Lauren Smith

Dive into a world of seductive pleasure where passion is fueled by the fire of dragons… Grigori - Book 1: A mythology professor visits Russia in hopes of proving dragons were real, only to discover her theory is all too real when a living, breathing, sexy dragonshifter kidnaps her to be his mate. Mikhail – Book 2: A gemologist brought to England to examine a discovery of Elizabethan era jewels finds herself facing off with a sexy jewel thief that turns out to be a dragonshifter. When he steals the jewels and her…she learns she might just be his one true mate. Rurik – Book 3: The younger sister of a pair of supernatural hunters wants to prove she can catch a dragon so her brothers will let her join their secret hunter organization, but when she targets the Barinov family battle dragon, she is taken prisoner. When her brothers come to rescue her, she finds herself torn between the dragon she’s learned is her mate, and her own family. The Lost Barinov Dragon – Book 4: A young woman exploring the Swiss Alps is trapped in a cave with a sleeping dragon during a snowstorm. When her touch awakens the sleeping and injured beast, she discovers a love that will span centuries as she helps heal this wounded dragon’s heart.

British boy meets American girl…prepare for one heck of a love revolution! Enjoy four novels in the sizzling Love in London series: Forbidden – A kiss on a snowy night with a tall, darkly handsome British stranger changes American college student Kat’s life forever. But there’s more to her sexy stranger than she ever could have imagined, like the fact that he’s a future earl. Yet she can’t say no to him when he flashes those green eyes at her and kisses her… Seduction – Tristan can’t believe the American girl he’s fallen head over heels in love with is going to be his new stepsister. And his father, a powerful earl, won’t let his heir date just anyone, especially an American who doesn’t fit his father’s idea of a proper bride. He’ll risk it all to be with Kat even if it means facing his father’s wrath when the paparazzi discover his and Kat’s secret love affair. Climax – Tristan and Kat have made their choice: they can’t be together. Too much is at stake after Tristan’s father threatens to destroy all they both hold dear. Yet as Tristan faces Christmas alone without the girl who holds his heart, he decides to go after her, even though it might cost him everything…even his life. Forever Be Mine – Carter Martin, best friend to Tristan, a future earl, has never been rich or titled. He’s had to work hard for everything he’s ever had, but there’s one thing, he’ll never be able to have, and that’s Celia Lynton’s heart. As the daughter of an earl, she’s far above his social reach, yet whenever he touches her, flames ignite and things get out of control. When she begs him to come with her for a month long trip to Italy, he knows he’ll never be able to go back to living without. But how will he convince her that their forbidden love is worth fighting for?

Letty Fordyce knows three things about her future husband: Lord Morrey is a dangerous man. He frightens her. She desires him. Adam Beaumont, the Earl of Morrey, is full of dark secrets. His brooding and mysterious allure draw women to him like moths to a flame. But he fears he can never marry, not when his secret life is full of constant danger. Letty doesn't want to be like other women, she wants a life for herself and a happy marriage to a respectable man, not someone with secrets like Lord Morrey.  Yet from the moment she meets the charming rogue and he steals a kiss, she can't think of anyone else.  When a night of terror sends her into Adam's arms, she'll be forced to choose between the life she thought she wanted and the man she's falling in love with.  

A lady’s guide to surviving aboard a pirate ship:  -  Dress as a cabin boy.  -  Avoid drinking too much rum when the handsome captain is around.  -  Do not let the captain kiss you…again.   The last thing Roberta Harcourt needs is to be trapped on a ship with pirates. After she is separated from her father when their ship is attacked, Roberta finds herself the unwilling guest of sinfully handsome Captain Dominic Grey. He gives her two choices: to share his bed and maintain her life as a lady, or she can sleep on the floor of his cabin and live the life of a cabin boy until he decides to set her free. Refusing to be seduced by a pirate, she dresses in breeches and assumes duties on board his ship among the men, but each night, sharing a cabin with the brooding, seductively intense captain, she begins to wonder if letting him kiss her again might be a rule worth breaking…   Dominic lost his innocence long ago when he was kidnapped and sold into indentured servitude in the West Indies. Determined to leave the painful memories of his past behind, he looks only to the future and the next prize he and his crew can capture on the high seas…until he discovers and captures the feisty daughter of a naval admiral. Protecting her from other pirates and preventing her marriage to an English officer is all in a day’s work for a pirate. But Dominic is determined to play the gentleman he once was born to be. He tries to resist the siren’s call of her sweet lips, especially when she’s arguing with him. But damned if the woman wasn’t meant to be a pirate because she’s stealing his heart…

Danger makes the heart grow fonder… Miss Philippa Wilson makes the best of a bad situation. Her lot in life isn’t what she’d choose, but being an upstairs maid for a wealthy baron is better than living on the streets. Little does she know her lackluster days are about to become decidedly more interesting…and dangerous. When a madman wants Philippa dead, it’s going to take more than the plan of her good-hearted employer to save her and find out why she’s being targeted. It’s going to take a hero…or maybe a rogue. Beauregard Boudreaux is a notorious rogue, living uneventful days and terribly scandalous nights with little thought to settling down. He needs nothing more than a strong drink, a beautiful mistress, and a spirited card game to be happy…When he intervenes to rescue a friend’s upstairs maid from a killer, he’s drawn into a game of cat and mouse with the maid used as bait to draw out the killer. But the more time Beau spends with Philippa as her protector, the more he has an irresistible attraction to this mysterious woman. He also can’t shake the feeling that he’s seen her somewhere before. But Beau has lost too much in life to risk being hurt again. He can’t let himself fall in love, not even with the temptation Philippa presents to him.  And bloody hell, she is oh-so tempting…

There were three things Henley Cunningham knew about Russell Rawlings:- He was gorgeous. He was the kind of hot and sweet sort of golden boy that made a girl simultaneously want to dance and sing like she was in an old-time musical number and drop her panties.- She hadn’t seen him since she was fifteen.- He was her stepbrother. But looking at him now and remembering all of the things she’d wanted him to do to her… her infatuation had been the worst idea in the history of ideas.He’s home for the summer after her first year of college and the last thing she needs to do is let her childhood crush cause trouble…but that’s just what Russell Rawlings is…TROUBLE.

When English naval officer Nicholas Flynn is sent on a mission to learn the whereabouts of an infamous pirate, he falls for a mysterious young woman posing as a pirate. As forbidden passion ignites he learns the dangerous truth of who she really is and it might cost him his life to save her.

Dash through the snow with these two romantic Regency novels by USA Today Bestseller Lauren Smith.   Bewitching the EarlDaphne Westfall is a lady desperate for a future, one that doesn’t involve her dark past. On a cold night she receives aid from a mysterious stranger, one who tells her she can change her destiny, as long as she agrees to marry the man who wins her. The brooding Scottish lord that offers her his name and home is handsome but there’s something sorrowful in his eyes that feels all too personal to her… Lachlan Grant never wanted to be an earl, but fate has been less than kind to him. At the insistence of a friend, he seeks out a bride and comes face to face with a woman who bewitches him instantly. But they each hold secrets that will haunt them both. With a love blooming delicately between them, will their new found happiness together wilt and fade beneath the frost of the past?   Seducing an Heiress on a TrainSeducing an heiress has never been easier… Roguish Oliver, Viscount Conway, desperately needs money to save his family’s estate from debt collectors, and he knows just what to do—marry an heiress. When he sets foot on a train leaving Southampton, he bumps into Rayne, the most bewitching woman he’s ever met, and as luck would have it, she’s an American heiress. The woman swears she won’t marry, especially a fortune hunter. Oliver must win her for his bride at any cost, even if it means compromising the lady on a train and stealing her heart. Avoiding fortune hunters has never been harder… Rayne Egerton is happy to escape the New York ballrooms to travel with her father through England while he tends to business. What should have been an enjoyable Christmas vacation turns upside down with a moment of unexpected passion when a stranger in the cabin next to her steals a scorching kiss. The mysterious Lord Conway is everything that Rayne desires and fears in a man with his sinfully good looks, wicked smile and devastating kiss. As heiress to her father’s fortune, she isn’t going to give up her freedom for any man unless he can love her without her money. As the train rolls through snowy English countryside, she starts to wonder if Oliver may be the Christmas gift she’d been secretly hoping for.   *These two novels have been previously published as single titles.

Fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series and Johanna Lindsey Malory series will love this wild and adventurous Regency romance series full of passion and intrigue!Wicked Rivals–The League of Rogues Book 4A business driven baron finds himself in competition with a feisty Scottish widow and their game of cat and mouse becomes too tempting for either of them to resist.Her Wicked Longing–The League of Rogues Book 5A lady and her maid find themselves in the deadliest of dangers when they infiltrate a hellfire club in these two short novellas.His Wicked Embrace–The League of Rogues Book 6A wicked rakehell finds himself playing the part of a hero when he rescues a young woman from being sold at a brothel to the highest bidder. When he discovers she’s a Persian princess and that men seek to kidnap her, he’ll do anything to protect her.

A wicked duke and his four friends plot the abduction of an innocent debutante out of revenge. Have you ever wondered how the League of Rogues came to be? What events led to the adventure that started it all? This is your exclusive inside peek into the world of the beloved bad boys of the League shortly before their lives are changed forever. *Note: This is a short prequel that ends on a cliffhanger which has a happy ending in the full story Wicked Designs.

She’s an heiress who needs a husband fast…he’s the brooding, handsome footmen who comes to her rescue…Lady Venetia Dunham has plenty of money and freedom, until her father dies, leaving her and her feisty grandmother at the hands of her less than noble cousin when he becomes the new earl. Her cousin makes his wishes clear. She will marry a man of his choosing, a man who will split her fortune with her cousin.Determined to avoid that fate, Venetia and her grandmother flee to a country house party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devon where Venetia stumbles into the arms of Adrian Montague, a handsome footman with a tragic past.When Venetia sprains her ankle, she and Adrian are closeted together for a week. The attraction between them is undeniable and forbidden. Their passion could wreck Adrian’s life if they were discovered together. When love blooms between them, it comes at a great cost, and Venetia must choose to follow society’s laws or her own heart.

Sedurre un’ereditiera non e mai stato piu facile…L’aitante Oliver, visconte Conway, ha un bisogno disperato di denaro per salvare la tenuta della sua famiglia dai debiti, e sa esattamente come fare: deve sposare un’ereditiera. Quando mette piede su un treno in partenza per Londra, si imbatte in Rayne, la donna piu incantevole che abbia mai conosciuto e, guarda un po’ la fortuna, un’ereditiera americana. La donna giura di non volersi sposare, men che meno con un cacciatore di dote. Oliver deve conquistarla a qualunque costo, anche se cio significa compromettere la signora su un treno e rubarle il cuore.Evitare i cacciatori di dote non e mai stato piu difficile…Rayne Egerton e lieta di fuggire dalle sale da ballo di New York per viaggiare con suo padre in Inghilterra, dove lui ha degli affari di cui occuparsi. Quella che avrebbe dovuto essere una piacevole vacanza natalizia e scombinata da un momento di passione inattesa quando uno sconosciuto nella cabina accanto alla sua le ruba un bacio rovente. Il misterioso lord Conway e tutto cio che Rayne desidera e teme in un uomo, col suo aspetto peccaminosamente attraente, il sorriso malizioso e il baciare devastante. In quanto erede della fortuna di suo padre, Rayne non ha intenzione di rinunciare alla sua liberta per un uomo, a meno che questi non sia in grado di amarla anche senza il suo denaro. Mentre il treno attraversa la campagna innevata inglese, Rayne comincia a chiedersi se Oliver non sia il dono natalizio in cui aveva segretamente sperato.

Daphne Westfall e una signora alla ricerca disperata di un futuro che non sia determinato dal suo oscuro passato. In una notte fredda, Daphne riceve soccorso da un misterioso sconosciuto, che le dice che lei puo cambiare il suo destino… purché accetti di sposare l’uomo che la vincera all’asta. Il tetro lord scozzese che le offre il proprio nome e la propria casa e attraente, ma c’e qualcosa di triste nei suoi occhi che sembra riguardarla da vicino…   Lachlan Grant non avrebbe mai voluto diventare conte, ma la sorte non e stata gentile con lui. Dietro insistenza di un amico, si mette a cercare moglie e si ritrova faccia a faccia con una donna che lo incanta all’istante. Ma ciascuno di loro ha un segreto che tormentera entrambi. L’amore riuscira a sbocciare tra di loro, oppure la loro felicita appassira e svanira sotto alla brina del passato?

Dating is a nightmare.   For successful Aubree Cole, finding love while building a lucrative career seems to be just out of her reach. The Meet Cute dating app sounded like a great idea. But a series of crash and burn dates has her rethinking dating that is…until she meets him. Matthew, a sexy Australian bartender comes to her rescue after a date bails on her. He gives her a much-needed cocktail and some great advice…along with inspiring a few naughty daydreams. It’s just enough to make her take a chance on love again. When a secret admirer challenge lands in her dating app inbox to French Kiss a Stranger, she knows just where to start. Throwing caution to the wind, she accepts the dare. Maybe she needs to get out of her comfort zone a bit to uncover something…more. One supposedly-harmless challenge turns into multiple romantic encounters with Matthew and she’s left more confused than ever about which man she wants more, the friendly neighborhood bartender or the sexy secret challenger from the dating app. Aubree is ready to find the one. But is the one ready to find her?  

One dark night she meets her fate in the arms of shadowy duke… Fleeing a cruel stepfather, Harriet Russell escapes into a stormy night, relying only on the mercy of servants to help her. Her coach overturns, leaving her and her driver injured. Seeking help from whoever lives nearby, she stumbles between a set of gates guarded by fierce demonic gargoyle statues. As she enters the shadowy, haunted lands belonging to the Duke of Frostmore, she’s afraid of meeting with him, but she must in order to help her driver. Harriet comes face to face with the duke, she understands why he’s called the Devil of Dover, with his fierce sensual magnetism and his frightening temper. He’s beautiful, tempting and dangerous…   He made a mistake once by falling in love and death followed… After the tragic deaths of his wife and brother, Redmond Barrington, the Duke of Frostmore, wants to be left alone and has barred all strangers from his lands. When an injured young woman begs for help, he finds himself reconsidering his vow of solitude as Christmas draws near. Harriet is as unwilling to trust in love as he is. What begins with a terrifying tension between them soon becomes something else entirely, a sensual passion that frightens him with its intensity. The more time he spends with her, the more Redmond wonders if fate might give him a second chance to chase away the ghosts of his past.

Fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series and Johanna Lindsey Malory series will love this wild and adventurous Regency romance series full of passion and intrigue!The Earl of Pembroke- The League of Rogues Book 7A rakish earl with a heart of gold falls for a mysterious woman he rescues from a hellfire club…not knowing she’s actually a servant.His Wicked Secret- The League of Rogues Book 8In a delicious enemies-to-lovers romance, a feisty lady intent on winning a husband, sets out to seduce her older brother’s friend.The Last Wicked Rogue- The League of Rogues Book 9The last of his friends to finally settle down, a rogue with a dark past must learn to trust his heart even in the face of betrayal in order to save the woman he loves more than life.