THE HANDFASTING Bold, Tangled and Torn in one book Feisty Maggie MacBede will never marry a warrior. Och no With eight strapping brothers and a warrior of a Da, she has had enough of holding her own against great headstrong men. She'll not risk her heart to the sword. Give her a poet, a bard, any man but a fighting man, and she will find her match. Talorc the Bold, the Laird MacKay, has no care for Maggie's foolishness. When he heard the MacBede battle cry, "For Our Maggie " and witnessed the impossible victory it spurred, he set out to marry her for the clan. Then he felt her in his arms...

A shamed woman, a lad with a tarnished legacy and the man who loves them both Escaping an unspeakable past, Seonaid MacKay journeys across the width of Scotland and the breadth of her heart to give her son a fresh start. Challenged by rugged terrain, slavers and kidnapping she struggles to let go of her haunted past. Padraig MacKay refuses to leave Seonaid and Deian to the dangers of the wilds. She belongs with the clan, her people. She belongs with him, in the one place she refuses go, the Highlands of Scotland.

What's love to do with anything? ... Immersed in her herbal laboratory, Lady Felicity secretly yearns for a dashing, romantic love straight from a gothic novel. So when her brother's houseguest, Lord Andover, presses her hands to his chest, and proposes, she is too stunned to take in his words of undying love. Words he surely spoke. Didn't he? Oh, drat, she should have listened... Victims of misguided and inept medical men, Lord Andover's father and brothers are in their graves, his mother lost to the apothecary's opium. Desperate to save his mother, give her a will to live, he sets three...

He married for money, she wed by force On the brink of losing everything, the Duke of Summerton marries heiress Caroline Howlett, but at what cost? She wants neither his crumbling estate nor his title, and what is he, as a man, without them? Before he can resolve this dilemma, something more dangerous than doubt threatens their marriage. When Caroline said she'd rather be dead than married to the duke, she hadn't meant it literally. Forced into marriage by her guardian, Caroline doesn't give a fig for the idle life of the aristocracy. She wants to run her father's enterprises, and she will,...