Bøger af Bethany Swafford

"Lucas, you must return home." That cryptic sentence draws twenty-two-year-old Lucas Bywood home from his Grand Tour. From the moment he steps back in his family home, he finds himself caught in a complicated tangle of events. His mother is struggling to recover from a riding accident. His father has arranged a marriage for him, and apparently everyone in the county knows about it. With a house party in play, Lucas finds himself courting a young woman he doesn't like, a furious best friend who wants a duel to satisfy honor, and the responsibility of finding who and why someone had caused an accident for his mother. This was not his idea of how he was going to spend his summer.

Can love survive the scrutiny of society?Rosalind's marriage to the charming Lord Evan Westwood was a love match, but it has not been what she expected. Going from being a poor relation to a lady should have been a dream come true, however, Rosalind struggles with the changes that have come to her life. Will her husband regret marrying her when he realizes that society doesn't accept her?Ten years may have passed since the scandal with her father, but certain members of the ton have not forgotten what John Emerson did. Rosalind tries to hold her head up high and prove her reputation is above reproach. This becomes difficult when one of Lord Evan's schoolmates, Mr. John Rowley, tries to flirt with her every time they meet. Escaping to the countryside for a house party sounds like a good idea, but rumors and speculation follow them there. Rosalind finds her father's journal, but unraveling the threads of the past is difficult when the present is just as tangled. Can Rosalind and Evan agree on how to dispel the rumors or will their lives be overshadowed by scandal forever?

A respectable family.A few rumors.A disguise.An attempt to make things right.Meet Juliet, the remaining member of the respectable Sinclair family that is tied up in some rumors. To check the rumors, she visits the Burnhams but gets mistaken for someone who wants the position of Lady's maid. She eventually ends up taking the position in hopes to get closer to Mrs. Burnham and help the young and innocent Eugenia Burnham in her first London Season. While Juliet comes with good intentions and hopes to get things right, there's a grave threat lingering around in the house. Will she be able to correct everything? Or will it be too late?Read between the covers of "Regency Rumors", the story of the young Sinclair, living the life she doesn't belong to.

Twenty-year-old Diana Forester, a country-bred young woman, fears that her inexperience and uncertainties have discouraged the charming Mr. John Richfield. On arriving back home from London, she learns that he has already arrived, ready to continue their acquaintance and explore whether they are suited for each other. If Diana thought that deciding her future marriage mate was difficult in London, courting takes on a whole new aspect when Diana's younger siblings become involved. She finds herself dealing with her own feelings, her sister, her younger brother, jealous members of a house party, a jilted suitor, and a highwayman as she falls in love with the charming Mr. Richfield.

For fans of A Knight of Silence and Read My Lips comes a YA historical western full of grit and heart...In 1874, Ivy Steele's deafness is more than a handicap. It's a disease. Surrounded by a family that doesn't understand her, she's learned to cope and find solace where she can. Then, the unexpected happens. Her aunt dies, and her uncle sends her away to rejoin her father's family in Montana.Left to fend for herself, after the companion hired to escort her abandons her, Ivy faces continual hardship and danger. Several men see an unaccompanied Ivy as a flower ripe for the picking, and things only get worse when masked men hold up their stagecoach.Barely scraping through, Ivy makes it to Montana with her nerves shaken and what little money she has in her boot. Expecting a peaceful if not affectionate welcome, Ivy finds herself in greater hardship than she's ever known.Surrounded by a stepfamily that hates her, and flung into a life where hearing is vital, Ivy finds solace in a handsome cowboy named Remy. But things with her new family are not what they seem. And Ivy is about to find out that the danger she faced on the journey west, has followed her to Montana...Bethany Swafford dazzles with her stunning young adult debut, introducing a strong heroine, the hardships of frontier life, shocking twists, and a slow-burning romance that will leave you wanting more.Third place winner of the 2018 Rosemary Award