13 Best Tessa Dare Books

Scholarly Minerva Highwood will do anything to present her fossil discovery in Edinburgh, even propose a sham elopement to notorious rake Colin Sandhurst. One madcap week of coaching inns, highwaymen, and shared beds turns an outrageous bargain into unexpected intimacy.

Plain, penniless Isolde 'Izzy' Goodnight expects little from life until she unexpectedly inherits a crumbling castle. Its brooding, half blind resident, Ransom, Duke of Rothbury, refuses to leave, turning a battle over ownership into a prickly, fairy tale romance neither one expected.

When seamstress Emma Gladstone storms into the scarred Duke of Ashbury's study to demand payment for a discarded wedding gown, he offers marriage instead. Their cold bargain to produce an heir soon melts into banter, late night confessions, and a chance at healing on both sides.

In the secluded village of Spindle Cove, Susanna Finch has built a retreat for unconventional ladies. When wounded war hero Bram, the new Earl of Rycliff, arrives to raise a militia, their clash over the town's future quickly turns into something far more explosive.

Dragged to Spindle Cove by his scheming mother, Griffin York, Duke of Halford, chooses barmaid Pauline Simms as the most unsuitable bride possible. He pays her to botch a week of duchess training, but Pauline's wit and ambition overturn every lesson, including his own.

Determined to prevent her match making mother from targeting a marquess, Charlotte Highwood corners Piers Brandon in a library and ends up hiding with him behind a curtain during someone else's tryst. Branded the culprit, she must solve the mystery and decide whether to accept his proposal.

Determined to win her childhood crush, headstrong Lucy Waltham practices her seduction skills on her brother's forbidding friend, Jeremy Trescott. Their pretend kisses ignite real longing, forcing them to face old wounds, scandalous temptation, and the risk of true love.

Known as the Duke of Midnight, reclusive Spencer Dumarque claims one waltz at every ball, then vanishes. When outspoken Lady Amelia d'Orsay uses that dance to save her feckless brother, she is drawn into a marriage of convenience and a deadly Stud Club mystery.

Clock setter Alexandra Mountbatten accidentally becomes governess to two unruly orphans under the care of pleasure seeking heir Chase Reynaud. Teaching lessons between mock funerals for a doll, she slowly turns their chaotic house into a home, challenging Chase's rules about attachment and desire.

Animal mad Lady Penelope Campion refuses to give up the motley menagerie she shelters in her London townhouse. Her ruthless new neighbor, self made Gabriel Duke, agrees to help re home her creatures so he can sell his property, only to find himself tamed instead.

To escape society, shy illustrator Madeline Gracechurch invented a Scottish officer fiancé and wrote him letters for years. When battle hardened Captain Logan MacKenzie arrives at her isolated Highland castle claiming to be that man, her harmless lie becomes a marriage of convenience with real stakes.

After eight years of waiting for her absent fiancé, Clio Whitmore inherits a castle and decides to call off the match. To secure her freedom she needs his brother, bruiser and rake Rafe Brandon, whose attempts to plan the perfect wedding keep turning into seduction.

Orphaned music teacher Kate Taylor has finally found a home in Spindle Cove, until a strange aristocratic family appears, claiming her as their kin. To protect her, grim militia commander Samuel Thorne offers a fake engagement that feels dangerously real.