Holidays secrets are lovely, but unless they come from the heart, they could prove dangerous.

It’s Christmastide in London, and Inspector Gabriel Bright is excited for the season. Newly married to the attractive woman he’d met a year ago while on an accidental case, he can’t wait to spend Christmas with his growing family. While out at the Mayfair shops with his son, the men rescue a young climbing boy from a beating on the street. Between the two of them, an idea forms on how to make Christmas wonderful for Mary.

Mrs. Mary Bright couldn’t be happier with her life. She married her handsome former Bow Street man two months prior, and since they opted to remain in London for the holiday season, she looks forward to showing their adopted daughter that having a loving family is exactly what the girl needs. But when her new husband turns suddenly secretive and isn’t as open as he usually is with her, her mind skitters to worst case scenarios.

Keeping the secret proves a challenge for Gabriel, yet he is determined to try. For the love of his wife, he keeps his little family busy preparing for the festivities, but as Mary becomes more and more suspicious of his activities, she pokes about. Tension brews between the nuptial pair that spills over into passionate conversations after dark. Disaster for the marriage might be looming, but with the magic of Christmas and the solid commitment of the investigative pair, the puzzling mystery is soon solved to everyone’s delight.

Missing pearls, maudlin memories, and unexpected new perspectives will make this Christmastide a holiday no one will forget.

Mr. Cornelius Harding—Lord Timelbury—is a former military man who has lost the magic Christmastide used to possess due to unsavory memories. When a priceless pearl and diamond bracelet he procured as a gift for his aunt goes missing, the number one suspect is a woman who dropped by for donations. So until he can find the piece of jewelry, he has told her ailing father that they are engaged.

Miss Samantha Marchington is a woman at her wit’s end, trying to make the Christmastide holidays special for the children at one of London’s orphanages as well as raising funds therein. It’s her favorite time of the year, but she’s been run ragged and needs a break. When a handsome man with a commanding presence demands she return a stolen bracelet and then springs a fake engagement on her, she loses her temper, which helps nothing.

Though they might be enemies, Cornelius refuses to let Sam out of his sight until she confesses. They are forced to spend the days leading up to Christmastide together, and the forced proximity will spur potential scandal. Heated attraction is shared and brings with it a budding romance, but when the pair is bedeviled by a recurring evil scourge to the members of the Rogue’s Arcade, danger threatens everything they might be building. Unless they can discover what truly matters during the holiday season, their Christmas might turn into a disaster for everyone.

A widow needing attachment. An earl searching for hope. A young girl wanting a family. A handful of days to change everything…

Lady Lydia Kingston has pretended for years; it was easier that way. As headmistress and owner of a finishing school in London, people trusted her because they thought she was a proper woman of the ton, except all of that was a lie, but when her sordid past collides with the present she’s worked to build, scandal follows and sends her to Scotland despite the imminent holiday season. No longer does she believe in that magic.

Jackson Ramsay, the Earl of Greystone, has no patience for what the season demands. London lost its polish and draw, neither is he in the mood for revelry or festivities and he certainly doesn’t want a woman to complicate everything. Spending the holidays with his daughter brings difficult memories, and not wanting her to be exposed to the emptiness that is the beau monde, he takes her on a holiday to his estate near the Scottish Highlands. The joy of Christmastide has long been forgotten.

Misfortune throws the earl and Lydia together, but the forced proximity of a shared road trip sparks a strong attraction between them, and a yearning for more. In the Lake District, a fierce snowstorm strands them; necessity has the three essentially playing house until the roads clear. Desire consumes the couple, but her secrets and his might just destroy the love they both desperately need and deserve before unexpected traditions can be born.

… showing that magic and miracles can happen on Christmas if they only believe.

When two disenchanted people come unexpectedly together, Christmas is suddenly brighter.

Ever since Sir Timothy Dashfield—a baronet with a few holdings—became partners in a successful counting house with his best friend who’d recently married, his life has taken on a sense of restlessness and boredom. When he’s tasked with collecting the overdue rent on a townhouse owned by a clockmaker, that last thing he expects is a pretty Irish young lady with mix of annoyance and sorrow in her eyes.

Miss Ashlynn Athercrombe lost her father six months before. Since the clock repair shop closed, there is no money coming to pay bills. To make matters worse, Christmastide is upon London, and she doesn’t feel like celebrating. When a man from the counting house comes to collect the unpaid rents, something inside her snaps and she rounds on the unfortunate, handsome man in a spectacular display of hysterics.

Perhaps it was the maudlin mood or perhaps it was the unwillingness to spend the holiday alone, but when Timothy temporarily loses his mind and asks Miss Athercrombe to marry him and she accepts, they embark on a very different future than they both had planned. Immediately, the differences between them create misunderstandings and obstacles, but by working together and remembering a bit of mistletoe magic, they might just find everything they have been too fearful to seek out themselves

and if they can’t find common ground, they’ll surely spend Christmas in hell.

When a Lyon is restless, Mrs. Dove-Lyon is on notice…

In search of excitement… Though Captain Simon Henry Huxley lost an eye in the naval war with America in 1812, it hasn't slowed him down the past six years. Since his contemporaries are falling into parson's mousetrap with alarming regularity—manipulated by Mrs. Dove-Lyon no doubt—and with yearning to return to the sea thrumming through his veins, London is a bit dull. But after a spontaneous visit to the infamous Lyon's Den gaming hell one winter night, his life will change in every conceivable way.

Dreaming of freedom… Lady Hattie Anne Russell, youngest daughter to the Earl of Stonewycke, has been intimate with scandal since the day she turned sixteen. She dislikes rules, labels, or the ton's boring dictates for proper ladies, and through it all she's been bedeviled by dreams of an adventurous lion. Frustrated, her mother turns to Mrs. Dove-Lyon for help in marrying Hattie off before further disgrace follows; no stake is too high, and any Lyon will do, but Hattie won't be tamed, and neither will she submit to marriage without a fight.

He's made a name for himself with his fists, but will he fight for her?

For far too many years, Hugh Tetford—Earl of Hazelton—has enjoyed his bachelorhood by surrounding himself with fellow club members from the Rogue's Arcade and prowling London with those brothers-in-arms. As he continues to ignore the responsibilities to his title in favor of indulging in illegal boxing in his leisure time, a valuable piece of jewelry with ties to his past suddenly comes into his possession and leads to him being beaten bloody.

Miss Annabelle Harding—sister to Lord Timelbury—has never understood the arbitrary and snobbish rules of beau monde society. More comfortable playing the hoyden and living as a headstrong miss, she's done as she's pleased while in the country, but now that she's in London, it's difficult to fit in, until one evening when she finds an unconscious, bleeding man left for dead in Hyde Park, which is when she truly discovers her purpose.

As it becomes apparent the earl has lost his memory, Annabelle does all she can to help him restore them, especially since there's a spark of desire between them. He's forgotten how to box, so his fellow club members rally around in order to give him fisticuff lessons. In the course of retracing his life through London, the two develop feelings for each other but when a man intent on taking back a moonstone necklace threatens them both, Hugh will need to dig deep in order to fight for everything he now holds dear.

If a love is worth remembering, nothing will make it forgotten.

Evan Fairfax, Earl of Baselford, is a man adrift. Five years ago, he lost his memory due to a hunting accident. Suddenly back in London, he stumbles into a ball, disoriented. He sees a woman he vaguely recognizes, and when confusing emotions beset him, he flees to the address scrawled onto a scrap of paper and pinned to his lapel—the Rogue's Arcade Club. Perhaps they will have the answers he desperately needs.

Lady Vivian Fairfax, the Countess of Baselford, assumed her husband died. After five years, she mourned, finally consigned him to her past, and moved forward with her life, but when the earl comes staggering into their home in the midst of a ball she's throwing with the man currently courting her, everything changes. She's immediately besieged with old memories and a love that hasn't completely faded, but does she want him now that she has a new romance?

Faced with choosing between men is awkward at best, yet she can't forget the life she had with the earl. Evan might not be able to remember his life, but there is a certain connection between him and Vivian—his wife—and as he learns about himself and what he had before, he wants it again. The trouble is the new suitor as well as the underlying tension and animosity between them. A love for the ages can't be forgotten but it can be stolen away, and unless Evan and Vivian make a stand, they'll lose everything.

At times a second chance at love and friendship is tangled in grief until one learns to forgive.

Ex-spy and Home Office agent Elliott Thorne—Viscount Aldridge and newly minted Earl of Foxborough—is still a bachelor at the age of forty-one. Now that he's finally gotten his sister married off, he can turn his attention to perhaps entering the same state for himself, but oddly enough, he doesn't know how, so a harvest ball at his country estate seems like a good start.

Now that Lavinia Greenwich's period of mourning her husband is over, she is finally free to find the man who was responsible for his eventual death—his best friend. Widowed at one and thirty isn't where she wished to be at this point in her life, but there is nothing for it. When an unexpected invitation arrives for a house party from the very man she's wished revenge upon, she accepts with alacrity.

Recognition sparks and desire flares the moment the pair meets during a walking party, but old hurts and secrets cause instant animosity. Each hold the other responsible for the death of the man who binds them together, until one startling afternoon in a sun-drenched meadow when vulnerability leads to something unexpected and hopeful. If they wish to grasp at a romance for the ages, they need to practice forgiveness and trust—of each other and themselves.

She is full of doubt. He has been created by confidence. Obstacles are naught but steppingstones to a future they are trying to deny.

Miss Cora Hasting—middle daughter of Baron Landover—is not happy. Having lived with reduced circumstances for a few years, she aspires to so much more than making her position as a companion to the elderly Mrs. Bromington. This is her lot, especially after being jilted at the altar, but when a handsome navy man—the very same man who left her years ago— captures her attention and makes an appearance, her malcontent doubles.

Captain Peregrine Wetherford has tried for the past three years to put his mistakes behind him. Decorated naval officer, left with scars and wounds for his service, he's made a passable living attending various social functions and accepting coin for speaking engagements. However, during one fateful evening when he accidentally runs into his former fiancée, his past and his future collide, and this time he refuses to run.

Miss Genevieve Hasting refuses to become a companion like her two older sisters. She aspires to loftier heights, and though she despises weak-willed men, society's rules, proper deportment, and stays, she's willing to suffer them all if it means winning a life of luxury without toil as well as a titled gentleman, except she's been banished to her father's country estate as punishment for too many scandals. It's dull and there aren't that many men to match with there.

Mr. Thomas Alderman is a country vicar who has enjoyed his living over the years. Though his good looks make him extremely popular with the ladies of his congregation, he hasn't given marriage much thought, for in his youth, he had been quite the rogue, but he left that behind him when he received his calling to minister. When Miss Hasting slips into his church one glorious sunny morning, he's thrown into confusion. He's not that man any longer.

When life becomes overwhelming, perhaps the only solution is to indulge in sin and scandal…

Benedict Ormandy, Marquess of St. Synedon, has washed his hands of living. Long ago he retreated to his country estate in the Lake District after losing his only son tore him apart. Nestled within the hills and lakes, he keeps himself aloof from everything, for he no longer has the will to continue. When he accidentally comes upon a woman pitched from a gig, his outlook has the potential to change.

Widowed Marjorie Stowe is restless and searching for purpose. After her hu 二Band died, she came to England, but being of a certain age where society has no more use for women, she has been at sixes and sevens. When her horse gets a mind of its own and overturns the conveyance, she's left by herself with an injured ankle. Near an old well, she tosses in a coin and on a whim, makes a wish just as rescue arrives.

Immediate attraction flares between Syn and Marjorie, as charged as the summer storms, but secrets and grief keep them from connecting beneath a surface level. Forced proximity leads to pleasurable scandal so far away from London society where there are no rules. Then one night in the midst of a storm where everything comes into sharp relief, stark truths come to light. Forgiveness is offered, but unless they accept that for themselves and leave the past firmly there, not even the heated desire can save them or usher in the love they both desperately need.

…to survive the storms.

When unexpected adventures are in the offing, it's best to jump in despite potential heartbreak.

Michael Ashworth, Viscount of Winteringham, has been a widower and a father for nearly eight years. Living with grief and uncertainty as well as the after-affects from the war leave him drained, but he must be strong for the sake of his son. When he accidentally overhears a faint, whispered plea in the Reading Room at the British Museum in a feminine tone, it practically demands that he come up to the mark and help.

Miss Charity Maitland is the daughter of an antiquities dealer, and she is quite alone in life. Though she's not a stranger to relics and secrets due to her father's pawn broker shop, it is that knowledge which has led her into trouble. When she's kidnapped by a strange man who wants information her father had regarding a specific tiara once belonging to the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh—though she's never seen the piece—her life is in jeopardy from her captor.

Which leads to a marriage of convenience, for Charity requires protection. When an unexpected kiss between the nuptial pair ignites mutual unwanted attraction, they ignore it to hunt for the tiara. Staying one step ahead of the criminal network who wishes to gain the piece proves difficult, especially when Winteringham encounters a villainess who despises the Rogue's Arcade men. Working together and allowing fate to have at them might mean stumbling upon something more valuable than the tiara—love, family, and belonging—unless they don't survive the madwoman's machinations…

It's a bad omen to find a corpse on the eve of a wedding… unless it was fate's plan all along.

Autumn has arrived in England and so has Mary Tomlinson's long-awaited wedding day to her handsome former Bow Street inspector. Though her newfound happiness frightens her—she's had ill-fortune with men in the past—she's looking forward to what her future will bring, for assisting in solving crimes is quite invigorating, especially when mixing business with heady trysts of pleasure.

After retiring from his position at Whitehall, on the eve of Inspector Gabriel Bright's wedding to the intriguing Mary, he attends the opera with her for no other reason than to treat her to her favorite play. Despite their obstacle-strewn path to romance, he's anticipating wedding—and bedding—the attractive woman and being a husband again as well as making their oftentimes hotly passionate relationship legitimate.

Yet when they stumble over a dead body in a shadowy corridor at the opera house, the course of those plans is thrown into jeopardy, for the dead woman had been a paramour of her former husband's. As tension brews between Mary and Bright, their investigation takes them to Brighton and plunges them into a secret pleasure spa. The distractions prove harrowing and dangerous to them both, and unless they solve the case, there will be nothing left of the relationship to warrant a union.