Deborah Hale Books in Order

A self-made viscount needs an heir, and a pregnant vicar’s daughter needs a husband. Their marriage of convenience is troubled by her loyalty to his dead half-brother and the schemes of relatives, forcing them to reconsider what they believe about each other.

Edmund marries Julianna to protect her from a dangerous stepbrother, despite her engagement to his missing nephew. Their secret arrangement develops into genuine attraction, leaving both uncertain how to reconcile growing love with the duty awaiting them if the nephew returns.

Ordered to marry Lord Rowan DeCourtenay, Cecily Tyrell hopes the formidable knight can defend her home and people. Their attraction challenges his guarded heart, but the secrets behind his troubling reputation threaten the future they might share.

A wounded soldier returns home seeking seclusion but is asked to marry Angela Lacewood to satisfy his dying grandfather. What begins as an apparent duty challenges the emotional defenses of a man who believes his scars have ended his chances of love.

Claire Talbot vows to protect her sister from Ewan Geddes, the former servant she believes has returned as a fortune hunter. Trying to divert his attention revives Claire's own attraction and challenges Ewan's plans for marriage.

With her people in danger, Dominie De Montford turns to Armand Flambard, the warrior who once broke her heart. His painful wartime secret threatens their fragile alliance as necessity draws them toward a second chance at love.

Enchantress Maura Woodbury learns she must awaken a legendary warrior who can free her occupied country. Finding an ancient map requires a dangerous journey with an outlaw escort, whose distrust of magic leaves her uncertain whether he will protect or endanger her.

Awakening a legendary king has not freed Maura’s homeland or ended her responsibilities. She must enter the enemy’s heartland to seek an artifact that could secure liberation, confronting dangers that test her confidence in her power and promised destiny.

A widow escorts prospective brides to Halifax and immediately clashes with its dutiful governor. Her determination to defend the women in her care challenges his assumptions, while their arguments reveal an attraction that threatens his carefully ordered sense of responsibility.

Sylvie Somerville attends a midsummer masquerade hoping it will lead her to true love. Her search for a romantic possibility elsewhere threatens to obscure the affection already near her, turning the evening into a question of recognizing what she has overlooked.

A penniless woman agrees to marry the uncle of her nephew to secure the child's future. Each distrusts the other's motives, but living together challenges their assumptions and the defenses built around earlier heartbreak.

A widow is confronted by the sweetheart she once lost after blackmail forced her into another marriage. Believing she betrayed him, he demands a wedding, while she struggles to reveal the truth before revenge overwhelms their reunion.

Sent from India to England after a scandal, Genia faces a restricted future as her aunt's companion. An encounter with a rake aboard ship offers temporary freedom, complicating his plan for one last adventure before marriage.

Searching secretly for her missing brother, Bethan answers a marriage advertisement that leads her to Singapore. Discovering that the bachelor wants a mistress rather than a wife complicates both her mission and her growing attraction.

Lizzie Cane rises from London poverty to prominence as courtesan Elizabeth Armistead, determined never to depend on another person for security. Her carefully negotiated place in Georgian society becomes uncertain when love threatens the rules that helped her survive.

A solitary naval captain inherits an estate occupied by two orphaned cousins and their devoted governess. Allowing them one final Christmas at home brings him into an unexpected partnership with Marian, challenging his plans to keep children and emotional attachments outside his life.

Believing his wife has betrayed him, an earl banishes her to his remote childhood home, then finds himself trapped there beside her. Forced proximity gives Caroline a final opportunity to challenge his coldness and confront the wounds beneath their failing marriage.

Grace Ellerby disguises her beauty to find security as governess to a widower’s daughters. A masked-ball encounter draws her employer toward the woman he fails to recognize, while their growing feelings threaten the protective distance she has worked to maintain.

A war widow marries a Yankee businessman to preserve her struggling plantation and protect her children. His resemblance to her dead husband unsettles her, but his kindness creates a deeper conflict while he guards a secret that could destroy their new family.

A lively governess improves the health and confidence of a duke’s son despite his father’s mistrust of her methods. As the duke begins hoping she will stay, she must decide whether love can coexist with the independence she refuses to surrender.

A wounded earl returns from Waterloo determined to fulfill a promise of vengeance. His children’s governess urges him to build a relationship with them instead, creating a conflict between military duty, fatherhood and the growing affection neither expected.

A snowstorm strands a baronet with the woman who rejected his proposal four years earlier. Renewed affection forces her to confront the family secret behind her refusal, while he struggles to decide whether trusting her again would only repeat his earlier humiliation.

A widowed mother receives unexpected help from the man she rejected years earlier when illness leaves her vulnerable at Christmas. Sharing his lonely home brings renewed affection, but both must confront the hurt that still stands between generosity and a second chance.

Lily fears her twin will marry a fortune hunter, then finds herself helping a respectable captain court that same sister. Substituting for the ill heiress at a house party deepens Lily’s own feelings, making exposure of the deception a danger to three futures.

Preparing to leave for a charity-school project, a governess organizes a house party to find her employer a wife. Courtship lessons reveal mutual admiration, but their growing attachment clashes with the separate ambitions that give meaning to both their lives.

Longing for adventure beyond her father’s farm, Sorsha meets a fugitive escaped from the Blood Moon Mines. Helping him draws her into the dangers of an occupied kingdom, testing the courage and resolve behind her wish for a different life.

Lord Gabriel suspects a former love is the mother of an abandoned infant and seeks a marriage for the child’s sake. Her emphatic denial draws him into hidden family matters, while their renewed proximity reopens an affection damaged by earlier rejection.

Determined to reunite her brother with the woman he loves, Ivy Greenwood recruits a scientist into a pretend elopement. Their practical deception creates an unexpected romantic problem, raising the possibility that matchmaking for someone else may lead to a real wedding of their own.

Trying to prevent an elopement reunites Thorn Greenwood and Felicity Lyte, reviving a passionate relationship. Their renewed attraction offers another chance at happiness, but the widow’s concealed pregnancy threatens to complicate the future they are beginning to imagine.

Returning to Wales on a political mission, Con encounters the woman whose youthful love for him cost her dearly. Now a widowed mother protecting her estate and children, Enid must decide whether renewed passion is worth risking the future she has secured.

A woman returns to claim an infant left with three bachelors, naming Rory as the father despite his uncertainty about their past. His attachment to the child and growing feelings for her conflict with his conviction that he is unsuited to marriage.

Maura races to find a sleeping warrior before the midsummer moon, believing he can liberate her oppressed country. Witnessing her people’s suffering deepens her resolve, but the quest demands choices that may exact a painful cost from both her future and her heart.