A collection of stories explores diverse lives across history that are marked by violence and longing, from a Philadelphia youth who struggles with his father's incarceration to a sixteenth-century English monk who suffers the dissolution of his monastery.

A femme fatale who goes by the name "The Diplomat's Daughter" is assigned to take down the world's most high-profile Sicario, a task she will execute using "Devil's Breath," a rare flower that removes all free will.

Harlequin® Historical brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! This box set includes: Smoke River Family (Western) by Lynna banningfor Winifred Von Dannen, being a part of her late sister's baby's life means she must face the loneliness and incredible hunger she sees in Dr. Zane Dougherty's eyes. The Demure Miss Manning (Regency) by Amanda mccabemary Manning is the perfect diplomat's daughter. So stealing a kiss from military...

A Liberian businessman is given six hours to pay for a mysterious cargo of weapons in Monrovia - or his son will die.Al-Shabaab terrorists raid an idyllic Kenyan beach resort, kidnapping a British diplomat's daughter.An American special forces soldier uncovers plans to cause global mayhem and bloodshed building radioactive 'dirty' bombs in uranium-rich West Africa.Alaskan adventurer Chris Stone is dragged into this murderous imbroglio with his partner...

Christmas and danger collide for these K-9 heroes. Enjoy four spine tingling K-9 unit novellas in one box set! When a diner owner is attacked and left for dead, her childhood friend turned K-9 cop offers a chance at justice-and love. She escaped a kidnapper, but now a killer has set his sights on K-9 dog trainer Lily Anderson. Can her fellow officer keep her safe? A woman inherits a house someone doesn't want her to live to enjoy. Her K-9...

Jilted by his betrothed and desperate to escape his family's strict Gypsy ways, Talon Barberry leaves England behind when he's hired by a French extremist to kidnap a diplomat's daughter sailing to New Orleans. However, he discovers that he is merely a pawn in the Frenchman's game, and his target is actually a spy hired by the Cabildo-the most beautiful spy he's ever seen. Hired to take her best friend's place on a ship bound for the West Indies,...

A reporter sent to Europe to cover a peace conference falls in love with a diplomat's daughter, but discovers that her father is the head of a Nazi spy ring.

Stortorget Square, Stockholm, 1945. "In a side street, Peter waited near the car with Evdokia dressed in a grey raincoat. Her head was covered with a black cloth bag. A car stopped on the opposite side of the square. Two men emerged. Peter recognized one of them as the NKVD head of station, Major Vladimir Petrov, in a business suit and a fedora. He led the way, followed by a second man wearing a workman’s cap over his white hair. The hand-off was...

For one woman in the aftermath of World War I, the city of light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons.

At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife....