A Mornington Park Novel Series

                     Fate Plays Dangerous Games                           England 1815.      After escaping the days of terror in France, Cherie Beaumont has spent eight years hiding in China before she arrives in England, looking for a peaceful and quiet life. She does not need a man in her life that can turn her head, as she can fight as well as any man with a rapier. But when she finds herself the house guest of the Duke of Mornington and the strong emotional attraction hard to dismiss, she does not see the danger creeping towards her.        Jack Blackenhawke, the Duke of Mornington life is well structured and very organised, spending all his time in parliament believing it is his duty to help the people of England obtain better lives. He does not need a wife or heir as he has seven brothers and he most certainly does not need a woman who tempts his mind to be diverted, so he cannot think straight. Especially when she holds dangerous secrets that could not only place his family in danger, but could get them all killed.

The Destiny of Tangled Vines. Gabriel Blackenhawke is quite envious of his older brother the Duke of Mornington's love match to his duchess, for he is in no doubt it cannot happen to him as he is six feet four inches tall and most woman only come up to his waist. He has worked for the King of England for the past ten years incognito saving many including his own brother when trapped behind enemy lines, so now to return to England all he wants to do is live a quiet life and maybe have a little fun in the process. So to meet a woman who is six feet two inches tall that he can look in the eye during a waltz, not only wipes everything from his common sense that tells him to take care, but changes his ideas on the boundaries that society has inflicted on all, in what they think is the correct behaviour when ones life is determined by the fate of their birth.  

Laurence Rutherford, the Marquess of Westcott has always enjoyed music as his mistress, hoping for his life to be quiet, ordered and filled with the rhythmic sounds, but growing up with the Blackenhawke brothers has not always allowed that to be the case. So when his close friend Nicholas Blackenhawke asks him to take his wife's sister, an escaped slave from America into hiding at his quiet manor house in the country, he jumps at the chance to spend time with the black blue-eyed beauty, entertaining her in the peace of his music.  A simple request until he finds he is spending more time keeping his emotions in check, instead of watching the approaching danger that not only has the power to shatter their peace, but to kill them all.

Fate is Never Fortuitous. Nicholas Blackenhawke is envious of his two brothers love match marriages, for he is in no doubt it cannot happen to him. He thought he had fallen in love, but the woman concerned betrayed him on all his values with what he believes are the important things in life and that was treating everyone with respect. Now he is not looking for love, he does not need that complication, all he requires in a woman is someone who can run his home without feelings, that has the same values as himself, warm his bed when required and if they should pass in the corridor, be pleasant to each other.    

Oliver Prendergast the Duke of Dunsborough is London's worst cold hearted rake who has ever walked the streets. After experiencing a turbulent childhood that continues to plague his dreams always turning them into nightmares, he has finally lost the will to live, so when he has the opportunity to partake in a duel, he jumps at the chance.  The only problem is Monique MacTavish holds the most accurate duelling pistols ever created and will not relinquish them except for one thing. She will exchange the pistols if he will spend his last ten days on earth teaching her everything there is to know regarding the lessons in the bedchamber.

Katherine Feuillette had a traumatic year so she put the past behind her and looked forward to a quiet future. She gave up the job she loved and took up romance writing to wile away her days, for that would be the only love life she could ever envisage for herself.   Until she meets Jackson Blackenhawke, who takes her on a journey to the past so she can cherish the future, showing her she can be more than the heroine in her own stories.  She can be the heroine in real life, in the real world, if she wants to take a chance on love.