Jane Feather

For four years, Cato, the Marquis of Granville, had been just another man - the uninteresting, somewhat intimidating husband of Phoebe's older sister. But then her sister died, and Phoebe seemed a reasonable substitute. Her forced engagement to him should have been quite a cold-blooded arrangement...except that one day Phoebe looked at Granville--really looked at him - and saw what she'd never seen before: he was darkly, breathtakingly attractive.

Growing up behind the impenetrable walls of an English fortress, young Magdalen does not know that she is the illegitimate daughter of a powerful English prince and his murdered French mistress - or that she has been a pawn in the struggle between England and France ever since she slipped from her dying mother's womb.
All she knows is that she longs for excitement. And then one day, as if in answer to her prayers, the splendid figure of Guy de Gervais, a true knight in shining armor, rides into her cloistered world and spirits her away.

A British subject kidnapped as a child and forced to be a slave to one man's every wish, Ayesha seemed hopelessly bound to the harem - until British Lt. Kit Ralston receives her services as a "gift" and falls in love with her. But as England suffers one defeat after another, will Kit take Ayesha with him?

What comes to mind when you think of a diamond slipper? Cinderella, perhaps? That's what Cordelia Brandenburg imagines when her godparents arrange a marriage for her with a man she's never met - a marriage that will take her to Versailles, far from the rigid confines of her childhood home. The betrothal gift is a charm bracelet with a tiny, glittering diamond slipper attached...as befits a journey into a fairy-tale future.

Heading a thundering cavalcade of richly dressed Moorish soldiers, Lord Hassan commands attention with just one glance from his deep black eyes. And with one look, he knew that he had to have the chestnut-haired beauty who returned his stare with such bold, sensual defiance.

The story begins on a terror-filled night when two babies - identical twin girls of noble birth - are separated. One grows to womanhood as the frail, manipulative ward of the handsome young earl of Harcourt. The other becomes an enchanting, street-smart urchin who earns her way as a traveling player on the streets of England and France.

It's bad enough that seventeen-year-old Portia Worth is taken in by her uncle, the marquis of Granville, after her father dies. As the bastard niece, Portia knows she can expect little beyond a roof over her head and a place at the table.
But it truly adds insult to injury when the Granvilles' archenemy, the outlaw Rufus Decatur, hatches a scheme to abduct the marquis's daughter - only to kidnap Portia by accident.

Finally in paperback the last in the Bride trilogy that has followed three unconventional women who vowed never to marry, only to find themselves overtaken by destiny. In The Least Likely Bride, the shy bespectacled Olivia, is abducted by a ruthless privateer - only to discover love, adventure and passion in his arms.

The insured "boy" Sir Daniel Drummond rescues from a British battlefield is no boy at all, but a vivacious young enchantress fleeing her tyrannical father. Moved by her plight, her spirit, and her mesmerizing beauty - and his own young daughters' need for a mother - the dashing nobleman impulsively offers to wed Henrietta "Harry" Ashby, who promptly throws his life and household into chaos.

Beguiling beauty Princess Sophia Golitskova is issued a royal summons to appear in Moscow, only to discover she is to marry a cruel and evil general. But when she succumbs to her passion for Count Adam Danilevski, who cherishes her proud spirit, she has no idea how much her forbidden love will cost.

Ariel Ravenspeare has been taught to loathe the earl of Hawkesmoor and everything he represents. Their two families have been sworn enemies for generations. But it's one thing to hate him, and another to play the part her vicious brothers have written for her - trapping Hawkesmoor into a marriage that will destroy him, using herself as bait. Forced into the marriage, Ariel will find her new husband unexpectedly difficult to manipulate, as well as surprisingly - and powerfully - attractive.

Lady Emma Beaumont and Lord Alasdair Chase were once inseparable childhood friends, then betrothed lovers. But something went dreadfully awry, and Emma left Alasdair practically at the altar. Now, two years later, Emma has inherited a substantial fortune...but there's one small string attached: until the day she weds, Emma cannot spend a farthing without Alasdair's consent.

As the stranger's arms closed around her, Octavia Morgan knew she'd just made the biggest mistake of her life. Picking pockets had seemed the only answer to her desperate plight. But now she'd been caught, and there was worse to come. For the dangerously attractive man she'd robbed was no common mark, but the most notorious highwayman in England.

Clad in black velvet and posing as a widowed French comtesse, Gabrielle returns to England to ruin the man responsible for her young lover's death. But even becoming an agent for the secret service can't protect her - or her heart - from the devastating Nathaniel.

The last thing Lord Nicholas Kincaid expected to see in the gloom of a London tavern was a vision of loveliness. And when she led him to a bedchamber with a come-hither smile, there was no question of resisting - until he realized the lying wench meant to render him senseless so the landlord could rob him blind! That’s how the handsome lord made the acquaintance of Miss Polly Wyat, a ravishing beauty he soon decided would make the perfect spy.

Juliana drew the line at becoming a harlot. She had already begun the week as a bride...and ended it as a murderess. She was sure no one would believe that she'd hit her elderly groom with a bed warmer and knocked him dead quite by accident. So she did the only thing she could - she ran. Yet now she was in no position to turn down a shocking proposition from the dangerously handsome Duke of Redmayne: that she become one man's wife and another man's mistress - his mistress.

When British officer Lord Julian St. Simon rescued Tamsin from her captors, she thought she was safe. But he was like any soldier, planning to wring every bit of information he could from the one known as La Violette. Tasmin agreed to tell for a price - that he tutor her in the ways of being a proper English lady. A change that could put them both in danger.

With a highly sensual style, Jane Feather - winner of four Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards - works her bestselling romantic magic in a tale of a strong-willed beauty forced to make her living at the gaming tables. An arrogant nobleman is determined to get the better of her, and the stakes are nothing less than her virtue.

Chloe wasn't expecting a warm welcome, after all, her new guardian was a total stranger. But when Sir Hugo strode into Denholm Manor after a night of carousing and discovered he'd been saddled with a ward, he soon made it clear he wanted nothing to do with her. She, however, had other ideas.

During the reign of Henry VIII, Lady Guinevere Mallory is a beautiful widow who has outlived four husbands. Hugh of Beaucaire is the man sent by the King to investigate her on suspicion of murder. They are enemies, but the attraction between them is powerful, almost palpable, and ultimately irresistible.