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In a world where wealth buys titles, and marriages are forged in contracts, not hearts, one young woman finds herself bartered into a ruinous alliance. Fanny Merchant is sold by her mercenary father to the dissolute son of an impoverished viscount. As her husband gambles away his birthright and pursues every vice, Elizabeth seeks solace in the charms of a rakish lawyer. But love is not so easily bought, and betrayal has its price. From lavish drawing rooms to sordid clinics and deadly duels, their tale unfolds in six vivid scenes—each more damning than the last. Hogarth's engravings are ...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), wrote a poem entitled Roxana, or, the Drawing-Room which consists of a series of sharp, satirical portraits of fashionable society—scenes of flirtation, rivalry, vanity, and quiet despair. This novelisation reimagines those scenes as a continuous story. In it, Lady Roxanaemerges as a woman of ambition, wit, and vulnerability. Her journey from drawing room to church pew traces a week of masks dropped and truths revealed.

In a world where reputation is currency and gossip is a weapon, no heart—or fortune—is safe. London society sparkles with wit, wealth, and whispers. Behind every closed door lies a secret: Lady Sneerwell's elegant drawing-room is a battlefield of malice; Mrs Candour's good intentions spread more trouble than kindness; and Sir Benjamin Backbite and Crabtree thrive on scandalous invention. Caught in the crossfire are Sir Peter Teazle and his young wife, Lady Teazle, whose marriage teeters between affection and intrigue. Meanwhile, Sir Oliver Surface, returned from abroad, must test the ...

A dazzling game of wit, love, and disguise in an 18th century play reimagined for readers of romantic historical fiction. Letitia Hardy has the fortune, the spirit, and the fiancé — but not the passion she desires. When her intended, the fashionable Doricourt, returns from Europe indifferent and unenchanted, Letitia refuses to be dismissed as merely "agreeable." With a mask, a plan, and the boldness only love can summon, she sets out to win not just his hand, but his heart. Set against the glittering backdrop of Georgian London, The Belle's Stratagem unfolds in a world of salons, ...

"I love your brilliant blue eyes, And even more your golden hair, And your full bosom, like ripe fruits. Love me too – or I’ll despair!" Take a peep behind the boudoir curtains of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; find out what happened when Willoughby seduced Brandon's ward, Eliza; what happened to Colonel Brandon when he was stationed in the exotic East; and how far Marianne allowed Willoughby to go when they visited Allenham together.

Everything is going wrong for the Duke of Wharfedale: his wife his having an affair, a highwayman is haunting his domains, and Dalesman Dalton is opposing his plans for the new almshouse. Everything is going wrong for Dolly, too. Her father is insisting she marries sickleworker Fred Figget - and if that is not bad enough, she gets held up by the highwayman when she is delivering her father's churns to market. Matters come to a head when the duke's wife elopes with her lover, and Dolly finds the highwayman, badly wounded, in her aunt's barn. WARNING: Hot! Contains numerous sizzling sex scenes!

This novella was developed from the author's verse novella, "Emily and Catherine”. Mr and Mrs Darcy have two daughters, the beautiful and talented Emily, and the plain but sensible Catherine. Both are heiresses and are vulnerable to fortune-hunters, but in their eagerness to protect them, Mr and Mrs Darcy have forgotten the lessons that they learned in their own courtship: that pride comes before a fall, and that love conquers all. Things come to a head when Emily declares that she has fallen in love with a poor, struggling artist.

While in the middle of writing a book of study notes for Pride and Prejudice, the author took a break and amused herself by writing a short story in the style of Jane Austen entitled A Night at Pemberley. She submitted it to a Jane Austen Fan Fiction web site and it was well received, encouraging her to attempt other, ever wilder, flights of Jane Austen-based fantasy – Darcy as a vampire, Darcy falling in love with Ann Radcliffe's Emily instead of Elizabeth, ghosts at Pemberley (from Mrs De Burgh's comment about the "shades of Pemberley", and many more. Darcy fans should note that these ...

Lord Lacy’s daughter, Emily, is persuaded by her parents to marry the ageing Lord Dalrymple. After all, he has a title, Earl of Morpeth, and a mansion, Crookhill Abbey, that is even more extensive than Lord Lacy’s mansion in Buxton. However, when Emily gets to Northumberland, she finds that Crookhill Abbey is little better than a crumbling mausoleum. Crookhill Abbey is not quite a Jane Austen sequel – but there are echoes of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – also Eliza Parsons’, The Castle of Wolfenbach, and Ann Radcliffe’s, The Mysteries of Udolpho. However, there are also ...

This book was originally a novella entitled Poet of Pemberley and the main characters were Darcy and Elizabeth of Pride and Prejudice fame—but the author, tired of hanging onto Jane Austen's bonnet strings, decided to rewrite it to stand on its own merits (or lack thereof!). The new title is still somewhat Jane Austen-ish, but she has no doubt that Darcy wasn't the only proud young man in the Regency period. Her proud young man is called Lacy, and Lilian Helliwell replaces Elizabeth Bennet. Lacy and Lilian's relationship is nothing like the perfect relationship portrayed in Pride and ...

"Good," said Wickham, studying his reflection in the large looking-glass over the fireplace. "I used to be rather fond of angling. It's all in the bait, you see. Throw 'em a bit of juicy bait, and you've hooked 'em before you can say Jack Robinson – and with bait like this..." He caressed his elegantly-folded cravat and admired himself in the mirror. This book develops the character of Wickham in Jane’s Austen’s masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice. It covers Wickham’s life from his early days as a fortune-hunter in London, his seduction of Georgiana Darcy in Ramsgate, the Meryton ...

The Mask and the Mistress is based on George Etherege's The Man of Mode. At its heart is Mr Dorimant—a charming libertine whose words are as polished as his manners—and the women who orbit his glittering but treacherous world: clever, vulnerable Mrs. Loveit; the innocent yet bold Belinda; and the spirited Emilia, who dares to love with sincerity in an age of masks and manipulation. Will virtue triumph over vanity? Or will style prove the greatest seduction of all?

When spirited young Gerty takes a job as a between maid at Crookhill Hall, she finds herself caught between two worlds. From dusty back stairs she glimpses the glittering lives of the aristocracy—never more dazzling than on the night of a grand ball. In comparison, her sweetheart, Tom, is a poor "trapper" in a coal mine, though he is studying at night school and hopes to better himself. Gerty encourages him but still dreams of balls and ballgowns. Her chance comes unexpectedly when the charming and wealthy Horace Egerton offers to reward her for saving his life after a bad fall. Gerty ...

A novelisation inspired by Hogarth’s paintings and Stravinsky & Auden’s libretto Tom Rakewell is young, handsome, and newly rich—thanks to an unexpected inheritance. But fortune, like love, is fickle. Lured from the modest affections of Anne Trulove into a glittering world of vanity, vice, and illusion, Tom sets off on a headlong pursuit of pleasure. In gaming halls, brothels, and high society salons, he gambles not just money but his very soul. Hogarth's engravings are included in the text, along with the verses for the engravings, written by John Hoadly.

Captain Cardew prefers balls at regional assemblies and small country houses because there he can meet the daughters of the lower class of gentry, who are impressed by his uniform and his rank, and are easily seduced. At one of these balls, at Hawtry Hall, he meets Millicent, a doctor’s daughter, and Hannah, a clergyman’s daughter, and seduces them both, one after the other. But, as he has found before, it is much easier to get into these affairs than to get out of them. WARNING! Hot! Contains numerous sizzling sex scenes!

Darcy is beginning to fall in love with Elizabeth when he meets the perfect romantic heroine, Emily St. Aubert: she is fluent in several languages, she is widely read, she can sing like a nightingale, and on top of all this she is a creature of Angelic beauty – how can Elizabeth compete with all this?