Gayle Wilson – författare

Set in Regency England, this beautifully packaged continuity sweeps you from glittering ballrooms, to a smuggler's cove in Cornwall, to the wilds of Scotland, a Romany camp, and back again.

Soldier Rhys Morgan is back home in England and in the market for a bride. But battle-scarred and jaded from the Peninsula wars, the simpering debutantes on the Marriage Mart don’t seem able to rouse his interest – let alone fire his blood. . . Dark-haired, dark-eyed Romany beauty Nadya Argentari, has a strength and passion to match his own.If he took her as his mistress, no one would blink an eye. But what if Honourable Major Rhys Morgan were to marry her. . .

Includes: A Reputable RakeCyprian Sloane, gambler, smuggler, rake and spy, faced the greatest challenge of all – respectability. Proper Miss Morgana Hart had embroiled herself in the affairs of ladies of the night and a scandal was brewing. The rakish adventurer must find a way to save them both from Society’s scorn!Includes: The Venetian’s MistressWhen the Duke of Severin visits, there’s danger in the air. What secrets lie behind a series of attacks on the noble lord? The beautiful Cecily Renato is also in danger – most especially from her feelings for the darkly alluring Duke.

Christmas at Mulberry Hall Spending Christmas alone with his unconventional ward pushes the boundaries of propriety – and self-control – too far for Lord Gideon Grayson. So he takes delectably pure Amelia Ashford to Mulberry Hall – but that pesky mistletoe is still all around… The Soldier’s Christmas Miracle Wounded soldier Guy Wakefield has finally found the woman who saved his life. Isabella Stowe accepts his gratitude, but it will take more than a Christmas kiss to convince this world-weary widow to accept his proposal… Snowbound and Seduced Mary Bassington, Lady Derrington, longs to be the carefree woman she once was. But she gets more than she bargained for this Christmas when she’s snowbound with old flame Dominick, Viscount Amesby, who reignites her passion for life – and love!

A year after the death of her husband, Blythe Wyndham moves with her four-year-old daughter, Maddie, back to the small town where she grew up. But soon after they move in to their new home, strange things begin to happen. Maddie has disturbingly intense nightmares—so intense that Blythe fears one night she may not be able to awaken her daughter. A psychologist explains that Maddie's dreams are simply the result of her father's death, but Blythe knows something else is wrong. Because she's also heard the ghostly tapping at her daughter's window….Convinced the house is haunted, Blythe researches the town's history and discovers that a little girl had been brutally murdered in the area twenty-five years ago. Could there be some connection between this dead child and Maddie? With the help of Sheriff Cade Jackson, Blythe tries to separate past horrors from present dangers and struggles to distinguish the real from the imagined. But someone is clearly determined to keep a secret—and will kill again to do so.

Lindsey Sloan teaches the best and brightest students at Randolph-Lowen High School–exceptional teens with promising futures far from their small Alabama hometown. So when brash detective Jace Nolan arrives from up north and accuses her kids of setting a series of fires in local black churches, Lindsey is furious. No matter how Jace tries to convince her, Lindsey can't believe her pupils could do something so horrible, let alone be addicted to the rush of getting away with it.But when her attraction to Jace places her in mortal danger and people begin dying, Lindsey can no longer be sure just what her students are capable of. If Jace is right, it's up to the two of them to outsmart these criminal minds–before they carry out the ultimate thrill-kill.

A Scandalous Arrangement American merchant John Raven had stolen the toast of the London season out from under ton's very nose! He had offered the lovely Lady Catherine Montfort freedom in exchange for marriage and she'd accepted – despite her father's assertion he'd rather see the interloping colonial dead than wed to his daughter!Catherine had expected nothing from Raven, but her enigmatic and seductive husband-in-name-only made her wish for a real wedding night. He'd married her for convenience's sake, but she feared he'd gotten more than he'd bargained for – had she, by accepting his hand, put Raven in grave danger?

Mary Winters Harbored A Secret Deep Within Her Heart She'd borne the duke of Vail a child and was determined that no one – not even the noble love of her life himself – would ever uncover the truth. Afire with the passion of youth, Nick Stanton had lain with Mary Winters.Now, scarred by warfare in mind and body, he feared he'd be no fit husband to his beloved – or father to the son now claimed by another man, a man whose one desire was to wreak vengeance on them all!

MISSION PROFILETHE AGENT: Michael WellesleyHIS MOTTO: "e;Trust no one."e;VITAL STATS: 6'3'; sea-blue eyes; tall, dark and deadlyTHE ASSIGNMENT: Undercover cowboyTHE COMPLICATION: Nicola CarsonConfidential agent Michael Wellesley had his mission to infiltrate a powerful senator's ranch under control until he unmasked one sweetly sexy impostor! Nicola Carson's brilliant disguise as a boyish ranch hand couldn't hide her femininity from Michael's razor-sharp senses. She claimed the senator wanted her dead, and she was hiding in plain sight to find out why. Taking on an inexperienced partner wasn't in Michael's plan, but with Nicola's precious life in his hands, the maverick agent realized the time had come to improvise .

Justin Tolbert was a war hero and the new Earl of Wynfield, but he was not the same man Lady Sarah Spense once knew….Suddenly, too vividly, Sarah remembered the night he had first asked her to dance. The London ballroom had been overcrowded, its heat stifling. Justin had been wearing his uniform, the handsome regimentals setting off the perfection of his strong body and his still-boyish face. She had thought then that there was no man more handsome in the room. She had stepped willingly into his arms, and when the music had begun, she had drifted, following his lead. They had moved together without conscious thought. As if the two of them had been created to dance together….Would they ever do that again…?Don''t miss Gayle Wilson''s extraordinary tale!

10th ANNIVERSARYWithout honor, there is nothing…So Kit Montgomery, Lord St. John, had been taught since the cradle, yet his soul whispered there was something more. Something that made him long to look into the haunted depths of Judith Haviland''s gaze and offer comfort, long before he had the right….Though he had comforted Judith in the darkest hours of her late husband''s abuse, Lord St. John''s kind regard had never once gone beyond the bounds of friendship. Even now, his offer of marriage was meant only to preserve her honor. Yet could she marry him to stop the rumors that only told the truth of what was in her heart?

He''d forgotten so muchUndercover agent Nick Deandro lost more than his vision when a shotgun blast shattered his life. Only he and the woman he loved knew the promises they''d just made: rings, babies, mortgages. Now he''d forgotten them all. Her name, her face…all but her touch.And he''d never known about the childAbby Sterling needed a rest. They promised her watching Nick would be just that—a safe job. But not for Abby. Because how could she protect Nick, stand close, when between them lay all that he''d forgotten? Every kiss. Every promise…and her growing secret.

A Scandalous ArrangementAmerican merchant John Raven had stolen the toast of the London season out from under ton''s very nose! He had offered the lovely Lady Catherine Montfort freedom in exchange for marriage and she''d accepted—despite her father''s assertion he''d rather see the interloping colonial dead than wed to his daughter!Catherine had expected nothing from Raven, but her enigmatic and seductive husband-in-name-only made her wish for a real wedding night. He''d married her for convenience''s sake, but she feared he''d gotten more than he''d bargained for—had she, by accepting his hand, put Raven in grave danger?

Mary Winters Harbored A Secret Deep Within Her HeartShe''d borne the duke of Vail a child and was determined that no one—not even the noble love of her life himself—would ever uncover the truth.Afire with the passion of youth, Nick Stanton had lain with Mary Winters. Now, scarred by warfare in mind and body, he feared he''d be no fit husband to his beloved—or father to the son now claimed by another man, a man whose one desire was to wreak vengeance on them all!

He was a man of mystery…Judge Thorne Barrington was a survivor…the only living victim of serial bomber Jack the Tripper. He''d even survived Jack''s real curse—advance warning of bombings he could not prevent. But survival had its price. Once the darling of debutantes and the crowned prince of the society pages, Barrington had vanished from the public eye.Driven by a need she told herself was professional curiosity, Kate August delved into the mystery of Thorne Barrington. But for reasons more elusive—and far more personal—she followed him into the darkness, determined to find the heart of the mystery…and the man.

A MAN IN THE SHADOWSEx-CIA operative Grey Sellers had settled into a quiet, anonymous life. No secrets, no bullets, no nightmares…just the way he wanted it. Until he was hired to protect reluctant heiress Valerie Beaufort from a killer. He'd sworn not to get emotionally attached to the assignment—but Valerie was so much more than that….Valerie hadn't wanted a bodyguard, even one as sexy as Grey Sellers. But with him, Valerie finally felt like a woman—a woman willing to let a man into her heart. Yet Grey's secrets were deep and his past even deeper. Would she discover the man he truly was—before it was too late?

Men with secret identites and hidden agendas—sworn to protect…and tamed by love.HE COULDN''T REMEMBERHow could he forget a past as a hardened CIA agent—or a partner as alluring as Paige Daniels? She could help him remember who he had been, why their lives were suddenly in danger and why, if they''d only been partners, he wanted her so much….SHE COULDN''T FORGETJoshua Stone. After three long years of believing him dead, seeing him stole her breath away. They''d been partners and, for one magical night, lovers. Paige had loved and lost him once—did she dare risk her heart again…to a man whose body obviously remembered her, but whose mind did not?

Valentine Sinclair, the Earl of Dare, was an enigma, even to those who professed to know him well. For while his morals seemed suspect and his leisure pursuits as reckless as any of his well-heeled peers'', there was something lurking beneath the facade of good looks, wit and charm that he so skillfully hid behind.Or so it had seemed, until the night Dare wagered a small fortune for a French gambler''s English mistress, and won. Now, with the stunning widow installed at his town house, even the Matchmaking Mamas of the ton were doubting that the Earl of Dare would ever recover his good name, for it appeared that the infamous Mrs. Carstairs was destined to become a Sinclair Bride.

Major Ian Sinclair knew firsthand that war made men do strange things. But to be named guardian of the daughter of the man responsible for ending his career—and very nearly his life?—was beyond the Pale. Yet now Anne Darlington was his responsibility, and he found himself longing for a future he'd thought he no longer believed in…Cloistered in a remote boarding school,Anne Darlington had grown up never knowing any other life. Until fate thrust her into the strong arms of Ian Sinclair, a tortured nobleman whose secret connection to her father threatened her unspoken dream that Ian would someday return her love…and become her perfect husband.

Sebastian Sinclair mirrored his notable brothers in every way, even when it came to pursuing an intense, impossible love. Surely the flame in his heart could be nothing else, for it drove him to rescue a brave and beautiful Spanish noblewoman—held prisoner to another man's dangerous desires!Doña Pilar tasted the sweetness of the epithet upon her lips and knew she'd named Sebastian Sinclair well. For the fearless Englishman had dared to snatch her from the grip of monstrous evil, had wed her to preserve her honor and had now become Her Dearest Sin.…

HE WOULD NEVER FORGET… The destruction of the U.S. embassy in Amsterdam had left ex-CIA operative Rafe Sinclair with flashbacks of the unspeakable horrors he'd witnessed that night, and forced him to abandon the job he'd dedicated his life to. His only consolation had been that the terrorist behind the attack was dead–killed by Rafe's own hand.Now, six years later, someone was trying to convince Rafe that the terrorist was alive. And that someone was targeting the one person who could draw Rafe Sinclair back into the game–Elizabeth Richards. Elizabeth and Rafe had once been partners and lovers, and he would give up everything to keep her safe–everything. And it looked as though, this time, that was exactly what it was going to take!

MISSION PROFILETHE AGENT: Michael WellesleyHIS MOTTO: "Trust no one."VITAL STATS: 6'3''; sea-blue eyes; tall, dark and deadlyTHE ASSIGNMENT: Undercover cowboyTHE COMPLICATION: Nicola Carson Confidential agent Michael Wellesley had his mission to infiltrate a powerful senator's ranch under control–until he unmasked one sweetly sexy impostor! Nicola Carson's brilliant disguise as a boyish ranch hand couldn't hide her femininity from Michael's razor-sharp senses. She claimed the senator wanted her dead, and she was hiding in plain sight to find out why. Taking on an inexperienced partner wasn't in Michael's plan, but with Nicola's precious life in his hands, the maverick agent realized the time had come to improvise….

SECRETS UNVEILED For the past six months, hardened Phoenix agent Ethan Snow had been pursuing a powerful secret organization with ties to terrorism. At a dead end, he sought help from Raine McAllister, a sculptor who'd worked with the CIA as a special profiler. Though skeptical of Raine's so-called gift, Ethan couldn't deny the immediate attraction between them.Unknown to either of them, the mystery Ethan and Raine were attempting to unravel had its roots in Raine's repressed childhood memory of a brutal murder. Now, as they stirred waters long still, they found themselves plunged headfirst into danger. Would they uncover the horrors of Raine's past in time, or would the killer's next strike be fatal?

SHE WAS IN THE WORST KIND OF TROUBLE… Kidnapped by marauding tribesmen when her helicopter went down outside Kabul, tough-skinned CIA operative Grace Chancellor had little choice but to entrust her life to the only man she'd ever loved–and lost.Years earlier, tough-as-nails special agent Landon James made a harsh choice: duty over personal life. Now, he was single-handedly going in to rescue Grace and prove how wrong he was. As Landon and Grace fled through the mountains, faced with heat, thirst and gunfire, would old wounds reopen and turn them into permanent strangers–or would old desires be reignited?

PLAYING BODYGUARD TO A SPOILED HEIRESS HAD BECOME A DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT Phoenix Brotherhood agent John Edmonds's job was on the line. He had one last chance to prove he was a team player. His mission: go undercover and keep Kelly Lockett, heir to a charitable foundation with suspected involvement in terrorism, under surveillance. Kelly's brother had recently been killed in a suspicious "accident," and it appeared that whoever had murdered him was now after Kelly. Between John's unexpected attraction for the beautiful heiress and the attempts on her life, the operation was quickly becoming more than the simple surveillance job John had anticipated. And as the desperate struggle for their lives began, could John and Kelly unravel the truth before time ran out…?

A wounded warrior was facing the toughest mission of his life The battlefield had taught Jake Underwood just how much could be lost in a single moment. So when he returned home, scarred and grieving for those he'd left behind, the last thing he needed was to be responsible for another person's life. Especially that of a missing little girl. But one look in police chief Eden Reddick's tear-fi lled eyes and Jake couldn't help but feel her frustration…and share her pain. Jake knew Eden was grateful for whatever investigative skills he could offer– until he uncovered a connection to her mysterious past. Now, as a heartbreaking case turned even more personal when Eden became a target, Jake realized that all he'd lost in his past was nothing compared with just how much he had to lose now…

It had always been Mac and JennyTheir marriage had been forged by shared dreams–raising babies on their Texas ranch–and shared troubles–those haunting Mac, the town sheriff. But they'd never doubted they'd be together. Then Mac was killed.But five long years later, when new rumblings of an old problem stir along the border, into town rides Matt Dawson. His rugged face and gentle hands reach a place in Jenny only Mac knew. Who is this man, and why does something in Jenny welcome him home?

Isabella Trueblood made history reuniting people torn apart by war and an epidemic. Now, generations later, Lily and Dylan Garrett carry on her work with their agency, Finders Keepers. Circumstances may have changed, but the goal remains the same. Lost His first love. Mark Peterson had never gotten over Jillian Salvini's desertion ten years ago. She and her family had left in the middle of the night. Mark's heart hadn't recovered. Now that she was back, was a second chance possible? Found Her son's father. When Jillian and her son, Drew, reclaimed her family's Panhandle homestead, she'd never expected there would still be a Peterson in residence next door. Of course, she'd never expected her ranch to be sabotaged. Or to find out what had terrified and made enemies of her father and Mark's so long ago. Finders Keepers: bringing families together

Without a Past Caroline Evans knew that she would never have memories to fill the blankness of her past. Something had happened to her, she'd been told, something so terrible her mind refused to remember. Without a Future Nine years ago, Julien Gerrard lost his wife and his sight in one explosive instant. Now into his carefully controlled world walked Caroline Evans, whose every touch, whisper and footstep brought back echoes of the memories he'd tried so hard to put behind him. Now that he'd finally reconciled himself to the loss of his wife…had she returned?