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He's the Duke of Carlisle, leader of a secret branch of the Home Office charged with keeping the peace amidst great peril and upheaval. By day, he hunts anarchists and murderers with savage intensity. By night, he rules over London's darkest, most depraved souls. But he's about to meet his match in his latest prisoner. She's a strong, independent woman who's fearless and determined. She's unlike any lady he's ever known, as unfettered and plucky as can be.

Quint, the Duke of Sedgewick, is a recluse by choice. Ever since the fire that claimed his wife’s life and left much of his body brutally scarred, he has retreated from polite society. He’s content to keep to his country estate with no one for company, save a handful of servants, everyone else be damned. But when a new housekeeper arrives at Blackwell Abbey before Christmas, his self-imposed solitude is disrupted by a raven-haired menace who turns his world upside down with holly boughs, fir trees, and sinful temptation.

Felix Markham, Duke of Winchelsea, has devoted his life to being the perfect statesman and raising his daughter after his beloved wife’s death. But when devastating bombings on the railway leave London in an uproar, he is determined to bring the mastermind of the attacks to justice. He will lure the fox from his den by any means. In her youth, Johanna McKenna donned a French accent and stage name to escape the clutches of her violent father and became the darling of the New York City stage as Rose Beaumont.

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.

Gareth Claremont, Earl of Rexingham, has only accompanied his wayward younger sister to a Yorkshire country house party to keep her out of trouble. As always, mayhem finds her. This time, in the form of a new friend, the gorgeous, thoroughly improper, utterly appalling hellion Miss Lucy Chartrand. Gareth intends to do everything he can to keep the ruinous influence of a wild hoyden like Miss Chartrand far from his impressionable sister.

Miss Isabella Hilgrove, proprietress of the Ladies' Typewriting School, prides herself on the quality of her staff. After the Duke of Westmorland sacks the third typist she has sent him in as many days, she's not just outraged, she's determined to put the arrogant bully in his place. Benedict Manning, Duke of Westmorland, is having the worst week of his life. A bomb has exploded on London Bridge, the Special League is unraveling, and he cannot seem to find a secretary who is not a spineless watering pot.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lady Tansy Francis has been a loyal lady-in-waiting for most of her life. In the eyes of the ton, she has come to London for the formal betrothal announcement of the princess who is like a sister to her. But secretly, Tansy has become caught up in the plans for a revolution in her homeland. She finds herself with no choice but to join forces with the last person she should ever trust, a coldhearted man who is feared by many: the king to whom the princess is about to announce her betrothal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scarlett Moffatt is obsessed by the unsolved and the unexplained. But her boyfriend Scott Dobinson is more sceptical, preferring facts and evidence to her bizarre conspiracy theories.

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.