The Rakehell Regency Romance Series Boxed Set 6 (The Rakehell Regency Romance Series Boxed Sets)

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McKenna Greylock is in desperate need of a jack-of-all-trades to help turn her Victorian home into a bed-and-breakfast. Everlasting by Annette Blair Price: What kind of guardian angel gets knocked back to earth? The kind who falls in love with his ward. And a bossy future debutante from the right side, Met at age 5 on the playground. A case of hate at first sight. By high school, theirs was a passion for the ages.

Her father interfered, Making each appear to have abandoned the other. Thirteen years later, friends trick them into: Three Days on a Train. Two groups of gallant but hell-raising, titled young men banded together, swearing allegiance to each other, and their families. Little did any of them imagine what life-altering measures they might have to take to fulfill their oaths.

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Amishwoman Sara Lapp, all but shunned for studying with the English doctor to become a midwife, is shocked that, after months of waiting, her first call to tend a birth comes from self-appointed outcast Mad Adam Zuckerman. Jacob Sauder abandons his Amish heritage when the woman he loves, Rachel Zook, agrees to marry his brother, Simon.

Though Jacob adapts to the ways of the "English," even fathering twins, he remains an outsider. When the mother of his twins dies, Jacob knows only one way to raise them - the Amish way.

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He brings them home to the community he vowed to leave forever. The Scoundrels Boxed Set: At an academy for unruly boys, four were considered the worst and exiled to the stables to bond for life. As men, only the boldest of women appealed to them. Book Four by Annette Blair Series: Knave of Hearts , Book 4.

Lacey Ashton returns home to face the ghosts she left behind, among them Vicar Gabriel Kendrick, who now despises her as much as he once loved her. He vowed never again to let passion rule him. Books in the set: Laughter, romance, calamity and tears. In Ohio, Hannah Peachy has nurtured a winter heart since she lost her newborn daughter, husband, and twin sister, in a carriage accident that she caused.

Knave of Hearts , Book 2. Lust muddies a high-stakes battle only one can win. Marcus adores Jade the minute he sees her; she despises him as fast. Nevertheless, to keep a family secret and save the downtrodden women in her care, Jade is determined to stop the South Downs Railroad from laying track on her property. Knave of Hearts , Book 3. A carriage sent over a cliff, a greedy brother and an unfaithful wife leave Justin Devereux, Duke of Ainsley, more dead than alive.

Faith Wickham, the woman hired to nurse him—as much a captive as her patient in a house where nothing is as it seems—faces poison disguised as medicine and a decision that could kill. Meanwhile, locked in a coma, Justin calls from his tormented dreams Sea Scoundrel by Annette Blair Series: Likewise we need to make it clear to younger women in our society that violence in a relationship is NEVER acceptable. Only the villains engage in any physical violence in my stories, but it is always there for a reason, never gratuitous or sensational, any more than the love scenes are there just for filler.

They are there to reveal character, issues they might have, and the path of falling in love. To be a very strong contrast with the hero in each novel. But it is also fun to see the heroine sorting out who she can really trust, versus who is after her for their own agenda. Jane Austen wrote about many unhappy marriages in her books-mainly based on fortune hunters or ill-matched couples, like Northanger Abbey, or Persuasion, so again, I was being true to life, and adding suspense, while still adding lots of romance.

Where did THAT come from. A-Glad you liked it. I wanted to show that when it comes to love and relationships, you need to trust your instincts, head as well as heart, and vice versa. A larger landscape than just rake meets debutante, so again, I am writing much more historical fiction than Regency romance, though the books are set in the Regency period. You still get plenty of balls, flirting and wittiness, but with real events underpinning the action.

I really admire the way they are all pretty seemingly ordinary men and women, especially the women, who get thrust into the most amazing situations. We can only grow through being challenged. And I like the way the heroines are not really damsels in distress. That in some cases they actually rescue the hero, either emotionally or physically. A-Yes, The Matchless Miss. She does rise to the occasion indeed. A very passionate book, that one.

Like poor Arabella in Guardian of the Heart. A-Er, certainly not easy, but not graphic. I let much of it be implied, but some of the heroines do have to recover from some ordeals. Again, I am writing realistic historical romance, but it still has to be romance.

Q-I am going to guess you enjoy writing them? With yours, on the other hand, well, wow! That is sort of the idea. The lovemaking arises from who the characters are as people and the circumstances they find themselves in. What an incredible hero and couple, and it all sets the stage for the later books, especially Innocence and Innocence Afire. A-Thanks, yes, those three are closely connected, though they are quite separated in terms of the story arc, with time passing as the other stories occur, til all the lose ends are tied up in the series.

They are all standalone, of course, but it was great seeing all my characters grow as people, especially Randall Avenel, after having such an amazing brother as Michael to live up to. Author and journalist Evelyn Trimborn interviews the author of The Rakehell Regency Romance series and other top titles:. A-From the time I was a child, I loved to write stories, or even re-write popular ones, to give them a more interesting twist or better ending.

Then I spent a lot of time doing academic writing, but one day, I saw a little line in a history book while I was in the library, and the rest, as they say, is history. I had my first novel completed and published within 6 months, and never looked back. That was the Sea of Love, set in Renaissance Ireland. A-I was extremely unfortunate, and fortunate, to be starting my romance writing career at about the turn of the 21st century, when things were changing very rapidly in the world of publishing, and romance publishing in particular.

Unfortunate, in that traditional publishing was coming under a lot of pressure from new technology, reader preferences, new authors, and the need to be ultra-profitable. I was also fortunate for the same reasons. In other words, that there is more at stake than just the two of them falling in love. I was also fortunate to have started my romance writing career then for the same reasons. So for example, the Rakehell Regency series started as a single book in the traditional Regency, sweet style, though with a lot of gritty issues to be deal with and yes, I do love romantic suspense too, so every one of my novels has a mystery or crime to be solved.

Then it became a fairly sweet trilogy because my editor told me how much series titles sell compared to single title. By the time Book 4, The Matchless Miss , was clamoring in my head to be written, I was looking to write the kinds of books I wanted to read, but could NOT find on the romance shelves. Or even online, at a lot of the electronic houses! Not erotica, for instance, but genuinely sensual couples we can believe really FALL in love in the course of the book and have to work towards their happily ever after.

My heroes are by no means bored aristocrats, and very few of them are actual rakes in the series. I also deal with REAL history given my background as a literature and history teacher , and do not set my books in the Regency period only because the fashions were nice. A writer should never pen an historical romance if the history is not key in some way.

You can just as easily write modern romance if that is going to be the case. Q-You use the word gritty. At the same time, though, there is an almost magical quality to your writing. A-Thank you, I do work hard at it, because I really want to capture in the couple not only the feeling of falling in love, but that it transforms, redeems, heals, makes each hero and heroine grow, and work to be worthy of the other. A-Mmm, yes, Books 5 and 6 of the series.

As I said, once I got to the stage of producing more sensual novels, with more love scenes, I was looking to challenge myself in other ways. At that time, everyone was asking me to do a sequel or 3 to Scars Upon Her Heart , or at least let them catch up with the main characters in that novel in some way. I did want to do a series, so it became the Scars of the Heart series, and The Scarred Heart one of the titles in it. It was tough doing a crossover book, but the magic of the Irish setting and the way Elizabeth falls in love in the novel really did make the book almost write itself in the end.

As for Guardian of the Heart , I wanted Blake the diligent but repressed doctor to get the one thing he needs most in the world, true love, only to nearly lose it a couple of times through his own pride, or at least lack of awareness of who he is and how to love. Arabella becomes an amazing woman through her suffering in the course of the novel, and Blake rises to the occasion to be worthy of her.

I also put in a challenge many people can relate to nowadays, sadly: Love, compassion, kindness, even in the face of some almost overwhelming obstacles, and some pretty nasty villains. There have been many Regents throughout the world, but the Regency period in England has become synonymous with a certain manner of living, dress and behavior which is revealed to us most typically through the novels of Jane Austen.

An entire Regency Romance industry arose in the 20th century in response to the enthusiasm for her books, and in particular to the writer Georgette Heyer, who published her first Regency romance as we came to understand the phrase, in , and later Clare Darcy, who wrote in the s. The Prince of Wales, or Prinny, as he was commonly referred to, was a rather flamboyant figure and attracted many different types of people around him in his endless pursuit of pleasure. The Regency period also runs nearly parallel to the Napoleonic Wars, and can be deemed to be the beginning of the modern world as we know it.

It was a time of revolution, both political and industrial, of war overseas, and against poverty and ignorance at home, and of the old world order being torn apart. What an remarkable time to fall in love. For many years the Regency Romance was considered the epitome of the romance novel, with dashing rakes, damsels in distress, or sharply intelligent women along the lines of Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. However, the Regency period was by no means endless balls and soirees and the mindless pursuit of marriage. Nor are Regency novels in the 21st century simply the comedies of manners, all fluff and no substance, which caused them to fall into disrepute and even become objects of ridicule for a time.

The hallmark of a good historical novel is that the action should not be able to take place at any period of time other than the one it is set in. The Regency romances you will find at this site fit those requirements to a tee. Be prepared for real men and women, not clothes horses. For social issues, not simply social teas. We do not write modern characters in costumes, but characters very much of their own time, with all of the obstacles that can prevent a happily ever after.

Each novel aims to depict the ebullient and often excessive society of the pre-Victorian days before drabness and prudery became the by-words of that reign, rather than the sumptuousness and sensuality of the Prince Regent and his glittering court. The love story of Miranda Dane Lyons and George Davenant continues as George races against time to save the woman he loves from certain death.

Miranda is determined to fight her way back to the man she loves, even though his secrets threaten any hope they may have of securing a happy future together. But Miranda has secrets of her own, not least of which is her true identity as a wealthy heiress from a prominent family, not a country girl down on her luck as George has assumed. Rather than allowing the Rakehells and her family to seek justice for all she endures at the hands of the cunning men who have been scheming to keep the couple apart, Miranda goes after the nest of intriguers who have wronged both her and all of the Rakehells ever since the war against Napoleon began.

Miranda is willing to carry her mission of justice and revenge right to the upper reaches of the shadowy halls of British power politics if it means keeping the people she loves most in the world safe from their nefarious plots. Very sensual, with several explicit love scenes throughout the book and explicit details of an erotic nature.

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Fresh up from the country to visit her brother in London, Miranda Lyons Dane gets involved in a daring prank thanks to the notoriously wanton beauty Georgina Jerome. The seemingly harmless game turns dangerous as Miranda is attacked by a cutpurse. Her rescue at the hands of the mysterious George Davenant leaves her feeling sure she is out of the frying pan and straight into the fire, for no man has ever made her feel the torrid heat of desire. Yet George is only ever spoken of in hushed whispers, for he is reputed to be the most vicious criminal mastermind the capital has ever seen.

Suddenly all of the assumptions Miranda had ever made about her life are turned upside down. George offers her the role as his leading actress in the ramshackle theatre he manages. Despite her fears, Miranda takes the job, and finds herself growing ever closer to her enigmatic but handsome employer. George is a master of many roles and disguises, the only way he can ever keep one step ahead of the peril that dogs his heels. Soon the forces which have forced George to make the most hellish choices of his life threaten to take from him the woman who is coming to mean more to him than life itself.

Can George save Miranda, or will the two of them be torn from each other forever? Main menu Skip to content. Please click on the links to the right for more information about each novel in the series. Yes, what was that story you told about Ghost?

And one that was well before its time, sadly, in terms of the world we live in now. But she sure kicks butt in the end. Laughs Yes, another really unlikely heroine who rises to the occasion. Well, who can say what any of us would be capable of doing to save the people we love? Wow, I never thought of it that way. Q-With more to come soon, we hope? Great, I had hoped they would. A-Love will do that to a person. Transform them, hopefully into a better person.

Q-So you would definitely describe yourself as a romance writer and a romantic? I can just imagine what they ask. And a few other people with colorful pasts, perhaps? Q-So your mission is what, exactly, when it comes to the love scenes? I loved him and the couple together.

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And you introduce some other great characters too. Q-Where DO you get your heroes and villains? They are so amazing! But again, my heroines are tough, because I want to show how love can transform and heal. Q-You mention an unhappy marriage here. That definitely is not the usual romance novel fare.

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Q-Like Beauty and the Beast? Q-But some of your heroines are not so lucky. Q-Yes, how hard were those scenes to write? Q-Yes, it certainly is. I mean, your love scenes. Author and journalist Evelyn Trimborn interviews the author of The Rakehell Regency Romance series and other top titles: Q-How did you get started writing?

Q-What has your career been like as a writer so far? When you started the series, the current war had started?

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Where DO you get your heroes and villains? Very sensual, with several explicit love scenes throughout the book and explicit details of an erotic nature Buy Now:

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