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Charlie Jonquil siempre es un joven afable y educado, pero no cuando se topa con Artemisa Lancaster. Brillante en matemáticas, es sin embargo incapaz de resolver un problema: ¿cómo Artemisa puede ser tan encantadora y sacarlo de quicio a la vez? Cuando ambos coinciden en una fiesta en Londres, se nota que sienten un desdén mutuo. Pero un desafortunado incidente hará que deban enfrentarse a una disyuntiva: o se casan o pierden su reputación.

Philip Jonquil, conde de Lampton, se ha pasado los últimos cinco años buscando y capturando espías en suelo inglés. En busca de su próxima víctima, se topa en una posada con Sorrel Kendrick, una joven muy bonita, franca y a la que no consigue impresionar.

Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls' school in 1830s Victorian London. She is also a well-respected author of stories written both for and about the upper-class ladies of Victorian society. But by night, she writes very different kinds of stories - the Penny Dreadfuls that are all the rage among the working-class men. Under the pseudonym Charles King, Elizabeth has written about dashing heroes fighting supernatural threats, intelligent detectives solving grisly murders, and dangerous outlaws romancing helpless women.

Raised by guardians in Philadelphia, the Brinkman sisters have suddenly been bequeathed more than the truth about their late, estranged father - they've also inherited the Five Sisters Ranch, the dynasty he'd built for them in Eden, Colorado. It's theirs on one condition: to claim it, they must live on it for six months - a wilderness worlds away from the comforts of the city. For Belle Brinkman, her father's last wish could fulfill a dream she never knew she had.

London, 1866. Móirín Donnelly has spent the last five years working in the shadows for the Dread Penny Society, a secret fraternity of penny dreadful authors who use their profits, influence, and street smarts to protect the poor and vulnerable of Victorian London. But spending so much of her life in secret is taking its toll on her soul—and her heart. When members of the Dread Penny Society begin disappearing, Móirín turns to her friend Detective Constable Fitzgerald Parkington for help.

London 1865: A gentleman scribes penny dreadful novels by night and falls in love with a woman who is a music teacher by day - and a thief at night.

Beneath the oldest willow in Willow Park, Eleanor discovers a secret letter buried by time—and with it, a love she thought was lost forever. At 68, Eleanor has made peace with solitude, until a friend’s gentle insistence leads her back to the park she once shared with her first love, Richard. What she finds beneath the roots is more than a forgotten note—it’s a bridge between past and present, regret and redemption.

Als Helena unvermittelt bei ihrer Familie vor der Tür steht, hat sie die Schnauze voll von Männern. Einst ist sie nach New York gezogen, um den ruhigen Weiten Vermonts zu entfliehen. Dass sie dabei nicht nur ihre Familie, sondern auch ihren besten Freund zurückgelassen hat, war unvermeidbar. Dass sie früher oder später Noah über den Weg läuft, ist unvermeidlich.

Mercury Raine left London years ago, intending to never go back. Needing to never go back. His carefully guarded past is far too easy to piece together in that city. But the lady who has claimed his heart is being held hostage there, bait intended to draw him out. Determined to find her, Mercury takes the risk of returning to Town. Navigating the dangers that await him there will require all the stealthy survival skills he learned living on the streets of London and more than a little luck. But the peril that awaits him there is far greater than anything even he could imagine.

Ten years have passed since Finbarr O’Connor’s life was changed forever by the horrific fire that still haunts Hope Springs. He’s learned to navigate the world without his sight. He has even regained much of his independence. But he’s exhausted, worn down, lost. So, when an opportunity arises that would make his life far easier, he’s tempted. But accepting it would mean leaving Hope Springs and all his family.

An unexpected letter arrives for Lord Aldric Benick on the day of his father’s funeral, seemingly from beyond the grave, informing him of a mysterious inheritance waiting for him in France. Always ready for an adventure, his closest friends, the Gents, embark with him across the Channel to solve the intriguing riddle.

Mercury Raine is the most sought-after ghost broker in all the kingdom, with more ghosts than anyone knows and more secrets than one person should have. With a dangerous past threatening to catch up with him, Mercury has taken on the goliath task of training his new neighbor, Tacey Wilde, in the ghost brokering trade. Doing so isn’t without risks, but letting her and her all-too-knowing ghost simply walk away is far more perilous.

In the glittering world of the ton wealth is as important as rank, rank nearly as important as connections. But nothing is as vital to one’s success in Society as having the right ghost. What is fashionable in specters changes almost as often as preferred fabrics and necklines, favored Diamonds of Society and admired Town bucks. Trading an unstylish ghost can mean the difference between social success and utter failure. And no one is more adept at facilitating those trades than England’s most sought-after ghost broker... Mercury Raine.

Eighteen-year-old pencil artist Elizabeth Rhodes is on the cusp of a breakthrough art commission that could cement her future career: the debut of her drawings at L'étoile dans les Ténèbres, the social calendar's biggest art auction hosted by renowned art collector and gracious philanthropist Madame Penelope Garcon. Concealing her true identity as the mysterious artist Briar Rose.

Newton Hughes has long dreamed of pursuing a career in law, an acceptable choice for a gentleman of status and wealth. His parents, however, disapprove of his ambition, urging him instead to take his rightful place as a gentleman of leisure - with a suitable wife of their choosing, of course. Ellie Napper would like nothing more than for her parents to abandon their incessant efforts to marry her off to the greatest possible advantage. Her lack of matrimonial enthusiasm drives her family mad.

Finding love was not on the agenda for John-Michael, but he knew there was no harm in taking a second to enjoy these warm, fuzzy feelings. As a single father, he ultimately had to put his son first, and a fleeting romance was simply not an option. Still, his heart raced as his gaze reached Sadie's mouth. He would never act on it, but he would love to kiss her. He was definitely attracted to this woman, there was no denying it.

When my brother’s best friend took me under his wing after my family was killed, the last thing I expected was to fall for him. He was older, more experienced—and to keep people from asking questions, he was also my fake stepbrother. Catching feelings for the man who’d become my protector wasn’t supposed to happen. Until it did. And he fell for me too. But I should have known better than to believe in fairytales. Because just six months after he proposed, Evan vanished into thin air.

In USA Today bestselling author Janette Rallison's delightful novella, Job Hazards, Lydia Robinson is posing as a prostitute. Undercover of course. Lydia's job as a police officer hasn't reeled in her prince charming yet. That is, until Harrison Aldridge, old high school flame, pulls up to the corner to rescue the fallen damsel.