Georgie is on the run, in disguise and living on the streets. Cold, hungry and desperate, she's forced to pickpocket. But Georgie thieves from the wrong man—the dashing Captain Richard Hernshaw. The consummate captain soon discovers that the grubby urchin is actually a pretty young woman— from a highly respectable family! He's instantly attracted to the homeless heiress, but dark secrets of his own may prevent him from ever being able to make her his wife….
He’s uncovered a shining pearl in the slums of London! English aristocrat Richard meets George in a London slum when he catches the boy stealing. Richard can tell from the boy’s accent that he doesn’t truly belong there, though. Did he run away from home or get kidnapped? Richard decides to take him back home. But after the boy is given a bath, Richard is shocked to find that George is actually a beautiful girl! She confesses that she’s on the run after being forced to marry to pay off her uncle’s debts. Richard finds himself drawn to her…but can he save her?
He’s uncovered a shining pearl in the slums of London! English aristocrat Richard meets George in a London slum when he catches the boy stealing. Richard can tell from the boy’s accent that he doesn’t truly belong there, though. Did he run away from home or get kidnapped? Richard decides to take him back home. But after the boy is given a bath, Richard is shocked to find that George is actually a beautiful girl! She confesses that she’s on the run after being forced to marry to pay off her uncle’s debts. Richard finds himself drawn to her…but can he save her?
MAKE-BELIEVE WIFE With his rakish reputation and reluctance to wed, Lord Luke Clarendon is in need of a make-believe wife and who better than the beautiful runaway actress Roxanne? She is his perfect leading lady, yet once they uncover her true identity her Lord may claim
The Cold Case Detectives series heats up as sparks fly between a relentless investigator and a murder witness. When someone is shot right in front of him, elite investigator Jasper Roesch is on the job. He can’t rest until he solves the case of who tried to kill this victim. What he knows: heiress Sadie Moreno witnessed the murder of a homeless man she was helping, and now someone wants her silenced forever. Jasper whisks Sadie away to a remote Wyoming hideaway to protect her, but not even the former SWAT agent’s crime-fighting skills can keep assassins at bay. The woman he’s reluctantly falling for isn’t telling him everything . . . and that secret is something that may get them both killed. “Jennifer Morey has lots of mysteries in her story, and I was intrigued with each new detail that was learned. Suspense builds in Runaway Heiress because of the huge number of unknowns . . . Jennifer Morey definitely had me guessing.” —alwaysreviewing.com
With his handsome good looks and rakish reputation Daniel, Lord Seaton knows he's a draw for any number of eligible young misses. One of whom he must marry for money! Eliza Bancroft is the lucky lady's companion who has caught his eye, much to the disgust of every other woman. Eliza would dearly love to succumb to Daniel's sweet flirtations, but propriety stops her—she is illegitimate. Hardly ideal wife material for a man such as Daniel! But the temptation is soon too much to bear….
A Worthy Gentleman She'd put the shadows of her past behind her and now Miss Sarah Hunter was delighted at the prospect of a Season in London — and at the opportunity to spend time with the man who'd once saved her life! But Mr Elworthy was much changed. Rumours and secrets tarnished his honourable name, and the ton had begun to wonder where the truth of the matter lay. He found a staunch champion in Sarah — but as she defended him she was inexorably drawn into the mystery... The Homeless Heiress Georgie is on the run, in disguise and living on the streets. Cold, hungry and desperate, she's forced to pickpocket. But Georgie thieves from the wrong man — the dashing Captain Richard Hernshaw. The consummate captain soon discovers that the grubby urchin is actually a pretty young woman — from a highly respectable family! He's instantly attracted to the homeless heiress, but dark secrets of his own may prevent him from ever being able to make her his wife...
Evie Jenkins didn’t know what she was thinking by agreeing to switch places with her American heiress cousin. After all, she’s naught but a poor—and usually quite sensible—companion. All she has to do is spend six weeks among London society, pretending to be an heiress...and ensure that absolutely under no circumstances does she accept any proposals of marriage. When his cousin declares himself in love with a new woman visiting from the States, Alexander Trenton—the sixth Duke of Hargrave—is determined to prove that the young lady in question is just another American "Dollar Princess" desperate for an English title. She seems innocent enough, but Alex is determined to expose her...by thoroughly seducing the lovely and fiercely intelligent heiress himself. What he assumed would be just one simple kiss erupts into something wild, uncontrollable, and much too public. Now the duke must save her reputation with a betrothal...little knowing that his charming Princess harbors a secret that would certainly ruin them both.
How two extraordinary women crossed the Victorian class divide to put Christian teachings into practice in the slums of East London Nellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soulmates sought to remake the world according to their own utopian vision of Christ's teachings. The Match Girl and the Heiress paints an unforgettable portrait of their late-nineteenth-century girlhoods of wealth and want, and their daring twentieth-century experiments in ethical living in a world torn apart by war, imperialism, and industrial capitalism. In this captivating book, Seth Koven chronicles how each traveled the globe—Nellie as a spinster proletarian laborer, Muriel as a well-heeled tourist and revered Christian peacemaker, anticolonial activist, and humanitarian. Koven vividly describes how their lives crossed in the slums of East London, where they inaugurated a grassroots revolution that took the Sermon on the Mount as a guide to achieving economic and social justice for the dispossessed. Koven shows how they devoted themselves to Kingsley Hall—Gandhi's London home in 1931 and Britain's first "people's house" founded on the Christian principles of social sharing, pacifism, and reconciliation—and sheds light on the intimacies and inequalities of their loving yet complicated relationship. The Match Girl and the Heiress probes the inner lives of these two extraordinary women against the panoramic backdrop of shop-floor labor politics, global capitalism, counterculture spirituality, and pacifist feminism to expose the wounds of poverty and neglect that Christian love could never heal.
