Laura Lee Guhrke is een gevierde auteur van historische romans, erkend om haar natuurlijke schrijfstijl. Haar romans bereiken consequent bestsellerstatus en trekken lezers naar rijk vormgegeven historische omgevingen. Guhrkeová creëert boeiende verhalen die de complexiteit van haar gekozen tijdperken verkennen en een diepgaand begrip van het genre tonen. Haar werk getuigt van haar belangrijke bijdragen aan de hedendaagse historische roman.
Dear Lady Truelove . . Lady Truelove may be London's most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need a tutor, not a new mother. Yet Jamie, too, is learning surprising lessons-about desire, seduction, and passionate second chances .
Daphne Wade is captivated by the Duke of Tremore, Anthony Courtland, but he sees her as plain. Hurt by his careless remark, she resolves to improve herself socially, hoping to reveal the beauty he overlooks and win his attention.
Miss Emily is hired by the aristocracy to teach young ladies etiquette, but her life changes when she meets the charming older brother of her latest student. She discovers that some rules, especially those regarding love, are meant to be broken.
Dear Lady Truelove, I am a girl of noble family, but I am painfully shy, especially in my encounters with those of the opposite sex . . . For Clara Deverill, standing in for the real Lady Truelove means dispensing advice on problems she herself has never managed to overcome. There’s nothing for it but to retreat to a tearoom and hope inspiration strikes between scones. It doesn’t—until Clara overhears a rake waxing eloquent on the art of “honorable” jilting. The cad may look like an Adonis, but he’s about to find himself on the wrong side of Lady Truelove. Rex Galbraith is an heir with no plans to produce a spare. He flirts with the minimum number of eligible young ladies to humor his matchmaking aunt, but Clara is the first to ever catch his roving eye. When he realizes that Clara—as Lady Truelove—has used his advice as newspaper fodder, he’s infuriated. But when he’s forced into a secret alliance with her, he realizes he’s got a much bigger problem—because Clara is upending everything Rex thought he knew about women—and about himself. . . .
Fans of Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn will adore this opposites-attract romance featuring a dashing duke, a shy bookshop owner, and a wager that will change their lives forever. Evie Harlow runs a quaint little bookshop in London, which is the biggest adventure an unmarried woman with no prospects could hope for. Until Maximillian Shaw, Duke of Westbourne, saunters into her shop with a proposition: to win a bet with his friends, he'll turn her into the diamond of the season. The duke might be devilishly attractive, but Evie has no intention of accepting his ludicrous offer. When disaster strikes her shop, however, she's left with little choice but to let herself be whisked into his high-society world. Always happy to help a lady in distress, Max thinks he's saving Evie from her dull spinster's life. He'll help her find a husband and congratulate himself on a job well done. But as shy Evie becomes the shining star he always knew she could be, she somehow steals his heart. And when her reputation is threatened, can Max convince her to choose a glittering, aristocratic life with him over the cozy comfort of her bookshop?
Lucia, the beautiful illegitimate daughter of a European prince, faces scandals and is confined to finishing schools. To control her, her father hires Ian, a diplomat, to find her a husband. Initially dismissive, Ian is surprised to find himself falling for Lucia amidst the chaos of eager suitors.
When Jonathan Deverill promised a dying friend he'd be guardian to the man's daughter, he envisioned a girl in pigtails and pinafores, a child he could leave behind in some finishing school. Problem is, his ward is actually a fully grown, defiant beauty whose longing for romance threatens to make his guardianship a living hell.
Dylan Moore struggles with despair after a tragic accident for five years. At a ball, he meets a woman disguised as a musician who intrigues him. Soon after, he discovers he has an eight-year-old daughter, Isabel. Grace Chevel, wary of Dylan's reputation, becomes Isabel's governess, leading to unexpected lessons in love for Dylan.
Daisy Merrick struggles to maintain a job due to her carefree nature. After losing her third job in six months, she finds hope as a theatre critic, but her first review of a popular playwright turns out to be a disaster.
Dear Lady Truelove . . . I have fallen in love, truly and completely in love, for the first time. The man whom I hold in such passionate regard, however, is not of my station. He is a painter, a brilliant artist. Needless to say, my family would not approve . . . Henry, Duke of Torquil, wouldn’t be caught reading the wildly popular “Dear Lady Truelove” column, but when its advice causes his mother to embark on a scandalous elopement, an outraged Henry decides the author of this tripe must be stopped before she can ruin any more lives. Though Lady Truelove’s identity is a closely guarded secret, Henry has reason to suspect the publisher of the notorious column, beautiful and provoking Irene Deverill, is also its author. For Irene, it’s easy to advise others to surrender to passion, but when she meets the Duke of Torquil, she soon learns that passion comes at a price. When one impulsive, spur-of-the-moment kiss pulls her into a scorching affair with Henry, it could destroy her beloved newspaper, her career, and her independence. But in the duke’s arms, surrender is so, so sweet . . .