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Book The Diabolical Baron

Download or read book The Diabolical Baron written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Pandamax Press. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Classic Sweet Regency Romance A Wicked Wager! Rich, handsome, and fashionably jaded, Jason, Lord Radford, knows he must marry to get an heir, but assumes that any well bred young lady will do, so he offers for Caroline Hanscombe, whose name he draws at random. Caroline is pressured by her family to accept, but shy and musical, she finds her new fiancé alarming. Will this be a match made in heaven or hell? Or might Caroline quietly find herself a man who suits her better…? Mary Jo Putney's first book, The Diabolical Baron was a RITA finalist and won the Romantic Times awards for Best New Regency Novel and Best New Regency Author, and the NJRW Golden Leaf Award for best historical romance.

Book The Diabolical Baron

Download or read book The Diabolical Baron written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shy young Caroline Hanscombe is caught when her family's desperate financial situation causes her father to order her to marry the handsome Baron Radford.

Book Dangerous to Know

Download or read book Dangerous to Know written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Signet. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brought together for the first time in a single volume, two beloved romances: " The Diabolical Baron "and" Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know. In "The Diabolical Baron," Jason Kincaid, nineteenth Baron Radford, casually makes a wager that willmake the innocent Caroline Hanscombe his bride. Who would have dreamed that this elusive innocent would have plans of her own? In "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know," sexy gambler Andrew Kane has made one enemy too many and he's on his way to be hanged when a beautiful widow comes to his rescue. But how can he in turn rescue her from her soul-destroying father-in-law when his own life swings in the balance?

Book Twist of Fate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Jo Putney
  • Publisher : Berkley
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780515135459
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Twist of Fate written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting aside her high-profile career to open her own practice, lawyer Val Covington finds herself attracted to her mysterious new landlord, and must rely on his help to prove the innocence of her assistant's lover.

Book The Rake

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Jo Putney
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2011-10-24
  • ISBN : 1420127942
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Rake written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman holds the key to one man’s destiny in this classic Regency romance from the legendary New York Times bestselling author. Disinherited and disgraced, Reginald Davenport’s prospects cried for a dire end. But fate has given him one last chance at redemption—by taking his rightful place as the heir of Strickland, his lost ancestral estate. Davenport knows his way around women, yet nothing prepares him for his shocking encounter with Lady Alys Weston. Masquerading as a man in order to obtain a position as estate manager of Strickland, Alys fled a world filled with mistrust and betrayal. She was finished with men—until Strickland’s restored owner awakens a passion she thought she would never feel. A passion that will doom or save them both . . . if only they can overcome their pasts . . . Praise for Mary Jo Putney “Putney’s endearing characters and warm-hearted stories never fail to inspire and delight.” —Sabrina Jeffries “A complex maze of a story twisted with passion, violence, and redemption. Miss Putney just gets better and better.” —Nora Roberts “A gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romance work.” —Amanda Quick “No one writes historical romance better.” —Cathy Maxwell “Dynamite!” —Laura Kinsale

Book The Notting Hill Mystery

Download or read book The Notting Hill Mystery written by Charles Felix and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Source documents compiled by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson are used to build a case against Baron "R___", who is suspected of murdering his wife. The baron's wife died from drinking a bottle of acid, apparently while sleepwalking in her husband's private laboratory. Henderson's suspicions are raised when he learns that the baron recently had purchased five life insurance policies for his wife. As Henderson investigates the case, he discovers not one but three murders. Although the baron's guilt is clear to the reader even from the outset, how he did it remains a mystery. Eventually this is revealed, but how to catch him becomes the final challenge; he seems to have committed the perfect crime.

Book Baron Wenckheim s Homecoming

    Book Details:
  • Author : László Krasznahorkai
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2019-09-24
  • ISBN : 0811226654
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book Baron Wenckheim s Homecoming written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE "Krasznahorkai’s masterpiece" (The Millions); "Apocalyptic, visionary, and mad" (Publishers Weekly); "One of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature" (Paris Review); "Obsessive and visionary" (The New Yorker); "Genius" (The Baffler) At last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town’s alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor—a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town—offers long rants and disquisitions on his attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged as death and the abyss loom over the unsuspecting townfolk.

Book The Rake and the Reformer

Download or read book The Rake and the Reformer written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing a treacherous suitor, Alys Weston disguises herself as a man to take a position as manager of an isolated estate, but her masquerade is threatened by the arrival of the notorious, seductive Reginald Davenport

Book The Spirit of Turretville

Download or read book The Spirit of Turretville written by and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Curse of the Werepenguin

Download or read book The Curse of the Werepenguin written by Allan Woodrow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Young Frankenstein meets The Princess Bride in the most hysterically hilarious book I've read in years."--Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author All orphan Bolt Wattle has ever wanted was to find his true family. When a mysterious baron in far-off Brugaria sends for Bolt, he wonders if he's getting closer to finding his long-lost parents. But Baron Chordata appears to be a twelve-year-old boy who wears tuxedos all the time, shouts at everyone, and forbids Bolt from asking questions. Things couldn't get any worse . . . until midnight, when the Baron bites Bolt and turns him into a half boy, half penguin. Then things really couldn't get worse-- nope, wait, they get a lot worse. With the help and hindrance of a plucky girl who just might be the world's greatest bandit, a whale cult led by a man whose weapon is a stale loaf of French bread, and a sinister but friendly fortune-teller who can't stop cackling, Bolt's on a quest to reverse the curse, return to human form, and stop the Baron from taking over the country of Brugaria with his army of mind-controlled penguins in what might be the weirdest--and funniest--middle-grade novel you've ever read.

Book The Baron s Sons

Download or read book The Baron s Sons written by Mór Jókai and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last of the Barons

Download or read book The Last of the Barons written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Novels  Last of the barons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1865
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book Novels Last of the barons written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carousel of Hearts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Jo Putney
  • Publisher : Pandamax Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Carousel of Hearts written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Pandamax Press. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Classic Sweet Regency Romance Love is in the air, but where is Cupid aiming his darts? Spirited and beautiful, Antonia Thornton is a baroness in her own right, and her companion and best friend is Judith Winslow, a quiet intellectual with a love of natural philosophy. Then Antonia's childhood friend, Adam Yorke, returns from India and brings his friend, the outrageously handsome Simon, Lord Launceston. They all like each other, love is in the air—and they are all too noble for their own good! Can four confused young people sort themselves out properly before it's too late?

Book The Last Days of the Barons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1853
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book The Last Days of the Barons written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last of the Barons     Complete

Download or read book The Last of the Barons Complete written by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton's 'The Last of the Barons' is a historical novel set in medieval England, focusing on the power struggles and political intrigue of the War of the Roses era. The book is characterized by its rich language, detailed descriptions, and intricate plot that weaves together historical events with fictional elements. Lytton's literary style is marked by his ability to create compelling characters and intricate narratives that captivate readers. 'The Last of the Barons' is a classic work of historical fiction that transports readers to a tumultuous period in English history. Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, a politician and prolific writer, drew inspiration from his own political experiences and historical research to craft this gripping tale of power and ambition. His nuanced portrayal of the characters and events in 'The Last of the Barons' showcases his deep understanding of the complexities of human nature and the political landscape of his time. I highly recommend 'The Last of the Barons' to readers who enjoy historical fiction and are looking for a captivating story that delves into the intricacies of power and ambition.

Book The Illustrated London News

Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: