Jayne Fresina: 29 books

When the estranged sons of wealthy eccentric Randolph Blackwood return home for his funeral and discover he has left them a private collection of three amateur oil paintings, they have no idea how this simple bequest will change their lives. The notorious Blackwood brothers are not known for their...

Praise for The Most Improper Miss Sophie Valentine: "Fresina shows a decidedly humorous, as well as sensual, side that is sure to enchant readers...A true charmer of a read. " —RT Book Reviews WHEN A SCANDALOUS LADY... By night Ellie Vyne fleeces unsuspecting aristocrats as the dashing...

"Well, he had brought this being to life. It was up to him now to teach the child how to live. Fortunately, he knew something about survival. But he could not coddle the child when it cried. That he could not do, for he had no knowledge of how. As if the babe knew this, its wailing petered out....

Praise for The Wicked Wedding of Miss Ellie Vyne: "[The characters] banter and quibble with comic perfection."—Publishers Weekly "Wickedly funny, fast and sassy romance."—RT Book Reviews She Designs Dresses for London's Leading Ladies Molly Robbins...

Praise for The Most Improper Miss Sophie Valentine: "Eminently witty."—Publishers Weekly "A unique historical romance."—Booklist When a Perfectly Proper Lady... Lady Mercy Danforthe always has a plan. It's what makes her such a successful matchmaker, and...

He's nice. He's the eldest son of Victorian England's most notorious rogue, but Storm Deverell just wants to keep life simple. Unlike the other members of his wild tribe, he steers clear of scandal and leads an honest, hard-working existence on a Cornish farm. Of course, it hasn't always...

Venetia Warboys, by most accounts, a mild-mannered, generous, church-going woman, had reached her thirty-fifth year with little out of the ordinary happening in her life. Until she decided, one evening, to rise from her neatly-laid dinner table, fetch an axe from the woodshed, chop her husband into...

Olivia Monday, an impoverished widow, has taken a position as "secretary" to an eccentric, scandalous rake - a divorced man with a brood of eight children and at least two gun-shot wounds. For one year, against the advice of her remaining family members, she agrees to live in his remote...

Lancelot Upstanding Collyer has been the Earl of Swafford's bodyguard for ten years. He's loyal, ruthless and devoted to his post. He's never failed a single mission in his career, and never been distracted by a woman. But he's about to be tested beyond even his stalwart endurance. Lady Catherine...

"We're not going to get along, you and I, are we?" "Good god, I hope not." Thus begins the acquaintance of Damon Deverell and a young woman he finds under his feet one evening, at a ball to which he isn't invited. She reminds him instantly of someone he knew before,...

A struggling would-be writer who can't seem to get her life together, Grace avoids daily frustrations by disappearing into the pages of her book. There the characters she's created have become so real to her that she can no longer believe they're fictional. After all, she's lived with them since she...

"[An] amusing and self-aware retread of Pride and Prejudice... [a] witty romp."—Publishers Weekly The Perfect Hero When handsome, mysterious Darius Wainwright strolls into town, the Book Club Belles are instantly smitten with this brooding good looks and prideful demeanor....

HOW TO RESCUE A RAKE: Reject his marriage proposal Nathaniel Sherringham has returned to Hawcombe Prior a changed man. Gone is the reckless rake who went out on a limb to propose to Diana Makepiece three years ago. Now Nate's mysterious new wealth has the town's rumor mill spinning. To stir...