As events threaten to spin out of her control, Lady Cecilia uses her powers to conceal the secret that Dominic has discovered in his desperate quest to restore his beloved Michel to the immortal existence of the vampire Protectors. She deliberately alters their memories, hoping to tame them and keep her position as the eldest and most powerful vampire.

Her actions, combined with Dominic's recklessness in abducting Michel and forcibly Transforming him into a vampire Protector, poison Dominic's chances for reconciling with the one who has been his soulmate and spouse in nearly every lifetime. And the people of the House of Rose, uncomfortably aware of Dominic's often bloody recent history, begin to question whether he is fit to continue serving them as Protector.

Meanwhile, Michel, his ability to recall the memories of his past lives damaged by Cecilia's meddling, finds himself struggling to maintain his identity--and his sanity. Honoria, the identity from his immediate past life, is proving particularly troublesome. She wants her husband Dominic back, and isn't about to let a little thing like being male in this incarnation stop her. Can Michel prevail against the dangerous temptations offered to his own damaged soul by his past self?

Book Three of The House of the Rose

The Mongols are marching across the Middle East, intent on conquering the world. Arjumand abd al-Warda, who was once the young French knight Roland D'Agincourt and who now serves as vampire Protector of the House of the Rose, struggles to deal with this seemingly unstoppable army of conquest. Then word comes that another reincarnated Protector has been found...once again among the enemy. Can a young Mongol warrior adapt to the life of a Protector of the House, or will the intrigues of the ambitious Seer Nadira lead to ruin for both of them?

Book Five of The House of the Rose

In this stirring conclusion to the series, the mortal sons and daughters of the House find themselves caught between the warring sides of their former Protectors. Inanna and her dark sister Ereshkigal stand ready to move heaven and earth once more in their ancient rivalry. Michel, Dominic, and Roland have taken sides in the ancient conflict, and hope that love can be a force as strong as hatred.

On the eve of Prohibition, Alice Roye, a young war widow, struggles to preserve her respectable life in small-town Sonoma, California. She desperately needs a vintner for her winery, because without a license to make sacramental wine for the Church, she'll have to go back to her mother's Barbary Coast bordello.

Alice doesn't expect to marry the new vintner, but, blackmailed by the matriarch of her late husband's family, she does. Can she trust this gaunt, blond stranger--or keep from falling in love with him?

Siegfried, a refugee from the Great War with nothing left but his winemaking talents, finds in Alice's arms the home he thought lost forever. But how can he prove his love, and still keep secret that he was a soldier in the Kaiser's army--the enemy her first husband died fighting?

Will the lies in their pasts destroy everything they hope to build together?

"His design was strictly honorable: to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage." (Henry Fielding, Tom Jones)

It's the spring of 1666, and Kit Fitzgeorge, a disabled mercenary soldier, finds himself in desperate straits, unable to earn an honorable living but unwilling to beg charity. To provide for his young daughter, he agrees to kidnap the young, wealthy, and widowed Countess of Cranbourne and deliver her into a forced marriage with an impoverished nobleman.

While waiting for the perfect opportunity to abduct the Countess, he becomes dangerously attracted to her, and finds himself forced to choose between his daughter's welfare and an impossible love.