Alanna Lucas – författare

Tessa Pearson had it all, but when a drunk driver killed all she held dear, she found herself alone in the world. Wanting nothing more than to escape the constant pain of the past two years, she starts a new life in a quiet seaside town, opening an all-romance bookstore. However, delays and challenges, not to mention the property owner's suspicious—yet far too handsome—grandson, threaten to destroy her dream and the peace she's been craving.After three years of hiding the truth of his failed marriage, Rex Kingston decides it's time to return to his hometown and to his grandmother—the only woman he's ever trusted. However, when Rex arrives in Devlin, he discovers his grandmother has let a woman a fraction of her age live in her house and use the converted carriage house for a bookstore. He immediately suspects Tessa is taking advantage of his grandmother's generosity. However, he soon realizes there is much more to the stubbornly sweet, determined woman than meets the eye.But just as Tessa opens her heart to Rex, his ex-wife shows up with shocking news that threatens to destroy their newfound love.

A Regency-set NovellaForced to Marry the Man She Danced with Only Once! Miss Arabella Gledhill's lonely upbringing has left her timid and ill-prepared to shine during her first season. But at four and twenty, her scheming aunt and uncle want her off their hands, pressing her to accept the first marriage proposal proffered. It's not the way Arabella dreamed it—what chance has she of finding a good, kind man who'll offer her heart's desire?Liam, Lord Kenwreck, has grown weary of his life of licentiousness, although he's in no rush to wear the parson's noose, despite the efforts of his mother and sister to find him a suitable match.  So how is that, by the end of the season's first ball, he's kissed Miss Gledhill in front of the ton and now they're to wed?  This hasty union is not what Liam imagined, especially when he vowed never to bring dishonour on his family like his cruel blackguard of a father. But married he must be, to this beautiful bride Town gossips have branded the Forgotten Heiress. Who has no experience of the world, let alone a man of the world such as he…

Her wild ways tamed, Catherine Earnshaw has launched into London society. Only none of her marriage-mart suitors excite her because her heart still lies with another; whatever happened to Heathcliff, her childhood soulmate? Markus Bell left Yorkshire to find his true identity and turn a fortune. Now the talk of the ton, he has Catherine in his sights, not to woo her but to seek revenge; he can't forgive how she spurned him. Catherine is puzzled where the gossip dogging her through the season comes from. Until she meets Markus, who's as dark and devilishly handsome as her Heathcliff, and her world is turned upside down. Markus is her Heathcliff, she's sure of it, just as she suspects he's behind the rumors. What is she to do when her reputation is almost in tatters, yet her love for him is as strong as it ever was when they roamed the moors together all those years ago?

After Antonia Madeley's mother died, she learned just how heartless her father could be. Not caring for his daughter's grief, Lord Madeley forbade her to play her beloved violin, and then remarried with indecent haste to a woman who made it plain she'd rather Antonia wasn't there. The engagement that'd been arranged between Antonia and Dracon, Lord Trawden, offered no escape. Dracon was clearly still in love with his late wife, Catherine. Facing a life of always being second best, Antonia ran away. Five years on, Antonia receives the news her father is gravely ill. Perhaps the time has come to make amends and go to his bedside. However, traveling in inclement weather and on treacherous roads, her carriage is involved in a terrible accident, and when she regains consciousness, she's being cared for at Lionshead, Dracon's family seat! The feelings she has for Dracon haven't dimmed, but she has no reason to believe he's stopped loving Catherine either. With Christmas only a few days away, will Antonia be forced to endure yet another bleak midwinter, or is it possible that a yuletide miracle will gladden her lonely heart?

Grace Banks is much looking forward to her first Christmas at the Home for Desolate Ladies. As its proprietress, she is keen to bring comfort and joy to the gentlewomen who have taken refuge there, and also enjoy the festivities herself.  However, the sudden arrival of a visitor threatens her plans, for she and he are not strangers. Edward, Duke of Tavistock, is searching for his young cousin. Winifred went missing after departing Bath under a cloud of gossip, and there is reason to believe she is currently residing at the Home. But he also has another motivation for visiting: Grace, the woman he loved and mysteriously lost, before learning she had married someone else. Edward wants answers, but Grace is not sure she can bear raking over the past. He appears to believe she forsook him for another, when it was news of his engagement to a young heiress that sent her running. That, and a secret she feels she may never be able to share…Can the spirit of Christmas and love from the past, heal the present, and bring a happy future?

Forced to leave the family home a fortnight before Christmas! While her employer and friend lay dying, Emme promised Mirabel Youngwin that her five young daughters would stay together, vowing to herself she would never be parted from them either.  Now, two years later, the children's father has also passed. Thrown out of the family home, Emme must find somewhere for her and her charges to stay until their new guardian arrives—when they will most likely be taken to start a new life without her. With Christmas quickly approaching, and nowhere else to turn to, she heads to the Home for Desolate Ladies, to take refuge there and work out how she can prevent herself from being separated from her beloved girls. Stranded on a roadside after their carriage breaks down, Emme is grateful when a gentleman stops to help. Lord Luke Parker is handsome, kind, and good with the children, and she can't help being drawn to him. So when Luke arrives at the Home a few days before Christmas to announce that he's been appointed as the sisters' guardian, she's presented with a heartrending dilemma. How can she persuade Luke not to dismiss her—and if she succeeds, stop herself from falling for him even more deeply?

After years of being treated as a little more than a servant, Portia Lamont overhears her half-siblings plotting to send her to Town and marry her off. Since she has a paltry dowry and little else to offer a prospective husband, she wonders if she'll even find a half-decent match, someone who'll share her love of intellectual pursuits. Titus Beaumont, Lord Ravensworth, is an unwilling participant in this year's Season. All his adult life, he's managed to avoid marriage, becoming a seasoned rake because he dares not risk his heart again. However, at his aunt's insistence, he must attend for his cousin's entrance into Society. In the ton's hectic marriage mart, Portia is considered a wallflower, an experience made even more vexing when she catches sight of Titus, her beloved childhood companion—the boy who once told her, I will always be your friend, no matter what happens. But when she was sent away after her father's death, she never heard from him again. And time, a ruthless master, has not improved her circumstances. It seems he still wants nothing to do with her. Except at a masquerade, when he doesn't recognize her behind her mask and kisses her… Sometimes the best revenge is just being yourself.

Take A Waltz with Destiny to discover the everlasting allure and sensuality of the waltz.  Face to FaceA masquerade, a chance meeting, and a kidnapping. Little did Miss Penelope Ashurst realize that breaking the rules would result in the adventure—and love—of a lifetime. When We DanceNigel Rochefort succeeds at everything he attempts, but burying his family in scandal and breaking up a wedding while seducing the bride is not quite what he had in mind. Nor was finding true love.Mistletoe WaltzMarcus vowed never to fall in love. Therefore, his solution for dealing with his unwanted wife is to keep her at his country estate, while he stays in London. But when he returns at Christmastime, he's surprised to find that Faith revels in her role, that she's sweet and lovely—and he desires her.Dancing Around the TruthPhilippa thought she'd found happiness, but two years later, she's a widow. When she's paid a visit by a woman claiming to be her late husband's wife, Philippa emerges from mourning to discover the truth.Weston has made a name for himself conducting investigations. When Philippa arrives on his doorstep, begging for his assistance, Weston fears most of all that she will discover the truth.Wish Upon a WaltzAnastasia has resigned herself to live in quiet seclusion, but one lost wager soon requires her return to the society from which she hides.Can one night, one waltz rekindle what was once thought lost forever?Waltzing with the EarlCan an eternally clumsy wallflower break the curse that has weighed down Lord Trevena's family for generations or is calamity about to strike again?