Andrea K.Stein

Two people determined to marry anyone but each other

She must marry to save her inheritance…

Sophie Brancelli, the orphaned, illegitimate child of a duke’s daughter, must ensure her marriage to a suitable gentleman of the ton before her twenty-first birthday, or she’ll be destitute. Her grandmother, the duchess, provided her with a huge inheritance, but with strings attached.

He needs the right marriage to climb the ranks…

Captain Arnaud Bellingham intends to ascend the ranks of the Royal Navy with a loveless marriage of convenience. But those plans go awry when he rescues a madcap Italian poetess from kidnappers – a Miss Sophie Brancelli.

Will pride of honor lead to love?

Once Sophie gets used to the idea of Arnaud being there every time she looks up, it's hard to think of him sailing away.
Once Arnaud realizes someone means to harm Sophie to keep her from inheriting, he can't abandon her. Although he comes to realize making her his own would protect her from harm, how can he then sail away from her love to patrol the treacherous waters off West Africa?

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Willa Morton leads a life fraught with secrets. She’s lived the last ten years of her life as “Wills,” physician’s assistant to her Royal Navy surgeon father. Their subterfuge works well until he collapses and dies from a heart attack. Her days as a woman living free as a man are numbered.

When his father’s political clout lands him on a ship of the line, Dr. Cullen MacCloud resents his latest posting, away from his friends on the African Squadron and the dangerous work they do. Will, the deceased surgeon’s son, is a sullen sprout, but Cullen’s stuck with him. Since the posting is temporary, what could go wrong?

What if these two have more in common than they think?
Will a thin blanket hung across the middle of a tiny cabin be enough to protect against the desire smoldering between them?

Valor in battle is nothing compared to the courage required to face up to love.Lady Harriet, widowed Marchioness of Blandford, rusticates in the countryside outside Falmouth with her grandmother, a former beauty and Covent Garden actress. Although the elderly duchess’s days as the toast of society ended with marriage to the late Duke of Sidmouth, her aged mind has turned back to her earlier calling. Two mastiffs and Harriet’s naughty eight-year-old son complete the havey-cavey household.Whilst combing Falmouth’s harbor-front bars for crew for the Black Condor, Royal Marine Lieutenant Richard Bourne has to rescue an elderly lady from drunken hecklers whilst she’s playing the witches’ scene from “Macbeth.” Seeing her safely home turns out to be complicated. Who knew she was a former duchess? Who knew her granddaughter would have deep green eyes a man could drown in?How can Harriet rusticate with an Irishman underfoot who looks that good in a Royal Marine uniform? How can Richard walk away after one good deed without falling into her deep green eyes?

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Miss Rachel Berry, the adopted daughter of Freetown missionaries, wants to re-connect with her African mother’s family. She does not trust the Royal Navy, or Captain Halloren of the African Squadron. Her lying English father was a former naval seaman who jumped ship to join the lucrative African slave trade.

Capt. Christopher Halloren, 3rd son of a baron, transports a group of slaves he rescued to the missionary school in Freetown before attending the prize court to see if the judge will rule in favor of him and his crew so they can get on with the work of patrolling for slavers. The last thing he needs is to get involved with a beautiful mission teacher who seems hell-bent on putting herself in harm’s way with the illegal slave traders swarming at the fringes of Freetown.

Can they escape the destiny Society assigns them, or will they create their own?

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A diamond of London's glittering ballrooms
must travel to the ends of the earth to find love...

It's 1825, and Lady Lydia Howick has accepted that the love of her life, Royal Marine Captain George Neville, has been killed in action with the Men of the Squadron in fierce fighting on West African Sherbro Island. She's moved on with her life until one day while at a Royal Academy exhibition of art from the Holy Land, she sees her supposedly dead lover in a group of figures painted in a desert caravan scene.

She can't rest until she's sure he's not suffering as a slave in the Middle East.

George Neville no longer considers himself worthy of the title of Royal Marine ever since being taken captive during an action against slavers. Once his captors realized his strength and abilities in battle, they forced him to be one of them, promising his eventual freedom if he helped enslave others. They held the threat of punishment of child slaves over his head if he did not obey orders.

After four horrific years in the slave trade, he's certain he's unworthy of anyone's love, let alone that of Lady Lydia. He refuses to sully her with the weight of his sins.

How can she forgive him? More importantly, how can he forgive himself?

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Will he sense the love in front of him despite the loss of his sight?

Will she overcome her wariness of men to embrace the man he’s become?

1st Lieutenant Simon Demarest, late of the Royal Navy, is no longer the man he used to be. The man he used to be led boarding parties with little more than an ax and a blood-curdling cry sure to stop a slaver's crew in their tracks. The man he used to be could dance all night with the prettiest girl in the room.

The man he is now cannot even read a book for himself. Instead, he must sit like an invalid - well, he is an invalid - and listen while some dried-up spinster reads to him. Still, there's something odd about the spinster - her scent. Her aura lingers long after the times she reads to him. And Miss MacKenzie's scent is one he used to know so well, that of a warm, aroused woman. He can barely make sense of her words for her overwhelming essence. She gives off the pheromones of someone who's slept all night cradled in nothing more than a field of lavender...whilst pleasuring herself.

Aileen MacKenzie has had quite enough of men, thank you very much, from her father who decided she should assume her dead mother's duties as chatelaine, cook, housekeeper and everything else in his cavernous, drafty manse out on the moor near Inverness, to her dratted, interfering eight brothers.

She’s her own woman now, owner of the subscription library in the heart of Inverness, thanks to an elderly aunt's bequest. She really doesn't need the money Dr. MacCloud offers her to read to his blind patient. But there’s something about this stubborn invalid, something she can't resist. And what kind of Christian woman would she be to turn her back on a fellow Highlander in need?

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12 Days of Christmas, 4 well-intentioned matchmakers, & a chorus of ghostly cats

Widowed headmistress Grace Phippen seeks a mature husband for her niece Lucy to tone down the young woman’s obsession with volatile science experiments.

Lucy can’t stop concocting dangerous chemistry in her tiny closet laboratory, but she’ll do whatever it takes to help her aunt keep their London young ladies’ academy afloat.

Cupid’s arrow may run afoul of an excess of mistletoe, but true love strikes wherever it may…

An earl mourns the woman who walked away on the arm of his best friend and forsakes his gambling hell to come home and rebuild his family estate.

A broken Royal Engineer struggles to regain his hearing, and his wits, after a career of blowing things up and vows to do whatever it takes to repay the earl for his kindness.

Generations of lively (or not) 6-toed ship’s cats round out the cast.

Will it take a Christmas miracle to convince these two couples where their hearts actually lie?

Will these lonely, misguided matchmakers find their true loves beneath the mistletoe before the clock strikes midnight at the Twelfth Night Ball?

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He suspects his duchess is not an innocent...
She wishes her duke were a little more worldly

The former Jane Lemon’s overnight transformation into a duchess, thanks to her father’s deathbed maneuverings, has been something of a shock. She’s spent most of her life in London, where her mother’s free-spirited salons brought her into contact with a world of discreet, privileged sensuality. Now she has to deal with a stuffy duke who accuses her of being a tarnished woman. He wants a duchess who will make love in the dark of night, without any imaginative embellishments, for the sole purpose of producing an heir.

If only he were willing to bend a little her way…

Cornelius, Duke of Sidmouth, has his limits. He assumed his arranged marriage to a Cornwall heiress would go as smoothly as his well-run estate, Bocollyn. A man expects decorum and modesty in his bride, not unbridled sensuality and wantonness. He can’t believe she left him on their honeymoon. When he returns home, she’s already there, in charge of his stables and living in his retired groomsman’s cottage. Now he has to start all over and woo his duchess. Will she give him a second chance? Will he be able to suspend his pride a little to give her what she needs?

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Will Lady Lilianne Howick enjoy freedom along the frozen River Wey despite society’s prison of duty?

It's 1820, and Lady Lilianne Howick hides away from the judgment of the ton on her family's country estate in Surrey. She escaped the Dey's harem four years earlier and was rescued after Lord Admiral Exmouth's bombardment of Algiers. Although the gossip sheets speculated about her supposed lurid experiences, no one outside her family knows the truth.

Will a tattered bear & a moonlight Valentine’s skate turn turn old friends into lovers?

The man she once loved, her neighbor, Squire Frederick Meredith, doesn’t care. He’s endured heartache of his own and has tried for years to break through her self-imposed exile. Will one small girl and a tattered stuffed bear be enough to create the magic necessary to bring these two back together?

Raised like a country mouse on the vast Montcliffe Abbey estate, Lady Wilhelmina Rumsford had never set foot in London until her father, Viscount Rumsford, decided she simply had to have a Season. It matters little to him that everyone in the ton knows his beloved daughter is the natural child of his footman. Left-handed Mina doesn’t know for certain the kindly footman who taught her how to lace up her boots is her real father. She can’t admit a truth that would hurt that much. And besides, she has her hands full with the Duke of Montfort’s attempts to keep her “out of trouble.”

Julian Jameson, Duke of Montfort, grew up best of friends with Mina's older brothers. They went to school together, caroused together, and tried to keep Mina out of trouble. That is, Julian tried to keep Mina out of trouble. A difficult task once she went to London where he had to make her understand which suitors to welcome and which ones to push away. Unfortunately, his list of "no's" far outweighed the "yes's," so she rejected all the marriage offers that came her way during her first and only Season.

Despite Julian's best laid plans, his rakish friend, the Earl of Westfalia, becomes infatuated with Mina during a fateful snowbound sojourn at a country inn on their way to a Christmas House Party. Julian must keep her away from this most definite of “no’s”. The handsome earl’s attentions make Mina long for a love that sees beyond the circumstances of her parentage. However, she finally has to admit the real reason she rejected all those marriage offers. Her own heart was waiting for the offer she hoped would come, but never did.

Now, it’s up to the guardian angels below stairs to make certain Mina gets her happily ever after...

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A French Caribbean widow who has given up on love risks everything to save a charismatic smuggler and his crew. Marie Galante has to bring in her sugar cane harvest with the few workers left after her husband died so that she can pay off the gambling debt he secured with her plantation. Smuggler Jean Blanchard needs to convince healer Marie to come back to his island to cure his men of a strange ailment killing them one by one. The secret Marie uncovers on Jean's island threatens to tear apart their worlds and leave both with dangerous choices. Can Marie let go and trust the trickster and thief? Will Jean let the healer force him to choose love over vengeance?

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Is bad blood a myth, or is Alex really the devil incarnate? In the sequel to Secret Harbor, rum heiress Honore Blanchard vows Alex Duchamp de Chastaigne will never get his hands on her family’s business. When she works at the quay dressed as a young man, he shows up to pry. The bastard grandson of a Martinique shipping patriarch, he’s haunted by his father’s sins of seduction, thievery and murder. After years with a French privateer, he’s returned, a wealthy captain. He’ll stop at nothing to succeed, but he’d rather get his hands on Honore.

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