Author: kathyheart

Why should a man’s social standing matter if he is honorable and kind, and if he loves you? Why shouldn’t you marry for love instead of money?Twenty-one-year-old Lady Harriet Hampstead, dubbed ‘the Ice Queen’, wants nothing to do with the men who pursue her. When her father is killed in a riding accident, Harriet must submit to her mother’s expectation that she marry the Duke of Salston. Will she … Will she be forced to tie herself to a man she doesn’t love?Does the woman he has plans to woo have a warm heart or is she really only interested…

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Emilia MacNeil is an independent miss. Truth be told, she’s a bit of a tomboy, and many has called the proper a hussy for her sometimes less than ladylike behavior. But Emilia remains unrepentant. She’s as good as any man, and better than some, and the last thing she wants is to be married to any of them. She’ll happily be an aunt to her siblings’ children, but she wants nothing to do with … marriage. Enter Lord Cedric Hanson, Duke of Roxburgh. According to her father the Marquess, the Duke is to be her husband, but Emilia refuses to…

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Lavinia Thacker has a voice like an angel’s, and she happily sings for anyone who asks. The first time she sees the young Duke of Monsey, it is at a party being hosted in the inn’s large dining hall for a local councilman’s daughter. From that first look, she knows there is something between them, so when she is invited to sing at his birthday party, she is at once delighted and afraid. Why does … does she feel as though she knows him, when she has never met him before? Or at least, she doesn’t remember having done so.…

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