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Description of the humorous contemporary action adventure with romantic elements:

It started with one little lie...

Thirty-year-old Jane Dough was a bestselling romance writer until she got her heart stomped on and decided men were scum. Now she can’t write a romantic hero to save her career. So with cynical heart and depleting bank account, she returns home to Florida, where she’s welcomed by her mother and sisters with open arms—and never-ending advice on how Jane should fix her life. No one’s above a bit of well-intentioned lying, especially when it’s for someone’s own good. Except Jane, or so she says.

When a disastrous situation with her homeowners’ association threatens Jane’s newfound security, and her sisters (urged on by Jane’s narcissistic mother, who will always sacrifice a daughter’s happiness for the good opinion of strangers) pump up the pressure for her to sell, Jane finds herself reverting to family misbehavior: she blurts out a lie that she’s advertising for a husband to help her out of her jam. It’s just one little lie to get everyone off her back, so no harm done. Right?

Wrong! Someone runs a Husband Wanted ad in Jane’s name, and now she’s stuck with the consequences of her lie, even though she has no intention of getting married. Meanwhile, there’s that little business of losing her property if she doesn’t bring it into conformance before the deadline, and with every step forward, she takes two back.

Either Jane is the unluckiest girl in the world or bad luck is getting good help. Surely not from Mark and Sue, her two best friends, or from the drop-dead gorgeous doctor who comes bearing gifts. And that sexy new neighbor, a hunk of a Texan cowboy, is definitely on her side...isn’t he? Of course, it’s a shame that she has to tell more lies to support her original lie, but that doesn’t give everyone else the right to lie too, does it? Maybe it does. Or maybe not. Or just maybe Jane doesn’t really know the rules...of lying.

Description of Historical Romance, first book in trilogy:

Sophia Barrick is determined to carry on her father's dream of restoring the family estate, but she needs her dowry to do it. In two years Stonecrest Manor will legally be hers, and if she’s still unwed, she’ll receive her dowry as well. When her greedy uncle threatens to destroy Stonecrest unless she accepts a husband of his choosing, she comes up with a plan: she'll ruin her reputation so no gentleman will have her. Thank goodness she’s found the perfect pawn for her scheme. He's a rakish American privateer with a fortune of his own and no ties to English society, who surely can't be forced into marriage. Or so she thinks...

Captain Derek Wainright is really the tenth Duke of Dorrington, returned from America upon the news of his father’s death. Long estranged from his father, he seeks to assuage his guilty conscience by infiltrating the ton-based smuggling gang suspected of his father’s murder. When he’s caught in a compromising situation with Lady Sophia, he quickly decides it's better to marry the girl than to be ostracized by the London society whose invitations are so vital to his plan. But Sophie refuses his offer unless he meets her terms, not the least of which is a reprieve from consummation. And so the games begin.

Derek, who wants to settle his marriage as quickly as possible so he can get back to his investigation, is intent on seduction, but he doesn't count on his jealousy wreaking havoc with his emotions, his marriage and his masquerade. Sophie, still grieving from the loss of her father, wants desperately to avoid another heartbreak, but fears she may have schemed herself into a marriage with the one man destined to break her heart—a man who isn’t what he seems, who obviously can't be trusted, and who will surely leave her for America the first chance he gets.