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Spring, 1805. Nineteen-year-old Allegra Constantine is under pressure to choose a husband, but none of her suitors inspire her. Lord Milton is respectable but passionless, Sir Harry is charming but witless, and the dangerously handsome Mr Englishby has designs she cannot trust. The only man who truly interests her is Max Severin – cynical, scandal-shadowed, and not at all a suitable prospect. But when a stolen kiss ignites a fire between them, Allegra realises she is in more danger from her heart than from society's gossip.

One man with a secret. A family torn apart by the consequences. Olivia, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Rennington, has had a difficult year. Denied her first season in town by the illness of her grandmother, there was worse to come — her uncle, the chaplain, was brutally murdered. The discovery that he was not even an ordained clergyman means that her parents’ marriage is void, and she and all her siblings are illegitimate. But Olivia has a plan — she intends to outdo her older sister Izzy and marry a duke, and she knows just the man. She’s been following his exploits for years.

Sie geht das Wagnis ein. Lady Gemma Brooks befindet sich noch in ihrer unbeholfenen Phase, als eine boshafte junge Frau sie auffordert, den unerreichbaren Duke of Grovemont um einen Tanz zu bitten. Gemma stimmt zu, nicht um ihrer selbst willen, sondern um die anderen Mauerblümchen vor bösartigem Klatsch und Tratsch zu schützen. Doch was als harmlose Mutprobe beginnt, entwickelt sich bald zu einem Skandal, und Gemma sieht sich gezwungen, völlig unerwartet einen Mann zu heiraten, den sie kaum kennt.

Six highly placed matrons mourn their lack of daughters until they devise a scheme to launch eligible girls in need of assistance, and so The Society of Sponsoring Ladies is born. Lady Easton had her plans well in hand before her lord suddenly decided to have ideas and opinions. Now, Lord Easton has decided who she will sponsor, and he’s decided on the daughter of a horseracing crony. Worse, Lady Easton is expected to launch the girl in Brighton, of all places.

Ruined and abandoned by her betrothed, Lady Juliet has no choice but to take the stagecoach home to her family in Yorkshire. Fortunately, she is protected on the journey by a handsome and amusing self-styled “wastrel”. Daniel Stewart - together with his enormous, unruly mongrel dog - is reluctantly answering a summons to his grandfather’s deathbed. But instead of the prodigal’s traditional fatted calf, he is presented with the miserly baron’s temper and a parcel of resentful relatives. Juliet faces recrimination and isolation in her own home.

Elizabeth Bennet is asked to accompany Sir Edward Gardiner on a journey to Wales, though he has been vague in explaining their purpose. When she arrives at Clwyd Castle, she meets new friends and an old nemesis, as well as many new companions just as secretive as Sir Edward.

Octavius Everard, el adinerado duque de Eccess, se refugia en los placeres más decadentes de Londres para escapar del dolor que lo persigue. Especialmente en Navidad. La comida más costosa, el mejor coñac y las mujeres más deslumbrantes hacen que la época «más feliz» del año sea un poco más soportable. Sin embargo, hay una tentación a la que se ha jurado no ceder jamás: la institutriz de sus tres pupilos. Pero cuando la señorita Temperance Fields solicita el puesto, con un severo moño y un sencillo vestido de lana marrón, Octavius descubre que nunca ha estado tan peligrosamente fascinado.

Gawain Burton, the Duke of Bromleigh, is a Silver Duke, and everyone in the ton knows these exceptionally handsome forty-something men with some gray salted in their hair have no intention of ever marrying. However, carrying on the Bromleigh title is important, and Gawain is determined to find a proper wife for his nephew and heir.

No longer in the first blush of youth and without a marriage portion, Miss Constance Woodley can scarcely imagine why one of the leading lights of London society should take an interest in the likes of her. But under her benefactor's guiding hand, she's transformed into a captivating creature who catches the eye of the handsome, charming, and ever-so-slightly notorious Lord Dominic Leighton.

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Evie Stuart's uncle is the Spymaster to the Crown. Her cousins are spies. She wants to be a spy. When they turn her down due to her being a lady, she gathers her three best friends who are now debutantes during the Season to help her catch a traitor and prove to her family that anything her cousins can do, she and her friends can do better.

Unmarried after four Seasons of towering over her dance partners, Miss Phoebe Sauber learns she will be cast out of her home when her father remarries. Feeling betrayed by her father and God, she misfires an arrow at an archery tournament. But the arrow pierces a paper held by Mr. Michael Coulton-Jones. And strangely, the symbol drawn on the page is eerily familiar to her.

When Mr Darcy discovers Elizabeth Bennet's true feelings, he's grateful the ill-fated proposal he had planned to make in Kent was stopped. But as the London Season drags on, he realizes the truth: he cannot be happy without her. Determined to become the man worthy of her regard, he returns to Hertfordshire with a singular purpose—to win her heart. If only it were that simple. Darcy has indeed reformed himself, tempering his pride and learning humility, but Elizabeth's wounded feelings and lingering resentment cannot be overcome in a day.

Can this marriage of convenience overcome the shadows from the past? Helena Angiers is grateful for a quick bolt to the Scottish border and the opportunity to keep her unborn child, but she has no intention of abandoning the memories of her first love. And yet, the more she learns about her new husband, Ralph Aldine, the more she wonders why such a kind, considerate, and capable man would marry her. Can it be possible that he married her for herself and that her money had nothing to do with it? Lowly solicitor Ralph Aldine has adored Helena Angiers from the moment he set eyes on her.

Im Herzen von Yorkshire, wo sanfte Hügel und prachtvolle Landsitze alte Geheimnisse bewahren, gerät Lady Eden Thornton zwischen Pflicht und Begehren. Als temperamentvolle Tochter eines Earls liebt sie ihr ruhiges Landleben – fernab der eitlen Spiele der Londoner Gesellschaft. Doch als der beste Freund ihres Bruders, der düstere und rätselhafte Lord Blackstone, nach Jahren im Ausland zurückkehrt, ist nichts mehr sicher.

Manchmal braucht es nur ein paar Stunden, um sich in eine andere Welt zu träumen. High Society Love vereint drei abgeschlossene Liebesgeschichten voller Gefühl, leiser Spannung und Entscheidungen, die das Leben verändern. Jede Geschichte erzählt von Nähe, Mut und der Frage, wie viel Freiheit man sich selbst zugesteht, wenn das Herz eine andere Sprache spricht. Alle drei Liebesgeschichten sind in sich abgeschlossen und können unabhängig voneinander gelesen werden.

Forever was never part of the wager… but neither was losing their hearts. Elizabeth Bennet prides herself on her sharp wit and clever schemes—so when her best friend bets she can make the haughty Mr. Darcy fall in love with her, she accepts the challenge with confidence. After all, what could be more satisfying than breaking the heart of the man who insulted her at the Meryton Assembly?

The plan is simple: avoid detection by the enemy, stop a hostile takeover, and keep an errant earl and a mischievous debutante out of the trouble served up on every passing platter at a party like this one. Joe and Ember are about to learn that at Blackcove, even the sharpest players can’t rig every game—and when hearts are on the table, all bets are off.

When a stormy night leads to a wager among bachelors, Rowan Ashworth finds himself bound by a formidable challenge: the last man to wed must pay one hundred pounds to the others. With several friends already married and another close behind, Rowan has little choice but to follow through on a childhood promise—to marry the woman his parents intended for him, a vexing woman who despises him.

Royal Navy in disgust and is quickly approached with an intriguing proposition to serve his country undercover. His first assignment takes him home to Cornwall to expose traitors plotting a French invasion of England. There, he meets newly unemployed governess, Olivia Collins, who has stumbled upon a hidden secret from Adam’s past–his youthful summer love affair with the local squire’s daughter. It is a tragic history that brings Adam and Olivia closer than is wise.