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Dubbed 'Lady Scandal' thanks to her gossip-stirring past, Portia Fairhaven, the widowed Countess of Blakewell, is no stranger to rumors and innuendos. Although freed of her unhappy marriage, she is still forced to maintain as spotless a reputation as she can manage for the sake of her son. That is, until a desperate search for her lost half brother takes her to the darkest depths of London’s underworld and straight into the arms of one brawny, undeniably handsome East End rogue.

When Alessandro, the half-Spanish Earl of Rayne, settles upon a marriage of convenience with Lady Catriona Hamilton, the terms are clear: an heir in exchange for her freedom. Still haunted by his painful past, he has no intention of entertaining a true marriage with his new wife or remaining in England.

With his impeccable reputation and undeniable good looks, Garrick Weir, Viscount Lindsey, heir to the Duke of Dryden, has earned his place at the apex of fashionable London society. Every lady on the marriage mart wants him as her prize, and every young fop wants to be him. When his foolish younger brother declares his intention to marry a devious East End fortune hunter, Garrick is appalled. He vows to do everything in his power to stop the mésalliance from occurring.

Lady Philippa Shaw had it all - a husband who was madly in love with her, a sweet baby daughter, and a house in the most exclusive square in London - until a shocking discovery revealed that her happy life was a lie. After her husband's death, his past crimes return to haunt her, bringing danger, devastation, and the one man she’s spent the past few years despising.

Neville Astley, Viscount Wilton, is a recluse by choice who has mostly avoided society until becoming the guardian of his niece. For her sake, he’s attending a Yorkshire country house party, despite preferring to be anywhere else. He wants nothing to do with romance or a wild hellion like Lady Charity. And yet, there’s something about her that he finds impossible to resist. Unexpected desire flares between the gentleman most likely to follow the rules and the lady most likely to break them. But while Charity will surrender her body willingly, she’ll never cede her heart.

Lady Clementine Hammond may be polite society’s most notorious matchmaker, but she’s perfectly happy remaining unattached herself. A series of unfortunate missteps at a country house party, however, leaves her with no choice but to feign an engagement to the last man in all England she’d ever want to marry—the annoyingly handsome Marquess of Dorset.

After spending all her life pinned beneath her overbearing mother’s thumb, Lady Edith Smythe is desperately weary of being a respectable, dutiful daughter. What better time to finally cast aside her wallflower ways than at a country house party where women’s suffrage is the leading topic of the day? And there’s no better man to exercise her freedom with than a diabolically handsome rake who’s as sinful as he is irresistible.

American heiress Madeline Chartrand has a problem. Her matchmaking mother is determined to secure an aristocratic husband for her, despite her wishes to the contrary. Lachlan Macfie, the newly minted Duke of Kenross, has an even bigger problem. He’s just inherited a moldering Scottish estate, crumbling castle and all, without the massive funds necessary to repair and run it. Fortunately, Lachlan has the perfect solution—a marriage of convenience. It’s a simple enough arrangement. Madeline gets the duke her mother hopes for, and Lachlan can restore the estate with the help of her vast dowry.

Returning to London scarred and bitter after his capture by Napoleon’s forces, Morgan, Marquess of Searle, is hell-bent on vengeance against the man responsible for his imprisonment. He’ll do anything to get what he wants, even if it means destroying an innocent in the process. There’s just one problem. He’s never met anyone like the woman he intends to use for his revenge.

Haunted by betrayal and the tragic death of her sister, Lady Sarah Bolingbroke seeks vengeance against the man she holds responsible for both. But the Earl of Markham is equally plagued by the events that cost him the woman he loved. When Lady Sarah reappears in his life, he’s determined to reveal the truth and win her heart. Can love save them, or will the sins of the past destroy them?

Nando, the handsome, ne’er-do-well Prince of Varros, has grown bored with his aimless life of pleasure-seeking and debauchery. An unexpected end to his ennui arrives in the form of a maddeningly proper English spinster who challenges him with her glacial reserve. Nando can’t get enough of the icy, disapproving Miss Brett, and the more she rebuffs him, the more determined he becomes to make her his.

Inghilterra, 1827. Dopo aver sconfitto i Turchi con la flotta britannica, il tenente Wright ritorna a Londra portando con sé una lettera per Miss Vianna Murray. Vianna, orfana e affidata alle cure di una zia nubile, di tutto si aspetta tranne che una visita a mezzanotte con le peggiori notizie che si potrebbero ricevere la notte di Natale. Suo fratello è gravemente ammalato, e Wright riesce a ottenere per lei un imbarco sulla Confidence, la nave da guerra inglese comandata dal Capitano Anderson.

When Everett Saunders, Duke of Riverdale, needed to marry in haste, he found the perfect duchess. One who would grant him an heir and a spare and rusticate quietly at his estate, allowing him to carry on with his life of debauchery. At least, that was the woman he thought he’d married. Instead, he unwittingly leg-shackled himself to a cunning, fortune-seeking liar. The only solution to his woes is abandoning the conniving baggage and simply carrying on as if he doesn’t have a wife at all.

Wenn Pflicht zum Vergnügen wird. Als Victoria sich in den Earl of Pembroke verliebt, hätte sie nie gedacht, dass er sie heiratet und dann auf sein Landgut abschiebt, während er in der Stadt das Leben genießt. Als er zurückkehrt, um ihr zu zeigen, dass er sich wirklich geändert hat, denkt sie nicht im Traum daran, es ihm einfach zu machen. Sie hat weder vor ihm zu verzeihen, noch ihm zu vertrauen, geschweige denn ihn zu küssen. Doch Letzteres ist gar nicht so einfach... Will, Earl oft Pembroke, hatte immer nur ein Ziel: seinen abscheulichen Vater durch seine vielen Skandale zu kompromittieren.

Italia, 1819. Sofia Arisi, figlia di mercanti italiani della borghesia milanese e promettente pittrice, a causa delle sue idee politiche è costretta insieme alla madre Maddalena a lasciare l’Italia e l’uomo che ama, di cui non riesce a ottenere notizie da molto tempo. Considerata una sovversiva, accusata di partecipare ai moti rivoluzionari e braccata dalla Polizia Austriaca, fugge in Inghilterra con sua madre sotto falsa identità.

Alla vigilia delle feste natalizie, Betrys Dunford compie un’incredibile scoperta: la pittrice Vera Martin, un tempo amante di suo fratello Rodhry, dichiarata morta un anno prima, è in realtà ancora in vita e abita in un quartiere malfamato di Londra con il suo bambino di quattro anni. Il ritorno dal viaggio di nozze di Rodhry e Sophie viene sconvolto prima dalla notizia della morte di Maddalena, e subito dopo dal ritrovamento di Vera, che creerà scompiglio nel loro matrimonio.

Rodhry Dunford, figlio del Barone Brecon, è un giovane avvocato che il Reggente ha assunto tra i suoi agenti governativi e insieme al suo migliore amico, il Conte Damian Mersey viene inviato in Austria per infiltrarsi tra la nobiltà delle ambasciate europee per scovare alcuni ricercati dalla Corona Britannica, spie e assassini. Mersey, osservatore per conto del Reggente, dovrà occuparsi degli intrighi politici che rallentano le operazioni del Congresso di Vienna.

Abbandonata dal fidanzato Jack Anderson a pochi mesi dal matrimonio, Diana Archer si trova nella situazione di prendersi carico della sorella del Capitano, dopo che il padre è stato trovato morto. Jack ha i suoi buoni motivi per aver deciso di allontanare Diana, uno fra tutti scoprire chi ha indotto suo padre a suicidarsi.

Lügen haben schöne Beine. Die amerikanische Erbin Daisy Vanreid versucht verzweifelt der Heirat mit einem alten, unattraktiven Aristokraten zu entkommen, die ihr Vater für sie eingefädelt hat. Sie würde alles tun, um diesem Elend zu entgehen - sogar den berüchtigten Duke of Trent in eine Ehe drängen. Dass sie jedoch nach der Hochzeit ihr Herz an ihren gutaussehenden Ehemann verliert, gehörte nicht zu ihrem Plan.

Maskenball der Liebe. Maggie, die Marchioness of Sandhurst, ist in einer lieblosen Zweckehe gefangen. Zwar hat sie ihren Mann Simon nur wegen des Adelstitels geheiratet, doch sie hatte nicht damit gerechnet, dass er sie überhaupt nicht anrührt und sich einfach aus dem Staub macht. Nach einem Jahr des Wartens hat Maggie genug von der Langeweile und fasst einen Plan, um ihrem Schicksal zu entkommen. Sie muss nur den Skandal des Jahrhunderts heraufbeschwören - und dabei ein bisschen Spaß haben.