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A revised and updated edition of the first book in legendary New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas’s beloved historical romance series featuring the unforgettable Hathaways: a family of misfits trying to navigate their way through the hazards of the British aristocracy Miss Amelia...

A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building. Delilah Swanpoole, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,” is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the...

In this dazzling Victorian romance from a New York Times bestselling author, one unlucky lady believes her fate is finally changing until the rake that broke her heart returns to town—perfect for fans of Julia Quinn and Amanda Quick. Third time’s a charm? For Lady Kay Matheson, it had better...

If there’s one thing American heiress Adelia Fox knows, it’s that the haughty and arrogant Duke of Marchingham is a heartless monster. Why else would he refuse to allow his sisters to pay her a visit in New York City during the Christmas season for the third year in a row? Fortunately, Addy’s arrived at a clever solution. If her friends can’t come to her, she will simply go to them.

A kiss in the gardens. A ruined reputation. A wager without a winner. Having been caught kissing an earl's heir in the gardens during a ball, Lady Lucy has been relegated to the company of potted palms and wallflowers at London entertainments. The incident might have happened three years ago, but time hasn't lessened the stain on her reputation. Despite behaving as a perfect young lady ever since, she is rarely asked to dance nor has anyone courted her. She's beginning to think she will end up a spinster.

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860: When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing.

At eighteen, Emmeline Ballentine’s father splashed out on one London season to introduce his daughter to polite society. Sadly, for Emmeline, polite society was not terribly receptive to a city trader’s daughter. She only ever caught one gentleman’s fancy, the dishonorable Jeremy Vance who made her head spin as he singled her out for attention at the balls and assemblies. Her worldly chaperone warned her he was making a May game of her, but Emmeline had not heeded her warning. Consequently, her dreams were dashed, when at the close of the season, Jeremy announced his engagement to another.

Au cœur de l'Angleterre victorienne, Eleanor Sutton, une femme vive d'esprit et intelligente, s'est résignée à une vie de solitude et d'enseignement, croyant qu'une blessure d'enfance la rend inapte au mariage.

New York, zomer 1891. Fiona Finnegan en Nicholas Soames zijn net getrouwd. Ondanks dat hun huwelijk ongewoon is en de wonden uit het verleden nog niet volledig zijn geheeld, zijn ze gelukkig samen en dromen ze over een lang en gelukkig leven voor zichzelf, maar ook voor hun geliefden. Wanneer Fiona merkt dat er liefde lijkt op te bloeien tussen haar oom, die weduwnaar is, en zijn buurvrouw Mary Munro, is ze razend enthousiast en hoopt ze dat hij haar snel ten huwelijk vraagt. Maar dat blijkt ijdele hoop te zijn wanneer ze tijdens een familiediner ander nieuws hoort.

De Elzas, 1877. De liefde tussen Irene en haar man, de rijke wijnhandelaar Franz Gerban, bloeit verder op. Omdat Franz veel op reis is en de eenzaamheid dan de kop opsteekt, gaat ze op zoek naar een andere invulling van haar dagen. Ze zet zich actief in voor de rechten van vrouwen uit de arbeidersklasse en ontmoet tijdens een bijeenkomst vakbondsleider Josef, haar vroegere minnaar. Dat maakt haar man razend jaloers en zet hun huwelijk onder druk. En dan ontdekt Franz ook nog eens een geheim dat een grote uitdaging vormt voor hun toekomst.

She wants in the family. He wants out. Sally Digby has secured her beloved sister's happiness with her arranged marriage into the powerful Beckwith family. But when her new husband leaves a goodbye message in her wedding bouquet, and a possible scandal in his wake, Sally discovers her heart is more invested than she thought and can't let the slight go unanswered. Ren Beckwith is on a mission to right the wrongs of his family's past, and the settlements from his arranged marriage are the final pieces he needs.

After an absence of 20 years, Charlie O'Reilly returns to the goldmining town of Maiden's Creek. Despite her bitter memories, she's determined to prove her worth as the new matron of the hospital. The anonymity of the town also provides an escape from the unwanted attentions of a man who can bring her nothing but trouble. The town has also left its scars on Danny Hunt. Despite his wealth and success as a criminal lawyer in Melbourne, his childhood memories have left him with questions his parents are reluctant to answer.

If there's one thing society knows about Thorne Cumming, the new Duke of Stroken, it's that he enjoys the pleasures offered by a lady. Or two ladies—or even a gentleman. Or all of them at once; he's not picky when it comes to pleasure. But now that his uncle's gone and selfishly died, Thorne is having to learn how to Duke—and must save the Crown from a traitor who is days away from falling into his trap!

Lady Io Hale has no time for men. And certainly no time for her older brother's stuffy, grumpy, and oh-so-proper best friend, Corbin Masterson, who believes he is so morally superior to everyone else, especially her. Io might have been wrenched from her home in New York, dragged to London, and forced to attend ton parties and balls, but she is drawing the line at tolerating Masterson's snooty, judgmental, and accusatory looks for one second longer.

London 1860. I suppose you could say I was a voyeur and what I was doing was wrong, criminal even. But I’d suggest that no hot-blooded man could resist a look after finding peepholes behind the walls of Wychwood. Through the peepholes I saw my most secret desires playing out before my eyes. One of the gents I watched was deliciously handsome with brooding stormy eyes and darling black curls. So taken was I that he haunted my dreams. I knew the comely young man only by a number, 27 as none of the queer fellows who attended Wychwood gave their names.

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed! Gwen has a brilliant...

Lucy, a smart, attractive, and well-respected botanist, travels to Blackwell Manor to take care of her sick cousin, Kate, who is married to Miles' younger brother. For Lucy, the trip is a welcome respite from her work and recent discovery of a breakthrough serum that could eliminate the scourge of vampires from London. But Lucy finds more than she bargained for when she arrives at the Manor.

Doctor Isla Cooper is cursed. Each night, at the stroke of midnight she falls into a deep sleep from which she cannot be awakened for six hours. To make it worse, the curse has an expiration date - after a year, she will fall asleep forever. And the year is almost up. In a desperate attempt to find Malette - the witch who cursed her - Isla blackmails her way onto Daniel Pickett's private airship bound for the Caribbean, only to discover she's traveling with three illegal shapeshifters and the despicable Nigel Crowe.

Emmeline O'Shea has been an outspoken advocate for the shape-shifter community, which has come under unjust attack from a political body known as the PSRC (Predatory Shifter Regulations Committee), and her robust efforts have landed her a prestigious position as the spokesperson for the International Shifter Rights Organization. She has been selected to give the final address in Scotland before they vote on legislation that will grant protective rights to the shifter community. Because she is fundamentally changing the laws, she is also receiving death threats.

Un matrimonio por deber. Un amor que ninguno esperaba. Cuando Lady Estelle Robinson se enfrenta a la ruina de su familia, una propuesta del Duque de Ashbourne ofrece salvación… pero ¿a qué precio? Unidos por el honor, pero atraídos por algo más profundo, Estelle y Victor entran en una unión que ninguno de los dos había planeado. En un mundo de secretos susurrados y miradas robadas, ¿se atreverán sus corazones a esperar algo más?