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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...

When Diego Montalvo, a dashing Spanish magician, moves next door to Charlotte Harris's School for Young Ladies, ostensibly to build a pleasure garden, the beautiful and determined Lucy Seton sets out to save the threatened school. But Diego finds heras interesting as his new project. Diego has really come to England to find the long-lost granddaughter of a Spanish Marques and return her to Spain, and he is convinced Lucy is the woman he's been looking for. Now, he just has to steal a look at her...

22 October 1789: I shall never forget that day. I shall never forget the decision I made. I was seventeen and so ill prepared for life that I hardly knew how to dress myself, let alone how to board a mail coach or even how to purchase a loaf of bread. When I fled my home at Melmouth Park, I left those who both loved and hated me behind. I threw myself upon the world, dear reader - and see what trouble has come of that. Do read my tale closely, for the warnings of your mamma and your governess w...

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...

Adrian Ferrers, Earl of Rivenham, is the most dangerous man in London. Rivenham will let nothing-not even the deepening shadow of war-interfere with his ambition to restore his family to its former glory. But when tasked by the king to uncover a traitor, he discovers instead a conspiracy, and a woman whose courage awakens terrible temptations. To save her is to risk everything. To love her might cost him his life. Lady Sarah Percy knows that Rivenham is the devil in beautiful disguise-and that t...

Julia North is jilted again, this time at a ball in her third London season. She rashly promises her mother that if she is allowed to go to Barrington to stay with her father's cousin, her mother can choose a husband for her when she returns.

When the rakish young Reeve, Earl of Cambridge, loses his shirt in a horse race, his trustee agrees to give him access to his inheritance, under the condition that he get married, but when Reeve's friend Deborah agrees to an engagement that will be endedby calling off the wedding before the actual d

Miss Jane Lowndes is a confirmed bluestocking. She's convinced that if she can wait out her parents' demand that she marry, someday she can be a confirmed spinster and hold intellectual salons, her fondest dream. No man wants a bluestocking for a wife after all. And that's exactly the way Jane likes it. In fact, she'd invented a fictitious chaperone to help her achieve that purpose. Lord Garrett Upton is a devil-may-care confirmed bachelor. He's lived through the war and now that he's back in Lo...