Lady Jocelyn Rathbourne was taken in by a pretty face and even prettier lies, leaving her family's reputation at stake. When the man who made promises to her announces his engagement to another woman, she knows the only way to avoid a scandal is to marry the cad's brother, the cold, formidable Duke of Calydon.Sebastian Thornton, the Duke of Calydon, is in need of a wife. Bored with the simpering ladies and overly-forward seductresses populating the ton, Sebastian longs to find a woman with fire and spirit. He never expected the perfect candidate to barge into his home, aim a derringer at his heart, and demand he marry her...
◆ He's a Duke. She's an Elemental of the Earth.◆The Duke: Duke Odwolfe of Manterra is known to his friends as Wolfe and to his enemies as Duke the Destroyer. When his prized bull goes missing, he discovers that Druids have stolen it and are about to sacrifice it in one of their pagan rituals. He's too late to save it, but demands one of the Druids return to the castle with him in exchange for his loss.The Dryad: Rae-Nyst is a dryad - an elemental of the earth. She gets her power from the earth and can talk to animals and control nature. However, fire is an element that can destroy her and all the nature that she loves. With the flame of the duke's torch in her face, she loses her strength and has no choice but to give in to the man, becoming naught more than his servant.Can a man who believes in nothing but war and destruction accept the exotic fae girl who honors all life instead of death? Or will she have to give up the ways of her nearly extinct kind to stay with him, listening to her heart instead of her head?Passion and fury rage in an epic adventure as two headstrong people find themselves faced with a dilemma that will either kill them or bring them closer together in the end.
Can a duke be thrown into debtor's prison? If so, Emily, dependent on her cousin, the heir to her father's impoverished dukedom, wonders what will become of her? With great reluctance, she agrees to marry a man willing to pay for an aristocratic bride. Rejected by the woman he loves, Ambrose Hawkins, shipper, importer, and former pirate, settles for a female who can further his social ambitions. His marriage to Emily is prospering until a man who blames Hawkins for the failure of his own courtship is murdered. Hawkins is the obvious suspect... ...and the obvious suspect usually hangs.
While gathering research for the puzzles she sells to newspapers, Vivian, the widowed Viscountess Rowden, literally stumbles across the arrogant Duke of Whitley. Whit, known to the ton as the Ice Duke, is spymaster for the Crown, and he has evidence of enemy agents using newspaper ciphers to send coded messages to Napoleon's army. His mission is clear--less clear are his feelings for the woman he may have to destroy. While Vivian struggles to put the past behind her and find a future where her heart can be safe, the duke must decide whether the lovely and independent viscountess is friend, foe, or fate.
Miss Linea Braddock is passionate about drawing and Avery, Lord Hammond--not necessarily in that order. Avery, heir to the Duke of Easton and a spy in His Majesty's service, is passionate about his work and Miss Braddock--definitely not in that order. Between fervid kisses and stolen interludes, they talk of marriage, but Avery stubbornly refuses to propose until he can put his family's famous engagement ring on Linney's finger. When Avery leaves suddenly without even saying goodbye, Linney decides to take things into her own hands and show him they belong together now. But everything changes when an old enemy resurfaces. Napoleon's spymaster wants revenge for the Corsican's defeat, and his ruthless plan is to get even by destroying everyone close to Avery--especially the woman he loves.
Excited guests at Haversham House count down the final minutes of 1812 while the Earl of Edgewood, a confirmed bachelor, can hardly wait to trade the festivities for a hot bath and a snifter of cognac. He's the only person to notice when a young lady slips out into the frigid night-and when she fails to return, it's up to him to save her from the deadly cold. Henrianna Barbour, escaping from an abusive stepfather, finds Edgewood, then loses him to Napoleon's machinations. As a spy for the British Crown, she becomes Madame Rose du Bois, mistress to a top French general, scandalizing and titillating Paris society...until love demands a different kind of truth.
Under royal command, The Duke of Astleyshire, William Harrington investigates a notorious writer stirring up trouble among the lower classes. Never one to back down from a challenge, he also makes a bet to bed a known man-hating lady. There is no way Georgiana Eaton will spend another season paraded in front of the ton's eligible bachelors. She has more important things to do, like secretly writing chapbooks that support workers' rights. When a roguish duke invites himself to her family's holiday celebrations at Trent Castle, Georgie fights back. Never mind their intense attraction, the duke and the lady despise each other. Believing that Winkentattle is one of Georgie's brothers, William follows her to a protest where all hell breaks loose. Now William and Georgie must appease the Prince Regent, save themselves from the gallows, and make it back to Trent Castle before Twelfth Night.
The talk of the town is behind closed doors. Have everything you burn for with The Duke and Duchess’s Kama Sutra. In this companion guide to the Regency bedroom, you and your gentleman will be offered Grosvenor Square’s best-kept secrets to seduction, passion, and the refined etiquette of fulfilling every desire. Feel how furtive glances and the yearning of a long-awaited touch leads to brimming passion, discover how the language of flowers—and of lust—can turn your courtship into a thrilling romance, and explore how achieving positions of high society can make your love’s flame one that endures for all time. This guide will reveal how to: Turn coy courtship into conquered desiresUse letters, flowers, and other elegant techniques as foreplayEmbrace fantasy scenarios, self-pleasure, and role-playingMaster sensual Duke and Duchess positions—from the tasteful to the blush-worthyHeighten anticipation, prolong intimacy, and honor shared pleasure While a lady and a gentleman never disclose their confidences, this guide to pleasure and passion whispers all the best secrets of love done so right that even Lady Whistledown would blush to repeat them.
The tawdry tale of the Duke and Duchess of Dunwoody continues... Maggie Armstrong, the long-lost illegitimate daughter of the heir presumptive to the throne, is bedeviled by her husband's limited definition of fidelity. After observing him in a m nage trois at the court of King Charles II, she is determined to bring him around to her way of thinking- by any means necessary. Robert doesn't mind being punished for his transgressions. Rather, he enjoys being whipped, especially by his beloved bride. Unfortunately, her heart might not belong to him alone. His younger brother, who he'd sent abroad to clear the way for himself, is coming home sooner than expected, and Maggie's feelings for Hugh may not be as dead as her husband had hoped. Both duke and duchess soon learn, to their peril, Hugh Armstrong is not the honorable man they'd been led to believe. Insanely jealous of his brother's situation, Hugh will stop at nothing to strip Robert of all he holds dear-including his life. But the real danger for Robert and Maggie is not the villainous marquess, but the growing friction betwixt Catholics and Protestants in Restoration Era Great Britain. Can their love survive the trials that await them?
Als notorischer Frauenheld trifft es Lord Nathan Mannings schwer, dass seine eigene Braut ihn in der Hochzeitsnacht verschm ht. Fortan versucht er sie aus seinen Gedanken zu verbannen. Lady Annabell Mannings, von ihrem Onkel in die Ehe gepr gelt, nimmt, nach jahrelang erduldeter Verbannung, ihre Zukunft selbst in die Hand. Eine Scheidung muss her und zwar schnell
