To British privateer Ethan Sharpe, Grace Chastain was nothing but a pawn for vengeance against Harmon Jeffries, the traitor responsible for his brutal years in prison.
Harriet Allistair came west to Montana to build a new life, convinced that inheriting her uncle's farm offered the chance to prove herself to her family, to the world and most important, to herself.
Daughter of a legendary Virginia hunt master and aristocrat, Julia Warwick grew up in a world where Thoroughbreds and foxhunting are passions, not pastimes.
Under the pert pen name "e;Lady Smart,"e; opinionated Lindsey Graham crusades for social change among London's elite, writing for the ladies' gazette Heart to Heart.
Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony, King Henry VIII punishes an insolent nobleman by commanding him to marry the vagabond woman caught stealing his horse.
The sight of Cory, Lord Newlyn, rising naked from the Midwinter river, is enough to send ripples of shock through Rachel Odell's carefully ordered life.
Hope Hope Butler is about to watch the man of her dreams, Jake Whitelaw, marry another woman-unless she finds the courage to stand up and fight for him.
Hunky construction guy Dev Carson can't believe it when the travel agency refuses him a refund - there's no way he's going to waste his money, since he's already wasted too much time in a relationship that's gone sour.
Television-program host Serena Sandstone already has her bags checked for her flight out of Anchorage when she sees the White Wolf - and his animal attraction is overpowering.
The proposal: Get together whenever their heavy travel schedules overlapNatalie Holcomb's impulsive - and uncharacteristic - night of steamy sex with a gorgeous stranger was supposed to be a onetime-only affair.
