Download or read book His Inherited Duchess written by Bronwyn Scott and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting, passionate Victorian romance His unexpected inheritance? The dowager Duchess! With his promotion to Duke of Darlington after his cousin’s strange passing, carefree rake Logan Maddox must bear the responsibility of a new household shrouded in mystery… And no one is more mysterious than the newly widowed duchess, Olivia de Lacey. Uncovering the truth about his dukedom is one thing—unraveling Olivia is a challenge Logan never anticipated but cannot resist! From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Daring Rogues Book 1: Miss Claiborne's Illicit Attraction Book 2: His Inherited Duchess

Download or read book His Inherited Duchess a Season of Flirtation written by Julia Justiss and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His Inherited Duchess - Bronwyn Scott strong>His unexpected inheritance? The dowager Duchess! With his promotion to Duke of Darlington, after his cousin's strange passing, care-free rake Logan Maddox must bear the responsibility of a new household. A household shrouded in mystery...and no one is more mysterious than the newly widowed duchess, Olivia de Lacey. Uncovering the truth about his dukedom is one thing, unravelling Olivia is a challenge Logan never anticipated...but cannot resist! A Season Of Flirtation - Julia Justiss Her lessons in flirtation...could work too well! When Lady Laura Pomeroy offers to give her friend lessons on surviving the Season, she doesn't expect her friend's brother to join! Banker Miles Rochdale is dubious of the aristocracy and clearly thinks Laura is shallow and silly. Frustratingly, mathematical genius Laura finds herself attracted to him, and will enjoy challenging his assumptions! But, as a Marquess's daughter, there's no point impressing Miles because she'll never be allowed to marry someone in the trade...

Download or read book The Inheritance written by Joan Johnston and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy knew that someday, somehow, she would pay for wanting what no proper woman wanted… The ravishing Duchess Daisy vowed to save Severn Manor by marrying Nicholas Calloway, a Texas bounty hunter come to claim his family’s ancestral lands. But the moment they met, the slate eyed barbarian took Daisy’s breath away. She proposed a marriage of convenience. But she hadn’t reckoned on flash-fire passion with the savage new duke… Nicholas Calloway came to England to discover the truth about his bastard birth, then sell his inherited estate—with Duchess Daisy’s help. Her price was marriage. He agreed, determined to have her on his own terms–only to find himself hostage to the fiery redhead he couldn’t leave behind… The highly acclaimed bestselling author of Outlaw’s Bride, Joan Johnston brings to life two extraordinary characters—an outrageous duchess and an unlikely duke—in a love story that enchants and enthralls to the very last page.

Download or read book His Three Day Duchess written by Laurie Benson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s claimed his title. Could he inherit a bride, too? A romantic Regency adventure by a “very talented” author (Chicks, Rogues and Scandals). The Duchess of Skeffington retreats to the estate that was her refuge during her cruel marriage. She’s shocked to come face-to-face with the distant heir, now newly inherited duke, adventurous Simon Alexander. When Elizabeth is robbed, it’s up to them both to find the thief. But traveling together would attract too much gossip—unless they pose as husband and wife . . .

Download or read book My Fair Duchess written by Megan Frampton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unexpected duchess Archibald Salisbury, son of a viscount, war hero, and proficient in the proper ways of aristocratic society, has received orders for his most challenging mission: Genevieve, Duchess of Blakesley. How she inherited a duchy isn’t his problem. Turning her into a perfect duchess is. But how can he keep his mind on business when her beauty entices him toward pleasure? It was impossible, unprecedented…and undeniably true. Genevieve is now a “duke”, or, rather, a duchess. So what is she to do when the ton eyes her every move, hoping she’ll make a mistake? Genevieve knows she has brains and has sometimes been told she has beauty, but, out of her depth, she calls on an expert. And what an expert, with shoulders broad enough to lean on, and a wit that matches her own. Archie is supposed to teach her to be a lady and run her estate, but what she really wants to do is unladylike—run into his arms.

Download or read book A Rogue for the Dutiful Duchess written by Louise Allen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic Regency romance The scandal of the season Must be stopped! Widowed duchess Sophie will do anything to protect her son and his inheritance. Even ask roguish Lord Nicholas Pascoe to retrieve her late husband’s diaries before the secrets they contain bring down the government and the monarchy! Sophie knows she must maintain her distance from Nicholas…only she can’t help but respond to the desire in his eyes. Their mission is treacherous, but will it prove as dangerous as their unexpected attraction? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Download or read book Duchess written by Nicolette Andrews and published by Magpie Publishing. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murder confession was all he left behind. She thought she knew her husband. But everyone has secrets, and some secrets can kill. Damara had the perfect husband. Ever since the war started, she’d been prepared for this moment: when a messenger arrived to inform her of his death. What she hadn’t expected was his sister, the Queen, to deliver the news. And nothing could have prepared her for the truth: he was a murderer and the king’s spy. While trying to uncover a plot against the king, he was killed. Before he died, he left evidence behind and put his wife and son in danger. Now it’s up to Damara to expose them before they come for her too. To do so, she must follow the clues her husband left behind and join the secret society he had infiltrated. The deeper she goes, the more she questions her own alliances. In court where deceit and betrayal are common, no one can be trusted, even family. Torn between the ghost of her husband, and her new role as spy, Damara must find the real killer, before she becomes their next victim. A murder mystery, and courtly intrigue that readers say left them guessing until the end. Get this standalone prequel to the Reign of Prophecy series today!

Download or read book Always Be My Duchess written by Amalie Howard and published by Forever. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cosmopolitan Best Romance of 2022 Pretty Woman meets the Bridgertons in this witty, vivacious historical take on 90s romcoms by USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard. Lord Lysander Blackstone, the stern Duke of Montcroix, has only one interest: increasing his considerable fortune. After a series of betrayals, he keeps his emotions buried deep. Money, after all, can't break a man's heart—or make promises it can’t keep. But when his reputation for being heartless jeopardizes a new business deal, he finds himself seeking a most unusual—and alluring—solution . . . Once an up-and-coming ballerina, Miss Geneviève Valery is now hopelessly out of work. After refusing to become a wealthy patron's mistress, Nève was promptly shown the door to the streets. When she accidentally saves the life of a handsome duke, she doubts the encounter will go any better than her last brush with nobility. But instead of propositioning her, Montcroix makes Nève an offer she would be a fool to refuse: act as his fake fiancée in exchange for fortune enough to start over. Only neither is prepared when very real feelings begin to grow between them. They both stand to win . . . but only if they’re willing to risk their hearts.

Download or read book Historical Box Set Feb 2023 Marriage Deal with the Earl The Making of His Marchioness His Inherited Duchess A Season of Flirtation written by Julia Justiss and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mills & Boon Historical — Your romantic escape to the past. Marriage Deal with the Earl - Liz Tyner Widowed Susanna isn’t looking to remarry, but her late husband’s debts mean she’s open to an old friend’s proposition. Last time she saw Quinton Langford he was content being a physician, but after unexpectedly becoming an Earl, he needs a wife to navigate Society. Susanna agrees to his proposal of a paper marriage, never expecting long buried feelings to resurface, that threaten to derail their agreement! The Making of His Marchioness - Lauri Robinson After the American Civil War propels widow Clara and her daughter to England, they’re given refuge by the enigmatic Marquess of Clairmount. Being the damsel in distress doesn’t come easy to independent Clara, so finding his estate in disarray, she seizes her chance to help him. As she plays the role of Marchioness, her attraction to the guarded Marquess is bittersweet, as this Cinderella knows she doesn’t belong in his aristocratic world... His Inherited Duchess - Bronwyn Scott With his promotion to Duke of Darlington, after his cousin’s strange passing, care-free rake Logan Maddox must bear the responsibility of a new household. A household shrouded in mystery...and no one is more mysterious than the newly widowed duchess, Olivia de Lacey. Uncovering the truth about his dukedom is one thing, unravelling Olivia is a challenge Logan never anticipated...but cannot resist! A Season of Flirtation - Julia Justiss When Lady Laura Pomeroy offers to give her friend lessons on surviving the Season, she doesn’t expect her friend’s brother to join! Banker Miles Rochdale is dubious of the aristocracy and clearly thinks Laura is shallow and silly. Frustratingly, mathematical genius Laura finds herself attracted to him, and will enjoy challenging his assumptions! But, as a Marquess’s daughter, there’s no point impressing Miles because she’ll never be allowed to marry trade...

Download or read book The Annual Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conveniently Wed to the Laird written by Jeanine Englert and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense Georgian Highlander romance The laird’s bridal bid… Is love too high a price to pay? When new laird, Ewan Stewart, comes across a wife for sale at a market, he outbids everyone to rescue her. He never intended for Catriona to become his bride, but a convenient marriage could secure his clan’s future and her freedom. They agree that their arrangement must stay free of love, yet Catriona’s bravery and fire intrigue him. Can Ewan resist falling for his wife—the one rule he must not break? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Falling for a Stewart Book 1: Eloping with the Laird Book 2: The Lost Laird from Her Past Book 3: Conveniently Wed to the Laird

Download or read book Duchess of Aquitaine written by Margaret Ball and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love is for peasants," Eleanor said. "We make alliances. And I intend to make a very good one." Beautiful and brilliant, Eleanor is the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering court is the twelfth-century birthplace of courtly love. For all of the duke's boasts that Eleanor has the brains of a man and the soul of a warrior, everyone knows that a girl of fifteen cannot possibly hold the richest dukedom in France. Everyone, that is, except for her dying father, who insists on leaving Eleanor his most valuable provinces—and making her prey to the first baron who rides in to kidnap her. In order to safeguard her lands and her life, Eleanor devises a scheme to marry the heir to the throne of France. But she must learn to be careful what she wishes for. Eleanor's alliance to Louis VII may be a dazzling one, but her husband is a cautious man, originally intended for the priesthood, whose wit and courage do not always match Eleanor's own; and she ultimately finds herself seeking an even greater match with Henry II of England. Sweeping from the courts of Paris to the perils of the Crusades, Duchess of Aquitaine gloriously illuminates the life of one of the most powerful, resourceful, and fascinating women in all of history.

Download or read book From Winston with Love and Kisses written by Celia Sandys and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful and illuminating journey through the early years of Winston Churchill, From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill weaves together strands of Churchill’s early writing, mature recollections and reflections on childhood, and the comments of the author, Churchill’s granddaughter. Together with a rich store of images and ephemera from the family archives, this book provides an enthralling composite view of the lonely and sickly little boy who survived on sheer tenacity to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated throughout and reproducing in facsimile many of the young Winston’s letters and early artistic efforts, this captivating book brings us an intimate portrait of Churchill’s youth.

Download or read book Queen Anne written by Anne Somerset and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain’s future naval and colonial supremacy. While the Queen’s military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attention—indeed her realm—rested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment. At the core of Anne Somerset’s riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England (“Definitive”—London Evening Standard; “Wonderfully pacy and absorbing”—Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Anne—reserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen’s great general—beautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught background—the revolution that deposed Anne’s father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestant—her parents’ conversion to Catholicism had grave implications—and she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines “wicked and dangerous”) . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil war—the much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I (“Exhilarating”—The Spectator; “Ample, stylish, eloquent”—The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne’s favor, how her replacement, Sarah’s cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation. To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material. Queen Anne is history on a large scale—a revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch.

Download or read book The Vagabond Duchess written by Cyril Hughes Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Duchess s Secret written by Elizabeth Beacon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man she once loved… …is back—to claim her? Rosalind is surprised to find Ash Hartfield—the man she eloped with seven years ago—on her doorstep! She’d felt betrayed by his abrupt departure to India following the revelations of their wedding night. Seeing him again still gives her butterflies—but a lot has changed…not least that he’s a duke now! What will he do when he discovers her secret—that he has an heir? “A forbidden kiss, a feisty heiress and a family divided by secrets, make this Regency romance an entertaining read” — Goodreads on A Wedding for the Scandalous Heiress by Elizabeth Beacon “Beacon’s talents for evoking deep emotions with admirable characters, witty dialogue and sensuality shine once again” — RT Book Reviews on A Wedding for the Scandalous Heiress by Elizabeth Beacon

Download or read book Golden Fool written by Robin Hobb and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2003-12-09 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fantasy as it ought to be written . . . Robin Hobb’s books are diamonds in a sea of zircons.”—George R. R. Martin Prince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. There FitzChivalry Farseer, gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, must take up residence at Buckkeep as a journeyman assassin. Posing as a bodyguard, Fitz becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls, guiding a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day. Amid a multitude of problems, Fitz must ensure that no one betrays the Prince’s secret—one that could topple the throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread “beast magic.” Only Fitz’s friendship with the Fool brings him solace. But even that is shattered when devastating revelations from the Fool’s past are exposed. Bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitz finds that his biggest challenge may be simply to survive. Praise for Robin Hobb and Golden Fool “[Robin Hobb] ranks near the top of the high fantasy field. . . . [She] juggles all the balls with aplomb, besides providing spot-on characterizations.”—Publishers Weekly “Solid storytelling with warmth and heart.”—The Kansas City Star