Powerful Maxwell Lacey saves Confederate veteran Cole Heflin from the hangman so that Cole can bring Lacey's granddaughter, Marietta, an opera singer with a wealthy protector, to see him before he dies--by force if necessary.
June 1944. Eighteen-year-old Ginnie Travis works in her father's furniture shop in the suburbs of East London when the continued bombing raids and her sister Shirley's untimely pregnancy force the two girls to go and stay with their aunt in Shropshire. Here Ginnie falls in love with an American, Lieutenant Nick Miller, stationed nearby. But she discovers that Nick has a fiancée back home and a heartbroken Ginnie ends the relationship. Then news of their father's death in an air raid reaches them...
Forced from her father's humble Norfolk vicarage, Ellen Gowan finds herself in an unforgiving London. At fifteen she falls for Raoul de Valentin, the dangerous descendant of French aristocrats. Raoul marries Ellen for her brilliance as a designer but abandons his wife when she becomes pregnant. Determined that she and her daughter will survive, Ellen begins her long climb to success. Toiling first in an east-end factory, she finally opens her own salon in Berkeley Square. One single dress, a b...
An Australian Girl in London (Colonial Australian Popular Fiction, #3)
by Louise Mack
AN ARTIST, A LADY, A SECRET PASSION... When Benedict Cole shuns her request for painting lessons, Lady 'Cameo' Catherine Mary St Clair takes matters into her own hands. She arrives at Benedict's studio - only to be mistaken for a model! It's an opportunity she just can't turn down... Benedict knows better than to let intimacy interfere with his work, yet he can't quell his fascination for the mysterious Cameo. And after one daring night together everything changes. Will Cameo...
Lydia is a Widow (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Clean and Wholesome Continuation, #3)
by His Everlasting Love Media and Eliza Heaton
This is the first book in a romantic new series by Avon Books debut author Lecia Cornwall.
Despite her firm belief that he is an unscrupulous swindler, Ellen Cornelius finds herself drawn to the handsome Steve Corey, who has been hired to lead her gullible elderly aunt on an expedition to find the fountain of youth. Original.
The acclaimed author of The Devil You Know pens a shimmering novel about a Scottish noblewoman on the run from her past and a powerful English lord brought to his knees by desire. Aubrey Montford claims to be a widowed housekeeper. Desperate to keep her new post-and her secrets-she transforms desolate Castle Cardow into a profitable estate. Yet soon after her employer, Lord Walrafen, returns from long years of absence, Aubrey is suspected of murder. Sparks and tempers ignite whenever she and t...
David Copperfield (Annotated) (David Copperfield (Illustrated and Annotated), #2)
by Charles Dickens
