Download or read book Taming a Rake into a Lord written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Masters is a first class rake. Having retired as a spy, he thinks he may spend the next year or two gambling and drinking as a way to forget the horrors of his past. Quite suddenly, he is thrown into a new role entirely when he inherits the title and properties of the Earl of Winthrop. He has no desire for such a role but even more distressing is the ward that accompanies the estate. Lady Elizabeth knows that her future is uncertain. But when a handsome new earl arrives and announces that the will requires her to marry within the year, all hope is lost. Having cared for her father these past months, she is less than a wallflower. At least those ladies attended the ball. But if she doesn't marry, a new Earl might take Chris' place, Bernard Sinclair. She can't explain it, but his attention frightens her more than she can express. As Chris attempts to help Lizzie find a suitable husband, his attraction for her cannot be denied. Will his past cripple his future or can Lizzie tame the rake into a lord?

Download or read book The Art of Taming a Rake written by Nicole Jordan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparks abound in this sizzling new Legendary Lovers tale from New York Times bestselling author Nicole Jordan, in which a seductive rakehell must woo his spirited but love-shy bride while unmasking a mysterious assailant. Despite his notorious reputation, Quinn Wilde, Earl of Traherne, has mostly honorable intentions. So when beautiful Venetia Stratham boldly enters a gentlemen’s club, demanding that Quinn stop courting her sister, he does what any bachelor would do: He kisses her. With her sharp wit, intoxicating passion, and surprising vulnerability, Venetia is irresistible—except for all this nonsense about threatening to shoot Quinn. But when clandestine enemies make an actual attempt on the earl’s life, Venetia is implicated. To save her good name, Quinn does what any true gentleman must do: He proposes. Thus Venetia finds herself wed to arrogant, wickedly sensual Quinn, whose devilish ways are as legendary as his rumored skills as a lover. Yet vexingly, her body rebels against her vow to remain immune to his many charms. If only she could reform the infuriating nobleman—without diminishing his undeniable allure. As Venetia discovers that a true rake is hard to tame, Quinn faces an even greater challenge: winning his wife’s fragile trust . . . while defending both their lives. Praise for The Art of Taming a Rake “A sweet and tender romance with a perfect blend of adventure and mystery . . . The repartee between the two protagonists—both of whom are struggling to stay detached—is engaging verbal foreplay that captures the heat of their physical attraction. . . . Readers will yearn for the lovers to at last be able to devote their sincere and thoughtful attention to each other.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[Jordan] adds just the right amount of danger and a large amount of passion in this well-written love story.”—RT Book Reviews “Both sensuous and emotional, this story is a true pleasure.”—BookPage “Jordan spices up the plot of her Regency romance with an intriguing thread of danger, but longtime fans of this best-selling author needn’t worry about a lack of potent passion, since Jordan also serves up plenty of the lushly sensual love scenes for which she is famous.”—Booklist

Download or read book Taming a Laird s Wild Lady written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Isabelle Maddox, known as Isla, has never been one to follow rules. She would much rather a reckless ride on horseback than a dance in a ballroom but her father has very different ideas about her future. To further the families’ fortune, he would see her married to a Scottish lord. Isla fears this will be the end of the life she treasures above all else. Gavin Campbell will never marry again. His past has taught him well, his first wife’s spending has him teetering on the edge of financial ruin. Marriage is a disease , or so he thought until the headstrong Isla starts seeping into is heart and he begins to wonder if a woman like her might actually be a cure. Can Isla’s wild ways tame this laird’s heart?

Download or read book The Baron to Break written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Prince Charming wasn’t so charming? What if he was the bad guy? And Baron Robinson liked it that way. Except when his best friend’s sister, the lovely Miss Emily Cranston, is suddenly alone in the world, he knows it’s his duty to protect her. Which turns out to be a much larger job than he anticipated. Because while Emily is the picture of innocence, the trouble nipping at her heels is anything but. Jacob might be a no-good rake… but a lady that vulnerable needs to be protected from real evil. And that fact that she tempts him in all sorts of ways she ought not…. Well, he’s just going to have to keep her safe from that too. But while saving her from the world is a challenge, keeping his hands off her is proving to be impossible.

Download or read book A Rendezvous With a Rake written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve got one rule and it’s no women on board. Ever.” When the youngest brother of the rough and tumble Smith family turned to smuggling, Lord Fulton Smith knew he had to keep his operation simple to keep from being caught. But the beautiful stowaway, Sophie, makes his life anything but easy. His smuggling self knows he ought to drop her at the nearest port and follow his own damn rules. It’s a dangerous business. The lord in him, however, can’t help but protect the fragile beauty who has demons of her own. But when his past begins to haunt them too, danger lurks around every corner and not even his boat is fast enough to outrun it. Keeping her safe will push him to the breaking point. Keeping his hands off her… Impossible.

Download or read book LOST The Love of a Lord written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s just been made an earl but he can’t tell a soul… Mr. Ralph Fitzroy is about to receive an entire earldom for good deeds done. The catch? He needs to perform one more. Go to the funeral of the Earl of Kinross and figure out if foul play is involved. Easy enough. Except for that from the first, one major complication is making the entire affair very difficult, Miss Clara Welby. Beautiful, vivacious, and promised to his lead suspect. She’s in his way at every turn and muddling his investigation and his senses. There’s only one thing to do. Use Clara and her connection to Kinross to his advantage. Because only a fool would let desire stand in the way of an earldom. Which is why, he will not succumb to the guilt niggling in his gut. Even if he were willing to sacrifice his future for love, the lies he’s told are piling up so high and so thick, how could a woman as perfect as Clara ever trust a man like him?

Download or read book Duke of Chance written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This duke will chance anything…except his heart. The Duke of Durham, better known as the Duke of Chance, is an unrepentant rake, a gambler, a club owner, and an all-around sinner. Which is why, taking over the gaming hell, the Den of Sins, suits him perfectly. And while he knows he'll have to marry at some point, he looks upon the institution the way some might consider having a tooth extracted. The act is to be avoided until the last possible moment. But when an opportunity falls into his lap to have the best of both worlds, marriage and freedom, it's an offer he can't refuse. She's loved Chance forever… How could Lady Daisy Longrove forget her childhood infatuation? He's her brother's best friend, after all. The handsome and powerful duke has never seen her as anything but a little girl. That is until she finally sets her silly girlhood fancy aside and falls in love with another man, one who also happens to be a rake. All right, perhaps she has a type. But when the Earl of Edgemere doesn't keep his promise of marriage, she's all but ruined. That's when Chance makes her an offer. He'll save her by marrying her, if she'll provide him with an heir and then allow him the freedom to do as he chooses. It's an offer she likely can't refuse. But all those feelings she'd thought she'd forgotten long ago? They're back with a vengeance. How can she be his wife when she's in love with him, knowing he'll never return her feelings? There in only one answer. Daisy has to find a way to break down the high walls he's constructed around his heart. Can she convince this duke to take a chance on love?

Download or read book Earl of Sin written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a man of sin and she's tempting beyond belief… The Earl of Sinclair is a man returning from the brink. Raising a daughter on his own and only just skirting financial disaster, he'll be the first to admit he needs help. But a beautiful tutor who whisks into house and begins making changes. He's not certain this was a good idea. It's one thing that his daughter loves her, but his own heart is in jeopardy. Miss Mary Chase has been a burden on her family long enough. Tutor for an earl is the perfect opportunity to prove she can have a successful life as a spinster. But she didn't count on the earl being so handsome. Nor did she realize he'd need as much help as his daughter. The question now, is she the woman to heal his broken heart?

Download or read book Tammy Andresen written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestselling Author, Tammy Andresen lives with her husband and three children just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up on the Seacoast of Maine, where she spent countless days dreaming up stories in blueberry fields and among the scrub pines that line the coast. Her mother loved to spin a yarn and Tammy filled many hours listening to her mother retell the classics. It was inevitable that at the age of 18, she headed off to Simmons College, where she studied English literature and education. She never left Massachusetts but some of her heart still resides in Maine and her family visits often.

Download or read book A Scandalous Scot written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enemy of my enemy… When Miss Annie Makem becomes the charge of her horrible uncle, her life turns into a nightmare. Which is why she had to run away. But where can she go in a town that her uncle has eyes and ears everywhere? The Scandalous Scot Boyd Lockton, known as the Scandalous Scot, runs the gaming hell Purgatory. He’s one of the few men in all of London who has neither succumbed to her uncle’s pressure or fallen for his false charm. He’s her one hope of hiding long enough to escape. But how she can convince the Scot to help her? He knows full well the potential for trouble that she’s brought to his door. She’ll have to make him an offer he can’t refuse…

Download or read book A Masquerade with a Marquess written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She might be blind, but even she can SEE that he’s trouble. The moment Mia’s fingers accidentally brush down Lord Kingsley’s rippling chest during a chance encounter at a masquerade ball, she knows that her life will never be the same. Because the passion that flares between them is hot enough to melt all her hesitation away. He’s hell bent on revenge. Until the broken little bird, Mia, lands in his path. But enemies take advantage of distraction and Mia is as stunning as she is passionate making her the worst kind. And thanks to that one ill-fated evening, she is also now his wife. And perhaps an agent of his enemy… Is she part of the plot against him or in grave peril at his side? How far is he willing to go to protect the woman he never wanted but might just be the one person he can’t live without? It’s time to find out…

Download or read book A Vengeful Viscount written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve just made a deal with the devil…” Nellie was the sort of good that other mothers like to use as an example. Not hers, of course. But when an illness ravages her lungs and she’s not sure how she’ll ever lead a normal life, or how long she’ll even be alive, she decides it’s time to really live, her mother be damned. Or perhaps, that’s Nellie herself. Because the moment Viscount Northville, enters her life, tempted doesn’t begin to describe how she feels. He is everything that Nellie is not. Older, mysterious, handsome as sin, and he hides the sorts of secrets that give her the chills. Which makes him perfect. Why shouldn’t she taste what is deliciously dark and dangerous before she steps into the light? But the problem with making a deal with the devil is that there is always a price to be paid. The question is only how much…

Download or read book Taming a Duke s Reckless Heart written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her mother gravely ill, Piper Baker’s situation grows desperate in a world unfriendly to women. Time and money dwindle to naught, and marriage is Piper’s lone option. Although potential suitors circle her skirts, none but Barrett Maddox, Duke of Manchester, captures her heart, after he saves her from a band of thieves. It is just her luck that the man Piper wants is the only one she cannot have. For wealthy, titled bachelor Barrett Maddox, the first rule in life is to avoid marriageable virgins, at all costs, and he has been successful thus far. That is, until he rescues the delectable, auburn-haired Piper Baker. For some unfathomable reason, or in a temporary fit of insanity, he agrees to broker a match for the unfortunate lady, in the target rich New York society. While he easily thwarts inept suitors, can Barrett keep his hands to himself? Entangled in a web they conspired to create, Piper and Barrett are left to wonder if there is anything more reckless than love.

Download or read book My Duke s Deception written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious man saves her life but can he save her heart? Lady Eleanor McIntyre has been forgotten by society, unloved and left to ruin by her father. But just when she is at her lowest, she crosses paths with a mysterious man who saves her life. It is like a miracle but even more shocking is that he needs her help to find his lost sister. Lord Matthew Evans, the Duke of Pennington, has an excellent reason for hiding his title from the lovely Ella. The only woman he had ever loved cared far more about his position than she ever did the man. Ella is too beautiful to be trusted with the knowledge he is a duke. But the longer he knows her, the more he wishes he hadn’t deceived her. Because as pure as her heart is, she could surely never love a man who lied about his identity. #Historical #Romance #Victorian #Regency

Download or read book A Laird to Love written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three wildly romantic tales of love set in Victorian Scotland. Get swept away by A Laird to Love. Christmastide with My Captain Can a wallflower find love? Lady Emilia McDougal has watched love find each of her beloved sisters. When will it be her turn? She fears it will be never. Quiet and bookish, her shyness masks a fearless heart. Captain Jack Andrews lost his love of the sea long ago, but he doesn't deserve to find the love of his life. Especially not with someone as stunning and kind as Emilia. When she saves his life, he wonders how she could ever think herself plain. If it were his place in life, he’d show her just how fascinatingly beautiful she is. But it isn’t. How long can he resist those tempting lips, soft smile, and heartfelt words? And what will her father, the Earl of Ravenscraig, do if Jack doesn’t? My Enemy, My Earl Can two wounded souls find love? Fleeing London, and scandal, Lady Clarissa Burton runs directly into the wife-hunting Earl of Dumfries while traveling on a rutted Scottish road. She wanted peace in Scotland, not a tall and brooding laird who makes her forget that handsome lords are nothing but trouble. Having spent years of his life fighting English wars, Ewan McDougal, Earl of Dumfries, wants nothing to do with England, or its people, for as long as he lives. He wants a nice Scottish lass to warm his bed and raise a family. So why can’t Ewan stop thinking about Lady Clarissa’s pouty lips or her curves made for a man’s hands? And what happened to her in London that has her running scared? Heart of a Highlander Will a spark between two childhood friends light into a flame… Lady Fiona McDougal embodies the wild spirit of Scotland, untamed and free. If only her future could be the same, but she is bound by duty to marry well for the sake of the title. As her heart and necessity battle only one answer arrises time and again, Colin Campbell. But he is the one man who refuses to court her. Colin has loved Fiona for as long as he can remember. Her fiery spirit and matching hair, fill him with a warmth that no other woman can match. But Colin's father has long made him promise that he will choose a wife for reasons other than love. #Scottish #Historical #Romance #Victorian #Regency

Download or read book A Deal With a Duke written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duke is her brother’s best friend… Which is the ONLY reason the Duke of Upton agrees to take Anna Smith away from London to protect the fragile beauty. Rath’s dark looks and derelict life are not compatible with the effervescent Anna. In fact, she quakes in fear every time he comes near her. As she should. If she had any idea the dark past he holds in his cold black heart, she’d surely run screaming from his country estate. And that can’t happen because he’s not the biggest bad in the North of England. When the very villain who forced her to flee London finds her, Rath, beast of a man that he is, is the only one who can protect her. To truly keep her safe, he has to keep her close. And soon it's not fear that has her trembling in his arms, and his need to protect her has nothing to do with duty. But his past is as much a danger as hers and soon he realizes that she isn’t just his greatest temptation and his most important job. She’s also…. His one weakness.

Download or read book Taming the Duke s Heart Taming a Duke s Heart Books 4 6 written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy three amazing stories from the bestselling series, Taming the Duke's Heart. Taming a Rake into a Lord Christopher Masters is a first class rake. Having retired as a spy, he thinks he may spend the next year or two gambling and drinking as a way to forget the horrors of his past. Quite suddenly, he is thrown into a new role entirely when he inherits the title and properties of the Earl of Winthrop. He has no desire for such a role but even more distressing is the ward that accompanies the estate. Lady Elizabeth knows that her future is uncertain. But when a handsome new earl arrives and announces that the will requires her to marry within the year, all hope is lost. Having cared for her father these past months, she is less than a wallflower. At least those ladies attended the ball. But if she doesn't marry, a new Earl might take Chris' place, Bernard Sinclair. She can't explain it, but his attention frightens her more than she can express. As Chris attempts to help Lizzie find a suitable husband, his attraction for her cannot be denied. Will his past cripple his future or can Lizzie tame the rake into a lord? Taming a Savage Gentleman Tom Maddox would never marry. He's the second son, the spare, and he prides himself on living his life without the confines of society. Baroness Segrave needs a husband for society’s sake but she’d prefer he have no opinion at all. Which is why the Earl of Loudoun seems the ideal choice. With no fortune and a drinking habit, he should allow her to keep running her estate while living off the allowance she’d give him. But Loudoun proves to be both drunk and foolish. Suddenly a husband who is strong, capable, and appreciative of her gifts gains merit in her eyes. A man like Tom Maddox. But how can she convince Tom that he should consider marriage and give up his carefree bachelorhood? Because no matter what anyone else believes, she’d rather the love of a gentleman than a lord. Taming a Rogue Earl Lord Lucius Loudoun is capable of success in only two endeavors... work and women. Bedding them, anyway. He's given up trying to accomplish anymore. So why is he even tempted by an innocent like Miss May Stanley? May has loved Loudoun since she was a child, but he looks straight through her, still treating her like she's a girl of thirteen instead of a woman of twenty. How will she ever convince him to give her a chance? As the two tangle, attraction ignites, but can that spark become a flame?