The Masquerade only had two rules: You had to be invited to order to attend, and you must dress in the outfit assigned to you. This was my first year being invited to the Masquerade. The first year I might get the answer to the question I've been asking myself for years: Why do I feel this way? Maybe something or someone will be the answer I was looking for.

Ein Land, das ganz anders ist als alle anderen. Die Bürger untergeordnet in Farben, wovon die Farbe Rot regiert. Jede Farbe erfüllt einen Rang und hat spezielle Aufgaben. Doch hat es auch seinen Preis. Finanziell instabile Bürger wurden mit der Begründung ein Verbrechen begangen zu haben einst ausgeschlossen. Diese ausgestoßenen Bürger wurden für immer zu unrecht bestraft. Nun planen sie ihren Rachezug und verzehren sich dabei nur an der ungreifbaren Wut, die sich seit Jahren in ihnen angestaut hat. Und ihr Plan bezieht die Rote Prinzessin, die Tochter des mächtigsten Anführers William Night, mit ein. Belle Night. Niemand, außer einem geringen Personal ihres Zuhauses, kennt ihre Identität. Aus Sicherheitsgründen trägt sie das violette Armband und gibt sich als Dienerin des roten Palastes aus, wenn Fremde zu Besuch kommen. Dadurch bleibt sie unbekannt und kann ein unbeschwertes und sicheres Leben führen. Doch ein Tag stellt alles auf den Kopf. Farblose greifen an und schnappen sich Bedienstete des Palastes, um Informationen über die Rote Prinzessin zu erfragen. Doch was, wenn die Rote Prinzessin nun insgeheim unter ihnen ist? Wie wird der farblose Anführer Jack Thomson darauf reagieren, wenn er das erfährt?

This novella is the first story in my series The Golden Redepennings. Lieutenant Rick Redepenning has been saving his admiral's intrepid daughter from danger since their formative years, but today, he faces the gravest of threats-the damage she might do to his heart. How can he convince her to see him as a suitor, not just a childhood friend? Travelling with her father's fleet has left Mary Pritchard ill-prepared for London Society, and prey to the machinations of false friends. When she strikes out on her own to find a more suitable locale to take up her solitary spinsterhood, she finds adventure, trouble, and her girlhood hero, riding once more to her rescue.

For nearly 300 years, the Normingtons and the Lorimers have feuded, since a love affair ended in a curse that doomed dead Lorimers to haunt their home, the Castle of Lorne. Now the last Marquis of Lorne, the last of the Lorimers, is one of those ghosts, and the Duke of Kendal, head of the House of Normington, holds the castle. Kendal doesn't care about the feud or the ghosts. He wants only to find the evidence that will legitimate the son his Lorimer bride bore him before her death, and to convince his stubborn housekeeper to marry him. But the time allotted to the curse is running out, and his happiness depends on finding the Lost Treasure of Lorne before the 300 years draws to a close.

With the fruits of a successful season safely stowed, whaling captain Robert Thorpe reaches a milestone. The treasures of the sea will buy him a ship, with enough left over to purchase a house and find a wife. He has no lady in mind, but the tavern wench who catches his eye is surely the wrong woman for him. 
Forced to work in her stepmother's tavern, Beth Gordon faces gossip and lies that shred her hopes for a proper marriage. She has met only one man worth knowing, and he believes her a strumpet. If only she could return to her grandmother's home in the Highlands.

[A Victorian romance continuing family stories begun in the various Regency books of Jude Knight and Mariana Gabrielle.] David "Toad" Northope, heir to the Duke of Wellbridge and rogue in the mold of his infamous father, knows Lady Sarah "Sal" Grenford, daughter of the once-profligate Duke of Haverford, will always hold his heart. But when the two teens are caught in bed together by their horrified parents, he is sent away to finish school on the Continent, and she is thrown into the depths of her first London Season. Can two reformed rakes keep their children from making the same mistakes they did? The dukes decide keeping them apart will do the trick, so as the children reach their majority, Toad is put to work at sea, learning to manage his mother's shipping concern, and Sal is taken to the other side of the world, as far from him as possible. How will Toad and Sal's love withstand long years of separation, not to mention nasty lies, vicious rumors, attractive other suitors, and well-meaning parents who threaten to destroy their future before it has begun?

To avoid an unwanted marriage, Lady Cordelia Rowley must run away to the Highlands and disguise herself as a servant until her 21st birthday when she comes of legal age and regains control of her destiny. Captain Lachlan Shawe has found success and wealth in the Royal Navy, but he's made a few enemies too. While dodging the efforts of a dangerous assassin, Lachlan must find a capable, sensible wife to run his estate before his leave ends. Even though his childhood sweetheart has renewed her interest in him, Lachlan is drawn to an intriguing chamber maid who stirs something in him he let grow cold in the midst of the grim realities of war.

Lady Eliza Turner has no interest in finding herself a wealthy husband, she has her books, her best friend Charlotte, and plenty of opinions on what society expects from her. When her curiosity gets the better of her, and she ends up in a compromising position with the desirable Duke Harrington she must use all her wits and charm to survive the scandal she has created. Jasper Harrington doesn't enjoy attending social occasions especially when opinionated women think that it is acceptable to criticise him, but there is something about Eliza that he can't quite bear to part with. Are this odd couple going to find a happy ever after together or apart?

Sophia has sacrificed everything for her younger sister, Lucy. She has removed them from the only home they ever knew, taken on the care of Lucy's illegitimate son, George, and even assumed the role of a widow and mother in order to erase all hint of scandal from the boy's birth. But rumor continues to follow them like the darkest of clouds, and Sophia must adapt to her new existence as a false widow with no prospects beyond the doors of her small cottage. Lord Haughton - "Finn" to those close to him - will stop at nothing to prevent the slightest whiff of disgrace from tainting his family's name. When he learns of his younger brother's latest indiscretion-one that leaves a bastard child in his wake-Haughton rushes across the country to offer the boy's mother a comfortable living in exchange for her silence about the child's true parentage. But he arrives only to have his generous offer thrown back in his face by Sophia Brixton, a sharp-tongued and sharper-witted woman who proceeds to toss him out of her house. But just because he is banished from her home does not mean he is so easily banished from her life.

**in the process of being edited** At the age of 16, Emma was the most beloved princess in Corina. Her beauty, kindness, and elegance gave her the reputation of a pure rose. When she is betrothed to the King of Alvadoris, things change dramatically for her. King Alec is rude, rough, and has a cruel reputation. Will Emma be able to change his reputation and find love in this new marriage? Or will she be destined for a loveless ending. On top of marriage, Emma has other things to worry about, such as a secret only her family knows of. Can she trust her new husband with her secret, or will he use her to his own advantage?