Böcker av Barbara Jean Miller

Roxanne Whitcomb plans to spend her London season finding a rich backer for her brother's inventions until she meets Spencer Tanner and realizes she cannot marry for money. Tanner is attracted to her wit and startled by her lively nature, but assumes that, like other women, she needs protection. Her London debut is ruined by the arrival of her estranged mother and guardian, recalling gossip about her father's suicide and mother's untimely remarriage. Roxanne decides to tackle her problems by rescuing her mother and protecting her brother, but Tanner is reluctant to offer help, doubting her theory on why this would be necessary. Then he discovers the independent Rox can also be resourceful and courageous.

Leighton Stone, Earl of Longbridge, is used to danger. His years as a code breaker in Wellington's army have been filled with it. All he wants, at the end of the Peninsular War, is to return to his estate and marry his childhood sweetheart, Maddie Westlake. Maddie, not a typical parson's daughter, is tired of outwitting her parsimonious father to take care of Leighton's tenants and tired of being taken for granted. When her father sends her away, Leighton tracks her to Bath and discovers he must woo Maddie to win her love. Conniving relatives try to keep them apart, but music and memories pull this pair together as they are drawn into a bizarre spy plot only Maddie can solve.

Governess Marian Greenway assumes she's been hired by a lunatic when her employer demands she wear a revealing dress to dinner and introduces her to his relatives as his fiancée. When she realizes his behavior may be rooted in his war wounds, he has her instant sympathy, though she has vowed never to marry a soldier. Captain David Armstead, Lord Wyle, wants to fob off his interfering aunts, and a fake engagement seemed a good idea when in his cups. The next day the woman he thought was a hired actress takes over his household and his children become instantly devoted to her. He soon falls in love with her, but a kidnapper vaults them into an international plot that requires all their faith and resourcefulness to overcome.

Grace Montrose and Brandon White, Earl of Morewood, have much in common: loneliness, love for the theater, and low expectations of the opposite sex. Independently wealthy, with a spinster cousin for a companion, Grace has no intention of letting any man dominate her. But she would not mind the handsome earl as an intellectual friend and occasional dinner companion. It has nothing to do with the broad cut of his shoulders, his incisive blue eyes, or the dark blond locks of his hair that stray to his brow... Brandon is intrigued by his strong physical attraction to a woman of twenty-seven, clearly on the shelf. She possesses not only a fine mind but the loveliest hazel eyes he has ever seen and a shimmering fall of russet hair...

To protect her destitute, just-widowed, pregnant sister and nine-year-old niece, Roslyn Clary must appeal to the new lord of the manor, Mark St. John. He is generous with money, time, and attention, though he holds the title only loosely, hoping her sister will deliver a boy child. Nevertheless, Roslyn, who has vowed never to marry, is suspicious of Mark. Strongly attracted to Roslyn, Mark conveys her and her sister and niece to the safety of his mother's house in London. He desperately wants to court Roslyn but must first find out who murdered his brother, and why. Both he and Roslyn could be murder suspects, yet both are also potential victims if the murderer is not found soon.