Another series by Jayne Castel with very well-developed characters and well-paced, engaging plots. Each book in the series is a standalone; however, it's best if you read them in order since Duncan, the main antagonist, plays a role in each one, the series showing his escalating self-centeredness and evilness as he goes after some of the women in these books and tries to kill his half-brother. This series also included a novella for two of the characters who played secondary roles in the first three books but who get their own HEA in this short work.