Download or read book What Isabella Desires written by Anne Mallory and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Isabella Willoughby has always been patient and proper. But secretly, scandalously, she longs to be wild—to wear daring gowns while dancing the night away. Above all, she craves one thing: To be more than merely a "friend" to Marcus, the dashing, sinfully handsome Lord Roth. Marcus has everything—power, prestige, wealth . . . enemies. He thrives on danger and lives life to the fullest knowing each day might be his last, for he carries a dark family secret which precipitates one simple rule—never fall in love. Especially not with dear Bella, who has, of late, transformed herself into a siren, bewitching every male she encounters with her newly unfettered sensuality. Marcus must not allow himself to be tempted—but his resolve is weakening by the minute. For what Isabella desires, she is determined to get . . .

Download or read book Castile for Isabella written by Jean Plaidy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabella became the pawn of her ambitious, half-crazed mother and a virtual prisoner at the licentious court of her half-brother, Henry IV. Was she, at sixteen, fated to be the victim of the Queen's revenge, the Archbishop's ambition and the lust of Don Pedro Giron, one of the most notorious lechers in Castile?

Download or read book Isabelle of the Moon and Stars written by S. A. Jones and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since 'the incident' two years ago, Isabelle has been stuck in a dead-end job and has struggled to find her feet. It takes all of her determination to ward off 'The Black Place' that always threatens to devour her. Her best friend Evan is her safe place. They laugh at each other's jokes, share the same interests and take the piss out of each other with the ruthless efficiency of long acquaintance. Sex isn't an issue because Evan has made a bargain with God to keep it in his pants and Isabelle is still recovering from being deserted by her fiance Karl. Then just as Evan reconsiders his vow, Isabelle contrives a bizarre passion for her boss, Jack. Everything implodes one suffocatingly hot Australia Day. Escaping the resulting chaos, Isabelle flees to Prague where she must finally confront her fears.

Download or read book A Reckless Desire Breconridge Brothers Book 3 written by Isabella Bradford and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Sarah MacLean, comes Isabella Bradford's enthralling new trilogy of London's most scandalous rakes, the Breconridge Brothers, who are about to lose their hearts... Though charming and handsome, Lord Rivers Fitzroy, the youngest Breconridge brother, is more inclined to dusty books than brazen women. But when his father insists he marries, he vows to make the most of his last days as a bachelor. And what better way than in the company of a troupe of Italian dancers, where he's challenged to a wager he can't resist: turn the players' meek and mousy cousin into the first lady of the London stage. But he gets more than he bargained for with Lucia di Rossi. She has her own past to overcome and her own starlit aspirations. As the lines between performance and passion become blurred will finding the spotlight mean losing their hearts? Catch the rest of the dazzling series! Don't miss A Wicked Pursuit and A Sinful Decption. Before the Breconridge Brothers, came the Wylder sisters. Don't miss a moment of the romantic and captivating debut trilogy from Isabella Bradford: When You Wish Upon a Duke, When The Duchess Said Yes and When The Duke Found Love.

Download or read book Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire 1684 1814 written by Elizabeth Kraft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814, Elizabeth Kraft radically alters our conventional views of early women novelists by taking seriously their representations of female desire. To this end, she reads the fiction of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald in light of ethical paradigms drawn from biblical texts about women and desire. Like their paradigmatic foremothers, these early women novelists create female characters who demonstrate subjectivity and responsibility for the other even as they grapple with the exigencies imposed on them by circumstance and convention. Kraft's study, informed by ethical theorists such as Emmanuel Levinas and Luce Irigaray, is remarkable in its juxtaposition of narratives from ancient and early modern times. These pairings enable Kraft to demonstrate not only the centrality of female desire in eighteenth-century culture and literature but its ethical importance as well.

Download or read book The Queen s Vow written by C. W. Gortner and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history's most famous and controversial queens--the warrior who united a fractured country, the champion of the faith whose reign gave rise to the Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New World.

Download or read book Masquerading the Marquess written by Anne Mallory and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Mallory makes her Avon debut with this exciting new novel in which everyone has something to hide...Masquerading the Marquess is sure to be loved by fans of Regency–era historical romance and mysteries. Calliope Minton is a caricaturist in disguise. For her latest role she secures the help of Stephen Chalmers, the one true gentleman she knows and trusts. Unfortunately the role also plops her right into the lap of James Trenton, Marquess of Angelford, her favourite subject of ridicule and personal enemy. With James around, keeping her clever disguise becomes harder that she anticipates, especially since she's pretending to be a courtesan. James Trenton has enough on his mind trying to discover the identity of the caricaturist who has been humiliating him in the papers, and the last thing he needs is the additional distraction of Calliope Minton. But when Stephen disappears and death threats begin, Calliope and James reluctantly form a partnership to find their friend – and find a traitor. Slowly distrust transforms into friendship and animosity into desire.

Download or read book Isabella and the Beast written by Dasha Tryon Wallace and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathing in the wild and musty scent, his grin grew. He moved slowly as if he were a lion hunting his prey to the only painting that had been placed amid the animals. He smiled, remembering the day he had an artist paint it based off a description. The frame was gold, holding a painting that was almost as tall as Lord Paris was. Inside was a painting of Isabella, her unique blond hair and blue eyes seeming exotic, captured by a gilded frame. The heavy frame held the image of Isabella hostage inside its extravagant borders. Paris reached a finger toward the painting, stopping a hairsbreadth from it. “Oh, Isabella, I will own you.” Isabella was nothing more than a commoner in a world where titles mean everything. She faces a chance to save everyone but has to win the biggest trial of her life, all the while not knowing a hunter stalks her in the dark and is willing to do anything claim her. Isabella is the adoptive daughter of a bachelor bookseller. She grew up happy, always having the desire to travel but never leaving because of her devotion to her father. But that happy life is shattered when Lord Paris takes interest in her. Then a noblewoman comes to her shop with an offer she cannot refuse. Now in a trial with more than just her fate on the line, she now has to traverse the dangers and intrigue of the palace as a piece in a game she knows nothing about. While trying to navigate the shadows of the palace, the lord is hunting her down and is willing to topple kingdoms if it meant getting Isabella back.

Download or read book Gabi a Girl in Pieces written by Isabel Quintero and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabi’s a girl in pieces. She wants a lot of things. Will she find the thing she needs most?

Download or read book The Perfect Desire written by Leslie Lafoy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel in LaFoy's Perfect trilogy featuring three confirmed bachelors in Victorian London and the ladies who bring them to their knees. Original.

Download or read book A Balloon for Isabel written by Deborah K. Underwood and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balloons are bright and floaty and shiny and perfect. More than anything else in the whole wide world, Isabel wants a balloon. Everyone will get one on Graduation Day—everyone except the porcupines, because Porcupines + Balloons = Trouble But Isabel isn't going to settle for another boring bookmark. She has a plan. . . .

Download or read book Desires of a Perfect Lady written by Victoria Alexander and published by Avon. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret list of the desires of Lady Olivia Rathbourne: Disregard convention Follow my heart Bed the Earl of Wyldewood A decade ago, Olivia had expected to marry the Earl of Wyldewood, only to have happiness stolen from her before his ring could be placed upon her finger. Now he stands before her, as proud and arrogant and handsome as ever, vowing to rescue her. Well, he's got some nerve urning up after all these years. Where was he when she needed him? As for the earl, scandal has never touched him nor has impropriety ever besmirched his name. But his penchant for doing the expected does have his family calling him, well, dull. Isn't it time to flaunt society's conventions and do what he's always wanted? And first on his list: Olivia in his bed—with or without a wedding.

Download or read book One Dom to Love written by Shayla Black and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raine Kendall has been in love with her boss, Macen Hammerman, for years. Determined to make the man notice that she's a grown woman with desires and needs, she pours out her heart and offers her body to him-only to be crushingly rejected. But when his friend, very single, very sexy Liam O'Neill watches the other Dom refuse to act on his obvious feelings for Raine, he resolves to step in and do whatever it takes to help Hammer find happiness again, even rousing his friend's possessive instincts by making the girl a proposition too tempting to refuse. But he never imagines that he'll end up falling for her himself. Hammer has buried his lust for Raine for years. After rescuing the budding runaway from an alley behind his exclusive BDSM Dungeon, he has come to covet the pretty submissive. But tragedy has taught him that he can never be what she needs. So he watches over her while struggling to keep his distance. Liam's crafty plan blindsides Hammer, especially when he sees how determined his friend is to possess Raine for his own. Hammer isn't ready to give the lovely submissive over to any other Dom, but can he heal from his past and fight for her? Or will he lose Raine if she truly gives herself-heart, body, and soul-to Liam?

Download or read book Harlequin Desire September 2015 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Tracy Wolff and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth,status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you allthis and more with these three new full-length titles for one greatprice! Claimed (The Diamond Tycoons) Tracy Wolff Diamond tycoon Marc has never forgiven his ex-fiancée for the betrayal that nearlydestroyed his empire. So when a new threat links to Isabella, he vowsto keep his enemy by his side—and in his bed—until he uncovers thetruth… Maid for a Magnate (Dynasties: The Montoros) Jules Bennett Businessman Will Rowling fell for Catalina Iberra when they wereyoung, but dating his father's maid was a no-no. Will one randomkiss—and getting stranded on a deserted island!—take them back towhere they left off? Only on His Terms (The Accidental Heirs) Elizabeth Bevarly It turns out Gracie Summer's kind, elderly neighbor wasn't a retired repairman,but a reclusive billionaire who left her all his money! It'll be toughconvincing his dangerously attractive son that she's innocent of anyscheming…especially when they fall for each other. Look for Harlequin® Desire's September 2015 Box set 2 of 2, filledwith even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!

Download or read book Forbidden Desire written by Tina Donahue and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In paradise, the only limits to passion lie in your imagination… After a life filled with hardship, landing on a lush tropical isle is heaven on earth for mariner Heath Garrison. And it comes complete with two angels who bring out the very devil in him. Identical twins Netta and Aimee are guileless and seductive, living and loving without jealousy. Days of longing, nights of carnal bliss make choosing one over the other seem impossible, but hungering for both sisters is taboo. Aimee and Netta’s devotion to each other helped them survive the vicious pirates who overran their home. Will a virile Englishman come between them now? When their enemies return, determined to vanquish the islanders for good, Heath races to save them along with his countrymen. But survival will bring a choice—between the life Heath has known, and a love that changes all their destinies…

Download or read book A Wicked Pursuit written by Isabella Bradford and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Isabella Bradford’s enthralling new trilogy, three noble brothers—London’s most scandalous rakes—are about to do the unthinkable: settle down. Harry Fitzroy, Earl of Hargreave, is the first to meet his match and lose his heart . . . to a lady who’s not all what he expected. As the eldest son of the Duke of Breconridge, Harry Fitzroy is duty-bound to marry—and marry well. Giving up his rakish ways for the pleasures of a bride’s bed becomes a delightful prospect when Harry chooses beautiful Lady Julia Wetherby, the catch of the season. But a fall from his horse puts a serious crimp in his plans. Abandoned by Julia before he can propose, the unlucky bachelor finds himself trapped in the country in the care of Julia’s younger sister. Harry has never met a woman like Lady Augusta. Utterly without artifice, Gus is clever and capable, and seems to care not a fig for society. After a taboo kiss awakens passion that takes them both by surprise, Harry realizes he’d almost given his heart to the wrong sister. While London tongues wag, he’ll use his most seductive powers of persuasion to convince the reluctant Gus that she belongs with him—as his equal, his love, his wife. Praise for A Wicked Pursuit “The appealing characters, the emotional growth of the hero and the lively dialogue turn what could have been a predictable tale into a delightful non-stop read. This is a fine start to a new trilogy.”—RT Book Reviews “This story is every bit as delightful as those by my favorite Regency authors: Lisa Kleypas, Sabrina Jeffries, Julia Quinn. . . . I will definitely be looking for the other books in the series!”—Susana’s Parlour “A bewitching tale of a most accidental match.”—Shelf Awareness “Isabella Bradford’s experience shows with her charming, witty tale. . . . Wonderfully crafted, the next installments are sure to please as this one most decidedly did.”—Literarily Illumined “Bradford pulls no punches, which makes the story all the richer. . . . Period details create a believable world that fully immerses the reader.”—Heroes and Heartbreakers “I loved seeing the quality of the story come through. . . . Overall a hypnotic love tale to overwhelm, excite, and endear you. A rare treasure!”—Addicted to Romance “An awesome start to a new series and I can’t wait for the rest of it to come out. . . . I will definitely be going back and reading her Wylder Sisters series.”—Historical Romance Lover

Download or read book Harlequin Desire November 2016 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Maisey Yates and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! HOLD ME, COWBOY by Maisey Yates Copper Ridge Rich-as-sin cowboy Sam McCormack wants nothing to do with ice princess Madison West, but when they’re snowed in together at a mountain retreat, their red-hot attraction quickly burns through all their misconceptions… HIS SECRETARY’S LITTLE SECRET by Catherine Mann The Lourdes Brothers of Key Largo Organizing Easton Lourdes’s workaholic life is a full-time job, and secretary Portia Soto is the best at keeping things professional. But when a hurricane sends her into her boss’s arms—and his bed—the consequences will change everything… HIS PREGNANT CHRISTMAS BRIDE by Olivia Gates The Billionaires of Black Castle Ivan left the woman he loved once, to protect them both. But when he saves her from an attack, he can no longer stay away. Will keeping Anastasia as his bride mean overcoming the sinister events that shaped him? Look for Harlequin® Desire’s November 2016 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.