My new series has begun release! The trilogy, titled "The Runaway Brides" details the adventures of three confirmed bachelors who find themselves to be the only possible fathers to a charming little toddler named Melody. Composed of equal parts big-eyed sweetness and appalling monkeyshines, Melody captures their hearts even as her presence forces each to visit the last place he wants to go . . . his past.
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The tale begins with DEVIL IN MY BED (Aug '09), the story of Aidan de Quincy, Earl of Blankenship, who must chase down the only woman he ever wanted--and the only one he couldn't have. Wary widow Madeleine Chandler isn't about to endanger her hard-won freedom, not even for a sensual lover like Aidan. However, a small lie intending to help her escape a sticky situation turns into a big complication when Madeleine allows Aidan to believe that she is, in fact, Melody's mother. When Aidan insists that she return secretly to his club to see Melody, he inadvertantly provides Madeleine with the very thing she needs the most--a hiding place that no one will ever suspect!
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In the following novel, ROGUE IN MY ARMS (Feb 2010), Sir Colin Lambert can only think of one woman who could possibly be Melody's mother. The lovely but fickle actress, Chantal Marchant, once had Colin wrapped about her little finger. Colin is more than willing to make an honest woman of Chantal--if only he could find her! Enter Prudence Filby, a young woman forced to hide her ladylike upbringing in order to find work as a seamstress in Chantal's theater. Hiring Pru to help Colin travel with Melody to find Chantal seems like the perfect idea--until Colin realizes that the woman he's chasing is no longer the woman he wants!
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In the third and final novel, SCOUNDREL OF MY DREAMS (Aug 2010), troubled Lord John Redgrave arrives home at last to find his friends have a surprise for him--he just might be a father! Like Aidan, Jack visits the only woman he ever loved, who vehemently denies any such thing, leaving him no further ideas--until he discovers that one dark and tempestuous night in the past, someone else may have taken her place in his bed! Once he finds quiet spinster Laurel Clarke, he must hold her captive until she tells him the truth. Was she the woman whose soft whispers and wanton touch still haunt his dreams to this day? Is she the mother of his child?
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