Download or read book The Caped Countess written by Judith Lynne and published by Smart Cookie Books. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By day, Lady Donnatella is a duke’s silly daughter. So she can save London lives by night. When she stumbles into something larger than a street fight, everything she's balancing may come crashing down... It's another lonely season for Tella, dancing and gaming madly while keeping marriage away. She cannot tell her family or friends that her true self is the one battling danger in the city's dark streets. Nor will anyone guess; she's perfected her disguise. Then her night-time alter ego is seen — just when she can no longer count on her best friend, or her beloved great-uncle. And the resulting fuss in the newspapers isn't making any of this easier. Nor is the reporter who saw her. Henry Fitzwilliam, third son of a marquess, left London society to serve in the wars, and won’t go back. He’s devoted his life to telling the stories Britain needs to hear, and perhaps this Caped Count falls into that category. He can’t be sure until he gets much, much closer. Tella can handle a fight, but tracking a murderer is higher stakes. She might need someone at her back. Fitz might be the worst choice — or he might be more perfect than either of them suspects. A new kind of Regency romance, full of action, adventure, and forever love -- "Judith Lynne also demonstrates that it is possible to write a genuinely erotic sex scene that sizzles on the page without so much as a hint of coarseness." - Booklife Judith Lynne's Regency romances are for modern lovers of classic romance. Meticulously researched, these books bring to life a cast of characters as diverse as Britain herself in the world of 1812-1814. This series is light, fun reading with characters who face life's challenges with determination, wit, and each other. Fans of Mary Balogh and Grace Burrowes will love these books by Judith Lynne. Each book is unique, as each love story is unique; and readers will find themselves both utterly satisfied by the novel's end and also looking forward to the characters' returns in future books. Dukes and thieves, bakers and baronets, inventors and artists and late-night adventurers — you'll meet them all. Enjoy discovering Judith Lynne romance!

Download or read book How to Capture a Countess written by Karen Hawkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins sets Scottish hearts afire in this delightfully witty and sexy Regency romance, the first in her Duchess Diaries series. Urged by her favorite nephew, the intimidating Duchess of Roxburghe agrees to transform a thorny Scottish rose into a lovely bloom. But even she isn’t prepared for fiery Rose Balfour. At seventeen, Rose fell wildly in love with Lord Alton Sinclair, known as Lord Sin for his wicked ways. Stung by his indifference, the starry-eyed girl tried to win an illicit kiss, but then panicked and pushed the notorious rakehell into a fountain. Leaving Lord Sin floating among the lily pads to the mocking laughter of his peers, Rose escaped back to the obscurity of the Scottish countryside. Six years later, Sin convinces his aunt, the Duchess of Roxburghe, to invite Rose to her annual house party, where he plans to get revenge by making Rose the laughingstock of polite society. To his astonishment, he finds she has become an alluring woman who threatens to turn the tables on his nefarious plans. Thus Sin and Rose begin an epic battle of the sexes that becomes more passionate at every turn. Eventually, one will have to surrender…but to vengeance? Or to love’s deepest passion?

Download or read book Countess Confidential written by Barbara Dawson Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second novel of her new page-turning trilogy, "New York Times" bestselling author Smith delivers the story of a woman forced to enter the aristocratic world she despises, only to find a man she cannot live without. Original.

Download or read book To Covet a Countess written by Sapna Bhog and published by Entangled: Scandalous. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Delmore, the Earl of Hawksley, was not expecting a snowstorm-sieged London evening to end with a dagger held to his throat. Nor did he anticipate his spirited attacker to have glossy black tresses and lush red lips that might invite a lesser gentleman to steal a kiss. But before he can demand his beautiful assailant to identify herself, she faints dead away in his arms. Sania Aaryan has no choice but to trust the breathtakingly handsome Earl of Hawksley with both her life and her sister’s. Trusting him with the truth, however, is out of the question. Because fleeing India for the icy shores of England was rash. Impulsive. And it might have saved her life—only to land her into the arms of a man who poses an entirely different kind of danger. Now Sania is experiencing a world filled with luxury and opulent decadence. But starry nights and fairy-tale balls cannot chase away the shadows of Sania’s secrets. Especially when her terrible past arrives in London with an eye for icy vengeance...

Download or read book To Catch a Captain written by Ava Stone and published by Ava Stone Inc. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After receiving what seems like an offer of employment from an English countess, orphan Bridget Kelly leaves her uncle’s house in Dublin to make her own way in the world. But making her way in England is easier said than done, especially for an innocent Irish lass with no family or connections. In fact, she’ll be lucky if she can make it to Derbyshire alive. Still smarting from his brother and former fiancée’s betrayal, rakish Captain Russell Avery arrives at his sister’s Derbyshire estate, looking for something or someone to help soothe his bruised ego. When a pretty little Irish maid stumbles into his chamber one morning, Russell is certain he’s found just the distraction he’s looking for. Well, at least until he learns who the lass truly is and the place she’s to hold in his sister’s household.

Download or read book Figaro written by Charles Morey and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's getting married in the morning, and the enterprising Figaro (servant, barber, professional troublemaker) couldn't be happier. But with everybody scheming to come between him and his bride, Figaro will need all his cunning to make it down the aisle. This new adaptation of Beaumarchais' comic masterpiece is not only hilariously funny, but has a razor sharp political edge.

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Download or read book Forensic Shakespeare written by Quentin Skinner and published by Clarendon Lectures in English. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well), Quentin Skinner argues that major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive judicial case, either in accusation or defence. Some of these works have traditionally been grouped together as 'problem plays', but here Skinner offers a different explanation for their frequent similarities of tone. There have been many studies of Shakespeare's rhetoric, but they have generally concentrated on his wordplay and use of figures and tropes. By contrast, this study concentrates on Shakespeare's use of judicial rhetoric as a method of argument. By approaching the plays from this perspective, Skinner is able to account for some distinctive features of Shakespeare's vocabulary, and also help to explain why certain scenes follow a recurrent pattern and arrangement. More broadly, he is able to illustrate the extent of Shakespeare's engagement with an entire tradition of classical and Renaissance humanist thought.

Download or read book The Countess s Deadly Discovery written by Issy Brooke and published by Issy Brooke. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the Countess of Calaway’s innocent letter of enquiry cause a murder? When the body of a young craftsman is found dead, he is surrounded by articles belonging to an ancient local family which has sunk into decline. But those valuables went missing decades ago; this isn’t a straightforward case of theft gone wrong. As Lord and Lady Calaway investigate, they discover that what was stolen goes beyond silver cigar cases and fancy boxes. Names, identities, and even a man’s wife: a whole future has been taken and the victim didn’t seem to realise it. Theodore fights for justice, because he’s on the side of right. But Adelia fights for her conscience, because as the truth unravels, she realises she may have been wrong… How do you bring about true justice when everyone is guilty of something – even the detectives? The Countess’s Deadly Discovery is the sixth book in Issy Brooke’s Victorian murder mystery series, The Discreet Investigations of Lord and Lady Calaway. If you are looking for authentic British history with a dash of humour and a traditional style, then you’ll love this new novel. Try this book now, or start with book one, Murder at Mondial Castle, for a diverting escape into a simpler past…

Download or read book Landslide written by William Breault and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-16 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landslide pits a desperado, Black Spade, against Padre Silver, two determined men and natural enemies. Both are fast-draw artists and each wants to change or eliminate the other. The colorful cast includes a dance-hall queen with a deeply buried heart of gold; a buxom, red haired bartender and Sunday preacher; a sheriff with a nagging wife, constantly in pursuit of any and all wrong doing; last of all, the citizens of Jumpin', the home of the padre-and of all the god-fearing citizens who are more than motivated in their church-going by the persuasive accuracy of the padre's guns. All play a part in tipping the scales of justice, now one way, now another. People might think the scales of justice are unequally balanced. Not so in Landslide, a small 19th century mining town perched on the side of a mountain. The story begins in the bar.

Download or read book The British drama illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The British Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart written by Wye Jamison Allanbrook and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music was a “pure play” of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook’s innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures and musical rhythms to reveal the nature of his characters and their interrelations. The dance rhythms and meters that pervade his operas conveyed very specific meanings to the audiences of the day.

Download or read book A Stolen Heart written by Candace Camp and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Thorpe's new business partner is not what he expected. With her billowy black hair and creamy skin, Alexandra Ward is stunningly beautiful, brashly outspoken…and the perfect image of a wealthy woman long thought dead. Straight from America, Alexandra finds London fraught with danger. Her appearance on Thorpe's arm sends shock rippling through society and arouses hushed whispers: is she a schemer in search of a dead woman's fortune, or an innocent caught up in circumstances that she doesn't understand? Someone knows the truth, someone who doesn't want Alexandra to live long enough to learn anything. Only Lord Thorpe can help her now—if he can overcome his own suspicions.

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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