Author: judeknight
Everyone knows James needs a bride with impeccable blood lines. He needs Sophia’s love more. James must marry to please his grandfather, the duke, and to win social acceptance for himself and his father’s other foreign-born children. But only Lady Sophia Belvoir makes his heart sing, and to win her, he must invite himself to spend Christmas at the home of his father’s greatest enemy.Sophia keeps … enemy.Sophia keeps secret her tendre for James, Lord Elfingham. After all, the whole of Society knows he is pursuing the younger Belvoir sister, not the older one left on the shelf after two…
James yearns to end a long journey in the arms of his loving family. But his father’s agents offer the exiled prodigal forgiveness and a place in Society — if he abandons his foreign-born wife and children to return to England. With her husband away, Mahzad faces revolt, invasion and betrayal in the mountain kingdom they built together. A queen without her king, she will not allow their dream and … dream and their family to be destroyed.more
She wants to negotiate a comfortable marriage; he wants her in his bed Naval captain Jules Redepenning has spent his adult life away from England, and at war. He rarely thinks of the bride he married for her own protection, and if he does, he remembers the child he left after their wedding seven years ago. He doesn’t expect to find her in his Cape Town home, a woman grown and a lovely one, too. … a woman grown and a lovely one, too. Mia Redepenning sails to Cape Town to nurse her husband’s dying mistress and adopt his children.…
I’ve collected all my published New Zealand stories in Hearts in the Land of Ferns: Love Tales from New Zealand.The collection will come out in April, and will include two historical romance novellas and three contemporary romantic suspense novellas.HistoricalsAll that Glisters Rose is an unhappy servant to her fanatical uncle in 1960s gold-rush Dunedin. A young merchant from Canada may be her … young merchant from Canada may be her chance for happiness — if she is brave enough.Forged in Fire Forged in the fire of the 1884 Tarawera eruption, their love will create them anew.ContemporariesA Family Christmas She’s hiding…
Retired spy, Bear Gavenor has fled the marriage mart for the familiarity of his work; restoring abandoned country manors to sell to the newly rich. Never does he anticipate that his first task will be to deal with the thief he’s caught stealing his roses.Evicted from her home and ruined with claims she has a lover, Rosa Neatham fears she will soon be unable to care for her invalid father. When … father. When she returns to her former home to gather roses to brighten his room, her fortune worsens when she’s startled by the home’s new owner and injured…
Rescue her daughter, destroy her dragons, defeat his demons, return to his lonely life. How hard can it be?“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved… the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.” George EliotWhen Susan Cunningham’s daughter disappears from school, her pleasant life as a fashionable, dashing, and respectable widow is shattered. Amy is reported to be … shattered. Amy is reported to be chasing a French spy up the Great North Road, and when Susan sets out in pursuit she is forced to accept help from the last…
Fashionable London holds nothing for wealthy merchant’s niece, Lalamani Finchurch. Except perhaps for an earl with a twisted hand and a charming smile. Why, for all the fortune hunters she has fended off since returning from India, is the one man who seems to like her so against marrying for money?Philip has inherited an earldom that his only two choices are to marry for money or to abandon … abandon Society altogether and return to his work as an engineer. Which is no choice at all, until a tiny woman with beautiful eyes and a fine mind dances with him…
Come sample my wares: four short stories and a novella to entertain and surprise youBlurbThe Lost Wife: Teri’s refuge had been invaded: by the French, who were trying to conquer their land, and by wounded soldiers from the English forces sent to fight Napoleon’s armies. The latest injured man carried to her for nursing would be a bigger challenge than all the rest: he had once broken her heart. … her heart. (short story)The Heart of a Wolf: Ten years ago, Isadora lied to save her best friend, and lost her home and the man she loved when he would…
Prue’s job is to uncover secrets, but she hides a few of her own. When she is framed for murder and cast into Newgate, her one-time lover comes to her rescue. Will revealing what she knows help in their hunt for blackmailers, traitors, and murderers? Or threaten all she holds dear?Enquiry agent David solves problems for the ton, but knows he will never be one of them. When his latest case … case includes his legitimate half-brothers as well as the woman who left him months ago, he finds the past and the circumstances of his birth difficult to ignore.…
Their marriage is a fraud. Their enemies are all too real.Ella survived an abusive and philandering husband, in-laws who hate her, and public scorn. But she’s not sure she will survive love. It is too late to guard her heart from the man forced to pretend he has married such a disreputable widow, but at least she will not burden him with feelings he can never return. She prays he will learn to … learn to tolerate her.Alex understands his supposed wife never wishes to remarry. And if she had chosen to wed, it would not have been to him.…