After being nursed back to health by Maddy Woodford, a lovely country girl who has five orphaned half-siblings in her charge, diplomat Nash Renfrew pretends that he still has amnesia so that he can stay by her side.

Beth, a young widow, is inexplicably drawn to Ian MacKenzie, a Scottish lord who is rumored to be a murderer and who spent his youth in an asylum, and she is determined to prove to London society that he is perfectly sane.

"Eight years ago, Lieutenant Luke Ripton made a hasty wartime marriage-in-name-only to protect a young girl from a forced union and left her protected in a remote mountain convent. Now, Luke is Lord Ripton, but he has been unable to obtain an annulment. ... For nearly a decade, Isabella has waited like a princess locked in a tower, dreaming of her handsome, dark-eyed prince. ... And while Luke and Isabella's fiery personalities clash at every turn,...

"As the owner of the Pennyroyal Saloon and Hotel, Lorraine Berry is privy to almost everything that goes on in Bitter Springs, Wyoming--including the bloodshed plaguing its citizens. With all of the good men dying at the hands of a local rancher and his three sons, Raine hires a shootist to be the town's protector. But her handsome new employee is more than a hired hand; he's a man who keeps his guns close and his secrets closer. After a chance encounter...

When governess Abigail Chantry, along with her sister and two friends, comes to the aid of Lady Beatrice Davenham, they are saved from destitution until Lady Beatrice's nephew Max returns to question their position in his aunt's household.

Private detective Cobb Bridger has been hired to find Tru Morrow, who has supposedly absconded with something of great value belonging to a wealthy Chicago family, comes to doubt Tru's guilt after meeting her.

Princess Stefanie, who is masquerading as a law clerk in order to hide from assassins, uses her male disguise to consort unchaperoned with her barrister employer's dashing friend, James Lambert, Marquis of Hatherfield.

Jane Middlebourne responds to an ad for a mail-order bride from Bitter Springs, Wyoming, but when she arrives she faces a battle to prove to her new husband, Morgan Longstreet, that she can help him manage his ranch.