Rebecca Lee
"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection."
—Entertainment Weekly
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's shadowy past. A dinner
If a spirited Highland lass kidnaps an English earl, does she get to keep him?
After Jessalyn MacInnes finds herself the new "laird" of Clan MacInnes, her well-meaning clansmen decide to go a-raiding to find her a bridegroom. When they toss their bound captive at Jessalyn's feet, the last thing she expects to find is a strapping young Englishman with thick dark hair, green eyes snapping with fury, and the face of a fallen angel.
Neil
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What's a gentleman to do when a lady demands that he seduce her?
Jarrod, fifth Marquess of Shepherdston, gets the shock of his life when childhood friend Sarah Eckersley shows up on his doorstep one rainy night with a tempting proposition. The daughter of the village rector, Sarah is desperate for money and has decided that becoming a courtesan is her only hope for saving her family. And she wants Jarrod to
...The saloon owner and the angel...
Will Keegan is no stranger to rescuing damsels in distress. He has been using his saloon, the Silken Angel, to save Chinese girls from the ruthless San Francisco brothel owners who would enslave and exploit them. But when a beautiful, tambourine-banging missionary with big blue eyes and skin as soft as silk comes calling at his saloon, he's the one who needs rescuing.
Julia Jane Parham is on a mission
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Can an English miss tame the wild heart of a Scotsman?
Colin McElreath, Viscount Grantham, has sold his soul to the devil—a devil of an irate English father. The powerful Baron Davies urgently requires a respectable husband for Gillian, his disgraced daughter, and he sees Colin as the perfect candidate. When Colin balks, Davies isn't above using his daughter's large dowry as an incentive—or applying
...The heiress and the bodyguard...
When wealthy heiress Gemma Belmont needs a hero, she goes in search of the "Bountiful Baron", a legendary character famed throughout the west for rescuing damsels in distress. What she doesn't expect to find is a gruff, gorgeous Irishman who has been thrust into the role against his will. Now all she has to do is convince him that the only way to protect her is to marry her...
Murphy O'Brien is a former
...10) Fish in exile
Praise for Vi Khi Nao:
"Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures." —Carole Maso
How do you bear the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view
...13) Talk of the Ton
In the salons of the ton, no tidbit is more delicious than a rumor of amour-the more outrageous the better. Rakes and rogues, ladies of high station and low morals are choice fodder for the gossips of society.