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Willa Hardwick doesn’t want to be an ordinary housewife, especially if the only available men work at Providence’s most notable speakeasy, The Fountain. She wouldn’t be caught dead in a place like that. Women should have choices, and Willa is willing to fight for those choices as well as the right to vote.

Grant Sterling hides behind his piano night after night, entertaining the guests at The Fountain. He knows the speakeasy’s owner, Ralph “Zinny” DiZinnia, is involved in shady dealings, but he’ll never tell. In fact, Grant would rather not speak at all.

When Willa’s brother, Tommy, double-crosses Zinny, Willa faces an uncomfortable proposition to save his life. How far is she willing to go for family, and can she trust the help of a quiet piano player?

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Fervor fills Olivia Jones when she attends her first suffrage meeting. But that’s nothing compared to the unanticipated feelings that flood her whenever newsman, Hunter Rockland, comes near. For years she has avoided anything other than polite discourse, hiding behind a thin veil of dislike. Suddenly, desire she doesn’t understand threatens to upset her firm impression of Hunter. She believes him to be just like her father-a man who thinks women have no rights except to marry, have children, and obey their husbands.

Olivia is shocked and furious when Hunter tells her that her father plans to marry her to Senator Nathan Henderson. It’s bad enough that women have no say in who runs the country, has she also no vote in her own future?

It stuns Hunter Rockland to his roots when suffragette Olivia Jones informs him that she sees him as a younger version of her father. So when Senator Hathaway Jones asks for Hunter’s help in getting Olivia to marry a colleague, Hunter sees a way to disprove Olivia’s opinion of him and save her from a marriage she doesn’t want. Of course, he does so for her sake, not his. He has no interest in marrying. But if he did … if he did, Miss Olivia Jones is exactly the woman he would choose. And if he wanted a dalliance for a night? Well, he’d choose Olivia for that, too. Thoughts of her occupy his mind and images of her fuel his fantasies. He knows a lady like Olivia doesn’t come to a man’s bed without the promise of love and a ring, so she won’t be his. But Hunter can’t see shackling her to a man like Henderson. What else can he do but
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Grace Heaton is a Patriot ready to fight for independence. Desperate to get involved, she slips on her brother’s clothes and plans to sneak toward battle, but a cry of pain in the night changes everything.

Isaac Fields is a runaway slave. He enlists with the powerful British army in hopes of winning the freedom he so deserves.

When Isaac is quartered in Grace’s Boston home, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness take on an unexpected meaning.

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The passage of time stands still for Starr when she dances. When she lifts her hands and her head tilts back, eyes closed, she knows nothing else but the rhythm of her movement. It has long been Starr’s fantasy to dance at Stonehenge. She waits for night to fall, and alone she dances, making her dream a reality. But her dream becomes a nightmare when her intricate dance turns back the hands of time. When Starr’s eyes open, instead of tranquil hills and gentle winds, she finds herself in a primeval world that knows only warfare and desperation.

Two men, champions sent forth by their people, are there to settle a long dispute over territorial rights in a deadly final dance of their own. They lay down their weapons when Starr suddenly appears, taking her presence as a sign from the gods for peace. Starr longs to ease the tension between the tribes she comes to know so well. The clan’s champions’, Jekop, a muscular warrior, and Slane, as fair as Jekop is dark, both vie for her hand. Starr is torn between her desire to return home, and her desire to join with both men in the most primitive dance of all. Her masterful steps become one of seduction, and survival, knowing that to have peace will mean her complete surrender to both men.

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To escape an abusive husband, Pauline Ray takes her two young children and all the money she’s secretly stashed over the years, and travels as far as the funds allow. She ends up in the small Virginia town where she encounters the eccentric Blue sisters, who take the family into their care. The sisters come up with the idea to pass Pauline off as the daughter of deceased friend. That way, she inherits a cottage and a new identity, that of Anne Elise Greenway.

In the small town of Norton, Virginia, gossip spreads like wildfire, and the story is that old man Greenways’s daughter has returned, a widow whose husband left her penniless. When the local ranch hand and mysterious loner, Jeremy Sheffield, learns this, having seen and become intrigue by her, he approaches with the idea of helping. She explains that she can’t afford to hire him; he explains there is more than one way to pay a man.

It’s supposed to be a surface relationship, help in exchange for sexual relations, but attraction fuels an unexpected affection, which complicates matters. Jeremy and Anne Elise have both suffered from gnawing loneliness most of their lives, and the intimacy between them changes everything.

Unfortunately, Pauline has not been forgotten; her husband, Ethan Ray, hires the Pinkerton Agency to find his wife and children. When a detective finally locates her, Ethan comes to collect his family. As usual, when Ethan is angry, he is violent. Jeremy arrives on the scene in time to save Anne Elise, but only by damning himself. The ghosts from his past resurface and he’s forced to accept that he’s meant to be alone. Only by drawing on all her newfound strength, will Anne Elise convince him of his worth and her love.

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