Raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California, Chileans, including Joaquín, head north to seek their fortune. Eliza, pregnant with Joaquín's child, leaves behind everything she knows to follow her lover. In the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco,...

"Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of...

The USA Today bestselling author returns with an unforgettable tale of a marriage of convenience that becomes a love match.

Kitty Robertson knows what is required of women of her station--and so she has accepted the marriage proposal of the Marquess of Farthingham, a most suitable gentleman indeed. All would be perfectly well if she hadn't happened upon the breathtaking Richard Stanbury fresh from a morning swim. The sixth Duke of Weddington, Richard is disarmingly attractive, but a known rogue. So Kitty is shocked by his obvious attempts at seduction--and even more so...