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When her home situation becomes unlivable, Lydia hopes to escape through a marriage and her qualifications for her new husband are not long. Unfortunately she's a too-old bluestocking with nothing to tempt a man into wedding her, but desperate times call for desperate measures. The Duke of Manchester has been tricked and trapped into marriage with the quietly stunning Miss Lydia Stafford - he just doesn't know why. She's not a fortune hunter, she's not a social-climber, and she's still a virgin.

Unwilling to be sold as brood mare in an arranged marriage, Lady Juliana Sinclair decides her own future, and runs. But disaster strikes, leaving her at the mercy of the first man that finds her. Leonard Notley is tortured by his past and living in hiding with a young ward that he knows is better off without him. While hunting in the woods, he comes across a lost woman and feels compelled to help her.

Lizzy is a young woman of modest means and social standing working as governess to the Darcy cousins, Richard and Fitzwilliam. She spies where she should not, and the Darcy men show her the error of her ways via her sweet submission. Will Lizzy capture and hold the attention of these two high-born gentlemen, or is her passionate nature going to lead her to ruin?

Married once to a Baron who needed a young bride to bear him an heir, Cordelia Astley found herself in an untenable situation after his death, until Philip Stanley, the Marquess of Dunbury, asked her to be his bride. She knows he didn't marry her for love, but he was her white knight, and once they're married, she finds herself falling in love with him. It would be a fairy-tale ending if it wasn't for her stepdaughter, Gabrielle.

Kate Collier is still recovering from the trauma of her rape and trying to make a success of her dress shop when Jason Randall and Anthony Richards return to London from the Continent, intent on winning her. She's known them for years, ever since they served with her late husband in the Peninsula against Napoleon. She'd been in love with them for almost that long. To discover they feel the same is a shock, but Kate isn't ready to turn her life back over to any man.

My Grandmother's Tale first appeared as a serialized novelette in several issues of The Pearl, an underground magazine of erotica that appeared during the Victorian age. In this story, a grandmother, May, reflects on her sexual awaking at a young age, and details her many sexual trysts over the years, in explicit and often humorous descriptions. She then has some of her friends relate their experiences.

Husband and wife both kept their secrets closely guarded, but it all suddenly changed when Jacob catches his cheating wife red-handed in the arms of another man!

Two stern lords, two naughty wives, and Fifty Shades of Hot! This collection of two full length historical romances and one novella will have you reaching for your smelling salts...

American oil money is let loose in the opulent social circles of Edwardian England as wealthy heiress Anne Randolph arrives in search of a financially vulnerable duke to marry for his title. Anne’s ruthless mother Martha is obsessed with the British aristocracy and will deploy any means necessary to see her daughter become a duchess.

Inheriting the family estate has resulted in many disruptions to Dr. Damian Thatch’s life. His unwillingness to give up his practice and become a gentleman of leisure has caused Lady Juliette to leave him, and she took Rosie with her, leaving him without his submissive house maid. Frustrated by having to be careful so as not to leave marks on the masochistic Lady Bridgette, Damian goes to Madame Q’s Nunnery to have his way with a dolly mop. While physically satisfying, however, he finds that purchasing pleasure takes away from his desire for conquest.

Eleonora of Somerset Hall: A Victorian Romance of Love, Betrayal, and Freedom In Victorian England, Lady Eleonora Somerset is trapped in a gilded cage where her beauty is a commodity and her future a transaction. But beneath her exquisite gowns beats a heart yearning for a fierce, untamed freedom. A loveless marriage teaches her that to survive, she must take control. Her rebellion begins with a stolen, forbidden book, awakening a desire that will change everything. Her quest for freedom leads her from a passionate affair with a charismatic officer to the ruthless salons of Paris.

Their marriage is built on love, laughter, and just a touch of scandal… but this anniversary, Arthur, the Earl of Sidmouth, is about to discover his sweet wife has an even sweeter surprise in store. Grace may be a countess, but she’s determined to outdo her hopelessly romantic husband with a gift he’ll never forget—one that involves secret midnight baking, mischief, and a great deal of desire. But Arthur has plans of his own… and they’re far more wicked than any recipe.

Aurora Lane isn’t just any woman—she carries the power of a glowing crystal that warps her through bodies, times, and desires. Each warp leads to a new life… and a new forbidden temptation. When Aurora awakens in wartime London, she inhabits the body of a married woman whose stockings and secrets stir the longing of her weary neighbor, Margaret. With husbands away at war and ration books leaving love cold, Aurora discovers that stockings can ignite more than envy—they can unlock hidden hunger.

Rex Timberlake, purplish poet, raconteur, and industrial menace, has captured the world with his libidinous poetry, even as the Timberlake Factory's unorthodox publishing methods quietly triggered an ecological disaster of staggering proportions. One evening in Timberlake's enigmatic island estate, deep in the Pacific, four privileged socialites find their fates entwined as a violent storm gathers—secrets surface as sexual desires fracture alliances. A new societal order threatens to rise from this wreckage.

Dans ces mémoires audacieuses, une femme britannique prend la plume et, à la première personne, raconte ses exploits de fouetteuse. Entre aveu et provocation, elle dévoile l’art de la correction, les jeux de pouvoir et l’attrait de l’interdit, derrière les portes closes d’une société obsédée par les convenances.

Kate Percival discovered the joys of sex early in life, and was so excited by those early experiences that she decided to become a "woman of pleasure." Kate explains her story this way, "I am about to give to the world the particulars of a life fraught with incident and adventure. I am about to lift the veil from the most voluptuous scenes. I shall disguise nothing, conceal nothing, but shall relate everything that has happened to me just as it occurred. I am what is called a woman of pleasure, and have drained its cup to the very dregs."

Using the tools of hypnosis and roleplay, Doctor Damian Thatch has helped Lady Cynthia discover that the cause of her troubling dreams are her own secret desires. Since she is a countess, however, she is unable to act on them. Since the only person who now knows her secret fantasies is Damian, her physician, she turns to him to make them real for her. Damian may be willing, but he has a price. If she wants her fantasies fulfilled, the countess must become submissive to him.

When Lady Christina Rowan began to have feelings for her current lover, Benedict Windham, brother to the duke of Manchester, she immediately cuts him loose before she can become too attached. Or so she thought. Time away from Christina has made Benedict realize how deep his own feelings for her run; not only is she the most exciting lover he's ever had, he's actually fallen in love with her. So when he returns to London for the season, he's determined to court his former lover and turn her into his wife.

Chelsea Fergusson, daughter of the impoverished Earl of Dumfries, is a desperate young lady with an indecent plan to get out of an unwanted marriage to an old lecher by losing her virginity to London's most infamous libertine, Sinjin St. John, Duke of Seth, “the Saint.” Sinjin, sworn bachelor, sexy rogue and bedder of beautiful women, was sure nothing could surprise him.

Fascynujący świat kobiet, dla których seks stanowił istotę życia i bodziec do działania, świat wybujałej erotyki panującej na dworach Francji, Szkocji, królestwa Neapolu, w Wersalu czy… na Kremlu. Znajdują się tu barwne portrety Wielkie nimfomanki, Pauliny Borghese, Emmy Hamilton, Marii Stuart, Izabeli Bawarskiej, George Sand, Wieroczki Dawidowej, Galiny Breżniewej – istot ulegających chorobliwym skłonnościom seksualnym. Narrację książki ubarwiają odważne, naturalistyczne opisy scen erotycznych.