Charlotte Featherstone

Friends since childhood, Anais Darnby and Lindsay Markham have long harboured a secret passion for one another. When they finally confess their love, their future together seems assured, sealed with their searing embrace.

But when a debauched Lindsay is seduced by a scheming socialite, a devastated Anais seeks refuge in another man's bed while Lindsay retreats to the exotic East. There, he is seduced again this time by the alluring red smoke and sinister beauty of opium.

Back home, Lindsay's addiction is fed by the vogue for all things Oriental especially its sensual pleasures in fashionable London society. In his lucid moments, Lindsay still lusts after Anais, who can neither allow him near nor forget his smouldering touch. Tortured by two obsessions opium and Anais Lindsay must ultimately decide which is the one he truly cannot live without.

Despite their love for each other, lovemaking has become routine and predictable for the Duke and Duchess of Sutcliffe.

Desperate to save their marriage, they begin exchanging passionate, erotic missives detailing needs and fantasies they never before dared to express. Soon, they're acting out those fantasies and discovering a consuming desire like none they've ever known. . .

He was the object of her secret yearning, the subject of her fevered erotic fantasies. And though she knew her dreams and desires were in vain, still she waited for him in Highgate Cemetery, her face hidden by a veil, hungering for some brief connection, some morsel of intimacy – for this was all she might ever hope for.

He had seen her from his carriage, and her image had invaded his dreams and become his obsession. He wanted her as he'd never wanted anything before. And here, at Highgate, away from the confining restrictions of the real world, at last he received a taste of that sweet, luscious body – just enough to whet his appetite and ignite a consuming desire that would let nothing stand in the way of its fulfilment.

To halt the slow demise of his people, Prince Thane – the embodiment of Lust – infiltrates the Georgian court to seduce his mortal inverse. Noblewoman Chastity Lennox is purity incarnate – a sensual prize well worth winning. But Thane's carnal quest proves more challenging than he ever dreamed. No other has ever been able – or willing – to resist his erotic charms. Chastity's resolve is maddening...and intriguing. It makes him want her all the more. But how best to seduce one who truly seems above temptation? Discover her greatest weakness and become the intoxicating essence of her deepest, most forbidden desires.

Lucy Ashton long ago gave up her quest for true love. In the rarified society of Victorian England, Lucy plays the game – flirting, dancing, even dabbling in fashionable séances. But when it comes to marrying who – and when – she's supposed to, Lucy is firm. The stuffy, proper Duke of Sussex cannot spark the passion she craves, despite her father's wishes that they wed.

But Adrian, Lord Sussex, is not the man the London ton has come to admire. His prim façade is only a means to conceal the ruinous secret that would shatter any chance of winning Lucy's affections, and when he finally reveals his sensual nature she responds in kind. Yet there is someone else who knows the truth, someone who would use it to destroy Adrian's happiness. Passion has a price, Lucy soon learns. And not all ghosts stay buried.

With the scandalous nature of her birth to live down, Isabella Fairmont dreams of a proper marriage – even if a passionless one. She saves her deepest desires for the novel she dares to pen, wherein a handsome Lord with dark powers seduces her. But then her courtship with an appropriate suitor is threatened by the sudden attention of the Earl of Black, whose pale blue eyes and brooding sensuality are exactly as she described in her book.

Isabella tries to resist the mysterious Earl of Black. Yet as he pursues her with inexplicable knowledge of her past and kisses that consume her, Isabella fears she will succumb.

If only the Earl could tell Isabella the truth. With very real and treacherous thieves endangering her life, Black will need to protect Isabella from the very people she trusts the most…

An unrepentant rake, Alynwick holds nothing sacred – except for beautiful Elizabeth York. For years, he has tried to forget the woman he loved so well, and treated so badly. A woman who could hold nothing in her heart for him except hatred.

All of society believes Elizabeth, the blind daughter of a duke, to be a proper young lady. But no one knows of her wanton affair with Alynwick. When Lizzy learns of her ancestor's ancient diary – filled with exotic tales – she longs to uncover the identity of the unnamed lover within, and hesitantly allows Alynwick to help her solve the mystery.

Eager to be Lizzy's eyes, Alynwick brings the seductive text to life, and each night it takes greater effort for her to forget his betrayal. With each whispered word, her resolve gives way, without her knowing that a centuries–old secret will lead them to a present–day danger.