Showing results for "For Valerie" in Romance

When Veronica said "I do" to Sebastian Sinclair, Duke of Edgefield, she thought all her dreams had come true. He was dashing and doting, and she absolutely adored him—until he betrayed her trust, shattering their marriage, and her heart, into a million tiny bits. She hasn't seen her husband in the two years since, and she'd just as soon make it twenty. But when she learns that her beloved grandfather's dying wish is for her and Sebastian to attend the family's Christmastide celebration, she swallows her pride and asks him a favor: to pretend they're the happy couple they once were.

Back home after a mission trip, nurse and EMT Sara Southerland learns that her cousin’s death might not have been an accident - and now someone wants her dead. The only person she can trust is longtime crush and fire captain Adam Kane. With a stalker on their tail, Adam will do whatever it takes to protect the woman he’s realizing he can’t live without.

Eight years ago, Ava and Joseph had the perfect future planned—he would go to veterinary school, she would embark on a career with an exclusive modeling agency, and they’d eventually get married and have three dogs and four children. But then a terrible accident changed everything. Unwilling to believe they could still have a future, she made Joseph promise to leave and live out their dreams without her. Joseph has never broken a promise to Ava...until now. Before he made that stupid promise to leave, they’d made each other another promise—one of forever. 

No livro da vida de Justine, desde a infância, todos os capítulos parecem iguais. Aos 21 anos, ela mora em um pequeno vilarejo da Borgonha com os avós e o primo, Jules, desde que os pais de ambos morreram em um acidente de carro. Em meio ao marasmo, três coisas trazem luz para seu cotidiano: as peripécias de Jules, que está mais para um irmão; as noites de sábado que passa dançando na boate; e seu emprego como auxiliar de enfermagem na Hortênsias, uma casa de repouso onde grande parte dos seus turnos é dedicada a ouvir os relatos dos idosos que vivem ali.

Farrah Foley runs the way she runs her love life - too cautiously. She slows down just when it's time to fly. Getting dumped with no explanation by the love of her life, she's determined never to find herself in that position again. When Jude Farnesworth comes along, Farrah is intrigued but fears she can't compete with the kind of high-society women he meets in his town of Greenwich, Connecticut. Raised in Queens, she lives in the Bronx, where she runs with the Van Cortlandt Track Club.

A dutiful lady's maid, Miss Madeline Atwater knows precisely what her future holds: countless nights of dressing her mistress in silk gowns, pinning her hair in elegant curls, and selecting the perfect pair of slippers before sending her off to the ball. But Madeline harbors a secret dream. Just once, she'd like to be the one who attends the grand party—and tonight could be her chance. All she needs to do is borrow her mistress's cast-off dress and sneak downstairs during the Twelfth Night Ball . . .

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues - gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest - visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. But her routine is disrupted by the arrival of the local police chief, who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger.

Depuis la mort de sa femme, Olivier n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même. Lorsque la pression se fait trop forte, il trouve refuge chez Joëlle, son ex-belle-soeur avec qui il a la sensation de pouvoir partager son deuil. Fiancée avec Éric depuis quelques années, Joëlle a mis l’idée du mariage de côté dès que sa soeur est tombée malade, secrètement anxieuse à l’idée de développer le même cancer. Lorsqu’elle se décide à aborder le sujet avec son amoureux, elle découvre qu’il a une liaison.

Brought to you by Penguin. BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. Everyone thinks Heath Rocha was my first love. He wasn't. My first love was figure skating. Katarina Shaw has always known she’s destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system...

Adrien, Étienne e Nina se conhecem na escola aos dez anos, em 1986, e rapidamente se tornam inseparáveis. Eles passam o dia juntos nadando na piscina, trocando confidências e prometendo que um dia sairão do interior da França e se mudarão para Paris, onde viverão de música. Trinta anos depois de se conhecerem, Adrien, Étienne e Nina se tornaram estranhos uns para os outros. A amizade que eles juraram que seria eterna não existe mais, porém, um acontecimento inesperado pode trazer à tona segredos enterrados há muito tempo.

Sie geht das Wagnis ein. Lady Gemma Brooks befindet sich noch in ihrer unbeholfenen Phase, als eine boshafte junge Frau sie auffordert, den unerreichbaren Duke of Grovemont um einen Tanz zu bitten. Gemma stimmt zu, nicht um ihrer selbst willen, sondern um die anderen Mauerblümchen vor bösartigem Klatsch und Tratsch zu schützen. Doch was als harmlose Mutprobe beginnt, entwickelt sich bald zu einem Skandal, und Gemma sieht sich gezwungen, völlig unerwartet einen Mann zu heiraten, den sie kaum kennt.

After suffering injuries while rescuing her niece in a devastating fire, high school principal Renata Santos has convinced herself that love is something she'll never experience again. Her self-esteem and self-image in tatters, she buries herself in her work.

All of London knows Beau Bellham as the marquess of Bellingham, but only a trusted few know he also works for the Home Office. His specialty? Scouting out traitors to the Crown. So, when one of his friends pretends to be a footman at a house party in order to find a wife, Beau decides posing as a valet at the same gathering will be the perfect cover for him to spy on the men he suspects of treason. What Beau doesn't count on, however, is butting heads with a far-too-certain-of-herself maid who gives him hell at every turn. 

Rhys Sheffield, the Duke of Worthington, has bet his friends an ungodly sum of money that despite his loftiness, he can pass himself off as a servant at the house party of the Season. But when his ex-flame arrives and recognizes Rhys pretending to be a groomsman, she realizes it's the perfect opportunity to pay him back for breaking off their engagement. 

Her serial killer brother's escaped-and it's single mom Zoe Sullivan who's under suspicion! Sgt. Linc Colson trusts two things: his instincts and his Rottweiler K-9 partner, Star - and certainly not the pretty face he's assigned to monitor. He's done everything to keep her from getting under his skin - now he must stop those who want to put her six feet under. 

Sie ist ein wandelnder Skandal Clare Handleton wurde vor Jahren in den Ruin getrieben und hat seitdem unter den Folgen zu leiden. Von den Mitgliedern der feinen Gesellschaft als „Scandalton“ gebrandmarkt, hat sie schon lange aufgehört, sich um deren wankelmütige Regeln zu scheren. Jetzt, mit neunundzwanzig Jahren, beherrscht sie die Kunst, sich den Blicken ihrer Mutter zu entziehen und unbeeindruckt von allem zu erscheinen. Doch als der gefährlich gutaussehende Marquess of Trentham ihren Weg kreuzt, weckt er etwas in ihr, das sie längst begraben glaubte.

Com quase cinquenta anos, a zeladora coleciona fantasmas — uma infância conturbada, um marido desaparecido e feridas ainda mais profundas —, mas encontra conforto entre os rituais e as flores de seu cemitério. Sua rotina é interrompida, no entanto, pela chegada de Julien Seul, um homem que insiste em deixar as cinzas da mãe no túmulo de um completo desconhecido.

Lady Gemma Brooks was still in her awkward phase when a spiteful young woman dared her to ask the unattainable Duke of Grovemont for a dance. But what began as a harmless dare spiraled into scandal, and Gemma soon finds herself forced into an unexpected marriage with a man she barely knows.

The suspect list is growing… Can this K-9 team unmask a killer? Investigating a gun smuggling ring leads ATF Special Agent Daniel Slater to a murder victim’s house—and right into a drive-by shooting. With his K-9 partner, Dakota, he helps save crime scene investigator Aurora Martin from...

When Georgiana and her maid, Kitty, make the long sea journey from their native East Yorkshire to America, they are seeking a new life of freedom. But in New York Georgiana encounters a man passing himself off as her brother-in-law Edward Newmarch, a local mill-owner’s son who has abandoned her sister and fled to America. Edward himself seems to have vanished....