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Amara Fairfax was born between two rebellions. The daughter of an English heiress disowned for loving an African herbalist whose knowledge stretches back generations, Amara inherits both refinement and resistance. She knows how to enter a ballroom with poise and how to survive a world determined to reduce her. In Victorian society, she is admired, studied… and quietly rejected. Too educated to dismiss. Too composed to scandalize. Too powerful to control. Then Lord James Whitmore makes a dangerous choice: he sees her.

She was never meant to be alone with the Viscount. When Viola Merriweather accidentally finds herself trapped in Lord Lydford’s private study during a grand ball, scandal erupts at once. Society expects Nathaniel Harrow, Viscount Lydford, to do the honorable thing and offer marriage. But Viola refuses to become any man’s bride out of duty—even one as powerful, handsome, and impossible to ignore as Nathaniel. Used to being obeyed, Nathaniel is stunned by the one woman who dares to refuse him.

The final two entries in THE HEIRS OF THE ARISTOCRACY series make up this boxed set of four young men and women and their struggles with courtship. In THE HONOR OF AN HEIR, twin sisters Dahlia and Diana have no desire to husband-hunt, but their ghost of a father has plans for them and the set of twin men who would make their perfect mates. Heir to a sultanate, Ertuğrul hasn’t yet begun his harem, but if he finds true love with a young lady in London, he may forgo concubines.

Four early Victorian novels make up this boxed set featuring four cousins on their Grand Tour of Sicily, Greece, Egypt, and Rome. When they set off on their two-year trip, they have no idea they will no longer be bachelors when they return to England. A Courtship in CataniaWhen Donald visited Catania the first time, he fell hard for Lady Nicoletta, unaware her father had plans for her to marry a much older man. While acting as a guide for his younger brother and cousins, he returns seven years later to claim her. Will he reveal the secrets that led to their parting?

Three early Victorian novels make up this boxed set of sensual historical romances featuring seven couples! THE LADY OF A GRUMP. He's a grouch. She's the reason. Max, known throughout the aristocracy as "The Earl of Grump," is about to have his world turned upside down when Patience Grayson, the reason for his grumpiness, invades his home—and his bedchamber—on a late winter night. THE LADY OF SULTAN. Captured by pirates. Sold to a sultan. This is not how Charlotte expected to spend her holiday.

Three full-length sensual Victorian romances make up this boxed set about six heirs. They all require wives, but not every young woman wants a husband. THE ANGEL OF AN ASTRONOMER. When a neighbor appears to be spying on her from his backyard observatory, an incensed Lady Angelica is determined to give him a piece of her mind. Will Sir Benjamin end up with her heart as well? Mistletoe and moonlight work their magic in The Angel of an Astronomer.

When George Hardy, surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.

In the early 1800s the penal colony of Botany Bay was an unforgiving and harsh place. Isabella O'Shea is transported to New South Wales for wounding a member of the British aristocracy who raped her, so it is understandable that she loathes members of the upper class and the system that punished her; sentenced her to seven years transportation. Tiger Carstairs is rich, ambitious and English-so is it any wonder she is determined to hate her new master. Tiger dreams of making a new life beyond the aptly named Blue Mountains, so called because of the perpetual haze of blue surrounding them.

Eine Wette. Ein Maskenball. Ein Kuss, der alles verändert. Lady Helena Fairfax trägt seit zwei Jahren Trauer—nicht um den Ehemann, den sie verloren hat, sondern um das Leben, das sie nie führen durfte. Als sie unerwartet eine Einladung zu einem Maskenball um Mitternacht erhält, ergreift sie die Gelegenheit, aus dem Schatten zu treten und in eine Welt voller Geheimnisse einzutauchen. Als verführerische Unbekannte verkleidet, ist sie entschlossen, sich eine einzige Nacht der Freiheit zu nehmen und die Fesseln ihres streng geregelten Lebens hinter sich zu lassen.

Lady Charlotte Ashbourne est au pied du mur. Pour sauver les siens, elle doit affronter l’homme qu’elle accuse d’avoir brisé sa famille : Grant Tilbury, duc de Ravenscroft, sombre, énigmatique… et terriblement inatteignable. Libertin réputé, Grant refuse toute attache. Pourtant, Charlotte le trouble dès le premier regard. Pour la retenir—et s’amuser du danger—il lui propose un marché aussi scandaleux qu’irrésistible. Charlotte accepte avec une idée fixe: se venger. Le pousser à céder, l’amener à s’attacher, le faire tomber amoureux…

If there’s one thing about Rafe Lennox that the women of London know… it’s that his heart cannot be tamed, except perhaps by the little Scottish orphan he has claimed as a daughter. That doesn’t stop every eligible woman in London from trying to convince the outrageous flirt to put a ring on their finger after they tumble into his bed. But Rafe has never been tempted by love to marry, until he robs a coach one night and he steals a necklace from a brave and beautiful woman.

On the heels of an unjust accusation, Grace flees from her country village to the anonymity of London. Although she intends to seek sanctuary with her cousin Joe Fiddick, she discovers he's also suffered a setback and needs more help than she can offer. Desperate, she solicits assistance from Joe's friend--the notorious rake, Lord Henley. Will the price of the handsome baron’s help be more than she's willing to pay?

Bluestocking Lady Elise Smith is a very content spinster. She holds intellectual gatherings and attends poetry readings, mind-improving lectures, and art shows. She runs her father’s household with quiet and determine efficiency, which is why she is absolutely stunned when Papa informs his three daughters that until Lady Elise is happily settled with—gasp—a husband, he will not consider offers for his two younger daughters.

Venice, 1880. Alexander, Viscount Dundarran, seeks refuge from scandal amidst the fading grandeur of crumbling palazzos during the infamous Carnival in the city. There he encounters the enigmatic Lady Arabella Pembrook—a young, beautiful widow. Both are scarred by their pasts but find solace in each other and a chance at redemption. But when duty calls Alexander back to England upon his father's death, a darker journey begins.

Coral de Petras is on the hunt for the perfect husband, and she doesn’t care who knows it. In her third Season and with the shock of her father’s shipping business collapsing in disaster, Coral makes the hard decision to forgo a love match and fall back on the plan she had as a child. Marry for money. But if Coral’s giving up a love match, she doesn’t just want to settle for any gentleman: she has a list. A list of all the qualities she will demand from her future husband—and publishes it in all the newspapers.

Free to follow her heart…just not to her husband! Deborah needs a husband to protect her from the scandal breaking over her head; Christopher Halland, a radical and ambitious member of parliament, needs a wife to get at his fortune and Gosmere Hall. It is the perfect marriage of convenience. Or is it? She should have been warned off by the fury in his eyes on their first encounter when he almost rode over her. And by the whispered rumors of his women and loose living.

Set in 1845 England, Honora Langstone's life takes an unexpected twist when her aristocratic uncle arranges her marriage to the enigmatic and powerful Duke of Tynemouth. Thrust into a whirlwind of royal intrigue and societal expectations, Honora must navigate a world of opulence, secrets and unforeseen emotions. As she confronts the challenges of duty and her own dreams, Honora discovers the strength to shape her destiny.

Persuasion is Jane Austen's final completed novel and one of her most mature and moving works. The story follows Anne Elliot, a thoughtful and quietly intelligent woman who, years earlier, was persuaded to end her engagement to Captain Frederick Wentworth because of his uncertain fortune and social position. When Wentworth returns as a successful naval officer, Anne must face the consequences of that earlier choice, the pain of lost love, and the possibility of renewal.

1812, Londres. Malgré son désir de discrétion, Wisteria a toujours été au cœur des rumeurs. Sur son passage, il se murmure qu'elle serait tour à tour vieille fille, sorcière, tentatrice… Mais la vérité est plus sombre encore. Si le jour, elle exerce comme apothicaire, dans l'ombre...

From a bestselling, award-winning author comes a compellingly realised story of an enigmatic figure, the beautiful 19th century muse and brilliant social powerhouse Florence Stoker, whose life, in spite of her many gifts, was overshadowed by one of the most abiding and terrifying of contemporary...