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Elizabeth Bennet is not the type of woman to be forced into marrying anyone, especially not the insufferable Mr. Darcy. When, through no fault of her own, she ends up in a compromising situation with him, she does everything she can to keep their scandal secret and avoid matrimony. Unfortunately...

Cassie Woods is finally making a name for herself as a journalist in early 1880s New York City. However, success in her career has cost her relationship with Detective O'Neill. When Cassie begins receiving threats from an old enemy, she must convince her O'Neill and her former colleague Powolski to help her and take down a notorious crime family for good. What secrets will be revealed, and will working together on this case bring Cassie and O'Neill back together?

Twenty years ago, during the reign of Edward I, the last Welsh prince was sentenced to death. All that remained of his family was his six-month-old daughter with dual royal bloodlines, who was arrested and sent to live at Sempringham Priory. She was to become a nun, never to procreate, because prophesy dictated that should she ever marry and rise to power, she would bring about the collapse of England.

Ella aprendió a no llorar. Él supo desde el primer día que acabaría sangrando por ella. Serie Wharton & McEntrie · Libro 2 Daniel McEntrie no buscaba complicaciones. Ni dramas, ni secretos oscuros, ni miradas que le deshicieran el alma. Solo quería vivir en paz, entrenar a caballos y, a...

After losing everyone in her family to a fatal illness, seventeen-year-old Betty Cantrel leaves her shattered rural life behind and flees to London to chase her childhood dream of becoming a singer. As Betty is pulled back into Nathan's world, doors open to new opportunities and her star begins to rise as she performs in a nightclub. Success brings its own problems: old loves return, rivals reappear, and secrets refuse to stay buried.

When Yvette Dubois's husband inherits a remote chateau, she reluctantly leaves Lyon behind – only for Armand to abandon her there to manage the vineyard alone. Everything changes the day she hears a mysterious knocking in the library. Behind a tapestry, she discovers a hidden tunnel – along with two frightened orphans. Yvette vows to continue the important work, wanting to honour the legacy. But Armand insists their safety depends on appeasing the occupiers.

A string of vanished women. A noble daughter gone. A secret so vile, the powerful would kill to keep it buried. London. 1889. As spring settles over London, bodies of young women begin washing up along the Thames—women no one seems to miss, many of them former residents of charitable institutions. When a concerned mission worker reaches out to Lady Rosalynd, what begins as a simple act of compassion soon reveals something far darker. These women weren’t merely lost. They were deliberately erased.

The May Day celebrations are underway and offer some light relief from the daily hardships and a glimmer of hope for a brighter future for the folk of Norton Dene. Conscientious Sister Edith Harrison has her fortune told and a handsome, tall dark stranger is predicted to be on the horizon for her affections. Imagine her surprise when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a hidden agenda that will upset those at Orchard Manor House. It seems like there are some ghosts from the past that need to be put to rest.

David Kirke’s childhood is sheltered, his nature is gentle and peaceable; he is no hero of romance but a human being with faults and failings which lead him into trouble when he adventures into the world to seek his fortune. In the background of the story are the hills of home and the noise and bustle of London; in the foreground are the people, alive, vigorous and full of personality, who play their parts in the shaping of David’s life.

Quand le rendez-vous secret entre Hope et son ­prétendant vire au drame, les trois orphelines Parton doivent fuir l’Iowa avant que des accusations ne pèsent sur la benjamine. Pour déjouer les chasseurs de primes à leurs trousses, les jeunes femmes seront obligées de tout laisser derrière elles, même leur identité…

Set in a quiet coastal town in nineteenth century Norway, Beneath the Northern Light is a slow burning historical romance about love shaped by choice, loss, and restraint. Ingrid Aas and Elias Holm meet at the edge of the sea, each carrying private grief and the weight of social expectation. As their bond deepens, they are forced to confront a world where duty often speaks louder than desire. When separation becomes unavoidable, both must learn who they are apart from each other before they can decide what love truly asks of them.

En deux mouvements — La Chamansa et Tjim Alexis Ravel — cette œuvre tisse la partition d’un pays qui se cherche. Des voix se répondent et se transforment, questionnant l’origine et l’avenir, l’ancrage et l’élan. Au fil des chapitres, les motifs s’entrelacent et s’amplifient, jusqu’à composer une symphonie d’âmes et de territoires où chaque note ouvre un horizon neuf. Une invitation à l’écoute d’un monde en gestation, porté par un souffle lyrique et une émotion diffuse qui résonnent bien après le dernier accord.

Seraphina Laurent, a modern-day nurse and guérisseur, collapses during a visit to the Weld House Civil War Medicine exhibit, only to awaken in 1862, Virginia. Out of place and time, Seraphina confronts the brutal realities of slavery and war. Drawing on her Creole healing heritage, she begins treating runaway slaves and wounded soldiers on a contraband farm tucked behind Union lines. Colonel Dr. Aaron Weld, a Union surgeon overwhelmed by the endless tide of wounded, fears the war will be lost in the hospitals, not on the battlefield.

I’ve returned home from the war in France one-armed and defeated. While I was fighting at Waterloo, my father, brother, and sister-in-law all died, leaving me alone to raise my baby niece. I'm a broken man, and this new battle feels impossible to win. Only the assistance of my valet Percy, who refuses to leave my employ, offers me any hope.

She cannot afford scandal. He cannot forget her. Nine years ago, Emma Darling chose duty—and lost everything for it. With her parents gone, her standing in ruins, and her dreams packed away, she has survived by becoming an unimposing companion to the kind, if meddlesome, Mrs. Buckley. It is...

As sparks fly, deceptions run wild... Lady Ruby Ballimore has had enough of the Marriage Mart. After offending yet another Marquess, Ruby flees London for the holiday house of a glamorous yet absent princess. Armed with a forged invitation and her like-minded friends, Ruby arrives in Cornwall...

An all-new recording of the best-selling novel. What happened to the girl you left behind? In 1916 French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie stirs the heart of the local Kommandant and causes her to...

Could the secret of her past risk her future happiness? Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine. Young Beth Sherwin dreams of going to university – a heady ambition for a girl whose family work in Potteries factories. But when a violent...

As the war continues throughout, Europe, Dashiell Blackwell, the Earl of Ravenwood, moves in the shadows, uncovering secrets and thwarting Napoleon’s schemes as a trusted operative of The Lion Watch. With no room for distractions, he has resigned himself to a life of duty—one that does not include love or marriage. The battlefield and the whisper of coded messages have long been his world, and he has no intention of surrendering to the dangerous pull of emotion. Lavinia “Vivy” Ellsworth has spent years watching Dash from afar, her heart belonging to him long before he ever took notice.

As the war rages across Europe, Leander Ashby, the fearless and elusive second son of the Duke of Lionston, has spent years working in the shadows as a spy for the Crown. But when tragedy strikes—his father and elder brother killed in a devastating accident—Leander is forced to return to England and assume the title he never expected to inherit. Though duty binds him to his family’s legacy, he cannot abandon the work he believes in. Determined to continue aiding the war effort, he founds The Lion Watch, a covert spy agency operating beyond the limitations of the war office.

Bestsellerowa saga o kilku pokoleniach kobiet i zdradzie, która na zawsze naznaczy ich losy. Historia rywalizacji, zgubnej namiętności i błędów zmieniających bieg wydarzeń. Opowieść o tajemnicach z przeszłości, zaklętych w starych legendach, snach oraz w dziejach potomkiń, które zmuszone są dźwigać na barkach nie swoje winy i prostować ścieżki pogmatwane przez przodków, a także przez własne wybory.

Gleich nach seinem Ritterschlag reist Tristan nach Irland, um Prinzessin Isolde als Braut für seinen Onkel, König Marke von Cornwall zu gewinnen. Es gelingt ihm, doch auf der Fahrt verlieben sich die beiden jungen Menschen unsterblich ineinander. Fortan müssen sie ihre verbotene Liebe vor aller Welt verstecken und können doch nicht voneinander lassen.

Distrutto e segnato dalla guerra, Spencer Seaton, un tempo duca di Grandhampton, torna a casa solo per scoprire di aver perso tutto. Il suo unico scopo è vendicarsi dell'uomo che gli ha rovinato la vita. Nulla potrà fermarlo... tranne Miss Joanna Digby—intelligente, astuta e avvolta nel mistero. Apparentemente insignificante, nasconde la propria vera natura dietro una maschera, finché la sua famiglia viene minacciata dallo stesso uomo che ha rovinato Spencer. Era destino che Lord Seaton si frapponesse sul suo cammino, e lei sul suo.

Dopo tre deludenti stagioni in società, il padre di Daisy Bowman non usa mezzi termini: sua figlia deve trovare un marito, molto alla svelta. Daisy è terrorizzata, sposerebbe chiunque altro piuttosto che quel borioso, rude individuo. Ma non ha fatto i conti con l'insospettabile charme che Matthew userà per conquistarla. Il ragazzo gracile e ambizioso che aveva conosciuto si è trasformato in un uomo attraente, maturo, pieno di vitalità.

Following A Voice in the Wind and An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure as the Dawn continues the chronilcles of Hadassah, a Christian slave woman living during the height of the Roman Empire...

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if...

Francine Rivers is winner of the ECPA Gold Medallion and many other awards. Her inspirational novels move the hearts and souls of millions of readers. Following A Voice in the Wind (K1069), An Echo in the Darkness is the second book in her remarkable saga set in ancient Rome. As a Roman trader...

Bridget has learned not to trust an easy smile or flattering tongue, and Lord Archibald has both in spades. To make her time with him at Brookside Manor more tolerable–and to use it to her benefit–she agrees to do one activity with him every day in exchange for a fact about their host, Lord Eaton. However, she will only agree on one condition: there must be no touching of any kind.

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The Lost Apothecary meets Gothikana in a Victorian era gothic romance about a botanist who likes to poison unsavory men, but when her next target visits her apothecary, they discover their dark bond runs deeper than they imagined. “Have you ever wondered how long...

The CAPULET series, set in France & Italy during the spiralling age of the early Renaissance, is the passionate predecessor to the greatest love story of all time, a genesis tale of how Romeo & Juliet's families came to be at each other's throats.

In this enthralling, adventurous debut novel, a band of seafaring smugglers lands on the Cornish coast, where a young widow with a mysterious past becomes entangled in their schemes—and with their charismatic captain. “With its richly detailed setting (think stone cottages and Poldark-esque...

Fiona Barnes has a secret. One so big she's afraid it will destroy everything she holds dear. Not even her beloved music can save her. Li Wu has fought prejudice his entire life. But he's always felt safe and protected within the fierce love of the Barnes family. If only the object of his desire were free to be his, all would be well. Will he risk everything to be with the one he loves or will societal pressures keep them apart?

Swept from the aristocracy of England to The Colonies on the eve of war, Jessamine Stone vows to wed no man but her onetime fiancé, Christian Haukinge. She sets out to win back Christian's affections, unaware that her brother has already offered him a bribe to crush her heart.

The Duke of Brandon is London’s most infamous rake. But his world crashes to a decided halt when the sins of his past come back to haunt him in the form of one small she-devil of a child who has green eyes just like his. To make matters worse, his disapproving grandmother has decided that he must marry or forfeit his inheritance. Now, he has no choice but to raise a daughter, find a wife, and keep his harridan grandmother from discovering his sordid secrets as the founder of the Wicked Dukes Society.

"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" by James Hilton is a beloved classic that tells the touching story of Mr. Chipping, a gentle and kind-hearted schoolteacher whose long career at an English boarding school leaves an indelible mark on generations of boys. Through his memories, we witness a life filled with warmth, humor, and quiet heroism.

Thane MacQuarie, chieftain of Clan MacQuarie, has his sights set on taking over Duart Castle and exacting vengeance on the mother who abandoned him. But when he witnesses a cruel man leave his wife, Tamsin Garvie, to drown on a rock in the sea, Thane can’t ignore the plight of the red-haired beauty. Left to die by her brutal husband, Tamsin prays for rescue, knowing she must survive to save her young daughter from the monster she married. Thane delivers her from the icy grip of Loch Tuath, but Tamsin’s injuries require more aid than he can provide.

In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half-French, half-German, she is happy to be back in France, where she her husband, Gregor, a retired colonel, will join her soon from Germany. Arielle and Gregor have thus far been able to hide their private opposition to Hitler. Then her world falls apart. She receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie and a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor.

'Entertaining historical fiction with Jane Austen vibes' – Good Housekeeping Inspired by real history, Rules of the Heart is the sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow. When I love at all, it is with my whole soul - my heart must be torn to...

Lady Winifred, the young Dowager Countess of Sedgewick, has already had one husband. She doesn't want another. And if Freddie ever did change her mind on the matter, she most certainly would not marry a ruthless, dominating, and heartless block of ice like the Duke of Plimpton. The Duke of Plimpton has already had one wife who did not love, or even like, him. Unfortunately, it seems he will have to take another. Because there is only one real candidate when it comes to Plimpton's next duchess, and that is Lady Winifred Sedgewick.

Gifted with the ability to time-cross between Victorian-era London and World War II Washington, DC, Kathryn faces two lives fraught with danger. In 1938 amid the looming shadow of war, Kathryn is invited to the London Museum as a guest curator to create a groundbreaking exhibit on Jack the Ripper and his reign of terror. As she delves into her grim research, she uncovers a chilling truth: Her own sister is destined to become the Ripper's final victim decades earlier.

Clara has been missing from the London marriage mart for six years and is reluctant to return. That feeling only grows when she happens to meet Lord Eaton—a rather arrogant, proud earl who vexes her from the moment they first meet. Not wanting to allow herself to be put down by a pompous, self-righteous man, she agrees to the silly game he proposes. The first to make the better match by the end of the season... wins.

Lady Patience Kendrick nació para el privilegio y siempre ha vivido una vida de lujos en la que no le ha faltado de nada. Cuando su hermano mayor la acusa de ser frívola y altanera, decide demostrarle que no es así y lo hace de manera drástica: se disfraza de...

A great building boom spread across America in the 1920s and the Fawcett Construction Company of New York has many projects in the pipeline. Carol Berkley, private secretary to the company's president, keeps track of them all and is particularly concerned about the lack of progress in a building out west. When two men who appear to have something to do with the project arrive to talk to her boss, she overhears them discussing plans to swindle the company. Their scheme is to share the spoils with the project's engineer, Philip Duskin.