A merciless gaming hell owner

Born on the streets, Lachlan Latimer is neither a stranger to ruthlessness nor short on hatred for Londons wealthy elite. When he’d been young and desperate, he struck an alliance with three dukes. He even called them brothers. Now, rich, jaded, and life-hardened, hes since learned his lesson. Unfortunately for his betrayers, Latimers gone rogue.

A lady with a plan

Born of questionable parentage, Miss Livian Lovelace straddles two worlds, but doesnt truly belong to either. As a headstrong, unmarried, woman, it’s never been clearer just how much of an outcast she actually is. Too proud to spend the rest of her days reliant on the good-will of her family, Livian takes matters into her own hands.

When a chance meeting brings Lachlan and Livian together, passions fly. After one scorching night spent in the arms of the enigmatic, gaming hell, proprietor, Livians carefully laid plans go up in smoke. From the ashes, springs dreams of a future with the prideful, Lachlan Latimer.

Lady Diamond Glain Carmichael, paragon of propriety, is horrified when she discovers her headstrong younger sister at the Royal Colonnade Library reading books that would enrage their ducal father. Worse, this disaster-in-the-making has been abetted by an outspoken, opinionated librarian named Mr. Abaddon Grimoire.

Abaddon clawed his way free of a life of poverty and crime thanks to the refuge he found at the Royal Colonnade Library, and hes determined to help other people find their escapes as well—in the pages of the librarys books! He issues Glain a challenge: Spend a fortnight exploring the volumes on the librarys shelves; if after two weeks, she still wants to prevent her sister from visiting, he wont interfere.

Abaddon soon realizes that beneath Glains icy veneer beats the heart of a loyal, loving, and passionate woman, and Glain comes to see that Abaddons devotion to books is a respect for truth and learning. A former guttersnipe and a dukes daughter arent the stuff of matches made in Mayfair, but perhaps happily ever afters arent just for fairy tales!

USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell weaves a sensuous tale of innocence lost in this blistering romance about a young woman on the run and the lecherous cad she can't seem to resist.

I don't want visitors. But when the butler says the caller is a she, I spring to attention. The night just got a lot more interesting.

Turns out the recently orphaned Helia Wallace has come to see my mother, her godmother, for help with a dastardly, dowry-chasing cousin. A likely story. But there's a snowstorm brewing, and she begs me to let her stay the night. I reluctantly agree.

It's her reputation at stake, not mine.

With the duke and duchess wintering elsewhere, Horace House is all mine. I'm free to do whatever I want. And what I want is Helia. The Marquess of Wingrave and virgins don't typically mix, but this one's different—too bad I could ruin her forever.

Ruthless, emotionless, and deadly, Severin Cadogan, the Earl of Killburn, was England's greatest secret weapon. One misstep put an end to his respectable career as sanctioned killer and informant. Fortunately, there's plenty of evil to go around. When he's approached by a potential client with a proposition involving the gentleman's sister—it's the last assignment Cadogan wants. Alas, he's been made an offer he can't refuse…and one he quickly finds himself enjoying for all the most depraved reasons.

Lady Raina Goodheart, the Tons Diamond, comes from a line of ancestors known for their wickedness. As for Raina, she yearns for true love with a respectable gentleman…but what if she really is no different than her notorious family? That fear is further fed when Raina meets him—Severin Cadogan. He is darkly dangerous, soulless, coarsely forthright, and she is instantly spellbound.

The more time Raina spends with Severin, the deeper into debauchery she falls with the dark lord. Even more perilous, it isnt long before Raina's falling for Severin, a man with a heart of steel.