Regency London’s most celebrated courtesan, The Blackbird, was a woman before her time—uninhibited, financially independent, and free to live by her own rules. Schooled in the sensual arts by the one man she loved the most, she recorded every wicked detail in her diaries…

When Boston museum curator Piper Chase-Pierpont unearths The Blackbird’s steamy memoirs, she’s aroused and challenged by what she finds. Could the courtesan’s diaries  be used as a modern girl’s guide to finding love and empowerment? One curious curator—and one very lucky man—are about to find out…

In the third and final novel, SCOUNDREL IN MY DREAMS (Sept 2010), troubled Lord John Redgrave arrives home at last to find his friends have a surprise for him - he just might be a father! Like Aidan, Jack visits the only woman he ever loved, who vehemently denies any such thing, leaving him no further ideas - until he discovers that one dark and tempestuous night in the past, someone else may have taken her place in his bed! Once he finds quiet spinster Laurel Clarke, he must hold her captive until he learns the truth. How can she be the woman whose soft whispers and wanton touch still haunt his dreams to this day? How can she be the mother of his child?

The first novel in a spectacular new series about three dashing lords—each with a woman in his past who may or may not be the mother of his child—from New York Times bestselling author Celeste Bradley

Could a disgraceful lie

The three-year-old girl sitting on the steps of Brown’s Club for Distinguished Gentlemen insists that one of its members is her papa. Aidan de Quincy feels obligated to help the wee thing, even though she certainly isn’t his—or is she? To find answers, Aidan must first track down the lovely widow he swore to forget when their passionate affair came to a painful end. It doesn’t help that Madeleine Chandler is as sensual and enticing as ever…

lead to a heavenly reunion?

For three years, Madeleine had dreamed of seeing Aidan on her doorstep. The secret that once forced her to leave him now compels her to pretend that this sweet child is hers—a lie Aidan will surely never forgive. Yet the contented days and exquisite nights that follow are worth the heartbreak she knows must come. The truth will out—and when it does, there will be the devil to pay…

Plain and ignored despite her intelligence, Miss Sophie Blake watches her cousins succeed in love but knows such a life isn't for girls like her. Still, she has a secret--a burning infatuation with the one man who notices her, her friend Lord Graham Cavendish. This harmless friendship is put in danger when Graham abruptly becomes the Duke of Edencourt and must immediately find a rich wife to save his crumbling estate. Sophie realizes that time is running out--she must climb out of the ashes of obscurity and transform herself into a princess to keep Graham from marrying someone else!

A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE The dangerously beautiful Deirdre Cantor is determined to inherit her grandfather's vast fortune. All she needs is to marry a duke . . . and be the first granddaughter to walk down the aisle. So when brooding Calder Marbrook, the Marquis of Brookhaven and future Duke of of Brookmoor, is abandoned at the altar, Deirdre makes it her business to become his wife--in spite of the whispers about his past. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH Soon Deirdre's visions of a lavish existence with the handsome Calder are shattered when she learns his shocking secret. Feeling betrayed, Deirdre seeks veangeance by playing a perilous and seductive game of cat and mouse with her husband that threatens to drive them both to the heights of passion. But at what cost? Calder is determined to keep his secret under lock and key--and to make his stunning wife his in every way that matters. Even if it means winning her heart all over again . . .

The only way for vicar’s daughter Phoebe Millbury to inherit a family fortune is to find herself a duke—just as her late grandfather demanded in his will. But Phoebe, who’s still  trying to make good after a romantic scandal, also has her two cousins to contend with. They’re all competing for the same money, maybe even the same men. ..until Phoebe meets her match in the terribly handsome and charming Rafe Marbrook.

When she receives a marriage proposal from the Marquis of Brookhaven, Phoebe is thrilled to learn that Rafe is headed for dukedom…and accepts his offer. There’s only one problem: It’s from Rafe’s older, less captivating brother, Calder. Now Phoebe finds herself on the verge of yet another scandal as she faces a desperate choice: Marry Calder for his money—or follow her own heart? Each way can only lead to trouble…