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.
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...
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.
David Copperfield (Annotated) (David Copperfield (Illustrated and Annotated), #2)
by Charles Dickens
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...