Can a feckless rake become the ideal husband? Regency London With her family in dire straits, Kate Harmon agrees to marry the rakish Viscount Nicholas Dunston in return for a generous settlement from his father. But before she even meets her fiancé, she overhears him promising to continue his affair with his mistress. Horrified, Kate enters the marriage with an air of coldness and distance. Determined to overcome her dislike, Nicholas attempts to endear himself to his new wife. And though she has resolved not to fall in love, Kate soon finds it difficult to resist her husband’s charms… A Companion in Joy by Dorothy Mack is a charming Regency romance from a master of the genre.

    A taste for magnificent clothes and extravagant parties has led beautiful Lady Theodora Fairchild to the brink of financial disaster. Only handsome bookkeeper David MacKenzie knows the depths of her money woes--and the despair of a love she thinks can never be fulfilled.

    Frances Atherton, a country parson's daughter, had a lot to learn about London's wicked city ways. But nothing, not even David's sinful charms, could sway her from her mission—to trap the Blue Specter, the infamous smuggler for whose crimes her own father was imprisoned.The Blue Specter was none other than Edward Kennan, England's most famous actor, so Frances became an actress, the better to stalk her dangerous prey. It was a shocking profession for a lady...but more shocking still was the discovery that David—Lord Landry—was the most renowned and scandalous playwright of the day...the one man who could truly help the parson's daughter—if she would only let him have his way!

    But Amelia faced a gamble of her own as she came ever closer to being cornered by the two front-runners of her pack of swarming suitors. There was the iron-willed, compellingly ruthless Sir Julian Denventer, a battering ram of an aristocrat who was breaking down her resistance. And there was the insufferably arrogant Marquis of Tyrone, who had the infuriating impudence to pretend he did not want her. Amelia feared that one of them was a thief, the other a murderer--and if she made the wrong choice, her worst fears would come true...

    "Witch!" he replied.Andrea's blood ran hot. Her eyes sparked fire. The cheek of David Newbury, Duke of Kensington. He began by inspecting Chloe as if she were a piece of goods, and ended by proposing - to Andrea!Her own father, Lord Wycliff, had been a womanizer. Her twin brother was making a name as a rake. Andrea's mind was set on seeing her naive young stepsister married to the man who truly loved her. Now, as the Duke redoubled his efforts to win Chloe's affections, the girl was succumbing to his compelling charm. But Andrea was determined to outwit David Newbury. Who knew better than she that marriage was a trap for the unwary, that love was dangerous - and blind!

    Mischievous, teasing ... why, Nigel would say anything just to make her blush.Just returned from the wars, the duke was determined to act as Stacey's protector. But would he shield her from the jealousy of Madame DuBois, the beautiful widow whom he had once loved? And did he rove her still? A country lass, Stacey was quickly blossoming into a lady worthy of the London ton. How could she find a way to be more than a "little sister"? Who would help her if the one man meant to protect her had, without a thought, stolen her heart?

    But all too soon a near scandal obliged her to close the doors of her beloved bookshop and enter the private employ of His Grace, the Duke of Waldenspire. How could she spurn his too generous, timely offer? Why did she distrust him so? The dashing duke threatened her composure and her hard-won independence. She had lost her business, not her head. She couldn't afford to lose her heart!