Mr Ivanovsky disturbed her. She felt like an explorer who had suddenly found themselves face-to-face with a strange, never-before-seen creature.

It happened one night. One hot, moonlit midsummer night at a ball in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1884. Miss Anna Brown walks out onto the terrace and into arrestingly beautiful Russian artist Sasha Ivanovsky. He is unconventional, unfettered, adventurous, dangerously bohemian-everything she is not, everything she fears. But she is bewitched. His eyes-dark, mysterious, smoulderingly passionate- burn into her mind, into her heart, into her...

Set against the open skies and wild beauty of southwest England in 1430, The Heart of Darkness is a medieval mystery about one young woman's quest to shed light on the dark secrets of her shire's sheriff and help him hunt down the villains responsible for a spate of local kidnappings-before they strike again.

"Her courage began to desert her under Sir Richard's cold, questioning stare. 'Good day, sir. I-I-am Rowena Walden, my uncle, Lord Cunningham, sent me, ' she managed to stammer. 'He said that you-needed a clerk.'"

When Lady Sabina spitefully volunteered her...

A country mouse does the London Season, with entirely unexpected results.

It is spring, the beginning of the London Season, and the beginning of what will be a season of surprising and far-reaching change for Hertfordshire sisters Rosa and Arielle Lane. Sent to stay with their London aunt for the purpose of finding suitable husbands, Rosa does not rate her chances of success very highly. She is a country mouse of the worst kind, with almost nothing to recommend her. She is small and slight, timid, chronically shy, possesses no fortune, and is afflicted with a mortifying...