Dixie Toliver's living her dream. She's an apprentice jockey and riding winners for the stable where her father is an assistant trainer. When head trainer Jake gives her the Fraternity ride on Bow Wave, a super two-year-old Thoroughbred colt, she should be over the moon.But Shane, the jockey whose kisses make her knees tremble, is also riding in the Futurity. He and his father need to win, or they'll sink further into bankruptcy. How can Dixie balance her boyfriend's desperation against her own competitive drive?a short story

Dixie Toliver's living her dream. She's an apprentice jockey and riding winners for the stable where her father is an assistant trainer. When head trainer Jake gives her the Fraternity ride on Bow Wave, a super two-year-old Thoroughbred colt, she should be over the moon.But Shane, the jockey whose kisses make her knees tremble, is also riding in the Futurity. He and his father need to win, or they'll sink further into bankruptcy. How can Dixie balance her boyfriend's desperation against her own competitive drive?a short story

Lady Clara Huckabee stows away by accident. But she's not sorry to sail aboard HMS Topaze, leaving England behind. It's a chance to search for her charming French suitor from the Amiens peace, the man she's determined to marry despite the war and her dominating uncle's disapproval. All she has to do is convince the Topaze's handsome captain to see things her way, and everything will be perfect.

The right man doesn't know she's alive. The wrong man's out to change that.Coralie Busche can only admire Kenneth Rainier from afar. He's a most handsome philosopher of the Romantic movement and for months she's eavesdropped on his conversations at the coffee house. If only she had the courage to join his debates...and perhaps more. Her feminine education of singing and sewing could be of no interest to such a man—but then that vexing rake, the Duke of Cumberland, brings her to Rainier's attention and she can't hide any longer.Rainier has lived with his mercenary sisters for too long to suffer any illusions about women. They value money, position, and precedence, not life's important things such as poetry or painting, and only very lucky men find true love. But when he notices Cumberland staring at a dark-eyed beauty hiding in the coffee house's corner, Rainier is smitten. Perhaps there's a chance he could be one of those lucky men.Cinderella meets Romeo and...

All the Honorable Anne Kirkhoven wants is to be wrapped in the arms of the man she loves, Frederick Shaw, Esquire, barrister, solicitor, writer of the best Gothic romance novels in England, and surely a future Member of Parliament. But despite Frederick’s many perfections, Anne’s mama has forbidden her to speak with him, much less marry him, and until Anne attains her majority, all they can do is wait.But now the most notorious duke in the ton, Ernst Anton Oldenburg, the First Duke of Cumberland (and some say a foreign prince), is making a public point of assessing her… attributes, sending shivers to portions of her anatomy she’d rather not name. Who’s the right man? And will her reputation survive the Duke’s assault long enough for her to find out?