Rotherton Romance

When Rotherton is terrorized by a smuggling gang, impoverished baron Tristan Leonard organizes a militia and trains them to fight back. Diana Villiers' wealthy father is murdered when he refuses to allow a London crime boss to marry her, and Diana flees to Rotherton under an assumed name, where she meets Tristan. The killers track Diana to the village. Joining forces with the smuggling gang run by the same crime boss, they plan to destroy the village as a warning to others. The frightened villagers gather in St. Bartholomew's Church. Can Tristan and his militia defend them, defeat the gang, and keep Diana safe from the men hunting her? Or will they both lose everything to the forces ranged against them?

Cassie Leonard secretly writes the Death-or-Glory Rory stories for a magazine. Researching ideas in Brighton, she witnesses an horrific attack in a slum area, unwittingly putting herself in danger. Lord Fremont knows someone in the ton is working with a vicious crime boss he has vowed to destroy. Seeing Cassie in the slum leads him to suspect her, and he decides to get to know her, to learn more. As they grow close to each other, he discovers she is not the criminal he seeks. But she may be the key to finding the real culprit, and that might get her killed. Can Fremont bring down the villains and save her, before it is too late?

Will, Viscount Hadlow, inherited his title along with a rundown estate and crippling debts. He refuses to marry until he can support a wife, despite his growing attraction to his neighbour, Ella. The fortune her grandfather left to her gives Ella an independence most women can only dream of. After a near miss with a fortune hunter she has sworn never to marry at all, and certainly not to a man who needs her money, but her feelings for Will test her resolve. When a series of accidents and near misses put Ella in danger, Will vows to protect her from her unknown enemy. But who will protect Ella from Will? Or, for that matter, from herself?

Grace Thompson has been hiding for three years. Now her hard-won security is threatened and her past is catching up. As she faces threats to her life and liberty, can she rely on Luke Fielding to help her? Luke unexpectedly became the heir to an earldom. Uncertain about his new role, he doesn't reveal his true status when he arrives in Rotherton. As the lowly clerk he once was, he would have happily courted Grace but, as a governess, she is not a suitable match for a future earl. As they stave off the threats against her, Grace finds she faces a greater danger: losing her heart to a man she cannot have.