Rawden's Duty

Rawden's Duty © 2023 Tessa Murran

REGENCY BLADES SERIES BOOK 1

He marries for duty but will he stay for love?

Captain Rawden Voss is the scandal of society. He enjoys a selfish, libertine lifestyle, spurning convention and seducing his mistress. But in Europe, Napoleon’s armies are massing for a confrontation that will change his life forever. In the aftermath, Rawden must fulfil a deathbed promise to protect a woman he has never met.

Grace Howden is penniless, orphaned and dependent on the charity of a miserly uncle who seeks to sell her to the highest bidder in the marriage market and even outside it! When a tragedy leaves her facing degradation, devilish, snarling Rawden Voss steps in and offers her a rough kind of salvation.

Two strangers who mistrust each other are thrown together in a marriage of convenience that is anything but. As they try to find common ground, another suitor stalks Grace, and he will do anything to possess her.

Join me for a spirited romp through the elegant ballrooms and sumptuous bedrooms of Regency London.

Rawden's Duty is the first in the Regency Blades Series but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel.

Cover art by Kim Killion Inc.

New Release - Hardy's Hope

Hardy's Hope © 2024 Tessa Murran

REGENCY BLADES SERIES BOOK 2

Does she need protection from other men or from him?

When Captain James Hardy proposes marriage to the refined Adella Hardcastle, he is humiliated and retreats into brooding unhappiness, made worse by having to chaperone his sister as she tries in vain to find a husband during the London season. Though he is hotly pursued by the marriageable young ladies of the ton, James won’t hold out his battered heart to be crushed again.

So when pretty Mercy Ayles is thrown in his path, he dismisses her as another vapid heiress. Their dislike is mutual, but when they are thrown together during a hot and steamy summer at his country estate of Whitecliff, Mercy’s spirit and wit begin to erode the ice around his heart, turning it into a puddle of frustrated lust.

Mercy Ayles has a pretty face and an inheritance to go with it, but she feels like a hunted animal pursued by a pack of hounds. Weary of the flattery of a series of men who see only a fortune, she shuns the marriage market. But when she meets James Hardy at a picnic, she grates at his indifference. Forced to stay at his Brighton estate, Mercy is drawn to the handsome, strapping Captain, though her pride will not allow her to acknowledge desire for a man whose heart is given to another.

But one fateful afternoon, on a windswept beach, Mercy and James stumble upon a wounded young man, who is dazzlingly and charismatic. His origins are a mystery, and it soon becomes apparent that James might have a rival, sparking fierce jealousy. As James grapples with his feelings, Adella crashes back into his life, forcing him to make a choice.

When he does, there are disastrous consequences, leaving James back where he started - facing marriage to a woman who is not entirely willing to have him as a husband.

Join James and Mercy on a steamy path to love set amidst the wind-swept beaches, elegant townhouses, and manicured gardens of Regency Brighton.

Hardy’s Hope is a steamy Historical Regency Romance and the second book in my Regency Blades Series, but it can be read as a standalone novel.

Cover art by Kim Killion Inc.