Bøger af Alexa Aston

A rule-following viscount who becomes a sudden duke . . .A young woman who loses her parents and turns to music for solace . . .Two people who want very different things from life . . .Lord Henry Vaughn witnesses the deaths of his father and grandfather and becomes the new Duke of Linberry. A decent, kind, and responsible man, Henry knows after this double tragedy that it is important he take a wife and provide a ducal heir since death can come calling unexpectedly.Lady Sophia Sawyer loses both her parents closely together and mourns them the requisite year. When her cousin, the new Lord Parkhurst, calls her to London, she believes it is so she might make her delayed come-out. Instead, Fia is banished to live in the attic like a servant, while Parkhurst schedules her to give music lessons to children of the ton, keeping the fees for himself.The couple meets through mutual friends and the duke is drawn to the quiet, golden-haired beauty. When Fia shares she wants to play and compose her own music, however, Henry is torn, worried what Polite Society would think of a duchess who is anything but conventional.Will the duke learn to bend-and even let go of the ton's rigid, unwritten rules-and instead choose to follow his heart?Each book in the Suddenly a Duke series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.Suddenly a DukeBook 1 - Portrait of the DukeBook 2 - Music for the DukeBook 3 - Polishing the DukeBook 4 - Designs on the DukeBook 5 - Fashioning the DukeBook 6 - Love Blooms with the DukeBook 7 - Training the DukeBook 8 - Investigating the Duke

Welcome to Suddenly a Duke-the new Regency romance world from USA Today bestselling author Alexa Aston.Eight titled peers who never expected to become dukes do just that-and are attracted to females whom Polite Society does not believe worthy of the title duchess, due to their desires to be more than typical ladies of the ton.But these sudden dukes choose to forge their own paths with the remarkable women who are already doing just that-and the resulting love proves that trusting one's heart is always the right choice.A fun-loving man who has become a staid duke . . .An independent lady who wishes to pursue her artistic bent . . .A long-ago meeting which left a lasting impression on them both . . .Daniel Judson, the Duke of Westfield, changed from a carefree young rogue into a sober duke once faced with a mountain of responsibilities after he assumed his grandfather's title. After seeing both his sisters wed, Daniel knows it is finally time for him to take a wife in order to provide the necessary ducal heir.Lady Margaret Townsend's come-out was delayed by the ill health and subsequent deaths of her parents. Now an ancient four and twenty, she makes her debut into Polite Society-not to find a husband-but to secure important social connections within the ton in order to acquire commissions to paint their portraits, a dream she has long held.Sparks surfaced during their initial encounter ten years ago. Their second introduction at the inaugural ball of the Season leaves Daniel certain he has found his duchess, while Margaret is confused by the never-known feelings stirring within her.Will the duke convince this lady she can have both marriage and her art-or will her stubbornness to follow a chosen path have her miss out on love?Find the answer in Alexa Aston's Portrait of the Duke, Book 1 in Suddenly a Duke.Each book in the Suddenly a Duke series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.Suddenly a DukeBook 1 - Portrait of the DukeBook 2 - Music for the DukeBook 3 - Polishing the DukeBook 4 - Designs on the DukeBook 5 - Fashioning the DukeBook 6 - Love Blooms with the DukeBook 7 - Training the DukeBook 8 - Investigating the Duke

Welcome to the new world from USA Today bestselling author Alexa Aston-Maple Cove-a small town on the Oregon Coast where romance is heating up!A journalist at a turning point in her career. An ex-Navy SEAL who has spent his entire life alone. An unlikely friendship which develops into a scorching-hot romance . . .International correspondent Sloane Anderson has reported from all corners of the globe but is tiring of her nomadic life hopscotching the globe, especially since her closest friends have married and soon plan to start families. When she freed after being kidnapped by an African warlord, she is ready to change her lifestyle.Loner Gage Nelson bounced around the foster care system until he aged out and joined the Navy, earning a spot on one of its elite SEAL teams. Having lost too many unit members, Gage leaves the military and lands in Maple Cove, where he is a fitness trainer. He has also found a close-knit group of friends and longs for more in his personal life.When Sloane comes to town, she and Gage experience an instant connection. He helps her learn how to deal with her recent panic attacks, and their friendship moves into a physical relationship.Will two damaged souls be able to shed the emotional baggage they carry and start a new life together-or will the demons that plague them both put up a roadblock that even love can't conquer?Find the answer in Finding Home, Book 5 in Maple Cove.Each book in this contemporary small town romance series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.

Welcome to the new world from USA Today bestselling author Alexa Aston-Maple Cove-a small town on the Oregon Coast where romance is heating up!A singer broken by his wife's affair. An antiques dealer who is open to finding love. A sizzling attraction that leads to a lasting love . . .Country superstar Nash Edwards comes off his latest tour and finds his wife of less than a year with his manager. Nash dumps them both and turns to drink. A DUI is his wake-up call, and he dries out and decides to come to the Oregon Coast, where the drummer in his band retreats after each tour. Nash stops to help a woman who's run out of gas-and their encounter has him rethinking what he wants in his life.Rylie Robinson owns and runs Antiques and Mystiques, a successful business in the Cove. She has close friends and a passion for antiques, until her passion turns to a hot, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Nash tells hers he'll never marry again, having been burned once.But Rylie is approaching thirty, and all her friends are marrying and ready to start their families. She finds herself longing to do the same. She fights her attraction to Nash, not interested in casual sex with a man who doesn't trust women.Will Nash come to his senses and realize Rylie is the best thing that has ever happened to him-or will his stubbornness keep them alone and apart?Find the answer in The Lyrics of Love, Book 4 in Maple Cove.Each book in this contemporary small town romance series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.

Welcome to the new world from USA Today bestselling author Alexa Aston-Maple Cove-a small town on the Oregon Coast where romance is heating up!An attorney facing burnout who flees Los Angeles. A woman returning from Paris, ready to live for herself. And a psychopath who lands in Maple Cove, ready to wreak havoc on their lives . . .Criminal defense lawyer Jackson Martin gets his client off on murder charges, believing the man was guilty and still could be dangerous now that he's free again to kill. The trial depletes Jackson, and he finds himself at a crossroad in life. When the resident attorney in his hometown of Maple Cove decides to retire and asks Jackson to take over his law practice, Jackson leaps at the opportunity, which will allow him to sink deep roots into the community and practice a different kind of law.Ainsley Robinson hustled for a buck her entire life, first baking cookies to sell at athletic events to pay her mother's medical bills, and then working restaurant jobs to pull together the tuition to attend the famed l'Ecole Lenȏtre, one of the world's premier pastry schools in Paris. With graduation behind her, Ainsley returns to the Cove and opens Buttercup Bakery, which quickly becomes a popular establishment on the town's square.Her world turns upside down when Jackson enters her bakery. She'd had a teenage crush on the handsome high school quarterback and finds him to be even hotter and smarter than she remembered. Sparks fly from their first meeting, and they both realize they want the same things in life-a loving relationship and children.Just when it seems everything is falling into place for the happy couple, one of Jackson's former clients decides he wishes to upend their world.Will Jackson be able to protect Ainsley from a deranged psychopath-or will he lose the only woman he's ever loved-along with his life?Find the answer in Coming Home, Book 3 in Maple Cove.Each book in this contemporary small town romance series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.

Welcome to the new world from USA Today bestselling author Alexa Aston-Maple Cove-a small town on the Oregon Coast where romance is heating up!A woman who learns her marriage was a sham. A man widowed in an instant. Two damaged souls who unexpectedly find love . . .Tenley Thompson came from a broken home. Raised in poverty, she puts herself through college and lands a prestigious job at a New York publishing house. She weds an old monied Wall Street stockbroker-only to learn her husband is a bigamist. Fleeing New York, she goes to Maple Cove, where her college roommate lives, hoping a visit to the quiet Oregon coastal town will bring her solace and help her complete the novel she has started.Firefighter Carter Clark lost his pregnant wife to a sudden aneurysm five years earlier. He is ready to shed the shadow of mourning and begin to live life again. When introduced to Tenley, the sudden, sizzling attraction gives him hope that he has found the soulmate he has longed for.Though reluctant to become involved so quickly after her annulment, Tenley is drawn to the handsome firefighter, realizing he's one of the good guys. Their whirlwind romance is celebrated by their friends, but it doesn't sit well with one citizen in the Cove.Will Tenley run to protect the only man she's ever loved-or will she stay and fight for Carter and the happiness they both deserve?Find the answer in A New Beginning, Book 2 in Maple Cove.Each book in this contemporary small town romance series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.

A popular crime fiction novelist ready for the next chapter in her life.A lonely lawman who leaves the violence of the big city for a small town.A crafty serial killer who continues to toy with law enforcement and elude capture . . .Best-selling author Karlyn Campbell is ready for a new start after her recent divorce from a temperamental artist. When she receives word that her father had a stroke, she heads for Walton Springs with mixed feelings. Broderick Campbell wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning literary novels and denounced his daughter's work as pedestrian and commercial, causing a rift that finally heals on his deathbed. Karlyn chooses to stay in the small Georgia town to write her popular Matt Collins series and decides to try her hand at true crime when Atlanta's Rainbow Killer, Roy G. Biv, captures her interest.Detective Logan Warner's marriage didn't survive after he lost his twins to a crazed killer who was never caught. He returns to his hometown's police force and runs for police chief, happy he's escaped big city crime and corruption. Emotionally dead, his interest in life is renewed when he falls in love with Karlyn and begins to build a new life with her.But the Rainbow Killer moves beyond Atlanta, leaving a trail of dead bodies painted in bright hues in several towns north of the city. Leaving no trace evidence or DNA and choosing random victims with no apparent rhyme or reason, Roy proves unstoppable. Then he arrives in Walton Springs, threatening the peaceful town with his murder spree. With a serial killer in their back yard, Logan and Karlyn unite with the FBI to find the killer-before he finds them.

A young woman with a mystical power she keeps hidden from the world.A stoic knight who has locked away his emotions in order to survive.Together, this pair finds a potent love, even as they are torn apart by a powerful enemy . . .Kallen de Mangeron grew up in a convent, her noble family never knowing of her birth. When a new Mother Superior informs them of her existence, they send trusted knight Griffith Sommersby to escort her home.Griffith's heart broke when he lost his wife and infant son during childbirth, and he's kept his feelings locked away from the world-until he meets Kallen. He soon learns her dark secret-that she sees auras around people-which allows her insight into their actions and personalities.Now Quentin, bastard brother to the king, decides to harness Kallen's gift in a plot to win the throne. Will Quentin successfully use a kidnapped Kallen as his political pawn, or will Griffith be able to stop him before Kallen changes the course of England's history?*This is a revised edition, which was originally released under the title A Knight for Kallen and the pen name Lauren Linwood.

A popular actress at a turning point in her career.A professional athlete forging a new path as a fiction writer.And a serial killer interested in seeing both of them dead . . .Callie Chennault vaulted to fame on the nighttime soap Sumner Falls, but after a decade of playing the same role, she is ready for a new acting challenge. When Callie is attacked by a stalker on the streets of New York, she takes a leave of absence from the show and returns to her roots in Aurora, Louisiana, to heal both physically and emotionally and determine her next career move.Former professional baseball pitcher Nick La Chappelle has also come to Aurora to lick his own wounds after a messy divorce. A Cy Young winner and one-time ESPN broadcaster, Nick longs for the quiet of a small town in order to write murder mysteries under a pen name.Sparks fly when Callie believes Nick is taking advantage of her great-aunt's hospitality, but they resolve their differences-and surprise themselves-by falling in love. Their bond is tested when both Nick and Callie become the focus of a serial killer nicknamed Lipstick Larry. Can they outwit a murderer bent on seeing them dead and survive to build a lasting relationship?*This is a revised edition of Leave Yesterday Behind, which was originally released under the pen name Lauren Linwood.

A penniless knight who has lost everything dear to him. A married noblewoman who has never known a man's touch.Two aching souls destined to find one another . . .When Gavin of Ashgrove and his closest friend are captured in a fierce battle during the Hundred Years' War, their captors demand a hefty ransom from their families for their return. Robert is quickly set free, but Gavin's father refuses to pay for his son's release, leaving him to rot in a squalid French prison. Aided by a sympathetic priest, Gavin escapes and returns home to England, only to find he has been proclaimed a bastard and disinherited.With nowhere to turn Gavin journeys to Kentwood, where he fostered as a boy, hoping Lord Aldred will take him on as a knight in his guard. The old warrior is close to death, but Aldred soon realizes Gavin is his son. Aldred plots to have Gavin inherit Kentwood and marry his much younger wife, Elizabeth, a famed and opinionated beauty who remains a virgin after a decade of marriage.Will the king recognize Lord Aldred's first request of a marriage between Elizabeth and Robert, uniting Robert's estate with Kentwood-or will the temperamental Edward reward Aldred's years of service and honor a dying man's final request?*This is a revised addition of A Bit of Heaven on Earth, which was originally released under the pen name Lauren Linwood.

An independent woman discovering herself as she travels through the American West.A man of integrity broken by events in his past-and on the run from a bloodthirsty killer.Two individuals drawn together who find a love that can never be . . .Maggie Rutherford jilts her too-perfect society groom at the altar and flees New York for the American West, where she turns her travels into dime novels that she writes and illustrates under the pen name Lud Madison.After the Civil War, veteran Ben Morgan marries his childhood sweetheart and takes her to homestead on the Great Plains. Losing her and their unborn child in an Indian attack, Ben detaches from emotion and becomes a roaming gambler. When he kills a cheating opponent in self-defense, the man's gunslinger brother swears revenge upon Ben.Ben hides on a cattle drive and brings in a herd to Abilene, where a waiting Maggie wants to find a rough and tumble cowboy to interview for her next story idea. Sparks fly as the dangerous drover and popular novelist wind up living in the same household, running a general store east of Abilene. But with Black Tex Lonnegan hot on his trail, will Ben run from his growing attraction to Maggie and the gunfighter's promise of death-or will he make a stand for his life-and love?*This is a revised edition of Written in the Cards, which was originally released under the pen name Lauren Linwood.

Twins literally separated at birth put into motion a gripping tale involving danger, deception, and love . . .Gambler Jed Stone journeys to California to track down Simon Morgan, the man responsible for his best friend's death. Arrested for robbery and murder upon arrival, Jed is shocked to see his face on a wanted poster. He escapes before his hanging, unaware that the man guilty of those crimes is the twin brother he never knew existed. In a case of mistaken identity, Jed acquires the most famous whorehouse in San Francisco in a rigged card game his twin is meant to win.Lily Frontiere takes over running Lucky Lil's from her dying mother, the house madam who shielded her daughter by sending Lily away to boarding school. Lily's intelligence and astonishing resemblance to her mother help in the successful charade, but she's entered a world she knows little about. She clashes with the handsome stranger who turns up with the deed to Lucky Lil's in hand, yet she is attracted to the charming risk taker.Jed asks Madam Lil to stay on as he learns the business and is fooled by Lily's performance until he stumbles upon the real Madam Lil and learns the truth behind Lily's deception. His admiration for Lily blossoms into love.But Simon Morgan seeks both Lily's hand and ownership of Lucky Lil's-and he will go to any means to possess both. Will Jed foil his nemesis while bringing his outlaw brother to justice and win Lily's love?*This is a revised edition of A Game of Chance, which was originally released under the pen name Lauren Linwood.