This collection of five full novellas presents some very different heroes and heroines, but the common theme is that they all find love, despite trials and tribulations along the way, in some way related to Springtime. This collection contains: A Diamond for a Duke A Duke left bitter by past betrayals, a kind-hearted lady with secrets to keep, a family trapped by the mistakes of the past, blackmail and threats confronted, a love which heals the past. The Lady’s False Fiancée When Lady Abigail, the daughter of the Earl of Regington, learns that her father is one gamble away from losing everything, she knows that she has to do something to save her family. But what can a young woman of the ton do? Only make a match with a gentleman wealthy enough to help her family rectify their grave situation. Despite harbouring feelings for the handsome Vicar, Lawrence Sanders, Lady Abigail puts a plan into motion which will result in her engagement to Lord Edmund, who is related to the Duke. The problem? He has no idea they’re ‘engaged’. Putting her own reputation on the line to save her family, Lady Abigail will stop at nothing to help those she loves - even if it means breaking her own heart. Yet as her plan unfolds, she fears that she has risked everything for nothing. What the Heart Wants Petronella, Lady Hastings, is a Baroness in her own right. But she’s still underage and at the mercy of her mother’s manipulative plans. When her mother attempts to force her into marriage with a philandering rogue, she does the only thing she can think of – she runs home to Hastings Downs, where her London loving mother is unlikely to follow. Little does she realise that she is about to be faced with a larger challenge in the form of Walter Darcy, the mysterious new groom who works at the estate. Confused by her feelings, worried about her liberty and with little time to devise a way to protect herself, she soon finds that when the good Lord works in mysterious ways, you always get what you need. Delve back into the loves and lives of the friends and family of the Duke of Summersby in this sweet runaway bride story The Earl’s Scheming Maid Widowed Emma Clark seeks vengeance for her husband’s death – a death which she lays at the door of his commanding officer, the man who sent him into the battle he never returned from. Stephen Fitzroy, Earl of Harsbrook, returned from the war bearing scars, both visible and invisible, and with a determination to help returned soldiers and their families. Every death of a man in his command still scars his soul, and he wants to make amends for not having saved them. When Emma manages to get taken on as a housemaid in Lord Harsbrook’s home, she starts her campaign to exact revenge. But… the more she sees of Lord Harsbrook, the more she likes him, and the less he seems the demon she had imagined. – so much so, that, despite her best intent, her affections are becoming engaged. Lord Harsbrook, in turn, finds the new housemaid to be good company, and far more attractive than a man should find his employee. Can Emma and Stephen overcome the past to find love and hope in the future? Surrendering to the Marquess Miss Rose Webb is shocked when she learns that her wealthy merchant father has made an arrangement for the arrogant Marquess of Kirbyshire to marry her – a mercenary arrangement, as the Marquess needs the funds from her dowry, and her father wants his family associated with a title. Rose refuses, wanting to marry for love, but both her father and Lord Kirbyshire insist that she go through with the marriage. As Rose endures a loveless marriage and leads a separate life from her husband, she plans an escape. For the life that Rose is living is not one that she can continue. But when Rose’s heart gets involved, she find it’s not easy to leave the mysterious Lord Kirbyshire, no matter how much he insists that he will never love her.