Deborah Hale
Список книг автора Deborah HaleBeauty and the Baron
COULD SHE DEFEAT HIS DARKNESS AND BRING HIM BACK TO LIFE?Handsome rakehell turned scarred recluse Lord Lucius Daventry returns from battle intent on forgetting the past. Yet, once home, Lucius is presented with one final mission: marry Angela Lacewood and grant his ailing grandfather’s dying wish.Or at least pretend to marry her.But the young beauty he remembers is now an exquisite woman. A woman strong enough to breach the walls he hides behind and steal his heart.
Lady Lyte's Little Secret
Felicity Lyte Was In a QuandaryHow could she tell her cherished paramour of his impending fatherhood? Hawthorn Greenwood, despite his straitened circumstances, would surely make a responsible, honorable offer of mariage–which Felicity could never accept. For she would only wed him in truebound love–or not at all!Thorn Greenwood had thought to but share an idyllic Season with Lady Lyte–and instead found his soul's partner. But Felicity had abruptly ended their liaison. Did she think him a fortune hunter? A rank falsehood that, for the only wealth he sought was the bounty of her love!
A Gentleman Of Substance
A Secret Child…When Lucy Rushton's lover was killed in battle, she was his brother, formidable viscount Drake Strickland, to protect her unborn child. The marriage tore her heart, yet after their vows were sealed, Lucy saw another side to her stern husband – a compassionate, captivating gentleman of substance who lured her in ways Jeremy never had! A Secret Love…Duty-bound to care for lovely Lucy, Drake never expected sharing his home would warm his cold, bare life. And when her eyes flashed with provocative beauty, sending an irresistible invitation, he longed to believe his wife's heart was wholly his.
The Bride Ship
A ship full of women could only cause trouble!Of that Governor Sir Robert Kerr was certain, just by considering their chaperon! Though a widow, Mrs. Jocelyn Finch was young, vivacious and utterly determined to have her own way–especially with him!Challenging the governor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a duel was obviously a poor way to introduce herself. But when Sir Robert accused Jocelyn and her charges of something, well, less ladylike than husband-hunting, what else could she do? Besides, someone had to show this straitlaced, yet gloriously compelling figure of a man that there was more to life than doing one's duty!
The Bonny Bride
Jenny Lennox didn't believe in love.Not the lasting kind, anyway. Life was too hard for romance to survive for long. Marriage for money was best, she was sure–or had been until she met Harris Chisholm, earnest and penniless yet willing to gamble on life, love–and her!Harris Chisholm was a man of his word.He had promised to deliver Jenny Lennox into the arms of her intended. But could he willingly surrender the woman who'd made him more than himself, the woman who'd become his heart's true friend and partner? «Never!» his soul whispered. «Never…!»
Highland Rogue
Ewan Geddes had once sent Claire’s heart racing… But that was back when he was a servant and she the laird’s awkward daughter. Now he’d returned, an upstart fortune hunter bent on her sister, and Claire Talbot swore to stop any heartbreak before it started – even if that meant tempting away a man who’d only grown decidedly more appealing.Claire Talbot had to be the most exasperating woman in the world, Ewan decided. And she stood between him and the bride he wanted! Or did she? For her grace and fire made him yearn that every day be an adventure…and every night a dream come true!
Whitefeather's Woman
Jane Harris, on the run fr om life back East, hoped only to survive. Still, everything in this breathtaking territory was overwhelming–including John Whitefeather, a blue-eyed Cheyenne leader who'd awakened her to womanly desire.John Whitefeather knew what it was like to be an outsider. That was why he was so drawn to Jane. But this shy violet was blossoming into a passionï ¬ ‚ ower with roots deep in Montana soil, and maybe deeper still in his lonely heart….
My Lord Protector
TORN BETWEEN DUTY… AND DESIREFitzhugh was willing to thrust his head back into the matrimonial noose to protect Julianna from her wicked stepbrother. But the maiden was betrothed to his nephew, gone at sea. So their forbidden union was secretly a marriage in name only., sharing his home with the much younger beauty fueled a passion he'd thought long buried… . Julianna Ramsay was at sixes and sevens! Who would have thought that Edmund's gentle care could ignite in her a woman's ardor that far eclipsed her girlish fancy for his absent nephew? And what of the day when her fiance returned? Would she then have the courage to choose love over duty?