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Octavius Everard, the wealthy Duke of Excess, indulges in London's most decadent offerings to escape the pain that haunts him—especially at Christmas. Lady Agatha Temperance Hale is an heiress on the run! Being a governess gives her a place to hide. And Temperance is soon showing the duke the joys of the season and sharing her love of science with his wards. But she never imagined the pleasures her gorgeous employer could show her. But when the truth is revealed, can he forgive the woman he has come to adore more than any indulgence?

An Egyptian mummy unwrapping is supposed to be Lord Caddington’s latest after dinner amusement; instead he lifts the lid on a cozy Regency murder and finds his loudest enemy lying there, freshly strangled and inconveniently modern. The newspapers will call it a tragedy. The guests call it a scandal. Miss Isabel Fairleigh, impoverished knight’s daughter and uninvited cataloguer of his Egyptian collection, quietly calls it a puzzle. Flirtation, hieroglyphics, and one very opinionated corpse. Now the gallery doors are locked, Bow Street is on the way, and rumours of smuggling and blackmail...

In the shadow of a grieving nation, two broken souls are bound by duty, drawn together by circumstance, and tested by a love neither expected. Washington, D.C., 1921. As America prepares to honor the first Unknown Soldier, Elsie St. Clair longs for freedom from her father’s cruel control and the chance to build a life of her own. Instead, she is forced into the spotlight of the upcoming ceremonies when she’s chosen to serve as companion to Gunnery Sergeant Phillip Pierce—a decorated Marine tasked with bearing the Unknown Soldier to his final rest. Phillip is a war hero, but the medals...

Eros, prince héritier du royaume des vampires, a toujours su que, pour atteindre sa pleine maturité, il lui faudrait sa femelle liée promise, celle destinée à compléter sa transformation et à sceller son pouvoir. Mais lorsque Eros est accusé de meurtres brutaux commis contre d’autres femelles, il se retrouve pris au piège par la volonté de son père : épouser une hybride à la langue acérée, indocile et incapable de plier face à son autorité. Contraint par les circonstances, Eros épouse Nina, la fae aux plumes rouges, faisant d’elle non seulement sa femelle promise, mais...

Siviglia, 1902. Trinidad Laredo parte sola dall'Inghilterra alla volta della fabbrica di ceramiche della Cartuja. La storia di Trinidad si intreccia con quella della fabbrica e della sua proprietaria, María de las Cuevas, custode di un'eredità minacciata dal declino, e con le vicende di due donne del passato: Felisa, pittrice silenziosa e tenace, che sogna un futuro diverso in cui possa esprimere sé stessa e il suo talento, e Macarena, decoratrice appassionata e ribelle, in fuga dal conformismo e dai limiti imposti alla sua libertà.

Cornwall, heden. Lamorna Trelenna keert na tien jaar terug naar haar ouderlijk huis op de kliffen van Cornwall. Het ooit zo statige landgoed is danig in verval geraakt. Terwijl haar jongste zusje een plan heeft bedacht om het huis in zijn oude glorie te herstellen, zou Lamorna het liefst zo snel mogelijk weer vertrekken. Totdat ze op de zolder de familiearchieven ontdekt. Singapore, 1941. Issey Trelenna werkt op een afluisterpost van de Britse marine in Singapore. Als gefortuneerde expat leidt ze een leven van cocktailparty's en luxe.

A locked-room Regency murder is a dreadful inconvenience when you are a young widow trying to persuade three opinionated men that you can build a canal without fainting on the paperwork. Lady Seraphina Vale opens her map room to find an ink-stained corpse, a locked door, vanished deeds, and figures on her plans quietly altered. With investors sniffing for weakness and a magistrate keen on simple stories, Seraphina turns to the only man in the house who understands locks, footsteps, and human misbehaviour: her butler, Tobias Rook. He controls the keys, he reads a room the way others read ...

The trouble with dressing the ton is that sometimes they stop breathing before they settle the bill. Senior seamstress Lydia Hart is very good at her job: she keeps court trains from tripping debutantes, tempers from fraying, and account books from lying. Then Viscountess Dalrymple collapses mid curtsey in Madame Follet’s Bond Street fitting room, sugared almonds on her breath and a suspiciously elegant court gown on her back. Bow Street wants to know who poured the tea, why the comfits now taste of trouble, and why the sharp eyed girl with the pins keeps noticing things that are not in ...

Christmas at the Albion Grand is meant to sell railway shares and hot punch, not watch Father Christmas lie very still at the bottom of the stairs while the staff Christmas fund quietly fails to add up. Miss Agnes Trelawney, temporary governess and full time collector of inconvenient details, was only hired to keep Jasper Melbury’s children from alarming the shareholders. Instead she notices an over polished bannister, a missing seventy eight pounds six shillings, and a dead accounts clerk who had been asking the wrong people the right questions. When the company sends Hugh Ashcombe, its ...

This season, death comes in your size. At Montague’s Emporium on Regent Street, the Christmas window is meant to display gowns, not corpses. When junior window dresser Hester Linwood reaches in to straighten a mannequin and finds cold flesh and a very real bruise, she ruins the unveiling, horrifies the crowd, and earns the focused attention of two men: her impeccably tailored employer, Julian Montague, and an inspector who distrusts both instalment plans and spectacle. With Montague’s reputation on the line, a rival store smirking across the road, and half the staff hiding awkward ...

A fog choked inn, a locked room, and a bride who really should not be dead. On a fog choked autumn night, the Allerton Posting Inn is crammed with dripping travelers, reckless card players, and one banker’s bride who insists her jewels are safer than the Bank of England. Miss Margaret Allerton intends only to keep the coaches fed and the guests polite; murder is very much not on the schedule. By morning, the jewels are untouched, the bedchamber is locked from within, and Miss Celia Bristow is lying very still in the best room with a bruised neck that does not match the rest of her ...

House parties are all harmless flirtation until a guest turns up dead in the ornamental fountain and the household bell only rings for fire or death. Miss Eliza Fairburn comes to Foxglove Court for respectable employment, not village scandal: companion to Lady Ashcombe, watcher of tedious card parties, and firmly resolved not to be impressed by the Marquess of Rothley or his inconveniently blue eyes. Then his charming cousin is found with a broken neck in the fountain court, three years after a steward’s son “accidentally” fell from the west gallery, and everyone suddenly prefers the ...

Mariota er datter af den aristokratiske, men fattige Lord Fordcombe. Hans enogtyveårige bror trænger voldsomt til penge, så han overtaler Mariota til at hjælpe ham i et ikke helt lovligt foretagende. Forklædt som landevejsrøvere møder de på dramatisk vis Jarlen af Buckenham. Han skaber uro i Queens Ford - og i Mariotas drømme.

Odessa var henrykt over at komme til Paris, selv om hun måtte nøjes med at spille rollen som sin venindes kammerpige. I en lånt kjole og under påtaget navn sneg hun sig med til et maskebal, hvor hun traf jarlen af Houghton, som havde behandlet hendes forældre så elendigt. Hun ville straffe ham, men i stedet tabte hun sit hjerte til ham...

A moving love story displaying all of Austen's signature wit and ironic narrative style. Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816.

Cainnech (Cain) MacPherson's hatred for the English was born when he was a lad of seven, the day they raided his village and killed his family. They took everything from him without mercy and tossed him onto the battlefield, where the memory of love faded to dust and left nothing in its wake but violence. Now, as Robert the Bruce's most formidable, most lethal warrior, he wreaks havoc on his enemy, taking land by force, without mercy. But when he raids a small castle in Northumberland, he faces his greatest opponent yet - a bold, beautiful Norman lass who will see him dead at any cost.

Miss Juliette Fairhaven’s life changes overnight when her father’s death leaves her family destitute. To survive, she becomes governess to two unruly twins and their strict—but undeniably handsome—uncle, the Duke of Blackwood. Will the mischievous girls lead her to an unexpected love? Nathaniel Blackwood, the Duke of Blackwood, is at his wit’s end. His orphaned nieces are a handful, and the weight of an unwanted title leaves him struggling. When the newest governess proves to be infuriatingly unconventional, Nathaniel must decide if strictness is truly the answer… or if Juliette...

Phineas Blanchard, the Earl of Delacourt, feels restless and he can’t place why. It’s like there’s some itch he can’t scratch as he goes through the motions of his duties to his title and the dissipated pleasures he finds as a rake in hells all over London. Until, that is, he encounters a mysterious woman one night. One who bewitches and challenges him in ways that keep him dreaming of her. Imagine his surprise when he later realizes she is the infamous masked female boxing champion only known as The Hellion.

“Start with Douglas Adams’s comic science fiction (A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and J.R.R. Tolkien’s alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy’s gritty realism and Jonathan Swift’s unflinching satire and, if you’re lucky, you’ll get something like Terry Pratchett’s Thud...

Still grieving the loss of her wandering, free-spirited mother, Lucy Kincaid leaves Nashville for the faded town of Cape Hudson, Virginia. She goes to see the house she’s inherited—one she never knew existed, bequeathed to her by a woman she’s never even met. At the heart of this mystery is the hope that maybe—just maybe—this “Winter Cottage” will answer the endless questions about her mother’s past...including the identity of her birth father.