Historical Romance Series : Devereux Family


Author: Elizabeth Thornton
Title: Tender the Storm
Series: Devereux Family - BOOK I
Description:
She was an engaging young lady of the French aristocracy... He was a daring English nobleman turned secret agent...
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Together, Zoe Devereux and the man she knew only as "Rolphe" fled across a wartorn France to the safety of England. Finding it impossible to abandon the innocent girl to London's street:,, Rolphe Brockford, the Marquess of Rivard, scandalized society by making Zoe his wife, though in name only. But as Zoe blossomed from waif-like child to passionate and desirable beauty, the rules of the game changed. And nothing would ever--could ever--be the same again...



Author: Elizabeth Thornton
Title: Velvet is the Night
Series: Devereux Family - BOOK II
Description:
To save her family from the guillotine, a young beauty becomes the mistress of a ruthless commissioner--only to find herself falling in love with him.. .
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SHE SWORE SHE'D NEVER LOVE HIM
He was cold, ruthless, evil... and as the newly appointed commissioner, Phillipe Dubet had the power of life and death over the local aristocracy. In return for her family's safe passage out of the country, the breathtakingly lovely Claire Devereux agreed to be his mistress. She was to live in his luxurious quarters, to be seen with him about town, and to accommodate his desires whenever be wished... Claire surrendered her body to Dubet, but swore he'd never break her spirit. What she didn't know was that the real Dubet had been abducted, and his American twin brother Adam Dillon installed in his place as a spy. And she was devastated to find that her body was not at all immune to the pleasures of "Dubet's" caress, nor her heart to his intoxicating company.


Author: Elizabeth Thornton
Title: Cherished
Series: Devereux Family - BOOK III
Description:
A rich, spellbinding tale of passion and adventure that sweeps from the glittering ballrooms of Regency England to the turbulent shores of America... as a headstrong aristocratic beauty loses her heart to the one man she'd never dreamed she could ever love-her husband.
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At sixteen, high-born Lady Emily Brockton had been forced by circumstance to wed the notorious, devastatingly seductive Leon Devereux. But theirs had been a marriage in name only, and the handsome rakehell had soon set sail for America, leaving his chaste young bride alone and at the mercy of every fortune-hunting scoundrel in the ton. Five years later, they would meet again at a society ball... when a masked stranger swept Emily into his virile embrace. But it was a dangerous destiny that brought Devereux back to England and to the woman he'd sworn to possess at all costs. And even as Emily found herself surrendering to his searing caresses, a treacherous enemy threatened to tear her forever from the arms of the man she'd vowed never to love... but now could no longer live without!