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With her brother, Thomas, injured on the battlefront in the colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby.

Sir Richard Kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. He knows he can't be too picky, but when he sees Iris Smythe-Smith hiding behind her cello at her family's infamous musicale, he thinks he might have struck gold. She's the type of girl you don't notice until the second - or third - look, but there's something about her, something simmering under the surface, and he knows she's the one.

Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is surprised to discover a smugglers’ hideaway tucked inside a cave. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain’s bed. Known to society as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew Rokesby actually transports essential documents for the British government.

Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one would make a perfect husband...someday.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

When Laird Taran Ferguson's nephews refuse to wed and secure his birthright, he takes matters into his own hands, raiding a ball and kidnapping four likely brides - a bonny lass, an heiress with a slight reputation problem, a rich English beauty, and a maiden without a name or a fortune. But which one is ready to fall in love with the Scottish lord?

Hugh Prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if Lady Sarah Pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words shy or retiring, she's long since tossed them out the window. Sarah has never forgiven Hugh for the duel he fought three years earlier, the one that forced her cousin into exile, nearly destroying her family. But when the pair is forced to spend a week in close company, they discover that first impressions are not always reliable. And when one kiss leads to two, three, and four, the mathematician may lose count, and the lady may, for the first time, find herself speechless.

Anne Wynter might not be who she says she is.... But she's managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. Her job can be a challenge: in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play that might be a tragedy (or might be a comedy; no one is sure), and tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. After years of dodging unwanted advances, he's the first man who has truly tempted her, and it's getting harder and harder to resist.

Georgiana Bridgerton isn’t against the idea of marriage. She’d just thought she’d have some say in the matter. But with her reputation hanging by a thread after she’s abducted for her dowry, Georgie is given two options: live out her life as a spinster or marry the rogue who has ruined her life. Enter option number three.... As the fourth son of an earl, Nicholas Rokesby is prepared to chart his own course. But when he discovers that Georgie Bridgerton - his literal girl next door - is facing ruin, he knows what he must do.

Once upon a time, a historical romance author created a family.... But not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (not to mention an overweight corgi), plus an irrepressible matriarch who's a match for any of them.... These are the Bridgertons: less a family than a force of nature. Through eight best-selling novels, listeners laughed, cried, and fell in love. But they wanted more.

Hugh Dunne, the Earl of Briarly, needs a wife, so his sister hands him a list of delectable damsels and promises to invite them and a few other gentlemen to her country house for what is sure to be the event of the season.

When Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may have killed his fiancée, she doesn't believe it for a second, but, still, how can she help spying on him, just to be sure? So she stakes out a spot near her bedroom window, cleverly concealed by curtains, watches, and waits . . . and discovers a most intriguing man, who is definitely up to something. Sir Harry Valentine works for the boring branch of the War Office, translating documents vital to national security.

Quando um pretendente diz a lady Belle que, por conta da beleza e da fortuna dela, está disposto a fazer vista grossa para as suas chocantes tendências intelectuais, ela decide se afastar do mercado casamenteiro e passar uma temporada no campo. Belle não imaginava que, durante sua estadia, fosse conhecer lorde John Blackwood, um herói de guerra que a deixaria fascinada como nenhum outro homem da alta sociedade londrina fora capaz.

Das große Hochzeitsfinale der Bridgerton-Reihe. Der Weg zur Hochzeit ist verschlungen: Erstens verliebt Gregory Bridgerton sich in die falsche Frau. Zweitens verliebt die sich in jemand anderen. Drittens beschließt Lucy Abernathy, sich einzumischen. Viertens verliebt sie sich dabei in Gregory. Fünftens ist sie so gut wie verlobt mit Lord Haselby. Sechstens verliebt Gregory sich in Lucy. Am Ende wird in jedem Fall geheiratet, aber versprechen auch die Richtigen einander ewige Treue?

Dall'età di dieci anni Caroline Trent è stata affidata a una serie di terribili tutori e ha imparato molto presto che solo un atteggiamento fermo può metterla al riparo dalle loro insidie. Ormai prossima al ventunesimo compleanno, si vede costretta a fuggire dalla casa dell'ultimo tutore, con l'intenzione di rimanere nascosta fino al conseguimento della maggiore età, quando potrà finalmente entrare in possesso della propria fortuna.

De daverende finale van Julia Quinns muzikaalste familie, in de wereld van de Bridgertons: Sir Richard Kenworthy moet binnen een maand een bruid zien te vinden, dus hij weet dat hij niet al te kieskeurig kan zijn. Maar als hij op een van de beruchte muzikale avonden bij de Smythe-Smiths de dochter des huizes Iris Smythe-Smith ontmoet, weet hij dat hij de ware heeft gevonden. Iris lijkt misschien een muurbloempje, maar onder haar teruggetrokken gedrag gaat iets heel anders schuil. Iris is er al aan gewend dat anderen haar vaak verkeerd inschatten.

Amelia Willoughby è promessa al duca di Wyndham da quando riesce a ricordare. Letteralmente. Aveva solo sei mesi quando furono firmati i contratti e ha passato il resto della sua vita ad aspettare. E aspettare. E aspettare... perché Sua Grazia l'altissimo duca Thomas Cavendish non si decide finalmente a convolare? Ma mentre lo osserva da lontano, Amelia in effetti ha il vago sospetto che lui non pensi mai a lei. E ha ragione. A Thomas piace l'idea di essere fidanzato, più che altro per tenere a bada le cacciatrici di dote, e ha tutte le intenzioni di accasarsi... prima o poi.

Kent, 1817. Eleanor Lyndon sta passeggiando persa nei suoi pensieri quando Charles Wycombe, conte di Billington, letteralmente piomba nella sua vita, precipitando da una grande quercia, in stato di evidente ubriachezza. Charles è uno dei partiti più appetibili della contea ed Ellie, figlia del locale vicario, non si può certo annoverare tra le fanciulle da marito più ambite, eppure, proprio mentre lo riaccompagna al suo calesse, Charles le chiede di sposarlo! Un matrimonio d'interesse, certamente, perché alla vigilia dei trent'anni, rimanendo scapolo, il conte rischia di perdere una cospicua eredità.

Der Zauber einer Ballnacht. 2. März 1810: Heute habe ich mich verliebt! Dreizehn Tagebücher und neun Jahre später sind Miss Mirandas Gefühle für Viscount Turner noch genauso unsterblich – und ebenso aussichtslos. Eine kurze, verhängnisvolle Ehe hat ihn verbittert. Dennoch hegt Miranda Hoffnung. In ihrer ersten Saison will sie sich ihren Mädchentraum erfüllen und endlich mit dem Viscount tanzen. Dabei will sie ihm ihre Gefühle gestehen... Witzig und unwiderstehlich romantisch: Der erste Roman der Bevelstoke-Trilogie.

Gerüchte und Klatsch sind das Lebenselixier von London... Ihr neuer Nachbar Sir Harry Valentine soll seine Verlobte gemeuchelt haben? Lady Olivia Bevelstoke kann das nicht glauben! Entschlossen bezieht sie einen Posten am Fenster ihres Boudoirs, um Sir Harry auszuspionieren – und wird von ihm entdeckt. Als sie sich bei einer Soiree begegnen, lässt er keinen Zweifel daran, dass er sie als Spionin für bedauerlich unbegabt hält. Doch in seinen blitzenden Augen ist etwas, das Olivia erbeben lässt und ihr das Blut in die Wangen treibt.