But of all her high-placed suitors, there was none Abigail could love. Abigail was kept busy when her pretty and naive niece Fanny falls head over heels in love with Stacy Calverleigh, a good-looking town-beau of shocking reputation and an acknowledged seductor. She was determined to prevent her high-spirited niece from becoming involved with the handsome fortune-hunter. The arrival to Bath of Stacy's uncle seemed to indicate an ally, but Miles Calverleigh is the black sheep of the family. Miles Calverleigh had no regard for the polite conventions of Regency society. His cynicism, his morals, his manners appalled Abigail. He also turned out to be the most provoking creature Abigail had ever met - with a disconcerting ability to throw her into giggles at quite the wrong moment. Will Abigail overcome Mile's indifference towards his nephew and help Abigail foil Stacy's plans?

    Barbary in the 18th century. Frances Morley was a most rebellious young, to the despair of her worried mother, strait-laced sister, and many disconcerted suitors. It was only when Mr. Thomas Strickland arrived in the village of St. Barbary from fashionable London that Frances at last met a man whose shocking ways matched her own. Thomas called himself a writer, as if this might excuse his rude behavior and uncommonly direct assault on Frances's affections. In her fight to save the life of a little climbing-boy, condemned to death for robbery, Frances becomes more involved with the mysterious novelist. But when Frances's priceless bracelet disappeared, and a mysterious highwayman known as the Moonlighter began terrorizing travels, Frances came to suspect there as more to Strickland than met the eye.Who is he really, and why is he interested in her valuable bracelet? He might have been a thief and a cad, but he was a singularly handsome and witty one -- and Miss Frances Morley found his kind of danger far more diverting than dreary conventional romance as she plunged into a breathtaking game of intrique, suspense and startling surprise...Frances's suspicions grow when a Bow Street Runner appears on the scene, looking for the notorious jewel-thief, the Moonlighter.