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Books 5 through 8 in the Marriage Maker series

One Good Gentleman by Summer Hanford

Emilia Glasbarr doesn’t want to be a country miss with a yard full of geese and a scant handful of neighbors. She wants the music, theater, and art found in Scotland’s capital city. She’s sunk her every resource into finishing school to find a city-dwelling husband. Unfortunately, the only man interested wants her for a far less savory purpose. Her virtue or her dreams … which must she abandon?

Shameless by Erin Rye

As the daughter of a well-known madam, Juliet Thatcher knows more about men than she cares to—which is why she has no intention of following in her mother’s footsteps. Juliet agrees to her mother’s request that she attend Lady Peddington’s School for Young Ladies to prepare her for life as a courtesan. She hopes that the school year will give her time to convince her mother to allow her to pursue a career as a dressmaker, instead.

When Lady Peddington extorts from Juliet a game of cards with notorious rake Duke Hamilton, Juliet knows there’s only one way to deal with a man like him: beat him at cards, then disappear.

Carrick Hamilton, the Duke of Hamilton, does not sustain long romances. But Sir Stirling James knows he simply hasn’t met a woman hot blooded enough to set his blood—and his heart—on fire. When Stirling challenges him to meet the woman Stirling swears he will marry, Carrick can’t resist the challenge.

Redemption of a Marquess by Tarah Scott

Valan Grey, the sixth Earl of Edmonds, the Marquess of Northington, has no wish to sire an heir. His three-year-old nephew will carry on the title. His fertile sister has already borne her husband another son and a daughter for good luck. The title is safe. So why marry?

Miss Jeanine Matheson has graduated from Lady Peddington’s School for Young Ladies. Only, Jeanine isn’t interested in finding a husband—at least, not a young, healthy husband. She aspires to become a businesswoman like Lady Peddington. All she needs is a very rich, very elderly gentleman to marry her and then, well … pass on to his reward.

A Marriage of Necessity by Tarah Scott

When Viscountess Kinsley’s father lost all but their home and then drank himself to death, creditors stood ready to seize what remained. Anne’s only hope of saving her family is to find a husband through Lady Peddington’s School for Young Ladies. Only, upon graduation, Anne finds herself the victim of jealous gossip that claims she seeks multiple lovers. Now no respectable man will have her.

Kennedy Douglas, Viscount Buchanan, has refused to marry—until his terminally ill father threatens to marry Kennedy’s younger sister to a known wife-beater unless Kennedy immediately weds and produces an heir. The man known as The Marriage Maker matches Kennedy with the ravishing Viscountess Kinsely, but time is running out. Kennedy’s father is declining rapidly, and he’s the only one who knows where Kennedy’s sister is being held against her will.

Books 1 through 4 in the Marriage Maker series

Worth of a Lady

No one guessed that an innocent would bring the Devil of Delny to his knees …

Spinster Chastity Hamilton is the Duke of Roxburgh’s heir. Her father insists she marry. She insists that the man who wins her hand must first find matches for her three younger sisters. Sir Stirling James takes up the challenge, and the sisters are shocked when he announces the engagement of their youngest sister to the Devil of Delny.

When Quin Ramsey’s surrogate brother Sir Stirling James informs him he is to wed the fourth daughter of a lesser duke, he refuses. But when he waltzes with the lovely innocent, he realizes that he wants no other man to waltz with her.

The Marriage Wager

He lost at cards, but won at love …

Buccaneer Frasier Gordon is lucky at cards, and keeps a woman in every port. But the stakes in a card game turn high when his old friend Sir Stirling James wagers the hand of a duke’s daughter against the fastest frigate in Scotland.

Who knew the turn of one card would change his fortune forever?

A Lady by Chance

He bargained for a lady, but the hoyden stole his heart …

Signing a wedding contract for the third daughter of a duke, sight unseen, is the first impulsive thing by-the-book Navy lieutenant Patrick Chalmers has ever done. When he arrives on his wedding day to claim his bride, he never dreams the beautiful woman walking down the aisle is the spitfire he saved from falling out of a tree.

How to Catch an Heiress

It takes cunning to catch an heiress … and a handsome face doesn’t hurt.

Tomorrow is Sir Stirling James’ wedding day. Stirling matched the Duke of Roxburgh’s three younger daughters with reputable men. His reward is the duke’s eldest daughter, Lady Chastity, the future duchess of Roxburgh. Now if he can only get the lady down the aisle and into his bed.

When Lady Chastity bargained with her father to marry the man who could match her sisters with suitable husbands in one month’s time, she didn’t believe such a man existed. But tomorrow, she is to wed the marriage maker.