Infamous courtesan Margot Fauchette adores her secret amor Gabrielle, heart and soul, but she prays none of her protectors discover her lady’s maid is also her true love. When a possible answer to their dilemma arrives, they face a far greater peril. In the absence of societal censure, will they find the courage to finally commit to the passion they’ve found in each other’s arms?

Lord Framlingwood’s fifth mistress, Margot Fauchette, has a secret. She and her lady’s maid, Gabrielle Tamaryn, have lived the good life for several years, moving amongst the wealthy, sensuous men and women of the ton, flitting from one benefactor to the next. Their light-hearted lifestyle crashes back to reality when Gabrielle’s dour brother, Captain Jameson Tamaryn, returns to London after a long voyage for the East India Company.

He’s incensed to find Gabrielle has disappeared from their family home in Surrey and that she’s apparently run off with her unconventional lover, Margot. He’s determined to end their “unnatural” alliance and see his sister safely married. In the absence of her compliance, he has no alternative but to hire a thief-taker to seize her and ensure she fulfills her responsibility. Otherwise, he’ll have her committed to an institution.

When a disgraced actress accepts the help of a broken barrister, the ensuing smoldering desire between them threatens their shattered dreams and unspoken secrets.

Never having learnt to read, at sixteen Lily Venableis an actress on the cusp of stardom when she steps in as understudy to the queen of the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh. When someone arranges for Lily to be caught with stolen pieces of the leading lady's jewelry and a nice sum of money from the company's cash box, her career is over. She flees to London, starving and without money. A young street urchin finds her weeping in an alley and takes her to Goodrum's House of Pleasure. After nine years working there as a seamstress, she volunteers to become mistress to a young earl. She is provided a home, anonymity, and a degree of independence for the price of sharing the earl's bed once a week. Many failed actresses have settled for less.

A talented harpist, an aspiring composer, and a burning passion.

At seventeen, talented harpist Sophia Hawksworth believed being sold into marriage to a Seven Dials vicar was her salvation. However, the only fists harder and more cruel than her drunkard fathers were those of her self-righteous reforming husband. She has no choice but to escape or die. Taken in by Captain El Goodrum, she earns her keep entertaining the pirate queens guests at Goodrums House of Pleasure as the Masked Muse. Until five years pass and one of those guests shows up searching for the vicars runaway bride. Being taken on as the Earl of Framlingwoods mistress provides her with a home, anonymity, and a kind, undemanding lover. She is safe at last. Or is she?

What else does an opera need, save a dark secret and the threat of murder?

Being the second son of a wealthy, landed family is all well and good until one declines an impressive cavalry officers commission and decides to become an opera composer instead. Joshua Norcross is no coward. Opening his own opera house takes courage. Unfortunately doing so also takes money. Teaching an earls pampered mistress to read and write music seems an easy way to earn a great deal of money in a short time. Especially if he can determine if she is a murderess or not and collect the prize money the earl is offering for that information. With his talent for seducing women the task should be simple.

An accused poisoner plucked from the streets of a Moroccan port finds security as an earl's mistress

Saida Hossini is so grateful to have escaped the narrow streets of Ceuta with her life intact, she doesn't question the quiet existence offered by the woman who saved her life, Captain Eleanor Goodrum.

She'd had a choice. She could busy herself at one of her mentor's many estates, training other former fugitives like herself in the fine art of herbalism…or she could take on the life and anonymity of an earl's mistress. One day a week hes hers to please, to talk to…but sometimes, she wishes there were more. The kindly earl never shares anything of himself beyond the pleasure of his perfect body.