Mary Balogh

Camille Westcott, who has been declared illegitimate and without a title, moves to Bath to teach at an orphanage, where she meets artist Joel Cunningham, for whom she feels a mutual contempt until things take a passionate turn.

The temporary wife: Lord Anthony Earheart wants a wife who will enrage the father he despises and then disappear from his life. But even after Charity agrees to this mockery of matrimony, she discovers that she's fallen for Anthony, and breaking their marriage vows may also break her heart. A promise of spring: Grace Howard is devoted to Sir Peregrine Lampman, who did not withdraw his affection after she confessed to a youthful folly that compromised...