutual need, how can they forge an alliance strong enough to defy the man who controls her fate and take back their lives?