Laura Lee Guhrke

This is the second in a delicious new series featuring three sexy dukes and the ladies who capture their hearts, from "New York Times" bestselling author Laura Lee Guhrke.

Daisy Merrick can't keep a job. Her confident optimistic outlook on life is put to the test when she loses her third job in six months, but she's sure she can find employment that suits her carefree personality. And she does...in the form of theatre critic. But her first review of a popular playwright is disastrous, especially when she is confronted by the very angry author himself. Sebastian Grant, Earl of Avermore, is not happy. How dare this...this critic call his work a piece of drivel! Never mind that he completely agrees with her. And to make it worse, his publisher is after him to finish his novel; so desperate, in fact, that he assigned Sebastian a writing partner - Daisy! Enemies at first sight, hatred quickly turns to desire. But will the temptations of Sebastian's dark past be too much to resist? Can Daisy dispel the darkness from Sebastian's soul and finally bring them both the happiness they so crave?

Phillip Hawthorne, Marquis of Kayne, has his life mapped out before him. He is a responsible member of the peerage, and rumor has it he may become the next prime minister. And then the unthinkable happens - he literally runs into the woman from his past... Twelve years ago, Maria Martingale was the cook's daughter, and she fancied herself in love with Lawrence Hawthorne, the Marquis' younger brother. But then Phillip got wind of it and threatened to cut Lawrence off, unless Maria left. Refusing to be the cause of family strife, Maria agrees. Now she has run into Phillip, still as cold and ruthless as he had been on that day twelve years ago. He's concerned that Maria will ruin things for Lawrence and his impending marriage, so Phillip does the only thing he can think of to distract her - seduction. But he may get more than he bargains for when his heart begins to thaw and he realizes propriety isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Surviving on her sparse wages as a seamstress, Prudence Bosworth finally gets the chance to pursue her dreams of love, romance, and adventure when she inherits a fortune from her long-lost father--with the stipulation that she must marry in one year--and sets out to woo the man of her dreams, Rhys de Winter, the cynical Duke of St. Cyres, who is desperate to wed an heiress. Original.

Emma, the arbiter of Victorian etiquette and behavior, risks her sterling reputation when she finds herself attracted to the roguish and seductive Lord Marlowe, who is out to teach her that some rules are meant to be broken. Original.

One of Daphne Wade's guilty pleasures is to watch the Duke of Tremore as he works, shirtless, on the excavation site of his ducal estate. Anthony Courtland is by far the most exciting and handsome man she has ever known, and she dreams of one day being able to speak with him without getting tongue tied. Anthony, meanwhile, only sees Daphne as a hard worker on his excavation team. He considers her a plain young lady and says so in a careless remark to a friend, unaware that Daphne is outside the library door, her heart shattering to pieces. So Daphne decides she will not be so silly any longer. She begins to be tutored in the social graces, forcing Anthony to see the beauty who has been right in front of his eyes.