She longs to be taken seriously in the medical field, but her efforts go unnoticed. She's studying to be a physician and wants to be a proper doctor. For that reason alone he’ll avoid proper ladies and wedding bells.Lady Marian Lindsay rather likes being a spinster and embraces her bluestocking ways. His grandfather, the Duke of Southington wants nothing more than to see him wed and return to the fold. The Wicked Earls’ Club is his haven and he isn’t ready to give it up for matrimony. He rather enjoys being unencumbered and a wife would complicate things. Jonas Parker, the Earl of Harrington has no desire to marry. What happens will depend on Thor's need for revenge and Pieretta's ability to forgive him for his dastardly deeds. Thor knows what Pieretta believes, but proceeds with his plans anyway. Pieretta is disgusted by the pirate's actions. He must acquire Pieretta by any means necessary, and he doesn't mind plundering a ship to obtain her.When Pieretta and Thor meet, they are instantly attracted to each other against their better judgments. He became a pirate unwillingly after his business partner tried to murder him. Her grandpere is her guardian, and she must do what he says.Thor has a score to settle, and Pieretta is the key to his revenge. Pieretta doesn't want to leave Charleston and the only home she has ever known. The comte insists that she travel to France to live with him. Will love intervene, altering both their courses?Pieretta Carlyle experienced the loss of her father, leaving her alone in the world except for her grandpere, Comte Renard Dubois. Pieretta boards a ship, unaware that Thor is waiting to kidnap her for revenge against her grandfather. The question is will they be brave enough to reach for them… Read online In the bottom of their hearts they cling to that hope and start to wonder if some dreams can come true.

Her letters during the war had given him hope when there was none however he doesn’t believe he deserves her love. As they rekindle their friendship they find hope they thought they’d both lost. Reluctantly, he returns to his ancestral home. He never expected to inherit the title and become the Earl of Manchester, but his brother drank himself into an early grave leaving a daughter behind and a mountain of debt. The summer she spent at Manchester Castle where she started to dream of a happily-ever-after in the arms of the man who holds her heart. War has left Garrick Edwards cynical. Her formative years were filled with difficulties, but she carries one memory with her always-even through the darkest times. At least that is what Miss Hannah Knight believes.

A Flawed Jewel by Dawn Brower