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A lady should never be obliged to think of matters financial! But when Lady Wilhelmina Bascombe's carefree, extravagant lifestyle vanishes with the demise of her husband, her only hope lies in retrieving a family treasure--a Renaissance masterpiece currently in the hands of a cunning art collector in Venice. Thankfully, the Lady Travelers Society has orchestrated a clever plan to get Willie to Europe, leading a tour of mothers and daughters...and...
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Really, it's too much to expect any normal man to behave like a staid accountant in order to inherit the fortune he deserves to support the lifestyle of an earl. So when Derek Saunders's favorite elderly aunt and her ill-conceived -- and possibly fraudulent -- Lady Travelers Society loses one of their members, what's a man to do but step up to the challenge? Now he's escorting the world's most maddening woman to the world's most romantic city to find...
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"Harry Armstrong has spent years in Egypt, recovering relics and disregarding rules. Now he's back in England with a new title and a new purpose: penning his exploits. But his efforts are overshadowed by London's favorite writer about Egypt--a woman they call The Queen of the Desert, of all things. Worse, her stories--serialized in newspapers and reprinted in books--are complete rubbish. Miss Sidney Honeywell didn't set out to deceive anyone. It's...
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A mysterious island. A missing brother. The adventure of a lifetime.East of the Solomon Islands, 1899 Under the protection of darkly handsome Captain Jorge de Silva, Lady Bathsheba Asquith lands on the tropical island of Vanuaka in search of her missing brother.The trials of the jungle strip away any pretense of propriety and passion flares, but de Silva is not all he seems, and Bathsheba is in more danger than she can imagine.A wonderful, page-turning...
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Kitty Talbot ist jung, hübsch und clever - leider aber auch arm wie eine Kirchenmaus. Als ihr Verlobter sie sitzen lässt, stehen Kitty und ihre vier Schwestern vor dem Ruin, denn die Spielschulden ihres verstorbenen Vaters können sie aus eigener Kraft niemals begleichen. Also wagt Kitty sich für ihre Schwestern auf das gefährlichste Schlachtfeld im England des Jahres 1818: die Bälle der Lords und Ladys in London. Obwohl die unkonventionelle...
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Lassen Sie sich ins romantische London der Regency-Zeit entführen
Eine Lady hat die Wahl ist ein charmant erzählter, zauberhafter historischer Liebesroman um eine kluge junge Witwe, zahlreiche Verehrer und die Frage: Will sie für die Liebe ihre Unabhängigkeit aufgeben?
Zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben ist Eliza Balfour frei und unabhängig: Die junge Frau ist seit kurzem Witwe - und Haupterbin des Vermögens von Lord Somerset. Die Ehe mit dem deutlich...
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¿Por qué un hombre abandonaría a su novia después de una sola noche de pasión?
Cinco años después de su angustia y humillación, Sofía está decidida a averiguarlo y a reclamar el lugar que le corresponde a su lado, incluso si eso significa viajar a las montañas salvajes de los Cárpatos para establecer su hogar en un castillo decrépito.
Maldecido por su linaje, Constantin fue un tonto al creer que el matrimonio con Sofía lo salvaría....
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"When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season -- no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has resolved to do as she wants. And what she wants is to head...