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Either way, here are some great new books to help you get through the month! At twenty-seven years old, Kate has the stigma of being passed over by eligible men many times—and that was before she had no dowry. Christopher would like nothing better than to make his own way in the world; and with a law degree and expertise in the burgeoning railroad industry, he was primed to do just that—in America.
Though their uncle tries to ensure Kate and Christopher find matrimonial prospects only among the highest echelon of British society, their attentions stray to a gardener and a governess. Who will follow the heart? But when she discovers that her new guardian plans to marry her off without so much as a Season, she forgets all that. She flees—on a horse she unwittingly steals oops! Leah Lindsey is glad to find refuge from her own desperate situation in a marriage of convenience with the gallant viscount. What is he hiding, and will he never allow her into his heart? William Grant made her laugh, ruining her debut.
But amiable Eugenia shows a disturbing tendency to follow her heart, and is again caught in the company of notorious Grant. Lady Vivian Worth knows perfectly well how to behave like a lady. When her betrothed arrives to finally meet her, Vivi will act every inch the lady—demure, polite, compliant. Everything her brother has promised the man.
Luke Forest, the newly named Duke of Foxhaven, wants nothing to do with his inheritance—or the bride that comes with it. When he discovers the skinny-dipping minx is his intended, he reconsiders his plan to find Lady Vivian another husband. Because the idea of this vivacious woman in the arms of another man might be enough to drive him insane—or to the altar.
Daring and defiant, Virginia Courtney risks her life by transporting Royalist fugitives to safety. But the fearless beauty arouses a passionate yearning that the honor-bound soldier has never before allowed himself to feel. Irresistibly drawn to her handsome captor, Virginia cannot forget that he is also her most treacherous enemy.
Yet with each caress, Alexander mounts a delicate assault on her senses, quelling all thoughts of rebellion—leaving her conscious of the perfection of his passion.
Torn between desire and duty, Virginia and Alexander become players in the most dangerous of games…where intrigue and betrayal rule the day and where love carries the inevitability of destiny. Huntley is pleasant and attractive, the perfect candidate in every way. By his own account, Wulf is a pauper, barely able to afford his own cottage.
Yet nothing will stop him from pursuing the elusive beauty with every cunning trick he can muster. But which is more important: To make the right choice, both Wulf and Lily must trust their hearts, not just their heads, to lead them to the happiness they desire. Is there no end to the irony? Come to town to find a wife, only to be taunted by the past?
But when he stuns her with a second, outrageous but now wickedly delicious proposal, it is clear that despite the rumors the rake from her past has not reformed! Now he owns the most thrilling new gaming establishment in London. Griff decides to teach her a lesson that will end the marriage debate forever. He chooses the serving girl.
All she wants is to hang up her barmaid apron and open a bookshop. Her duties are simple: Even if Society could accept a serving girl duchess—can a roguish duke convince a serving girl to trust him with her heart? Lady Sophia Bryant has no intention of marrying anytime soon. Her one desire is to reunite her parents, who have been estranged for fourteen years. Surely, if she happens to announce her betrothal—even a false one—they will be forced to see each other. Devilishly handsome Lord Francis Sutton seems perfect for such deceit, always agreeable to games of passion in which he has nothing to lose.
The trap is set—if only Lady Sophia can keep her foolish heart from falling prey to her brilliant snares. Even more surprising is her reaction to his shocking advances. She may be a lady, but this man knows so well how to make her feel like a woman. Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her.
Hugo is a gentleman in name only: He is happiest when working the land, but duty and title now demand that he finds a wife. He wants her, but will she have him? But through courtship and seduction, Gwen soon finds that with each kiss, and with every caress, Hugo captivates her more—with his desire, with his love, and with the promise of forever. The last thing Sophie Fortin expects at a masquerade ball is a dazzling kiss from a pirate.
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But when Jack begins a breathtaking seduction, Sophie can barely resist. The secret heir to a prince, Jack has spurned his royal heritage for years. His steamy encounter with Lady Julia unexpectedly has him rethinking his wicked ways, but in the end, Thomas flees temptation. Can two lovers with dark pasts overcome their tangled history and rekindle their former love? Robbed of her sight by a childhood fever, Audrey has been kept in virtual seclusion by her family. And now the enigmatic Robert Henslow, Earl of Knightsbridge, has complicated her scheme to gain independence, insisting they pretend to be engaged.
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Or something far more urgent and unexpected. As an extremely wealthy laird, Gowan Stoughton, Duke of Kinross, can have any of the maidens at the ball he attends. The only problem is they are all English and Gowan is not so certain they are suitable. He is accustomed to the hard-working lasses from his Highlands, not these dainty noblewomen who spend their days drinking tea or some other such nonsense. But then he makes the acquaintance of Lady Edith Gilchrist. Utterly bewitched by the emerald-eyed beauty with lush golden locks, he knows he must have her. Even worse, she accepted his proposal the following day.
Yet when they marry, Edie realizes her husband needs a lesson and locks herself in a tower. Somehow Gowan must find a way to enter the tower and convince his new bride that she belongs in his arms. If the stranger becomes a friend and the lady a mistress, all the better. He certainly welcomes the opportunity to help Laura Davenport, a dazzling young widow with a rebellious stepson. Her gratitude, he hopes, will take an amorous form. But from the moment he sets foot in her drawing room, he gets far more than he bargained for….
It was a moment of desperation. On the brink of losing her stepson, Laura turned to the notorious Lord Bellingham for help. How Bell earned his wicked reputation is clear; the surprise is how much more there is to him than the gossip sheets could possibly reveal. Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic arts of love…. The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasure.
But when the lessons become a temptation neither can resist, Elizabeth is forced to choose between obligation and forbidden passion…. When it comes to diamonds—like their men—some women prefer them rough…. For Adela, nothing could be more insulting—being denied her rightful inheritance for a randy scoundrel like Wilson, the very man who broke her heart following a lusty dalliance years ago.
Wilson and Adela are insatiable, but civility outside of the bedroom proves impossible. Determined to keep Adela in his bed, Wilson devises a ruse—a marriage of convenience that will provide her family with a generous settlement, as well as prevent scandalous whispers.
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Their plan works perfectly until family rivalries and intrigue threaten to destroy their arrangement…and the unspoken love blooming beneath it. In London after a two-year exile, Lord Blakeney plans to cut a swathe through the bedchambers of the demimonde. Marriage is not on his agenda, especially to an annoying chit like Minerva Montrose, with her superior attitude and a tendency to get into trouble.
The heat and noise of her debutante ball give Minerva a migraine. To her horror, the scandal will force them to do the unthinkable: Their mutual loathing blazes into unexpected passion but Blake remains distant, desperate to hide a shameful secret. You know those romances that feature intriguing secondary characters from previous romances? Well, this is one of those books which takes two characters we love from previous books and gives them their own romance. This one was a surprise success!
What do you get when you put an intelligent, outspoken bluestocking and a titled, seemingly dumb hero together? Alot of sparks-both good and bad! Fans of her last books know the hero and heroine as constantly arguing with each other and generally not getting along!
But Miranda does an amazing job of revealing deeper layers to both characters and showing us just how well they suit each other. The hero has a surprising secret that will endear him to readers who previously disliked him and Minerva is delightful with her bold, daring character even though she can be quite immature and impulsive at times. Their romance is full of unexpected sparks that remind one of Lizzy and Darcy type romance. The writing is wonderful-warm, fast-paced with just a sprinkle of wit and humor thrown in.
Fans will enjoy revisiting the other couples from the last books and new readers will need to pick up the rest of this wonderful series! Another wonderful romance from the very talented Miranda Neville! Lords of Vice Book 6. Click cover for more info! As a survivor of the legendary Charge of the Light Brigade, he has spent months as a remorseless rake and dissolute inebriate to forget it.
But Garrett also has also made powerful enemies who want him dead…. Desperate and down to her last pound, Lady Alexandra Langdon has disguised herself as a man for a place at the gaming tables. But when a hard-eyed, handsome man wins the pot, he surprises her by refusing her money. Indebted, she reveals to him an overheard plot against him, and promises to help him find his foes—for a price. But even as Alexandra fights her growing desire to reveal herself—and her heart—to the determined Garrett, she cannot shed the fear that the cost of her alliance with the earl may be a price too dear…her own secret betrayal.
Jack Valentine, third son of the famous Duchess of Love, is through being pursued by pushy young ladies. One particularly determined miss has run him out of his own house party. Luckily the inn has one bed left. Jack just has to share with a rather entertaining red-headed youth. Perhaps the two of them should ride to London together. Once the toast of the ton, Lady Angelina DeBrooke is no longer known just for her exquisite beauty, but more for her notorious marriages.
Dubbed the Dark Angel, she has fallen in love for the first time and wishes to marry, but fears finding herself a widow for the third time. With two poisoned husbands and a cloud of suspicion hanging over her head, she turns to the only man in England who might help her…. Her second husband was an old friend, and when he takes a closer look, he catches the scent of a foe he has hunted before—and knows this is his chance to finally trap the elusive prey…. Disgraced by her past employer, young governess Kate Walcott owes her loyalty to the only woman willing to hire her—the sought-after courtesan Mrs.
Georgette entrusts Kate with the care of her unruly children—and the writing of her shocking memoirs, which detail her affairs with famous gentlemen, including the rakehell who promised to marry her, then ruined her. Sir Colin Boscastle intended to keep his promise to Georgette—until his father was murdered. She knows he is a born heartbreaker and unreliable rogue.
Should she believe him when he whispers that, for her, he will change his sinful ways? Fallon, the Marchioness of Mystery, is a celebrated courtesan with her finger on the pulse of high society. No one knows anything about her past, and she plans to keep it that way. Warrick Fitzhugh will do anything to protect his compatriots in the Foreign Office, including seduce Fallon, who he thinks can lead him to the deadliest crime lord in London.
At the center of that darkness stand the powerful mage Houses, but the brutal murderer Ellie and Cam are hunting seems to be affiliated with none of them. When nothing is as it seems, and danger meets desire head on, sex can be an act of war. For Ellie, ensnared between the man she loves and the one she must destroy, the battle is about to begin….
An arranged marriage is merely a stepping stone to getting what he wants…. But when what he wants becomes Glory, plain and simple, will their newfound bond withstand his deception? To Caroline, getting married is tantamount to a death sentence, and meeting the rakish Max at a house party seems the answer to her prayers…. The rumor is up and the banns are read: The Dissolute Duke has finally wed!
With a name synonymous with sin and debauchery so shocking it is spoken of only in whispers, Taylen Ellesmere, Duke of Alderworth, is more surprised than anyone when he finds himself forced to marry! Before the ink is dry on the register, he turns his back on this sham of a marriage and leaves. Miss Annie Andrews is finally free to marry the man she loves. With her overprotective sister out of the country on her honeymoon, nothing can prevent her flight to Gretna Greene—nothing, that is, but an abduction by the wrong gentleman.
But when he spirits her away to his country house to prevent her elopement, he discovers that the tempting beauty knows how to put up a fight. Emily Portsman has a secret, and three years ago she decided the best way to keep it would be to work at the Tantalus Club, a notorious gaming establishment for gentlemen. His peers know him only as a bookish fellow who can find anything—or anyone.
In a game where no one is who they seem and when every conversation is a deadly dance of trust and desire, the only thing Nate knows for sure is that once he gets Emily in his arms, he will never let go…. When Clayton Campbell shows up on her doorstep, Olivia Swift is stunned. For long ago, Clayton was the boy who stole her heart. A man she believed dead, now standing before her, looking leaner, harder, more powerful than ever, his haunted eyes filled with a lust she had never seen—for vengeance….
After breaking up one ill-suited couple, Henrietta is obligated to find the perfect bride for the debonair James Glossup. But Henrietta discovers—in spite of her personal denials of love—that both she and James are indisputably drawn to each other. When con artist and actress Ophelia Kendrake and her sister visit the town of Dead End, she is mistaken for the Countess of Bridgewater, and sees an opportunity to fleece the community.
Lady Grace Ryburn is in love with a dashing young lieutenant, Colin Barry, but she turns away, thinking that Colin is in love with her sister. Should Colin throw propriety to the wind, imitate his pirate father, and simply take what he most desires? After years at sea, Sir Griffin Barry comes home to claim his wife. But is Phoebe his wife if their marriage was never consummated? As an infamous pirate, Griffin claimed and kept gold and jewels. By night Ellie Vyne fleeces unsuspecting aristocrats as the dashing Count de Bonneville. James finally has a lead on the thieving Count de Bonneville, tracking him to a disreputable inn.
He bursts in on none other than the brazen, irritating, nearly naked Ellie Vyne. He must get those diamonds back, and seducing Ellie will be the perfect bait. Especially when he wakens Olivia to pleasure without risking her maidenhead. A diamond worth thousands against a night with me? No London beauty has managed to tame the incorrigible Jasper Coale, though many have lost their reputations trying. In sedate Bath on a family errand, the viscount expects to find little in terms of entertainment—certainly no female company to tempt him.
But is she game enough to accept the most outrageous wager of all? A notorious scoundrel, the right Honorable Nicholas Bourne has spent years in the East Indies amassing a fortune through questionable means. Still, his loyalty to his older brother, Langdon, and his childhood friends remains true and trusted.
Unable to dissuade her from her quest to find a killer, he vows to keep her safe.