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Never expecting to lose the race to his cousin, Viscount Ashton, Darcy must now accept the terms of their wager. With the end in sight, only three more balls to attend, he travels with his good friend Bingley to Hertfordshire where he meets again Lady Elizabeth Hamilton Bennet, a woman he egregiously insulted six months prior.

At 25, single, and under threat of redundancy from her job in a local library, Emily feels as though her life is going nowhere—until the day when Carl comes into the library asking for books about tracing family history. Carl is baffled by a mystery about his late grandfather: why is the name by which Carl had always known him different from the name on his old passport?Fascinated as much by Carl himself as by the puzzle he wants to solve, Emily tries to help him find the answers. As their relationship develops, their quest for the truth takes them along a complicated paper-trail.

1811, England. When 17-year-old Lucinda Beckford's fiance dies, she declares she will never marry. However, gambler Giles Milton is determined to marry her, whether she is willing or not. Fortune's Promise is a fast-paced Regency novel full of intrigue and passion.

It started with a plea for help and ended with forbidden love, the love between a Viscount and a stable-boy. An impossible love and a guarantee of the hangman's noose. Will Deacon fight for Tom? Will he risk the death sentence and take that fight from the stately halls of his English mansion to the horrors of Newgate Prison and the slums of London? Or will he realize that if he doesn't, death will be a welcome end to the loneliness of the sentence he is already living?

Angelique Breedlove e la sua amica Delilah sono le orgogliose proprietarie del Grand Palace sul Tamigi, un piccolo albergo nei pressi dei docks di Londra. Angelique è una donna dal passato misterioso, che diffida degli uomini e ama la tranquillità della sua nuova vita. A portare un certo scompiglio è l'arrivo di un ospite affascinante, Lucien Durand, visconte di Bolt, da tutti creduto morto.