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Para el Laird Ewan MacGregor solo hay dos cosas importantes: el bienestar de todos los miembros de su clan y que la maldición que acompaña a su clan desde hace décadas no le destruya. Lady Catherine es una dama inglesa que no conoce el miedo hasta que descubre que alguien quiere asesinar a su sobrino. Dispuesta a impedirlo, escapa con él en mitad de la noche, en busca del hombre que le hizo una promesa cuando eran niños. Ewan no se puede creer la desfachatez de la muchacha inglesa, la cual está decidida a volverlo loco.

Inghilterra, 1827. Dopo aver sconfitto i Turchi con la flotta britannica, il tenente Wright ritorna a Londra portando con sé una lettera per Miss Vianna Murray. Vianna, orfana e affidata alle cure di una zia nubile, di tutto si aspetta tranne che una visita a mezzanotte con le peggiori notizie che si potrebbero ricevere la notte di Natale. Suo fratello è gravemente ammalato, e Wright riesce a ottenere per lei un imbarco sulla Confidence, la nave da guerra inglese comandata dal Capitano Anderson.

New York Times best-selling author Barbara Wood's latest novel follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move west to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s, when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. It's a saga about ambition on both large and small scales and the rapidly modernizing world as the harsh, sun-drenched landscape transforms from a Native American haven to the playground of Hollywood's rich and famous.

It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

The unforgettable, heartbreaking love story from a New York Times bestselling author about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart—now an iconic motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War...

Vivir a la sombra de un padre y un tío convertidos en leyenda no es fácil. Mucho menos cuando debes competir por su atención con un hermano gemelo y un primo tan brillantes como ellos. Jean Campbell ha crecido rodeada de hombres extraordinarios, aprendiendo desde niña a luchar por su lugar en un mundo que no estaba hecho para mujeres como ella. Durante años ha logrado retrasar lo inevitable: un matrimonio impuesto que pondría fin a su libertad. Pero cuando la presión familiar se vuelve insoportable, Jean decide rebelarse y emprender una aventura tan arriesgada como irresistible.

Like all the Bedwyn men, Aidan has a reputation for cool arrogance. But this proud nobleman also possesses a loyal, passionate heart - and it is this fierce loyalty that has brought Colonel Lord Aidan to Ringwood Manor to honor a dying soldier's request. Having promised to comfort and protect the man's sister, Aidan never expected to find a headstrong, fiercely independent woman who wants no part of his protection, nor did he expect the feelings this beguiling creature would ignite in his guarded heart.

Cuando el laird de los Lamont recibe la orden del rey Jacobo de casar a su hija con un Campbell para poner fin a los años de rivalidad entre ambos clanes, sabe que aceptar significará sacrificar a su familia. Decidido a evitarlo, trama un engaño que podría cambiarlo todo… siempre que nadie descubra la verdad. Pero su plan no tarda en desmoronarse.

Murdo Campbell, conocido como el Campbell sombrío, ha construido su vida alrededor del deber, la lealtad y el acero. Guerrero implacable, rastreador excepcional y hombre de pocas palabras, nunca ha permitido que nada ni nadie altere el orden de su mundo… hasta que una mujer inesperada irrumpe en él. Cuando Murdo encuentra a Mairi, una joven marcada por el miedo y las pérdidas, debería entregarla a las autoridades tal como dictan las normas de los clanes. Pero la determinación, el coraje silencioso y la vulnerabilidad que ella intenta ocultar comienzan a derribar la coraza del guerrero.

All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Some whisper of a tragic love affair. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke's eye - and she was the only female in the room who wasn't even trying.

Growing up with four unruly brothers has made Freyja Bedwyn far bolder than most society ladies. From feisty manner to long, tumbling hair, Lady Freyja is pure fire - a woman who seeks both adventure and freedom. Adventure soon finds her on a visit to Bath, when a handsome stranger bursts into Freyja's room and entreats her to hide him. His name is Joshua Moore, Marquess of Hallmere, a man with a hell-raising reputation of his own who is quickly intrigued by the independent beauty.

Banking heiress Ursula Nunes has lived her life on the fringes of Philadelphia’s upper class. Her Jewish heritage means she’s never quite been welcomed by society’s elite...and her quick temper has never helped, either. A faux engagement to the scion of the mid-Atlantic’s most storied family might work to repair her rumpled reputation and gain her entrée to the life she thinks she wants…if she can ignore the way her “betrothed” makes her feel warm all over and stay focused on her goal.

As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead - only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. Suddenly the dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there - yet of one thing he is certain: The angel who nurses him back to health is the woman he vows to make his own. But like him, Rachel York is not who she seems.

Young. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent's most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself...until one night of shocking intimacy erupts in a scandal that could make Gervase's vengeance all the sweeter.

Abbandonata dal fidanzato Jack Anderson a pochi mesi dal matrimonio, Diana Archer si trova nella situazione di prendersi carico della sorella del Capitano, dopo che il padre è stato trovato morto. Jack ha i suoi buoni motivi per aver deciso di allontanare Diana, uno fra tutti scoprire chi ha indotto suo padre a suicidarsi.

With his laughing eyes and wild, rakish good looks, Lord Rannulf Bedwyn is a hard man to resist. To Judith Law, a woman in need of rescue when her stagecoach overturns, Rannulf is simply her savior, a heroic stranger she will reward with one night of reckless passion before she must become a companion to her wealthy aunt. Imagine Judith's shock when the same stranger turns out to be among England's most eligible bachelors, and when he arrives at Harewood Grange to woo her cousin.

When John Chester returned to England after suddenly inheriting a Dukedom he knew his life had changed forever. But he didn't know just how much. Gina Wilton was like a breath of fresh air. But she was also everything John disapproved of in a young woman, independent, assertive, always ready to contradict him. Yet she had ideas about restoring his dilapidated castle, and he found he needed her help. The more they were together, the more he noticed how pretty she was, how witty and sparkling.

Entre la France et la Sicile, XIXe siècle. Madeline et Mélanie Meilox, deux soeurs originaires de Laval, vont voir leur destin bouleversé par une toile. Un nu. Sublime, sensuel et vrai. Le Rolla d'Henri Gervex. La première pour avoir été reconnue comme la muse qui a inspiré l'artiste, l'autre pour l'avoir réellement été. Dans un 19ème encore puritain, le scandale éclate. De la butte Montmartre aux collines de la Sicile de Garibaldi, des chuchotements les suivent et la révolution des cœurs gronde.

1938: Die Amerikaner John Morgan und Richard Cooper treffen in Wien auf die Halbjüdin Isabelle. Beide verlieben sich in die unbekannte Schönheit. Als Hitler Österreich dem Deutschen Reich einverleibt, schwebt sie von einem Tag auf den anderen in höchster Gefahr, und die beiden Männer verhelfen ihr zur Flucht. Fortan lebt Isabelle von Heimweh geplagt auf Johns Apfelbaumplantage „Morgan's Hall". John kettet sie wie sein Eigentum an sich und hofft auf ihre Liebe. Ihr Herz aber gehört nur Richard, der versprochen hatte, sie zu sich zu holen.

Drei harte Highlander-Herzen werden erobert in dieser Sammelausgabe von Hannah Howell. Highland-Lord Artan Murray soll die ihm unbekannte Cecily, die Nichte eines verstorbenen Verwandten, ehelichen … und erlebt eine Überraschung: Die wilde Schönheit erobert schon bei der ersten Begegnung sein Herz! Sir Lucas Murray ist Schreckliches widerfahren – nun ist er zurückgekehrt, um Rache zu nehmen an dem Clan, der ihm seine Ehre nahm … und an Lady Katherine, die er liebte, bis sie ihn grausam verriet.