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Book List
The books are listed below with the most recent releases (which may be reprints) first. In the Printable Booklist they are listed in original publication order. My first three books were originally released in the UK under the name of Alice Thornton. Full publication details are included in the Printable Booklist.
The Defiant Mistress (City of Flames)
NA Edition
Nov 2006
UK Edition
July 2005
Released in North America in November 2006.
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For eight years Gabriel Vaughan, Marquis of Halross, has believed he was duped by a clever, money-grabbing harlot. Left at the altar, he was to witness his betrothed in the arms of another man. Now a chance meeting in Venice brings all the old hurts and bitterness to the surface.
Although Athena Frances Fairchild claims to be innocent, maybe this is just another of her deceptions. It's time to exact a little revenge. With Athena in need of a safe passage back to England, where once Gabriel would have been proud to have her accompany him as his wife, now he will insist she travel ... as his mistress.
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The Abducted Heiress (City of Flames)
NA Edition
Jan 2007
UK Edition
Sept 2005
North American publication January 2007
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Should she trust this dangerous rogue?
Lady Desire Godwin keeps out of the public eye, preferring instead to tend her rooftop garden in the Strand. Her gentle existence is shattered when a handsome brigand crosses the parapet. She watches, dismayed, as this impudent stranger is carried off to gaol.
As fire rages across London, Jakob Balston uses the confusion to escape. He fully expects that Desire will have already fled town. Only she is still there, at the mercy of the flames and ... alone.
Is his intention rescue or abduction as he rows them both to safety upstream? He must surely be after her wealth, because no man could possibly want a woman as scarred as she ...
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The Vagabond Duchess (City of Flames)
UK Edition
Dec 2006
NA Edition
April 2007
UK paperback edition Dec 2006: North America April 2007
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He'd promised to return
But Jack Bow was dead. And Temperance Challinor's quietly respectable life was changed for ever.
Practical Temperance has no time to grieve for the irresistible rogue who gave her one night of comfort in a blazing city. She must protect her unborn child - by pretending to be Jack's widow.
A foolproof plan. Until she arrives at Jack's home ... and the counterfeit widow of a vagabond becomes the real wife of a very much alive duke!
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Ten Guineas On Love
UK Reprint
Sept 2006
Reprinted in the UK in September 2006 in the Lords and Ladies Collection
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To Charity Mayfield's shock, she discovered a year after her father's death that his debts could mean losing her home. Only by marriage could she touch her inheritance and save Hazelhurst. The only sensible candidate would be Edward, newly come into the Earldom, and the Mayfields' neighbour, so impetuously Charity wrote to propose!
But she'd made a mistake; the new earl was Jack Riversleigh, and he wasn't at all disposed to help out - which led Charity rashly to bet him that she could find a husband within a month ...
(Ten Guineas on Love was first released in the UK in 1992 under the name of Alice Thornton, and subsequently released in North America in 2003 under the name of Claire Thornton)
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The Wolf’s Promise
UK Edition
1996
NA Edition
2006
Out of Print - Used copies are sometimes available from www.Amazon.co.uk or www.Amazon.com
Lady Angelica Lennard took matters into her own hands. Her brother needed bringing out of France and Benoît Faulkener owed a debt to her father. In view of her father's blindness, she would go herself to persuade Benoît to rescue Harry. Fully expecting a piratical smuggler, Angelica was mortified to discover a respectable shipowner - or was he? Some things didn't add up, but somehow Benoît didn't seem a stranger. Was she imagining the warmth and intimacy? When she fell into danger and Benoît's steely will showed through, she was sure of it!
(The Wolf’s Promise was first released in the UK in 1996 under the name of Alice Thornton, and is now being released in North America in 2006 under the name of Claire Thornton)
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Raven’s Honour
UK Reprint
March 2006
Reprinted in the UK in March 2006, in the Regency Lords and Ladies Collection with Sylvia Andrew's PERDITA.
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When Major Cole Raven rescues Honor O'Donnell from a rushing river in war-torn Spain, he knows he could find love with this brave, beautiful-unattainable-young woman. An oath to a dying soldier to protect Honor throws them together, and with the dangers of war all around them an irresistible passion flares.
The handsome major stirs Honor's spirit as never before, but responsibilities await as they return to England - family duties that will force Cole to deny what he most desires. Unless he can find a way of keeping his honor as well as the woman he loves ...
(Raven's Honor and Gifford's Lady are both standalone stories, but the heroes are brothers, and the events in Raven's Honor take place first)
Gifford’s Lady
UK Reprint
April 2006
Reprinted in the UK in April 2006 in the Regency Lords and Ladies Collection with MIRANDA'S MASQUERADE by Meg Alexander.
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Miss Abigail Summers watched in shocked fascination from her window as a man leaped stark naked from his bed in the house across the way. He looked to be fighting the worst of nightmares. Embarrassment rapidly overcame female curiosity when they were introduced the following day.
Sir Gifford Raven was a man of action, not at all comfortable in Bath's polite society, which was why the penniless Miss Summers intrigued him. Her dress was dowdy, but beneath her shyness he detected an impulsive young woman, a kindred spirit who could help drive his devils away...
(Raven's Honor and Gifford's Lady are both standalone stories, but the heroes are brothers, and the events in Raven's Honor take place first)
An Unsuitable Match
UK Edition
1995
Out of Print - Used copies are sometimes available from www.Amazon.co.uk or www.Amazon.com
Mary Drayton's improvident father had left her, on his death, in quite degrading circumstances. So when Justin, Lord Hawkridge, fell in love with her, and she with him, Mary was heartbroken but not surprised when he apparently came to his senses.
To find him again in Bath, years later, when she was on a mission of mercy, was a shock - more so when he clearly thought that she had abandoned him! But nothing had changed; she was still an unsuitable match for him ...