Anne Knight – författare

After a lonely marriage and staid widowhood, Violet Fairplace Lloyd jumps at the opportunity to explore the world by escorting her friend's daughter home from finishing school in Switzerland.Jakob Sutton-Curtis has a secret. By day he's a mountain-climbing tour guide for a British travel company. By night he's a spy for the British crown, who blackmailed him into espionage. But with his cover blown, Jakob's on the run. Wounded, Jakob hides inside a trunk bound for England.When Violet discovers a bleeding man in her trunk, she nearly calls the police. Until the spies chase her, too. While hiding from Prussian spies on the frantic train journey from Geneva to London, Violet learns that happiness could be found in this tour-guide-turned-spy. And Jakob realizes that the feeling he's always searched for on mountaintops might be found in Violet instead.

A Christmas novella about what happens when your brother's best friend discovers you're not just a widow but part of an illegal conspiracy fighting the aristocracy.She's fighting for her cause...After the men left to fight Napoleon, Meredith Smith joined the Luddite cause to protest millowners' inhumane treatment of textile workers. Parliament recently made the protests not only illegal but a capital offense, so she must hide her work. She never expected her brother's commanding officer to appear at her home for Christmas. Especially when she's planning the biggest Luddite uprising of the season.He wants peace.Lord Noel Frost returned from war, aching for rest. But when he receives a letter from his best friend and fellow former officer about unrest in Yorkshire, he travels to see if he can help---and finally meet his best friend's sister, who despite being a stranger, wrote him letters that brought him hope while healing from his wounds.Noel falls in love with passionate, kind, working-class Meredith. And despite Meredith's focus for the cause---and not being arrested---she is wooed by his loyalty to her brother, desire to protect her, and support for reform despite stark class differences. Duty to their families and desire for one another clash as the tension between the two heats. When a Luddite protest goes too far, resulting in fire and death, will they find a way to stand together?

A Christmas novella about how a mistaken identity forces two strangers to realize that love can bloom` from a marriage of inconvenience and social ruin.Sir Dennis Fairplace, knighted war hero of Crimea, has had enough of England and family. Overwhelmed by Christmas Day celebrations, he flees his family's home to board a train northward, but a run-in with brawlers interrupts his plans.Blanche Badnarrow, cloistered ward of her uncle, the cruel Bishop Badnarrow, secretly plans to elope with her lover to Scotland. But at the last minute, he abandons her at the station. That leaves the bishop determined to make someone—anyone—wed his "e;ruined"e; niece.Enter Dennis, who stumbles into the bishop's private rail car while trying to avoid a brawl, and finds himself a captive bridegroom.Blanche and Dennis must escape their prison before her uncle grows tired of their reluctance to wed and throws Dennis from the moving train. As they plot their getaway, the couple begin to wonder—would marriage to one another be so bad after all?