Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores.

"London society has its very own Cupid. Renowned horse breeder and occasional matchmaker Devin Baldwin pairs eligible young ladies with suitable gentlemen based on his theory of animal magnetism. Amanda Locke, the daughter of a duke, is everything a nobleman could desire, yet she enters her third Season still searching for a match. When an earl passionate about horses becomes the target of her husband hunt, Amanda knows it's time to overcome her fear...

Happy with her quiet country life caring for her father and managing her brothers' house parties, beautiful Lenore Lester is determined to resist the advances of the rakish Jason Montgomery, the Duke of Eversleigh.

Trouble is no match for a lady of the extended Worthington family-except when it comes in the form of a most irresistible gentleman . . . Lady Charlotte Carpenter's brother-in-law has put an infamous brothel owner out of business-yet it is Charlotte who suffers the consequences. Abducted by thugs and held at an inn, she is plotting her escape when she's suddenly rescued by a dashing gentleman. Only afterward does she realize she's seen him before-with...

"International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son...

"It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the mysterious, almost hermetically sealed, and longest-running monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled at every turn. ... Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another...

When the new Duke of Hasford and the rebellious Lady Lavinia Capel are forced into a marriage of convenience after being caught in the most compromising position, they strike a bargain that soon makes their fake union all too real.

Forced to marry for money to save the family estate, the Earl of Balfour devises a strategy to win the heart of Genie Daniels, a rich English heiress, until he meets her poor cousin Augusta, forcing him to choose between family duty and love.

"Is it wrong for a woman to want more? Not if she is a Spinster Heiress. They do not settle. Any young miss would be very lucky to find herself promised to a man like the Duke of Camberly. However, Will Reverly has watched her friends marry for love. Camberly may be the prize of the season, but she will not be "sold" to any man. She wants his devotion or she wants nothing at all. When is a Marriage of Convenience inconvenient? Newly named to the ducal...

When Violet Griffin, the American heiress he married three years earlier, arrives in London, seeking an annulment to marry another, notorious rogue Rule Dewar discovers that he does not want to let her go and vows to win her love.