Showing results for "The Andersons" in Regency

Die ganze Londoner Gesellschaft rätselt über die überstürzte Hochzeit zwischen der hübschen Abigail Nash und dem vermögenden Jasper Brigston. Auch sein Bruder Morgan, der Marques of Brigston, wird nicht schlau aus dem Paar. Sollte eine frischgebackene Braut nicht viel mehr strahlen? Als Jasper durch einen tragischen Umstand stirbt, scheint auch der letzte Funke Freude in der ehemals so lebensfrohen Abby erloschen. Morgan kümmert sich fortan aufopfernd um seine Schwägerin. Und zwischen den beiden entwickeln sich Gefühle, die nicht sein dürfen.

Die romantisch veranlagte Prudence hält ihre Schwester für verrückt. Sophia wird eine Vernunftehe eingehen, durch die sie zur Gräfin wird. Dabei liebt sie ihren Verlobten gar nicht! Während der Londoner Ballsaison lernt Prudence Lord Knave besser kennen und stellt schockiert fest, dass er auch noch ziemlich arrogant ist. Aber Sophias Glück liegt ihr am Herzen und so macht sie es sich zum Ziel, dass die beiden sich bis zu ihrer Hochzeit ineinander verlieben. Was Prudence dabei jedoch nicht bedacht hat, ist, dass sie sich womöglich selbst in Lord Knave verlieben könnte.

Auch am Ende ihrer dritten Ballsaison hat Sophia Gifford immer noch nicht den Mann gefunden, den sie aus vollem Herzen liebt. Um nicht als alte Junfger zu enden, nimmt sie den Heiratsantrag eines Verehrers an. Doch dann trifft sie plötzlich den charmanten Hugh Quinton wieder, den sie seit fast zehn Jahren nicht mehr gesehen hat. Ihre Gefühle für ihn sind aber immer noch so stark wie damals. Doch er wird durch seine zweifelhaften Geschäfte von der Londoner Gesellschaft, einschließlich ihrer Eltern, verachtet. Sophie sollte ihn nicht einmal als Ehemann in Betracht ziehen.

England, 1814. Edith Hapgood only has eyes for art. As the darling pride of her family, she has been encouraged in her passion for painting, making it easy for her to overlook other objects of affection. But her distant cousin, one of her chief friends and companions from the age of eleven, has no intention of being forgotten as the creative world opens to her.

With her two older sisters married, managing family affairs has fallen to capable Miss Margaret Hapgood, leaving little time for thoughts of marriage. But a trip to Bath to find her uncle a wealthy bride throws her in the path of a handsome recuperating soldier, who is equally determined to keep his mother's fortune out of grasping hands.

Harriet Hapgood has always delighted in arranging the lives of others, while generally doing as she pleased. And after having thwarted her cousin Caroline's engagement, what better way to pass a dull winter than in helping Caroline to a new husband? Her cousin sets her sights on the glittering Mr. St. John Rotherwood, so Hetty cheerfully puts her shoulder to the matchmaking wheel.

Somerset, England, 1808. Elfrida Hapgood keeps her eyes on the prize. Born to a penniless squire, she's determined to follow common sense and marry an upstanding and steadfast gentleman. So when her brother-in-law's handsomely rakish sibling attempts to woo her, she rigidly ignores the flutter in her chest.

At age thirty, the kindly and helpful Miss Rosemary DeWitt assists the vicar with the parish school, burying her disappointment that life seems to promise nothing more. But a chance encounter with an unknown, brooding gentleman sets her on a new path—one which might lead where her heart never dreamed.

Somerset, England, 1808. Alice Hapgood is obsessed with studying flora and fauna. With upper-class standards taking a dim view of a lady dirtying her hands, she wears boys' clothing to pursue her passion. And when an assistant position for a handsome member of the Royal Society crops up, she impulsively dons her disguise and risks ruin.

Miss Ruth Hawthorn helps support her fatherless family the only way she can: doling out love advice in a local newspaper column under an assumed name, The Swan. When she receives a lucrative request for an in-person consultation from someone signed O, her brother persuades her to go to London with him, teaching him what he needs to know in order to survive the short appointment. But when O moves up the time of the rendez-vous and Ruth's brother is nowhere to be found, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.

Eleanor Claridge had it all. A family that loved her, a secret romance with a handsome soldier, and a beautiful home in the seaside town of Brighton. Although her father did not approve of her suitor, she found no fault in him. With respect to her father's wishes, she paused to examine his character. But it was too late. Abducted and taken to Scotland under the ruse of a happy elopement, Eleanor was forced to marry the wicked man she had once loved. And now she has a chance to escape.

Despite her every effort, Harriett Weston cannot forget the boy she once loved—or the day she banished him from her life forever. Trapped in a wager with her matchmaking sister, she can no longer avoid William forever. She is required to endure three meetings with him, the beginnings of a courtship that could easily undo the determination of her carefully guarded heart.

Charles Ellsworth is a young Englishman on his triumphant Grand Tour when the dissolution of his family fortunes and his own recklessness leave him stranded and in debt. He enters service as a tutor in the household of M. Tremblay, with nothing but his wits and the kindness shown him by an elderly maid to depend on. Pretty Jeanne Martineau played ingenue roles with a traveling theatre company before the manager absconded with the receipts. Now she works as a maid for the rakish M. Tremblay to avoid starvation, but escaping his groping hands requires she don the disguise of a hideous old woman.