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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?

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

Betreten Sie das viktorianische London des Jahres 1897: Entdecken Sie Liebe und Intrigen mit der historischen Mystery-Serie „Tabitha & Wolf“, in der Mysterium auf Romantik mit einer Prise Humor trifft. Tabitha war es gewohnt, ein sozialer Paria zu sein. Könnte sich ihr Ansehen in der...

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.

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...

Gregory Cain, der Earl of Shelby, glaubt nicht an die Liebe–genauer gesagt, er glaubt nicht daran, dass sie für ihn bestimmt sein könnte. Für andere Menschen mag sie durchaus taugen. Skandalöses Verhalten und ruchlose Taten gehören zu seinen besonderen Fähigkeiten, und er scheut sich nicht, beides zur Schau zu stellen. Mit unschuldigen jungen Damen oder heiratswilligen Debütantinnen lässt er sich nicht ein. Als Lady Kaitlin Evans ihn also um einen Kuss bittet, bleibt ihm nichts anderes übrig, als sie zurückzuweisen.

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...

Alicia’s mum is missing, and she suspects dark magic may be involved. The same dark magic that is gently luring her in with lavish promises of power and trying to change her forever. When everything starts falling down around her, and the truth behind all the mysteries is revealed, she has to decide who she can trust: her new husband? Her old family? Her new family? Herself? Don’t be mistaken; there will be vengeance.

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...

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...