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"Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d'Angelo and his wife want nothing more than to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son's dangerous indiscretion implicates him in a tragic accident, it is their eldest daughter who must pay the price. Blackmailed by the powerful and debauched Sebastiano Rovere, the Pietro d'Angelos must give beautiful Bianca in marriage to Rovere to buy his silence. With the aid of her mother,...

Meet the daughters of King Arthur's descendant, Merlin Pendragon: Averil: She may be the Lord's eldest-and illegitimate-daughter, but Averil knows her dazzling beauty can buy her what she wants most: marriage to a great and powerful lord. But fate has other plans in the rugged form of Rhys FitzHugh. Thinking her the sole heiress, the penniless bailiff kidnaps the beauty. Now, to salvage his honor, he must marry the openly hostile Averil and accept...

Maggie Kerr, known as Mad Maggie in the Scottish borderlands, is heiress to an important safe passage through the hills. Her grandfather declares that any man who can outrun, outfight, and outride her may wed her, so King James V sends his cousin Fingal Stewart to secure the passage and the woman.

A pawn in the bitter war between England's Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, and Mary Queen of Scots, Skye must once again, unprotected and alone, fight for her children. At Elizabeth's command, she marries the Duc de Beaumont de Jaspre, whose Mediterranean principality is vital to England. Her new world, though tortuously cruel at first, is transformed by Skye's hot-blooded desires-only to be shaken with the news that her beloved former husband may be alive...

They cast their destinies to the winds of desire. The year is 1483. Just as beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, the young cousin of England's King Richard III, speaks her wedding vows to Sir Jasper Keane, the Scotsman Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, abducts Arabella as payment for Jasper's murder of his fiancee. Irresistibly, deliciously, Arabella surrenders to her enemy with fierce abandon-knowing that there may be only one way to get what is rightfully...

Lady Cicely Bowen is sent away by her doting father when her jealous stepmother presents a threat to her safety. Raised by a royal widow Cicely becomes best friends with Lady Joan Beaufort and accompanies her north when Joan marries King James I of Scotland. There Cicely is pursued by elegant Andrew Gordon laird of Fairlea and rough-spoken Ian Douglas laird of Glengorm. Then just as Andrew is about to propose to her Ian kidnaps Cicely. (Bestseller)...

Lovely Nyssa, fair as a wild rose, has come to the court of Henry the VIII to serve as lady-in-waiting to his fourth wife ... To the shock of all England, Henry's marriage is being annulled, for the queen cannot satisfy his bawdy desires. Henry is seeking a spirited new wife and it is clear that Nyssa is favored. But in a land rife with conspiracy and rebellion, there are those in secret power determined to thwart Henry's intentions. A drugged Nysa...

New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small concludes her acclaimed saga of Rosamund Bolton and her daughters with this tale of passion, intrigue, and seduction, set against the glorious backdrop of King Henry's court... Elizabeth Meredith, the youngest daughter of Rosamund Bolton, is nothing like her sensible sisters. Impatient with fancy manners, the young beauty has shunned the royal court in favor of a quiet life at Friarsgate. But to protect...

A mysterious nobleman and his bartered new bride untangle a plot of illicit seduction, daring betrayal, and deadly royal intrigue in the sixteenth-century Scotland of Queen Mary.