S.M. LaViolette Books in Order

Widowed music teacher Portia Stefani takes a post in remote Cornwall and finds her guarded employer, albino landowner Stacy Harrington, far more compelling than she expected. As music lessons turn intimate, old secrets and danger threaten their fragile happiness.

Reclusive industrialist Gareth Lockheart hires French sculptor Serena Lombard to transform his estate, intending only a business arrangement. Their working partnership becomes a slow-burn romance, even as Serena’s dangerous past resurfaces and forces Gareth to decide what he is willing to risk for love.

Honoria Keyes, now a successful artist, is reunited with Simon Fairchild, the gentle boy she once adored who returned from Waterloo scarred and withdrawn. Commissioned to paint him, she coaxes Simon out of seclusion and must decide whether they can build a future beyond pain and duty.

Worldly libertine Gideon Banks unexpectedly inherits an earldom and its formidable widow, Alys Taunton. Proposing a marriage of convenience that will let him keep his pleasures and her security, he instead finds himself dangerously attached to a woman who demands honesty as well as desire.

Elite courtesan Nora Hudson knows better than to fall for a client, but wealthy businessman Edward Fanshawe’s dark, carefully controlled desires mirror her own. Their intense arrangement blurs into love, forcing them to confront jealousy, marriage, and whether two damaged people can build something lasting.

Josephine Leather survives by living as Jo, valet to emotionally closed-off gentleman Stephen Chatham. When Stephen finds himself drawn to his impeccably male servant, both must face forbidden attraction, Jo’s true identity, and whether they can defy rigid Victorian expectations for a chance at happiness.

Twice-widowed Countess Alicia Selwood hires bodyguard Joss Gormley to protect her during discreet nighttime adventures meant to finally explore desire on her own terms. Loyal, lower-born Joss fights his growing need for her, even as danger from Alicia’s past forces them into an all-or-nothing choice.

Exhausted brothel owner Melissa Griffin retreats to the country to recover and falls for the village’s young, celibate vicar, Magnus Stanwyck. Their forbidden love pits scandal, faith, and family obligations against a passion neither can easily walk away from.

Years after one impulsive kiss ruined a young footman’s life, widowed Lady Elinor wants nothing to do with love. The footman has reinvented himself as wealthy American Stephen Worth and returns hungry for revenge, only to find that the woman he planned to ruin may be his only chance at happiness.

Cynical brothel co-owner Hugo Buckingham is falsely convicted and shipwrecked en route to exile, washing up on remote Stroma island. There he meets gentle Martha Pringle, whose quiet strength tempts him with the idea of a new life, if he can face the man he truly is.

Annis Bowman, ruined by a past mistake, plans to marry for money to secure her future, while new earl Henry Singleton swaps identities with an employee to test women’s motives. A tangle of lies forces them into marriage, where mistrust slowly gives way to hard-earned understanding.

To escape a murderous guardian, a young noblewoman cuts her hair, becomes “Ben” the postilion, and hires on with overworked new earl Jago Venable. Working side by side in disguise, she risks exposure, her heart, and the fragile safety she has built from lies.

Mary must marry and produce an heir to inherit her family's business, while former dancing instructor Miles needs a wealthy wife to rescue his earldom. Their practical agreement becomes complicated when their unlikely partnership develops into love.

Scarred and half feral after his wife’s murder, Malcom Barton kidnaps Julia Harlow, daughter of the man he blames, intending cold revenge. Julia’s fierce curiosity and unexpected hunger for his dark desires slowly challenge his plans and force them both to question what they truly want.

With her family on the brink of ruin, sensible Lady Phoebe Bellamy proposes a marriage of convenience to Paul Needham, a fabulously wealthy new viscount in need of a country estate and respectability. Their strictly business bargain soon turns into a deeply felt, deeply inconvenient love match.

Scarred and embittered John Fielding has spent his life planning revenge on the aristocratic family that abandoned him. Meeting kind, overlooked Cordelia, who lives under the same cruel roof, forces him to question whether vengeance or a future with her matters more.

Ruthless Mr. Smith has built a fortune to fuel a long-planned revenge, not a family. Striking a bargain with enigmatic courtesan Moira Dunsmore to bear his child draws her into his unconventional household with his male lover, and into a three-way tangle of trust, vengeance, and love.

Raised in a free-love utopian community in New York, Balthazar Hale wants nothing to do with the English dukedom that suddenly controls his fate. In London he falls for companion Victoria Dryden, whose dangerous secrets make her entirely unsuitable and entirely irresistible.

Plain, awkward Lady Hyacinth Bellamy secretly supports her family as a talented card sharp. Jaded Duke of Chatham Sylvester Derrick, scarred inside and out, is fascinated by the bold player at the tables. When he discovers her identity, a scandalous, surprisingly tender relationship forces them both to gamble on love.

Beautiful, biddable Lady Selina Bellamy has always been expected to marry well for her family’s sake. Freed from that obligation, she takes a position in a remote household and discovers unexpected purpose, a brooding marquess employer, and the courage to demand more than a pretty, convenient life.

Ambitious journalist Lorelei Fontenot is sent to expose notorious rake Lord Stand Fast Severn, only to find a grieving man hunting his twin’s killer. Trapped together amid a dangerous investigation, they move from wary enemies to uneasy allies to lovers fighting to solve a murder before it claims them too.

At Christmastime the Bellamy sisters, their spouses, and families gather at Wych House, where scandal-shadowed Marquess Andrew Derrick must face his past and the woman he once wronged. Stacia Martin is determined he will finally remember her, even if it means rewriting both their futures amid holiday chaos.

Tired of being the responsible oldest sister, Aurelia Bellamy accepts a post assisting famous naturalist Lord Roland Crewe on a remote island. Roland, a twice-widowed rake who has sworn off marriage, finds his ordered existence upended by Aurelia’s competence, ideals, and the inconvenient hope she brings.

Cold, efficient Crown agent David Remington prides himself on feeling nothing, until one night with practical, sharp-witted prostitute Calliope Fowler unsettles him. Keeping her as his exclusive lover awakens emotions he despises and threatens the brutal final mission that will reveal who he really is.

Outspoken Lady Io Hale has no patience for ton rules or for her brother’s grimly proper friend Corbin Masterson, who judges her at every turn. Determined to expose his own unruly desires, she sparks an enemies-to-lovers showdown that upends both their carefully held beliefs.

Reckless Lady Kathryn Bellamy has spent years burning bridges and now finds herself cut off from family, with only the notoriously dull Duke of Dulverton offering a marriage of convenience. As they navigate their hasty union, Katie discovers hidden depths in her methodical husband and a love neither planned.

Young dowager countess Winifred Graham has no desire to remarry, while icy Duke of Plimpton needs a practical second wife. Their calculated match soon crackles with unwanted attraction, forcing two stubborn people to decide whether to cling to pride or rewrite the rules of their marriage.