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Dopo anni di dissolutezze, il noto libertino Michael Stirling ha deciso di cambiare vita: è bastata un'occhiata a Francesca Bridgerton per farlo innamorare come non avrebbe mai creduto possibile. Peccato che Francesca stesse per sposarsi… Tutto ciò è avvenuto tempo fa. Ora Michael ha ottenuto il suo titolo e Francesca è libera, ma continua a vederlo solo come un caro amico. Fino a quando non si ritrova, quasi casualmente, tra le sue braccia appassionate.

Gregory Bridgerton crede nel vero amore. Quando troverà la donna giusta, se ne accorgerà subito, ne è convinto. In effetti così accade, solo che… Hermione Watson è innamorata di un altro. Ma la sua amica Lucy, per salvarla da un'unione disastrosa, si offre di aiutare Gregory a conquistarla. E finisce per innamorarsi lei di Gregory. Peccato che Lucy sia già fidanzata e, anche se Gregory ha capito di ricambiare il suo sentimento, lo zio della ragazza non intende farle rompere la sua promessa...

Gareth St. Clair è nei guai: il padre, che lo detesta, è determinato a mandare in malora le sue tenute per rovinargli l'eredità. L'unica speranza è in un vecchio diario di famiglia, che potrebbe contenere i segreti del suo passato, e la chiave del suo futuro. Solo che è scritto in italiano. Hyacinth Bridgerton si offre di tradurlo; mentre approfondiscono il misterioso memoriale, i due si accorgono che le risposte di cui sono in cerca non si trovano tra le pagine, ma nel cuore dell'altro.

Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room. I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion. I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things.

He was standing face-to-face with a dead woman…and she was holding a gun. Lieutenant Seth Buchanan finds his homicide investigation - and his heart - thrown into turmoil when Grace Fontaine turns up very much alive - and in possession of one of the huge blue diamonds known as the Stars of Mithra. The cool, controlled cop never lets his feelings get in the way of his job, and everything he knows about the notorious heiress tells him she's bad news.

Every family has its secrets and scars. Hidden behind the façade of nobility lies a yearning for real, true love. When society’s demands and the desire of the heart collide, even the closest ties are tugged to their limits. Join us for a thrilling and heartwarming romantic regency family saga in this complete box set by best-selling author Charity McColl, containing A True Love Forbidden, A Love Too Precious, For a Love So True, and A Lord Loves Again.

Lady Harriet Stanhope grew up with her twin brother and his friends, never questioning their laughter or their games - but now she's a young lady, she's desperate for one friend in particular to see her in a different light. But after twenty years of knowing each other, she's just the best friend, not a serious contender for the Duke of Devonshire's heart. Montague Cavendish knows what is due to him and his family name, and he is not fool enough to wish for a love match. He'll find a pretty young thing with plenty of money, and that will be that.

La Stagione del 1814 sembra essere promettente e ricca di nuovi fidanzamenti. Certo, non per Anthony Bridgerton, erede di un antico viscontado, probabilmente lo scapolo più ambito di Londra, che non ha mai dimostrato alcun interesse per le faccende matrimoniali. E in realtà, perché mai dovrebbe? È il prototipo del libertino, un mascalzone allergico alle etichette dell'alta società e decisamente pericoloso per donne e fanciulle. Questo, quanto meno, è ciò che tutti pensano.

In this funny Regency romance series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it… While Charity Shackleford might be considered far more outspoken than her twin sister Chastity, she was much less inclined to make a complete cake of herself...

After a murder scandal nearly sent her husband to the gallows, Audrey, the Duchess of Fournier, has retreated to the countryside to distance herself from gossip—and from the Bow Street officer who proved as irritating as he was intriguing. But when Audrey's friend Charlotte, the Countess of Bainbury, dies mysteriously on Fournier Downs parkland, she summons the only person she trusts to uncover the truth: Principal Officer Hugh Marsden.

When Major Rufus d’Aumesty unexpectedly becomes the Earl of Oxney, he finds himself living in a remote Norman manor on the edge of Romney Marsh with his noble, hostile, and decidedly odd family. His position is contested both by his greedy uncle and by unexpected claimant Luke Doomsday, a dashing member of the local smuggling clan. They should be natural enemies, but cocksure, enragingly competent Luke is a secretary by trade and quickly becomes an unexpected ally, the partner Rufus needs...and soon the lover he can't live without.

Lady Phillipa's heart is on the verge of being broken. The man she has exchanged letters with for months now refuses to answer her missives. That man, after the death of his older brother, is now the Duke of Grey, one of the most powerful lords in the land. When his sister invites Phillipa to the country, she jumps at the chance to discover why the duke forsook their love. When she arrives, she finds a broken, brooding man who insists keeping her away is for her own protection. But in his beautiful face, marred by scars, she sees the soul of the man she loves.

Imagine you’re engaged to marry a prince, but your father gambles away your dowry and sells you to a pirate captain who you are forced to marry. He’s cold and ruthless, so you run away, but then you get captured by more pirates, and just as they’re about to hurt you, your pirate husband shows up, with his sword to the captain’s throat as he roars, ”Touch my wife and I will destroy you all.”

Sophie Brancelli, the orphaned illegitimate child of a duke’s daughter, must ensure her marriage to a suitable gentleman of the ton before her 21st birthday, or she’ll be destitute. Her grandmother, the duchess, provided her with a huge inheritance, but with strings attached.

To survive as a scullery maid requires hard work, discipline, and a stiff upper lip. To survive as a demon hunter is something else entirely. Elizabeth Smyth learned this after she was captured by demons and rescued by hunters. Now a hunter herself, Elizabeth's first task in this new and strange world is to aid the recently wounded Reece Foxjohn, and get him back into demon-slaying shape.

The sinking of the Brig Minerva results in many deaths, while for others, the future is suddenly brighter. But it’s not always easy to leave the past behind. Nell Caldicott awaits the return of her violent sailor husband with trepidation, but for once her fears are not realized. When Caroline Milburn and her younger sisters' previously unknown grandfather drowns and bequeaths them a cottage in the country, their lives seem set to improve. A man turned away by Annie Dresden's father years ago for lack of fortune is unexpectedly wealthy after his brother's drowning.

The two oldest Dashwood sisters approach romance differently. One impulsively jumps into love while the other is far more prudent. When tragedy strikes they find themselves searching for suitable husbands. Elinor feels ill-equipped to compete with the self-centred, fortune-driven society she finds herself in, whilst Marianne's unshakeable belief in her own feelings makes her susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men. Can they find true love?

Spellmaster Geraldine Hartford has everything she could want — a successful spell shop and close friends and family — but she's still waiting on her own swoon-worthy romance. Her friends think their matchmaking efforts are helping, but it's the tall, handsome stranger in town who immediately catches Gerry's eye. Basil Thorne's life has turned upside down. After his father's death, he's found himself uprooted from Bath to become the head of a family he barely knows.

Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally. It was always his father’s hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up...romantic. So romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine’s proposal she flees into the night determined never to set eyes on him again. Arabella’s twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure “Bonny” Tarleton, has also grown up...romantic. And fully expects Valentine to ride out after Arabella.

Proud heiress Arabella Larke has little respect for rules and no time for scruples - not when she faces marriage to a man she loathes and fears. Determined to save herself, Arabella comes up with a plan: a fake engagement with her childhood nemesis, Guy Roth, Marquess of Hardbury, recently returned home after years away. To Arabella’s surprise, Guy has become strong, honorable, and unexpectedly attractive...but he refuses to even hear her plan.