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Rhys Winterborne conquistou uma fortuna incalculável graças a sua ambição ferrenha. Filho de comerciante, ele se acostumou a conseguir exatamente o que quer - nos negócios e em tudo o mais. No momento em que conhece a tímida aristocrata lady Helen Ravenel, decide que ela será sua. Se for preciso macular a honra dela para garantir que se case com ele, melhor ainda. Apesar da inocência de Helen, a sedução perseverante de Rhys desperta nela uma intensa e recíproca paixão. Só que Rhys tem muitos inimigos que conspiram contra os dois.

Miss Marcia Collins's cameo-perfect life is destroyed, when scandal leaves her standing alone at the altar on her wedding day. Her heart shattered, she decides to embrace her ruined reputation, and explore every forbidden pleasure. All she needs is a little help from her long-time friend - and society’s most wicked rogue - Andrew Barrett, Viscount Waters. He has no interest in marriage, or respectability, but even he knows he should avoid Marcia, and her harebrained attempts to embark on a life of impropriety. That is, until they push the boundaries too far.

Quando Caroline Trent é sequestrada por engano por Blake Ravenscroft, não faz o menor esforço para se libertar das garras do agente perigosamente sedutor. Afinal, está mesmo querendo escapar do casamento forçado com um homem que só se interessa pela fortuna que ela herdou. Blake a confundiu com a famosa espiã espanhola Carlotta De Leon, e Caroline não vai se preocupar em esclarecer nada até completar 21 anos, quando passará a controlar a própria herança milionária. Enquanto isso, é muito mais conveniente ficar escondida ao lado desse sequestrador misterioso.

Elizabeth Hotchkiss precisa se casar com um homem rico, e bem rápido. Com três irmãos mais novos para sustentar, ela sabe que não lhe resta outra alternativa. Então, quando encontra o livro Como se casar com um marquês na biblioteca de lady Danbury, para quem trabalha como dama de companhia, ela não pensa duas vezes: coloca o exemplar na bolsa e leva para casa. Incentivada por uma das irmãs, Elizabeth decide encontrar um homem qualquer para praticar as técnicas ensinadas no pequeno manual.

Lady Pandora Ravenel é muito diferente das debutantes de sua idade. Enquanto a maioria delas não perde uma festa da temporada londrina e sonha encontrar um marido, Pandora prefere ficar em casa idealizando jogos de tabuleiro e planejando se tornar uma mulher independente. Mas certa noite, num baile deslumbrante, ela é flagrada numa situação muito comprometedora com um malicioso e lindo estranho. Gabriel, o lorde St. Vincent, passou anos conseguindo evitar o casamento, até ser conquistado por uma garota rebelde que não quer nada com ele. Só que ele acha Pandora irresistível.

It was a blow to Persephone “Percy” Blake’s vanity to discover that she’d somehow become a spinster aunt. It’s certainly not what she set out to be. She had just been working away in her father’s library, cataloging historical documents. Then one day she looked up to find that 10 years had passed and she was firmly on the shelf. Now, with the recent passing of her father, the country estate and the library are long gone.

Elizabeth Thornton has every reason to want to escape from home - a farm in the wilds of Dartmoor. Since her father’s death, she’s been trapped in the clutches of her uncle. When a position opens up at Rosebank Hall, she jumps at the chance. She will be a domestic drudge with a cantankerous master. Elizabeth wants to be a doctor, but she’ll do anything to be free of her uncle. One night, the master’s son turns up, wounded in a conflict in a foreign country - damaged in every way. But as Elizabeth nurses him back to life, the pair grow closer and everything changes.

The docks are a scary place for Jane Parker, her mother, and young brother after her father dies suddenly. Rough men and danger lurk in the night. Tragedy continues to strike the family when Jane is almost attacked, and her mother and brother take ill. As her world collapses, Jane finds work as a dockside maid, happy to be off of the London streets. As the years pass by, Jane is unaware of the danger that is following her. When she meets the kind Hugh Brewer, she believes her heartache days are over when he offers her a maid position.

Maysie Sheldon tenía un secreto. Uno de esos que desgarra el alma de quien lo guarda, y deposita una pesada carga en todo aquel con quien se comparte. Maysie Sheldon había amado. Había amado con el alma, con esa inocencia conmovedora que impulsa a las jóvenes ingenuas a escaparse del dulce cobijo de sus sábanas en mitad de la noche para refugiarse en unos brazos cálidos, para robarle un minuto al tiempo, para arrancarle unos segundos al destino.

When Lady Emily is trapped while fern hunting in an old mine shaft overnight with the irresistibly sexy Lord Markshall, she indulges in the sin of his delicious, melting kiss. After all, it's just one night...until the newspaper gossip forces him to propose. Lady Emily can't marry him, but a fake engagement can save her ruined reputation and prevent her scandalous secret from being revealed. The censure of prim Lady Emily is the ideal way for Lord Markshall to reinforce his image as a scoundrel and a rake. But to protect her, he'll have to choose: his covert mission or his heart.

Grace and Seamus, united by their past experiences, are adrift on a raft of shame in the sea of 1830s London society. After a personal tragedy, Grace's desperation to leave London forces Seamus to accept a dubious commission on the private explorer, Clover. With the expedition financed by Colonel Hamilton and his private backers, Seamus is tasked with mapping a round-the-world voyage. But Colonel Hamilton has an additional package that requires delivering - Father Babcock, a priest wanted for murder.

In two run-down houses, at the side of a barren Black Country heath, live six children with no family but each other. Abandoned or orphaned, every day is a fight to find food and keep warm. But they are determined to stay free of the clutches of the workhouse and the horrors that would face them if they were ever torn apart. Dora Parsons lives with her mother, Mary, and her evil grandmother, Edith. Edith’s house may be comfortable and warm, and food is plentiful, but every day, Dora suffers at the hands of her spiteful gran.

Lady Louisa Darby blames herself for her mother’s death when the Darby sisters were still so young and has dedicated her life to ensuring her sisters’ happiness. So when she’s lured into a compromising situation that will endanger her youngest sister’s chance at a happy marriage, Louisa will do whatever is necessary to protect her family’s reputation and save her sister’s chance at the future she deserves. Even if it means marrying the Beastly Duke.

Devon, 1867. Free-spirited Rebecca Westbrook recognizes her perfect match when she sees him. His name is Captain Adam Bradley. She is the harbour master's daughter. He is smouldering and sophisticated — the most eligible captain ever to sail into the quay. Anyone can see it's meant to be. But Rebecca is anything but charmed. Her heart belongs to Tom Mason, a lowly cooper she's known forever. Her father doubts Tom's ability to provide securely for her. But Tom has a plan to prove him wrong. And until then, passionate Rebecca refuses to wait to be with him. But fate has other plans.

In the frontier town of Gold Sky, Montana, Delilah Wickes-Barnes is determined to stay single. Her resolve is tested however by the arrival of handsome bachelor Elliot Meyers, who has come to Gold Sky to seek his fortune - and his future. Increasingly finding themselves thrown together (thanks in part to Delilah’s scheming mother) the pair get off to a fiery start. Despite their explosive arguments, the pair are drawn increasingly together - can romance blossom in spite of their fights?

Can a wealthy businessman find love as a mail order groom? Julian Baptiste was determined to find a love as epic as that of his parents. As the son of a freedwoman and a wealthy Union solider, Julian was unique among the glittering upper 400 of New York Society. Shrewd in business and discrete with his affairs, Julian was not a man to be trifled with. Until her. One glimpse of Violet Shield and Julian is haunted. As the cook of the boarding house where he is staying while visiting his sister Julie and her two husbands, Violet is a breath of fresh air.

Can a Mail Order bride find love with two husbands? It doesn’t take long for Julie Baptiste to realize she yearns for more than the non-stop engagements and niceties dictated by New York high society. So, she decides to do something bold and answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride in Gold Sky, Montana. Ex-Union soldiers Forrest Wickes and William Barnes have been inseparable since the War. They share everything, including the desire to find a wife. A woman who is willing to marry them both and provide the isolated town with a much needed teacher.

When Evie McKnight slams into Jamie Mackenzie on a quay on Southampton, she flashes back to the day she accidentally knocked him into the river Cam. When she fished him out, he shocked her with a searing, bold kiss before walking away in a wet shirt and kilt. Evie has no business reveling in memories of Jamie then and the nearness of him now - she is betrothed to a respectable man from a respectable and wealthy family. But Jamie appears everywhere in London, assisting Evie and her sisters, becoming friends with her fiancé, and agreeing to be drawn into the heist Evie has planned.

Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the British Regency period.

En esta novela sus protagonistas forman equipo para cazar marido. Cuatro bellas jóvenes están unidas por un mismo objetivo: valerse de su complicidad y sus armas femeninas para conseguir marido. Una de ellas, Annabelle, intenta seducir a un aristócrata con la intención de salvar a su familia. Pero el destino siempre sorprende....