England, 1819.

It begins with an blameless tickle, yet after all, Nora cannot foresee how they will prove doing…

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Love is worthy a bit scandal.

Owen Hadley wishes a spouse. ideally a filthy rich one. unluckily, there are not various heiresses keen to marry a rogue of no specific fortune---luckily, if there's ever a gentleman in a position to melting a lady's cold middle, it really is Owen.

Milly has had adequate of the wedding mart. If matrimony potential giving up her freedom for a foppish husband, then society can take their suggestion of marital bliss and toss it. but if the ton's such a lot infamous rogue mistakenly makes his manner into her bedchambers, Milly unearths herself all of sudden and unwillingly on the altar . . .

Yet the extra time she spends together with her new husband, the extra Milly begins to wonder whether the wedding she by no means sought after could be the smartest thing that is ever occurred to her. Now it truly is as much as Owen to persuade Milly that what begun as a mistake is something but---and that each evening with him can be extra splendidly scandalous than the last.

England, 1820.
Logan is guarding Laura—his neighbor’s daughter. The younger woman is possessed through an attractive demon.
Logan thinks he’s secure, he's not a good-looking younger guy, in any case. yet to his shock, his candy neighbor—er, the demon, he means—doesn’t appear to care…

BONUS: This version comprises an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The mystery Mistress.

Meet the Bedwyns—six brothers and sisters—men and ladies of ardour and privilege, bold and sensuality.

input their incredible global of excessive society and breathtaking seduction…where each one will search love, struggle temptation, and court docket scandal…and the place Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that real love is a temptation no lady can—or should—resist.

younger. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the instant he spies woman Morgan Bedwyn around the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, is aware he has stumbled on the best device of his revenge. yet wedlock isn't really at the brain of the continent’s so much infamous rake. neither is it of curiosity to the fiercely self sufficient girl Morgan herself…until one evening of stunning intimacy erupts in a scandal that may make Gervase’s vengeance the entire sweeter. there's just one factor status in his method: Morgan, who has accomplished the impossible—she’s melted his coolly guarded middle. For Gervase, basically the wedding mattress will do, yet Morgan easily don't have him. hence starts off a hot courtship the place cautious hearts are approximately to be undone through the main scandalous ardour of all: wonderful, all-consuming love.

Maid’s daughter Emily Whitby as soon as stumbled on real love within the hands of her cherished Michael, the younger Duke of Norfolk. yet then his kin packed him off to struggle within the Boer War--and then had Emily declared insane and incarcerated in the back of Michael’s again.

Michael Hawkesbury, younger Duke of Norfolk, met the affection of his lifestyles whilst he was once purely ten years previous. The daughter of a kin servant, his darling Emily Whitby progressively grew from the from the early life buddy of his pigtail-pulling days to the gorgeous younger woman he could detect romance with.

At eighteen, a couple of months after consummating his dating with Emily, Michael is introduced prior to his father, who's bored stiff along with his son's wild methods and intends to educate him self-discipline in terms of a stint within the army.

With no kin left, Emily came upon herself prone to the scheming of Michael's mother...who quickly contrived to have her packed off to Bedlam Asylum at the pretense that she used to be mad.

Now Michael has again, battle-tested and entire of choice to reunite together with his loved. yet Emily has disappeared; not one of the servants comprehend the key at the back of her disappearance, and his now widowed mom isn't really speaking.

One day, Emily is roused from her depression through an opportunity examine a newspaper that has been introduced into the asylum—a newspaper saying that her darling Michael has again, yet is destined to marry one other!

AUTHOR’S notice: this can be a stand-alone tale with an HEA, so no cliff-hangers! tale comprises mature topics and language, and is meant for 18+ readers only.

"At as soon as a penetrating paintings of literary research and a riveting old narrative." -Nathaniel Philbrick

Merging maritime event and early colonial background, A courageous Vessel charts a little-known bankruptcy of the earlier that gives a window at the proposal for one in every of Shakespeare's maximum works. In 1609, aspiring author William Strachey set sail for the recent international aboard the Sea Venture, in basic terms to break at the shorelines of Bermuda. Strachey's meticulous account of the tragedy, the castaways' time in Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown, is still one of the such a lot brilliant writings of the early colonial interval. even though Strachey had literary aspirations, simply within the fingers of one other William might his story make historical past as The Tempest-a interesting connection throughout time and literature that Hobson Woodward brings vividly to life.

Seducing the Captain

It will be unwise to mistake me for an blameless debutante—for years i've got graced the smoky gloom of many a billiards membership and honed my talents at my father's side.

But now he has a brand new protégé—Captain Greer Barrington—and whereas my father may see me allure the attentions of an eligible lord I, Mercedes Lockhart, produce other ambitions.… no matter if that suggests seducing the captain to earn again my father's prefer! i do know i have to stay away from falling for Greer's fascinating smile…but his sensual kisses should be well worth the risk.…

Imogen Waterstone has constantly prided herself on being a completely self reliant younger girl, yet now she wishes a guy of implacable will and nerves of iron. that is why she invited Matthias Marshall, notorious Earl of Colchester, to her domestic in higher Strickland. Who larger than the mythical explorer to assist her lay the best capture?

Her scheme is easy, relatively: She plans to enable or not it's identified that after she inherited her uncle's number of antiquities, she additionally inherited a map to a wonderful old treasure. She's certain that her enemy might danger financial disaster in pursuit of the legendary artifact. And to make doubly definite the scoundrel took the bait, she wishes Colchester to faux that he is out to seduce Imogene in order that he, too, may possibly get his fingers on her map.

Yet in all of her plotting, Imogene by no means anticipates Colchester's violent response to her request or her personal electrifying response to him. Neither does she count on malevolent hazard may emerge from the labyrinth of London--sinister adequate to hazard her and Colchester's lives.

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