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Seven years ago, Maggie Logan (Eyes-Like-Sky) lost everything she knew when a raid on a wagon train tore her from her family. As the memories of her past faded to nothing more than vague shadows, Maggie adapted—marrying a Comanche warrior, having a baby, and rebuilding her life. But in one terrible battle, the U.S. Cavalry destroys that life and she is taken captive again, this time by those who call themselves her people. Forced into a world she wants nothing to do with, Eyes-Like-Sky’s only hope of protecting her child may be an engagement to the man who killed her husband.

A bargain born of desperation ignites into passion as one lord’s quest to save his family leads to the discovery that he can never settle for less than love. Forsaken, abandoned, and duped, Miss Jemma Adair has no other recourse but to request her grandfather’s help to avoid living on the streets. His asking price? She must marry a neighboring lord’s odious son. Thankfully, there is a way out of her dilemma—ensuring the rake never asks for her hand.

Preston Seaton, Duke of Grandhampton, ist entschlossen, den Mann zu vernichten, der für den Tod seines Bruders verantwortlich ist. Lady Penelopes Schicksal ist besiegelt. Der Traum von einer Karriere als Malerin scheint unerreichbar. Denn ihr Vater zwingt sie zur Heirat mit dem kaltherzigen Duke. Dieser verachtet sie abgrundtief und hält sie für eine Heiratsschwindlerin. Doch jeder Blick, jede Berührung spricht eine andere Sprache, erfüllt sie mit Sehnsucht.

Nella scintillante Parigi del XIX secolo, Violetta Valery è la regina incontrastata della mondanità. Ma dietro la maschera della cortigiana più desiderata della città, Violetta nasconde un cuore fragile e un segreto che la consuma. Quando incontra Alfredo Germont, tra loro esplode una passione incontrollabile, un amore puro che sembra capace di superare ogni ostacolo. Ma in una società che non perdona le trasgressioni, la loro felicità è destinata a durare poco.

A quiet manor. Two children in need of guidance. A governess who never intended to stay. When Miss Clara Ashby arrives at Hartwell House to take a position as governess, she expects a practical arrangement and nothing more. Her task is simple: educate two young girls, maintain order in the schoolroom, and remain professionally distant from the household she serves. But Hartwell House is not as quiet as it first appears. The children carry the quiet weight of loss. The once-beautiful garden has been left to grow wild. And the reserved master of the estate keeps the world at a careful distance.

In Gilded Age New York, marriages are arranged to benefit the rich. Rose Marie Johnson expects her beau, an acceptable suitor and member of the Four Hundred, to propose marriage. When he chooses to wed another, her mother schemes to force Rosa into wedlock with a wealthy man twice her age. With his true identity concealed, Miquel Vicario arrives in New York with dreams of achieving fame as a concert pianist and composer. The young Marqués wants to succeed before he is expected to return to Madrid, Spain by his next birthday to resume his royal duties.

After an anonymous encounter at a Hertfordshire assembly, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet conduct a secret courtship without knowing each other's identities—unaware that she is the paid companion to the cousin he jilted and that their families' intertwined fates will force them to choose between love and duty.

Miss Sarah Hughes has long accepted her fate as the dustiest spinster on the shelf in Plumpton—until a local landowner is found dead, and suspicion falls on her father. Determined to protect her family, Sarah is drawn into village gossip, family secrets, and one extremely inconvenient alliance: a fake courtship with the Earl of Ashford.

Alle sieben Jahre blüht der Wald. Von der Mutter gedrängt, heiratet sie mit 21 in eine angesehene Familie, obwohl sie einen anderen liebt. Ganz anders ihre Schulfreundin Burgi, die früh der Enge ihres Elternhauses entflieht und ihrem Drang nach Freiheit unbeirrt folgt. Beide Frauen zahlen einen hohen Preis, um ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zu führen. Aber sie gehen konsequent ihren Weg.

Royalist John Blackavise, defeated both in battle and in spirit, returns home with little hope—until he finds himself captivated by the courageous, intelligent and beautiful Mary Florida. Unfortunately for Blackavise Mary is trapped in a loveless marriage. Until the sudden, violent death of her husband changes everything... Can the forthright Blackavise overcome defeat, espionage, bastardy and hatred and find his way to the woman of his urgent dreams?

Um padre encarregado de investigar documentos do Primeiro Reinado se vê envolvido em um antigo romance proibido dentro de uma aristocrática casa do Rio de Janeiro. À medida que segredos familiares vêm à tona, a verdade revela as rígidas convenções sociais que moldavam destinos no Império.

All Elizabeth Bennet wants is for her father to bring back from Lambton a cutting of Pemberley’s famous roses. Little does she know that her humble request leads to her father’s imprisonment, putting both her father’s life and her childhood home of Longbourn at risk. All Fitzwilliam Darcy wishes for is to be left alone. Scarred by a horrific attack, he has retreated into the solitude of Pemberley, guarding his heart as fiercely as he guards the walls of his grand estate, doing whatever he can to drown out the pain. When Elizabeth arrives on his doorstep, their worlds collide.

Une canaille, c'est ainsi que Devon Ravenel se définissait à l'époque où il menait une vie futile et égoïste. Ce qui lui convenait tout à fait. Jusqu'au jour où la mort inattendue de son cousin Theo fait de lui le nouveau comte de Trenear. Un destin auquel rien ne l'a préparé. Du jour au lendemain, le voici criblé de dettes, à la tête d'un gigantesque domaine comptant plus de deux cents familles de métayers.

A beautifully written tale based on the true-life story of Varian Fry, called "the artists' Schindler," who rescued thousands of Europe's finest creative minds from certain death in WWII. In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated...

Charity has always lived a charmed life beneath the open skies. Growing up as part of the gypsy community, she has reveled in the freedom of swimming in the rivers, caring for the horses and embracing the ever-changing road. But on the cusp of her sixteenth birthday, that freedom begins to slip away. Her parents expect her to marry, and not for love, but for duty. Then fate brings Luca back into her life - a boy from the travelling circus she has known since childhood.

How do you decide what story to tell – and what secrets to keep . . . ? When journalist Amy Collins returns to Norfolk, a magazine assignment leads her to Farthington House. As she steps through the gates into the garden, she remembers visits she made as a child to the grand old house, but...

1360: Having left her days of rebellion behind, Jeanette of Kent has finally found contentment as a wife and mother. Then, she is delivered a new blow: her beloved husband, Thomas Holland, has died on duty overseas. Though broken, Jeanette readies herself once more to fight to protect what is...

Love can make you lose your head… Lily thought she was just sightseeing at Hampton Court, until a bump on the head lands her in the body of Catherine Howard. Yep, the Tudor queen who gets beheaded. Lily's PhD is in psychology, not history, but even she knows that being married to Henry VIII...

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Birmingham, 1858. Dora, a spirited young maid with a vivid imagination, finds solace in the library of the esteemed family she works for. But when a forbidden love leads to a secret that could ruin her, Dora has no choice but to leave the only place that has ever offered her security and...