Showing results by publisher "-emdashery books-" in Historical

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...

After her first lackluster experience with intercourse, Clare Dunnaby swears off romantic entanglement for good. At 21, she remains unattached and content - pursuing the study of botany and geology with single-minded focus. She remains certain she has no need for the amorous attentions of the opposite sex...at least, until she enters her bedchamber to find a nude man waiting in her bed.

In this historical erotic story, when a couple of farm labourers knock off for the day, they decide to take a cooling dip in the local pond. There, they begin to appreciate each other’s naked majesty, delving into experiences new to the both of them. When two young wenches also decide to strip off their clothes and go for a swim, things get really interesting.

Henry’s heart has long been devoted to Olivia, his sister's dearest friend, and Olivia has always loved Henry–like a brother. Olivia Danville witnessed a passionate seduction at a formative age, and her unexpected education stirs wanton desires which would make her treasured friend, the handsome and valiant Henry, despise her. With her father called to duty against Napoleon, Olivia’s mother asks Mr. Seldon, the new vicar with the face of an angel, to counsel the young debutante in preparation for matrimony.

How could Caro love and hate the same man? How could she be foolish enough to harbour that love for years; to hide herself away from the world because of her embarrassment over her failure to be loved in return? Because she is a fool...Yet Rob Marlow sees not that but courage in her, and this beautiful young man, who gives her back the strength she’s lost, is someone she longs to cling to for the physical comfort she has missed since the end of her marriage.

Miss Mary Marlow had been warned away from Lord Andrew Framlington. Drew had a reputation that could not be ignored: he was a rogue of the highest order. But attraction between two people cannot be ignored. Despite all of the warnings from her family, Mary’s heart was ruling her head. Would Mary live to regret her involvement with Drew? Could he ever be trusted?

Beauty tames the beast when a marriage of convenience becomes anything but convenient for a duke with dark secrets. Haunted by a dark secret, Dorian, the Duke of Rath , is consumed by wrath and guilt. The powerful lord will endure any torture to atone for his sins, even marry a perfect stranger—his victim's little sister—to save her family from ruin. He vows not to touch her and to protect the innocent girl from his depraved sensual pleasures. But she must stay for one year and follow his strict rules.

Victorian England is not kind to those born without privilege, and yet Lillian Lancaster has made a home for herself and a scrawny feral cat. Lilly is happiest working in the gardens, knowing she can never match their beauty. She is one of the flower-girls on the streets selling the bouquets she makes with love for mere pennies.

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.

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.

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."

When her aunt found her a position in the Duke of McClellan's household staff, Audrey Fisher was excited to be entering the service of such a distinguished nobleman. His reputation for both charm and generosity fills young Audrey's head with silly daydreams of being swept off her feet. Of course, no duke would stoop to court a maid. But it turns out the virile, young Duke wants his new maid to do more than just polish his silver. Being the hands-on type, he's going to train the young, chaste, virginal maid himself.

In this scorching-hot regency romance, the Marquess of Alastair has doubled the dowry he is providing Miss Abbott because the sooner she is married, the sooner she is out of his care - and his fantasies. To Mildred Abbott's dismay, her dowry is now attracting numerous unwanted suitors, and she has no interest in marrying. What she wants is an encore of her night at the Ch'teau Debauchery, where Alastair once fulfilled her most decadent desires.

Edgar Hunton Smythe, Duke of Lovell, has spent six seasons sidestepping the marital trap with a carefully curated air of gruff detachment, general roguishness... and one humiliating secret. Though society whispers refer to him as a stallion in more ways than one, Edgar has never once been able to make those whispers a reality. His solution? Enlist his dearest friend, Giselle, as a faux mistress to preserve his reputation and buy time. But when Giselle offhandedly suggests his desires might lie not with women—but with his golden-haired, ever-watchful valet—Edgar begins to wonder…

Lady Lily Fairfax has given up on the ton, even if her father hasn’t. With her father’s determination to seal a betrothal to the Earl of Knox, Lily isn’t sure her dreams of love and literature are within her reach… Until she meets the debonair Alex, Viscount of Callan at a country house party. Soon Lily finds her budding friendship with the witty, intelligent, and charming Alex in danger of becoming something more. Can Lily forgo her duty in favor of her heart?

Behind the glittering façade of London high society, repressed passions smolder. When recently widowed Lilly, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, receives a scandalous invitation, she's tempted to indulge her forbidden desires. But in this provocative world of illicit art and masked balls, embracing sensual freedom comes at a high price. As Lilly's wanton adventures entangle her with her dearest friend and a seductive artist, she discovers that true liberation lies not only in unbridled pleasure, but in daring to be her authentic self.

When her guardian learns of her scandalous behavior in London, 18-year-old Dora Harper is brought to his country estate for a painful chastisement and a humiliating lesson in obedience. But the stern, old-fashioned gentleman does not intend merely to reform his wayward ward. He plans to claim her, first as his bride and then as his playing piece in a game far more shameful than anything she could have ever imagined.

Doctor Damian Thatch is a London physician whose unique version of clitoral massage immediately cures his patients of their hysteria. The masochistic Lady Bridgette, however, desires more. But, a proper Victorian lady may not have any interest in sex, and even thinking about an orgasm would be completely unacceptable. Her solution is to convince her trusted physician to "become the administrator of her immorality".

Lady Theodosia Dundas has spent years reveling in her role as the ton’s most scandalous villain. Known for spreading gossip, ruining reputations, and cutting down anyone who flaunts their happiness before her, while she’s sold to a decrepit viscount. But widowhood has its perks. Harcourt Eliot, Earl of St. Germans, has spent his life drowning his demons in brandy, women, and cards. Determined to right his father’s wrongs, he wins back an estate his father lost long ago… only for Theodosia, his sister’s best friend, to arrive at his door, ready to claim the home for herself.

In Sex, Lies, and Sugar, the polished façade of the perfect neighborhood shatters, revealing an undercurrent of desire, secrets, and scandal. Set in stylish mid-century Palm Springs, this seductive novel immerses readers in the intertwined lives of a community navigating love, deception, and the thrilling world of swinging and wife-swapping.