Cynthia Sterling Short Stories/Novellas

Deserted by her husband, Lady Clarissa Delaware has opened her home as a respite for ailing gentry, but her newest lodger is a mystery man who seems far too interested in her. Will dangerous intrigue and forbidden passion unite Viscount Adam Kendrick and Lady Clarissa in a bond sure to cause scandal?

All Elizabeth Matthews wants is to start a new life with her two boys in booming Ouray, Colorado. But when Marshall Garrett Nichols shows up at her door a few weeks before Christmas, 1890, Elizabeth wonders if she’ll ever be able to outrun her old life. Garrett is out to catch a killer and recover a stolen fortune, but learns, from Elizabeth, how to take the tattered pieces of a trouble past and stitch them into something beautiful.