Bertrice Small
All Books By Bertrice Small
A Dangerous Love
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 23, 2021
- Language: English
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4(2084 ratings)
Adair Radcliffe is only a child when her family perishes in the War of the Roses, so her real father, the womanizing King Edward IV, takes her in, honoring his promise to her mother. Once Adair turns sixteen, the king marries her off without her knowledge-and to her later outrage-in a wedding by proxy. But when tragedy leaves her a widow twice over, Adair realizes that her already tenuous social position has sunk even lower. Now, all she can do is hope that the Scottish laird to whom she is sold will have mercy on her. But little does master or servant suspect that love knows no rank.
Contains mature themes.
A Distant Tomorrow
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 19 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 05, 2021
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)
From one of the original masters of romance, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Bertrice Small invites you back to the magical, sensual world of Hetar.
The time of peace is over. After the murder of her husband, Lara-half faerie, half human-must leave the home she has made in the Outlands and follow the destiny that has long called her. Using her brilliant sword and even sharper mind, Lara must journey toward the coast, seeking alliances to protect the future of her land. But when treachery binds her once more in chains, the green-eyed beauty is taken far beyond the world she knows. Only there will she discover that destiny has a mind of its own-and that true passion knows no boundaries.
Contains mature themes.
A Memory of Love
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 23, 2021
- Language: English
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4.02(818 ratings)
A tale of stunning passion, reckless danger, and the fierce will of a remarkable woman who can wield a sword as powerfully as any man-and who dares to fight for her most uninhibited desires . . .
Spirited, iron-willed Rhonwyn is the bastard child of the Prince of Wales, raised more boy than girl, able to ride and fight with the best. Against her wishes, she is married off to an English lord, Edward de Beaumont, who is stunned to discover that his lovely gilt-haired bride is a fiery wildcat with a mind of her own. Slowly, he wins her trust and her heart, and she accompanies him on the Crusades to North Africa. But when Edward falls ill, Rhonwyn boldly leads his troops, only to become a captive of the sensual Emir of Cinnebar, a man who will teach her the ways of erotic love-passions that will be put to the test when she returns to England to battle once more . . . this time for the man who rules her heart.
Contains mature themes.
A Moment in Time
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 18 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: April 27, 2021
- Language: English
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4.03(1079 ratings)
In eleventh-century Wales, a land steeped in ancient Celtic lore, two lovers discover a passion that journeys beyond time.
Young Wynne of Gwernach has no dreams of marriage. Innocent and pure of heart, she believes that love is an illusion. Instead, she devotes herself to managing the great family estate nestled in the raw beauty of Wales, vowing to protect it and her younger brother until he comes of age to inherit.
And then Madoc of Powys enters into her life, claiming his betrothal to Wynne when she was a babe. Madoc is both feared and worshipped throughout the land, for his family’s power is said to stem from Merlin himself. Yet it is a very human desire he evokes in Wynne; his warm gaze makes her flesh burn with unaccustomed fire. Still, she remains firm in her belief that she can never marry, can never be owned.
But Madoc of Powys is a Celt in his heart and soul. He knows Wynne’s reluctance to wed is the legacy of another life. In time she will know everything-for which he is both hopeful and desperately afraid. For Wynne and Madoc have been lovers in another time, another place. But what unfinished destiny lays between them?
Contains mature themes.
Adora
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: July 14, 2020
- Language: English
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4.06(1865 ratings)
Adora’s mahogany hair and violet eyes captivated young Prince Murad the moment he saw her in a convent garden, and their love flowered like the peach blossoms surrounding them. But Orkahm, Grand Turk of an empire, claimed Adora for his bride, tearing her from her young love as she wept bitter tears. Destiny might carry them to other lands and other loves, but Murad and Adora were meant only for each other-forging a magnificent love that lies forever in the pages of history . . .
Contains mature themes.
All the Sweet Tomorrows
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 24 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: June 29, 2021
- Language: English
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4.29(2607 ratings)
A pawn in the bitter war between England’s Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, and Mary Queen of Scots, Skye must once again, unprotected and alone, fight for her children.
At Elizabeth’s command, she marries the Duc de Beaumont de Jaspre, whose Mediterranean principality is vital to England. Her new world, though tortuously cruel at first, is transformed by Skye’s hot-blooded desires-only to be shaken with the news that her beloved former husband may be alive in Algiers. Her daring flight into danger leads her ultimately to her heart’s true destiny-as bold and sensual as Skye herself.
Contains mature themes.
Bedazzled
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.1(1420 ratings)
What the lady wants, the lady gets. And then some . . .
Lady India Lindley is accustomed to having her own way in everything, and marriage is no exception. Determined to elope, she boards a ship bound for Italy with her intended. But when Ottoman pirates capture the vessel, Lady India finds herself a slave to the mysterious and very commanding Caynan Reis, ruler of the Barbary state of El Sinut. He makes it quite clear that she is no longer in charge-and that’s his first mistake . . .
Caynan is intrigued by the headstrong heiress whose passions and will are as strong as his own. Clearly this is not a treasure he can steal but one he must earn. Very well. Showing the lady how accommodating he can be will be pure pleasure. But what starts as an erotic game of sensual surrender soon yields to a love beyond their wildest fantasies, one that could destroy them both . . .
Contains mature themes.
Beloved
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 22 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: May 11, 2021
- Language: English
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4.05(1242 ratings)
The daughter of a powerful desert chieftain, beautiful raven-haired Zenobia, a descendent of Cleopatra, witnesses at an early age the shocking brutality of renegade Roman soldiers and vows to hate all of the blue-eyed strangers forever. Despite that pledge, she falls hopelessly and passionately in love with Marcus Alexander Britanus, a Roman. And it will take all her cunning and skill in war to keep the precious erotic rapture she can find only in his arms . . .
Contains mature themes.
Besieged
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: April 20, 2021
- Language: English
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4.01(1113 ratings)
Nearly a spinster at twenty, Fortune Lindley is leaving Scotland to return to her birthplace at Maguire’s Ford, a vast Ulster estate that she will inherit only if she marries an Irish Protestant. To that end, Fortune has agreed to consider a match with the Protestant aristocrat William Devers, a man suited to her wealth and status.
But it is the rebellious and disinherited Catholic elder brother, Kiernan Devers, who steals her heart, driving William to a black and murderous fury. While Fortune and Kiernan’s forbidden ecstasy explodes, jealousy and intolerance lead to an unthinkable tragedy-and a destiny that will test Fortune’s will to survive in a struggle to claim a land, a legacy, and the only love she’ll have . . .
Contains mature themes.
Betrayed
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 09, 2021
- Language: English
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3.97(1091 ratings)
When Fiona Hay offers Angus Gordon her virtue in exchange for a dowry for her sisters, she so intrigues the rogue that he demands a higher payment: She will be his mistress. Thus begins a battle of wills and sensual delights. Destiny soon draws the ardent lovers into the turbulent court of King James. But soon the king’s political schemes force Fiona away from the man she loves . . . and into the arms of a wild and passionate highlander, The MacDonald of Nairn. Will this coldhearted and callous betrayal forever destroy Fiona’s chance at happiness?
Contains mature themes.
Bianca
- By: Bertrice Small
- Narrator: Bertrice Small
- Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 14, 2012
- Language: English
New York Times best-selling author Bertrice Small earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews for her captivating historical romances. Set in Florence during the Renaissance, Bianca begins a new series featuring a beautiful silk merchant’s daughter who’s sold into marriage following a family scandal. But even after her cruel husband is murdered, Bianca knows love won’t come easy – because her true love is Prince Amir, grandson of Mehmet the Conqueror.
... Read moreBond of Passion
- By: Bertrice Small
- Narrator: Bertrice Small
- Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 16, 2012
- Language: English
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4.06(543 ratings)
Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner Bertrice Small continues her sumptuous Border Chronicles series with Bond of Passion. Set in 16th-century Scotland, this breathtaking tale follows Angus Ferguson, Earl of Duin, as he reluctantly agrees to take a wife in exchange for some much-coveted land. Although the plain-faced Annabella Baird may not be the lass he had in mind, passion soon ignites between them.
... Read moreCrown of Destiny
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 23, 2021
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)
A hundred years have passed since the Faerie woman Lara last saved Hetar. Her youth and beauty remain as always. The waning years, however, have taken many of her friends and kin. And those who remember her heroism in times of peril are few.
All the while Lara’s son, the charming but nefarious Twilight Lord Kolgrim, waits patiently for his moment. Kolgrim won’t repeat his father’s mistakes by waging war. His way is more subtle but just as sinister-not even Lara’s formidable powers will be able to stop him. Though all seems lost, Lara still clings to the hope that she can fulfill the prophecy to unite the people of Hetar.
As darkness once again falls over her land, Lara finds that, more than ever, she needs the wisdom, love and support of the handsome Shadow Prince, Kaliq. In their greatest trial yet, Lara and Kaliq will finally meet her long-foretold destiny . . . together.
Contains mature themes.
Dangerous Pleasures
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 14, 2023
- Language: English
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3.86(486 ratings)
A new novel from “the reigning queen of erotica, romance, love, and lust.” (Literary Times)
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small explores the deepest recesses of the imagination where one woman’s sexual fantasies lie in wait.
Widowed with five children, stay at home mom Annie Miller has been just getting by . . . and growing restless because of it. Thinking Annie just needs a vacation, her sister enters her into a contest sponsored by The Channel, a network that caters to delivering women’s fantasies. Annie wins the grand prize, a week at a luxurious spa-and gets a treat when she turns on the flat-screen TV. The one working channel lets Annie program-and experience-her own personal fantasy each night. Suddenly she’s living out dreams she didn’t even know she had. But now that she’s experienced a complete sexual awakening, how will everyone in her former life handle this humble homemaker turned vivacious vixen?
Contains mature themes.
Darling Jasmine
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: December 08, 2020
- Language: English
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4.18(1543 ratings)
She was headstrong, fearless, and beautiful. She was just like her grandmother, the legendary Skye O’Malley.
Darling Jasmine
Jasmine had been forced into marriage twice. Rebelling at King James’s decree that she wed Jemmie Leslie, fifth earl of Glenkirk, she fled to France with her children. But her youngest, the illegitimate offspring of Jasmine’s lover, Prince Henry Stuart, is also the king’s only grandson. Now the man coming after her and her little boy is the man she both fears and desires . . .
Jemmie Leslie has come to France to possess Jasmine-by force if necessary. Though they shared a night of unforgettable passion, her rejection of their betrothal stunned and maddened him. Yet once he sees her again, Jemmie vows to win the elusive Jasmine back . . . and take her beyond ecstasy.
Contains mature themes.
Deceived
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 09, 2021
- Language: English
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3.93(904 ratings)
DECEIVED
Golden-haired Aurora Kimberly possesses only one passion-to live a simple life on the lush island paradise bequeathed to her family by the English Crown. Now her peace is about to be threatened by the appearance of Valerian Hawkesworth, Duke of Farminster, who has arrived to claim his own prize-an heiress promised to him in a marriage contract. But the free-spirited beauty has no intention of letting some pompous duke carry her off to cold and gloomy England. Her sister Cally, who has always yearned for the luxurious life of a duchess, agrees to switch places.
But can the sisters hope to play out this charade successfully? And what sweet revenge will the duke demand once he discovers the deception? Only a twist of fate and the power of an indomitable love can change the heart of a man scorned . . .
Contains mature themes.
Forbidden Pleasures
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 31, 2023
- Language: English
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3.86(716 ratings)
Replacing a social life with a career, bestselling romance novelist Emily Shann has gotten by on a vivid imagination, hiding a shocking secret that not even her publisher suspects-until she’s asked to write something that’s hotter, sexier, more explicit, and true to life. Emily has nowhere to turn for advice except to her new editor-tall, dark, and handsome Michael Devlin-who’s already stirring her fantasies. So is The Channel-a secret network designed to tutor women in the art of sensual delight. Now more willing than ever before, she must convince Devlin to teach her everything he knows . . . if her literary fantasies are finally to become unedited flesh-and-blood reality.
Contains mature themes.
Francesca
- By: Bertrice Small
- Narrator: Bertrice Small
- Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 07, 2013
- Language: English
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3.99(445 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small continues her glorious historical-romance series featuring four sisters in Renaissance Florence who have anything but marriage on their minds. Giovanni Pietro d’ Angelos selected his oldest daughter’ s husband, and the marriage proved to be a disaster. He offers to give his next oldest daughter, Francesca, more latitude in choosing a husband than her sister had. But the arrogant beauty has no desire to marry, and she drives every potential suitor away. The Duke of Terreno Boscoso seeks a wife for his heir, Rafaello, and invites Francesca, along with several other possible brides, to come meet him. Francesca’ s parents think it’ s a good match, but she refuses to consider it until her father makes her a promise: If he does not suit, you may return. She is therefore shocked when, not long after they meet, Rafaello chooses her as his bride and her parents agree to his proposal– without her consent. Furious and feeling betrayed, Francesca flees into the woods and takes shelter at an inn. There, she earns her keep as a servant– and meets an unlikely suitor who steals her heart. But the future remains uncertain for the runaway bride, who is still promised to another.
... Read moreGuilty Pleasures
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: April 27, 2021
- Language: English
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3.79(326 ratings)
Carla, Tiffany, Nina, and J. P. have already gotten major play on the Channel, a secret, women-only interactive cable network. Now they’ll carry out even more fantasies with a collection of seductive characters they would only meet in their dreams . . .
The women entangle themselves with pirates, sultans, regency rakes, and even movie stars. And then there’s Maureen Flynn, new to the Channel. She’s an au pair from Ireland whose fantasy of choice is with a brawny Celtic warrior. Will he turn her on to the Channel like those that came before her?
Contains mature themes.
Hellion
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 16 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 18, 2020
- Language: English
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3.94(1293 ratings)
SHE WAS CALLED BELLE FROM HELL . . .
As fierce and indomitable as any man, Isabelle of Langston rules the family lands with an iron hand after her father’s death. But the brazen beauty meets her match in Hugh Fauconier, bold knight and rightful Saxon heir to Langston Keep. By the King’s hand, he is made her husband. Hugh’s virile prowess reveals to Belle the delicious pleasures of the flesh, as their turbulent days of verbal sparring melt into nights of erotic abandon.
But a treacherous plot enslaves Hugh to the evil Vivienne d’Bretagne, a sorceress whose sexual magic is as powerful as it is dark. Discovering the castle lair where her husband is enchanted, Belle is caught, and rendered helpless by the twisted passion of Vivienne’s brother, Guy. But not even her captor’s devious ecstasy can destroy her will to free her beloved Hugh . . .
Contains mature themes.
Intrigued
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 14 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: May 25, 2021
- Language: English
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4.1(936 ratings)
On her mother’s advice, Lady Autumn Leslie leaves war-torn England for France in the hope of making a suitable match. The wealthy and handsome Marquis d’Auriville is all she could wish for in a husband, but when Autumn is widowed only a few years after they are wed, she believes she will never give her heart to another man.
Yet as two kings-Louis XIV and Charles II-boldly bid for her affections, Autumn is plunged into the heady world of court intrigue, where powerful men will not hesitate to use a beautiful woman for their own ends-or barter her for their own pleasure. Yet it is Gabriel Bainbridge, the Duke of Garwood, a face from Autumn’s past, who is determined to become her passionate, and only, destiny . . .
Contains mature themes.
Just Beyond Tomorrow
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: May 31, 2022
- Language: English
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4.17(1025 ratings)
With his father dead and his mother in France, Patrick Leslie, Duke of Glenkirk, discovers the obligations of the estate and its people are now his alone. But during a day of hunting, a chance meeting ensures that he will not be alone much longer, for to obtain the deserted castle and lands adjoining his, Patrick must agree to take something else, as well-a bride.
Flanna Brodie, heiress to Brae, is as vibrant and beautiful as the Scottish countryside, and just as wild. She wants no man-only her freedom. But the passions Patrick awakens in her run deeper than those of the flesh. The independent Flanna is determined to champion the royal Stuarts’ cause, and restore Charles II to his throne despite her husband’s objections. Patrick knows the dangers of such political intrigues; that the Stuarts have always brought misfortune to the Leslies of Glenkirk, and that a roguish king will ask far more of the naïve duchess than a simple vow of fealty-forcing Patrick and Flanna to choose between the threat of wounded pride, and the promise of a lasting love both secretly yearn for . . .
Contains mature themes.
Lara
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 18 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: July 28, 2020
- Language: English
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3.89(2067 ratings)
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and master of romance Bertrice Small welcomes you to the magical, sensual World of Hetar.
For Lara, a half faerie, half human, her beauty is a blessing and a curse. Sold into a Pleasure House by her father, she commits herself to a lifetime of servitude. But even in a place where pleasure is not censured but encouraged, her otherworldly beauty proves too much for her suitors.
When Lara escapes, she is introduced to a new way of life, and an incredible man who opens her eyes to the growing unrest among their people . . . and the extraordinary destiny that awaits her. Lara will journey the depths of desire and despair to find a love that will last an eternity-a love that will change Hetar forever.
Contains mature themes.
Lost Love Found
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 19 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.26(1754 ratings)
Valentina had been admired, married, widowed, yet had never known love . . .
Not even at the illustrious court of Queen Elizabeth, where her innocent, violet-eyed beauty fired the hearts of England’s most gallant gentry, especially the roguish Earl of Kempe and the irrepressible Lord Padraic Burke.
But her innocence shattered when a deathbed confession revealed that her true father might not have been Lord Bliss, but the lustful Sultan Murad of Istanbul. Determined to find the truth, Valentina sets sail for the East, a voyage of unsurpassed danger . . . and sensual discovery.
Contains mature themes.
Love, Remember Me
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 17 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.16(1220 ratings)
Lovely Nyssa Wyndham, fair and proud as her mother, Blaze, is lady-in-waiting to Henry VIII’s fourth wife . . .
Scandalizing all of England, Henry has his marriage annulled, for the Queen cannot meet the bawdy desires of the insatiable king. Henry seeks a spirited, lusty new wife-and eyes the beautiful Nyssa. But in a land rife with conspiracy and rebellion, there are those in secret power determined to thwart Henry’s intentions. A drugged Nyssa awakens in the arms of the notorious rake Varian de Winter. Her virtue destroyed, the outraged king orders them to wed.
Handsome-and soon smitten-Varian de Winter dares to conquer his spitfire bride. But the intrigues and dark side of the court intrude upon their brief happiness as Nyssa is trapped in a devious plot and witness to the deadly wrath of Henry Tudor. Suddenly, jealousy and revenge grow bloodthirsty, and all that Nyssa holds dear is in dire jeopardy . . .
Contains mature themes.
Lucianna
- By: Bertrice Small
- Narrator: Bertrice Small
- Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.81(355 ratings)
In this sweeping new series of Renaissance Italy, Bertrice Small does it again with all the passion and historical splendor that has captured the imagination of her legion of fans After her two elder sisters become the scandals of Florence, Lucianna Pietro d’ Angelo is in the difficult position of finding a wealthy man who will have her for his wife. She has little choice but to accept the proposal of an aging bookseller– a not entirely disagreeable union in which Lucianna comforts the dear man in his final years. When he passes away, she inherits his shop and, with it, a sizable fortune. Lucianna is content with comfortable widowhood– until Robert Minton, Earl of Lisle, visits her bookshop. The Englishman is not only dashing and handsome– he’ s a trusted courtier of Henry VII. The Pietro d’ Angelos cannot deny the spark of attraction between their daughter and the earl, so they scheme to send her to London. There, Lucianna steps out of the shadow of her quiet Florentine life, pursuing a love of which she never dreamed and rising in London society all the way to court of the new Tudor king.
... Read morePassionate Pleasures
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: English
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3.75(420 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Beatrice Small is turning on her fans again-by tuning them into their sexiest fantasies in the Channel.
Some think librarians are stuffy, narrow-minded prudes-but that’s not true of Kathryn St. John. She runs Egret Point’s library and is very involved in her community, even down to keeping them up with the latest trends. One major trend she turned the local ladies on to is the interactive network the Channel. It’s there that Kathryn extends her occupational passions into the bedroom by playing out her favorite pieces of medieval English literature. Kathryn is quite satisfied with the princes, musketeers, and highwaymen her personas seduce in the Channel. But her seductions spill out into the real world and reach Timothy Blair, new to Egret Point. He wants to satiate both of their desires, but how can he possibly compete with fantasy lovers? That is unless he can create a wicked plot twist that even Kathryn couldn’t think up in her wildest dreams . . .
Contains mature themes.
Philippa
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: May 11, 2021
- Language: English
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3.95(1312 ratings)
In the third Friarsgate Inheritance novel, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small takes us back to the sensuality, drama, and intrigue of King Henry’s sixteenth-century court to tell the story of the daughter of one of her most beloved characters.
The eldest child of Rosamund Bolton and heiress to the Friarsgate manor, Philippa Meredith is devastated when she discovers that the man she sought to marry has rebuffed her. But it is this sudden change of fortune that sweeps the spirited beauty back to her place in the court of Queen Katherine of Aragon-and into the arms of Crispin St. Clair, the Earl of Witton. But when Philippa stumbles onto a plot to assassinate King Henry VIII, their very love is tested as they attempt to unmask those who are plotting to tear the royal court asunder.
Contains mature themes.
Private Pleasures
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 24, 2023
- Language: English
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3.87(893 ratings)
With her renowned, sizzling sensuality, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small reveals the wonderful power of surrendering to our deepest desires . . .
Nora Buckley’s worst nightmare has just come true. After years of being a devoted, dutiful housewife, she’s found out her husband is leaving her for a younger woman. Her only comfort comes from her friends-the women of Ansley Court, who meet every Monday morning for coffee and gossip. Seeing Nora’s desperation, her friends decide it’s time to let her in on a secret. It’s a way she can enter a new world of erotic adventure, and unleash passions she never dared to dream of.
With a new man in her life-more commanding and sexually knowing than her husband ever was-Nora realizes she can have everything she ever wanted. But abandon can be a dangerous game, and she’ll soon learn the truth of the old saying: be careful what you wish for . . .
Contains mature themes.
Skye O’Malley
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 21 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 13, 2020
- Language: English
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4.27(5273 ratings)
From the incomparable New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small comes a heroine as breathtaking as she is legendary.
Indomitable and bold in an era of royalty and rogues, Skye O’Malley is a woman who embraces her unbridled sensuality as valiantly as she fights for her children, her lovers, her empire. A woman of justice and honor, she will match wits with and challenge the most dangerous and powerful woman of her time: Queen Elizabeth I.
Though Skye is the object of every man’s fantasy, only a handful have had the thrill of tasting her enticing passions-men whose own daring adventures match her exotic forays into a world of lust, longing, and remarkable destiny. Skye’s is a stunning tale that reaches from the emerald hills of Ireland to the lush palaces of Algiers to the helm of a shipping empire, where she will wage her greatest battle for love and vengeance against the crown itself.
Contains mature themes.
Sudden Pleasures
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 28, 2023
- Language: English
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3.9(577 ratings)
Ashley Kimbrough has everything a woman could want. Not only is she wealthy and successful, she has a more than satisfying sex life in The Channel, a secret network that allows women to live out their wildest fantasies. But if she doesn’t find herself a husband she could be in danger of losing it all.
Then multi-millionaire Ryan Mulcahy enters Ashley’s life. With that Celtic warrior’s body and drop-dead gorgeous face, he makes her fantasies run wild. Although their marriage is one of convenience, Ashley is starting to wonder whether she can use everything she learned from The Channel on her unsuspecting husband.
Contains mature themes.
The Border Lord and the Lady
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 18, 2022
- Language: English
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4.03(1121 ratings)
From the New York Times bestselling author comes the fourth passionate romance in the Border Chronicles series.
Lady Cicely Bowen, daughter of the Earl of Leighton, is sent away by her father when her jealous stepmother threatens her safety. Soon the exiled Cicely becomes best friends with Lady Joan Beaufort, the king’s cousin, and when Joan is married to King James I of Scotland she chooses Cicely as one of the ladies accompany her north.
At the Scot’s court Cicely finds herself pursued by two men-elegant Andrew Gordon, the laird of Fairlee, and Ian Douglas, the laird of Glengorm, a rough-spoken border lord. When Ian kidnaps Cicely just as Andrew is about to propose, the royal court is sent into an uproar. The queen is demanding the return of her friend and the Gordons are threatening to set the border on fire. But the border lord is difficult to tame-and the lady’s heart is even harder to claim.
Contains mature themes.
The Border Lord’s Bride
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 30, 2021
- Language: English
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3.98(1591 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small continues her Border Chronicles with this tale of a woman rescued, a man enraptured, and a love unanticipated by the fates . . .
Duncan Armstrong, laird of Duffdour, had sworn never to wed unless it was to a lass he truly loved. But when he needs a favor from King James, Duncan never expects what he’s forced to pay in return: the taking of a bride he neither loves nor desires.
When Highland heiress Ellen MacArther’s marriage plans are thwarted by a murder attempt, she has no choice but to beg the king for help. The cost for her urgent plea: to surrender her heritage and become a border lord’s bride.
But the price to be paid for two strangers thrown together by fate is higher than imagined. And more dangerous than the passion-and betrayal-that could consume them.
Contains mature themes.
The Border Vixen
- By: Bertrice Small
- Narrator: Bertrice Small
- Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 08, 2011
- Language: English
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3.96(897 ratings)
Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award winner and New York Times best-selling author Bertrice Small won a loyal fan following with breathtaking historical romances like her Border Chronicles series. Here, Scottish lass Maggie Kerr refuses to marry a man of lesser merit. So her grandfather offers a challenge: any man who can outshoot and outride Maggie may claim her hand.
... Read moreThe Dragon Lord’s Daughters
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: April 13, 2021
- Language: English
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3.91(916 ratings)
Meet the daughters of King Arthur’s descendant, Merlin Pendragon:
Averil: She may be the Lord’s eldest-and illegitimate-daughter, but Averil knows her dazzling beauty can buy her what she wants most: marriage to a great and powerful lord. But fate has other plans in the rugged form of Rhys FitzHugh. Thinking her the sole heiress, the penniless bailiff kidnaps the beauty. Now, to salvage his honor, he must marry the openly hostile Averil and accept his greatest challenge-winning her love, her loyalty, and her trust . . .
Maia: As the legitimate heiress with a hefty dowry, Maia can have any man she chooses, namely Emrys Llyn, a descendant of Lancelot and the Lady of the Lake. But strange, dangerous rumors surround the handsome Emrys. Can her unwavering love prove his innocence . . . or will Maia suffer the same fate as Emrys’s previous wives?
Junia: As charming as she is irrepressible, Junia is the Lord’s youngest daughter. Junia is content to roam the countryside, where she can be alone with Richard de Bohun, who she meets and loves in secret. But he is the son of her father’s sworn enemy, and loving him may cost more than she could ever imagine . . .
Contains mature themes.
The Last Heiress
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 15 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: June 15, 2021
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small concludes her acclaimed saga of Rosamund Bolton and her daughters with this tale of passion, intrigue, and seduction, set against the glorious backdrop of King Henry’s court . . .
Elizabeth Meredith, the youngest daughter of Rosamund Bolton, is nothing like her sensible sisters. Impatient with fancy manners, the young beauty has shunned the royal court in favor of a quiet life at Friarsgate. But to protect the future of the land she loves, she must venture into the court of King Henry VIII to find a suitable husband.
Elizabeth soon scandalizes the court by forging a friendship with Anne Boleyn and by flirting with Flynn Stewart, bastard brother to King James V of Scotland. But her fate lies back at Friarsgate-as she has always known-where a weakness for Scots sends her into the strong arms of Baen MacColl. Yet Elizabeth’s greatest passion is for her lands; and Baen’s loyalties may lie elsewhere. Can they overcome the barriers threatening to separate them? And can Elizabeth, by following her heart, still protect Friarsgate?
Contains mature themes.
The Love Slave
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 14 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: June 08, 2021
- Language: English
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4.09(2339 ratings)
It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister’s place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin’s new husband. Come morning, her sister, carrying another man’s child, resumes her place and Regan is spirited away to a nunnery.
But a more exotic fate awaits the fiery Celtic beauty: Regan is sold to a slave trader. It will be her destiny to come under the tutelage of Karim al Malina, master of the erotic arts, who will mold Regan-now renamed Zaynab, the beautiful one-into a Love Slave fit for a Moorish king, though the pair break the first rule of teacher and pupil . . . they fall in love.
But Zaynab is not Karim’s to keep. She is given to the Caliph of Cordoba, who vows to love her . . . and pleasure her as no younger man can. Yet Regan still longs for her one true love, Karim al Malina, and vows that, somehow, their fates must be reunited . . .
Contains mature themes.
The Shadow Queen
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 19 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 23, 2021
- Language: English
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4.18(963 ratings)
Mourn me but briefly. Then find your destiny, Lara, my love, my life. Now let me go . . .
With those words, the spirit of Magnus Hauk, Dominus of Terah, departs his body-leaving the fate of his nation to his wife, the half faerie Lara.
While Lara’s son Prince Taj is well loved by the people of Terah, he is too young to rule, so Lara must obey Magnus’s dying command and govern in his stead. Yet some in Terah still believe that a female must never wear the crown . . . and Lara and her children will face old enemies who are not finished with their schemes for revenge. But one hope remains-Lara has a powerful ally in Prince Kaliq of the Shadows, though never was there a more seductive friend or foe . . .
Contains mature themes.
The Sorceress of Belmair
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 19 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.09(1070 ratings)
Magic coursing through his blood, Dillon, son of the Domina of Hetar, follows his path to the forgotten world of Belmair. Summoned to marry the king’s daughter and inherit the throne, Dillon discovers Belmair is beautiful, enigmatic and seductive-as is his strong-willed new queen. What’s more, Hetar’s brightest star may hold the key to his people’s lost heritage-and his heart.
Cinnia, sorceress of Belmair, expected to claim her rightful place as ruler, not as the wife of a stranger from a faraway land. But the enchantment that seals their marriage of power and greatness does more than soothe her wounded pride. It allows her to use her magical gifts to uncover a passion she never dared to dream of . . . and the darkest secret of a mystical land.
Contains mature themes.
The Spitfire
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 21 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 18, 2020
- Language: English
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3.95(1314 ratings)
They cast their destinies to the winds of desire.
The year is 1483. Just as beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, the young cousin of England’s King Richard III, speaks her wedding vows to Sir Jasper Keane, the Scotsman Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, abducts Arabella as payment for Jasper’s murder of his fiancee. Irresistibly, deliciously, Arabella surrenders to her enemy with fierce abandon-knowing that there may be only one way to get what is rightfully hers . . .
Contains mature themes.
The Twilight Lord
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 19 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 19, 2021
- Language: English
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4.11(1224 ratings)
Lara, Domina of Terah, has mysteriously disappeared, and Magnus Hauk is frantic to find his beloved wife. When no trace of her can be discovered, he turns to two strong allies-Prince Kaliq of the Shadows and Ilona, the most powerful of the faerie queens.
Meanwhile, Kol-the Twilight Lord-revels in his victory. The exquisite Domina is now in his possession, and her powers will soon help him to conquer first Hetar and then Terah. But Lara will not stand for his treachery, even as she is seduced by his charisma. She calls on all of her strength-and the passion in her heart-to once again rise to the challenge of her destiny.
Contains mature themes.
This Heart of Mine
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 23 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 10, 2021
- Language: English
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4.29(2163 ratings)
Skye O’Malley’s magnificent daughter Velvet embarks on her own adventures in this sensuous bestseller.
Now, in this journey into pure sensual delight by Bertrice Small, Velvet proves she’s every inch her mother’s daughter.
When Alexander Gordon arrives from the Scottish Highlands to claim Velvet as his bride, he must woo her body and soul before he can win her heart.
When the Grande Mughal of India receives the beautiful Velvet as a gift, he must win her heart with his patience before he can teach her every trick at his command.
And when Velvet finds herself the pawn in a political science, she must use all her wiles to reunite herself with the man she loves.
Contains mature themes.
To Love Again
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 16 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 09, 2021
- Language: English
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4.03(873 ratings)
Beautiful, headstrong, and defiant, Cailin Drusus possesses the pride of her Celtic-born mother, though she has been reared amid her Roman father’s wealth and privilege. When Cailin’s family is destroyed and their farmland seized, she marries Wulf Ironfist, a Saxon of enormous strength and power-a gentle giant who opens the door to a world of heady sensuality. But her happiness is short-lived. For an unknown enemy drugs her as she labors in childbirth-and she awakens to find herself sold to a slave merchant and transported to Byzantium, not knowing what happened to her child . . .
Contains mature themes.
Until You
- By: Bertrice Small
- Narrator: Bertrice Small
- Length: 17 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 11, 2010
- Language: English
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4.01(1110 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author Bertrice Small is hailed by Literary Times as the “reigning queen of romance” and has received numerous Reviewers’ Choice Awards from Romantic Times. Set in the 16th century, Until You tells the tale of a young heroine who discovers the love of a lifetime. Beautiful Rosamund is introduced to the Earl of Glenkirk, and they immediately fall in love. Their growing passion is stifled, however, when war breaks out between England and Scotland.
... Read moreWild Jasmine
- By: Bertrice Small
- Length: 20 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 16, 2022
- Language: English
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4.31(2099 ratings)
From the palaces of pashas in seventeenth-century India to the scandalous court of James Stuart of England, one woman struggles against fate to find true love . . .
Princess Yasaman has been blessed with rapturous beauty, fierce intelligence, and an innocent sensuality that captivates two formidable men-her scheming half-brother, Salim, and her loving husband, Prince Jamal. But her days of bliss and nights of steamy passion are shattered when Jamal is murdered, and Yasaman flees to England and the court of James I. Calling herself Jasmine, she is reunited with her beautiful mother, Velvet, and her grandmother, the legendary Skye O’Malley de Marisco.
Before long, Jasmine is caught up in the tangled intrigues of the court of the Stuart king, James I, where she is admired by the most powerful men in England: Rowan Lindley, Marquess of Westleigh, her good-natured second husband; the Earl of Glenkirk, who tempts her with forbidden passion; and hot-blooded Henry Stuart, prince of England. It is here that she truly becomes Wild Jasmine, a woman who lives and loves with fierce abandon and who surrenders to the deepest pleasures of love . . .
Contains mature themes.