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...
The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. The poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, Roderick Dhu, James Fitz-James, and Malcolm Graeme, to win the love of Ellen Douglas; the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas; and a war between the lowland Scots (led by James V) and the highland...
DISCOVER THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S LewisTitus Groan, now almost twenty, escapes from Castle Gormenghast, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm.Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrest...
Sail to England. Return the enchanted heart. Save the devil's soul...Dianna's in over her head. The Queen is her ship now. Hers to sail with a crew to keep safe as they voyage across the Atlantic to stop Maria's evil plan of killing her mother. The stress of responsibility, her pregnancy, and helping Henry deal with his PTSD has become a nightmare from which she has nowhere to run. Henry is suffering, refusing to let her in, and Dianna is worried that their love won't survive the tumultuous jou...
El Principe Oscuro (Books4pocket Romantica, #15)
by Christine Feehan
She’ll Burn Before She Surrenders Phoenix Ashburn is a Runner who has dedicated her life to hunting and killing vampires. She’s determined to be the best, and for a Runner, that means taking risks to achieve glory. When Phoenix unintentionally kills a vampire of status, the Heir to the renowned vampire Coven, she finds herself marked for death by the most powerful vampire in the world, Coven Master Dorian Sterling. Dorian Sterling has ruled the Coven without mercy for eight centuries and refus...
The Sheikh's Secret Mistress (Desert Kings Alliance, #4)
by Mel Teshco
With a business skidding toward bankruptcy and bone-dry bank account, Helen Schrader is willing to do the unthinkable. But what will happen when she hires a witch to cast a money spell? When the spell sets in motion her own latent magic and her inexperience causes her to accidentally hex her celebrity crush, rocker Brian Shepherd, all that good fortune she hoped for flies out of the window. Now, Helen and Brian struggle to break the curse and tackle their growing feelings for each other. Probl...