Download or read book A Love Match for the Marquess written by Cara Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the perfect wife? Check. Marry the lady? Check. Move on with life? ... This Marquess' marriage is not turning out the way he expected. His fiery bride has won his hand, now can she win his heart? To have and to hold Vivacious, bold, beautiful Madison Hutton is an instant success when she arrives in London for her debut season. While she has caught the eye of many an eligible bachelor, her head is not so easily turned. Madison is looking for one thing: a true love marriage. When she meets Henry, a dashing young marquess, she thinks she has found her perfect match... After years of wild bachelorhood, Henry is ready to find a suitable wife and settle down. The enchanting Madison checks all the boxes: smart, outgoing, sweet. She will make the perfect marchioness. The raging attraction between them? That is a bonus. To find a love that is true But as the wedding bells fade, Madison and Henry both realize marriage is not as easy as they thought it would be. And the person they married? A stranger, a rake, a partner...a true love? ------- The Hesitant Husbands is a steamy Regency romance series. Each book can be read and enjoyed as a stand-alone romance novel. A Love Match for the Marquess is Book 3 in the series, but the first story chronologically.

Download or read book Born to Scandal written by Diane Gaston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widower’s search for a reputable governess may lead him to a scandalous bride in this delightful Regency romance. London, 1816. Lord Brentmore—half Irish peasant, half English aristocrat—grew up under a cloud of scandal. Even money and a title aren’t enough to stay the wagging tongues of the Ton. But he’s vowed that his children will never experience the same stigma. Now, after the death of their infamous mother, they need a reputable governess. Anna Hill is too passionate, too alluring. Yet she fills Brentmore Hall with light and laughter—and its master with feelings he thought he’d never feel again. It is his heart’s desire to make her his wife, but a lord marrying a governess would be the biggest scandal of all!

Download or read book The Waverly Women Series written by M. C. Beaton and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three delightful historical romances from the New York Times bestselling author known as “the best of the Regency writers” (Kirkus Reviews). Experience the passion of the Waverly Women, sisters who have been raised to stand up against the iniquities of the male sex. Fanny, Frederica, and Felicity meet their matches in this three-volume Regency romance collection that includes The First Rebellion, Silken Bonds, and The Love Match. The First Rebellion (Book 1): Though she tends to think of all men as cruel and lustful beasts, the beautiful and shy Miss Fanny soon finds herself longing to kiss the Earl of Tredair, one of the most hated of his kind! Silken Bonds (Book 2): Frederica, Mrs. Waverly’s adopted daughter, knows that until men stop preferring lisping dimwits over intellectual equals, she’ll be better off without them. Until Lord Harry Dangers rescues her from a pack of drunken thugs . . . The Love Match (Book 3): Felicity, a champion of women’s rights, is the secret author of a scandalous new novel about a lady “rake” and her passionate exploits. But she can’t hide her attraction to the titled gentleman intrigued by her headstrong ways . . . Praise for M. C. Beaton and her novels “A delightful tale . . . romance fans are in for a treat.” —Booklist “Nicely atmospheric, most notable for its gentle humor and adventurous spirit.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Lady of a Grump written by Linda Rae Sande and published by Twisted Teacup Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a grouch. She's the reason. Having said her farewells to her son when he departed for his Grand Tour of Europe, Patience Grayson, the newly widowed Marchioness of Billingsley, heads for the country. She intends to spend at least a year living by herself in the Grayson family estate in Shropshire. If only her traveling coach could make it that far. When a wheel breaks, it does so in a most inconvenient location. Saddled with an earldom left nearly bankrupt by his late father’s gambling and drinking, Max Higgins, Earl of Greenley, hasn’t had a good day for over twenty years—not since the woman he was supposed to marry threw him over for another. Ever since, his bitterness has him known throughout Staffordshire as the Earl of Grump. Although he found another to be his countess, the poor woman died giving birth to his heir, some say to escape his surly moods. Max’s solitude in his Staffordshire country manor house is about to be shattered when the cause of his grumpiness invades his home—and his bedchamber—on a late winter night. Will life ever be the same?

Download or read book The Temporary Wife A Promise of Spring written by Mary Balogh and published by Dell. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two classic tales of Regency-era romance from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh, the vagaries of love have a way of challenging the most convenient arrangements. THE TEMPORARY WIFE Miss Charity Duncan has no illusions about Lord Anthony Earheart’s proposal. The arrogant aristocrat has made it painfully clear what he wants: a wife who will enrage the father he despises and then disappear from his life. In exchange, Charity’s family will receive the money they desperately need. But after Charity agrees to this mockery of matrimony, she soon discovers a startling fact: She has fallen for Anthony, and breaking their marriage vows may also break her heart. A PROMISE OF SPRING Grace Howard has every reason to be devoted to Sir Peregrine Lampman. After all, the gallant gentleman rescued her from poverty by making her his bride. Even more nobly, he did not withdraw his affection after she confessed to a youthful folly that had compromised her virtue. But Grace did not tell the whole truth about the handsome lord who betrayed her—and now the one thing she’s kept from Perry threatens to destroy her last chance at true love.

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole’s house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel’s themes of violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements, dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe, whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk created a new gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life, hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability, perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on the Gothic—combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers alike.

Download or read book The Season written by Sarah MacLean and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford doesn't fit into the world of Regency London. Somehow between ball gown fittings, dances, and dinner parties, Alex and her friends manage to get entangled in her biggest scrape yet.

Download or read book A Most Determined Woman written by Emma Blair and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Sarah Hawke, daughter of an impoverished miner, life offered little beyond the grime of Glasgow in the 1890s and the eternal drudgery of back-breaking work. Until a mysterious stranger entered her life. A stranger who turned out to be her real father - and the owner of a vast and prosperous shipping empire. Catapulted into a world of luxury, of servants and stately homes, Sarah begins a new and glittering life. As sole heiress to a fortune, she has much to gain - and everything to lose. For she takes over the business, and with it the risks and rivalry, deceit and intrigue - and the prospect of undying love . . . From Scotland to Paris, from Jamaica to South Africa, Sarah charms - and fights - her way to success against all odds. For she is dealing in a man's world, where the only way to succeed is to be a most determined woman. Praise for Emma Blair: 'An engaging novel and the characters are endearing - a good holiday read' Historical Novels Review 'All the tragedy and passion you could hope for . . . Brilliant' The Bookseller 'Romantic fiction pure and simple and the best sort - direct, warm and hugely readable. Women's fiction at an excellent level' Publishing News 'Emma Blair explores the complex and difficult nature of human emotions in this passionately written novel' Edinburgh Evening News 'Entertaining romantic fiction' Historical Novels Review '[Emma Blair] is well worth recommending' The Bookseller

Download or read book Report on the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Downshire written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Downshire Preserved at Easthampstead Park Berks Papers of Sir William Trumbull written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crown of Blood written by Nicola Tallis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.” These were the heartbreaking words of seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold February morning in 1554. She is known to history as "the Nine Days Queen," but her reign lasted for thirteen days. The human and emotional aspects of her story have often been ignored, although she is remembered as one of the Tudor Era’s most tragic victims. While this is doubtless true, it is only part of the complex jigsaw of Jane’s story. Crown of Blood is an important and significant retelling of an often-misunderstood tale: set at the time of Jane’s downfall and following her journey through to her trial and execution, each chapter moves between the past and the “present,” using a rich abundance of primary source material (some of which has never been published) in order to paint a vivid picture of Jane’s short and turbulent life.

Download or read book Simply Perfect written by Mary Balogh and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. Set against the seductive backdrop of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh’s latest novel sweeps us into the sensual, enthralling world of an elite academy for young ladies. Here, amid music lessons and garden parties, whispered confessions and secret yearnings, one of the school’s teachers—headmistress Claudia Martin—will find her well-ordered world jolted by love when she meets a man who would make the perfect husband…for somebody else. Tall, dark, and exquisitely sensual, he is the epitome of male perfection. Not that Claudia Martin is looking for a lover. Or a husband. As owner and headmistress of Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, she long ago resigned herself to a life without love. Until Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough, arrives unannounced and tempts her to toss away a lifetime of propriety for an affair that can only lead to ruin. Joseph has his own reasons for seeking Claudia out. Instantly, irresistibly attracted to the dedicated teacher, he embarks on a plan of seduction that leaves them both yearning for more. But as heir to a prestigious dukedom, Joseph is expected to carry on his family’s legacy. And Claudia knows she has no place in his world. Now that world is about to be rocked by scandal. An arranged marriage, a secret that will shock the ton, and a man from Claudia’s past conspire to drive the lovers apart. But Joseph is determined to make Claudia his at any cost. Even if that means defying convention and breaking every rule for a love that is everything he has ever wanted—a love that is perfection itself…

Download or read book Simply Magic written by Mary Balogh and published by Dell. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a splendid August afternoon Susanna Osbourne is introduced to the most handsome man she has ever seen . . . and instantly feels the icy chill of recognition. Peter Edgeworth, Viscount Whitleaf, is utterly charming—and seemingly unaware that they have met before. With his knowing smile and seductive gaze, Peter acts the rake; but he stirs something in Susanna she has never felt before, a yearning that both frightens and dazzles her. Instantly she knows: this brash nobleman poses a threat to her heart . . . and to the secrets she guards so desperately. From the moment they meet, Peter is drawn to Susanna’s independence, dazzled by her sharp wit—he simply must have her. But the more he pursues, the more Susanna withdraws . . . until a sensual game of thrust-and-parry culminates in a glorious afternoon of passion. Now more determined than ever to keep her by his side, Peter begins to suspect that a tragic history still haunts Susanna. And as he moves closer to the truth, Peter is certain of one thing: he will defy the mysteries of her past for a future with this exquisite creature—all Susanna must do is trust him with the most precious secret of all. . . .

Download or read book Pocket Guide to Edwardian England written by Evangeline Holland and published by Evangeline Holland. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from lectures and blog posts on Edwardian Promenade, the Pocket Guide to Edwardian England poses to give a fun, frothy, but thorough look at the time period made popular by Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs! From the royal family of Edward VII to the working class, to the servants who toiled in great country houses and their masters, to the mighty politicians and their goals. For anyone wanting a short and concise, yet deeply engrossing look at this opulent era, Pocket Guide to Edwardian England is just book to take you away.

Download or read book Dark Angel Lord Carew s Bride written by Mary Balogh and published by Dell. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh come two classic tales of love turned dangerous, set amid the splendor of Regency England—a time rife with passion, betrayal, and intrigue. DARK ANGEL Jennifer Winwood has been engaged for five years to a man she hardly knows but believes to be honorable and good: Lord Lionel Kersey. Suddenly, she becomes the quarry of London’s most notorious womanizer, Gabriel Fisher, the Earl of Thornhill. Jennifer has no idea that she is just a pawn in the long-simmering feud between these two headstrong, irresistible men—or that she will become a prize more valuable than revenge. LORD CAREW’S BRIDE Jennifer’s cousin Samantha Newman is smarting after she too is toyed with by Lord Kersey. In the midst of her heartbreak, she seeks solace from her new friend, the disabled gardener Hartley Wade. If only she knew that Hartley is secretly Lord Carew, and that he hides more than extraordinary wealth: a passionate secret held deep in his heart that only her love can reveal.

Download or read book The Day Dreaming Lady written by Jacqueline Diamond and published by K. Loren Wilson. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a Regency lady win back the man she rejected? Lady Sara Rowdon is a day-dreamer who imagines herself jousting with villains. If only she could win her real battle, with love. At her parents’ insistence, Sara broke her own heart by rejecting her impoverished suitor in hopes of finding a wealthy husband. She had no idea that her father had brought on their financial difficulties by gambling. Since then, Captain Kenneth Link unexpectedly inherited a title and a fortune. Now Sara’s parents, near ruin, order her to win him back, but how can she persuade the new Marquess of Broadmoor that she truly does love him? Or perhaps, if she stopped day-dreaming and put her mind to it, she might discover that he never stopped loving her, either. Cover by customgraphics.etsy.com "...a very fresh tale of a rejected poor suitor suddenly catapulted to fortune and prestige. Minor characters are quite well handled and balanced, as well as strong main characters who never lose empathy with the reader. Ms. Diamond is one of the most consistently enjoyable Regency authors around these days."--Romantic Times

Download or read book A Love Match written by Barbara Allister and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1991 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A naive young beauty is bewildered by the attentions of the realm's most desirable lord. What sinister motives hide behind his dazzling smile, what mischief lurks in his bewitching eyes? Even more troubling, when he wraps her in his powerful arms, why does her will to struggle disappear?