Lords of Desire
by Kristi Astor, Virginia Henley, Sally MacKenzie, Victoria Dahl

Smuggler's Lair by Virginia Henley
Victoria Carswell will not be bound by society's dictates. She'll even risk skinny-dipping in view of an abandoned castle. At least, Victoria thinks it's abandoned, until a dashing smuggler lures her into an adventure that defies every rule...

The Naked Laird by Sally MacKenzie
The viscount's house party promises to be one of the season's highlights, and Lord and Lady Kilgorn are delighted to attend. If only the long-estranged couple had realized that they were both invited - and assigned to the same bedchamber...

Lessons in Pleasure by Victoria Dahl
Newly married to her beloved James, Sarah Hood should be blissfully happy...yet close proximity to a man fills her with anxiety. But James plans to awaken Sarah to the joy of giving and receiving pleasure, in order to forge a true union of body and soul...

Swept Away by Kristi Astor
Vivacious Christobel Smyth is a gentleman's daughter, while brooding, proud John Leyden comes from a family of northern mill owners. The two could not be more different, yet as passion flares at a country party, Christobel finds he may be her match in every way...

Kristi Astor's Bio

As a girl, I was fascinated by history. My favorite books were historical sagas that transported me back in time—Gone With the Wind, Doctor Zhivago, Pride and Prejudice, A Room With a View, and popular fiction like John Jakes' North and South series. I also loved movies, particularly anything with a hint of romance. As a teenager, my mother and I passed romance novels back and forth, and I remember discovering Kathleen Woodiwiss, Judith McNaught, and a slew of Zebra historicals with that little hologram seal on the front. I was almost never without a book in my hands, oftentimes staying up all night to finish a story that particularly captivated me, and the stories often flowed over into my own imagination as I pictured additional scenes, epilogues, and sequels to my favorite books.

Fast forward to the present, and not much has changed except that I'm now married to my own real-life 'hero' and the mother of two young daughters. But I'm still captivated by books and movies, often to the point of obsession, and I'm still making up scenes and stories in my mind—only this time, the stories and characters are my own. Even better, those Zebra historicals that I loved so much sometimes bear my own name on the glossy covers. Inspired by the Jane Austen classics I love so well, I've written four Regency-set historical romances as Kristina Cook (UNLACED, UNVEILED, UNDRESSED, and TO LOVE A SCOUNDREL). When I'm not writing fiction, I'm writing grant proposals for some of New York City's top cultural institutions as a freelance grantwriter.

And now, as Kristi Astor, I'm taking on a new historical era—the Edwardian period. Think "A Room With a View," "Somewhere In Time," and "Titanic." It's an era of elegance, of romance, and of great nostalgia.

I hope you'll join me as I journey back to that time and place.