Victorian

In this sexy regency romance by USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long, a lady on the edge of ruin must plead with the king of London’s underworld to save her family, only to find herself instead caught in his web...and unable to resist him. One disastrous night. One devastating man. One...

Perseguitato da un terribile segreto, Dorian, duca di Rath, vive divorato dalla rabbia e dai sensi di colpa. Disposto a sopportare qualunque tortura pur di espiare i propri peccati, accetta persino di sposare una perfetta sconosciuta—la sorella della sua vittima—per salvarne la famiglia dalla rovina. Quando Miss Patience Rose, botanica di professione, si presenta all'altare nel suo abito semplice e con le unghie ancora sporche di terra, porta con sé un raggio di sole capace di rischiarare il cuore annerito di Rath.

Un libertino ribelle. Un duca corrucciato. Per sfuggire a un matrimonio combinato, compra una moglie che non intende amare… ma perde la testa. Quando il suo spregevole marito la vende all'asta, Lady Emma Bardsley viene comprata dal duca di Loxchester, noto libertino. Per Sebastian, comprare la moglie di un allevatore di maiali è il modo perfetto per evitare un fidanzamento combinato, nonostante lo scandalo. Ma Emma ha un segreto — in realtà è una nobildonna.

Georgiana, Duchess of Leeds, hasn't seen her husband since he left her on their wedding day for an extended hunting expedition and never returned. But she isn't the sort to wait around pining for an arrogant oaf who can't bother to recall he has a wife, no matter how sinfully handsome he may be...

In the glittering salons and drawing rooms of Gilded Age New York, where wealth is worshipped and reputations are fragile, Lily Bart is the star of the show. At twenty-nine, she is beautiful, charming and socially adept – bred for a life of luxury and yet, after her father's loss of wealth, is teetering on the edge of poverty. Lily needs to marry rich – and quickly – but every time the opportunity knocks in the form of a dull financier or a crass heir, she recoils.

She’s poised to conquer. He’s in hiding, chased by too many women. Can love penetrate his dense disguise? Summer 1805. Now that Frances Barstow is twenty, her benefactress decides it is time for her to marry and has even chosen her a suitable bachelor. The only problem? He’s as slow-witted...

After ten years of searching for a cure to the panic attacks that have kept him trapped in a remote Scottish castle, Marcus Deville, the Earl of Kingsberry, struggles to establish dominance and maintain the emotional distance necessary to keep his vampire siblings from killing each other. So...

Revealing the true love of her life! The thrilling conclusion to the Season of Scandal series! Lady Meg’s parents decide that the best solution to the scandal breaking over her head, is to marry her to her old childhood friend, Harry. Meg will not allow it. Instead, she persuades Harry to take her secretly to her twin sister’s house in Kent to ride out the storm.

In this heartwarming Victorian classic by Agnes Giberne, first published in 1885, we follow the story of Daisy Meads—a gentle and resilient young girl navigating life alongside her eccentric and miserly father, Isaac. Set against the rustic backdrop of a traditional English village, "Daisy of...

He’s untouchable. She’s untamable. Her fiery spirit is the only thing that can melt his heart of ice. When her relatives turn the treasured Lloyd family heirloom into a prize for whichever cousin marries first, Daphne Lloyd is desperate to keep the daffodil-painted platter that inspired her own art, out of the hands of those who don’t care about it the way she does. She’ll play their game, but on her own terms, and with the man they least expect. Luke Rushton wants to play hockey, not the part of a dutiful grandson in a feuding family.

When both attempt to flee their past, can love’s pursuit catch them? Estelle Lowry has traded her privileged life for anonymity, running away to become Miss Estelle Lewis—governess and companion. But her carefully laid plans unravel when she discovers a man beaten and left for dead. Defying...

Drei Romane über die Frauen von Bloomsbury von Stefanie H. Martin. Ein so überraschender wie mitreißender Roman über Virginia Woolf – Ikone der literarischen Moderne und der Frauenbewegung. Die Bloomsbury Group steht bis heute für geistige Freiheit und Liebe in all ihren Facetten. Eine große Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei Frauen, die für Literatur leben: Virginia Woolf und Vita Sackville-West.

A widow. A younger man. And a midnight visit to the wrong bedchamber. THE LADY Lady Asherton is proper, lovely, and . . . lost. Widowed and just turned thirty—her recent engagement promises an unexpected chance to become a mother at last. THE RAKE The Marquess of Rockingham is gorgeous...

Penniless, shunned, and marked forever by her mother's descent into madness, Lucy makes a desperate choice. She slips uninvited into London's most lavish masquerade ball, to secure the one thing she can't live without Marriage. When a masked stranger sends her heart racing, he draws Lucy into a dangerous dance that ends in public ruin and a forced marriage neither can escape. When the masks come off, the man who broke her heart years ago stands before her.

The Songbird of SpainBorn to Spanish blood and raised in the fiery embrace of passion, Esperanza was a force of nature. She danced through society with an untamed spirit, her dark curls cascading like waves of ink against her caramel skin.

In het Engeland van 1818 moet Lady Iris Palmerton kiezen tussen de plagerige Jeremy Black en de elegante Lord Frank Galston, terwijl ze worstelt met schokkende persoonlijke gebeurtenissen. Deel 3 van 3.

Vor der zauberhaften Winterkulisse des Regency-Englands spinnt das Schicksal eine unerwartete Geschichte von Liebe und Erlösung. Lady Emily Fairchild, eine temperamentvolle Witwe, die die Last ihrer Vergangenheit trägt, begegnet dem charismatischen Halunken Mr. Nicolas Winters, dem zweitgeborenen Sohn eines angesehenen Earls. Als das Schicksal Nicolas verwundet und bewusstlos an Emilys Tür führt, zwingt ihr mitfühlendes Herz sie dazu, ihn gesund zu pflegen. Mit jedem Tag, an dem er mehr zu sich kommt, umweht ein Hauch von Geheimnis den faszinierenden Fremden.

She kissed an architect. His secretary saw it happen. Now the gossip is building faster than he can design a house. When a woman from his past unexpectedly kisses architect Daniel Sinclair in his office, he finds himself unwittingly thrust into the spotlight of Edinburgh’s gossip scene. The news spreads swiftly, thanks in large part to his secretary, who witnessed the intimate moment. As a result, Daniel is branded a rogue, a reputation he’d much rather shake off in favor of being recognized for his cutting-edge house designs.

Det var inte Malcolm Worthington som friade till den vackra Marcia Fletcher när de möttes på Rivieran, utan hon. "Vill ni inte gifta er med mig", sa hon. "Det är min enda chans att komma härifrån!" Och Marcias skäl för att vilja överge lyxlivet vid Medelhavet var minst sagt egendomliga. När sedan Malcolm ärvde familjegodset Grayling Priory upptäckte han att lantlivet inte var så fridfullt som han hade trott, särskilt inte sedan Marcias väninna, den berömda författarinnan, kommit på besök ...

För att rädda familjeslottet tar Aria plats som sekreterare hos Dart Huron, känd polospelare och miljonär. Aria avskyr honom och hans sätt att leva. Lulu Carlo, en världsberömd filmstjärna, är en av Darts många extravaganta gäster. Hon gör allt för att få honom på fall, men Dart sätter en käpp i hjulet för hennes planer.

Fue prometida a otro hombre. El duque la eligió a ella. Clara Beaumont es empujada hacia un matrimonio que teme, atrapada por un padrastro cruel, una madre débil y un lord mucho mayor decidido a reclamarla. Escapar parece imposible… hasta que Sebastian Aldenhurst, duque de Aldenhurst, interviene. Poderoso, orgulloso e imposible de resistir, Sebastian le ofrece a Clara lo único que nadie más le ha dado jamás: una elección. Pero a medida que el deseo se profundiza y antiguas inseguridades resurgen, Clara debe decidir si puede confiar en que fue verdaderamente elegida por amor.

Clara Ashby came to Hartwell House as a governess. She did not expect to stay. Over the course of a year, she has helped rebuild more than lessons and routines. A neglected garden has come back to life. Two girls have begun to trust again. And the quiet order of the household has shifted —steadily, almost imperceptibly —around her. But belonging is not easily claimed. When Edmund Hartwell asks her to become part of the family in name as well as in practice, the question is no longer what she can do for the household…It is whether she can accept a place within it.

William, Earl of Ashford, and Violet Hayes had known each other since childhood—he, heir to a great title, and she, the daughter of his father's stable master and the cook. What began as innocent friendship blossomed into stolen kisses and whispered vows. William swore their love would cross...

A duke who's loved her since childhood. A lady who gambles in breeches under a false name. One card table where neither knows the other's hand. Lady Theodora Hasting has spent years wanting a man who sees her as nothing more than a childhood friend. Her dead fiancé taught her one lesson: waiting for the Duke of Greystone is a losing hand. So she stopped waiting. Now she spends her nights disguised as Kit Barton, taking money from weathy peers at a popular gaming hell. She's free, she's winning, and she doesn't need anyone—until Wesley sits down at her card table.

In a city drowning in fog, even a monster can be a sanctuary. In the climate-controlled silence of the British Library, manuscript conservator Cordelia Elliston lives a life of careful repairs and quiet order. But the charred diary she finds in a private estate clearance refuses to be fixed. The leather is fever-hot. The ink moves like living shadow. And when the page pulses beneath her fingers, Cordelia is pulled through a crack in the world. She wakes in the sulfurous, batswing-lit London of 1888. It is a city paralyzed by murder, but the killings are merely a symptom.