Meara Platt Books in Order

Ambitious scholar Lily agrees to help a duke reconcile with his estranged Scottish grandson in return for support for her scientific aspirations. Ewan plans only a short stay, but her determination and their growing attraction complicate his return home.

Determined to restore her reputation, Daisy plans to marry an honorable man but falls for notorious rake Gabriel instead. His dissolute image hides dangerous service to the Crown, and her attempts to reform him threaten the defenses around his heart.

Dillie rescues the Duke of Edgeware from an attack, provoking scandal when he recuperates in her bed. She rejects his dutiful proposal, but their paths cross again while assassins and his troubled past threaten a love neither can easily dismiss.

After her horse injures Lord Graelem, Laurel promises to help him and finds herself pressed into an engagement. He needs a wife to keep his inheritance, while she wants love, making their growing attachment difficult to trust.

Julia fights to protect her orphaned cousin from an earl seeking guardianship and a faerie king promising to cure the boy’s disability. As magic draws them toward another realm, her growing connection with Douglas may offer their only protection.

Rose arranges to abduct the viscount who saved her life, hoping to rescue him from an unsuitable marriage. Her plan accidentally traps them together and endangers his secret investigation into the very woman he has been pretending to court.

The Earl of Exmoor agrees to marry Sophie to honor a request from her dying brother. What begins as an obligation offers an unexpected chance at affection and healing for a man still carrying the wounds of battle.

Trapped in the underworld as the feared Dragon Lord Bloodaxe, Arik tries to surrender his mortal ties. The arrival of captive Georgiana awakens feelings he cannot explain away, while the realm’s ruler threatens the woman who might change his destiny.

Saron loses part of his soul whenever he fights the demons threatening his world. After gaining guardianship of Lady Anabelle and possession of her estate, he discovers that accepting her love may be his only escape from a monstrous fate.

Faerie king Cadeyrn searches for the mortal woman prophesied to save his people at the cost of her life. Drawn to his world, sheltered Melody must choose between a safe marriage and a love that could fulfill the terrible prediction.

Birdwatcher Prudence defies the new Duke of Pembroke’s ban on crossing his land, disrupting his secret investigation into a rebellion. Their clashes become attraction, but being trapped together on dangerous cliffs forces Bhrodi to reveal more than his feelings.

Lady Abigail Croft struggles to save her reckless brother when the Earl of Westcliff offers unexpected help. His interest unsettles her already troubled life, while her courage challenges the comfortable detachment with which he has approached society and romance.

Meggie Cameron and William Farthingale seem meant for one another, but an unspoken secret keeps them apart. As Christmas approaches, their connection offers the possibility of overcoming that distance and finding the holiday happiness Meggie has hoped for.

Ginny realizes that the guardian angel she has always seen is the man she loves. Once a warrior killed centuries earlier, he shares her feelings, but finding happiness together means confronting the boundaries between time, mortality and his heavenly existence.

A playful challenge at her betrothal sends Frances Cameron into thirty days of close work with the Duke of Kintyre. What begins as a determination to win a battle between the sexes soon places her heart at risk.

Warned by her guardian angel that she may lose her true love, Lettie sets out to discover his identity. Her journey brings her close to foundling Brynne, whose unknown ancestry stands between their growing affection and the marriage she wants.

When thieves steal a supposedly cursed necklace, Emma Langdon enlists condemned privateer Hugh Le Brecque to find her missing father. Their voyage offers Hugh a chance to clear his name, but rekindles a connection complicated by betrayal and revenge.

After discovering her intended husband’s treason, Nicola flees with her brother’s friend, the Earl of Bainbridge. Protecting her brings the guarded Crown agent dangerously close to love, forcing him to confront the childhood wounds behind his refusal to risk his heart.

With her family disgraced and threatened with ruin, Lara Le Brecque turns to returning soldier Marcus Brayden for help. His determination to uncover the plot against them may require marriage, turning a protective alliance into a risk to both hearts.

As a child, Faith Boscombe feared a fortune promising that a dragon would consume her heart, until Caleb Brayden offered a protective amulet. Reunited ten years later, they discover that his comforting invention may have bound their futures together.

Facing an unwanted marriage, Olivia tries a mysterious book’s romantic exercises on her formidable childhood friend. The Duke of Hartford agrees to help her find a husband, but her experiments soon challenge his belief that he cannot be that man.

Rescuing Violet from bees leaves naval captain Romulus caught in a compromising situation and obliged to marry her. They turn to a mysterious book for guidance, hoping to transform duty and attraction into love before he returns to sea.

Penelope wants a suitable English husband and turns to protective Scottish laird Thaddius to test advice from a mysterious love manual. He has loved her for years, but fears his modest estate and their differences make winning her heart impossible.

Poppy has four days to attract the Earl of Welles before a glamorous rival arrives at his house party. Armed with a mysterious book’s advice, she seeks his heart while he pursues a blackmail investigation and questions his own plans.

William Croft returns to find Aislin Farnsworth, the pirate’s daughter who tried to save him from her own father. Amid Tintagel’s caves and legends, his search renews a love that survived danger and their separation.

Widowed Holly arrives in London to chaperone her sisters, determined never to risk another marriage. Captain Joshua refuses to let her dismiss their connection, especially when secrets from her past threaten her safety and give him new reason to protect her.

Humiliated by a man she expected to marry, Dahlia doubts that anyone could want her. Naval captain Ronan is certain she is his future, but helping her trust his intentions may require more than the mysterious Book of Love.

Heather believes her dream is coming true when a refined marquess courts her, yet a mysterious book keeps directing her toward roguish Highland captain Robbie. His determination to win her challenges the assumptions behind her supposedly perfect match.

Raised without a family, bookshop owner Felicity fears another lonely Christmas. Doctor Angus has loved her quietly for years, but revealing his feelings amid a snowstorm and holiday preparations may finally give both of them hope for a future together.

After nursing wounded veteran Peter Croft through his darkest days, Annie Whitcomb loses her father and her security. Peter offers marriage to protect her, hoping the practical arrangement might become the love he has never felt worthy of claiming.

The indebted Earl of Alnwick rescues runaway bride Katie Pringle and sees an easy way to restore his fortune: return her for the reward. Their journey to London complicates a bargain that initially seemed more profitable than personal.

As war divides the underworld, dragon lord Lucien Mordain must choose between darkness and the allies resisting it. His connection with orphan Aideen offers hope, but a prophecy showing her killing him threatens the love binding them together.

Crown agent Gideon Croft is shot and left for dead while investigating a rebel plot. The woman who saves him is the suspected traitor’s niece, leaving their growing attachment entangled with the danger he was sent to confront.

Camellia flees before her London debut, carrying a secret and the mysterious Book of Love. Sent to retrieve her, Crown agent Lorcan discovers her fear is justified: a killer awaits, and protecting her becomes more important than completing his assignment.

On her way to her London debut, Juniper Farthingale meets Scottish general Augustus MacLauren at a coaching inn and quickly imagines a future together. His imminent departure challenges a cautious soldier to trust feelings that have arrived with surprising speed.

After witnessing a suspicious fire, Willow Farthingale finds herself under magistrate Shayne Brayden’s protection instead of heading to London. While he searches for the culprits, she tests a book’s romantic advice on the man determined to keep her safe.

Self-made Perin Marsh has admired Aurora Brayden from afar while believing she belongs to a world he can never enter. An encounter shortly before Christmas turns that distant dream into a chance at the love he thought impossible.

Companion Cara takes an elderly duchess to her seaside cottage, only to face the duke’s suspicions about a missing necklace. As he investigates his grandmother’s departure, his doubts give way to an attraction that could change both their lives.

Lady Henleigh buys a seaside cottage shunned for its haunting and encounters the ghost of sea captain Brioc Arundel. Her ability to feel his touch draws them together, raising questions about her arrival and the possibility of love across death.

Delivering a book brings Lady Augusta Nesbitt into magistrate Rafe Quinton’s life just as a fire threatens her elderly aunt. Investigating together draws them closer, despite dangerous family secrets and the social distance between a debutante and a widower.

Facing a marriage imposed by her father, Lady Remington Hartfield turns to vicar Adam Carstairs for help. His kindness offers hope, but guilt over his brother’s wartime death has left him determined to keep love outside his life.

Crown agent Deklan Quinton has one week to recover a priceless crown stolen by Grace Montford’s brother and save her life. Growing feelings for the woman he protects threaten the emotional distance on which his professional success depends.

Hyacinth Brayden decides that childhood friend Innes Buchan should marry her, but his unhappy past has left him suspicious of affection. Winning him means proving she wants his heart, rather than the wealth and title other women pursue.

Crown agent Donal Brayden takes Luciana Lessing into hiding after an attempt on her life. A necklace may explain her mysterious origins, but protecting her from unknown enemies becomes more difficult as their investigation turns into an unexpected romance.

Pursuing stolen research, archaeologist Adela collides with the Duke of Huntsford and draws him into an adventure that causes scandal. His offer of marriage seems honorable, but she fears accepting anything less than a love that can endure.

Needing access to her trust fund to support her sisters, Henley considers a marriage of convenience with neighboring duke Cain. He has retreated to Moonstone Landing to recover from war, but her unexpected proposal challenges his resolve to remain alone.

Duke Daire seeks Brenna’s help caring for a traumatized nephew who fears every adult around him. Their disagreements over property become something more as her care offers both uncle and child a chance to learn trust and accept affection.

Chloe loves Major Fionn despite the aristocratic suitors surrounding her, but he believes his orphaned upbringing makes him unworthy of her. Daily proximity and troubling revelations about his past challenge the barriers he has placed between them.

Phoebe refuses to leave two young girls in the care of their self-destructive uncle, the wounded Marquess of Burness. Demanding that he reform draws her into his troubled household, where an unexpected proposal offers a chance for healing and love.

Widowed viscount Alexander asks the vicar’s daughter Viola to help him choose a wife at a country-house party. She needs his assistance finding employment when her father dies, but their arrangement awakens feelings complicated by class differences and scandal.

The Duke of Bromleigh helps shy Lady Cherish Northam attract his nephew, hoping to secure the family’s future. As Cherish seeks marriage to escape an exploitative uncle, she and the supposedly unavailable duke begin wanting a different match.

Returning from years of captivity, Leonides plans revenge on the man who betrayed him. His cheerful archaeologist neighbor Marigold disrupts that purpose, drawing him toward love while her curiosity threatens to uncover the dangerous secrets consuming him.

Widowed Duke of Lynton asks his bookish neighbor Eden to manage his unruly children during a matchmaking house party. In return he will help her find a husband, but her sudden popularity forces him to reconsider his own intentions.

Heather feels an inexplicable familiarity with a duke’s Cornish estate and its haunted caves. Drawn toward a ghost linked to her mother, she seeks answers while Ruarke struggles to protect the woman he loves from forces he cannot see.

Captain Octavian offers Lady Sydney a convenient marriage when her father’s gambling threatens to force her into another match. She has long loved her protector, but fears that affection alone cannot make up for the fortune her father squandered.

Ella has loved war hero Caden since their first dance, but he returns wounded and determined to resist attachment. Caring for him in Moonstone Landing brings them close again, while his doubts threaten the future she hopes they can share.

Imogen suspects her new neighbor Draco is a pirate, especially after a murder near his coastal caves. Her determination to investigate puts her in danger and complicates their attraction, while his secret Crown assignment prevents him from explaining the truth.

Gregoria awakens beside her murdered uncle with blood on her wedding gown and no memory of the attack. She turns to Julius, the man who rejected her, for protection, forcing them to confront both a killer and their unresolved love.

When Florence Newton falls from a tree onto the Duke of Weymouth, she brings armed pursuers and a dangerous assignment with her. His effort to protect her requires a pretended engagement, complicating the love she has secretly felt for him.

An approaching snowstorm traps injured Ailis Temple with the reclusive Duke of Ramsdale, whose wartime scars have driven him from society. A bargain involving kisses and a charitable donation tests his conviction that love can no longer reach him.

The Duke of Durham has loved Fiona Shoreham since childhood and finally sees a chance after she is widowed. Fiona fears she cannot give him an heir, leaving his hope of marriage at odds with her carefully limited offer.

Stranded at a Scottish inn, runaway bride Jocelyn takes refuge in a room she believes will remain empty. Its returning occupant, the scandalous Duke of Camborne, offers unexpected protection that may require him to abandon his determined bachelorhood.

A stolen kiss forces Tulip Farthingale and the newly elevated Duke of Davenport into marriage. As they navigate an unexpected partnership, suspicious deaths among his predecessors suggest that restoring the family estate may also mean defending his life.

Hugh Cameron agrees to escort his best friend’s sister Rowyn to an arranged marriage in Carlisle. Her resistance and their growing attraction complicate the journey, especially when he begins to suspect that danger awaits at their destination.