Lisa Kleypas

Young, high-spirited Lady Madeline Matthews is expected to wed an aging, lecherous lord. But she would rather shame herself in the eyes of society than sacrifice her freedom, and resolves to render herself unmarriageable by indulging in a torrid affair with Britain's most acclaimed actor and notorious womaniser, Logan Scott.

He remains one of our all time favourite heroes – right up there with Roarke from JD Robb, Lynn Kurland’s Christopher of Blackmoor from This is All I Ask and Loretta Chase’s Sebastian from Lord of Scoundrels.

You could see it coming in Secrets Of A Summer Night when Marcus found Lillian playing rounders in her underwear (shocking!)… The lovely, lively American Lillian Bowman up against the stiff English formality of Marcus, Lord Westcliff! Poor Marcus was taught never to show emotion. His parents were uncaring, stiff and cruel. Every time Marcus became fond of a nanny or another staff member, his father dismissed them. He had limited time with his sisters. He was scared of his father’s huge dogs, so he was locked into a room with them when he was five, for three long terrified hours – to ‘get over it’. Poor little kid. He was beaten and bullied and abused until he was a stiff aristocrat who thought emotions were unwanted and stupid, especially something like (shudder) love!

A noblewoman of frail beauty and exotic mystery fakes her own death to escape the gallows. And now she must flee.

Reprinted and available as When Strangers Marry.

A wealthy and bitter exile, he most dangerous and desirable man in all of England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is promised to another.

The notion of being a wallflower after a couple of society seasons is enough to give anyone today the shudders, let alone Annabelle Peyton, whose impoverished yet genteel family need her to marry well. Quickly!

She couldn't remember who she was... A temptingly beautiful woman awakens in a stranger's bed, rescued from the icy waters of the Thames, her memory gone.

All London is at Julia Wentworth's feet. The beautiful, enchanting actress is the toast of the theatre world, and anything she desires is hers for the asking. But the incomparable leading lady guards a devastating secret: a mystery husband whom she does not know.

Hunter, Earl of Hawksworth, had been lost at sea. Or so Lily had been told. Their unhappy marriage, with its cold caresses and passionless kisses, was over.

Reckless, wild, and beautiful, Lily Lawson delights in shocking proper London society and now she is determined to rescue her sister from an unwanted impending marriage to the notorious Alex, Lord Raiford, by fair means or foul.

Zachary Bronson has built an empire of wealth and power. Now he needed a wife to help secure his position in society and warm his bed in private.But not just any woman will do for a man whom all of London knows is not a gentleman.

Lisa Kleypas won an award for her novella, I Will. And no wonder – it’s beautiful. A marvellously tortured, dissipate hero blackmails his friend’s sister Caroline into a fake engagement, so his dying father will reinstate him in his will.

If you love Stephanie Laurens and Betina Krahn, don’t miss the adventure and seductiveness of Lisa Kleypas. Nick Gentry is the redeemed bad-boy head of an outlaw gang roaming London’s streets.