Download or read book Seducing Mr Sykes written by Maggie Robinson and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2017 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one at Puddling-on-the-Wold ever expected to see Sarah Marchmain enter through its doors. But after the legendary Lady's eleventh-hour rejection of the man she was slated to marry, she was sent here to restore her reputation ... and change her mind. It amused Sadie that her father, a duke, would use the last of his funds to lock her up in this fancy facility--she couldn't be happier to be away from her loathsome family and have some time to herself. The last thing she needs is more romantic distraction . . .As a local baronet's son, Tristan Sykes is all too familiar with the spoiled, socialite residents of the Puddling Rehabilitation Foundation--no matter how real their problems may be. But all that changes when he encounters Sadie, a brave and brazen beauty who wants nothing more than to escape the life that's been prescribed for her. If only Tristan could find a way to convince the Puddling powers-that-be that Sadie is unfit for release, he'd have a chance to explore the intense attraction that simmers between them--and prove himself fit to make her his bride.
Download or read book Just Make Believe written by Maggie Robinson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next mystery book—with a touch of paranormal women's fiction—in an amusing historical cozy series! With a string of suspicious deaths threatening her guests, a horribly depressing love life, and a handsome detective on her doorstep, the last thing Lady Adelaide needs to deal with is the ghost of her dead husband. Gloucestershire, 1925. A week-long house party in the country—why not? Lady Adelaide has nothing else to do, now that her year of mourning for her unfaithful husband is up and her plans to rekindle her romantic life have backfired. But when her hostess is found dead on the conservatory floor, Addie knows just who to call—Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter of Scotland Yard. Dev may not want to kiss Addie again, but he's anxious to solve the crime. Who would want to kill Pamela, the beautiful wife of one of Britain's greatest Great War heroes? Certainly not her devoted and wheelchair-bound husband, Sir Hugh Fernald. The other guests seem equally innocent and improbable. But despite all appearances, something is very wrong at Fernald Hall—there's a body buried in the garden, and the governess has fallen down the stairs to her death. Who's next? Addie and Dev find themselves surrounded by Scotland ghosts and must work together to stop another murder, with some help from Rupert, Addie's late and unlamented husband. Rupert needs to make amends for his louche life on earth, and what better way to earn his celestial wings than catch a killer? The Lady Adelaide Mysteries: Nobody's Sweetheart Now (Book 1) Who's Sorry Now? (Book 2) Just Make Believe (Book 3)
Download or read book Who s Sorry Now written by Maggie Robinson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next mystery book in a lively historical cozy series! A Russian prince. A wealthy heir. An impoverished earl's daughter. Which one will make an untimely exit from the London social scene? "If you like a clever mystery, a handsome ghost, and the far-from-bereaved widow who can't find the elusive killer without Rupert's help, Who's Sorry Now? is just your cup of English murder."—Charles Todd, author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries and the Bess Crawford mysteries London, England 1925. Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter finds himself in the middle of a series of upper-class deaths in London. Bright Young People are being extinguished in their favorite night spots, from a sleazy private jazz club to the Savoy ballroom. Dev knows just the person to help him navigate the treacherous society waters: Lady Adelaide Compton, a marquess' daughter and widow of a Great War hero. Beautiful, clever, and kind, Addie is a unique woman—not the least because she's haunted by the irritating ghost of her deceased husband. Unfortunately, Dev has put her in jeopardy once before, nearly leading him to turn in his warrant card. But Addie is nobody's victim: when her sister Cee is attacked, Addie turns to the inspector, offering her help... and it soon becomes clear that the two of them working together on these Scottish mysteries could lead to much more than merely solving crime. The Lady Adelaide Mysteries: Nobody's Sweetheart Now (Book 1) Who's Sorry Now? (Book 2) Just Make Believe (Book 3)
Download or read book Holiday for Two a duet of Christmas novellas written by Maggie Robinson and published by Elyssa Patrick. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two romantic comedy novellas where the couples are snowbound for the holiday. All Through the Night by Maggie Robinson Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays personal assistant Carrie Moore from the swift completion of her appointed rounds. She is used to delivering for the rich and famous. Can she mend a hunky English lord’s heart and not get him deported? While It Was Snowing by Elyssa Patrick Felicity Evans and Harry Walsh have been best friends forever, but lately, Felicity has noticed the looks Harry has been giving her and she’s going to do something about it. Being snowbound in a Vermont cabin is the perfect opportunity to put herself out there in the most imaginative way impossible. Three words: whipped cream bikini.
Download or read book Redeeming Lord Ryder written by Maggie Robinson and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When a Duke’s daughter with a bad reputation is summoned to a cottage in Gloucestershire to be reinvented, hilarity most definitely ensues. The antics are amusing, and Robinson’s writing style is easy to read. Intriguing from start to finish!” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars, on Seducing Mr. Sykes “A Maggie Robinson book is like the best kind of chocolate: delicious and totally addictive!” —Vanessa Kelly, USA Today bestselling author Return to the scandalous secrets of the English countryside’s renowned getaway for R&R—restoration and romance—in this delightful series from Maggie Robinson! After two months of treatment at Puddling-on-the-Wold, Mary Nicola Mayfield has shown no improvement, and her condition seems impervious to rehab. But Nicola is not the typical guest of Gloucestershire’s destination village for the wealthy and wayward. The trauma of surviving a horrific train wreck has rendered her mute; her injuries have healed, but try as she might, she cannot utter a sound. With her family and fiancé at their wits’ end, Nicola knows Puddling is the resort—the last resort—that holds any hope for her recovery. Lord Jack Ryder—baron, businessman and, some say, mad genius—has gone from the heights of success to hit rock bottom, after a faulty girder from his iron foundry caused a dreadful bridge collapse. Nothing has assuaged his guilt over the passenger train that crashed or the lives that were destroyed. The stringent regimen at Puddling is not doing much for his deep depression—until he meets his mysteriously silent neighbor. Their fiery affair breaks all the rules, but will the unspoken truth be too hot to handle?
Download or read book Farewell Blues written by Maggie Robinson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An addictive read from one of my very favorite writers."—DEBORAH CROMBIE, New York Times bestselling author The Reverend Callie Anson should have learned her lesson by now: revisiting the past is seldom a good idea. But she succumbs to peer pressure and attends a reunion at her theological college in Cambridge, where she is forced to confront painful memories—and the presence of her clueless ex, Adam. Margaret Phillips, the Principal of the college, has a chance for happiness but before she can grasp it she has to deal with her own ghosts—as well as corrosive, intrusive gossip. Both Margaret and Callie learn something about themselves, and about forgiveness, from wise retired priest John Kingsley. Meanwhile, in London, police officers Neville Stewart and Mark Lombardi are involved with the stabbing of a teenager. Was the victim—gifted, popular schoolboy Sebastian Frost—all he seemed to be, or was there something in his life that led inevitably to his death? The police find themselves in the queasy world of cyber-bullying, where nothing may be as it seems. While they're apart, Callie and Mark's relationship is on hold, and his Italian family continues to be an issue. Will Mark realize, before it's too late, that while his family will always be important to him, he is entitled to something for himself?
Download or read book Schooling the Viscount written by Maggie Robinson and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2017 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A simple country schoolteacher, Rachel Everett was never meant to cross paths with a gentleman such as Henry. What could such a worldly man ever see in her? As it turns out, everything. Beautiful, fiercely intelligent Rachel is Henry's dream woman-- and wife. Such a match would be scandalous for his family of course, and Rachel has no business meddling with a resident at the famed, rather draconian, Puddling Rehabilitation Foundation. All the better, for two lost souls with nothing to lose-- and oh so very much to gain"--
Download or read book To Seduce a Stranger written by Susanna Craig and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Craig is really making a name for herself as a rising historical author!" —RT Book Reviews “An elegant new voice in historical romance!” —New York Times bestselling author Meredith Duran Desire waylays the plans of a man with a mysterious past and a woman with an uncertain future, in Susanna Craig’s unforgettable series set in Georgian England. After her much older husband dies—leaving her his fortune—Charlotte Blakemore finds herself at the mercy of her stepson, who vows to contest the will and destroy her life. With nowhere to turn and no one to help her, she embarks on an elaborate ruse—only to find herself stranded on the way to London. . . More than twenty years in the West Indies have hardened Edward Cary, but not enough to abandon a helpless woman at a roadside inn—especially one as disarmingly beautiful as Charlotte. He takes her with him to the Gloucestershire estate he is determined to restore, though he is suspicious of every word that falls from her distractingly lush lips. As far as Charlotte knows, Edward is nothing more than a steward, and there’s no reason to reveal his noble birth until he can right his father’s wrongs. Acting as husband and wife will keep people in the village from asking questions that neither Charlotte nor Edward are willing to answer. But the game they’re each determined to play has rules that beg to broken, when the passion between them threatens to uncover the truth—for better or worse. . .
Download or read book Once Upon a Christmas A Wynter Family Saga written by Maggie Robinson and published by Vauxhall Vixens. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christmas anthology. Blurb to come.
Download or read book The Trials of the Rev William Sneyd for Seducing Debauching and Carrying Off Mrs Cecil Wife of Henry Cecil Esq written by Student of the Inner Temple and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memories of Life Before the Juneteenth written by Frederick Douglass and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 8405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you a unique collection of the recorded testimonies of former slaves, memoirs, historical studies, reports of the life and laws in the south, legislation on civil rights, as well as popular fiction which unveiled the injustice and horrors of slavery to the masses: Slave Narratives Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Underground Railroad Harriet: The Moses of Her People 12 Years a Slave Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith Who Was Executed for Burglary From the Darkness Cometh the Light Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Thirty Years a Slave The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Fifty Years in Chains Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb Story of Mattie J. Jackson A Slave Girl's Story Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley Buried Alive For a Quarter of a Century Historical Documents: Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865) Civil Rights Act of 1866 Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868) Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868) Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870) Studies: Captain Canot History of American Abolitionism Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Report on Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Pearl Incident Novels: Oroonoko Uncle Tom's Cabin Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Heroic Slave Slavery's Pleasant Homes Our Nig Clotelle Marrow of Tradition Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man A Fool's Errand Bricks Without Straw Imperium in Imperio The Hindered Hand
Download or read book A Life in Chains written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 6428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'A Life in Chains,' readers are presented with an anthology that examines the multifaceted experiences of enslavement and the quest for freedom through a range of literary styles that includes narrative essays, autobiographies, and fictional accounts. This collection stands as a testament to the resilience and diversity of the human spirit under oppression. It spans a broad spectrum of American literature, intertwining voices from different periods to highlight the ongoing struggle against injustice. Significantly, it brings together seminal works that have shaped America's literary and historical landscape, offering an unrivaled exploration of its themes. The contributing authors, including Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass among others, are pivotal figures whose writings have been instrumental in both reflecting and shaping the consciousness of their times. Their collective oeuvre provides a panoramic view of the societal shifts and the evolving discourse on race, liberty, and identity in America. The anthology aligns with key historical and cultural movements, from abolitionism to the Harlem Renaissance, weaving a rich tapestry that celebrates the triumph of the human will over the chains of bondage. 'A Life in Chains' is an invaluable collection for readers who seek to immerse themselves in the depth and diversity of American literary heritage. It offers a unique opportunity to engage with the works of renowned authors whose voices converge in a powerful dialogue on freedom, resilience, and the indomitable spirit of man. This anthology is not just a literary endeavor; it is an educational journey that underscores the vibrancy of human resilience and the critical importance of storytelling in forging a collective memory. Readers will find within its pages an enduring legacy of courage, wisdom, and hope that continues to resonate in our present times.
Download or read book A FOOL S ERRAND Its Sequel Bricks Without Straw written by Albion Winegar Tourgée and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools" – After the American Civil War, Comfort Servosse, a Yankee gentleman, decides to purchase a Southern Plantation for himself and his family. But unlike other white owners, Servosse is actually interested in the well-being of his black subjects to the extent of calling the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) a terrorist organisation and blaming Theodore Roosevelt for the failure of Reconstruction of South! Soon enough, Servosse finds himself amongst his angry white neighbours and things take a dramatic turn… "Bricks Without Straw" (A Sequel) – In a chilling sequel to "A Fool's Errand", Albion Winegar Tourgée shows how KKK unleashed their terror on a group of emancipated slaves who want to start their life afresh by buying new land and starting their own businesses. Suddenly out of nowhere, Klan's terrorism begin new wave of slavery and nothing seems to stop them! Albion Winegar Tourgée (1838–1905) was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association, established the historically black women's college Bennett College, and litigated for the plaintiff Homer Plessy in the famous segregation case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Historian Mark Elliott credits Tourgée with introducing the metaphor of "color-blind justice" into legal discourse.
Download or read book Bricks Without Straw written by Albion W. Tourgée and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bricks Without Straw written by Albion W. Tourgée and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, Bricks Without Straw offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society in the post-slavery South. It is unique among the white-authored literary works of its time in presenting Reconstruction through the eyes of emancipated slaves. As a leading Radical Republican, the author, Albion W. Tourgée, played a key role in drafting a democratized Constitution for North Carolina after the Civil War, and he served as a state superior court judge during Reconstruction. Tourgée worked closely with African Americans and poor whites in the struggle to transform North Carolina’s racial and class politics. He saw the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan firsthand, worked to bring the perpetrators of Klan atrocities to justice, and fought against what he called the “counter-revolution” that destroyed Reconstruction. Bricks Without Straw is Tourgée’s fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, setting up a church and school, and voting for politicians sympathetic to their interests, until Klan terrorism and the ascendancy of a white supremacist government reduce them to neo-slavery. This edition of Bricks Without Straw is enhanced by Carolyn L. Karcher’s introduction, which sets the novel in historical context and provides an overview of Albion W. Tourgée’s career, a chronology of the significant events of both the Reconstruction era and Tourgée’s life, and explanatory notes identifying actual events fictionalized in the novel.
Download or read book A Fool s Errand written by Albion Winegar Tourgée and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools" – After the American Civil War, Comfort Servosse, a Yankee gentleman, decides to purchase a Southern Plantation for himself and his family. But unlike other white owners, Servosse is actually interested in the well-being of his black subjects to the extent of calling the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) a terrorist organisation and blaming Theodore Roosevelt for the failure of Reconstruction of South! Soon enough, Servosse finds himself amongst his angry white neighbours and things take a dramatic turn... "Bricks Without Straw" (A Sequel) – In a chilling sequel to "A Fool's Errand", Albion Winegar Tourgée shows how KKK unleashed their terror on a group of emancipated slaves who want to start their life afresh by buying new land and starting their own businesses. Suddenly out of nowhere, Klan's terrorism begin new wave of slavery and nothing seems to stop them! Albion Winegar Tourgée (1838–1905) was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association, established the historically black women's college Bennett College, and litigated for the plaintiff Homer Plessy in the famous segregation case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Historian Mark Elliott credits Tourgée with introducing the metaphor of "color-blind justice" into legal discourse.
Download or read book Bricks Without Straw A Novel written by Albion Winegar Tourgée and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
