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Marielle DeVane had her life planned out. Her fiancé, Evan, was everything she wanted in a man, and their marriage would be the culmination of years of fantasizing about their perfect life together. But the rich and powerful Connor Wetherby, Duke of Whitford, had other plans for her, plans that Mari found herself unexpectedly subject to when her brother's debts forced her to wed the overbearing stranger rather than her beloved.

Carolyn Faulkner is the pioneer that started this genre with this cult classic. His Little Miss is where it all began. This Victorian age play series follows the story of first, Lacy, as she comes into the household of her new husband, Edmond, only to find out that Edmond wants BOTH a wife AND a little girl. Training is severe under the stern gaze of Nanny Estelle - and Lacy is one sore and unhappy little girl, as nanny doesn't hold anything back. Then, Edmond's friend, Charles, also wants a little of his own - and Amy, under the tutelage of Nanny Lydia, is added to the household. Extremely...

Hugh Calumet has had bad experiences with women who were just after his money, and he's very afraid that his father is going down the same road with the new nursing assistant who is caring for him. His father, of course, thinks Lisa walks on water. But Hugh finds out something very embarrassing about Lisa, the CNA, that he then holds over her head in order to blackmail her into allowing him to discipline and make love to her. Once he realizes, after moving back in with his father and his new stepmother, that she really isn't a gold-digger, he begins to regret how he's treated her, although ...

Rissa has been hurt, badly, and the idea of marriage - to anyone - is enough to make her run. Kane finds occasion to take the beautiful, stubborn woman in hand many times over the course of their budding, heated relationship, but will he be able to convince her to stop making him pay for the sins of her ex? Will an ultimatum bring about the desired reply or will Rissa run like the wind?

Taren Cavanaugh and her brother, Sam, run the Circle Star Ranch - a working cattle ranch outside of Albuquerque, N.M. Bruce "The Bruce" McCullough is a well-known actor who could have his choice of any woman on the planet - and most of the men. He came to the Circle Star to learn what modern ranching was like, to prepare for his next movie role. What he didn't expect to find was the love of his life, Taren.

Wealthy, easy on the eyes and overwhelmingly male and dominant, Arik Southgate was everything I'd ever wanted in a man, and, surprisingly, he seemed to want me, too. After my recent disastrous relationship, it felt good to be an object of desire again. He made me feel as if I was the only woman on the planet for him - he paid attention, close attention - to me, and he didn't hesitate to call me on what he considered to be bad behavior.

Retrieve Jensen was desperate. He was working himself into the ground seven days a week to try to save his family’s legacy - their cattle ranch in Montana. He wanted more of a partner - someone who could at least ride if not rope, who wanted children, and who knew how to cook and clean. When Jayne Clarkson’s friend laid the classified ad on her desk, while making a sarcastic comment about the intelligence of its writer, instead of being repelled, Jayne found herself intrigued by someone who would call himself a “no nonsense” man.

Hannah Cooper fled her home in England to escape the aristocratic marriage her father had arranged for her. Now in the Colonies, posing as a widowed seamstress, she's poor but content with her modest and independent life. But when war comes to the Colonies and with it, the dreaded Quartering Act, all households are ordered to feed and shelter British troops.

When she is released from the stasis she voluntarily entered, the world that greets Emily Harding is far from what she expected. It more closely resembles a post-apocalyptic novel than the rolling green Tennessee hills she’s left behind. Worse than that, it seems that the rule of law is a thing of the past, and that society has devolved into what it was thousands of years ago - feudal tribes warring with each other over precious and rare supplies, which includes females. One type of female in particular. It is raw, unforgiving, and animalistic.

Jenna McInnis lives alone in the backwoods of Maine, and she likes it that way. Unfortunately, her antisocial calm and quiet is about to be disrupted by John Merck, an undercover cop whose big drug bust has gone horribly awry. Breaking into her house, the intimidating man hopes to find some kind of treatment for the gunshot he sustained during the firefight. Instead, he finds a woman who is more than a match for him, even when he is nearly dead.

Seraphina Delaney is a competent, successful woman, but she has always known that an inner five-year-old lurked beneath the surface, hidden from the world. Lee Randall, her best friend's brother, was intrigued from the moment he met Sera. When she, uncharacteristically, lets her little side out with him, he reveals to her that he has always wanted to be a Daddy to a grown-up little girl.

The termagant being brought into the small clinic isn’t exactly what second in command and alpha soldier Kosh envisioned as his perfect omega, but he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is his. She’s a fierce little thing, more of a threat than most would take her for, but he isn’t one of the unfortunate ones who will get caught underestimating her. They wouldn’t be given the chance to do so again.

devastating plague has changed the world's society. In rebuilding the population, the government has deemed that all women are to be nothing more than slaves, bought and paid for, with one purpose - to breed. Prima is such a woman, sold by her father to Joseph, a man who intends to get full use of her in every conceivable way. As Prima learns to adjust to her life and the harshness of Joseph's punishments, will she discover that she feels more for this demanding man than she is willing to admit?

Lady Letticia Burke has had designs on the same man - Sir Alex Gaines - since she was 16. Unfortunately, not only does he not know she exists, but his wife definitely does exist. Nearly 20 now, she has turned down everyone who has ever offered for her for one reason or another - made up or not - and, with the changing markets having badly affected their financial wherewithal, her parents can no longer afford to indulge her in endless window shopping for a husband.

It was in a very tiny village that the omega Ebby had grown up, surrounded by women who knew what she would become, as well as a few men to whom she was unattractive, all of whom participated in training her to defend herself. They had also all vowed to protect her with their lives. And in the end, because of him, that was exactly what they had done.

Set in the post-plague society where women are nothing more than a man's property, bought for the purpose of repopulating the world, young Tria has been sold on the auction block to Thomas. Protected and trained until her 25th birthday, the young, innocent woman knows nothing of a man's desire. She quickly learns as her new owner has very distinct tastes when it comes to pain and pleasure. Embarrassed by the betrayal of her own body, Tria settles in to her new life as best she can.

Gloria Owens never intended to marry. She had other plans - she wanted to teach. Very neatly circumventing her father's wishes, Gloria got her certificate and found herself a job in Culpepper Cove, California, where she intended to be a very happy old maid schoolteacher until her dying day. But she hadn't accounted for the man who had offered her the job - Seth McIntrye. He seemed to take it upon himself to get under her skin to the point of deciding to appoint himself in charge of what he considered to be her desperate need for discipline.

Could an average woman survive being kidnapped and sexually tortured and teased? A case of mistaken identity causes Faith Whittaker to become such a woman, captured and held by powerful drug lord Cordero "El Diablo" De La Fuente, subject to the painful whims of his twisted pleasures. What will happen to her when he discovers she isn't who he thought she was?

Annie is struggling to keep her ranch afloat. When her foreman of many years is called away to care for his ailing sister, she has no choice but to run an ad in the local newspaper, looking for help. What she didn't bargain with was finding a man who not only does the work of three men, but one who also lights a fire within her that hasn't been lit since her ex-husband walked out on her seven years before. Sexy, dominant, and scarred, not only from a horrendous accident but from a bad marriage and divorce, Quinn has decided that Annie should be his wife.

Princess Avaegna of Tonyeh wasn't supposed to be married off to the Kohnzi warrior, Prince Stohsz. That was supposed to be her older sister's fate. She hadn't been raised as the usual Tonyeh woman, content to keep a house, raise children, and defer to her man. Indulged by her father and five older brothers, they taught her to fight, ride, and use a crossbow with deadly accuracy. But when her sister dies unexpectedly, she is required to step into her sister's tiny, pristine shoes.