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What the duke wants is not three young ladies for wards. Nor is the responsibility for finding them a governess. Thankfully, that is delegated to his housekeeper, who, he might add, is blind as a bat. That really could be the only excuse she has for hiring Carlotta. Because Carlotta is far too beautiful to be a governess.

Betrothal to the callous Lord Blackhall painted a future devoid of love. Upon his death, Lady Caroline Wilmont is promised to the younger brother. Caroline refuses to allow her first taste of desire to be at the hands of a man who would rather have any woman but her. This, her last night of freedom, is to be a memory of lust that she can take with her throughout her loveless marriage. As Aphrodite, Caroline attends a masque determined to find a man to initiate her into the intimacies of erotic love.

It is 1827: the height of Cheltenham’s Regency boom. The wealthy and the fashionable flock to the Cotswold town for its many pleasures and the healing powers of the spring waters. The unmarried glove trade heiress Alice Elliot has never experienced much of life and never expected to. But on her arrival in Cheltenham, she is thrown into a confusing world where she finds she has to make a choice between pleasure and excess or charity and religion.

Francis, the Marquis of Wimborton needed an heiress. Lexia had money and her father wanted her to marry a Lord. But she was a spirited girl, raised in America and she wanted to choose her own husband. The Marquis was too proud to court her, especially as he believed her heart was given to Wayne Freeman, an American that her father had brought her to England to avoid. They unexpectedly became the best of friends, escaping together from family pressures and boarding a cruise liner in search of their dreams.

Lady Alison has a penchant for mischief. How else could she end up in the bedchamber of the notorious rake Viscount Weston? She expected to rescue her foolish cousin, instead she finds herself engaged…and embroiled in the devious exploits of sex slave traders.

Die grandios witzige Regency-Reihe von Martha Waters geht weiter! Die junge Witwe Diana, Lady Templeton, und der gutaussehende Jeremy, Marquess of Willingham, sind in der Londoner High Society für ihre scharfen Zungen und offenen Flirtereien bekannt. Eines Abends wird aus einem Schlagabtausch eine handfeste Wette: Wenn Jeremy nicht innerhalb eines Jahres heiratet, zahlt Diana ihm 100 Pfund. Doch dann macht Jeremy noch einen anderen Vorschlag: Nachdem seine letzte Eroberung ihn harsch kritisiert hat, ist er verunsichert bezüglich seines Könnens als Liebhaber.

Sie weiß, dass er weiß, dass sie weiß, dass er es weiß! London 1817: Als Lady Violet Grey und Lord James Audley sich vor fünf Jahren trafen, verliebten sie sich und heirateten Hals über Kopf. Nun sprechen die beiden seit vier Jahren kein Wort mehr miteinander. Aber als Violet die Nachricht erhält, dass James einen Reitunfall hatte, macht sie sich sofort auf den Weg zu ihm. Nur um ihn dann wohlauf anzutreffen, wenn man mal von dem heftigen Kater absieht. Um ihrem Ehemann eine Lektion zu erteilen, täuscht Violet vor, krank zu sein.

An orphaned pioneer girl, an outlaw with a conscience, and a former Civil War captain influenced by the poetry of Walt Whitman...These three young castaways help each other erase wounds of the past and search for what they desperately need.