The Wrong Door by Mary Balogh - Viscount Lyndon has been invited to a house party that is fairly dull. Lyndon suddenly finds himself in the wrong bedroom, naked with the wrong woman. Early the next morning, he admits his error to the host of the house party and offers for Caroline Astor's hand in marriage. Caroline comes into the room and refuses the marriage. Instead, the couple agrees to a very strange wager.

Hide-and-Seek by Melinda McRae - George Atwell, the 6th Viscount Belmont has collected his various illegitimate children from his former mistresses and Miss Waldron does a magnificent job taking care of them and melding them into a little family. Juliet is in love with Belmont but she had a scandalous history, including an illegitimate son from an earlier error in judgment. Belmont thinks Juliet is a cold fish, but he knows she is priceless as a governess. For a masked ball, Juliet sends an invitation to Belmont to meet her.

Highway Robbery by Anita Mills - Anne Hardinge is trying to pay the fine to release her brother from jail. She's accidentally taken to see Nicolas Swann instead, how is in jail and about to be hanged. Swann uses Annie as a hostage to escape with her. Over the course of a few hours, they share their stories. Swann knows there is no help for him but he tries to assist Anne. When Swann is caught again, she tries to rescue him from the earl's anger.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by Mary Jo Putney - Liza Holden, a recent widow, is coming back from her father's funeral when she sees a handcuffed man being abused. Andrew Kane is a younger son of an English baronet who is to be hanged for murder. She finds out that Kane was the one who killed her husband, and she isn't surprised that it was self-defense. Since her dead husband's father is a major force in the area, there was a kangaroo court that condemned Kane in 10 minutes.

Cats-Paw by Maura Seger - Archer Davalos has a problem; he needs to retrieve some compromising letters of his sister, written to a bounder. The cad is now threatening to release them to the newspapers if Archer does not give him loads of money and an entre' into society. After Megan Dougherty comes to Archer's house and appeals to him to hire one (or more of her brothers), he tells her about needing a woman to collect those compromising letters. Megan needs the job desperately because she is in charge of 5 brothers and a cousin; they are near the end of their rope and about to lose their pitiful housing.

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