Deborah Hale

• Apr-2026
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Her time is at hand.A prequel novella to the Queen's Quests series, previously published as Sorsha's Secret.In the oppressed kingdom of Embria, Sorsha Swinley longs to escape the quiet life on her father's farm and have a thrilling adventure. But whe...

• May-2023
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Could a pretend elopement end in a real wedding? Incorrigible matchmaker Ivy Greenwood is desperate to reunite her lovelorn brother with his divine mistress. To do so, she must first persuade handsome but unromantic scientist Oliver Armitage to be he...

• Apr-2023
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Could past scandals destroy their daughter’s future?When Kitty Delany returns to claim her daughter, it seems the mystery of Baby Sarah’s parentage is solved at last. Or is it? Though Kitty insists that Rory Fitzwalter is the father, he d...

• Oct-2021
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Secrets and a second chance...Lord Gabriel Stanford is certain that the infant left on his friend's doorstep is his daughter and that Moira Brennan must be her mother. Though the Irish heiress spurned his previous marriage proposal, he is willing to ...

• Mar-2019
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What can Nikki do to make her mother happy again? Will the storm in Nikki and her mother's life ever end? Does God hear her prayers? When will the rainbow come? To Parents, Teachers, and Counselors: I wrote this book to encourage children to tell a ...

• Dec-2018
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Young enchantress Maura Woodbury must brave increasing peril in her quest to find The Waiting King before the midsummer moon. Legend claims the mystical warrior will liberate Embria from its oppressors and Maura will be his consort. As she journeys t...

• Dec-2017
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In the novella The Viscount Meets His Match Sebastian Viscount Benedict knows from bitter experience that marrying a woman of lower rank and fortune brings nothing but heartache. He is determined to prevent his beloved brother from making the same mi...

• Mar-2017
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Scandal is afoot when a match-making countess invites three eligible heiresses and three cash-strapped noblemen to her holiday house party!Shy, sensible Lily Crawford fears her vivacious twin sister will wed a fortune-hunting aristocrat, who might ba...

• Nov-2016
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The Christmas Season brings many special gifts, but few as rare and precious as the gift of a second chance at happiness.In the bleak midwinter of 1814, Christabel Wilton and her young son have little to celebrate. A soldier’s widow has enough ...

• Dec-2014
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Three Noblemen and a Baby!A baby is left on Jack Warwick's doorstep. And the notorious rake doesn't know if the child is his. Jack shares a Mayfair town house with two friends, and a note left with the baby suggests one of the three bachelors is the ...

• Jun-2014
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Matchmaking with a Mission If Jasper Chase won't trouble himself to find a new governess, Evangeline Fairfax must find her employer a wife. That way, his children will be well cared for once she leaves to start a charity school. Jasper reluctantly...

• Mar-2014
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Sir Brandon Calvert spent the past four years trying to forget the beautiful debutante who rejected his marriage proposal. Just when he thinks he has finally succeeded, a fateful snowstorm strands him in the company of Lady Cassandra Whitney. Now Bra...

• Nov-2013
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A Most Unconventional Match What governess would refuse a duke? Exuberant, opinionated, irrepressible Leah Shaw, that's who. Since her arrival at Renforth Hall, the Duke of Northam's young son has thrived. Leah, intent on traveling abroad, insists...

• Oct-2013
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Previously published as Carpetbagger's Wife. "... emotional richness and depth readers will savor." John Charles, Booklist"...yet another masterpiece penned by the historical mistress of romance. Don't miss this truly touching and tender story." - Th...

• Jun-2013
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A Father's Duty As soon as Colonel Gavin Romney has healed, he'll return to war and see Bonaparte vanquished forever. Yet his children's governess is proving a formidable adversary on the home front. For pretty, determined Hannah Fletcher wants t...

• Jun-2012
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Lord Steadwell's three motherless daughters were heartbroken when their last governess ran off to elope. In her dowdy cap and spectacles, Grace Ellerby seems an ideal replacement -- a nurturing, intelligent woman uninterested in marriage. No wonder R...

• Mar-2012
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When his beautiful, flirtatious wife scandalizes Almack's by being caught in the arms of his enemy, Bennett Maitland, Earl of Sterling, finally ends his unsuitable marriage. He banishes Caroline to his remote childhood home -- only to end up trap...

• Dec-2011
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Napoleon himself never gave Captain Gideon Radcliffe as much trouble as Miss Marian Murray. The fiercely protective governess won't rest until she gains permission for the daughters of his late cousin to stay on at Gideon's newly inherited estate. He...

• Oct-2011
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"A captivating true story that explores the passionate life of a brave and extraordinary woman who was ahead of her time." ~ USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLeanThis historical novel is based on the improbable but true rags to riches story t...

• Jun-2011
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Plagued with a jaded heart, Sebastian Stanhope, Viscount Benedict, won't let his half brother rush into marriage. He must convince the bride's stubborn -- if charming -- governess, Rebecca Beaton, to help sever the engagement. Only, Rebecca is determ...

• Apr-2011
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Betrayed by his first wife, Simon Grimshaw won't marry again. But sultry nights in Singapore can be lonely -- nothing a beautiful English mistress wouldn't fix! Bethan Conway answers an advert to become a wife, believing it will help her secret se...

• Mar-2011
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HER NEW HUSBAND MAY BE HANDSOME -- BUT HIS HEART IS BLACK Desperate to safeguard the future of her precious nephew, penniless Lady Artemis Dearing will do anything -- even marry the man whose brother ruined her darling sister! Hadrian Northmore's s...

• Feb-2011
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Her hands bound by blackmail and duty, Laura Penrose was forced to marry her sweetheart's ruthless cousin. Now a widow, her sweetheart has returned. Ford Barrett, Lord Kingsfold, believes Laura betrayed him and has a debt to pay -- she owes him a ...

• Jan-2011
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Fresh from scandal in India, headstrong Genia Vernon is being shipped off to England, where she faces a gray future as companion to her aged aunt. When she meets arrogant rake Blade Maxwell on board, she has her one and only chance for a hot, passi...

• Jun-2008
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Hoping to find true love at Lord Daventry's midsummer masque, Sylvie Somerville is in danger of missing the love that is already so close at hand....

• Oct-2007
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Knaves and knights and alluring ladies...courtly love and naked passion...conquests and intrigues. Find it all in these blazing-hot tales of medieval romance. Bundle includes The Last Champion, Conquest Bride and The Knight's Courtship.

• Nov-2006
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This year's festivities for Christabel and her young son will be sparse and cold -- or so she thinks. When the man she'd loved and lost returns, offering her warmth, comfort and a true family Christmas, she can't resist!...

• Feb-2006
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A ship full of women could only cause trouble! Of that Governor Sir Robert Kerr was certain, just by considering their chaperon! Though a widow, Mrs. Jocelyn Finch was young, vivacious and utterly determined to have her own way -- especially with ...

• Aug-2005
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After awakening the "Waiting King" -- the one destined to free her country from the long occupation of the Han -- Maura Woodbury thinks her duty to her country completed. But Maura's task has only just begun. Rath, once a notorious outlaw, has no mag...

• Oct-2004
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Ewan Geddes had once sent Claire's girlish heart racing... But that was back when he was a servant and she the laird's awkward daughter. Now he'd returned, an upstart fortune hunter bent on her sister, and Claire Talbot swore to stop any heartbrea...

• May-2004
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The Lady of Harwood was ruthless. Ruthlessly practical, most certainly, for Dominie De Montford swore she'd bed the devil himself to safeguard her people. Now all she held dear stood endangered, and the one man who could rescue them was the one ma...

• Apr-2004
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Years before, the peaceful world of Umbria was torn apart by the ruthless Hanish invaders... Yet that is the only life Maura knows. Until her wizard guardian announces she is to be queen -- but that first she must find and unite with their country...

• May-2003
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Could She Defeat His Darkness and Bring Him Back to Life? Handsome rakehell turned scarred recluse Lord Lucius Daventry had returned from battle intent on forgetting the past. Yet once home, Lucius was presented with one final mission: marry Angel...

• Jan-2003
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Felicity Lyte Was in a Quandary. How could she tell her cherished paramour of his impending fatherhood? Hawthorn Greenwood, despite his straitened circumstances, would surely make a responsible, honorable offer of marriage -- which Felicity could n...

• Aug-2002
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For thirteen years he'd been a wanderer.... Now Con ap Ifan had returned, a tested warrior and a talented bard. But Enid of Glyneira remained unimpressed. No stolen kisses or honeyed promises that faded with the dawn could tempt her to abandon hearth...

• Mar-2002
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Irrepressible Ivy Greenwood is desperate to reunite her lovesick brother and his divine mistress, yet in order to do so she must first convince bookish scientist Oliver Lyte to be her accomplice -- in a daring elopement!...

• Feb-2002
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What did she really know of this stranger who'd rescued her home and thawed her ice-hard heart? Caddie Marsh was a proud Confederate, a widow for the Cause...or was she? For Manning Forbes bore a disturbing, dangerous, desirable resemblance to the hu...

• Oct-2001
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ONLY THE STRONG COULD THRIVE IN BIG SKY COUNTRY -- Jane Harris, on the run from an embattled life back East, hoped merely to survive. Still, everything in this breathtaking territory was so overwhelming -- including John Whitefeather, a blue-eyed Ch...

• Jun-2001
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What had she agreed to? Leonora Freemantle had wagered high stakes that book learning, not birthright, produced a gentleman, but now with the roguish Sergeant Morse Archer under her tutelage, she was no longer sure of the outcome. Would it be polish,...

• Dec-2000
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MARRIAGE MEANT SAFETY To protect her home and people, Cecily Tyrell would marry the devil himself! And if rumor held any truth, she would mayhap do so! A royal command bound her to wed Lord Rowan DeCourtenay, a knight of some renown...but a widowe...

• Mar-2000
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Jenny Lennox Didn't Believe In Love Not the lasting kind, anyway. Life was too hard for romance to survive for long. Marriage for money was best, she was sure--or had been until she met Harris Chisholm earnest and penniless yet willing to gamble o...

• Dec-1999
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A Secret Child... When Lucy Rushton's lover was killed in battle, she wed his brother, formidable viscount Drake Strickland, to protect her unborn child. The marriage tore her heart, yet after their vows were sealed, Lucy saw another side to her ste...

• Mar-1999
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TORN BETWEEN DUTY...AND DESIRE Edmund Fitzhugh was willing to thrust his head back into the matrimonial noose to protect Julianna from her wicked stepbrother. But the maiden was betrothed to his nephew, gone at sea. So their forbidden union was se...