Bride series (Catherine Coulter)

Douglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, is a man besieged. He must have an heir. Thus he must first provide himself with the requisite bride. Alexandra Chambers, youngest daughter of the Duke of Beresford, has loved Douglas Sherbrooke since she was fifteen, unfortunately, it is her sister, the incomparable Melissande, he wishes to wed. But life never ladles out what one expects, and Douglas finds himself wed to the wrong sister.

Sinjun Sherbrooke contrives to elope with handsome Colin Kinross, the Earl of Ashburnham, whose first wife has died mysteriously.

Helen is a big girl, a resolute taskmistress, owner of her own inn. She adores her father and wants to find the lamp more than anything. It is her only passion until she meets Heatherington.

In 1835, Jason Sherbrooke leaves Baltimore for his native England, where he vies with Hallie Carrick for the property known as Lyon's Gate, a once-renounced racing stud farm near his family's home.

Nicholas Monroe, widowed "Prince of Ravenscar," is feeling pressure from his family to remarry. But the mysterious death of his first wife, Lily, still hangs over his head.