The Outrageous Oliphants
Laird Oliphant has forced his children to attend the local summer house party--not to find partners, but to impress the hostess, whom he's trying to woo. He should have known these five siblings don't do anything easily! They're about to cause all sorts of trouble, but would you expect anything less from those Outrageous Oliphants?
If you liked Caroline's Hot Hilarious Historical series set in medieval Scotland (and a secret-passage-riddled Oliphant Castle), then you're going to love seeing the same outrageous family in the 1880s! Get ready for fun!
His Scholar
Miss Olive L'arbre came to this house party planning to hide behind her archaeological journal and avoid dull lords…instead, she’s finding herself repeatedly distracted by Phineas Oliphant. The man is obscenely handsome, owns a kilt he has absolutely no business wearing that well, and—most alarming of all—actually listens when she talks about Roman rooflines. This is not how house parties are supposed to go.
Phineas Oliphant is charming, brilliant, and entirely too interested in a shy scholar who snaps at him over French etymology and absolutely refuses to admit she keeps staring at his sporran. He’s also hiding several rather large secrets.
Including the one about the Roman balls.
When Phineas invites her to a scandalous midnight rendezvous in their hostess’s study to show her something truly spectacular, Olive realizes her handsome Scottish dinner partner writes under a rather stupid pseudonym...and possesses a pair of sphaera she absolutely must examine.
Warning: Contains one bookish heroine who thinks kissing is overrated (this opinion will change), a Scotsman in a kilt with very broad shoulders and an even broader academic reputation, and enough Roman ball jokes to fill a museum. Get ready for another laugh-out-loud historical romp through the Highlands from the queen of historical romcom!
Phineas Oliphant is charming, brilliant, and entirely too interested in a shy scholar who snaps at him over French etymology and absolutely refuses to admit she keeps staring at his sporran. He’s also hiding several rather large secrets.
Including the one about the Roman balls.
When Phineas invites her to a scandalous midnight rendezvous in their hostess’s study to show her something truly spectacular, Olive realizes her handsome Scottish dinner partner writes under a rather stupid pseudonym...and possesses a pair of sphaera she absolutely must examine.
Warning: Contains one bookish heroine who thinks kissing is overrated (this opinion will change), a Scotsman in a kilt with very broad shoulders and an even broader academic reputation, and enough Roman ball jokes to fill a museum. Get ready for another laugh-out-loud historical romp through the Highlands from the queen of historical romcom!
His Engraver
She doesn’t need rescuing; she just needs a lockpick and a good exit strategy.
Ember Oliphant has spent years trapped behind the bar of her stepmother's inn—her engraving talent dismissed, her wages mysteriously nonexistent, and her future slipping further out of reach. But she has a plan: a mask, a pair of revolutionary bronze-heeled dancing slippers of her own design, and one night to convince the new manager of Oliphant Engraving to take a chance on her work.
Maxwell DeVille came to the Highlands determined to prove himself worthy of the Oliphant name. Running an engraving factory should be simple enough, but the local house party’s masquerade ball thrown in his honor is not…especially once he meets the fiery redhead who talks about metalwork like poetry, challenges him like an equal, and disappears before he can even learn her name.
All she leaves behind is a single bronze-heeled slipper engraved with impossibly delicate gears.
Max has no intention of letting the mystery go unsolved. The woman he’s looking for is clever, talented, and clearly meant for his workshop. He just doesn’t realize she’s already there.
Warning: Contains one heroine so used to being overlooked that being seen might just be the most dangerous thing that’s ever happened to her; one thoroughly smitten new Oliphant who thought running a factory would be the hardest part of his new life in the Highlands; and footwear so distinctive it made a grown man go full fairy tale. Get ready for another fun Hot, Hilarious, Historical romance!
Ember Oliphant has spent years trapped behind the bar of her stepmother's inn—her engraving talent dismissed, her wages mysteriously nonexistent, and her future slipping further out of reach. But she has a plan: a mask, a pair of revolutionary bronze-heeled dancing slippers of her own design, and one night to convince the new manager of Oliphant Engraving to take a chance on her work.
Maxwell DeVille came to the Highlands determined to prove himself worthy of the Oliphant name. Running an engraving factory should be simple enough, but the local house party’s masquerade ball thrown in his honor is not…especially once he meets the fiery redhead who talks about metalwork like poetry, challenges him like an equal, and disappears before he can even learn her name.
All she leaves behind is a single bronze-heeled slipper engraved with impossibly delicate gears.
Max has no intention of letting the mystery go unsolved. The woman he’s looking for is clever, talented, and clearly meant for his workshop. He just doesn’t realize she’s already there.
Warning: Contains one heroine so used to being overlooked that being seen might just be the most dangerous thing that’s ever happened to her; one thoroughly smitten new Oliphant who thought running a factory would be the hardest part of his new life in the Highlands; and footwear so distinctive it made a grown man go full fairy tale. Get ready for another fun Hot, Hilarious, Historical romance!
His Revelation
His revenge is foolproof. Unfortunately, so is she.
Miss Tiffany Oliphant has spent her whole life being told her beauty is her greatest asset — and exactly one conversation has convinced Viscount Blabloblal she's as shallow as she is stunning. His revenge plan: disguise himself as a grubby beggar, befriend her, and force her to confront her own cruelty. Simple. Foolproof. Very satisfying.
What he didn't expect was her. The real her, who sneaks to the garden well to talk to frogs, who is quietly ashamed of the person her mother has forced her to become, and who makes him laugh until he forgets he's supposed to be teaching her a lesson. And she most definitely didn’t expect the beggar with the kilt and the eyepatch—wasn’t it on the other eye yesterday?—to possess the infuriating habit of seeing her more clearly than anyone ever has.
But her mother's lessons, she's starting to realize, have a great deal to answer for. Somewhere along the completely improper Highland road trip with the scruffy stranger, Tiffany is discovering that beauty may be what she was given — but it's not who she is.
Warning: contains a scandalous journey intended to teach our characters something about themselves, and the revelation story of A Harlot’s Guide to the Forbidden and Delightful Arts. Get ready for another Hot, Hilarious, Historical romp through Scotland!
Miss Tiffany Oliphant has spent her whole life being told her beauty is her greatest asset — and exactly one conversation has convinced Viscount Blabloblal she's as shallow as she is stunning. His revenge plan: disguise himself as a grubby beggar, befriend her, and force her to confront her own cruelty. Simple. Foolproof. Very satisfying.
What he didn't expect was her. The real her, who sneaks to the garden well to talk to frogs, who is quietly ashamed of the person her mother has forced her to become, and who makes him laugh until he forgets he's supposed to be teaching her a lesson. And she most definitely didn’t expect the beggar with the kilt and the eyepatch—wasn’t it on the other eye yesterday?—to possess the infuriating habit of seeing her more clearly than anyone ever has.
But her mother's lessons, she's starting to realize, have a great deal to answer for. Somewhere along the completely improper Highland road trip with the scruffy stranger, Tiffany is discovering that beauty may be what she was given — but it's not who she is.
Warning: contains a scandalous journey intended to teach our characters something about themselves, and the revelation story of A Harlot’s Guide to the Forbidden and Delightful Arts. Get ready for another Hot, Hilarious, Historical romp through Scotland!
His Doxy
She was prepared to be his doxy…not his duchess.
Society has a word for Athena Oliphant, and it isn't lady. She bore her son without a husband, told the gossips exactly what she thought of their opinions, and has spent five gloriously unrepentant years doing precisely as she pleases. She doesn't attend balls, she doesn't chase lords, and she absolutely does not care what the matrons of the Dumpkins house party whisper about her behind their fans.
What she does care about—rather inconveniently—is Cash, the golden-haired, broad-shouldered man she met by the river. He makes her laugh, helps their sons climb trees together, and has been very strongly hinting he'd like her to be his mistress.
She was going to say yes. She'd already decided.
Then Lady Dumpkins introduced them at the ball, and Athena discovered that Cash is short for Cashard — as in, the Duke of. As in, the cold and imperious marriage prize every mother at the house party has been scheming to catch all summer. As in, the man with too much honor to proposition an earl’s daughter, no matter how scandalous she might be.
But Athena has never been anyone’s secret, and she has no intention of starting now. If the Duke of Cashard wants her, he’ll have to decide whether he prefers Society’s approval…or the woman he’s already asked to scandalize him.
Warning: Contains two headstrong parents falling in love with help from their mischievous sons, a not-quite-as-uptight-as-reputed duke with a pair of excellent forearms, and a heroine who knows exactly what she wants. Get ready for some fun!
Society has a word for Athena Oliphant, and it isn't lady. She bore her son without a husband, told the gossips exactly what she thought of their opinions, and has spent five gloriously unrepentant years doing precisely as she pleases. She doesn't attend balls, she doesn't chase lords, and she absolutely does not care what the matrons of the Dumpkins house party whisper about her behind their fans.
What she does care about—rather inconveniently—is Cash, the golden-haired, broad-shouldered man she met by the river. He makes her laugh, helps their sons climb trees together, and has been very strongly hinting he'd like her to be his mistress.
She was going to say yes. She'd already decided.
Then Lady Dumpkins introduced them at the ball, and Athena discovered that Cash is short for Cashard — as in, the Duke of. As in, the cold and imperious marriage prize every mother at the house party has been scheming to catch all summer. As in, the man with too much honor to proposition an earl’s daughter, no matter how scandalous she might be.
But Athena has never been anyone’s secret, and she has no intention of starting now. If the Duke of Cashard wants her, he’ll have to decide whether he prefers Society’s approval…or the woman he’s already asked to scandalize him.
Warning: Contains two headstrong parents falling in love with help from their mischievous sons, a not-quite-as-uptight-as-reputed duke with a pair of excellent forearms, and a heroine who knows exactly what she wants. Get ready for some fun!
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