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Brought to you by Penguin. Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of...

Lady Patricia Price-Adams has spent the last four years secretly longing for Thomas Jameson, her sister-in-law’s dashing brother. Thirteen years her senior, Thomas, the newly minted Earl of Ashford, is handsome, intelligent, and being pressured by society to take a wife and carry out his duty of producing an heir.

Ian Worthington’s life as a pirate has always been filled with excitement and the thrill of the sea, but as stimulating as it once was, the young captain finds his heart longing for a new experience. King Edward, of the Island of Westerly, has spent the past 20 years traveling the world, researching the perfect routine for sex, but he needs someone willing to test his technique. For Ian, it sounds like the ideal solution for a dull life. Angelique Abbott holds her father in her arms as he draws his last breath.

En el verano que tenía 16 años, Jade vivió un amor tan apasionado que, cuando descubrió que todo era mentira, se le rompió el corazón. Adam, a pesar de ser mucho más mayor que ella, fue sumamente cruel. Cuando, años después, por trágicas circunstancias, vuelven a verse, ella siente un odio tan feroz que no puede estar frente a él. Pero la vida, muchas veces, nos hace dar varios tragos de la medicina que menos nos gusta.

Lady Rose Jameson knows her place - respect authority and convention and marry a suitable member of the peerage. Lord Evan Xavier, the second son of the Earl of Brighton, possesses the necessary pedigree, but though Rose enjoys his company, the spark she craves is missing...the spark she feels with handsome commoner Cameron Price.

Lady Lily Jameson is thrilled to attend a house party given by Daniel Farnsworth, the Duke of Lybrook, but not because he's the most eligible bachelor in the peerage. Her only interest is his famous art collection, which reputedly includes a painting by her favorite artist, Jan Vermeer. Daniel, duke only by virtue of the untimely deaths of his father and older brother, wants nothing to do with his new duties. He'd rather continue his rakish ways.

Lady Sophie MacIntyre has the voice of an angel, but due to her timid nature, no one ever hears it. After losing a bet to her conniving sister, Sophie auditions for the new musicale at the Regal Theatre run by handsome actor Zachary Newland. Though distracted by Zach's elegant masculinity and her own nerves, she sings well and earns a role in the production.

Lady Alexandra MacIntyre has made up her mind. Having grown up in near poverty, she's marrying for money - a lot of money - and she'll do anything to achieve her goal...even get herself caught in a compromising situation by her overprotective and smugly conventional - although achingly handsome - new stepbrother, Lord Evan Xavier.