Lady Disguised (Tenacious Trents Novella) (Tenacous Trents) (11 page)

In JERRICA KNIGHT-CATANIA’s Loving Mister Lockwell,
Lady Isabel Whitton has no use for people other than her twin sister -- she
much prefers the company of her books. So when she discovers that all her
cousins from near and far have been summoned to her home, Danby Castle, for
Christmas, she isn't pleased. To make matters even worse, the deplorable Mister
Lockwell has come uninvited. * Damien Lockwell, 3rd son of the Earl of
Totterdown, has invited himself to Yorkshire for Christmas. Spending the
holiday with the Whittons seems far preferable to watching his father drink
himself into a stupor. And Lady Isabel proves to be just the kind of
entertainment he was looking for -- she's smart as a whip and quite the most
unique creature he's ever met -- not to mention she despises him, which is the
most thrilling part of all for a man like Damien.

In LILIA BIRNEY’s A Second Chance For Christmas,
Philip Whitton has been summoned back home by his grandfather after a wastrel
existence in Italy, studying music and trying to forget his first love. Emily
Barlow, nee Ware, is picking up the pieces of her shattered existence following
her husband's death. Thrown together by chance on the road back home to Danby,
Emily and Philip rekindle the flames of their old passion. Will the fire burn
itself out like it did before, or are they ready to follow their hearts and
live out the truth of their love?

In SAMANTHA GRACE’s Twice Upon a Time - since her
father’s untimely death, Felicity Halliday has relied on the medical knowledge
learned at his side to treat London’s most disreputable in order to support her
family. Life has been hard, but everything changes the night she is snatched
from an alley behind a theatre and tossed into a nobleman’s carriage. * It has
been less than a fortnight since Julian Beckford returned to London after a
sojourn in India, and he’s already up to his top-boots in one of his cousin’s
mad schemes. When his foolish cousin decides to engage an actress to play his
wife over the holidays at Danby Castle, Julian becomes an unwilling party to
the lady’s abduction. Along their journey to Yorkshire, Julian makes a stunning
discovery about his cousin's pretend wife....and finds it’s possible to love
Twice Upon a Time.

A Summons From the Castle

Regency Christmas
Summons Collection 3

© 2011 Catherine
Gayle, Suzie Grant, Christi Caldwell

In CATHERINE GAYLE’s An Unintended Journey, Abby
Goddard’s life is going along just swimmingly, apart from the disappearance of
her life’s love—Wesley Cavendish, a man well above her station. Just before
Christmas, Grandmama dies after revealing the identity of Abby’s grandfather. The
Duke of Danby, no less. Now the entire family will travel to Yorkshire to
confront Danby, hoping to gain a dowry for Abby. But then Wesley reemerges,
sparking a hope Abby thought long destroyed. * Shall the prodigal son’s sole
inheritance be an unsightly gash? Wesley Cavendish aspires to the political
realm, despite his father’s near-murderous opposition…not to mention his
opposition to Abby Goddard. But since Father died, will the new Earl of
Fordingham rescind Father’s disgraceful allegations? Fordingham thwarts Wesley
at every turn, threatening marriage to a prominent Tory family—which precludes
Abby—to put an end to Wesley’s Whig involvement…unless Wesley can find a
loophole.

In SUZIE GRANT’s A Caribbean Jewel for Christmas,
blackmailed by a British Naval Commander, Captain Randall Whitton, a smuggler
with a penchant for gold is rescued by Jewel Derington, a feisty plantation
owner and the very woman who betrayed him in the jungles of Barbados. Escaping
danger has never been so thrilling. Together they are drawn into a political
game of winner takes all from which only his grandfather, the Duke of Danby,
can rescue them.

 * Fascinated by the glitter of his Caribbean
Jewel, Randall's lust for gold soon fades. His quest to tame this fiery
treasure catapults them both into an adventure where the stakes are higher and
the prize greater than either of them have ever dared dream.

In CHRISTI CALDWELL’s Winning a Lady’s Heart, for
Lady Alexandra being the source of a cold, calculated wager is bad enough....but
when it is waged by Nathaniel Michael Winters, 5th Earl of Pembroke, the man
she's in love with, it results in a broken heart, the scandal of the season,
and a summons from her grandfather--the Duke of Danby. To escape Society's
gossip, she hurries to her meeting with the duke , determined to put memories
of the earl far behind. Except the duke has other plans for Alexandra....plans
which include the 5th Earl of Pembroke!

A Summons From His Grace

Regency Christmas
Summons Collection 4

© 2011 Jane
Charles, Olivia Kelly, Phyllis Campbell

In JANE CHARLES’s Compromised for Christmas, Miss
Elizabeth Whitton craved excitement and adventure. Unwilling to endure one
boring Season after another, she convinces her uncle in the Home Office to let
her work for him. * John Phillip Trent has been spying for the Home Office in
the stables of Tuileries as Jean Pierre Bouvier for more than two years, his
only English contact – Lisette Renard a servant girl inside the palace. * When
a summons from the Duke of Danby slips through the proper channels, both
Elizabeth and John’s covers are compromised. To escape the palace and France
with their lives, they’ll have to depend on each other and the miracle of
Christmas.

In OLIVIA KELLY’s It Could Only Be You, Harry
Connelly has crossed an ocean and pushed his half-healed, battle weary body to
its limits to confront the man who stole the life he should have had; his
grandfather, the Duke of Danby. Wounded, Harry collapses in a small village’s
church, and is nursed back to health by the vicar's beautiful daughter, Lily
Beaumont. A man haunted by the demons of war, he should know better than to
become involved with such an innocent but he cannot stay away from her. Harry's
forced to make a decision. He can wield his decades old anger and bitterness
against his grandfather, to compel him to acknowledge the damage he caused, and
demand that the duke make monetary amends. Or he can turn his back on the past,
and create a future with the woman he is beginning to think he cannot live
without.

In PHYLLIS CAMPBELL’s Becoming a Lady, Dorothy
Paxton is not pleased when a handsome Englishman walks into her inn and announces
he's taking her back to England to reunite with the grandfather who turned his
back on her years ago. Her escort, Calvin Seton, bribes her by paying her
brother's doctor's bills, and soon she's on the ship sailing for London. Little
by little, Calvin's charm softens her heart. While her lady's companion teaches
her to become a lady, Dorothy is secretly wishing Mr. Seton would do some
teaching of his own...in his bedroom. Yet she must control her desires or she's
no better than her mother who succumbed to a nobleman, only to have him leave
her. Dorothy will not repeat history. Or will she?

The Betting Season

© 2012 Ava Stone,
Catherine Gayle, Jerrica Knight-Catania, Jane Charles

In AVA STONE's
By Any Other Name
, Lady
Philippa Casemore caused quite a scene at her very first ball of her very first
season. She even landed herself, somehow, on the pages of the infamous betting
book at White's gentleman's club. Unfortunately, she doesn't remember one
moment of the night in question. Not the music. Not the notorious rake she'd
dragged into the middle of the dance floor. Not the flask of opium-laced brandy
she'd downed without realizing it's contents.* Jason York, the wicked Earl of
St. Austell, can't quite forget the lady who stole his breath away the previous
night. Of course, his broken nose, courtesy of the girl's brother, did have a
way of making an impression. When he stumbles into Lady Philippa the next day,
his ego is more than bruised when she doesn't seem to recall him at all and a
scheme to make certain she never forgets him again quickly forms in Jason's
mind.