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In defense of her honor, innocent Leda Etoile has burned all her bridges and taken refuge in her tiny attic room in a shabby boarding house in London. But her last safe haven is invaded when she wakes to find a man hidden in the dark - a man with golden hair and the face of a fallen angel, who moves in the night like a shadow. Will he be her savior, or her ruin? Samuel Gerard draws her inexorably into the richest circles of aristocratic England. But even as Leda falls in love with a man she can never have, she must keep his secrets.

Jack would rather be at sea than fixing the mistakes of his grandfather, the late Earl of Stansworth. Instead, he finds that inheriting his grandfather's wealth and title and securing the welfare of his sister and mother means joining the ranks of high society and living with the aristocracy. Luckily, Ivy Carslisle, the granddaughter of a dear friend of Jack's late grandmother, is willing to teach him etiquette and properly introduce him into society.

Anthony Blake is in love with his best friend's sister, Sophia Elliot. But his plans to court her are put on hold when he is forced to resume his role as an undercover spy for the Crown. A secret document listing the names of the entire network of British spies - including his own - has been stolen. To protect Sophia, Anthony cuts off all ties to her and exchanges his life as an honorable earl for the facade of a flirtatious playboy.

Rejected by a sister who has allowed her new status as wife to Mr. Bingley to make her proud, Elizabeth Bennet goes to her uncle's estate in Derbyshire, ostensibly to assist her cousin in her introduction to society. In reality, Elizabeth feels there is nothing left for her in the neighborhood of her birth. Her uncle's estate is small, and Elizabeth must work while there, and though she finds her tasks easy to bear. She quickly becomes close to her young cousin and uncle, though her aunt is a hard, demanding woman.

Trevelyan d'Augustin and Lady Callista Talliafaire were secret sweethearts, until the day her father dismissed him with a whip across the face. Ten years and three jiltings later, shy Callie is resigned to a quiet village life as the late earl's spinster daughter. But now Trev has returned from his estates in France, upending everything, dragging her into adventures, stealing Hubert the prize-winning bull, and flinging Callie's heart into mayhem again.

La vida para lady Adelaide Bell era más fácil cuando podía esconderse a la sombra de su hermana... hasta que ésta se casó. A pesar de las presiones de su madre, una mujer ambiciosa, lo que menos espera es tener que acabar casándose por obligación para salvar su reputación, que hasta entonces había sido impecable.

La señorita Amelia Stalwood es una mujer noble y vive también en una casa noble en Londres, el hogar de un pariente siempre ausente. Aislada de la vida social, sus mejores amigos no son nobles, sino criados. Y así sigue siendo hasta que le presentan un poco por casualidad a la familia Hawthorne y a un amigo de esta, Anthony, marqués de Raeburn.

Lord Bradley acaba de enterarse de un terrible secreto, algo que, de saberse, cambiaría su vida para siempre. Cuando avista una figura en la lejanía, teme que sea un espía o un ladrón a oídos del cual hayan llegado las devastadoras noticias. Pero se lleva una sorpresa mayúscula al descubrir que el intruso no es sino una mujer, o lo que queda de ella, pues han intentado estrangularla. Debido al ataque sufrido, la joven no puede hablar, pero aún así, Bradley teme que sea capaz de divulgar su secreto.

Perlas y pellizas. Junio, 1823. Cuando una popular revista femenina lo nombra el «soltero más codiciado de Londres», la vida de lord Nicholas St. John, reconocido anticuario, se vuelve bastante más animada de lo que a él le gustaría. Las mujeres casaderas y sus madres quieren darle caza. Algo realmente molesto para un hombre que ha decidido no volver a enamorarse. Por eso, cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de huir de la ciudad, no se lo piensa dos veces.

This year, the Duke of Nottingvale's Christmastide house party doubles as a bride hunt. The handsome duke seeks a blue-blooded debutante as respectable as he is, and his parlor is brimming with paragons of propriety. Inveterate spinster and unapologetic hoyden Miss Cynthia Louise Finch does not fit the mold. Any mold. Her younger cousin is perfect for the duke! By matchmaking the two, Cynthia will save her favorite cousin from a horrific fate. The only problem? Cynthia has always held a tendre for the duke. And for the first time, she seems to have caught his attention.

Olive Harper's family has been feuding with the Westons for decades. The Westons’ stud farm is the biggest, but the Harpers’ is the most famous... and she's the sole heiress. Or was, until her father brokers a truce by offering the Weston heir the Harper farm. The only way to get it back is to marry the knave who kissed her and humiliated her, twice—or prove to her father that some rifts can never be healed.

Good Heavens! There are ghosts at Castle Omnis—ghosts with a mission. How will the three eldest Bennet sisters react when they arrive there for an exclusive matchmaking house party? Lizzy, the more practical sibling, wonders if she should convince her sisters to return to Longbourn. Ghosts? Are they to be endured? Mary thinks so. Jane is not sure. Lizzy finds their interference maddening.

Rumor has it, charming adventurer Christopher Pringle is finally ready to settle down. He’s searching for a free-spirited bride to join him on his travels. But when the matchmaker he hires turns out to be the woman he had a public spat with the day before, nothing goes as planned!

Eloisa James' dazzling new Georgian-set series continues...The richest bachelor in England plays matchmaker...for an heiress he wants for himself! For beautiful, witty Lavinia Gray, there's only one thing worse than having to ask the appalling Parth Sterling to marry her: being turned down by him. Now the richest bachelor in England, Parth is not about to marry a woman as reckless and fashion-obsessed as Lavinia; he's chosen a far more suitable bride. But when he learns of Lavinia's desperate circumstances, he offers to find her a husband. Even better, he'll find her a prince....

Prudence Shackleford had not expected to be a spinster at three and twenty, but unfortunately, as she'd quickly discovered, very few men were prepared to tolerate either her ghoulish sense of humour, or her macabre taste in literature. And those were the ones she'd got as far as holding a conversation with. When invited to London by the Duke and Duchess of Blackmore to witness the Coronation of King George IV, she was equal parts horrified and intrigued. Especially after a chance meeting with a Bow Street Runner on the trail of conspirators it was feared were planning to murder the King.

André Fergusson pertenece a una rica familia de comerciantes, además de ser cuñado del conde de Kent. Afincado en Ceilán, dirige las operaciones de la empresa familiar que recibe lo que él les envía para vender en Inglaterra. Un incendio en un depósito, sin embargo, cambia la vida de André, que se adentra en las llamas para tratar de ayudar a las personas que se hallan dentro.

Un ángel y un demonio. Dos opuestos que se cruzan. Dos opuestos que no dejan de atraerse, de insinuarse, de buscarse. De noche, el ángel también es demonio. De día, el demonio se viste de ángel. Uno huye, y el otro persigue. Hasta que se alcanzan. Angel en una acomodada señorita de Londres. Está por entrar a su tercera temporada, lo que, para su madre, es una desgracia. Si no consigue casarse pronto, quedará como una solterona sin remedio. Supone, la madre, que es por el peinado de rizos rebeldes de Angel o por la timidez o por la ropa que usa que los hombres no se le acercan.

La bruma de Londres tiene oculto un encuentro: una mujer corre, huye, en apariencia, de algo. Un hombre decide frenar su carruaje, hacerla subir, llevarla lejos de aquello de lo que escapa. Ausentes de las circunstancias, alejados del secreto que la muchacha esconde, ambos se entregan a lo que la noche y sus propios cuerpos les reclaman.

This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.

Jane Austen’s final, unfinished novel centres on Charlotte Heywood as she arrives in an up-and-coming seaside town. As she meets a host of characters, from her hosts’ family to visitors from the West Indies, Austen's final novel gives us a concise insight into the deception, snobbery, and unexpected romances that occur in the world of her characters.