Nicola Cornick
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Coming July 2013
first time in print
The Lady and the Laird
The first book in The Scottish Brides series
Society knows Lady Lucy MacMorlan as the highly respectable daughter of the Duke of Forres, an heiress as renowned for her bluestocking wit as for her beauty. But Lucy has a secret. She writes love letters for her brother and his friends – letters that become increasingly racy as her fame grows. Then her meddling in her brother's romantic affairs brings Lucy into conflict with Robert, Marquis of Methven, a man with the power to ruin her reputation.
Robert Methven has no time for propriety and he is furious that Lady Lucy's letters have cost him the bride he needs so urgently to save his clan. Now he makes Lucy a shocking proposal: In return for his silence she must become his wife - and provide him with the heir he needs…
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Coming November 2013
first time in print
One Night with the Laird
The second book in The Scottish Brides series
Lady Mairi MacLeod is young and beautiful, and fashionable Edinburgh’s most flirtatious hostess. But within the merry widow beats a grieving heart and she mourns the loss of her husband and the secrets she must keep. Desperately seeking to forget, she spends one night with Jack Rutherford, an accomplished rake, but their wanton night together is an encounter of the body only, and Lady Mairi would prefer to forget it.
When Mairi is threatened by blackmail, Jack is the only man who can help her. As they work together to uncover where the danger lies, their passion reignites. Little by little, the masks they wear burn away, and their most private secrets come to light.
Coming august 2014
first time in print
Claimed By The Laird
The third book in The Scottish Brides series