Hometown Pride

Hometown Pride

Philippa Lodge

Philippa Lodge

He's mad at their lion-shifter pride. She's mad at the world.Half-human, half-lion librarian Angelica has lost almost everything: her mom, her boss, and her boyfriend who dumps her for a younger, prettier, lioness. She's ready to leave her hometown lion pride which her selfish alpha has turned toxic.Tremaine Jones, the pride's handyman and pro-bono accountant, witnesses Angelica rage-quitting her job and realizes her scowling face is the main reason he's been coming to the library. Her problems are a microcosm of the trouble tearing their pride apart.Tremaine's plan for rebuilding the pride now has to include potential cubs and convincing Angelica to stay.
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Secrets of the Pride

Secrets of the Pride

Philippa Lodge

Philippa Lodge

He's lived here all his life...DeAnthony is young, fun, strong, and getting stronger – an important thing for a lion shifter in a pride that's on shaky ground since the defeat of the corrupt former alpha. He's the cousin of the new alpha and supports her, but others in the pride aren't as happy with the new regime.A stranger comes to town...Within weeks of the former alpha's defeat, elementary teacher Robert Mulvaney and his four year-old daughter arrive in the small California town that's the center of the Freiburg lion pride. DeAnthony's immediately attracted to Robbie's sweet blushes and quiet manner.But someone is passing the pride's secrets to an outsider who is sabotaging their rebuilding efforts. As De and Robbie's relationship heats up, the sabotage becomes more dangerous and targeted. What if Robbie's secret is that he's giving the pride's secrets to the saboteurs?
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The Chevalier (Châteaux and Shadows)

The Chevalier (Châteaux and Shadows)

Philippa Lodge

Philippa Lodge

Emmanuel, Chevalier de Cantière, youngest son of a baron, is happiest raising horses far from his complicated family. When news comes his mother is deathly ill, he races to her side only to find she has apparently recovered and moved on, leaving behind her companion, Catherine. Catherine de Fouet blends into the background, saving up so she’ll never have to wait on waspish, scheming old ladies like the baronesse again. She has no interest in a resentful gentleman, estranged from his mother, no matter how broad his shoulders or intriguing the wounded soul behind his handsome face. She just needs someone to escort her back to Versailles. But Catherine is suspected of poisoning the baronesse. She rebuffs a pushy courtier who tries to use blackmail to make her his mistress, and her reputation hangs by a thread. The chevalier wants more than anything to protect this woman whose prickly exterior hides sweetness and passion. They need his family to help him through court intrigues—almost as much as they need each other.
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The Indispensable Wife

The Indispensable Wife

Philippa Lodge

Philippa Lodge

Aurore was delighted when a marriage was arranged with the boy she loved, her older brother's friend Dominique, Comte de Bures. But in a few years the first rush of joy has worn off, and their promising life seems ruined by loss, betrayal, and misunderstanding. One terrifying morning mercenaries overrun their château and usurpers take Aurore hostage. Miles away at Versailles, where he is required to dance attendance on Louis XIV, Dominique is nearly killed by a crossbow bolt. Escaping, Aurore travels with a troupe of itinerant musicians, hiding in the open while discovering hidden resources within herself. Dom sets out to find his wife. He needs his old life back. He needs revenge. But his lands, his title, and his honor mean nothing unless he can win back the love of his indispensable wife.
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Alpha Lioness

Alpha Lioness

Philippa Lodge

Philippa Lodge

She's in charge of a pride of pig-headed fools. Some of those fools are fighting back.Impostor syndrome has had Alpha Macey Smithson in its powerful jaws ever since she defeated her lion shifter pride's previous alpha. Instead of making the pride a safer, more egalitarian place, Macey's triumph has worn thin.The clique of rich lionesses sneer and say their queen bee should be alpha. The misogynist male lions who have a pot farm outside of town are heavily armed and perpetually angry. Everyone else has doubts.Charity, the daughter of the previous alpha keeps turning up, blinking beautiful, sad eyes, sorry about the bad things her mother did. But she's the one who knows the inner working of the pride and maybe where the money is hidden.Macey can't tell if Charity's complicit in whatever her rivals are up to that has the FBI sniffing around. Nonetheless, she makes Macey think of forever.
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The Honorable Officer

The Honorable Officer

Philippa Lodge

Philippa Lodge

France, 1668 Hélène de Bonnefoi’s spirit has been squashed by the ever-critical aunt and uncle who raised her. Serving as nanny and stand-in mother to her cousin’s child has saved her from the convent, especially after her cousin’s death. When suspicious accidents threaten the toddler, Hélène overcomes her debilitating blindness to seek the help of the child's father, a colonel in Louis XIV’s army. Jean-Louis, Colonel de Cantière, has spent his life proving his worth, integrity, and honor, first to his family and now in the army. When his daughter’s caretaker appears in his camp during a siege, claiming someone is trying to kill the girl, his loyalties are sorely tested. Hélène must convince Jean-Louis the threat is real. But the true danger is to the heart of a shy young woman who has always loved her cousin’s husband from afar and to the colonel’s desire to resist complicated emotions.
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