Midsummer Moon (Regency Tales, #1)
by Amanda Moor Jay and Laura Kinsale
When a powerful, decisive aristocrat undertakes a mission to protect an absent-minded young inventress from England's enemies, he finds his orderly world turned into chaos. Merlin Lambourne's stubborn dream of flight puts her at risk-and is driving Ransom crazy. In spite of himself, he is oddly enchanted by this muddled miss and her eccentric ways . . . but can he overcome his own fears and realize her invention may be the answer to saving both of their lives? A whimsical Regency-era tale of...
From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted `The Book of Fires’, an extraordinary tale of love and science. When Henry Lyte brings his young bride Frances home to his Somerset estate, he hopes she will share in his devotion to the garden – a refuge of fruit trees and flower beds, with a knot of herbs at its heart. Henry is a scholar, and his life’s work is his `herbal’ – a book of plants and their medicinal properties, intended for those who cannot afford physicians’ expensive...
To Kiss a Count (Harlequin Historical, #997) (Mills & Boon Historical)
by Amanda McCabe
Her dashing nobleman... Leaving exotic Sicily behind, and with it her heart, Thalia Chase returns to England to visit her sister - and to try and forget the enigmatic Italian Count di Fabrizzi. She's shocked to suddenly see him in Bath - and in the company of a suspected thief! His determined lady... Marco, Count di Fabrizzi, is on a dangerous mission and doesn't need the beautiful Lady Chase hindering his progress. B...
Eugénie Grandet (Scenes de la Vie de Province, #2) (Petits Classiques Larousse Texte Integral, #88)
by Honore de Balzac
Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arri...
The Marquis' Mistake (The Charrington Chronicles, #2)
by Giselle Marks
Searching for a little adventure before surrendering to the dull dictates and responsibilities of a boring society marriage, Lady Eleanor Griffith may have gotten more than she had asked for when she enlists the assistance of notorious rake Valentine Corbett. Original.
Marriage To A Rough-Hewn Stranger Wasn't Part Of Her Plan! Yet here Kate Dennington was, inconveniently married to closemouthed fur trapper Will Crockett-just to secure her rightful inheritance. She couldn't wait to get home to Ireland-so why did any glimpse of her husband tell her home is where the heart is? He Was A Trapper, Not A Storekeep! How he got tangled up with Kate Dennington and her troubles, Will Crockett couldn't fathom. True, the fire in Kate's eyes ma...
She arrived as a housekeeper Will she leave a countess? To some Thornhallow Hall might be tarnished by tales of vengeance and ghosts, but to new housekeeper Rebecca Merrickson it represents independence and peace from her tumultuous past. Until the estate’s owner William Reid, the disappeared Earl, unexpectedly returns… After clashing over the changes she’s made to the house, Rebecca slowly unearths the memories that haunt brood...
Eveleen's Seduction (Twelve Dancing Princesses, #8)
by Christine Young
The Dishonorable Miss Delancey (Regency Brides: A Legacy of Grace, #3)
by Carolyn Miller
"As the eighteenth century draws to a close, the Kwahadi Comanches seem to be making their peace with the settlers of the Spanish Colony of New Mexico. No one is as relieved as Marco Mondragón and his adored wife Paloma Vega, whose ranch, the Double Cross, sits on the edge of Comanchería. Their tranquility is short-lived, however, for other Comanches are terrorizing the plains, led by the ruthless renegade, Great Owl."--Author's website