Purchas Family Books in Order

Cousins Juliet and Josephine once treated their remarkable resemblance as a childhood game. When life brings them together again in the American South, impersonation becomes a dangerous undertaking, drawing both women into a masquerade with much greater stakes.

Jennifer Purchas refuses the marriage arranged for her and escapes into employment as a governess. Maintaining her disguise proves difficult, especially around the children's guardian, while her uncle searches for his missing niece and her fortune.

Rescued from a mob by plantation heir Hart Purchis, penniless English orphan Mercy Phillips enters a divided world in revolutionary Savannah. Her loyalties and feelings become entangled with the fortunes of a family caught between opposing sides.

During the American Revolution, privateer Hart Purchis marries spy Mercy Phillips, but capture separates them across the Atlantic. As Hart faces temptation in London, Mercy forms plans of her own in Philadelphia amid uncertain loyalties and romance.

Caroline Thorpe discovers she is the unacknowledged daughter of a wealthy duke and enters a household that regards her with hostility. An impulsive marriage offers escape, but brings new complications as she learns whom she can trust.