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Lady Sophia Rowlandson has spent years perfecting the art of quiet composure—broken only once, at a country picnic when she was fifteen. Branded a lackwit by an insensitive neighbor, she was rescued by the unexpected gallantry of his visiting friend. Mr. Harwood’s defense lingered in her memory, and not even a separation of four years succeeded in dimming her admiration.

A female-centred collection of four dramatisations celebrating Jane Austen’s classic novels - plus bonus series When I Met Jane Austen On 16 December 1775, a literary icon was born. Jane Austen’s groundbreaking novels pioneered the romantic comedy genre and put women front and centre...

Frederica Stanford has loved Hawthorne Stiles for as long as she can remember. But a merchant’s daughter can never hope to secure the notice of an earl’s son. She doesn’t know that Hawthorne, a man with a passion for justice, has always been captivated by the spirited young woman who grew up near his father’s estate.

Joann’s working at reception, but not planning to stay long; she’s “just paying bills” while figuring out a career. Soon, however, the hotel world draws her in, aglow with love affairs, late-night confessions, and friendships forged in quiet spaces between phone calls and cigarette breaks. Then there’s him. One of Joann’s favorite teammates is always watching out for her amid the ever-looming uncertainty. Something’s happening between them, but do they really have a chance? Everyone’s trying to get somewhere else.

When Lady Celeste Pembroke’s experiments spark scandal, the impeccably steady Duke of Wynthorne offers his observatory to save her reputation and prove a daring discovery. Late-night spectra turn into stolen inches and a love worth risking before the Royal Society. A witty, clean Victorian romance with a brilliant heroine, a steadfast duke, and plenty of stars.

Annabel rides through the night to seek help from the duke. Can a marriage born from necessity become true love? In this sweet historical romance, a sheltered baron's daughter and a distinguished duke enter into a marriage of convenience, but his hidden secret threatens to unravel everything.

Una donna misteriosa e un ribelle giacobita si incontrano alla vigilia della battaglia di Culloden (1746). Tra loro, segreti e desideri che sfidano il destino. Annette Pontmercy nasconde un passato pericoloso. Cameron Grant, seduttore e ribelle, dovrà scegliere tra passione e lealtà… Un romanzo storico intenso, dove amore e guerra si intrecciano in una Scozia selvaggia e indimenticabile.

Benjamin enjoys his easy friendship with Georgina. So when she announces she is selling her café and leaving town, his world is suddenly turned upside down. He can’t imagine life without Georgina, even though she deserves far more than what he has to offer. Georgina refuses to stay in Bullet, taken for granted by the bachelor cowboy she has secretly loved forever. No longer content to be Benjamin’s confidante, his support, his best friend, she elects to carve a new life for herself in another part of the country.

For three months, Brynja Nyberg has dreamed of one thing: her blade finding the throat of the man who murdered her mother. Now he's circling the Isle of Mull like a predator, and she'll finally have her chance—if it doesn't kill her first. Hagen Grant, son of the legendary Connor Grant, knows the weight of living up to a hero's name. But when mercenaries attack them on Tiree and cut down his father in battle, Hagen discovers a darker legacy: the burning need for retribution.

Tre anni nella Scozia medievale sono stati più che sufficienti per David Wakeley, che ha viaggiato nel tempo suo malgrado. Non ne vuole sapere niente di cavalleria e valore, ma salvare una principessa delle Highlands potrebbe essere il suo biglietto per tornare nel ventunesimo secolo. Rapita e buttata in una segreta, Anna MacDonald pensa che la lasceranno lì a morire. Finché un affascinante straniero non la salva. Inseguita dai nemici del padre, la figlia vergine di Robert Bruce corre insieme a David per arrivare in tempo al suo matrimonio combinato.

Danu, die Göttin der Wolfsgattung, hat sich in einen Sterblichen verliebt. König Magnus hat fünfzig Jahre lang auf Seona gewartet, eine Menschenfrau, die laut einer Prophezeiung dazu bestimmt ist, seine Königin und die Mutter seines Erben zu werden. Doch jetzt, wo er sie gefunden hat, will sie nichts mit ihm zu tun haben. Bis ein schrecklicher Unfall ihr die Erinnerung stiehlt. Magnus ist in der Vergangenheit so oft hintergangen worden, dass er misstrauisch bleibt.

En 1841, dans l'Angleterre brumeuse et mystérieuse, Clara Preston, cachée sous l'identité de Mrs Müller, s'aventure à Blackpond Hall, une demeure où règne une malédiction ancestrale. Aux côtés du docteur John Elliotson, elle s'immerge dans l'univers troublant des Archer, une famille tourmentée par des transformations violentes lors de la pleine lune d'octobre, connue sous le nom de « lune du chasseur ».

En el corazón de la Inglaterra victoriana, Eleanor Sutton, una mujer vivaz e inteligente, se ha resignado a una vida de soledad y enseñanza, creyendo que una lesión de la infancia la hace inadecuada para el matrimonio. Su mundo se pone patas arriba cuando conoce a William, el apuesto duque de Thornfield, quien ve más allá de sus miedos y está decidido a ganarse su corazón.

Lady Rosella Prescott liebt seit sie denken kann nur einen einzigen Mann. Zu ihrem Verdruss hat er sie jedoch stets nur als Freundin gesehen–oder schlimmer noch: als kleine Schwester. So sehr sie sich auch bemüht, seine Aufmerksamkeit zu gewinnen, nichts scheint sich zu ändern. Es frustriert sie maßlos, und bisweilen fragt sie sich, ob ihre Kühnheit sie nicht zu einer Ungezähmten macht. Doch tief in ihrem Herzen weiß sie: Sie ist seine Ungezähmte. Wenn er sie nur ansehen und es endlich erkennen würde.

Kat's Dilemma is a work of fiction. Created out of bits and pieces of research into the social and cultural challenges encountered by women and men in America at the turn of last century. Only two of the characters are based on real life people in the history of my family. Katherine Gehm was my great grandmother. Some of the known family incidents and resulting emotions are reflected in the character Kat. Johann Wuenderlich was a young German Lutheran who immigrated to the US, converted to Methodism, and returned to Germany to introduce and spread that Christian sect.

Rebecca, Lady Cornish, is lonely. She comes to Maida Pleasure Gardens, masked and alone, just to feel part of a world that still dances and laughs. But she repels all company – until the mysterious Ludovic Dunne refuses to be dismissed. Intrigued and unwillingly attracted, Rebecca begins to wonder if he might become a friend.

"The Blue Castle" is one of the few books author L.M. Montgomery (author of the "Anne of Green Gables" series) wrote for an adult audience. It is a romantic novel set in early 20th-century Ontario, Canada, that follows the emotional and romantic awakening of Valancy Stirling, a 29-year-old spinster trapped in a stifling, judgmental family. Valancy appears trapped, living a dull, joyless life while her relatives order her about. Her only escape is her imagination, where she dreams of a beautiful place she calls the Blue Castle-a symbol of freedom, love, and happiness.

Éamonn Tierney drifts through the gray streets of 1980s Dublin—an adopted man with no anchor, no ambition, and a persistent emptiness he can’t explain. Working part-time jobs and haunted by dreams he doesn’t understand, Éamonn knows only one thing for certain: something is missing. When a chance comment from a stranger unearths a memory he never lived, Éamonn begins to dream vividly of another man’s life—a coastal craftsman named Fionnán, a love named Máire, and a village by the sea called Carranmore. The dreams are too detailed to dismiss and too personal to ignore.

When 17-year-old Richie Jackson finds an old man nearly dead in the snow, he drags him to the Half Moon pub near Skidby Mill. Richie won't make it back home to North Burton in this blizzard and Nana won't get the supplies he's carrying for Christmas Day neither. He'll get a right earful.

Told in dual POV and set in 1913 Boston, a middle class girl and a Greek immigrant defy her parents and buck society by eloping, but when tragedy rips them apart they give up everything, including each other, for their love and for their child.