To save her family from ruin, a clever bluestocking must form a dangerous alliance with the one man in London she should avoid: the formidable Viscount who broke her heart. Lady Elodie Vance discovers her family is being bled dry by a respected friend's elegant fraud. Her only path to salvation is a devil's bargain with Lord Gabriel Stirling, Viscount Stonehurst-a man of ice and intellect who once coldly dismissed her youthful love. He offers a simple, clinical arrangement: her sharp mind and social access, in exchange for his protection and her family's security. Thrust into a world of deception, they must navigate glittering ballrooms and midnight searches, pretending a partnership that grows more perilous by the day. Elodie finds the icy Viscount guards a scarred and secretive heart, while Gabriel is unnerved by the brave, brilliant woman who challenges his every guarded instinct. But when a single, stolen kiss shatters the careful rules of their business arrangement, their fragile trust threatens to collapse. With a powerful enemy closing in, Gabriel must decide whether to retreat behind the walls of his past, or risk everything-his reputation, his control, and his carefully fortified heart-for a love that was never part of the bargain. 1st in #regencyengland

She is the Diamond of the Season. He is the rogue who wagers to tarnish her shine. Lady Beatrice Ashworth is the undisputed darling of the ton-beautiful, charming, and flawless. But behind the perfect smiles and graceful waltzes, Beatrice is dying of boredom, trapped in a gilded cage of expectation. She longs for a life of passion and purpose, not the safe, tedious match her mother is determined to secure. Lord William "Liam" Blackwood, the devil-may-care brother of a duke, finds the marriage mart a tiresome game. To him, the untouchable Lady Beatrice is the ultimate challenge. In a fit of reckless pride and against a detestable rival, he makes a ruinous wager: he will steal a kiss and a promise from the impeccable Diamond. What begins as a cynical game soon becomes dangerously real. As Liam uncovers the fiery, brilliant woman behind the perfect facade, he finds himself falling for the one woman he was supposed to deceive. And Beatrice, drawn to the one man who sees the real her, begins to shed her carefully crafted armor. But when the scandalous truth of the wager breaks, it shatters Beatrice's reputation and her fragile trust. Now, Liam must prove that his love is not a lie concocted for profit, but the one true thing he has ever done. In a world where reputations are everything, can a love born from a bet ever be trusted? Or is their season destined to end in ruin? 1st in #regencyengland

After a scandal shattered her reputation and her heart, Lady Arabella Thornwood fled London in disgrace. Now, three years later, family duty forces her to return for a season to secure a wealthy husband and save her family from ruin. She is determined to be practical, to lock away the past, and to avoid the man who broke her heart at all costs. But the universe has other plans. Sebastian Blackwood, the devastatingly handsome Duke of Ashford-the very source of her heartbreak-has taken up residence in the house next door. Thrown together in the glittering ballrooms and gossip-fuelled promenades of the ton, the embers of their forbidden past ignite into an unavoidable flame. Sebastian, haunted by the mistake that drove her away, is determined to win back her trust. But Arabella is no longer the naïve girl he once knew. As a whirlwind courtship rekindles a passion they never forgot, old wounds and new threats emerge. To have a future together, they must confront the lies of the past and find the courage to forgive before a vengeful enemy destroys their second chance at love forever.