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A duke who's loved her since childhood. A lady who gambles in breeches under a false name. One card table where neither knows the other's hand. Lady Theodora Hasting has spent years wanting a man who sees her as nothing more than a childhood friend. Her dead fiancé taught her one lesson: waiting for the Duke of Greystone is a losing hand. So she stopped waiting. Now she spends her nights disguised as Kit Barton, taking money from weathy peers at a popular gaming hell. She's free, she's winning, and she doesn't need anyone—until Wesley sits down at her card table.

In a city drowning in fog, even a monster can be a sanctuary. In the climate-controlled silence of the British Library, manuscript conservator Cordelia Elliston lives a life of careful repairs and quiet order. But the charred diary she finds in a private estate clearance refuses to be fixed. The leather is fever-hot. The ink moves like living shadow. And when the page pulses beneath her fingers, Cordelia is pulled through a crack in the world. She wakes in the sulfurous, batswing-lit London of 1888. It is a city paralyzed by murder, but the killings are merely a symptom.

Some illusions save us. Others want us dead. Dorothy St. James has three missions: slip inside the Rook's circle, recover the stolen enchanted bracelets, and rescue her kidnapped father. But when whispers of a hidden map inside Buckingham Palace surface, everything shifts. Enlisting Ashley...

When Tilly's brother, Tom, who she hasn't seen for 20 years, turns up on her doorstep she knows trouble will not be far behind. Tom's search for the truth brings heartache and changes their lives forever. Old wounds reopen, relationships fracture, loyalties fray and no one escapes the consequences. Tensions rise when disaster strikes and Tilly finds herself torn between fighting for Tom while supporting her headstrong daughter, Martha, whose world is falling apart.

Quebec, Canada, 1847. While trying to escape the Potato Famine, shipwrecked Irish immigrant Breanna Clarey awakens injured and alone on an unfamiliar beach. To make matters worse, she has been separated from her family, and her friend, Crow, is lying dead at her feet. But when Dawson Roberts, a reclusive fisherman with a guarded past and big dreams for his future, finds Breanna, he puts his plans on hold to offer her shelter and help find her family. But life for an Irish immigrant isn't easy.

The Midnight Letters, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

In May, 1899, a hundred and fifty unassuming envelopes are delivered to households across the city. Most of them will be picked up by butlers and carried on silver trays to their recipients. All of them contain invitations to the wedding of Lady Eleanor Serrs to Mr. Ryce Penn.

Manche Anfänge sind bittersüß.Im Jahr 1814 rettet ein junger Mann während eines Schneesturms eine Frau — und verliebt sich auf den ersten Blick in sie. Doch sie ist auf der Flucht vor einer arrangierten Ehe mit einem grausamen Mann. Können sie der Gefahr trotzen, oder wird ihre zarte junge Liebe zerstört, noch ehe sie Wurzeln schlagen kann?

Un des romans les plus célèbres de Jules Verne. Il y décrit l'Écosse, la rencontre de deux êtres. Il y met en scène avant Hergé deux jumeaux qui pourraient être les Dupont/Dupond et un jeune savant du nom d'Ursiclos qui n'a rien à envier à Tournesol ! Bref, un roman à écouter avec plaisir pour retrouver toute une époque et un pays qui inspira L'Île Noire à l'inventeur de Tintin ! Mais cela reste avant tout une très belle histoire d'amour entre une fille de bonne famille fantasque et un jeune peintre plein de courage et de nobles sentiments !

Sie will ihre Freiheit. Er will keine Komplikationen. Doch auf dem Weg zu einem Erbe geraten sie in ein Spiel aus Gefahr, Verlangen und Verrat ... Als Miss Lydia Montague erfährt, dass ihre exzentrische Tante ihr ein Landgut vermacht hat, glaubt sie, endlich die Unabhängigkeit gefunden zu haben, nach der sie sich ihr ganzes Leben gesehnt hat. Doch es gibt einen Haken: Um ihr Erbe anzutreten, muss sie gemeinsam mit dem ebenso unnahbaren wie berüchtigten Maximilian Ashcombe, Duke of Hasting, nach Devonshire reisen.

To Marie Louise (Shew): Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.

She’s poised to conquer. He’s in hiding, chased by too many women. Can love penetrate his dense disguise? Summer 1805. Now that Frances Barstow is twenty, her benefactress decides it is time for her to marry and has even chosen her a suitable bachelor. The only problem? He’s as slow-witted...

Daughter of a wealthy merchant and deemed “unfit" for childbearing, Emalyn Lovett never expected to be married. Much to her dismay, however, she finds herself betrothed to a man who chills her heart. Bound by duty to respect her father's wishes and torn by her conflicting emotions, she flees her home only to stumble into a deadly situation. Lost, alone, and resigned to her new fate, she is shocked when rescue arrives in the most unlikely form: Captain Lucius Black, a pirate known for his fierce reputation. Lives will be thrown into chaos when her new husband discovers plots and truths.

Exploring a mysterious temple in the Egyptian desert, hidden for centuries, Onora awakens a dark force. Assailed by disturbing dreams, she questions her sanity, until she learns of the temple's terrifying cult, and the curse of the twelve scarabs. Is it possible to escape her fate, and who can...

Irland, 1845: Während Hunger und Verzweiflung das grüne Herz Irlands zermürben, wächst die junge Gracelin O'Malley auf dem bescheidenen Anwesen ihrer Familie heran. Als der plötzliche Tod ihrer Mutter den O'Malley-Clan in tiefe Trauer und an den Rand des Ruins stürzt, ist Gracelin noch ein Kind. Mit nur fünfzehn Jahren beschließt sie, ihre Familie vor dem Hungertod zu bewahren: Sie heiratet den reichen, verwitweten Lord Bram Donnelly.

When Thomas Cardwell, an upstanding man-of-business, is murdered, Roscoe enlists the aid of the best investigators in London—namely Barnaby and Penelope Adair and Inspector Stokes of Scotland Yard—to solve the puzzle of why anyone would want to kill a man as honest as Cardwell. Dispatched by Roscoe, London’s gambling king, to learn what “nefarious activity” an upstanding man-of-business has stumbled upon, Jordan Draper—Roscoe’s own man-of-business—arrives at Thomas Cardwell’s office to discover Cardwell very recently murdered.

2024 BookFest Spring Awards Second Place Fiction: Romance Historical-Renaissance. Lady Sutherland lost everything when her father, Laird Sutherland, ordered his soldiers to secret her out by boat the night Laird MacKay laid siege on her castle. She even lost her homeland when a storm displaced her to a faraway land. Now, after three long years, Daniella returns to Scotland with her three soldiers and two Siberian Husky dogs. Patrick Gordon, the Earl of Huntly, is convinced that his betrothed is dead after searching for her for three years.

Als Tabetha Barkleys Mutter stirbt, hinterlässt sie ihre junge Tochter bettelarm und ohne jegliche Arbeitserfahrung. Ohne andere Alternativen sucht Tabetha die Herzogin von Devon auf, um einen Gefallen zu erbitten, der einst ihrer Mutter versprochen worden war. Jetzt ist Tabetha eine Magd im Devon-Haushalt. Ihre Probleme scheinen gelöst. Bis plötzlich ein gutaussehender Diener ihr Herz völlig durcheinander bringt und ihre Pläne gefährdet.

The third book in Beverley Watts's dazzling Shackleford and Daughters series of Victorian romantic comedies...

Lady Emily has no idea how to play her part. Lyness Eastwood has always been content to be second. When Lyness Eastwood's elder brother, Lord Hartwell, begins a sensible courtship with the charming Lady Emily Sterling, Lyness’s quiet contentment shatters. Ever since their brief meeting in London, Lady Emily’s smile has haunted him. How can a man with a stutter and no title compete with a lord? He must settle for watching her from the shadows. Lady Emily is determined to solidify her family’s place in Society.