England at the end of the eighteenth century...Lucasta Symonds did not enjoy her one, short London season and she is happy to remain at home while her beautiful younger sister Camilla sets out to make an advantageous marriage. Viscount Kennington takes one look at the beautiful Camilla and is immediately smitten. He follows her to London, determined to make her his wife.However, when events take a turn for the worse and he is accused of a cold-blooded murder, it is not Camilla who comes to his rescue but the less beautiful, much more practical Lucasta...Melinda Hammond lives in a farmhouse on the edge of the Pennines.

Miss Clarissa Wyckenham comes to London to join her pretty step-mama and finds that Mama-Nell has formed a discreet club for ladies. Soon she is pitched headlong into the deliciously wicked antics of the Belles Dames Club and finds herself in conflict with the disapproving Lord Alresford. This is a sparkling comedy of romance and adventure set at the end of the eighteenth century.

When Madame Elinor de Sange returns to England in 1753, bent on revenge, Guy Morellon, Marquis of Thurleigh finds himself pitted against a dangerous adversary. For Elinor has the bloodstone, a fiery ruby that holds the key to his destruction and that of the other men who ruined her life eight years earlier. But revenge carries a high price, and Elinor must learn to trust—and to forgive. Historical Romantic Adventure by Melinda Hammond; originally published be Robert Hale [UK]