Bücher der Reihe The Dainty Devils

Polite Society isn't ready for this Marriage of Convenience.Lady Tessa Kilkenny's ramshackle manor house is filled with mice and snakes and peeling wallpaper-as well as women with nowhere else to go. And Tessa will do anything to keep them safe.Even steal a carriage from Roarke Noble, the Earl of Dartmoor.As her first foray into being a highwaywoman, it has mixed results. She gets her cousin to the midwife just in time. But she also gets a marriage proposal.Because Roarke needs a wife.And with Tessa he gets more than he bargained for. She won't tell him why she is fighting off housebreakers and stealing from earls and viscounts. Or why her disaster of a house is rigged with traps to discourage unwanted visitors.But when those secrets put her life in danger, Roarke discovers he will do anything to save her.A debutante turned highwaywoman, a reclusive earl, and a marriage of convenience. Can the fire between them burn hotter than their secrets?The Dainty DevilsThe Duchess GamesThe Countess CaperThe Husband HeistNote: This series is part of Dragonblade's Flame line, so this is a scorching-hot read with open-door steam.

Sometimes you have to break the rules to find your happily ever after.The stern and proper Callum Winter, Duke of Montford, must marry. At least according to his mother.Enter: The Duchess Games where ladies are invited to display their accomplishments in dancing, music and all social graces.Caitriona Lovelace just wants to steal the duke's signet ring to get her smuggling operation running and save the village from ruin. Options are scarce for a thirty-one-year-old spinster, her two younger siblings, four dogs, a cranky goat, and a one-eyed fox.She might not have any pretty accomplishments, but she can sing sea shanties and debone a haddock in minutes. But between pianofortes and watercolors, Caitriona is shocked to discover that Callum remembers her from that passionate summer long ago and she has never forgotten him.Cat might not be duchess material---but she's the perfect woman to save Callum...and their happily ever after.The only problem is that she has to betray him first.The Dainty DevilsThe Duchess GamesThe Countess CaperThe Husband Heist