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The Bride Price por QuenbyOlson
The Bride Price
QuenbyOlson
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  • Partes 24
To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry. Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss. Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.
The Contract Duchess, a Regency Romance: Key To My Heart Book 1 por MountainMomma81
The Contract Duchess, a Regency Romance: Key To My Heart Book 1
MountainMomma81
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  • Votos 1,975
  • Partes 32
How difficult can it be to consummate a marriage of convenience? More than you might imagine. Derrick Williams had his life as the Duke of Chesterton planned out when he arrived at the reading of his father's will. An unexpected condition on the title reunites him with Angie, a childhood friend, in a marriage of convenience, and he dares to make new plans for the future. But Angie's life is ruled by her frail health, a weakness that makes her future anything but certain. Will Derrick and Angie be overcome by all that threatens to keep them apart, or will they find happiness together despite their circumstances?
Family With Honour (Book 4)  por randomthoughts96
Family With Honour (Book 4)
randomthoughts96
  • LECTURAS 221,092
  • Votos 18,345
  • Partes 48
Lord Bear Usani has dealt with a great many of emotions through his life: happiness, excitement, victory, mischief...loss, sadness, grief, guilt... The latter weigh heavily on his mind. He lost his father at a young age, his younger brother only a few years ago, then the woman he intended to marry only six months ago. His loss swallows him but it is not his biggest enemy. Guilt threatens to take him away from all those that love him. This is one brother whose happily ever after has already abruptly ended. But then he meets her. Neither want love but they may just be able to save each other without it. Can he save her while he destroys himself? (Book Four in the Honour Series)
The Passion of London [Highlander's Love #1] por kitsumiekat
The Passion of London [Highlander's Love #1]
kitsumiekat
  • LECTURAS 656,496
  • Votos 29,599
  • Partes 23
HIGHEST RANKING #6 in HISTORICAL FICTION! --- For all her life, Lady Evie Verrick had been regaled of tales of the Highlands from her Highland born and bred mother. She had grown up dreaming of chivalrous knights, sword-fighting, horse back riding. Tales of kin and family, loyalty and the warmth of a home. But being brought up in a traditional English household with a traditional father, her mother was the closest thing to the Highlands she could get. And when her mother died of pneumonia before her coming out, left to her father's care, Evie wants now, more then ever, to see the promised lands that she grew up with. --- Connor Gilroy had served as the first in command to the MacKenzie clan for as long as he could remember. He owed his loyalty to his best friend and brother in arms, Hammond MacKenzie, who had saved him from being skinned alive by English soldiers years ago, before the truce was signed between the two lands. Having no love lost for the country, Hammond would be the only person who could ever convince Connor to step foot back into English lands. His chief had recently received news on the death of the aunt he has never met, but Hammond was a man of his word, and he had promised his father he would care for all kin, regardless of who they were. But Connor never would've imagined that the cousin of his best friend would be a spirit of the flames. The way Evie took on life and all of its problems with a passion that ignited a hearth, would perhaps be the first time someone ever ignited more then just passion and desire within him.
Pandora's Box por kitsumiekat
Pandora's Box
kitsumiekat
  • LECTURAS 19,786
  • Votos 1,493
  • Partes 25
Pandora had always known a life of luxury. As the daughter of a songstress and a high ranking Navy officer, she had never needed to lift a finger. Talented with a paintbrush and putting her imagination to canvas, Dora is a well celebrated artist who often holds exhibition galleries. With a penthouse right in the middle of Chicago provided to her by her parents, and her sales earning her enough money for her to live a life of comfort, Dora's life seemed more then perfect. But a huge part of her life is missing to her, and try as she may, she could not seem to get her parents to let her know what had happened. They always brushed her off, and Dora had learned to just not ask lest she induces her mother's famous temper. That is, until she met Ryland Jarett
Choosing Love Over Honor [Agents of the Crown #2] por kitsumiekat
Choosing Love Over Honor [Agents of the Crown #2]
kitsumiekat
  • LECTURAS 49,042
  • Votos 2,509
  • Partes 15
Watty's Longlist 2018! --- As the owner of a gaming hell, Lionel Chadwick lived on the edges of London's Society, not fully accepted yet not entirely shunned due to the sheer amount of wealth he owned. With a plethora of females around him at his gaming hell, the Museum of Money, no one ever questioned why he never was permanently attached. Charlotte Rothesay, youngest sister to the Duke of Avondale, has watched Lionel Chadwick grow up her whole life, and she could never imagine herself with anyone else. After having her heart broken time and time again as Lionel caroused, played and switched mistresses, along with how he intentionally put distance between them, Charlie has had enough, and was setting her sights elsewhere. While she was a strong and very wilful girl, she had her limits, and Charlie has had enough of setting her sights on someone who would never come to her. But when years go by and they still remained on the peripherals of each other's life, maybe Fate has had enough of their tiptoeing around each other. One week together from an accidental time together, and maybe their life may take an interesting turn.
The Secret in East End  [Agents of the Crown #1] por kitsumiekat
The Secret in East End [Agents of the Crown #1]
kitsumiekat
  • LECTURAS 413,450
  • Votos 22,747
  • Partes 27
A FEATURED STORY IN HISTORICAL FICTION HIGHEST RANKING #7 in HISTORICAL FICTION --- Ellie had been undercover for most of her life. She had been a pickpocket for as far as she can remember, under the guise of Elliot. Any memory before the age of ten was blank in her head, with no recollection of how she had ended up under the charge of a gang of street rats as a child. Her life was meant to be mundane, as long as she remained under her secret identity. Until she tried to steal from the wrong pockets that is. --- Fabian Rothesay, the new Duke of Avondale, had spent the last 2 years rebuilding the coffers of his father, in order to ensure that the Avondale estate was not about to crumble around their feet. Taking over his father's spot as the Duke had not been an easy task, but in his doing so for the past 2 years, he has raised as one of the most eligible bachelors of the ton. What the ton doesn't know is that Fabian is biting to return to his previous life. What people believed to be a holiday around the continent, was actually Fabian's cover as he worked as an Agent of the Crown. His new status as a Duke however, did not make him want to step down as an Agent just yet, especially with a recent case that specifically embroils a series of planned heists within the ton. --- As the two are thrown together in a series of circumstances that was mostly chance, sometimes fate, and with a dash of secrecy, how would the turmoil change their lives?
To Defend A Duke por vickitickitoria
To Defend A Duke
vickitickitoria
  • LECTURAS 476,378
  • Votos 25,966
  • Partes 40
Four years ago, Evelyn Wright's perfect life as a debutante in London was ripped away from her, and her family moved to the countryside. Since then, she has adjusted to the simple life, but one letter is about to send her to the city and back into the life of a socialite, forced to suffer through balls, matchmaking, scheming mothers and worst of all, despicable rakes. Evelyn wants nothing to do with this life, eager to return home, until a ​fateful decision throws her into the path of one of societies most daring rakes, Nathanial Blackmore, the Duke of Winchester. He is arrogant, rich and entitled, everything she despises about men, but as the unlikely pair begin to work together to avoid the hangman's noose, she discovers that there is a lot more to him than sinful smiles and dangerous promises. Can they escape the death sentence that hangs above them? Or is Evelyn more in danger of losing her heart, than her head?
Lady Griffith's Second Chance por QuenbyOlson
Lady Griffith's Second Chance
QuenbyOlson
  • LECTURAS 132,420
  • Votos 8,792
  • Partes 24
Seven years have passed since Regan lost the love of her life. During that time, she found solace raising her three children, sequestering herself in the country and away from the talk and bustle of society. But now her eldest daughter is beginning her own search for a husband, and Regan finds herself drawn back into the public eye after so many - too many - years away. She meets Thomas Cranmer, a young - too young - and handsome gentleman who should have his attentions focused on other women, women lacking the age and grief she earned as a widow and mother. Yet he seeks her out, winning her over with his smiles and wit, reminding her of what it is to be a woman, and a desirable one at that. But when secrets are revealed and her respectability threatened, Regan discovers there is life beyond grief, and that perhaps it is possible to find love a second time...
The Unknowing Heiress por littleLo
The Unknowing Heiress
littleLo
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  • Partes 27
Maggie Swift had always known something was missing from her life. She had everything an eighteen year old aristocrat could want - a title, wealth, a good family, and an incredible friend in Max Montgomery. What could possibly be missing? Many do not see past the audacious and joyous personality of Maggie Swift, the outspoken American child that Nate Swift, Earl of Montrose, adopted eleven years earlier. Many do not see the fact that she has always felt like an outsider, and that she truly believes that something is missing in her life. But a knock on the door of Montrose Manor will change Maggie's life. It will take her across an ocean to a life she never knew. But what Maggie has to decide is this: Who is she? Where does she belong? Who does she belong with? And most importantly, where is home?