Beautiful Lady Rose, the fiercely independent mistress of Somerford Manor, fears she may lose her home to roving raiders. As a lone woman—in a man’s world—asking for help from her Liege Lord, so instead, she reluctantly hires a bold Viking warrior, Gunnar Olafson, and his mercenaries to protect her undefended lands and people. Strong, muscular, and intense Gunnar takes her breath away, but she dares not trust him, especially when she barely trusts herself!

Gunnar is not what he seems. Posing as a hired soldier, he is duty-bound to expose Rose, whose actions have been seen as traitorous. Somerford is to be his reward. Gunnar quickly realizes Rose is the true prize. Now he’s trapped between his duty and his desire, revealing his deception to the woman who’s stolen his heart.

Far from being enemies, Sophia and Nicholas discover they are ideally matched. Can they find a happy ever after?

Ten years after marrying the Duke of Oldney, Sophia is a widow, living quietly without the society intrigue and gossip she once craved. But when the man she hates, Nicholas Blake, asks for her help to save his young friend from Oldney’s vicious friends, Sophia agrees to return to a world she now despises. Nicholas has only ever been her adversary, but as they work closely together, loathing turns to irresistible desire. Could she have been wrong about him?

Nicholas Blake has always found Sophia fascinating, even when they were sworn enemies, but suddenly blazing anger has turned into unstoppable passion. How can he focus on important matters like saving his friend and finding his missing sister, when all he can think about is Sophia?

Lady Averil Martindale, known as The Heiress, is searching for her lost sister. She is not thinking of marriage at all, but after seeing Rufus, the Earl of Southbrook, at the theatre, she informs the Husband Hunters Club that he is the man she is going to marry. With his dark, brooding looks and scarred face, Rufus is a social outcast. But when he rescues her from a tricky situation and then offers to help with the search for her sister, Averil finds herself enjoying his company more and more.

She might even be falling in love with him.

Rufus is desperately in need of an heiress. His castle is falling down and he is in dire financial straits. He knows what society thinks of him, and he has his secrets, but Averil might be just the wife he needs. And the more he gets to know Averil, the more he likes her, so the last thing he wants is for her to believe he is pursuing her for her fortune. When Averil visits his castle and learns the truth, their romance seems to have come to an abrupt end.

Or has it? Rufus decides to do everything in his power to save it.

Eugenie Belmont comes from a disreputable family. Despite her boasts to the Husband Hunters Club, the Duke of Somerton would never want to marry her, and yet that is the task she has set herself. After an unfortunate incident with a goat, things can surely only get better. Eugenie finds herself liking the arrogant duke more and more, especially when he agrees to accept the dares she sets him. And then one of her brothers upsets their budding romance, and Eugenia invites herself along with the duke on a rescue mission.

Sinclair St. John, Duke of Somerton, is all too aware of his consequence. His boyhood dream of being an artist was swiftly brought to an end by his formidable mother, and now he is too important to indulge in romantic whims. Eugenie Belmont seems to bring out the worst in him. Or the best. He even begins to dream of a happier future…until Eugenie’s disreputable brother runs off with Sinclair’s spoiled sister.

But what starts out as a race to save the girl’s reputation turns into a wild and romantic adventure.

Marissa Rotherhild has a husband in mind, but when she attends a weekend party at his home, Abbey Thorne Manor, it is not George who is there to greet her, but his older brother Valentine. Handsome, yes, fascinating, also yes, but Valentine is everything she promised herself she would never marry. A renowned expert on roses, he would surely neglect her just as her botanically obsessed parents did.

Lord Valentine Kent has been determined to find the Crusader's Rose for as long as he can remember, so he mustn't allow himself to become side-tracked by Marissa Rotherhild. And yet he can't seem to help it. She is too good for George. In fact the only person who should possess her is Valentine himself, despite all of his arguments against it. But when she joins him on his rose-finding quest, it feels as if they were made for each other.

Now they just need to discover who is threatening to harm them.

Sebastian is seducing the duchess…or is she seducing him?

Catherine, Dowager Duchess of Wellesley, is on her way home to her bleak castle in the North of England, when she becomes trapped in a snowbound inn. The lonely widow of an old husband, her hopes of finding a man who can show her the sort of passion she longs for, are fading. That is until she discovers the gentleman she met ten years ago, and has been dreaming of ever since, is sharing her captivity.

Is this her chance to finally make those dreams come true?

Sebastian, Viscount Albury, is on his way home to his estranged father, a man he has not seen since the tragic death of his mother. What he needs now is a distraction. For years he has lived a rake's life in London, his heart unhindered by emotion, but when he sees Catherine something changes.

Together Ellis and Owen burn bright with their unstoppable passion, but will her secret destroy their happiness?

Widowed Ellis Mallory is running for her life when she finds shelter at the home of artist Owen, Lord Lyndhurst. She agrees to sit for him. During the five years of her sham marriage, Ellis longed for a lover to teach her the pleasures of passion. But Owen has rules when it comes to his relations with his models. As Ellis poses for Owen's brazen drawings, she decides she must be bold if she is to get past his scruples and capture his heart.

Owen once dreamed of being a famous portrait painter, but now he draws saucy pictures of half naked ladies and sells them to his publisher in London. His latest model has left him in the lurch and he is in dire need of someone to sit for him, when Ellis arrives. A beautiful damsel in distress, he is instantly attracted to her, and when she agrees to pose for him he decides not to ask too many questions.

Livy Monteith is as strong-willed as she is beautiful, and she refuses to wed the man of her parents' choosing. She has her sights set on Lord Nic Lacey, a man she has known for years and who as a child once promised to marry her. The fact that he is a rake is neither here nor there, because she believes that beneath his disreputable exterior is someone worth loving. If only she can get him to agree to her proposal.

Nic Lacey is not a respectable man, certainly not the sort of man who should marry a proper young lady like Olivia. Why does she insist on embroiling him in her schemes? And why does he keep falling for them? She is irresistible, that is the problem, but he is determined to keep his distance. No matter how much he might desire her.

The Husband Hunters Club was formed by the Graduating Class of Miss Debenhams Finishing School.