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Cuando el rey obligó a Duncan McLeod a desposar a la hija de su enemigo, se juró a sí mismo que se vengaría de tal ofensa. Antes de partir a la guerra para pacificar las tierras del norte, McLeod tuvo que casarse con Megan Harris, una muchacha consentida y vanidosa que detestaba a los McLeod, tanto como su padre

Lady Claudia Harlow ve el mundo a través de una miopía que oculta a los demás. En esa forma de mirar un tanto distorsionada, tal vez esté aquello que la distingue, que la acerca a un mundo de fantasías.

Miss Euphemia Gordon, nicht mehr die Jüngste, ist entschlossen, dem Altjungferndasein zu entkommen. In einem verzweifelten Plan will sie ihren Schwarm Charles in der Bibliothek küssen und ihn so mehr oder minder zur Heirat zwingen. Doch statt Charles trifft sie auf den arroganten Duke of Silverthorn – finster, gefährlich, so hassenswert wie eh und je. Der finstere Duke bringt dem verzweifelten Mauerblümchen bei, wie sie zur perfekten Ehefrau für Charles wird.

Miss Olivia Wilson is desperate, and desperate women do daring things. She's willing to do just about anything to save her family's newspaper. When her biggest investor pulls his funding, she confronts him, willing to become his mistress if that's what it will take. He might not speak, but she can't deny his dark and dangerous appeal, and there would be worse hardships than becoming a duke's plaything.

Sin pensarlo, sin proponérselo, el conde de Falmouth se topa con la persona indicada. Busca a alguien que pueda educar a su hermano, un muchacho tímido, reservado, hasta hosco, que es el heredero del condado, luego de que la familia del conde sufriera un fatal accidente. Sin proponérselo, entonces, se encuentra con Emily Browning, que trabaja como redactora de cartas para los que no saben escribir, y decide contratarla.

After a tragic accident, former piano virtuoso Lord Ethan Harrington takes refuge at a tumbledown country manor that is supposedly haunted. He hires Xenia Loveday to be his housekeeper, unaware that her mousy appearance is a disguise, and she’s a naughty storyteller on the run. As Ethan and Xenia are drawn together by a sizzling attraction, they must contend with dangerous enemies…and unravel the mystery of a century-old curse.

On a moonlit night in 1898, Kathleen Wyman lies in labour at Bessington Hall. Her husband, Edward, is sure that she has been unfaithful to him. In his blind, jealous rage he later gives away the baby to gypsy Rona Parrish, summoned to help with the delivery. Kathleen, frenzied with grief, is soon after locked away in an asylum.

For Lord Everett Stanley, escaping his fate seemed impossible. As the second son, he’s destined for ordination and the life of a Reverend, but he’s hiding a dangerous secret. The laws punishing homosexuality by hanging may have been repealed but he and others of his kind are far from safe. Given no other choice, they take solace in the underground molly houses of London. Now that fragile world is threatened when the East End is rocked by a series of gruesome murders.

Juliana Fiori es un espíritu apasionado. Es impulsiva, valiente, decidida y poco le importa lo que opine el resto de la alta sociedad londinense, lo que la convierte en el blanco favorito de los cotilleos de la ciudad. Es nada más y nada menos el tipo de mujer que el duque de Leighton querría tener lo más lejos posible. El duque tiene una intachable reputación que proteger, pero Juliana está dispuesta a demostrarle que nadie puede resistirse a la pasión, aunque se trate del mismísimo duque de Leighton, y tiene dos semanas para demostrárselo.

Elfreda Marsden has finally made a major discovery—an ancient amulet proving the Viking army camped on her family’s estate. Too bad her nemesis is back from London, freshly exiled after a scandal and ready to wreak havoc on her life. Georgie Redmayne is everything Elfreda isn’t—charming, popular, carefree, distractingly attractive, and bored to death by the countryside. When the two collide (literally), the amulet is lost, and with it, Elfreda’s big chance to lead a proper excavation.

Elizabeth Eden is a fallen woman. Having borne a child out of wedlock, the doors of society are closed and no reputable bachelor will give her a second glance. Her only escape from a life of poverty and humiliation is a marriage of convenience to an aging recluse who is desperate for an heir. When the old Lord dies suddenly, leaving his entire fortune in her name, Countess Elizabeth finds that the world is full of possibilities for a wealthy widow. A new alliance with the right match could secure her a glorious re-entry into society.

It’s been several years since Kitty Cavanagh’s life was turned upside down when her family made the perilous journey across the Irish Sea to Blackburn and she became a widow. After facing near destitution she’s finally making enough to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. Until, that is, the day she is out rag collecting and finds a bag of coins – coins that turn out to be counterfeit – and Kitty soon finds herself caught up in a police investigation. If found guilty, Kitty could end up losing everything she’s worked so hard to protect.

Eleanor Lyndon was minding her own business when a lord of the realm fell–quite literally–into her life. When Charles Wycombe, the dashing and incorrigible Earl of Billington, toppled out of a tree and landed at Ellie's feet, neither suspected that such an inauspicious meeting would lead to marriage. But Charles must find a bride before his thirtieth birthday or he'll lose his fortune. And Ellie needs a husband or her father's odious fiancée will choose one for her. And so they agree to wed.

1882. When Violet Latimer steps off the train in Paris, she instantly feels at home. Here she can escape her scandalous origins in the rookery of Seven Dials and finally make a name for herself as a painter. But it’s not long before her past catches up with her. The notorious gangster Archie Neville is fresh out of prison and determined to make her his wife–and catch whoever put him away in the first place.

Ein verarmter Pferdehof in Brandenburg, eine große Liebe unter keinem guten Stern und eine starke junge Frau, die mit Etikette und Anstandsregeln zu kämpfen hat. Der romantische erste Band der Regency – Liebesroman-Reihe über die Familie Cossin. Preußen, 1815: Friederike von Cossin hat ein Problem: Der Hof ihrer Familie steht bei Herzog Leopold von Ritteysen tief in den roten Zahlen. Doch wenn sie es schafft, den wohlhabenden und gutaussehenden Herzog von seiner Furcht vor Pferden zu befreien, werden die Schulden erlassen. Gelingt es nicht, verliert die Familie Hof und Gestüt.

Dora Fairweather wasn’t cut out to be a wife and mother, and as soon as she’s able, she turns her back on her young daughter Lissie. With no parents to protect her, Lissie has no option but the dangerous streets of soot-sodden Bradford or the workhouse orphanage. Life in the orphanage is bleak and Lissie longs for the warm embrace of her beloved father. As the years pass, Lissie learns to enjoy the camaraderie of the other girls in the workhouse, and when she’s taken under the wing of matron Connie Briggs, things begin to look up..

Born and raised in the forgotten and broken kingdom of Ashbury, Elora has spent years resenting the royals of Pumpkin Hollow, the kingdom that forced the fall of Ashbury and procured the town as its own. Separated by a mysterious glass bridge, Ashbury is treated as the orphan kingdom, left to squander and starve with only the promise of protection from King Jasper, preventing anyone outside their realm from searching for the magic that lay within the ashy valleys and red skies. Because twenty-five years ago, the Cinder Fae arrived.

Brought up on her parents' smallholding in Jarrow in the harsh years of the 1870s, selling vegetables to poverty-struck Irish labourers such as the unruly McMullens, Rose dreams of the world beyond the grime of the town, a world she glimpsed at a fairytale wedding on the Ravensworth Estate as a child. Capturing the heart of handsome and respectable steelworker William Fawcett, it seems her wish for a better life is finally within reach. But tragedy strikes, and to save her young family from destitution, Rose must turn to wild John McMullen.

Wenn aus purer Vernunft die wahre Liebe wird. Die leidenschaftliche Regency Romance von Erfolgsautorin Stacy Reid! Lady Fanny Dashwood hat es aufgegeben, aus Liebe zu heiraten, nachdem sie erst einen Glücksritter und dann einen verlogenen Wüstling abserviert hat. Diesmal soll eine Ehe für sie rein geschäftlich sein, und zwar mit einem Mann, der ihren Bedingungen zustimmt, der ihr Kinder schenkt, aber ihr Herz nicht verletzt. Sebastian Rutledge, Viscount Shaw, begehrt Lady Fanny schon seit Jahren aus der Ferne.

Wenn aus dem Spiel der Verführung wahre Liebe wird. Die prickelnde Regency Romance von Stacy Reid! Christopher Worth, der Duke of Carlyle, ist sehr bedacht seinen seriösen Ruf zu schützen und dafür sein dunkles, ungezügeltes Herz zu verbergen. Doch auf einmal will eine Klatschkolumne ihn als lüsternen Schurken entlarven.