Joanna Shupe Books in Order

Julia has not seen her husband since their rushed wedding eight years earlier, so she devises a reckless plan to secure her future. In Venice, she approaches him in disguise as a courtesan and finds far more feeling than expected.

Maggie hides behind a male pen name as a political cartoonist while society remembers only scandal. When old flame Simon Barrett reenters her life, anger, unfinished history, and public ruin collide.

Lady Sophia Barnes roams London's rougher streets in men's clothing, determined to fight for people with little protection. To carry out her latest scheme, she must rely on the man who once broke her heart.

William Sloane has politics on his mind, not romance, until he meets Ava Jones, a fake medium living by wit and nerve. She plans to use him, he exposes her game, and soon neither is sure who holds the stronger spell.

Steel king Emmett Cavanaugh distrusts society women, until Elizabeth Sloane asks him to back her stock trades. Their business arrangement grows risky fast, especially once money and desire become impossible to separate.

Shop girl Clara Dawson witnesses a terrible crime and flees straight into the arms of railroad man Ted Harper at Grand Central Depot. A train journey to safety becomes something far more intimate, if her secrets do not derail it first.

Lady Honora Parker needs an engagement so unsuitable her father will reject it and let her marry the man she loves. Julius Hatcher agrees to play the villain, then starts becoming exactly the man she never expected.

Grace Shipley dreams of designing more than holiday windows, and late nights at the department store give her a quiet new friend. The trouble is Alex has not told her he owns the place.

Newspaper magnate Calvin Cabot agrees to help old flame Lillian Davies search for her missing brother, if she stays out of his way. She never does, and their second chance turns messy, urgent, and impossible to ignore.

Christina Barclay needs a wealthy husband fast, or her ruined family will drag her into a terrible match. Reclusive inventor Oliver Hawkes offers a one-year marriage of convenience, but friendship and desire make the bargain harder to keep.

Lady Eva Hyde sails to New York determined to become an architect and start over. When a shipboard flirtation turns into a professional partnership, she and hotelier Phillip Mansfield must face sabotage as well as their growing attraction.

Casino owner Clayton Madden sees Florence Greene as a way to strike at her powerful family. Florence plans to learn everything from him and build a casino for women, but revenge and ambition make risky partners for love.

Mamie Greene wants more than parties and society calls, even if helping poor families means defying her father. Frank Tripp, the family lawyer, is determined to protect her, and neither expects the pull between them.

Uptown reformer Justine Greene crosses paths with Jack Mulligan, the gang leader who rules a rougher side of Manhattan. Their uneasy alliance turns personal when her past puts her in real danger.

Francesca is taken to Italy as part of a brutal mafia bargain and discovers the most dangerous man in the room is not the groom but the king himself, Fausto. Their obsession sparks a dark romance with steep costs and no easy escape.

Wallflower Violet decides she is done waiting to be noticed and sets her sights on the Duke of Ravensthorpe, her father's best friend. What starts as a forbidden pursuit quickly gets very hot.

Ruined and desperate to care for her sick sister, Lady Eliza auctions the last thing she owns, her virginity. The winning bidder is the duke who has known her since childhood, and rescue proves far more complicated than either expected.

Harrison Archer comes home to New York broke and desperate enough to marry money. The only woman who can help him find an heiress is Maddie Webster, his childhood friend and the one he has never stopped wanting.

Wallflower Alice Lusk needs lessons in seduction before her fortune lands her in the wrong marriage. Christopher Kit Ward agrees to teach her, planning to use her connection to a great chef, but their bargain quickly becomes real.

Kidnapped and furious, Francesca is done begging Fausto for anything. But as enemies close in, the second half of their story turns into a battle of survival, loyalty, and who will finally bend first.

Gia Mancini heads to Milan to chase a fashion career, not a scandalous affair. Enzo sees the sheltered mafia princess as a perfect tool for revenge, until wanting her becomes the one thing he cannot control.

Katherine Delafield's arranged engagement to tycoon Preston Clarke has been ignored so long she assumes it will never happen. Then a masked encounter changes everything, and two stubborn people must decide whether passion can survive pride.

This collection gathers three of Joanna Shupe's darker historical romances: My Dirty Duke, Sold to the Duke, and The Gangster's Prize. Expect dukes, criminals, forbidden desire, and short, high-heat stories.

Giulio has renounced his birthright and lives on the run, but an assassin is still on his trail. What begins as a hunt between Giulio and Alessio becomes a tense, deeply personal M/M romance.

Emma wants to become a doctor, not a pawn in mafia diplomacy, but she is forced into marriage with Giacomo. An heir deadline and a brewing war turn their unwanted union into something far more intense.

Nellie Young has no intention of becoming respectable, until an anonymous beachside kiss ties her to the proper Duke of Lockwood. As desire turns serious, her new cause could cost him the safe future he came to New York to secure.

Isabelle Kelly goes looking for her missing father and heads straight to Billy Baxter, the gang leader she blames. Billy has wanted her for months, and once she steps into his world, neither danger nor desire stays at a safe distance.

Actress Rose O'Donahue agrees to become wealthy tycoon Moore Emerson's mistress because the arrangement seems practical and temporary. Then she makes the one mistake she never planned for, she falls in love.

Maggie Fiorentino's carefree weekend turns disastrous when she learns her one-night stand is mob boss Vito D'Agostino, and he now controls her family's winery. Their chemistry is instant, but so is the fight over power.

Valentina is pulled into Luca Benetti's dangerous world before she understands what he really wants from her. He tells himself he is protecting his family, but secrets and desire quickly complicate everything.

Street singer Josie Smith is swept into a dangerous con when Leo Hardy decides she resembles a famous missing child. As they climb into high society together, both have to sort revenge from what is real.

Caroline's dream marriage becomes a prison, and the laws of the day leave her few ways out. A job cataloging a private library brings her to scarred recluse Zane Bishop, and with him, the first real chance at freedom.