???Checkmate??? Courtesan Cora Durand longs to find a man to satisfy her own hidden desires. Rupert Roland has dreamed of having beautiful, defiant Cora at his carnal mercy, and when each gets their wish, the outcome is pure ecstasy??? ???Lust???s Vow??? Hannah Rosworth???s late husband claimed that she was too sexually inexperienced for his tastes. But Kenneth Walker, an infamous rake, can see the fire beneath her sedate exterior. And at the season???s most decadent orgy he???ll show her how to give???and receive???the ultimate pleasure??? ???Night of the Taking??? At the Festival of Catus in a small English village, local virgins take part in a mysterious, erotic ritual. Jessica can hardly believe she???s been chosen, but the irresistible green-eyed male who claims her will use any wickedly seductive means to prove that she is his mate???and his queen???...

It is an evening for rakes and rogues, courtesans and demimondes, and lords and ladies in disguise, all wishing to sample the array of erotic delights around them. But this ball is not the talk of the ton, it is a taste of forbidden ecstasy...Lilly had never dreamed that hiding in her brother's carriage would end in her arrival at a ball such as this. She should be shocked by the bawdy behaviour before her, but instead she is intrigued. And when Vincent St. Jerome, London's foremost rake, offers to help her find her brother, she follows him to a room filled with peep holes in the walls. What Lilly sees is pure carnal pleasure and all she desires is complete sexual surrender...Lady Wentland is a worldly widow who misses the sensual delights she used to share with her husband. So attending the Cyprian's Ball disguised as a courtesan allows her to sample the erotic pleasures she's missed - until she meets Winston Greyton, her brother's best friend and the one man she knows she might have once loved. She resists his first advances toward her - but the heat of their arousal soon ignites a fire of wicked, reckless passion......