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Annabelle, Lillian, Evie e Daisy sono quattro giovani donne piene di speranze, sogni e timori, stanche di aspettare che l'uomo della loro vita venga a cercarle: l'amicizia le renderà più audaci e intraprendenti, e d'ora in poi si aiuteranno l'una con l'altra. Annabelle è affascinante e colta, di nobili origini, ma senza dote. Ma il suo algido orgoglio le impedisce di accettare il corteggiamento di Simon Hunt, ricco borghese e impetuoso seduttore, ben diverso dagli aristocratici che vorrebbe accalappiare.

Siviglia, 1902. Trinidad Laredo parte sola dall'Inghilterra alla volta della fabbrica di ceramiche della Cartuja. La storia di Trinidad si intreccia con quella della fabbrica e della sua proprietaria, María de las Cuevas, custode di un'eredità minacciata dal declino, e con le vicende di due donne del passato: Felisa, pittrice silenziosa e tenace, che sogna un futuro diverso in cui possa esprimere sé stessa e il suo talento, e Macarena, decoratrice appassionata e ribelle, in fuga dal conformismo e dai limiti imposti alla sua libertà.

Barcelona, otoño de 1943. Cuando Rosa Sarlé llega a la casa de sus padres poco puede imaginar que se encontraría con Frank Bennet-Jones, rico estanciero inglés afincado en la Patagonia argentina. El viudo de su hermana Anna. Tras ese encuentro, Rosa relee las cartas en las que Anna le...

Robert Belford necesita una esposa. Después de la muerte de su hermano mayor, ha heredado el título de conde y debe responsabilizarse de la vida de su madre y sus dos hermanos menores. Obligado a dejar su carrera militar, está dispuesto a llevar una vida ejemplar y para ello necesita una esposa. Encontrar a la candidata ideal hubiera sido imposible, pero el milagro se dio en Belinda Withman. Hermosa y de modales impecables, cumple todos los requisitos que él y su madre exigen. Solo hay unos pequeños inconvenientes: las grandes deudas de juego de su padre y... Livia Withman.

Estamos en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Caroline Wilkie, dueña de un singular temperamento desde niña, posee una destacable inteligencia y un enorme afán por aprender. Hija ilegítima, su misterioso origen es un secreto muy bien guardado por su madre. Amelia Wilkie, la vieja criada Annie y el huraño y malcarado Braden componen todo su universo. Caroline es feliz viviendo en el pequeño pueblo de Winpenham, en el norte de Inglaterra. Pero un terrible suceso pondrá su mundo patas arriba y la llevará hasta Landrock Hoo, la mansión de los condes de Southbourg.

Octavius Everard, the wealthy Duke of Excess, indulges in London's most decadent offerings to escape the pain that haunts him—especially at Christmas. Lady Agatha Temperance Hale is an heiress on the run! Being a governess gives her a place to hide. And Temperance is soon showing the duke the joys of the season and sharing her love of science with his wards. But she never imagined the pleasures her gorgeous employer could show her. But when the truth is revealed, can he forgive the woman he has come to adore more than any indulgence?

Miss Sophia Hayward had carefully planned a future free of marriage, managing her reputation and dowry with precision. But when she overhears a scheme to force her into a hasty elopement, she realizes she must reconsider the earl's offer of courtship. He may not be the man she dreamed of—but he may be the only one willing to protect her from a most dangerous match.

In 1863, Matthew Merrick is desperate to prove to the world that he isn't a mistake. Sent to the untamed Minnesota wilderness to oversee a pivotal land treaty, he finds his resolve tested—and his heart captured—by the daughter of an Ojibwe chief. But when his ambitions clash with those of Jacob Bailey, a fierce rival determined to shape his own fate, both men are drawn into a web of choices that will echo for decades... Half a century later, in 1917, the world is at war, but for stunt pilot Cade Bailey, the true battle is at home.

Malachy Bane is running out of time—and chances. Demons stalk the shadows. The Mage Tribunal wants his head. And Cora, the woman who once held his heart, is slipping through his fingers. Now the Realmwalker has returned from death, dragging long-buried secrets and a reckoning soaked in blood and betrayal.

In 1777, caught in the crossroads of the American Revolution, sisters Maebel and Coralie Bohannon's quaint New Jersey village becomes a battleground as they house American officers. Rebellion ripples through their family as members take opposing sides—Patriots and Loyalists—causing a deep chasm that fractures their once-unbreakable bond.

Victoria Mountbatten has fought hard to earn her medical degree, but her powerful father uses his influence to block any doctor from hiring her. Faced with an ultimatum—marry a society gentleman or face disinheritance, Tori sees only one path to freedom. She makes a bold proposition to Dr. Harrison Blake, a colleague she's worked alongside for years: a plan that will take them far from Boston's stifling society.

When Aedan Cameron and his men save a frightened and fleeing lass from a band of border reivers, he assumes his responsibility to her is done. His captain has other ideas. And then she lifts a pair of magnificent blue eyes to him, and he is reminded of what one of the nigheanan sgàil, the daughters of shadow, predicted—that a lass with blue eyes would come. It was told she would have the power to pierce the darkness with light, and that she alone would solve the mystery of his brother’s murder.

Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It’s the 1950s, she’s young, and she’s in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational program that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realizes he’s single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted “citizens of the world”; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador.

Leopold Beckworth, son of a London prostitute, was abandoned as a child on the docks of London at a very young age. The odds were stacked against him, and yet, relying on nothing but his cunning and eventually, brute strength, he did better than survive, he thrived. Ironically, he's amassed power most aristocrats envy—along with great wealth—all while holding little regard for society. His people are the poor, the pickpockets, and thieves of London, and amongst them, Leopold is known as the King of Bond Street.

In early 1900s New York, former ballerina Petronille De Villier makes an unconventional choice: Marry struggling sculptor Arkady Kamenev. For her, it’s an escape from her family’s unsavory legacy. For him, the De Villier name promises the patronage his art desperately needs. It should be a simple arrangement. But beneath their marriage of convenience lurks a darker recognition. In each other, they see a reflection of their own dangerous appetites. As buried secrets surface and bodies begin disappearing, Petronille and Arkady discover their union runs deeper than social advantage.

In this enthralling, adventurous debut novel, a band of seafaring smugglers lands on the Cornish coast, where a young widow with a mysterious past becomes entangled in their schemes—and with their charismatic captain. “With its richly detailed setting (think stone cottages and Poldark-esque...

Pommern, 1886: Die junge Adelige Charlotte liebt das Abenteuer, ihre wilde Stute und das raue Land ihrer Heimat. Ihre Liebe zu Pferden führt sie immer wieder in die Ställe von Gut Rosenthal, wo sie auf den Stallmeister Johann trifft. Mit ihm erlebt sie eine Freundschaft und Verbundenheit, die sie von ihrem eigenen Ehemann nicht kennt. Cida muss einfach herausfinden, ob ihre Schwester noch lebt. Pommern, 1939: Als jüngstes von drei Kindern ist Hannah behütet auf dem Gestüt ihrer Eltern aufgewachsen.

After escaping to the garden for a reprieve from the stuffy ballroom, Miss Evelyn Trainor bumps into a handsome stranger through a hedge. When he boldly requests an introduction, she lies and tells him a fake name, Lady Eve, positive she’ll never see him again. But when she returns to the country for Christmas and finds her handsome stranger—the Duke of Alverton—has moved in next door for the holidays, she does what she must to guard her secret. For he has declared the importance of titles and cannot find out she is a commoner.

Despite the dishonorable circumstances of his own birth, Adam Faulkner has never begrudged his half-brother Sebastian's legitimate position as the Viscount Willowthorpe. Having a title and everything that goes with it never mattered to Adam—until “everything” became the hand of Miss Eliza Southwick. Adam knows, as the stable manager at Hooke Manor, he shouldn’t hope to wed a well-born miss. After all, enchanting such a lady’s heart would take a true gentleman…something he is not.

Wenn das eigene Herz die größte Gefahr birgt. Gefahr, Kunst und Krieg … diese Romansammlung von Barbara Cartland lässt jedes Leserherz höherschlagen. Dieser Sammelband ist perfekt für Histo-Fans von Emmi West oder Julia Quinn und enthält die Geschichten Weiße Lilie, Die Brigantenbraut, Liebe unterm Tropenmond, Das Mädchen und der Maler und Geheimnis um Virginia.