It's In The Duke's Kiss: A Danby Regency Novella
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Things seem perfect until her father is imprisoned for plotting against the King and Madelaine learns Grey is not simply the handsome aristocrat he pretends to be but a cunning spy. As King George III sinks deeper into insanity, Madelaine must prove her father’s innocence in order to save his life. With the future of England hanging in the balance and a ruthless murderer hunting them Grey and Madelaine engage in a clash of wills and a battle fraught with suspicion, secrets, betrayal and two hearts that cannot deny the impossible, irresistible love between them.
Season For Surrender (A Regency Christmas Novella Book 2)
Lillian Lancaster would rather catch the plague than a husband. Unfortunately, her abusive, recently deceased father’s will stipulates her inheritance hinges upon her marrying a lord. With time running out, Lillian proposes to the guilt-ridden, marriage-averse Lord Edgeworth after securing his agreement to a marriage in name only.
Edgeworth feels responsible for his former betrothed’s death and believes he doesn’t deserve love, which makes Lillian’s proposal oddly perfect. Commanded by his grandfather to marry by Christmas or become penniless, the obviously perfect choice is a woman who wants nothing to do with him.
When Lillian displays a brave and true heart and Edgeworth reveals his honorable, protective side maintaining a marriage of convenience becomes harder than these two wounded souls imagined. Now, Lillian and Edgeworth must decide if they are courageous enough to risk their hearts and surrender to love.
The Redemption of a Dissolute Earl (A Regency Christmas Novella Book 1)
The day Andrew Whitton, Earl of Hardwick chooses his fortune over the woman he loves, Drew discovers that money makes for a cold bed partner. Now, no matter how far he runs, the memory of his betrayal haunts him, and there’s not enough liquor to dull the past or diminish his disgust.
Charlotte Milne trusted in happily ever after until her knight turned out to be wearing rusty armor. Drew, the scoundrel, seduced her, though she very much enjoyed the seduction by the man she’s loved since childhood. Left scandalously ruined, Char flees her home intent upon forgetting Drew and proving her worth.
Separated by disloyalty and pain, each struggle to bury the memories of the other until a mandatory summons from the Duke of Danby sets them on a path of collision to Danby Castle. With the tides of irrevocable change rising, Drew must find a way to show Char that even the most selfish of rakes can be redeemed by love before the woman of his heart becomes the wife of another.
A Regency Christmas Pact
From five USA Today bestselling authors. After attending the funeral of an old school friend, five Regency gentlemen make a pact never to marry, convinced it will save them from meeting the same fate…
A Summons from the Duke of Danby (Regency Christmas Summons Book 1)
FIVE REISSUED CLASSICS
Re-released classics originally found in: A Summons From Yorkshire (out of print), A Summons From the Castle (out of print) and A Summons From His Grace (out of print)
Ava Stone’s A COUNTERFEIT CHRISTMAS SUMMONS
Julie Johnstone’s GIFT OF SEDUCTION
Aileen Fish’s THE VISCOUNT’S SWEET TEMPTATION
Jane Charles’s COMPROMISED FOR CHRISTMAS
Suzie Grant’s A CARIBBEAN JEWEL FOR CHRISTMAS
Thwarting the Duke (When the Duke Comes to Town, Book 2)
When the Duke of Danby comes to London for the Season, anything can happen!
Thwarting the Duke contains…
LADY HOPE’S DASHING DEVIL by AVA STONE
Lady Hope Post has suffered the most rotten luck over the last year. She’s lost the love of her life. Her great-uncle and Machiavellian matchmaker the Duke of Danby has a special license just waiting for her somewhere. And after one tiny little phaeton accident in the park, the most devilish earl attempts to blackmail her over the incident.
Thaddeus Baxter, the Earl of Kilworth has every intention of restoring luster to the earldom he’s inherited from his ne’er-do-well cousin, but when an adventurous lady upends his phaeton in the park, all of Thad’s perfectly respectable plans are tossed out the window. What are the odds he’d cross paths with the same girl who’d nearly brought down his cousin’s earldom in the first place?
And what are the odds he’d lose his heart to her as well?
IT’S IN THE DUKE’S KISS by JULIE JOHNSTONE
Lady Emmaline Radcliffe always knew she never wanted to marry a man who embraced the rules of Society. But when her mother threatens to secure a suitable match for Emma if she cannot make one on her own, Emma sets out to determine if her girlhood infatuation is the love she’s been looking for. Nathaniel did save her life once, after all. But when she finds herself in the arms of the gentleman’s brother—the serious and proper Duke of Blackbourne—she begins to question all she ever thought she desired.
Lucian, the Duke of Blackbourne, is tired of playing keeper to his irresponsible brother. He vows to quit, but when his brother resolves to seduce the impetuous Lady Emmaline, Lucian knows he must save his foolish brother and the innocent debutante from themselves. Yet his plan to intercede goes awry when he finds himself drawn to the woman who is everything he was positive he didn’t want in a wife.
But his brother won’t give up so easily, and soon Lucian’s well-intentioned plans are revealed. Now to keep Lady Emmaline’s heart he must prove that he’s truly not the stuffy, sneaky duke he seems to be.
HER RELUCTANT LORD by SUE LONDON
Miss Agatha Chase has more than enough problems simply keeping her household together, with three younger brothers and one aged servant. Now a great-uncle she’s never heard from before has offered to sponsor her for a Season in London. She is far too old for such frivolity, but everyone tells her that you don’t say no to a duke!
Laurence Garner has unexpectedly inherited his brother’s title, Viscount of Rothering. He’s a man of honor, but the tiresome duties of nobility chafe for a man used to the open sea. And now he’s squiring an insipid miss around London as a favor for a friend! If only something exciting would happen.
Regency Romance Box Sets:
A Whisper of Scandal Trilogy (Books 1-3)
There were proper ladies in the Regency period and then there were ladies who would do anything for love!
Bargaining With A Rake-Lady Gillian Rutherford will do anything to save her sister from the enemy threatening to destroy her, including seducing an American tycoon into marriage. To catch the American she makes a bargain with a notorious rake Lord Lionhurst—never suspecting the price of the pact may be her heart.
Conspiring With A Rogue-To protect the man she loves from her enemy, Lady Whitney Rutherford flees and disguises herself as Mr. Roger Wentworth, missing person locator extraordinaire. When her best friend comes up missing Whitney infiltrates a secret sex club to solve the mystery and shockingly encounters her lost love—Drake Sutherland.
Dancing With A Devil-Lord Trent Rutherford’s past has left him jaded and moving from one meaningless affair to the next. Until he meets Lady Audrey Cringlewood. She makes him question everything he believes. To capture her he must face the secrets he’d rather forget. Audrey longs to marry for love, and Trent, the rake known as Sin, proves himself the man of her dreams until his past threatens to tear them apart.
Dukes, Duchesses & Dashing Noblemen (A Once Upon a Rogue Regency Novels, Books 1-3)
Be swept away by two dukes and a rake-in-training in the three complete novels of the Once Upon A Rogue series!
Included in the box set are: My Fair Duchess, My Seductive Innocent and My Enchanting Hoyden.
Paranormal Books:
Echoes in the Silence (The Siren Saga Book 1)
The saying Love Kills could be the epitaph on Alyse Estes’s tombstone if only she could die. An immortal descended from a mythical Siren race, she’s fated to find her soul mate in the race of her sworn enemy, the Cordisi. As if that’s not troublesome enough, she’s also destined to bear him the daughter who will eventually kill him. Aly
se knows just how inescapable the curse can be. After all, she killed her own father. But all of her attempts to make a perfectly normal, perfectly respectable, perfectly safe life for herself come tumbling down when she meets Maximillian Rheinhart.
One graze of Max’s hand brings the reality of her dark past—and her darker future—rushing to the surface. He’s mysterious, alluring, unaware Alyse is a Siren…and he wants her. Death roulette is not exactly the kind of foreplay she wants with love, but Max is a force of nature. He’s everywhere—at the law firm that just hired her and the club she goes to, in her inexplicably realistic daydreams and the dark nightmares that haunt her sleep—and he’s very convincing. He’s also the Cordisi whose father is a Hunter intent on wiping out the Siren race.
Despite her efforts to resist Max, he captures her heart. She has one chance to save herself and the man that she’s come to need, but to guarantee Max’s safety, she might have to lose his love or succumb to what she’s fought all her life—accepting the Siren within.
About the Author
Julie Johnstone is a USA TODAY best-selling author of Regency Romance, Victorian Romance, and Scottish Medieval Romance. She has also written an urban fantasy/paranormal romance book. She’s been a voracious reader of books since she was a young girl. Her mother would tell you that as a child Julie had a rich fantasy life made up of many different make believe friends. As an adult, Julie is one of the lucky few who can say she is living the dream by working with her passion of creating worlds from her imagination. When Julie is not writing she is chasing her two precocious children around, cooking, reading or exercising. Julie loves to hear from her readers. You can find Julie at these places:
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