All A Woman Wants

The Methodist and the highwayman: heaven, meet hell...

Her pious father’s murder leaves Faith Montague orphaned and lost on the dangerous road to London , only to be rescued by a notorious highwayman.

Morgan de Lacy, a lawless rake with the bearing of a nobleman, treats her finer than those who should have loved and protected her. Recognizing a fine gem when he sees one, de Lacy sets about seducing his orphaned companion. His caresses incite passion…his fiery kisses tantalize, and Faith is in peril of losing herself to temptation.

She may be the brash Irishman’s captive, but pride will not allow her to surrender to a man whose lust for revenge terrifies her.

He’s a soldier who despises women; she’s a woman who despises soldiers. Of course they’re mad for each other.

Scarred in a duel over a feckless woman, Gavin Lawrence leaves America to take up his new duty as Marquess of Effingham, vowing never to care about others again. But lurking in the secret passages of his crumbling manor house is a courageous and exceedingly annoying young woman in terrible danger.

The self-sufficient daughter of a soldier, Dillian Whitnell guards her injured cousin in isolated Arinmede manor after an attempt on both their lives. Dillian hadn’t expected the new marquess to notice her, but his stubborn refusal to believe she’s a ghost turns into a hide-and-seek game that leads to increasingly close encounters. A game where irritation turns to intrigue, and intrigue to a forbidden passion as the real villain emerges from the past.

Laura Kincaid had loved Cash Wycliffe, the tenant farmer's headstrong son, since childhood - even though she knew he was the last man on earth to want. A ruggedly handsome gambler and shameless womanizer, he was everything a well-bred Kentucky lady should keep away from. And while Cash - who had sought his fortune in the West and returned a wealthy man - was more exciting than ever, his eyes were fixed on Laura's aristocratic cousin Sallie, a Southern belle as dazzlingly beautiful as she was coldly calculating. But Laura let her heart rule her fate...and amid the tumult of the Civil War and its aftermath, she surrendered to her desire for a man who made no promises beyond the pleasure of the moment...armed only with a woman's sense that love was destined to flower where passion flamed...

Previously published by Penguin/Topaz. Lovers of the lush sagas of Kathleen Woodiwiss, Johanna Lindsey, and Bertrice Small will enjoy this historical romance from bestselling author Patricia Rice:

Handsome, fiery-tempered Nicholas Saint-Just was known to all New Orleans as a lawless pirate, a wanton womanizer, and a murderer. Yet his plantation was the only security that Eavin O'Flannery Dupre had ever known. Having lost both husband and child, she offers to take care of her niece, his motherless daughter, and run his plantation home, with the understanding that she never wishes to be touched by a man again.

But a bargain made with the devil is meant to be broken. As the hated British are poised to attack, Eavin discovers passion with a man who scorns love but desperately needs her understanding. Together, they fight their desires, their enemies, and each other, until circumstances force them to make terrible choices. And in the maelstrom of war, they discover that love can always find a way.

An Irish rogue and a duke’s daughter should have nothing in common except trouble...

Though enchanted by the selfless beauty of a duke’s granddaughter, Michael—a man of many names but none his own—has wisely kept his distance.  But two years after the disastrous fire that brought Lady Blanche Perceval into his life, he is saddled with a lost, lying Irish waif and needs a woman’s understanding aid. To his dismay, the generous lady he remembers now despises him for deserting her when she needed him most.

Blanche has inherited all the wealth and responsibility of a dukedom, even if it is her cousin who wears the title. Forced to rely on her men of business to help her make decisions since she has no experience or knowledge of her own, she is at constant odds with the new duke who wishes to marry her for the sake of the estate.

When the irresistible and unreliable Michael O’Toole materializes in her life to enlist her care for another of the abandoned orphans he’s rescued—as he once did for her—Blanche doesn’t know whether to kill him or kiss him. After terrorists blow up her carriage, it becomes apparent that running away might be the best choice of all—but can they survive the pitfalls of their impossible attraction?

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“Finally, Michael O’Toole!  I’ve been waiting for his story ever since I read Patricia Rice’s The Marquess years ago.  Michael and his delicious duke’s granddaughter demonstrate why bad boys are best!”

            Mary Jo Putney

Duke meets shrew. Taming doesn’t happen.

Neville Perceval, the bankrupt Duke of Anglesey, has been burdened since youth with more responsibility than one man should handle. He has finally accepted that he needs to marry a wealthy, gracious lady who will ease his burdens and smooth his political path.

Fiona MacDermot, the rebellious, untamed cousin of an Irish earl, has the freedom and independence Neville has never known. Like the duke, she needs cash to help starving villagers and orphans. Unfortunately, she’d rather earn a living than have anything to do with useless men, and the politicians she knows all belong at the wrong end of a rope.

But when the duke is nearly beaten to death, and Fiona’s looms are lost to a murdering thief, their lives are entangled in ways that threaten their futures. Lust shouldn’t factor into their destinies, but it does, and now they have to find their dreams together, or die trying.

Clever and determined, Lady Marian Lawrence arrived in London to snare a rich husband in hopes of saving her family from ruin—not an easy task given her biting wit and lack of beauty. Hiding her true self, she almost wins the hand of the wealthy, amiable Lord Darley—until Darley’s best friend blocks their path to the altar.

A man who has vowed never to marry, Reginald Montague is as determined to prevent a fortune hunter from snaring Darley as Marian is to have a wealthy husband. Far from rich but well aware of his aristocratic lineage, Montague is prepared to do anything to stop Marian, including seduce her. With dazzling skill and subtle stratagem, he sets out to change Marian’s dislike for him into desire—as Marian struggles to keep the lie she’s living from being revealed by a truly disastrous love…

Prequel to THE MARQUESS, Regency Nobles series

“A deliciously light-hearted traditional Regency." Mary Jo Putney, author of No Longer A Gentleman

Previously published as TOUCHED BY MAGIC:

She was woman enough to tempt a saint--and lady enough to be dangerous

Lady Cassandra Howard has frequented gambling hells as her father’s lucky charm since childhood —but luck ran out along the way. Now, her brother intends to sell her into marriage with a wealthy, dissolute rake. Cass has done many things for her family, but this won’t be one of them.

Her neighbor, “Saint” Wyatt Mannering, Earl of Merrick, has chosen a bride—one as proper and virtuous as he. But when lovely Cass attempts to trick him into marriage with seduction, he’s almost tempted—except  she’s much too naïve to be a seductress and his conscience won’t let him.

By saving her reputation, he ruins her life. After a young man nearly dies in a duel attempting to protect Cass from her abusive husband, she flees to her burned-out home in the country—the estate next to Wyatt’s, where she vows never to be dependent on another man, including the earl, who is rapidly losing his halo over his ravishing new neighbor.