Vikram Seth's novel is, at it's core, a love story - the story of a young girl's search for the man she will marry. We meet Lata and her family; her gentle sister Savita, just married herself to the suitable if dark-skinned Pran; her widowed mother Mrs Rupa Mehra, fussy, loving, in a permanent state of grief and feverish activity; as well as a whole array of inlaws and outlaws, the aristocratic Khans, the urbane Chatterjis, and the provincial Kapoors.
Three suitors present themselves. Only one of the can win Lata's hand - by love or by maternal persuasion.

Trapped in an arranged marriage to a veteran of the wars against Robert the Bruce, Lady Johanna FitzHenry has one last chance to escape. If a stranger can be found who is willing to swear to a court that she was secretly wed to him before her match to Sir Fulk de Enderby, Johanna will be set free.
Fleeing bounty hunters after the Battle of Boroughbridge where Edward II's army defeated the rebels, 'Gervase de Laval' is discovered on FitzHenry land and made and offer he cannot refuse.

Can love survive the dangers of occupied France?

Emma Litton couldn't get on with her life until she found out what place she'd had in her father's heart. She'd been going to school in Europe since she was fourteen, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was doing in Japan or America or their cottage in Cornwall. Even after she met Robert Morrow, the handsome gallery owner, and rediscovered her stepbrother, Christo, she felt compelled to probe into the truth about her past. But Emma might learn too late that it was the truth about herself that she had to find and that letting go is the first step to keeping love.

Rebecca Bayliss rushed to her dying mother's bedside only yo come away shattered by more than grief: her mother had revealed the existence of a family Rebecca knew nothing about. Determined to find them, Rebecca began her journey to a Cornwall mansion and into relationships torn by passion and greed. From her grandfather, who hid an explosive secret, to sensual craftsman Joss Gardner, whose past hinted of intrigue....to a handsome cousin, whose kisses were dangerously seductive, Rebecca was entangled in a family mystery....and unravelling it held the key to her future and her heart.

For the first time in her life, Selina Bruce wasn't sure what tomorrow would bring. She had impulsively left behind her lawyer fiance in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She was searching for the father she'd never known, but what she found was an unexpected truth about herself and the man she planned to marry. For exotic San Antonio offered Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offered the mysterious George Dyer, who held the key not only to her past..... but to her heart.

Detective Frankie Daniels hates her life - well, what's left of it. After a romance with the wrong man goes bad, the tough Atlanta police detective finds herself 'transferred' to Nowhere, USA. Purdyville, South Carolina, is tantamont to a sentence of death by boredom for the street-smart, chain-smoking cop. The crime rate here is beyond low.....almost as low as Frankie's self esteem.
When Frankie arrives to find her rental home in flames, she proceeds to chew out one of the locals - only to realize she's just told off her new boss, the annoyingly gorgeous and smug Sheriff Matt Webber. But Matt is more intrigued than angry at his new deputy. He suspects life in Purdyville is going to get very interesting indeed, he especially after he watches her take down the local tough guy in two seconds flat.

Spirited, independent and in her late twenties, Miss Annis Wychwood held herself to be past the age for falling in love. Befriending a pretty runaway heiress brings unexpected consequences, among them the very conflicting emotions aroused by her encounter with the wayward girl's guardian, Mr Oliver Carleton, who was quite the rudest man Annis had ever met....

Captain John Staple had enjoyed active service too much to ever settle for a life of humdrum respectability. The post of gate-keeper to a toll-house in the Pennines appeared to offer certain unexpected and agreeable diversions. This exciting, witty novel tells how the handsome dragoon becomes involved with an engaging highwayman, a tacituen Bow Street runner and a stolen hoard of coins whilst protecting the squire's attractive neice from black villainy.

When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcome homecoming. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and younger half-brother he detects open regret that he has survived the wars. The dangers of the Lincolnshire countryside could never be more unexpected...