Lady Eirene Rowe-Weston has inherited a great fortune and a great dilemma. Every bachelor in London wishes to marry her, but she has vowed never to become any man's bride. She has two choices, hide forever in the country or render herself unfit for marriage. She chooses the latter and hires one of London's most celebrated rakes to see to the task. Viscount Adrien Benoit is not all he appears or is rumored to be. When Lady Eirene offers him an exorbitant amount of money to ruin her, he counters and offers her a secret guaranteed to destroy him. The lady accepts, plans are made, but the moment of her ruination doesn't quite go as arranged. Nothing ever does when love interferes.

Lily Snowe is the brightest diamond in London's society, but her brilliance hides a scandalous past. Her every step skirts the shadow of her secrets. Her only confidants, the Mandeville brothers, have finally returned to London. Is this Lily's chance, at last, to find freedom from the past and true love? Ralph Mandeville is honor bound to protect his family and to protect Lily's trust. But from the minute he sees her again, his passion threatens to overcome his sensibilities. The delicate dance of their courtship is thrown into chaos by a single cryptic phrase: The Mandevilles have been chosen. How can their bright new love defeat a dark past and a sinister conspiracy?

The Gentleman Spy…As a favor for the pirate who once saved his life, jaded sea captain Jack Aston agrees to ferry the man's outspoken daughter from Nassau to England. While her spirit and daring captivate him, he must keep the petite spitfire at arm's length or risk her becoming embroiled in his latest mission for the crown. The Pirate's Daughter…Vivian Jamieson is not happy being shipped off to England to visit her aunts, even if it is to protect her from her father's enemies. She may be a fish out of water in the London ballrooms, but she's a natural at espionage. Together she and Jack track down a traitor and battle a murderous pirate. As Vivian unravels Jack's secrets one by one, she is determined to convince this reluctant hero to let go of his past and realize he is already the captain of her heart.

In an evening full of surprises, Henry Westhaven first has his marriage proposal rejected by a woman he was quite certain wished to marry him then his past returns in the form of a raven-haired siren of the sea who still holds his heart. He knows he should walk away, but he is drawn into her quest to discover which powerful peer of the realm is in possession of her lost smuggling ship. Morvoren “Ren” Teague wants only to find her ship and leave London—and Henry—for good. When he offers to help, every instinct warns her to reject his assistance as she had rejected his offer of marriage years ago. She’s the captain of ship, a smuggler with a price on her head, not the kind of woman a gentleman marries. Yet, how can she say no? After all, London Society is his world, not hers. In a search rife with complications, Henry and Ren soon find themselves confronted with a shocking scandal, a dangerous enemy, and a love too true to deny.

In preparing a book of etiquette for ladies, I would lay down as the first rule, "Do unto others as you would others should do to you." You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be impolite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us; a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; there can be no _true_ politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility.

A Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Book of the Year Sparks fly in this enchanting fantasy novel from the author of Unnatural Magic when a down-and-out fire witch and a young gentlewoman join forces against a deadly conspiracy. Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent in the city of Leiscourt—again. Then she sees the “wanted” sign, seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance, prior to the celebration of her Marriage. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins a team of highly peculiar women tasked with protecting their wealthy charge from unknown assassins. Delly quickly sets her sights on one of her companions, the confident and well-bred Winn Cynallum. The job looks like nothing but romance and easy money until things take a deadly (and undead) turn. With the help of a bird-loving necromancer, a shapeshifting schoolgirl, and an ill-tempered reanimated mouse named Buttons, Delly and Winn are determined to get the best of an adversary who wields a twisted magic and has friends in the highest of places.