The Reluctant Lords Boxed Set

********A Traitorous Heart******** ***2014 RomCon Reader's Crown Finalist in Historical Romance*** She thought she had lost everyone during an early attack by Napoleon's forces. Then upon returning to England she loses even more… He lost his new wife in a brutal attack six months ago during one of the first battle surges by Le Grande Armée. Left with an injury to remind him of that time he reluctantly takes up his mantle as a Peer of the Realm and uses his skills with numbers and letters to help the War Office as a code specialist. Nothing could surprise him more than walking into a government safe house to question a suspected traitor and find his supposedly dead wife lying injured with no memory of their time together. Is she a traitor? Where has she been all this time? And is their love strong enough to survive or will the truth tear them apart forever? A Regency historical romance full of spies, intrigue and romance. ********A Thin Line******** ***2014 RomCon Reader's Crown Finalist in Historical Romance*** She grew up believing he was her knight-in-shining armor. He thought of her as his best friend's little sister, the pest that followed them around everywhere. Now time and circumstances have changed them both. By a series of unfortunate events, Gabriel has become the Duke of Hawkescliffe and sees himself resigned to a loveless marriage. Until that time arrives, he will continue to serve in the fight against Napoleon as an Agent for the Crown. When Mikala Simmons overhears a conversation that sounds as if Gabriel is trading secrets with a foreign agent, she is torn. Should she tell someone or confront the man himself? Only as she becomes further embroiled in the subterfuge and her life hangs in the balance will Gabriel have to decide what is truly important. Society, the Crown, or the woman of his dreams? ********To Love and Protect******** Lady Clarissa Blackerby enjoyed the peaceful life she and her father lived among the ton. That is until he remarried. Clarissa does not trust her new step-mother nor her step-mother's brother, but being an only child she has no one to look to for help. When her father disappears and she is attacked, she turns in desperation to her aunt. When Lord Justin Southerby receives a plea from his godmother he dreads what he will walk into. Expecting to have to save her from another of her madcap capers, he instead finds her niece in desperate need of protection. As they join forces to find her father, Clarissa and Justin find themselves being pulled into a deeper intrigue. As they find themselves in more danger, they realize they can only trust each other. Will they find answers before it is too late? Will the trust they develop lead them to a love that will last a lifetime? Or will the past create a chasm between them that not even love can span? This is the titillating ending to The Reluctant Lords Trilogy. The Reluctant Lords Trilogy follow three men in Regency England who inherit titles they aren't supposed to have and the women that love them.