Wayward Dukes – författare

In a country far, far away…Lady Gwendolyn Beaumaris and her brother have been known as the Bernard twins since their father's death. Fearful that their grandfather, the Duke of Shackerley, would take her son, Gwen's mother relocates them in Boston where she had family. At nineteen, Gwen and her mother have been waiting to hear from her brother, who is trying to make his fortune in the timber trade. Down to their last pennies, a wealthy middle-aged merchant comes to the rescue with a marriage proposal for Miss Bernard.The brass ring is so close…Lord Wickton has worked tirelessly the past five years to bring honor back to the family name. His father's debts have been paid, and he is now returning the entailed estate to working order. When the viscount learns he is the heir presumptive to his great uncle's dukedom, it seems fortune is knocking at his door. But his honor and desire for family compels him to make one more attempt to find the heir apparent.A comedy of errors…When English investigators arrive with a letter announcing that Gwen's brother is the new Duke of Shackerley, mother and daughter come up with a desperate plan: Gwendolyn will impersonate her twin and assume the dukedom until her brother can be located. But their confidence soon dwindles when the sinfully handsome Wickton meets them at the dock, and Gwen is hopelessly smitten.A tale of love, deception, and the power of fate will entangle a desperate viscount with a daring female. Can he forgive her charade, or will he snuff out the burning passion that rages in her heart?A closed-door historical fiction set in Regency England and Boston after the Napoleonic Wars.

Be careful what you wish for; it may just come true. Miss Hannah Masterson is hopelessly on the shelf. Well past the first and second blooms of youth, and possessed of a curvaceous figure, she has grown weary of being bedeviled by her family about when she'll wed. At her thirtieth birthday dinner, she blurts out something she can't take back—the Duke of Steppingford has fallen madly in love with her and that they'll be married within the next few months. No one need know she's invented the bit of fiction. Giles Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Steppingford, has just returned to England from India. While reading the paper at breakfast, he spies an announcement telling the world of his engagement… to a woman fifteen years his junior he's never met. Wanting to know who dared to put forth such gammon, he vows to crash his engagement ball, being held in a day's time, and he will put Miss Masterson in her place with a dressing down she won't soon forget. However, the moment the duke sets eyes on his fake fiancée and hears her explanation for the bit of fiction, he sympathizes, but when he seals their fate with a kiss, everything changes. Now that Hannah's make-believe duke has suddenly materialized, he's keen to go along with the farce… and she isn't. Through a busy week of forced proximity, the pair discover they have more in common than they thought, but can a no-name miss truly land a duke? Only they can decide.