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A Lady with a past. A man with ambition. A romance far from London society that might bridge their divides. Lady Phoebe Hunt never anticipated returning from exile. A fatal choice drove her from England, but the death of her father—and the revelation of his debts—has brought her home. Once...

All's fair in love and peace… Paris, 1774. He can win her freedom, but can she win his heart? With Sophie Twisden’s grandmother laid up with an illness, causing them to withdraw from the Paris social scene, the pompous Sheldon Cholmsley appoints himself as Sophie’s “protector.”...

Listen to the first book in the heart-stopping series • Scandal Sheet Survivors. She has loved him secretly for years. Miss Helen Langley felt the first pangs of love seven years ago when her brother’s best friend examined her sprained ankle. She has suffered in silence ever since. A lady might engage in mild flirtation, but Nicholas St. Clair is considered part of her family and acts like a brother. When a fortune-teller insists Helen will find her future husband sitting in a cowpat, she fears she is destined to marry a farmer, not the impeccably dressed Mr St. Clair.

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Publicado por entregas como número especial de Navidad de la revista Household Words en 1858. Un experimento narrativo de Charles Dickens en colaboración con Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell y Adelaide Anne Procter. La historia parte de una casa misteriosa y...

Dans le monde scintillant de la société victorienne, où les réputations sont primordiales et où l'amour est souvent un luxe, Valentina Sinclair est une femme en avance sur son temps—pleine de caractère, indépendante, et déterminée à vivre selon ses propres règles. Mais lorsqu'elle rencontre l'énigmatique et séduisant James Windermere, le comte de Windermere, son cœur soigneusement protégé commence à se dévoiler.

Mr. Gordon Judd is a versatile actor with dashing good looks and an impressive range. His career seems promising until, mysteriously, he goes into soldiering. When he returns to London, it’s clear he can’t resume his old life – a wound to the throat ruined his voice, obliterating his prospects. He tries to eke out a living as a stagehand, but his income dwindles. At a loss, he has little choice but to contact his older brother for help. Unfortunately, Judd is actually Lord Emilian Valencourt, although he’s happier when he isn’t. His brother is Lord Thomas Valencourt, the Duke of Welburn.

'The rare author who can make you laugh and cry - on the same page' JULIA QUINN, bestselling author of the Bridgerton novels London, 1880. An exceptional female economist meets an undercover detective. Thrown together by their work, soon it's not just their ambitions on the line, it's also their...

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.

When Emma Vane breaks into The Sentinel’s offices at midnight, pistol in hand, she has one demand: force Mr Stanton to print a retraction. It sounded simple enough at home. It doesn’t help that the man is like brandy, sharp at first, then smooth enough to make her forget he’s dangerous. No wonder he’s called the Devil of Fleet Street. Hugh built The Sentinel on one principle: print the truth. He did not build it to be held at gunpoint by a bluestocking with a signed confession and an impossible demand. But her evidence is compelling. Almost as compelling as she is. He’s a man she should avoid.

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...

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?