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In the poverty-stricken streets of Sunderland's East End in the early 1900s, orphan Rose Lumley lives with her alcoholic uncle Stan, thieving aunt Bea and beloved but forceful Granny. Granny urges Rose to forge a better life for herself, away from the East End, and when she gets a job at a local...

Exploring a mysterious temple in the Egyptian desert, hidden for centuries, Onora awakens a dark force. Assailed by disturbing dreams, she questions her sanity, until she learns of the temple's terrifying cult, and the curse of the twelve scarabs. Is it possible to escape her fate, and who can...

Sorcha MacAlasdair, daughter of a proud Highland laird, is like the wild heather that carpets the hills of her homeland—resilient, and impossible to uproot. Betrothed since childhood, her marriage was arranged to secure an alliance and strengthen two powerful clans. She asked for nothing from...

There's always a point in someone's life where they regret the decisions of their past. Take me for instance. I skipped my lessons as often as I could get away with, figuring I'd always have someone with me to translate or watch my back. As a prince of Al Nuzem, I was very rarely alone. But when...

"Grace Burrowes is terrific."—Julia Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series Let bestselling author Grace Burrowes whisk you away to Regency England for a Christmas romance you won't soon forget! Dazzling chemistry and fiery passion Witty, charming characters that jump...

He’s the terror of the ton... The plan is simple: 1. Descend from the Highlands to face the aggravation of a London Season; 2. Foist his wild sister off on some gullible English lord; 3. Retreat before the ladies of the scandalized ton can get any ideas. Determined to see his hellion of a...

A beautiful princess. A charming adventurer. And a cursed treasure. Phineas Coulter, the Viscount Waring, lives for adventure in distant lands. When family obligation requires his return to London, he unexpectedly finds himself entangled in a mystery of danger…and desire. To save a friend, he...

A romance of lingering pain, old letters, and new possibilities. Miss Adelaide Harris, the eldest daughter of the second Viscount Morley, is approaching five and twenty and a life of spinsterhood disabled by rheumatism. With hands too brittle for playing the pianoforte and a constitution that...

She wants to be undeniable. He wants to be substantial. Neither expects to find it in the other. Mary Bennet is witnessing the marital bliss of her two eldest sisters to excellent men who adore them. She has no hopes on that front. She knows she is plain, studious, and invisible to the eyes of, well, everyone. She cannot become a great beauty. That is certain. What she can do, though, is become undeniable. Charles Bingley is painfully aware that he has no purpose. Everything feels vacuous, hollow. Caroline has married and lives blissfully in Kent. Louisa has produced a child.

Five years ago, Claire Hightower ran away from the man she loved. Freddy Hightower had once been her reckless dream: a stolen groom, a whirlwind elopement, a future built on stars and scandal. But debts and dice chipped away at everything they had—until Claire fled with nothing but her unborn child and a fistful of pawnable jewels. Now Freddy’s back. Sober. Steadier. Still gorgeous and charming and chaotic—but also different.

Un amore travolgente. Un intrigo pericoloso. Una scelta impossibile. Nella Roma tumultuosa del 1800, dove la politica e la passione si intrecciano in un gioco mortale, Floria Tosca è la donna più ammirata della città. Cantante d'opera di fama e bellezza straordinaria, la sua vita sembra essere un susseguirsi di applausi e trionfi. Ma dietro la facciata scintillante, Tosca nasconde un amore segreto e tormentato per Mario Cavaradossi, pittore ribelle che non ha paura di sfidare il potere. Un amore in bilico tra desiderio e pericolo.

In un’Inghilterra ferita, dove le ombre della Grande Guerra si mescolano alla bruma delle campagne, Thistlemarsh Hall si erge come eco di un tempo dimenticato, un luogo di ombre e silenzi, dove il vento sussurra tra le torri e i giardini selvaggi. Misneach “Mouse” Dunne vi ha passato l’infanzia, ma ora il suo mondo è privo di magia. I sogni di bambina, di studiare antropologia delle fate, sono stati infranti da una realtà spietata. Rassegnata a una vita senza meraviglie, tutto cambia quando un’eredità inaspettata la riporta a Thistlemarsh.

Ainda que tivesse caído em esquecimento, “O Caudilho” pode ser considerado uma pérola da literatura latino-americana. O romance traz à tona a vida gaúcha, uma das culturas mais tradicionais da Argentina – que muito se aproxima à do Brasil, do Paraguai e do Uruguai. Nele, se recupera o estilo literário do século 19 para apresentar um ambiente rural que é devastado por uma noite de temporal que destrói pontes, animais, políticas e paixões amorosas.

'A moving and absorbing holiday read that pulls at the heartstrings' Evening Standard The acclaimed million-copy number one bestseller and winner of Richard & Judy's Summer Read 2006. Victoria Hislop tells a dramatic tale of four generations, illicit love, violence and leprosy, from the thirties...

De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino estáanonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunquesostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuandoal fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención.

Bridgerton meets Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue in this stunning queer romance by KJ Charles, author of The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting. 'KJ Charles is, in my opinion, a titan of her genre' – Talia Hibbert, bestselling author Get A Life, Chloe Brown Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois...

In the midst of a fierce storm, a carriage carrying Sir John Mayfield, Lady Marianna Mayfield, and her lady's companion careens off a narrow cliff road, changing their fates forever. When the wreckage is found, Sir John is gravely injured, and a woman is discovered unconscious wearing a valuable ring. As the woman regains consciousness in a strange house, she grapples with fragmented memories of the accident, unsettling dreams of a child in peril, and a deep mystery tied to the ring on her finger.

Years after conspiring men denied his father the inheritance that was his by birthright, Mr. Henry Bennet returns to Longbourn with his three daughters, having received the estate on the death of its previous master. Mr. Bennet has no notion why the man who stole it from his father willed the property to his control, but he is grateful to return to the lands of his forebears. As the Bennets settle into their lives as gentlefolk once again, their new friends welcome them to the neighborhood, and they begin the struggle to turn Longbourn again into a prosperous estate. 

Minerva Peniston, intrepid spinster and book lover, is determined to capture the villain who tried to shoot a duke at a book auction—imperiling her father's position and the only home she's ever known. And now the same wealthy bibliophiles are gathering at Wycliffe Manor . . .Paul Upton, overeducated and impoverished curate, has volunteered to assist the residents of Wycliffe Manor in preparing for a book auction to save the village and the manor's future. When an intriguing wallflower drags him into aiding her quest to find a potential killer, he agrees for her safety.

Spinster and secret novelist Clarissa Knightley and her gruff American engineer, Captain Huntley, along with their friend and cousin, the Honorable Jack de Sackville and Lady Elspeth, are to wed at last! In anticipation of the double wedding, friends and family are gathering at moldering Wycliffe Manor—until a dying stranger is discovered on the neglected grounds. Despite the tragedy, aristocratic wedding guests and their retinues, foreign and domestic, continue to arrive, not all by invitation.