Download or read book The Wagering Widow written by Diane Gaston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marriage gamble… Guy, Lord Keating, laden with his father's debts, elopes with"heiress" Emily Duprey…only to discover she is as poor as he! Nowhis only hope of saving his family and dependents is a reluctantreturn to the gaming tables.Emily has to escape marriage to a gamester like her father. But sheneeds more money than she can win as Lady Keating—so she becomesLady Widow, a card-playing masked seductress! Then Guy recognizes thebeautiful Widow as his quiet, mousy wife—and their inconvenientmarriage takes an unexpected turn….

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Download or read book The Widow Wager written by Jess Michaels and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crispin Flynn has been on a downward spiral ever since he lost the woman; his response has been drinking and gambling his way to utter ruin. One night, deep in his cups, he places a dangerous bet that results in him being forced to marry Gemma, the widow of the Earl of Laurelcross. Gemma has been hiding her passionate side after her much older husband died during the act of making love. Now she finds herself the much unwanted wife of one of the biggest libertines in London and the subject of even more gossip than ever. Passion comes easy, but can they overcome mistrust and secrets in order to make the worst night of their lives one of their best?

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Download or read book A Reputation for Notoriety written by Diane Gaston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising the stakes… As the unacknowledged son of the lecherous Lord Westleigh, John "Rhys" Rhysdale was forced to earn a crust gambling on the streets. Now he owns the most thrilling new gaming establishment in London. Witnessing polite society's debauchery and excess every night, Rhys prefers to live on its fringes, but a mysterious masked lady tempts him into the throng. Lady Celia Gale, known only as Madame Fortune, matches Rhys card for card and kiss for stolen kiss. But the stakes are raised when Rhys discovers she's from the very world he despises.…

Download or read book The Tested Woman Plot written by Lois E. Bueler and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, Lois E. Bueler examines in broad literary historical terms what she calls the Tested Woman Plot, a "story-machine" that originated in the ancient Mediterranean world (as in the stories of Eve and Lucretia), flourished in English Renaissance drama (as in Much Ado about Nothing and The Changeling), and continued into the novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (as in Clarissa, Adam Bede, and The Scarlet Letter)." "Encyclopedic in scope, The Tested Woman Plot is a provocative look at a key narrative tradition that spans many genres and should appeal to all serious students of literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Regency Rakes written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novels in one volume: The Wagering Widow: Guy, Lord Keating, laden with his father's debts, elopes with 'heiress' Emily Duprey, only to discover she is as poor as he! The Bridegroom's Bargain: It should have been a day of happiness when Alexandra Rawdon married childhood sweetheart Richard Deverell - until she discovered he was instrumental in the death of.

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Download or read book A Reputable Rake written by Diane Gaston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “fabulously entertaining” Regency romance, a rake on the road to reform meets an innocent beauty with a penchant for courting scandal (Booklist). Cyprian Sloane’s reputation is of the very worst. A gambler, smuggler, rake and a spy, he now faces the greatest challenge of all—attaining respectability! Moving to a new home and courting a proper young lady, nothing will stop him from becoming the sort of man who is accepted by Society. . . . until he meets his new neighbor, Morgana Hart. When Morgana’s caring nature thrusts her into the company of ladies of the night, her secret activities risk a scandal that would destroy them both. To become a gentleman, Cyprian must sacrifice the lady—or is there a way for the rake to save them both?

Download or read book Rapturous Rakes Bundle written by Diane Gaston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can't get enough of those dashing Regency rakes? Don't miss these three romantic adventures set in Regency London!

Download or read book The Comic Text written by Brian Joseph Levy and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a close analysis of the Old French fabliaux, short medieval comic tales in narrative verse noted for their irreverence and sexual content. Examines key images, such as gambling, illness, and damnation, which develop into themes and motifs running through all the texts, and which add layers of ironic patterning to the subject matter and narrative of each tale. Of interest to those studying medieval culture, Old French literature, and the development of the short or comic narrative. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England 1550 1700 written by Karen Raber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, the first original drama written in English by a woman, has been a touchstone for feminist scholarship in the period for several decades and is now one of the most anthologized works by a Renaissance woman writer. Her History of ... Edward II has provided fertile ground for questions about authorship and historical form. The essays included in this volume highlight the many evolving debates about Cary's works, from their complicated generic characteristics, to the social and political contexts they reflect, to the ways in which Cary's writing enters into dialogue with texts by male writers of her time. In its critical introduction, the volume offers a thorough analysis of where Cary criticism has been and where it might venture in the future.

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