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An eccentric, but beautiful heiress inherits a Chicago football team and immediately locks horns with its rugged coach. He thinks she is a bimbo, she considers him a jock. Fate, however, has other plans for them.

Lara, Lady Hawksworth, is sure her husband died in a shipwreck off the south Indian coast, but three years later someone answering to the name of Hunter, Lord Hawksworth, reappears. He's accepted by everyone save his uncle, who'd claimed the earldom in his absence, and Lara, who had hated being married to him. How Hunter wins Lara with his exquisite lovemaking and becomes a better husband than the man who left her is the heart of this sweetly sensual,...

After seeing so many men destroyed by passion, Demon Cynster vows never to become involved with a woman, but when Felicity Parteger begs him to help her friend out of trouble, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to her.

Rescued from the icy waters of the Thames by the enigmatic Grant Morgan, one of London's most unattainable bachelors, a lovely amnesiac--who is told that she is the notorious Vivien Rose Duvall--finds herself under Grant's protection as he sets out to unravel her past and discover the truth.

When notorious rake Anthony Bridgerton announces that he has chosen a prospective bride, he faces unexpected opposition when his intended's meddlesome sister Kate decides to protect her innocent sister from the wicked aristocrat. This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London's most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry--he's even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield--the...

"Marry the local vicar--a stodgy man with six impossible children--never! Pretty Deborah Percival is determined to discover passion in a man's arms, not duty in a dull marriage. And when she becomes stranded at a countryside inn while on the road to London, tantalizing Anthony Aldercy, the earl of Burnell, offers her the chance to fulfill her dreams. Deborah knows she should say no--but how can she resist? The earl is determined to repair his reputation...

Believing him dangerously close to bankruptcy, Amelia Cynster proposes marriage to a very drunk Lucien Ashford, and is confused and annoyed when instead of the quick wedding she had wanted, he insists on a full courtship.

Archangel Gabriel and his three mischievous Prayer Ambassadors--Shirley, Goodness and Mercy--lend their celestial aid to three needy Christmas cases. Harry Alderwood, 86, prays that his increasingly forgetful wife, Rosalie, will agree to move into assisted living before he dies. Meanwhile, nine-year-old Carter Jackson begs God for a dog, even though his mother and father tell him that they can't afford to keep a pet, while Beth Fischer's mother prays...

The fiery highborn lass will sacrifice almost anything for her beloved Highlands - even marry a dangerous man whom everyone fears but she cannot resist...the man they call "Sin".