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Like a moth transforming into a butterfly, Lady Harriet must shed her past insecurities to reveal the grace and confidence within. After Lady Harriet’s less-than-ideal debut into society, her parents decide it would be best for her to spend some time with her cousin and his wife. They hope...

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...

The explosive final book in I.V. Ophelia’s darkly addictive, nationally bestselling Poisoner trilogy—about a botanist who kills unsavory men, and the one man who's resistant to her poisons yet possesses his own deadly charms... Alina Lis is plunged into a Manhattan mansion that’s equal...

After Leo and Jasper are summoned to the reading of a last will and testament for a woman they do not know, they are stunned to receive not only a joint bequest, but also a bidding from the grave: to find out if the woman's young son fell to his death a dozen years ago . . . or if he was, as she...

Duke Evander Ravenwood is barely back on his feet after the catastrophe at the Royal Institute when he is dragged before Parliament to answer for the chaos that followed. But political scheming is the least of his concerns. The elusive mastermind he and Viggo Stonewall have hunted for months continues to tighten his grip across Europe—and their new mission to track down the legendary Crimson Codex is about to thrust them straight into his path.

A tantalizing pact between an ordinary woman and the silver-tongued son of the Devil is all that stands between Britain—and all hell breaking loose. 1851, London. All supernatural species have emerged from hiding, a result of The Great Revelation, led by Her Majesty, the vampiric Queen...

WINNER OF THE ROMANTIC TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas returns with the second dazzling romance in the Ravenels series - perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Julia Quinn and Eloisa James. In her stunning novel, one of the realm's most powerful men meets...

Yorkshire, 1898. When twenty-one-year-old Lilianne Loxley is sent to Lord Bexton's isolated estate to work off her uncle's debts, she expects drudgery—not danger. With her gift for mimicry, she becomes Bexton's secretary—and his reluctant forger. Soon she's trapped in a scheme to create a "lost" novel by Emily Brontë, a deception that could make—or destroy—fortunes. The house is full of secrets: footsteps echo in empty corridors, lemon-scented ghosts haunt her sleepless nights, and a portrait seems to watch her every move. Yet it's the living who unsettle her most.

Plagued by guilt after escaping her impoverished childhood, Fontaine Shepherd, the Dowager Lady Kerry, uses her position on the board of a charitable foundation to relocate starving orphans—until contact with the office is lost. Fearing the foundation will discover she's been using funds to bribe workhouse owners to release children, she decides to travel across the ocean and re-establish communication. Except the only captain who can transport her insists that she not travel alone.

A compromise is the answer, or so Fiona believes. She is offering this handsome duke one week in her bed. One week only, and then they must move on. But Robert will have none of it. He knows what he needs, and it is Fiona for a lifetime.

Finkenwerder im 19. Jahrhundert: Auf der Grenze zwischen Preußen und Hamburg in Zeiten der Cholera kämpft eine junge Frau um den Apfelgarten ihrer Familie und um ihre Liebe. Der Auftakt eines epischen Zweiteilers vor norddeutscher Kulisse. Finkenwerder 1892: Seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter findet die junge Kea Loop nur Trost in deren altem Apfelgarten. Dort will sie den perfekten Apfel züchten.

In a London that insists women remain quiet, dutiful, and dull, two unlikely conspirators discover a secret that awakens everything society tells them to suppress… Jenny Rosewood – single, clever and nearly thirty, heaven forbid – has long disguised herself as a man to attend nighttime...

Catherine Brooks ist eine Lady, wie sie im Buche steht, an Tugendhaftigkeit kaum zu überbieten. Jonathan Blake, Viscount Hayes, ist ein sorgloser Lebemann, der nur sein Vergnügen kennt und seine Zeit lieber an den Spieltischen der Stadt verbringt, als auf Brautschau zu gehen. Als das Schicksal sie auf immer aneinanderkettet, müssen beide erkennen, dass nicht alles ist, wie es scheint und manch einer ein gefährliches Geheimnis verbirgt.

Kat Holloway’s beau, Daniel McAdam, has always had a past shrouded in mystery. He knows nothing about his origins, only that a kind man rescued him from the streets all those years ago. So when a man claiming he knows where Daniel comes from turns up dead moments before meeting with them, Daniel goes on the hunt for the killer. It soon becomes clear that to see justice served, Daniel will have to figure out who he truly is and where he came from. When Daniel asks Kat for her assistance, she readily complies, knowing she’ll do whatever it takes to protect the man she’s come to love.

A humorous friends-to-lovers tale with a hoyden, a Corinthian, and lots of kittens! The youngest of five beautiful sisters, Joy Whitford lacks both their femininity and sophistication. To wit: she is a hoyden. In fact, when trying to perform circus tricks on a horse, she suffered a brutal...

Jilted by the woman he loved, Tom, Viscount Sidmouth, has decided he will happily remain a bachelor for the rest of his life. He wants nothing to do with affairs of the heart. And he most certainly wants nothing to do with the wild widow next door. After spending years trapped in a loveless...

Will Cupid’s bow bring these two together or will his past keep them apart? Charles, twin brother to the Duke of Hightower, has spent his life hidden from his siblings. Considered mad by some, Charles has a mind unlike most others. Unfortunate circumstances lead to Charles being reintroduced...

A murdered clockmaker. A stolen masterpiece. An observatory full of secrets. London, 1889. When elderly clockmaker Horace Whitby is found bludgeoned to death in his workshop at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, suspicion falls on the woman who discovered his body – Charlotte Mellor, who makes...

Every book in the Society of Scandalous Witches can be read as a standalone. Secrets. Scandal. Hexes. And a desire that refuses to be tamed. In gaslit Victorian England, reputation is everything—and Lady Cynthia Burrows has perfected hers. A flawless hostess. A dutiful wife. A paragon of the...

Jonas Langford, Duke of Ramsdale, knows he is a beast and no one can possibly love him. He was the ton's most eligible and desired bachelor before the Napoleonic War left him horribly scarred and had him retreating to live out his life in solitude. That is, until one Miss Ailis Temple, the...