Jenna Jaxon

Lady Georgina Kirkpatrick defied her family, jilted her fiancee, and married the man she loved. But when her husband died at Waterloo, she was delivered right back into her father's power. Now that she's widowed, the loathsome marriage her father first arranged has simply been renegotiated. With neither money nor rights, and nowhere to flee, all she can do is cherish her last weeks of freedom, until a band of ruffians overtake her carriage and kidnap...

"Maria just gave birth to her first child, a beautiful daughter - but the event is shrouded in sorrow. A month earlier, Maria's husband, Lord Kersey, was killed in a duel under compromising circumstances. Worse, Maria's failure to provide a male heir has stripped her of any hope of an inheritance. Scorned by the ton, one of her few allies is her late husband's steward, Hugh Granger. Hugh is everything her husband was not - warm, charming - and penniless....

"It is a truth rarely acknowledged -- at least in public -- that a wealthy widow is free to pursue a great many adventures. For two years, Jane has privately enjoyed her independence. Why should she remarry, even when the gentleman proposing is as wonderful as Gareth, Lord Kinellan? She entreats him never to ask her again. But as her Widows' Club friends -- now all joyfully remarried -- gather at Castle Kinellan, Jane begins to wonder if stubbornness...