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Hugo Buckingham was perfectly happy with the life he'd built for himself. With his steady clientele and co-ownership stake in the most exclusive brothel in London, he had everything he needed. But that was before. Before he was falsely convicted of a crime and tossed onto a ship to New South Wales. Before the ship went down and stranded him on the tiny island of Stroma. Before her. Miss Martha Pringle is everything he's not. She deserves so much better than the likes of him. But that doesn't stop him from wanting her, needing her, with an urgency that borders on terrifying.

Elena MacKinnon has spent the last seven years training to become a proper English lady. When her childhood friend, Captain Theo Donovan, returns from serving in the Navy, he brings along with him Elena’s humiliation for the ill-advised and ardent love letter she wrote him before his departure, which he ignored entirely. Elena hopes to simultaneously stifle his memory of the letter and make him regret overlooking her, showing him just how fine an English lady she can be. The only problem? She is not English but a proud Scot—and her heart may be more enamored with Theo than ever.

Kann wahre Liebe alle Grenzen überwinden? Maximilian von Seybach ist Arzt aus Leidenschaft. Sein größter Wunsch ist es, besonders den Ärmsten der Gesellschaft zu helfen. Das passt ganz und gar nicht zu den ehrgeizigen Plänen seiner Familie. Als er erfährt, dass seine Großmutter bereits eine Ehe mit der wohlhabenden Sophie de Neuville arrangiert hat, ist er außer sich vor Wut. Heimlich hat Maximilian schon lange ein Auge auf die schöne und kluge Louisa geworfen. Das Problem: Louisa ist Dienstmädchen im Hause von Seybach.

1827. At first sight, young heiress of Shrigley Hall, Ellen Turner, does not seem the type to elope with a stranger. Yet when Ellen vanishes from her boarding school in the arms of the rugged scoundrel Edward Wakefield, and the pair are sighted in a carriage racing from Gretna Green to the Port of Dover, everyone is forced to question her virtue. What possessed her to make such a wild transgression?

General Clayton Elliott, Home Office Undersecretary and new viscount, gets suspicious when London is too quiet. Everyone says that the anarchist group he's been fighting died along with its leader, but his instincts say just the opposite. Then he meets Her Serene Highness Princess Cordelia of Monrovia. Resigned to doing her duty for her country, she is in London to make a match with a royal duke—and as a royal princess, she has no say in which duke she'll marry.

England, 1813: Die bezaubernde Elinor Rochdale ist adeliger Herkunft. Aber da ihr Vater kurz vor seinen Tod das gesamte Vermögen verspielt hat, beschließt die junge Frau einen Posten als Gouvernante anzutreten, um den finanziellen Ruin abzuwenden. Auf dem Weg zu ihrem Arbeitgeber steigt Elinor versehentlich in die falsche Kutsche und wird unversehens zur Ehegattin des als Trunkenbold verschrienen Mr. Cheviot gemacht. Als derselbige unmittelbar nach der Hochzeit verstirbt, erbt die junge Frau nicht nur sein gesamtes Hab und Gut, sondern auch einige mysteriöse Feinde und Rätsel.

Peggy Delancey’s not at all ready to move on from her former flame, Arabella Tarleton. But Belle has her own plans for a love match, and she needs Peggy’s help to make those plans a reality. Still hung up on her feelings and unable to deny Belle what she wants, Peggy reluctantly agrees to help her woo the famous and flamboyant opera singer Orfeo.

The sequel to Aphrodite and the Duke, following Verity Eagleman, the Duke of Everely's sister, on her journey to find a suitable or perhaps highly unsuitable love match.

With her brother, the Duke of Everely, married off to the beautiful and charming Aphrodite Du Bell, Verity Eagleman feels more alone than ever within the cold halls of the family estate. So when she’s invited to stay in the Du Bells’ clamorous, boisterous home, she leaps at the chance. When Verity crosses paths with Theodore Darrington, the doctor who saved her brother’s life, she can’t help but notice how her heart flutters anytime he is near. But as the estranged bastard son of the Marquess of Whitmear, Theodore is forbidden to pursue anyone of the noble set.

Viscount Penvale has been working for years to buy back his ancestral home, Trethwick Abbey, from his estranged uncle. And so he’s thrilled when his uncle announces that he is ready to sell but with one major caveat—Penvale must marry his uncle’s ward, Jane Spencer. When the two meet in London, neither is terribly impressed. Penvale finds Jane headstrong and sharp-tongued. Jane finds him cold and aloof. Nevertheless, they agree to a marriage in name only and return to the estate.

Prim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother's investment. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London's premier pleasure garden, Harte's Folly, she finds herself butting heads with an infuriating scoundrel who can't be controlled.

Lady Phoebe Batten is pretty, vivacious, and yearning for a social life befitting the sister of a powerful duke. But because she is almost completely blind, her overprotective brother insists that she have an armed bodyguard by her side at all times—the very irritating Captain Trevillion.

Hippolyta Royle is running for her life. Pursued by hounds on a cold, rainy night, the heiress flags down a passing carriage and throws herself at the mercy of the coach's occupant. Whoever this handsome traveler may be, he is her only hope to escape a terrible fate. But should he agree to escort her to safety, he's in for much more than he bargained for.

Gabriel Angelstone, handsome scourge of the ton, has taken one of life's lessons to heart: Love ruins everything. But the irresistible challenge of seducing the Portrait Divorcée, a woman whose past is every bit as scandalous as his own, quickly has him rethinking that conclusion. The last thing the Imogen Mowbray needs is to have her name connected to that of the equally infamous rake known as Brimstone, but the infuriating man has made it very clear that he's bent on nothing less than her complete surrender. Rich widows take lovers. Poor divorcées become mistresses.

The first story in this collection features a young woman determined to get the man she wants. But is it A Perfect Match? Then there's a story about a Juliet who meets a man called Romeo. Surely a Perfect Match? A father is so focused on his daughter making a Perfect Match, he doesn't see what's under his nose.

Miss Amelia Blackmore has received the most interesting letter. The Dowager Duchess of Harrowden has requested that she visit Harrowden Hall under the guise of being her companion. Her true motive, however, is to successfully pair her son, the duke, with a potential love match. Intrigued by the prospect, Amelia sets off on an adventure, unprepared for the duke’s reaction to his mother’s new companion.

Perfectly tailored, confident, and smart enough to appear the gentleman under any circumstances, Fitzwilliam Darcy loses his composure and more when a heatwave strikes Hertfordshire. Surely, no harm would be done from a brief dip in the chalk stream… until he hears a feminine gasp.

Após a morte repentina de seu pai, Seldon Burn herda o título de Duque de Otterburn. De volta ao ducado, ele rapidamente descobre que o título é a única coisa que herdou juntamente com uma montanha de dívidas de seu pai e nenhuma riqueza para pagá-las. Cheio de coragem, o Duque busca desesperadamente soluções para reconstruir a fortuna da família e cumprir com seu dever perante à aldeia. No meio desse turbilhão de angústia e apreensão, sua prima Edith faz uma sugestão: o Duque deve se casar com uma rica herdeira americana.

Zachary Bronson construiu um império de riqueza e poder. Agora ele está procurando uma esposa para ajudá-lo a garantir sua posição na alta sociedade e aquecer sua cama. Lady Holly Taylor está destinada a passar a vida obedecendo às regras da alta sociedade, mesmo quando elas vão contra suas convicções. Após três anos de luto por seu amado marido, ela entende que não vai superar a perda e que jamais encontrará outro homem à altura dele para ser seu companheiro.

Dejando atrás el encanto rural de Finnshire, la señorita Penélope Fairweather llega a Londres con el ánimo rebosante de ilusiones y sus miras puestas en un sueño. La duquesa viuda de Blackthorne, nada menos, la ha invitado a pasar la temporada en Londres, donde Penélope habrá de encontrar marido.