Under A Duke's Hand (31 page)

Many thanks to my beta readers for this
series: GC, Janine, Tiffany, Tasha L. Harrison, and Doris. Thanks
also to my editors, Audrey K., and Lina Sacher of Lina Edits. Huge,
huge thanks to Kate at Bad Star Media for designing a quartet of
luscious historical covers.

In closing, I’d like to apologize for the
fact that you will never look at ginger the same way again.

Coming Soon

PAWN
(Ironclad Bodyguards #1)

High stakes chess competition has always been
a man’s game—until Grace Ann Frasier topples some of the game’s
greatest champions and turns the chess world on its ear. Her
prowess at the game is matched only by her rivals’ desire to defeat
her, or, worse, avenge their losses. When an international
championship threatens Grace’s safety, a bevy of security experts
are hired to look after her, but only one is her personal,
close-duty bodyguard, courtesy of Ironclad Solutions, Inc.

Sam Knight knows nothing about chess, but he
knows Grace is working to achieve something important, and he vows
to shelter her from those who mean her harm. In the course of his
duties, he realizes there’s more going on than a simple chess match
between rivals, and his fragile client is all too aware of the
stakes. When she leans on him for emotional support, attraction
battles with professionalism and Sam finds his self-discipline
wavering. Soon the complexity of their relationship resembles a
chess board, where one questionable move can ruin everything—or win
a game that could resonate around the world.

Other Historical Romance
by Annabel Joseph

Over five seasons, Miss Harmony Barrett has
managed to repel every gentleman of consequence and engineer a
debacle at Almack’s so horrifying that her waltzing privileges are
revoked. If she’s not in the library reading about Mongol hordes,
she’s embarrassing her family or getting involved in impulsive
scrapes.

Enter the Duke of Courtland, a man known for
his love of duty and decorum. Through a vexing series of events, he
finds himself shackled to Miss Barrett in matrimony. But all is not
lost. The duke harbors a not-so-secret affinity for spanking and
discipline…and his new wife is ever in need of it. Will the
mismatched couple find their way to marital happiness? Or will the
duke be forever
Disciplining the Duchess
?

When Lily wends her way down the country lane
to Lilyvale Manor, she hopes the coincidence of names bodes well,
for she is in dire straits. She’s been disowned by her London
family and finds herself desperately in need of a job.

Lord Ashbourne is equally at ends, his
fiancée having jilted him for a commoner and run off to the
Continent. Her powerful society family is determined to delay the
breaking scandal in order to save the younger sister's prospects.
When a servant leads Lily to his parlor, James is astonished to
discover how closely she resembles the missing lady of the
manor.

He hatches a plan, convincing Lily to play
his absent “wife” to keep the gossips at bay. He reassures her it
will be in name only, but soon enough, playacting turns to real
attraction, and friendship to aching, mounting desire. The
strictures of society and unforeseen tragedy combine to test the
pair's forbidden love, even as they are driven ever closer into one
another's arms…

The young maiden Cait has always lived a
simple, secluded life in the Scottish woods. Then, in her
eighteenth year, she is summoned to Aberdeen and informed with
cruel disdain that she is the unwanted daughter of the king. To
deal with this “problem,” Cait is forced to marry a forbidding
stranger, Duncan, the Devil of Inverness, who has already buried
one wife.

She travels to the Devil’s castle
reluctantly, in dread, and Duncan is none too pleased to welcome
the pale, dark-haired creature as his wife. But the two soon
realize they are more perfectly matched than either suspected. His
deep desire to dominate and discipline his new wife is matched only
by her bravery and willingness to submit to his perverse demands
and desires.

But a phantom threat stalks Cait, and Duncan
is troubled by her secret and mysterious past. Can Duncan protect
his vulnerable wife? Will their powerful and unusual brand of love
prevail?

Mercy

Cait and the Devil

Firebird

Owning Wednesday

Lily Mine

Disciplining the Duchess

The Edge of the Earth (as Molly Joseph)

Pawn (as Molly Joseph)

Fortune series:

Deep in the Woods

Fortune

Comfort series:

Comfort Object

Caressa’s Knees

Odalisque

Command Performance

Cirque Masters series:

Cirque de Minuit

Bound in Blue

Master’s Flame

Mephisto series:

Club Mephisto

Molly’s Lips: Club Mephisto Retold

Burn For You

BDSM Ballet series:

Waking Kiss

Fever Dream

Properly Spanked series:

Training Lady Townsend

To Tame A Countess

My Naughty Minette

Under A Duke’s Hand

About the Author

Annabel Joseph is a multi-published, New York
Times and USA Today Bestselling BDSM romance author. She writes
mainly contemporary romance, although she has been known to dabble
in the medieval and Regency eras. She is recognized for writing
emotionally intense BDSM storylines, and strives to create
characters that seem real—even flawed—so readers are better able to
relate to them. Annabel also writes vanilla (non-BDSM) erotic
romance under the pen name Molly Joseph.

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