LAUREN SMITH SERIES:

The Duke's Dove

The Duke's Dove

Lauren Smith

Romance

A duke with a broken heart discovers he has one last chance to win back the woman he loves on Christmas Eve...Nathan Powell, the Duke of Hastings broke the heart of the only woman he ever loved when he ended their engagement in order to save her family. He demanded one promise of her...that she marry another man and live a happy life. Now he's desperate to avoid marriage to someone else at all costs. When his younger brother tricks him into attending a Christmas Ball, he discovers his beloved Thea will be there. Thea Swann has plenty of problems, with six unmarried younger sisters to keep in line, she doesn't worry that she'll run into the reclusive duke that stole her heart eight years ago. But when she comes face to face with Nathan, and he begs her for just one dance...she wonders, will he steal one last dance, one last kiss before walking away forever and taking her broken heart with him?
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Escaping the Earl

Escaping the Earl

Lauren Smith

Romance

Peregrine Ashby, Earl of RutlandA gentleman.A reluctant aristocrat.Desperate to avoid marriage. Peregrine Ashby, the newly and unexpectedly titled Earl of Rutland, is muddling through the affairs of becoming a suddenly wealthy and titled man of means. The last thing he wants to worry about is finding a wife. After the disaster of his parents' loveless marriage, he's sworn off wife-hunting. But when he stumbles quite literally into a mysterious beauty wearing a mask at a ball who begs for his help he can't deny her. Her request? Make love to her beneath the stars and save her from a terrible marriage herself. After the magic of the night is over and the mysterious beauty has vanished, he remains haunted by her and what might have been... Sabrina Talleyrand flees her home when she learns her brother has sold her in marriage to a foul man. Knowing the one thing that will stop the marriage is no longer being a virgin,...
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The Scoundrel of Drury Lane

The Scoundrel of Drury Lane

Lauren Smith

Romance

He was falsely accused and sentenced to die... At nineteen, Christopher "Kit" Hollingsworth is spared the noose but sentenced to serve seven years in Australia as a convict. The men who betrayed him have plans to make sure he never returns to England. But Kit's strong will and thirst for vengeance ensure his survival. Seven long years later, he returns to London but he's forever changed. Gone is the innocent, handsome young lad he'd been. Now Kit is a towering, muscular man of twenty-six with scars inside and out. He wants England to see the new him, the man who lost his soul, and he wants the three men who destroyed his life to forfeit theirs. The only light in his dark night is a beautiful, innocent young woman who paints the sets at the Drury Lane theater. There's just one problem...she's the daughter of one of the men who sent him to prison.
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The Wartime Matchmakers

The Wartime Matchmakers

Lauren Smith

Romance

When the world went to war . . . they fought for love.England, 1939: The world is on the brink of war when Elizabeth Mowbray breaks her engagement with a tea planter in India and returns home to the English countryside. Desperate to escape a stifling life under her parents' roof, she moves to London seeking adventure and excitement. With German forces sweeping across Europe, she has little hope of finding steady, fulfilling employment as England readies itself for war. A chance encounter with Henrietta, Brigadier General Byron's daughter, sets Elizabeth on a course that will forever change her life and the lives of others. Henrietta, a recently divorced and statuesque beauty, is not a hopeless romantic like Elizabeth, but her new friend inspires her to embrace life, even as the dark fog of war creeps across the English Channel. The two enterprising young women come up with a brilliant idea to open London's first...
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Tempting Prince Charming

Tempting Prince Charming

Lauren Smith

Romance

This prince charming has the world at his fingertips. Anything real estate mogul Thad Worthington wants, he gets—except true love. Until one cold night when he meets a woman with a warm heart. But his would-be princess has no desire to risk her heart for a second chance at a fairy tale, not when she's already widowed and a single mother. After one scorching kiss that leaves him changed forever, Thad won't let his princess run from him. When her wicked stepmother threatens to ruin this fairy tale, Thad is left holding a glass slipper and searching for the woman he can't live without.
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Boudreaux's Lady

Boudreaux's Lady

Lauren Smith

Romance

Danger makes the heart grow fonder... Miss Philippa Wilson makes the best of a bad situation. Her lot in life isn't what she'd choose, but being an upstairs maid for a wealthy baron is better than living on the streets. Little does she know her lackluster days are about to become decidedly more interesting...and dangerous. When a madman wants Philippa dead, it's going to take more than the plan of her good-hearted employer to save her and find out why she's being targeted. It's going to take a hero...or maybe a rogue. Beauregard Boudreaux is a notorious rogue, living uneventful days and terribly scandalous nights with little thought to settling down. He needs nothing more than a strong drink, a beautiful mistress, and a spirited card game to be happy...When he intervenes to rescue a friend's upstairs maid from a killer, he's drawn into a game of cat and mouse with the maid used as bait to draw out the killer. But the more time Beau...
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Stocking Stuffer

Stocking Stuffer

Lauren Smith

Romance

When Bailey Willis plays Santa's elf for her company's Christmas party, she never expects the man playing the role of Santa to be the childhood crush who broke her heart at sixteen.Montgomery "Mack" Macholan realizes he made a mistake when he let Bailey go home on prom night without kissing her. Now ten years later he's playing Santa to her sexy elf and he can't keep his hands off her.
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The Last Wicked Rogue

The Last Wicked Rogue

Lauren Smith

Romance

**He's the last Rogue standing, and the wickedest…** Charles Humphrey, the Earl of Lonsdale is infamous for his seductions. With laughing gray eyes and a halo of blond hair, he's every woman's wicked dream. Beneath that devil-may-care grin, he has a painful past that has made him sure love was not for him, even as the rest of his friends, the members of the League of Rogues, settle down in wedded bliss. When he accidentally rescues a mysterious beauty, with eyes as haunted as his own, and shares one life-changing kiss with her, she vanishes in the night. Charles vows to find this angel, who might yet save his soul, but he knows anyone he cares about is in grave danger, when an old enemy resurfaces a final time for revenge… **She's the only woman who can save him…** Lily has secrets, too many secrets. When she's abducted and taken into the London underworld by a gang of nefarious brutes, she's rescued by Charles, the one man who can never know her past. She can't let him discover her feelings or her secrets, but she can't resist sharing one kiss with him before escaping his passionate embrace. That taste of the last bachelor of the League of Rogues leaves her desiring a future she cannot have—especially when her master demands she prove her loyalty in a most deadly way... *Warning: This book contains a scandalous rogue with a heart of gold, a lady who risks it all to save him, and a league of rogues who value friendship and love above all else.*
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The Earl of Kent

The Earl of Kent

Lauren Smith

Romance

Christmas has never been more wicked... Christmas has never been more wicked...Christmas has never been more wicked...HE'S BATTERED AND BROKEN… HE'S BATTERED AND BROKEN…Targeted by the enemies of a friend, roguish Phillip Wilkes, the Earl of Kent, is nearly killed in a violent attack. Beaten and left for dead, he is rescued and nursed back to health by a beautiful angel that he's convinced exists only in his dreams. When he recovers and learns his heart was burning for none other than the sister of his closest friend, he knows she is forbidden to him. He runs away from the only woman who has ever shown him true kindness because who could ever learn to love a broken man? SHE BELIEVES IN THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE… SHE BELIEVES IN THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE…Ella...
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Blood Moon on the Rise

Blood Moon on the Rise

Lauren Smith

Romance

It just wasn't Tami Gilbert's night. Pretending to seduce a werewolf and killing him in an alley is not exactly what she had in mind for her Friday night. But as a hunter for the Brotherhood of the Blood Moon, she is tasked with locating dangerous supernatural creatures and eliminating them, along with her tracker partner, the sexy and magically gifted, Nicholas Rubin. But relationships between hunters and trackers are expressly forbidden – and Tami's been carrying this torch since they were fifteen. As if life weren't complicated enough ...Nicholas has been drawn to his partner since they were young trainees. But his first duty is to the Brotherhood. He can't betray the centuries of rules that help keep their world safe. Even if it means never giving into his longing for Tami. ... Temptation takes on a whole new meaning!After narrowly escaping death, Tami is unable to...
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No Rest for the Wicked

No Rest for the Wicked

Lauren Smith

Romance

A lady's guide to surviving aboard a pirate ship:- Dress as a cabin boy.- Avoid drinking too much rum when the handsome captain is around.- Do not let the captain kiss you...again. The last thing Roberta Harcourt needs is to be trapped on a ship with pirates. After she is separated from her father when their ship is attacked, Roberta finds herself the unwilling guest of sinfully handsome Captain Dominic Grey. He gives her two choices: to share his bed and maintain her life as a lady, or she can sleep on the floor of his cabin and live the life of a cabin boy until he decides to set her free. Refusing to be seduced by a pirate, she dresses in breeches and assumes duties on board his ship among the men, but each night, sharing a cabin with the brooding, seductively intense captain, she begins to wonder if letting him kiss her again might be a rule worth breaking... Dominic lost his innocence long ago when he was...
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Stranded with Prince Charming

Stranded with Prince Charming

Lauren Smith

Romance

Getting stuck in Switzerland over Christmas with your ex-boyfriend's nemesis isn't a good thing...or is it? When Shana Pimms finds Chicago's resident bad boy lawyer Roarke Covington in her hotel room claiming to be her roommate, she's more than a little confused. She'd only agreed to help her ex-boyfriend out by traveling overseas to negotiate a real estate deal for her father's law firm. The last thing she's ready for is the handsome, oh-so-sexy, Roarke to play prince charming to her Cinderella... Roarke can't believe his luck. For a man who hates Christmas, this sure is shaping up to be one heck of a Christmas miracle because he gets to share a hotel room...and a bed with Shana, the girl he's secretly been in love with for years. There's just one problem, Shana doesn't trust him because her ex-boyfriend has her convinced he's the villain in her fairy tale life. With a little seduction, and a lot of Christmas magic in this snowy...
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