A Dangerous Beauty
Love : n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. —The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
A Courageous Outcast...
Rosamunde Baird has lost everything and has no choice but to accept an invitation to spend a season with a dowager duchess and her clandestine ladies club. Determined to stay in the shadows and live quietly, she has sworn never again to come face to face with adventure and temptation, two things that brought her ruin years ago. But then the Duke of Helston dangles before her the very things she craves most.
Lord Fire & Ice...
Mysterious Luc St. Aubyn has a much-deserved reputation for exuding blistering passion at night and frost the morning after. What demons drive this audacious war hero to hide secrets about the dowager's club and his devilish dictionary? When he's blindsided by his reactions to a virtuous siren, he has no choice but to reveal all during a scandal that will doom them...or save them, if only they dare to believe in love.
MY REVIEW: In "A Dangerous Beauty", by Sophia Nash, Rosamunde Baird defies convention and becomes an outcast from her family and the elite society set. Only her sister, Sylvia, remains by her side. Forced to choose a loveless marriage in order to provide a home for herself and her sister, Rosamunde endures years of marital misuse. Her husband, an icily cold clergyman, abuses her mentally and physically until at last she is freed by his death. She and her sister take refuge at the estate of a lively older widow, who has formed a "Widow's Club". The old woman's grandson, Luc, is the Duke of Helston, and the brother of a man once tainted by the same scandal as Rosamunde. Luc, a decided rake and nonconformist, is intrigued by the lovely Rosamunde. She is intelligent, athletic, and hopelessly compromised by a past injustice. Their spirited banter and verbal sparring have them both greatly aroused. Luc and Rosamunde begin an affair which does much to heal their wounded hearts, even though it appears they cannot have a future together. As the layers of hurt and misunderstanding are peeled away, secrets are revealed which forever change the lives of Rosamunde, Luc, and those they love.
The Kiss
Penrose, Cornwall—September 20th—To Do:
—invite the Dowager Duchess and the other ladies in the club to stay
—prepare for Quinn's arrival
—pretend you haven't loved him . . . forever
He had once been her cherished childhood companion, and then the man she lusted for in secret, but Georgiana Wilde hasn't seen recently widowed Quinn Fortesque since the day he married another woman and shattered her heart. Then fate intervenes and brings the man she dreams about each night back to her . . .
Returning to the estate on family business, Quinn would like nothing more than to turn the land over to Georgiana and leave the memories of his former life behind. But then the brooding marquis finds himself under the spell of the beauty he once left behind. With her barely concealed passions, Georgiana melts his coolly guarded heart. Suddenly his well-ordered world is in danger of crashing down. And it all began with just one kiss . . .
Only a man with a mysterious past could tempt the Countess from the Isle of Ice...
The Countess of Sheffield has given up on love. After her two dearest friends marry gentlemen originally destined to meet her at the altar, she can no longer maintain a serene façade with the other members of the secret widow's club. So she flees north—right into an unexpected snowstorm in the wilds of Yorkshire.
When her carriage crashes, Grace Sheffey does not realize the tall, rugged stranger who saves her life will tempt her to blossom into the woman she is destined to become—a lady willing to fight for her happiness. And sinfully handsome Michael Rainier, the orphaned son of a dissolute earl, with secrets to hide, challenges her courage and promises that happiness.
Secrets of a Scandalous Bride
Her first secret: She is not a widow.
Elizabeth Ashburton has never even married, and at this rate, she never will. But pretending to be a bereaved young wife was the only way she could escape her horrid fate—being forced to marry the man who destroyed her father.
Her second secret: She is not a prim young lady.
Her third secret: She's willing to risk all.
Elizabeth knows she is playing a dangerous game, for her dreaded suitor will not give her up without a fight. Now she needs Rowland more than ever—to rescue her from a life of desperation, to drive her wild with desire, and to make her his scandalous bride.
Sophia Nash
Whispering in French,
Sophia Nash’s first work of Women’s Fiction was published by William
Morrow/HarperCollins in August 2017 to critical acclaim. The American
Library Association’s review publication, Booklist, stated, ‘a literary
tour de force’ in its starred review. At present, Nash is developing a
novel set during WWI and WWII in France. The author of twelve additional
books, all Regency era Historicals , Nash’s works have garnered
fourteen national awards, including the prestigious RITA Award, and two
spots on Booklist’s "Top Ten Romances of the Year." Her books are
translated and published in almost a dozen countries.
Before
pursuing a writing career, Nash was an award-winning US television
producer for a CBS affiliate, and an international television producer
in Washington/Paris/London/Geneva/Moscow. She produced the first ever
live, interactive broadcasts from Moscow to numerous points in the
western world during the 1980s. She was also a congressional speech
writer, USIA/State Dept. Congressional Liaison, and CEO of an
international Olympic-qualifier sporting event--a nonprofit organization benefiting children’s charities. She attended UCLA and received a
Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Miami. Born
in Switzerland, a citizen of both America and France, Nash is fluent in
French and English. Currently, she lives in the Washington, DC area.
https://www.sophianash.com/
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