Showing results for "Publishing Romance" in Victorian

Als Alexander von Waldheim im Nachlass seiner Eltern das Tagebuch seiner Urgroßmutter Camilla findet, ist ihm gleich klar: Das wird die Geschichte für seinen nächsten Roman werden! Fasziniert taucht er in die Vergangenheit ein und erfährt so von den turbulenten Leben von Camilla und Tessa, zweier sehr unterschiedlicher Frauen, die sich in einem nicht endenden Krieg zwischen Liebe, Eifersucht und Tod durchs Leben kämpfen müssen ... Berlin, 1862: Camilla schlägt sich alleine durchs Leben.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor in rural Oxfordshire. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins. Over 150 years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items.

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.

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.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maiden Lane series comes the first book in a new series that "marries her irresistibly witty writing style with an intrigue-steeped plot," (Booklist) perfect for fans of Tessa Dare and Eloisa James. Freya de Moray is many things: a member of the...

Herrick Hall doesn’t let anything go without a fight. Least of all its masters’ dead wives … After a dalliance with another woman leaves her reputation in shambles, Josephine Carter is banished to the isolated manor to serve as lady’s companion to Herrick’s mistress. Lady Nora Blake is...

Cuando Thomas Morgan, conde de Main, acepta adquirir las tierras de un marqués por un precio irrisorio, cree haber hecho el negocio del siglo. Pero el contrato esconde una cláusula inesperada: deberá traer a la hija del marqués de vuelta a Inglaterra, casarse con ella… y darle un heredero. Lo que parecía una simple transacción se convierte en el mayor desafío de su vida. Porque Eleanor Garwood no es la joven dócil que imaginaba. Independiente, orgullosa y decidida a no someterse a ningún hombre, afirma que solo consentiría una boda —o permitir que alguien la toque— por encima de su cadáver.

'Rich, layered, and deeply thoughtful' - LUCY STEEDS 'A magnificent novel - vivid, moving and utterly convincing' - S.G. MACLEAN In the suffocating summer of 1858, Sir Edwin Landseer faces the monumental task of sculpting the Trafalgar Square lions. The nation is watching, the Royal Academy is...

Tormented by guilt and rage, Dorian, the Duke of Rath, agrees to a marriage of convenience—with the sister of the man whose death weighs on his soul. He vows never to touch her. But Patience Rose is stubborn, brilliant, and utterly irresistible.

I thought I’d already lost everything, but life has a way of proving you wrong. The moment I set my scuffed sneaker on Cadieux Island for College, my fate was sealed, but there’s no way I could have prepared for what was coming. I should have run when I attracted the Morningstar’s attention, ruthless twins that lord over the elite school and everyone in it. I thought I could handle them, or at least survive them, but now it seems I might not live without them.

Franny Connelly, una joven sirvienta del sur de Escocia, recibe por error una invitación destinada a la hija ausente de su patrón. Con ella surge la tentación de vivir lo imposible: asistir a la temporada social de Londres y mezclarse con la alta sociedad… si se atreve a ocultar su verdadera identidad.

Su vida está a punto de experimentar un gran cambio. Anne Sonbour debe viajar a Londres para participar en la temporada social y encontrar un esposo. Su primer desafío es el viaje, ya que su abuela insiste en que vaya acompañada por Andrew Romsbery, un amigo de la infancia a quien no soporta y no ha visto en siete años. Andrew Romsbery, tercer hijo de un conde, anhela convertirse en un renombrado arquitecto y se esfuerza por lograrlo. En sus planes no entra el romanticismo ni mucho menos el matrimonio.

Lord Richard Seaton sarebbe disposto a tutto pur di ritrovare il fratello scomparso–anche affrontare il famigerato signore del crimine Thorne Blackmore. Il prezzo imposto da Thorne per ottenere informazioni? Qualcosa che il cuore ferito di Richard aveva giurato di non concedere mai più: un matrimonio. E non con una delle splendide debuttanti che gli fanno la corte, ma con la sorella di Thorne, Jane. Emarginata dal ton a causa della reputazione del fratello, Miss Jane Grant dirige una scuola per bambini poveri a Whitechapel.

A marriage of convenience forces a powerful duke to choose between his ferocious pride and love that melts his icy heart. Lonely in Pryde's elegant Mayfair home, she despises the cold, unyielding duke who expects her to become his perfect duchess. Faced with a dreadful choice, will Constantine sacrifice his pride and his title for the wife and child he has come to treasure?

Drei Dukes. Drei Todsünden. Drei gefährliche Spiele um Macht, Versuchung und Liebe. Willkommen in der verruchten Welt der Sündhaften Lords – einer Regency-Reihe voller skandalöser Wetten, gefährlicher Geheimnisse und unwiderstehlicher Leidenschaft. Mächtige Männer mit dunklen Vergangenheiten. Starke Frauen, die sich niemandem beugen. Lies jetzt die ersten drei Bände der Sündhaften Lords-Reihe in diesem brandneuen Sammelband: 1.

When Lady Emma Bardsley's vile husband sells her at auction, she is purchased by the rakish duke of Loxchester. For Sebastian, buying a pig farmer's wife is the perfect way to avoid an arranged engagement, no matter the scandal. Emma hides her identity, hoping to run away. But she can't hide her growing feelings for the amber-eyed rake who is showing her how much pleasure he can provide.

Someone had once told Emma Molinero, the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer, that she was made for trouble. Her earliest memories were of life with a travelling show - part fair and part circus - that toured the shires at the dawn of the Victorian era. But at the age of seven she found herself an orphan who, in accordance with her Spanish father's dying wishes, must now leave the warm and friendly community to live with an unknown English grandmother far to the north in County Durham. With her she took the whips and knives used with such dexterity by her father for his act.

Josephine Moore aprendió a utilizar las espadas, las dagas, los tiradores incluso las pistolas desde una edad muy temprana. Esa destreza con las armas no solo le aportó mucha seguridad en sí misma, sino también hacia el mundo que la rodeaba, porque… ¿Quién querría enfrentarse a una mujer que viste como un hombre, se comporta como uno y lucha como tal? Sin embargo, toda esa seguridad se tambalea cuando aparece en su vida Eric Cooper. Su sonrisa le provoca debilidad en las piernas, su voz la embelesa y cuando está a su lado piensa que el mundo ha dejado de girar.

When Cissie Brody was 15, fever swept the English countryside, killing her parents and leaving her to care for her nine younger siblings. Rejecting the offers of town officials to care for the children in the workhouse, Cissie is determined to keep the family together and moves them to a cave-like dwelling place on the Fells.

Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains, looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. The future appears bright, until he defends his sister from the powerful Sir Henry Abbott. His reward is 15 years hard labour on a prison farm in Tasmania’s remote highlands. Luke escapes, finding sanctuary with a local philanthropist, Daniel Campbell, and starting a forbidden love affair with Daniel’s daughter, Belle. But when Luke is betrayed, he must flee or be hanged.