1. Just Like Heaven
Honoria Smythe-Smith plays violin in her family’s famously unsuccessful annual musicale and is determined to find a husband. Marcus Holroyd, Earl of Chatteris and the closest friend of her exiled brother, has quietly promised to look after her and repeatedly interferes with unsuitable courtships. When an…
2. A Night Like This
Anne Wynter works as a governess while hiding from the consequences of an earlier encounter with a powerful man. At a Smythe-Smith musicale she meets Daniel, Earl of Winstead, recently returned from exile after a duel. Their attraction is immediate but shadowed by dangers attached to…
3. The Sum of All Kisses
Hugh Prentice’s injured leg is the lasting result of a duel that forced Daniel Smythe-Smith into exile. Lady Sarah Pleinsworth blames Hugh for the damage done to her family, and he finds her theatrical manner equally exhausting. A succession of weddings brings them into close company…
4. The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy
Sir Richard Kenworthy urgently needs a wife and selects Iris Smythe-Smith after seeing her at the family musicale. His determined courtship gives Iris reason to suspect that the proposal is driven by something other than love. Marriage takes her to Richard’s Yorkshire estate, where a concealed…