The enemy of my enemy is my lover

The former Comtesse de Retha, Mabel Meadows, isn't thrilled about being in London. After her miserable marriage ended two years ago, she had hoped never to cross the Atlantic Ocean again. Yet with her father too busy with work back home in Philadelphia, and her sister newly engaged to an English peer, she has no choice. Acting as her sister's chaperone, Mabel intends to return home soon enough.

Derek, the Earl of Trembley, has been having a difficult time taking over the Earldom since his father's passing. In the blink of an eye, everything has changed, and it seems everyone is moving on besides him. Despite his apparent composure, he's under immense pressure and is anxious to maintain the status quo. When his brother returns from a visit to America with a fiancée, Derek feels unbalanced, and what's worse; he meets his brash but beautiful future sister-in-law.

When this duke wins a wife, all bets are off.

When nouveau-rich Clara Woodvine attends her first high society ball, she's expecting it to be the most wonderful night of her life. Unfortunately, it turns out to be the worst. When Clara overhears her would-be fiancé has bet her and her dowry away in a card game to the Duke of Combe, aka the Divorced Duke, all hopes for a happily ever after seem lost.

Silas Winters, the Duke of Combe, has spent over a year brooding in misery after the end of his toxic marriage. Saddled with crippling anxiety and the reasonability of recovering Clara's reputation, Silas proposes a marriage based on friendship and nothing more. Clara accepts, but only on the condition that she understands this is a marriage of convenience because Silas is determined never to love again

But when the past comes back to haunt them, will Silas realize that love is something he can choose? And will Clara be able to stand up for those she loves, even if she must do it alone?

Meredith Taylor is desperate for a more independent life, but when her brother-in-law suggests she invest with Jack Archer, a famed former boxer turned businessman, Meredith begins to have second thoughts.

Jack Archer isn't thrilled to be burdened with Meredith's paltry investment, but he is intrigued by her. As a lady of first society, she doesn't act like it and the reason is a mystery. Soon, a sizzling connection sparks between the two, neither Jack nor Meredith can deny it.

Yet when a secret from Meredith's past threatens to come back and ruin her, will she be able to trust the Beast of Burnwall with everything, including her heart?

Married by proxy, seduced by passion

Holly Smyth has had an unlucky life. Tragedy seems to be around every corner for her and her younger siblings. So, when the kindly old Baron Winscombe offers to marry her and save her from destitution, she accepts, thankful to finally have some security.

Until the baron dies, and his nephew, Gavin Winscombe, inherits the title.

The quick-witted Gavin is curious to meet his uncle's deathbed bride, but upon his arrival at Kingston House, he and Holly are informed that she didn't marry Gavin Wincombe, the elder. She was married to Gavin Wincombe, the younger, by proxy.

Now tasked with annulling their marriage, Holly and Gavin decided to work together, but the longer they live as husband and wife, the more natural it feels.