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….
Download or read book A Wager for the Widow written by Elisabeth Hobbes and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I suppose a kiss of gratitude is out of the question?" Widowed Lady Eleanor Peyton has chosen a life of independence. Living alone on her rocky coastal outcrop, she's cut herself off from the world of men - until William Rudhale saves her life and demands a kiss! As steward to Lady Eleanor's father, Will knows the desire he burns is futile - but he'll still wager he can claim Eleanor's kiss by midwinter! Yet when the tide turns Will realizes vulnerable Eleanor is far too precious to gamble with. Can he win his lady before it's too late?"--Back cover.
Download or read book Regency Wagers The Mysterious Miss M The Wagering Widow written by Diane Gaston and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Miss M The Mysterious Miss M is a living male fantasy – alluring, sensual, masked. But when Lord Devlin Steele finds himself responsible for her – and her child – he comes to know the real Maddy: the loving, passionate woman who drives away the nightmares of the Waterloo battlefield. But this aristocratic soldier can't support his new family. He'll only inherit his fortune on marriage to a suitable lady – and Maddy is far from suitable... The Wagering Widow Lord Keating, laden with his father's debts, elopes with 'heiress' Emily Duprey only to discover she is as poor as he! Now his only hope of saving his family is a reluctant return to the gaming tables. But when Lord Keating recognises Lady Widow – a cardplaying masked seductress – as his mousy wife, their inconvenient marriage takes an unexpected turn...
Download or read book The Widow s Timeless Wager written by Maggie Shayne and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supreme Court Rules written by and published by LLMC. This book was released on with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romance Fiction written by Kristin Ramsdell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.
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 Regency Wagers written by Diane Gaston and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WAGERING WIDOW: Guy, Lorrd Keating, laden with his father's debts, elopes with 'heiress' Emily Duprey...only to discover she is as poor as he! Now his only hope of saving his family and dependents is a reluctant return to the gaming tables. Emily has managed to escape marriage to a gamester like her father. But she needs more money than she can win as Lady Keating- so she becomes Lady Widow, a card playing masked seductress! Then Guy recognises the beautiful Widow as his quiet, mousy wife- and their inconvenient marriage takes an unexpected turn...
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 901 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 Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe written by James Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art, literature, and society.
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 The Bride Ship written by Deborah Hale and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ship full of women could only cause trouble! Of that Governor Sir Robert Kerr was certain, just by considering their chaperon! Though a widow, Mrs. Jocelyn Finch was young, vivacious and utterly determined to have her own way—especially with him! Challenging the governor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a duel was obviously a poor way to introduce herself. But when Sir Robert accused Jocelyn and her charges of something, well, less ladylike than husband-hunting, what else could she do? Besides, someone had to show this straitlaced, yet gloriously compelling figure of a man that there was more to life than doing one’s duty!
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Download or read book The Comic Text written by Brian J. Levy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a close analysis of the Old French fabliaux, that medieval corpus of short comic tales in narrative verse celebrated (sometimes notorious) for their irreverence and sexual content. It picks out certain 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 essential subject-matter and narrative of each fabliau. These elements, in many respects the 'small print' of the joke, furnish the comic text with many rhythms and echoes, all contributing to the ludic, adversarial nature of the text. They are extremely flexible, serving as a rhetoric of depiction that extends from broad comic motif to the lightest triggering of a mocking smile. This volume will be of interest to all students of medieval culture, Old French literature, and the development of the short or comic narrative.
Download or read book His One Woman written by Paula Marshall and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil war in a nation…and in a family! Jack Dilhorne was in Washington, D.C., on business just as war was being declared between the North and South. It was not the best of times to meet someone as intriguing as Marietta Hope. Marietta’s reputation preceded her: Jack expected her to be an embittered old maid. He was delightfully surprised to find her a bright, witty and goodlooking woman. But as Jack and Marietta grew closer their love came under threat from war…and from an enemy much closer to home!
Download or read book Gallant Officer Forbidden Lady written by Diane Gaston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former soldier is commissioned to paint a leading lady who inspires him to play the lover in this “cleverly crafted” Regency romance (Booklist). For Jack Vernon, the battlefields of Badajoz, Spain, are nothing compared to the cutting tongues of polite society. But Jack has never been very “polite.” A canvas is this brooding artist’s preferred company—having once been the outlet for the horror he witnessed at war, it’s now his fortune. Painting the portrait of the Drury Lane Theater’s latest star—the stunningly beautiful Ariana Blane—is his biggest commission yet. Learning every curve of her body ignites feelings he thought were destroyed in battle. But he’s not the only man who has Ariana in his sights. . . .
