Download or read book The Earl s Winning Wager written by Jen Geigle Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Morley's life will change forever when he wins a game of cards and a family of sisters to go along with it.Miss Standish in none too pleased to have become the responsibility of yet another Lord, even if he is full of charm and goodness. Her responsibilities are to her sisters first. With the repairs on the castle moving forward nicely and concerted efforts in a season in Bath made to find suitors for them all, Miss Standish and Lord Morley must determine where duty stops and matters of the heart take over.Read this warm tale of family, sisters, loyalty and love to get a huge dose of the best part of a regency romance fans of Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer would enjoy.

Download or read book Everything but the Earl written by Willa Ramsey and published by City Owl Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some loutish lords are about to learn how to treat a lady: “Witty dialogue…enjoyable reading.”—Publishers Weekly Miss Caroline Crispin is on top of the world. But she’s about to take a painful fall… As the daughter of London’s most in-demand architect, Caro has laughed and danced and pursued her interests with gusto—free from Society’s censure. So when she overhears two lords calling her vulgar names and wagering on whose lover she’ll become, she’s shocked and stung—and determined to teach them a lesson. Though it pains her to ask for help from another brutish lord… Lord Ryland isn’t the man his father wanted him to be. But he’s about to make an excellent catch... Adam, Earl Ryland, just wants to get married and tend his country garden, away from the bucks, fops, and gossips who pester him to box like his late father. When this gentle giant meets his sister’s friend Caro—who parries his flirtations with double entendre that would make a barman blush—he’s smitten. But there’s a problem: she’s looking to him for a different sort of partnership. And it’s a risky one… “Everything But the Earl has everything you could want in a Regency romp.”—Elizabeth Essex, award-winning author of the Reckless Brides series

Download or read book To Dare the Duke of Dangerfield written by Bronwen Anne Evans and published by Bronwen Evans. This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the Wicked Wagers Begin... Lady Caitlin Southall's temper has finally got the better of her. She's challenged Harlow Telford, the Duke of Dangerfield, the most notorious rake in all of England, to a wager. She wants her house back. The one her destitute father lost to Dangerfield in a card game. But if she doesn't win their bet, she not only loses her home, she loses her dignity and pride and damn it all, maybe her heart... For the handsome Duke has decreed, when he wins, she must spend the night in his bed. Harlow Telford is amused by his hellion neighbor, Caitlin, or Cate to her friends, who seem to encompass everyone on earth except him. When she bursts into one of his private gatherings, he mistakes her for the entertainment. Her slap across his face sets him straight and raises the absurd desire to seduce the unconventional beauty into his bed. When she issues her daft challenge to win back her father's pile of rubble, the terms are set. And he'll do anything to win?except fall in love... A 39,000 word, Regency romance novella.

Download or read book An Earl Like You written by Caroline Linden and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you gamble at love . . . When Hugh Deveraux discovers his newly inherited earldom is bankrupt, he sets about rebuilding the family fortune—in the gaming hells of London. But the most daring wager he takes isn’t at cards. A wealthy tradesman makes a tantalizing offer: marry the man’s spinster daughter and Hugh’s debts will be paid and his fortune made. The only catch is that she must never know about their agreement . . . You risk losing your heart . . . Heiress Eliza Cross has given up hope of marriage until she meets the impossibly handsome Earl of Hastings, her father’s new business partner. The earl is everything a gentleman should be, and is boldly attentive to her. It doesn’t take long for Eliza to lose her heart and marry him. But when Eliza discovers that there is more to the man she loves—and to her marriage—her trust is shattered. And it will take all of Hugh’s power to prove that now his words of love are real . . .

Download or read book A Deal with the Earl written by Sadie Bosque and published by Necessary Arrangements. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theirs is a marriage of convenience She loves another... Lady Julie has dreamed of marrying her childhood sweetheart since she was four years old. Unfortunately, her father has other plans. He has his sights set on her marrying an earl. When she is forced into an unwanted betrothal, Julie needs to make a choice: wait for her true love and destroy her honor, or make a deal with the forbidding earl. He vowed to never love again... Robert, the Earl of Clydesdale, has sworn off love. A marriage of convenience is more to his liking. So he wasn't about to turn away a beautiful young lady's plea for help in exchange for her hand in marriage. But once he spends more time with his betrothed, his icy heart begins to melt. Only his betrothed is in love with another. Now Robert has a choice, either lock his heart away and live in misery, or take a risk and fight for the woman he loves. This work of fiction contains adult content, strong language, violence, off page death, bullying, nightmares, pregnancy and miscarriage. Reader discretion is advised.

Download or read book Season for Surrender written by Theresa Romain and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a proper lady attends a rakish lord's holiday party, the fun and games lead to a gamble for love in a “charming Christmas Regency confection” (Publishers Weekly). Alexander Edgware, Lord Xavier, has quite a reputation for daring, wagering, and delightful wickedness. But the wager before him is hardly his preferred sport: Xavier must persuade a proper young lady to attend his famously naughty Christmas extravaganza—and stay the full, ruinous two weeks. Worse, the lady is Louisa Oliver, a doe-eyed bookworm Xavier finds quite charming. Unable to refuse the challenge, he will simply have to act as Miss Oliver's protector . . . Louisa knows her chance for a husband has passed. But she refuses to retire into spinsterhood without enjoying a few grand adventures. When Lord Xavier's invitation arrives, Louisa is more intrigued than insulted. And once inside the rogues' gallery, she just may teach her gentlemen friends a thing or two about daring . . .

Download or read book A Deceptive Wager An Enemies to Lovers Regency Romance written by Ruth Ann Nordin and published by Ruth Ann Nordin. This book was released on 2021-01-17 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Kitty Farrow is under no illusion that her guardian cares anything about her, but when she finds out he wagered her in a gentleman’s bet, she’s in a state of complete shock. Not only has her choice in picking her own husband been taken away from her, but the earl her guardian is going to have her marry hates the very idea of having a wife at all. Aaron Henry, Earl of Northton, doesn’t trust ladies. Any of them. From a young age, his mother taught him that all a lady is good for is an heir. If they’re sweet, it’s only to trick the gentleman into doing what they want, and once they get it, they’re on to the next gentleman. So when he discovers the money he expected to win in a wager turns out to be the dowry of his future bride, he wants nothing to do with her. But whether Kitty or Aaron want the marriage or not, it’s going to happen. And heaven help anyone who tries to make the marriage a love match.

Download or read book The Duke s Second Chance written by Jen Geigle Johnson and published by Lords for the Sisters of Susse. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald feels as though he’s lost everything when his wife takes her last breath. Amelia’s world turns upside down when the Duke of Granbury steps into her tea shop and leaves with her heart. But when a secret from Amelia’s past unveils possibilities, will the duke get a second chance at love from an unexpected source?

Download or read book The Marriage Wager written by Candace Camp and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer in the first blush of youth and without a marriage portion, Miss Constance Woodley could scarcely imagine why one of the leading lights of London society should take an interest in the likes of her. But under her benefactor's guiding hand she was transformed into a captivating creature who caught the eye of the handsome, charming and ever-so-slightly notorious Lord Dominic Leighton. And before the shocked eyes of the entire Ton, the "nobody" and the rakish viscount showed that even in the heartless world of the marriage mart, when love was at stake, all bets were off….

Download or read book Not Just Any Earl written by Anna Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's like Historical Romance has been waiting for Anna Bradley to come along and write it." - 5 stars, Badass Book Reviews A lady hidden in the shadows... It's never been easy to be one of the five Templeton sisters, but for quiet Emmeline, the silver lining surrounding the dark cloud of her family's disgrace is a life of comfortable obscurity. But when her sisters accept an outrageous wager that takes the family to London for a season, an unexpected kiss with a handsome earl thrusts shy Emmeline into the middle of a shocking public scandal. A dazzling earl with the ton at his feet... Jonathan Parrish, the Earl of Melrose never meant to kiss Emmeline Templeton. It was an innocent case of mistaken identity, a stolen embrace meant for one of his vivacious admirers. Emmeline Templeton is perfectly wrong for him, and he's never before spared the shy wallflower a single glance, but after a single kiss the memory of her warm curves are imprinted forever on Jonathan's fingertips, and he can't forget the sweet taste of her lips against his. A dizzying spark of desire... But wherever the Templeton family ventures, gossip and rumor inevitably follow. If the secret wager that brought the sisters to London is revealed, it will shake London to its foundations. Will the blazing passion that brought Emmeline and Jonathan together end in a happily ever after, or will their hearts fall victim to the consuming flames?

Download or read book Wager for a Wife written by Karen Tuft and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Barlow's life has been forever altered: his estranged father is dead, and William has inherited the title of Viscount Farleigh. Along with the title comes a neglected estate, an enormous amount of gambling debt, and one astounding acquisition that will turn William's world upside down ... It is her first London Season, and Lady Louisa Hargreaves could not be more pleased. She has attracted the attention of the Earl of Kerridge, and the two are on the cusp of an official betrothal. That is, until she learns of a generations-old family debt: her grandfather gambled her hand in marriage and lost, and now Louisa must pay the price. She will marry not the earl but a man she just met, who has taken her freedom in one fell swoop. Even as she struggles to understand the handsome and aloof man she is to wed, Louisa is irresistibly drawn to him--and he to her. But she soon realizes he is harboring secrets, and as her wedding day approaches, she must discover what her future husband is hiding before she makes the gravest mistake of her life."--

Download or read book Suitors for the Proper Miss written by Jen Geigle Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wants to marry a Lord, as Lordly and titled as possible. He wants nothing more to do with her than saddle her horses. Miss Lucy Standish has wanted to marry a future duke for as long as she could remember. Days in the cold, with little coal for their small cottage and little to eat, she would dream of the days she saved all her sisters with a marriage to a man of such elevated title that they would never be poor again, that her children and their children forever would be cared for. Mr. Conor Sullivan has never overstepped the lines of propriety. He does everything he can to treat Miss Lucy with respect. But his heart is overcome with love for the middle Standish sister, and he assumes he will spend his dying breath still wishing she were his.But fortune changes for the Sullivan family. With new attention from the crown and past family secrets revealed, a path opens that just might mean happiness for Lucy and Conor. But will they be bold enough to seize the opportunity when it comes?

Download or read book The Earl s Wager for a Lady written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this sparky Regency romance It started with a wager… Will it end with it too? Returning from the military, Lord Maxim Randall finds his new neighbor, Eve Lansbury, to be challenging, intriguing—and utterly captivating. Widowed with a young son, Eve is fiercely protective, and Maxim can’t help but fall for her. However, a foolish bet to seduce her is revealed and backfires, jeopardizng their bond. Eve’s heart is more guarded than ever—unless Maxim can convince her to trust him again… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Download or read book The Earl s Wager written by Rebecca Thomas and published by Entangled: Scandalous. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When straitlaced earl, Will Sutton, is challenged to turn the obstinate American ward of his friend into a biddable lady suitable for the Marriage Mart, he gladly takes the wager. Then has to decide whether the prize--a prime racing stud horse--is worth changing the impudent beauty's temperament he's come to enjoy. Greatly. One headstrong miss. One stuffy lord. One friendly wager. What could go wrong? Will Sutton, the Earl of Grandleigh, believes he can save the family’s impoverished estate by investing in a racehorse, but the price is too steep. His brother-in-law offers him a deal: tutor his American ward in proper English customs, so she’ll be marriage material, and Will can have one of his horses. Maybe Miss Georgia Duvall prefers being a jockey, is obstinate and high spirited, but once she’s cleaned up and presentable, he’ll have no trouble finding her a quality suitor. She might even be quite pretty beneath the racetrack dust. The last thing Georgia Duvall wants is to be married off to an English peer. But she won’t defy her father’s wishes, and sets her cap for the oldest lord she can find—a man who’ll die quickly and leave her alone to manage her inheritance. The Earl of Grandleigh might think he’ll teach her manners and marry her off to someone younger than eighty, but there hasn’t been an obstacle yet Georgia can’t overcome. Including a stuffy, overbearing English lord.

Download or read book A Scandalous Scot written by Tammy Andresen and published by Swift Romance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enemy of my enemy… When Miss Annie Makem becomes the charge of her horrible uncle, her life turns into a nightmare. Which is why she had to run away. But where can she go in a town that her uncle has eyes and ears everywhere? The Scandalous Scot Boyd Lockton, known as the Scandalous Scot, runs the gaming hell Purgatory. He’s one of the few men in all of London who has neither succumbed to her uncle’s pressure or fallen for his false charm. He’s her one hope of hiding long enough to escape. But how she can convince the Scot to help her? He knows full well the potential for trouble that she’s brought to his door. She’ll have to make him an offer he can’t refuse…

Download or read book A Wager to Win the Debutante written by Eva Shepherd and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All bets are off in this lively Victorian romance full of spice and wit! May the best gentleman win… A debutante? Wealthy rail baron Thomas Hayward needs a duke’s land to expand his empire, but the oaf insists on a ridiculous wager: they’ll both woo debutante Miss Grace Lowerby, and if she chooses the duke—which she surely will—Thomas gets the land at a cheaper price. He can’t lose… To save her family, Grace must marry the duke. And yet in dashing Thomas she’s found a man she can finally be herself with. But focusing on her goal is paramount…until she discovers the wager and—annoyingly!—that it’s Thomas she’s falling for! From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Rakes, Rebels and Rogues Book 1: A Wager to Win the Debutante Book 2: A Widow to Defy the Duke

Download or read book Penniless Until the Earl s Proposal written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revel in this Regency annoyance-to-lovers story, full of twists, turns and page-turning romance! From feuding neighbors… To a union at the altar? Having lost her fiancé to war, Lady Juliet Sinclair refuses to lose her home to her brother’s gambling debts. She certainly wouldn’t otherwise be contemplating a marriage offer from her arrogant yet infuriatingly attractive neighbor, the Earl of Ashleigh… If widower Marcus didn’t need a mother for his beloved daughter, he wouldn’t be proposing to outspoken Juliet, either. They cross swords whenever they meet, but his daughter immediately takes to her. Yet Marcus is discovering his new bride intrigues him in ways he hadn’t expected…making their battle of wills even more thrilling! From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.