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Ein Frauenheld. Ein Blaustrumpf. Eine Verlobung auf Zeit. London, 1813. Lord Richard Seaton hat zwei Wochen Zeit, die adlige Gesellschaft und vor allem seine Familie davon zu überzeugen, dass er unsterblich verliebt ist. In die Schwester des berüchtigtsten Verbrechers von East End. Denn nur wenn Richard die besserwisserische Lehrerin heiratet, erhält er wertvolle Informationen, um seinen verschollenen Bruder zu finden. Womit er nicht rechnet, ist, dass seine unkonventionelle Zukünftige gefährlich für sein Herz werden könnte.

He's carrying a torch... Graham MacNeil wants nothing to do with the family earldom, much less with a drafty castle full of rumgumptious relatives, or with the nosy neighbors determined to inspect the prodigal laird. His sole reason for returning from exile is to discover the truth behind the...

One scandalous dance. One unforgivable betrayal. One chance to rewrite their fates. Miss Daphne Harland is out of options. Her father insists she marry a man three times her age, and society won’t save a woman trapped by debt and desperation. When a chance encounter with London’s most infamous rogue presents a scandalous escape, she orchestrates a single kiss—enough to ruin her reputation and free her from a future she cannot bear. But Dominic Hawke didn’t come to London to rescue a damsel. He came for revenge.

On receipt of a desperate letter, demure young beauty Romara Shaldon rushes to the aid of her distressed sister Caryl, who has run away with the disreputable and cruel Sir Harvey Wychbold, who not only mistreats her, but also refuses to marry her when he finds she is with child. After a violent confrontation that leaves her bloodied and bruised, Romara is 'rescued' and taken to the next door home of Lord Ravenscar where, in her concussed, semi-conscious state, she finds herself married to his Lordship as part of his crazy drunken 'revenge' on a Society beauty who has spurned him.

She fell from a tower straight into his arms. Then she accidentally married him. They loathe each other on sight until a scandalous mistake binds them in the most inconvenient way possible. Now society's most promising gentleman is tied to the Season's least eligible spinster, and neither of...

A single waltz changed everything. But now they must try to preserve that magic for a lifetime in New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh’s new book in the Ravenswood series. The youngest Ware daughter, Stephanie, has always harbored secret passion for the best friend of her brother. In...

Ein Viscount in der Falle. Eine Debütantin in Ungnade. Ein Skandal, der sie beide ruinieren könnte. Lady Kate Drakes Ruf ist zerrüttet, nachdem sie von einer der größten Klatschbasen der Gesellschaft allein mit einem Gentleman auf einem Balkon entdeckt wurde. Schlimmer noch, der betreffende...

In retrospect, she should have known he wasn’t a footman. The only child of the Earl and Countess of Brewster, Lady Flora Pelham agrees to meet her mother’s collection of potential suitors, until a misunderstanding has two out of the three gentleman believing her already betrothed. Unwilling...

Mercury Raine left London years ago, intending to never go back. Needing to never go back. His carefully guarded past is far too easy to piece together in that city. But the lady who has claimed his heart is being held hostage there, bait intended to draw him out. Determined to find her, Mercury takes the risk of returning to Town. Navigating the dangers that await him there will require all the stealthy survival skills he learned living on the streets of London and more than a little luck. But the peril that awaits him there is far greater than anything even he could imagine.

As the war continues throughout, Europe, Dashiell Blackwell, the Earl of Ravenwood, moves in the shadows, uncovering secrets and thwarting Napoleon’s schemes as a trusted operative of The Lion Watch. With no room for distractions, he has resigned himself to a life of duty—one that does not include love or marriage. The battlefield and the whisper of coded messages have long been his world, and he has no intention of surrendering to the dangerous pull of emotion. Lavinia “Vivy” Ellsworth has spent years watching Dash from afar, her heart belonging to him long before he ever took notice.

June Harrington’s Merely a Matter of Time is an irresistible, slow-burn love story between two outrageously gifted arcane scientists who fall back in time only to fall for each other. Lucy Bright and her brilliant research partner Francis de Montmort (a former academic rival turned...

Sie sollte einen Mann heiraten, den sie fürchtete. Stattdessen floh sie mit dem einzigen Mann, dem sie niemals wieder vertrauen wollte. Lady Frances Rowley weiß genau, was man von ihr erwartet: Gehorsam, Anstand und eine vorteilhafte Ehe. Doch als ihr Vater sie dem grausamen Viscount Cranford verspricht, trifft Frances eine verzweifelte Entscheidung. In ihrer Not wendet sie sich an den einen Mann, der einst ihr Herz in den Händen hielt – und es zerbrechen ließ: Johnathan Seton, Duke of Hargate.

A bargain born of desperation ignites into passion as one lord’s quest to save his family leads to the discovery that he can never settle for less than love. Forsaken, abandoned, and duped, Miss Jemma Adair has no other recourse but to request her grandfather’s help to avoid living on the streets. His asking price? She must marry a neighboring lord’s odious son. Thankfully, there is a way out of her dilemma—ensuring the rake never asks for her hand.

‘Worthy of Georgette Heyer…the most wonderfully satisfying five star Regency Romp’ Julie Caplin Stern elder brother, and master matchmaker of the Fairfax family, Sir Thomas Fairfax intends to announce the marriage of his youngest sister, Matilda, at The Knightswood Christmas Ball...

A quiet manor. Two children in need of guidance. A governess who never intended to stay. When Miss Clara Ashby arrives at Hartwell House to take a position as governess, she expects a practical arrangement and nothing more. Her task is simple: educate two young girls, maintain order in the schoolroom, and remain professionally distant from the household she serves. But Hartwell House is not as quiet as it first appears. The children carry the quiet weight of loss. The once-beautiful garden has been left to grow wild. And the reserved master of the estate keeps the world at a careful distance.

After an anonymous encounter at a Hertfordshire assembly, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet conduct a secret courtship without knowing each other's identities—unaware that she is the paid companion to the cousin he jilted and that their families' intertwined fates will force them to choose between love and duty.

Miss Sarah Hughes has long accepted her fate as the dustiest spinster on the shelf in Plumpton—until a local landowner is found dead, and suspicion falls on her father. Determined to protect her family, Sarah is drawn into village gossip, family secrets, and one extremely inconvenient alliance: a fake courtship with the Earl of Ashford.

A royal threat. A dangerous love. A feud that refuses to die. After enduring the court's suspicion, Lord Peregrine Fitzroy has finally earned back his standing—and Charity's heart. But the arrival of her family in London threatens to reopen old wounds and reignite a bitter feud that once made...

All Elizabeth Bennet wants is for her father to bring back from Lambton a cutting of Pemberley’s famous roses. Little does she know that her humble request leads to her father’s imprisonment, putting both her father’s life and her childhood home of Longbourn at risk. All Fitzwilliam Darcy wishes for is to be left alone. Scarred by a horrific attack, he has retreated into the solitude of Pemberley, guarding his heart as fiercely as he guards the walls of his grand estate, doing whatever he can to drown out the pain. When Elizabeth arrives on his doorstep, their worlds collide.

All the Best Parts of Beauty is a collection of Pride and Prejudice variations based on the premise: “What if Darcy and Elizabeth’s first meeting was not in Hertfordshire?” The featured stories are A Lasting Love Affair, Only a Heartbeat Away, Impertinent Strangers, and By Reason, by Reflection, by Everything. About the Featured Stories: Impertinent Strangers — A first meeting that takes place in Kent. Imagine Darcy and Elizabeth falling in love right under Lady Catherine’s watchful eye.