Lydia Drake Books in Order

Julia needs a husband to escape her cruel stepmother, but a duke's stolen kiss ruins her carefully planned opportunity. Refusing to abandon her chance at freedom, she proposes an unconventional arrangement to the determined bachelor who disrupted her life.

Respectable musician Susannah longs to perform publicly, and ambitious Rafe needs aristocratic customers for his establishment. Their bargain creates her mysterious stage persona, but the attraction growing behind the curtain threatens the reputation he promised to protect.

Governess Viola has long loved a duke who knows nothing of her feelings. When an injury strands her and her young charge at his estate, unavoidable proximity awakens mutual desire, but her concealed secret threatens their fragile romance.

Gothic novelist Caroline needs a wealthy husband to save her family from her father's debts. Blackmailing a notorious earl into marriage seems her last option, but her intended groom proves far more dangerous and appealing than she expected.