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Norman England has little to celebrate in the new year of 1140. The country is immersed in a bitter civil war from which no one is immune, including Hugh de Leon, heir to an earldom. His Uncle Guy has arranged his marriage to the spoiled daughter of the newly named Earl of Lincoln. It is a merger that will combine two of the land's largest fortunes -- and give the de Leons unparalleled power. Hugh's heart, however, belongs to the Lady Cristen, and...
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WAS SOCIETY’S REIGNING BEAUTY IN LOVE WITH ADVENTURE—OR WITH ENGLAND’S MOST NOTORIOUS ADVENTURER?
Lord Richard Wells, Duke of Crewe, had shocked the Regency world by sailing off to darkest Africa. Now, five years later, his lovely daughter Julianne returned to London with a story of her father’s tragic death and her own miraculous rescue by the notorious English adventurer, John Champernoun.
Little did aristocratic society suspect what had...
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Dear Reader: I am afraid I am about to do something exceedingly shocking. My adventure began when I came to the Earl of Savile's castle for the reading of George Devane's will, of which the earl is the executor. I had every intention of refusing George's blood money, but he foiled me by leaving it to my young son, Nicky. Because I am a young widow, this bequest has subjected me to a great deal of unpleasant gossip. Now I find that I am in the power...
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Hugh David Maurice Charles Asbury, Earl of Stanhope and peer of one of the oldest families in England, has made a mistake. While in disguise, he has a night of passion with what he believed to be a 17-year-old tavern girl. Instead, Eileen Fitzgerald is the granddaughter of the Dowager Duchess of Denham, and now to preserve her honor, Stanhope must take the hand of a girl ten years his junior in marriage.To prevent scandal, he must be seen with her...
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When the Earl of Althorpe dies, his daughter Julia is horrified to learn that the new earl is an American. Her father has left their estate, Stoverton, burdened with enormous debt and the only good news about the new earl is that he's a millionaire. Julia's hope is that he will bail out the estate and go back home to America, leaving her to run Stoverton, as she always has. Evan Marshall, the new earl, has no use for the British and certainly does...
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For the first time ever, all three books in Joan Wolf's Dark Ages series are available in one ebook volume:
The Road to Avalon
Shimmering with pageantry, emotion and the court's passionate intrigues, here is the epic story of Arthur-the conqueror, the once and future king, who vanquished the Saxons and loved but one woman, the beautiful Morgan of Avalon. She was the lover his country forbade him to wed but could never keep him from desiring. Held...
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Gil Archer was a man of the world-the high-pressure, high-society world of international finance and diplomacy. Cecilia Vargas, his daughter's riding instructor, was a woman outside that world, but he saw in her the warmth and love his grand estate lacked, and he took it for himself. She had married him for love-he taught her the meaning of ecstasy. But Gil still hadn't learned that love was not something to be acquired and ignored-and the price of...
8) Le Portrait
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Le père d'Isabel Besson possède un cirque équestre français dans lequel elle a grandi, faisant des tournées dans toute la France et se produisant avec son magnifique cheval, Alonzo. Lors d'une représentation à Londres, Leo Sommers, comte de Camden, est stupéfait lorsqu'il voit en Isabel le sosie de sa célèbre arrière-grand-mère, dont le portrait est accroché dans son salon.
Ce n'est pas une coïncidence, car on apprend bientt qu'Isabel...
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Nicholas Beauchamp, the Earl of Winslow, was baffled by Margarita's infernally inconvenient anger. True, he still visited his mistress, Catherine Alnwick, whenever his fancy dictated. True, he still availed himself of the fabled favors of the ravishing Lady Eleanor Rushton, who certainly never let her marriage vows interfere with her pleasures. But surely Margarita should be able to see that as his wife she still possessed the best part of him, and...
10) Summer Storm
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Chris was a struggling actor and Mary a struggling scholar, but their marriage was a perfect, passionate union-until the glitter of Hollywood and a dazzling starlet stole Chris away. At the time when she needed him most, he betrayed and failed her, and she swore never to see him again. Chris became a world-famous actor, and Mary a respected professor, and only in the darkness of the movie theater did she allow herself to think of him. Then, in the...
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Jessica O'Neill was the toast of London society-a stunning actress who had appeared from nowhere to take the stage by storm. But not even her most ardent admirers suspected how brilliant an actress she was. Nothing that Jessica said or did betrayed her true identity as a high-born young lady risking her good name in a desperate gamble to save her family from total ruin. And when the dashing, handsome, immensely wealthy Earl of Linton made Jessica...
12) Beloved Stranger
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By all rights they should never have met-shy and lovely Susan Morgan, and Ricardo Montoya, baseball's hottest superstar. But a winter storm brought them together, and in the glow of firelight, they discovered a magical passion. It should have ended there-their worlds were so far apart they could never expect to share more than a beautiful memory. But fate took a hand, and suddenly Susan found that her love had a chance…if only she were strong enough...
13) Highland Sunset
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When beautiful, dark-haired Vanessa MacIan met Edward Romney, Earl of Linton, she told herself she should hate this strong and handsome English lord. For Vanessa was daughter to a proud Scottish chieftain who was the sworn enemy of England, and a leader in a rising against British rule. But it was not hate but hunger that this man of so much power and passion woke within the Highland beauty. And as the flames of desire they felt for each other flared...
14) El Retrato
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El padre de Isabel Besson es dueño de un circo ecuestre francés en el que ella creció, recorriendo Francia y actuando con su brillante caballo, Alonzo. Entre el público, durante una presentación en Londres, está Leo Sommers, conde de Camden, que se queda atónito al ver en Isabel la réplica de su famosa bisabuela cuyo retrato cuelga en su salón.
Esto no es una coincidencia, ya que pronto sale a la luz que Isabel había sido secuestrada...
15) Someday Soon
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Regally beautiful, Lady Alexandra Wilton has refused to wed without love. She will not compromise-until her father dies and his shocking will reveals that Alexandra will lose everything unless she marries his heir. Much to everyone's surprise, the next earl is an upstart, a fiery Highlander just as outraged at the prospect of wedding a frosty Englishwoman as Alexandra is at the very idea of bedding him. But for this romantic lady, the unexpected is...
16) The Gamble
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Gentle Reader,
It's not that I approve of blackmail, but sometimes survival takes precedence over virtue. Unfortunately, the Earl of Winterdale has not proved to be quite the sort of victim I had envisioned. To be honest, I find that my heart is in far more danger from the handsome earl than he is endangered by my nefarious schemes.
All I ever wanted was a home for my sister and me, but I fear Winterdale is about to exact a price of his own, one...
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When supermodel Patsy Clark found herself in big trouble with an unscrupulous investment syndicate, she turned to her best friend's kid brother for help. Like Patsy, dark-haired, dynamic Michael Melville had come a long way since junior high. A brilliant accountant and former Justice Department gangbuster, he was just the man to protect her from the mob…and just the lover to make all her previous romances seem as unreal as her own commercials. But...
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Young and lovely Tracy Bodmin was as spirited and independent as the America she came from-but love for her father made her yield to his heart's desire. Though William Bodmin had made his fortune in the New World, he dreamed of a title for his daughter in his native England-and his wealth won a marriage proposal to Tracy from the proud Duke of Hastings. Thus it was that Tracy voyaged full-sail into the world of the aristocracy as wife to one of its...
19) The Deception
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Gentle Reader, Let me say straight off, it was not my idea to trap England's greatest hero and most eligible bachelor, the Earl of Greystone, into marrying me. My uncle, Lord Charlwood, was the moving force behind that little plot. If my father hadn't been murdered and left me in Charlwood's power, none of this would have happened.So now I am Lady Greystone, a countess and a wife. Learning to be the first is not that difficult. Learning to be the...
20) The Guardian
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My husband is dead and my four-year-old son is the new Earl of Weston. Perhaps even more catastrophic, however, is the news that my husband named his brother, Stephen, the guardian of Giles and of all the immense Grandville estate. Five years ago, Stephen was banished to Jamaica and now he is coming home. Once the thought of Stephen coming home to me was all I wanted out of life. But not anymore. I have made my life without him. I have my son, my...