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Max Arrington, the Duke of Pelham, vows to never again let a handsome face blind him to a man's true intentions. But ten months of celibacy and lonely nights drive him to a decadent brothel, where a beautiful young man arouses his illicit passions as never before. Tristan Walsh has grown tired of being used for men's pleasure. But his latest client is different: Commanding yet generous, Max makes him feel cared for as well as wanted.

From the fierce Alaskan wilderness to the gaiety of San Francisco society; the familiar peaks of Bergen, Norway to the dark, churning waters of Cape Horn; witness the glorious conclusion of the Northern Lights family saga.

Returning to her Wyoming ranch at the Civil War's end, Elyssa Sutton finds it picked bare by scavengers and coveted by determined men. Yet the proud young woman vows never again to abandon her Ruby Mountain home, though it means enlisting the aid of a dark and dangerous stranger who lives for revenge alone.

Rapidly rising romance star Julie Anne Long is making an indelible mark with her smart, sensual, richly emotional love stories, especially her unforgettable Pennyroyal Green novels. The sixth delectable Pennyroyal Green affair, Long's How the Marquess Was Won is the story of a beautiful orphan from the streets of Regency London, now refined, who inadvertently bewitches the dashing nobleman whom England's scandal sheets have dubbed "Lord Ice." Julie Anne Long is certain to win the hearts and eternal devotion of dedicated romance fans with How the Marquess Was Won.

Captain Laurence Madigan is an anomaly - a levelheaded risk taker who learned the dark side of life in Manchester’s slums. He needed those skills to survive fourteen months as a prisoner of Firebird, a shadowy Russian cartel. When rescued, he receives less than a hero’s welcome. He’s considered a wild card - or even a double agent.

When Alex Miller's mother died she left him her fragmentary journal from the 1920s. Inspired by her exotic tales as a young woman living in Paris and this entree into her emotional life, Miller has written Conditions of Faith. With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer, the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons, and she leaves her family home in twenties Melbourne to become his wife.

Consummate journalist Maggie Devlin has a rule: never get involved with the men she interviews. It's never been an issue and shouldn't be one this time around; her subject, the egotistical filmmaker George MacDonagh, holds zero appeal for her. But on-site in misty, magical County Cork, the faeries can bewitch even the most level-headed of women....

Meg and Don, aka the Dauntless Duncans, give up their high-powered legal life in Washington, DC, when they inherit a houseboat in Key West. It’s all renewed romance and conch fritters until Meg saves a little girl from drowning - awakening a maternal longing she never expected to feel.

Can Carrie Delaney find a man good enough to be both a father to her six-year-old, Dannie, and her own second chance at love? During a summer singles week at a Vermont ski resort, Carrie meets two men and is instantly attracted to one of them: a slick, gorgeous "Mr. Impossible". She tries earnestly to fall in love with the other, a teddy bear of a pediatric dentist and a sweet guy - but not her destiny.