Seduced, abandoned and pregnant, Arabella Shelley is determined her baby's father will support them. Horrified to discover his death, she is shocked at the demand of his brother, the handsome, inscrutable Viscount Hadleigh. To...
Aristocracy (Social class)
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Author:Allen, LouiseSummary: -
Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:A nun and a monk defy death and dishonor at her family’s Welsh fortress. In the winter of 1271, Death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border. When the Grim Reaper touches the beloved grandson of the castle lord,...
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Author:LOVELL, Mary S.Summary:THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an obsessional doomed love which soured her...
- Author:Phillips, Michael R., Pella, JudithSummary:
Seventeen year-old Maggie Duncan is torn between her obligations as a dutiful daughter and her hatred of her father's cruel pursuit of money and power.
- Author:Stratton, AllanSummary:
Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to destroy her and her parents.
- Author:Krahn, BetinaSummary:
When Frances Bumgarten encounters a handsome stranger in her kitchen in the middle of the night, her first impulse is to wallop the scoundrel on the head with a bread paddle. And when Frankie discovers he is "The Fox," a...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the...
- Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
An enthralling novel set in early 19th-century England, Paris, and New York, featuring an indomitable young heroine who rises from ruin to become the toast of Paris, by way of the chic bordello she establishes for the most powerful men...
- Author:Balogh, MarySummary:
War-blinded Lord Darleigh avoids the friends and family to whom he can no longer relate while spending more time with fellow veterans in the Survivors' Club and slowly bonding with a woman who helps him find healing and wholeness...
- Author:Feather, JaneSummary:
Three friends who met at an elite English boarding school take on the town-and the ton-one by one, in this sparkling new series about love, loss, and lustrous gemstones, from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather ... A FINE...
- Author:Hoyt, ElizabethSummary:
When prim and thrifty Eve Dinwoody agrees to control the purse strings of Harte's Folly, London's premier pleasure garden, she butts heads with the infuriating Asa Makepeace. But the harder Eve tries to manage him, the harder...
- Author:Balogh, MarySummary:
During a rare white Christmas at Brambledean Court, the widow Elizabeth, Lady Overfield, defies convention by falling in love with a younger man in the latest novel in the Westcott series. After her husband's passing, Elizabeth...
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Author:Jewel, CarolynSummary:The earl of Banallt is a reformed rake determined to win the heart of the only woman he’s ever loved. Two years after the death of her husband, Sophie Mercer Evans still has no use for Banallt. It’s true she knows him better than anyone...
- Author:Carey, PeterSummary:
Olivier, the son of penniless aristocrats who barely escaped the violence of the French Revolution, sets sail to America to avoid confrontation with his enemies. Meanwhile, Parrot, a young Englishman, also leaves for America. Over the...
- Author:Putney, Mary Jo.Summary:
Damian Mackenzie is an incorrigible gambler just honorable enough to save Lady Kiri Lawford from dangerous smugglers. That does not, however, mean he has any desire to return her romantic interest--until he learns Kiri's not...
- Author:Rodale, MayaSummary:
Dans ce second tome de la délicieuse série de Maya Rodale mettant en scène trois ingénues condamnées à faire tapisserie, la jeune fille la moins susceptible de Londres de provoquer un scandale décoiffe la bonne société… S’être conduite...
- Author:Rodale, MayaSummary:
La nouvelle et captivante série de Maya Rodale met en vedette les trois Jeunes filles les Moins Susceptibles de Londres — trois giroflées, autrement dit trois laissées pour compte, qui vont bientôt faire l’envie de tous. Lady Emma Avery...
- Author:Scott, AmandaSummary:
Un homme de parole Le lord du Border, Walter Scott de Rankilburn, frappé douloureusement par la mort de son père, se rend dans la forêt pour y trouver du réconfort. Il y découvre plutôt une jeune lady à demi nue qui fuit ses...
- Author:Price, StevenSummary:
In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. With a firm devotion to the...
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Author:Lawrence, D. H.Summary:An account of Constance Chatterley's love for Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, and the sense of completeness that they find in each other.
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