Alina K Field – författare

She won't be forced into marriage to a nobleman's by-blow.Paulette Heardwyn rushes to visit her dying guardian, set on learning the truth about her father and the treasure he supposedly left her. But the only man with answers takes his secrets to the grave, leaving her penniless—unless she marries his illegitimate son.He won't be trapped into marriage by a father he's never known.With Napoleon vanquished, an ex-soldier has plans for India. But before he can leave England, he's summoned to the deathbed of an Earl who's a spymaster, a complete stranger...and his father. And the meddlesome Earl expects him to marry the daughter of one of his spies.Thrown together when an old enemy strikes, the would-be spouses soon realize: the Earl has set a trap that neither of them wants to resistPreviously titled The Bastard's Iberian Bride

Book 1 in The Upstart Christmas Brides Series The new Duke of Kinmarty has lost everyone who mattered and gained naught but a title, and debt, and an old pile of a castle. When a fetching new housekeeper appears on his doorstep frantic to ready the place for the Yuletide, he seizes the chance for a respite from grieving and pretends to be the new duke's estate factor. With her cousin's children due to arrive from India, a vicar's widow hides her identity and takes a position as housekeeper to their dreadful uncle, the man who years ago sabotaged her own chance for happiness. Overwhelmed by a castle understaffed and in disarray, she forges a bond with the new duke's charming but not very competent factor, not knowing that he's hiding something as well. When allies become lovers, each senses the truth may rip them apart. Can their love survive when she discovers he's the duke she despised? Previously part of the Winter Wishes Holiday Romance Anthology.

A Scottish Baron returning from two decades at war meets the daughter he denied was his, and the wife he divorced, only to learn that everything he'd believed to be true was a lie. What he can't deny is that she's the only woman he's ever loved. They're not the young lovers they once were, but when passion flares, it burns more hotly than ever it did in their youth. They soon discover, it wasn't fate that drove them apart, but a jealous enemy who played on his youthful arrogance and her vulnerability. Now that old enemy has resurfaced, more treacherous than ever.