The award-winning author of Lysette delivers a "well-crafted tale" of Western romance "that will both inspire and pull at your heartstrings" (RT Book Reviews). Seeking to ease her ailing father's mind in his final days, Callie Southgate agrees to marry a mail-order groom coming to Colorado from back east. When she first meets her husband-to-be, she cannot help being timid around the handsome, mysterious man. But when they marry, Callie finds a passion she never knew in his embrace. Con-man and bank robber Jace Greer is given the perfect opportunity to start over when a stagecoach carrying a mail-order groom is ambushed, leaving Callie's future husband dead. Taking on the deceased man's identity as his own, Jace continues to the Southgate home with the hope of leaving his sinister past behind him. But as true love blooms between Jace and Callie, secrets Jace tried to keep buried begin to surface, threatening their...

Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale. —RT BOOK REVIEWSLysette, the Marquise de Ferrance, is left penniless after her husband dies. With nowhere else to turn, she ventures across the turbulent French countryside to the safety of her brother's home. But when she meets Andre, Comte du Crillon, her plans change. She cares not that he's married; using her beauty as her weapon, she sets out to seduce him.But little does she know, there's another man in her midst, waiting for the perfect time to take her for himself. It is in his arms that Lysette is destined to find that true love and sanctuary she seeks.

"[A] powerful romance brimming over with intense emotions and dark passions. Readers will be captivated from first page to last." —RT BOOK REVIEWSAllegra Baniard is an independent young woman who lives for only one thing—revenge. Her family had been branded traitors and banished from Shropshire. After eight years, she returns incognito to the ancestral home of her once-noble family, vowing to avenge her family. But when she meets Greyston Morgan, the new owner of Baniard Hall, he ignites desires inside of her that burn as hot as her fiery rage.Caught between her own love and hatred, Allegra must decide whether to destroy Grey, or surrender to the flame of passion between them.

"Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale." —RT BOOK REVIEWSUnable to deny the attraction that simmers between them, Delphine and Andre fell willingly into one another's arms on their long journey from Canada to France. But after an impassioned night, come morning, the ship has docked, Delphine wakes alone, and Andre has fled.Scorned, Delphine soon finds herself determined to avenge her broken heart. But a love that will not be denied soon gets in the way of her journey to vengeance.

A duke sets out to seduce an utterly uncouth lady in this historical romance by a RITA finalist . . . The year is 1725. Lady Gloriana Baniard is a beautiful fish out of water. Brought up on the mean streets of London, she is a brash, blunt, obscene force of nature. But thanks to a brief marriage to a disgraced aristocrat, she is forced to live with his noble family and endure the humiliating process of learning proper ladylike behavior. Rebelling, she runs away to Yorkshire, where she intends to be a blacksmith, a skill at which she excels. She knows she'll need a manservant to front for her. When John Thorne appears, she hires him, stirred as much by his irresistible attraction as by his strength. John Haviland, Duke of Thorneleigh, is an arrogant, indolent gambler and womanizer. Having seen Gloriana just once, he yearns to make her his own. When he learns she has run away from her family, he makes a wild bet with his wastrel...

"Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale." —RT BOOK REVIEWSBorn the illegitimate daughter of a great French nobleman, Ninon knew only a harsh life of cruelty and hardship. It wasn't until the dashing Count of Froissart, Philippe, whisked her off to a different world did she begin to have hope for a better future.But she soon learns her new life isn't void of misfortune. A slave to both his powerful title and an unbreakable marriage vow, Philippe's love remains just beyond Ninon's reach. Could she dare give her heart to the handsome and cunning rogue, Valentin, instead?

"Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale." —RT BOOK REVIEWSArmed with only a disguise and her wavering courage, Marielle Saint-Juste goes on a perilous mission to free her brother from unjust captivity. But when she enters the prison of Louis XIII, it isn't her wounded brother she finds, but a mysterious stranger—and her destiny.In this French dungeon, a love illuminates the darkest shadows in two hearts. Marielle will not only face her deepest fears, but change her life forever.