Risultati per "Eden" in Storico

Dr. Barnabus Milligan has always felt called to help people, whether that means setting a broken bone or rescuing the impoverished women of London from their desperate lives on the streets, as part of his work with the Dread Penny Society. Three years ago, he helped rescue Gemma Kincaid by secretly marrying her to protect her from her family of notorious grave robbers. But six months after Gemma and Barnabus exchanged vows, she realized her love for her new husband was unrequited. To protect her heart, she left.

Cuando Persephone Lancaster recibe una propuesta de matrimonio del malolintió duque de Kielder, ella se niega, y luego reconsidera. La obscena suma de dinero que le ofrece a Perséfone salvaría a su familia de la ruina. Con su característico optimismo, viaja a los confines de Northumberland para casarse con un extraño muy temido.

Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls' school in 1830s Victorian London. She is also a well-respected author of stories written both for and about the upper-class ladies of Victorian society. But by night, she writes very different kinds of stories - the Penny Dreadfuls that are all the rage among the working-class men. Under the pseudonym Charles King, Elizabeth has written about dashing heroes fighting supernatural threats, intelligent detectives solving grisly murders, and dangerous outlaws romancing helpless women.

When Evangeline is sent to live in a small mill town in Northern England as a schoolteacher in 1871, she finds herself struggling to fit in with an unfamiliar culture. Raised with the high-class Victorian values and ideals of a sophisticated upbringing, she is unprepared for the poverty she finds in the gritty factory town of Smeatley, where the locals speak with a hard-to-understand Yorkshire accent and struggle to thrive with few resources or opportunities. Though she has no training as a teacher, she must prove herself successful before her grandfather will release her inheritance.

Lord Hawkston, rik, självsäker och mäktig som han är, är van vid att få som han vill. Han kom som en virvelvind in i Dominicas liv, med ett oväntat förslag. Han är på jakt efter en hustru till sin unga släkting, och han tror att Dominica är den rätta kvinnan. Hon tackar till slut ja, för ett liv som ogift ungmö är inget som lockar henne, och om hennes blivande man är lika stilig och vänlig som Lord Hawkston resonerar hon att inget kan gå fel.

Raised by guardians in Philadelphia, the Brinkman sisters have suddenly been bequeathed more than the truth about their late, estranged father - they've also inherited the Five Sisters Ranch, the dynasty he'd built for them in Eden, Colorado. It's theirs on one condition: to claim it, they must live on it for six months - a wilderness worlds away from the comforts of the city. For Belle Brinkman, her father's last wish could fulfill a dream she never knew she had.

Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision from Freya, he widens the gulf between them.

Philip Jonquil, conde de Lampton, se ha pasado los últimos cinco años buscando y capturando espías en suelo inglés. En busca de su próxima víctima, se topa en una posada con Sorrel Kendrick, una joven muy bonita, franca y a la que no consigue impresionar.

Charlie Jonquil siempre es un joven afable y educado, pero no cuando se topa con Artemisa Lancaster. Brillante en matemáticas, es sin embargo incapaz de resolver un problema: ¿cómo Artemisa puede ser tan encantadora y sacarlo de quicio a la vez? Cuando ambos coinciden en una fiesta en Londres, se nota que sienten un desdén mutuo. Pero un desafortunado incidente hará que deban enfrentarse a una disyuntiva: o se casan o pierden su reputación.

Huérfana desde pequeña, Arabella Hampton no ha sido más que una carga para sus tíos, que nunca la han querido. El único afecto que ha conocido le llegaba de la familia Jonquil, de Lampton Park; una oportunidad aparece en su camino de manera inesperada: le ofrecen ser la dama de compañía de la condesa viuda. Sin embargo, no es fácil vivir allí ocupando su posición, pues no es un miembro del servicio pero tampoco forma parte de la familia.

London, 1866. Móirín Donnelly has spent the last five years working in the shadows for the Dread Penny Society, a secret fraternity of penny dreadful authors who use their profits, influence, and street smarts to protect the poor and vulnerable of Victorian London. But spending so much of her life in secret is taking its toll on her soul—and her heart. When members of the Dread Penny Society begin disappearing, Móirín turns to her friend Detective Constable Fitzgerald Parkington for help.

This collector’s anthology compiles all the penny dreadful short stories from Sarah M. Eden’s five-book Victorian romance series. Included in this edition are three new never-before-released stories. Each short story is written in the style of the Victorian fiction that became so popular during that time period. From ghost stories to adventures to mysteries, Sarah weaves these gothic tales among her romantic storylines, making it the perfect way to celebrate the Dread Penny Society series.

Wyoming Territory, 1876. US Marshal John “Hawk” Hawking is one of the most respected lawmen in the West, so when a telegram arrives from the small town of Sand Creek warning him of a death threat against him, he immediately begins an investigation. Posing as a farmer, Hawk heads to Sand Creek, a town ruled by a violent and corrupt sheriff. Only one person is trying to stop him―Liesl, the sheriff’s own daughter. When Liesl meets the self-assured and attractive new farmer, John, she hopes he might help her in the fight for justice.

Dafne Lancaster está ante su primera temporada en Londres. Su familia dispone de conexiones sociales envidiables, pero ella es una joven tímida y no cuenta ni con la belleza de sus hermanas ni tampoco con su don para la conversación. Así que las cosas no se presentan fáciles. Sin embargo, la temporada se abre con la llegada de James Tilburn, un hombre amable y tierno que ya le robó el corazón cuando era joven.

For Kipling Summerfield, the glamour of Hollywood is becoming a distant memory. After losing the role of a lifetime, he’s forced to take a lesser job as a historical reenactor on England’s Guilford Island. But a sudden storm changes everything, casting him into the ocean—and into the care of a mysterious lighthouse keeper. Kip assumes everyone he meets and the island’s historical setting are just an elaborate performance—until he meets the captivating Amelia Archibald, whose quiet strength feels too real, making him question everything about Guilford.

Paisley Bell knows the eccentric people of Savage Wells. From the absentminded shopkeeper who always thinks she's been robbed to the young man who has returned shell-shocked from the war, Paisley has compassion for them all. When the sheriff up and leaves town, Paisley steps up and assumes the responsibility, partly because she loves the work but also because she needs the income to take care of her sick father.

Vera Sorokina loves reading the penny dreadfuls and immersing herself in tales of adventure, mystery, and romance. Her own days are filled with the often mundane work of running the book and print shop she owns with her father. The shop offers her the freedom and income to employ and protect the poverty-stricken Londoners she’s come to care about, and it gives her father something to do other than long for their hometown of St. Petersburg. She is grateful for the stability in their lives, but she often feels lonely.

London 1865: A gentleman scribes penny dreadful novels by night and falls in love with a woman who is a music teacher by day - and a thief at night.

Harry Windover adora a la rubia de ojos verdes Athena Lancaster, pero por desgracia, un hombre sin dinero como él no tiene esperanzas de ganarse la mano de una joven noble. Para añadir insulto a las lesiones, el cuñado y tutor de Athena, el duque de Kielder, ha pedido a Harry que ayude a Athena a encontrar al caballero de sus sueños. Pero el enamorado Harry también es astuto: a medida que pasan las semanas, presenta a Atenea a los pretendientes que son aburridos, alarmantemente apegados a sus madres, francamente groseros, asombrosamente ensimismados y completamente ridículos.

Un beso imprudente en una posada convertirá a dos jóvenes en marido y mujer sin pretenderlo. Una historia con reminiscencias de La fierecilla domada de Shakespeare que hará las delicias de las lectoras más románticas. Cuando Crispín, lord Cavratt, besa a una sirvienta en una posada, no espera que eso tenga consecuencia alguna. Sin embargo, la joven no es una sirvienta, sino una dama por nacimiento, además de la sobrina de un caballero importante que, para colmo, está muy enfadado.