Ergebnis für "Adam" in Historische Liebesromane

In a world where one may choose a soul mark on their thirteenth birthday, Elizabeth Bennet chooses to be marked. That does not mean her soulmate is happy about it... Fitzwilliam Darcy is certain he knows better than Fate. Until his life turns upside down and he meets an impertinent lady in Hertfordshire. With Fate in charge, who knows what will happen?

Darcy is visiting his friend Bingley in Hertfordshire and decides to bring his sister for a time. While escaping the attentions of Miss Bingley, Miss Darcy meets Elizabeth Bennet and the two form a fast friendship. Friendship leads to a steady correspondence which leads to an invitation to visit Miss Darcy in London that winter. Elizabeth accepts—unbeknownst to Mr. Darcy.

Knowing the future is never easy—especially when you realize you’ve ruined everything. Elizabeth has been dreaming of the same man for years, but she has never seen his face. When she finally realizes who he is, she has to face the possibility that her happily ever after will never come to fruition. Can things progress as they should after going so spectacularly awry? Or does Elizabeth need to accept that the future will never be what she had hoped it would?

James Thomas Morrow has been moving through life as though in a fog, struggling to find happiness ever since losing the man he loved. One day, while James is working as a footman for a wealthy family in London, he finds out that the White Star Line is in need of crew members for their newest ocean liner. Almost immediately, James secures a position as a first-class saloon steward with the hope that the exciting change might help him clear the haze of melancholy and remind him what it is to really live.

Mr. Bennet discovers his days are numbered, so he immediately begins to set his affairs—and his five unmarried daughters—in order. Knowing they will fare best should at least one of them find a suitable husband, he cannot refuse any respectable suitors. The high-spirited Elizabeth suspects something isn’t right in the halls of Longbourn, but nothing prepares her for a certain haughty gentleman from Derbyshire. While Mr. Darcy is exceedingly wealthy and handsome, in Elizabeth’s eyes, he is also proud, high-handed, and insulting. Unfortunately, he is also desperately in love with her.

Elizabeth Bennet has just lived through the most humiliating night of her life. Then by some strange twist of fate, she is forced to live it again. And again. If ever a night refused to end, why must it be that of the Netherfield Ball? The indignity of constantly reliving the same day forces her to question things she thought she knew. Things like the function of time. Her father’s qualities as a parent. Mr. Darcy’s disagreeable personality, and how proud and bad tempered he is. She does not know why this is happening, but she is sure of one thing. Somehow, it's all Mr. Darcy’s fault.

Madeline Oxley has been ruined by a scandal through no fault of her own, and her future looks bleak. When a gentleman from her past requests that she set sail for the New World to become his wife, she jumps at the chance to become a mail order bride and marry the man she has loved since she was...

Die mittellose Ravenna Sinclair sieht nur eine Möglichkeit um an ihr rechtmäßiges Erbe zu kommen: Sie muss in die Rolle ihres toten Bruders schlüpfen und ein Jahr lang im Dienste des seltsamen, aber sehr attraktiven Nicolas Eden, dem Duke of Avalon, ausharren. Anfangs genießt Ravenna noch die unverhofften Freiheiten als Mann - doch je mehr Zeit sie in der Nähe des blinden Nicolas Eden verbringt, desto mehr gerät sie in den Bann dieses faszinierenden Mannes.

THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the Great War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting they form an extraordinary bond that neither privilege nor prejudice...

From a country girl to a countess. From a wife to a widow. From grief to love. Well-read, observant, and spirited, a young Elizabeth Bennet draws the attention of a widowed earl. Now wealthy and titled, when she finally meets Mr. Darcy, she outranks him. Of course that doesn’t stop him from insulting her. His propensity to give offense shows no respect for rank.

For Elizabeth Bennet, Charlotte is the friend who is—annoyingly—always right. Colonel Fitzwilliam is the mischievous brother she never had. And if their convictions that Mr. Darcy is in love with her are correct, he could be the lover she’s always wanted. There’s only one problem—he tried to ruin her favorite sister’s life, and she made an absolute fool of herself in front of him. Can lasting happiness come out of such a beginning? And can a man die from chasing a woman too quick to be caught? Darcy is about to find out.

Eine Saison in Baden-Baden voller Bälle und heimlicher Rendezvous Baden-Baden 1831: Die Ballsaison beginnt, und Anna von Krebern wartet auf ihren Verlobten, Lord Dallingham, der seit Monaten in Ägypten weilt. Ohne ihre Freundin Elise ist die Langeweile groß, bis Anna bei einem nächtlichen Spaziergang im Garten deren Bruder Franz von Freyberg über den Weg läuft. Fortan finden Anna und Franz immer wieder heimlich Gelegenheiten für private Gespräche. Ihr Herzklopfen versucht Anna dabei zu ignorieren.

Washington Square tells the poignant and gently comic story of Catherine Sloper, a sweet and unassuming young heiress, and her fortune-seeking suitor Morris Townsend. Set in New York City during the 1840s, the story follows Ms. Sloper's conflicts with her concerned father, who attempts to thwart Mr. Townsend, and her busybody aunt, who encourages the attachment. But amid all the duplicity and folly, Ms. Sloper slowly grows towards independence and maturity, and begins to make her own decisions.

When your mother is named Honor, you have a lot to live up to. Adam is the oldest of Honor’s six sons. He has been in love with Mercy Coffey since he was barely a teen. But the five years difference in their age keeps her from taking him seriously. She married Langston Barns instead and Adam is forced to honor her choice.

Baden-Baden, 1830: Heiratswillige Junggesellen recken die Köpfe nach der hübschen Elise, deren Herz sie erobern wollen. Doch ihre Auserwählte ist abgelenkt von dem leidenschaftlichen Liebesbrief einer geheimnisvollen Verfasserin, den sie in einem Buch gefunden hat. Ist ein Kuss wirklich so überwältigend wie beschrieben? Völlig vernarrt in den Fund, aber ahnungslos in Liebesdingen, greift Elise selbst zur Feder. Junggeselle Philipp hilft ihr nur zu gern bei ihren Recherchen zur körperlichen Anziehungskraft, die natürlich ausschließlich theoretischer Natur sind. Bis ein Kuss alles verändert.

Elizabeth Ashburn is madly, deeply, irrefutably in love with her best friend. They know each other better than their own minds. There is only one problem: To him, she is Little Lizzie, and nothing she does seems to replace the idea in his mind. No matter. It is her first Season and she is determined to make a match with a gentleman - any gentleman - who will help her steal her heart back from Oliver Turner and his sea-blue eyes. Oliver Turner can remember the exact day that Lizzie grew up. And now, he cannot see her as anything besides the beautiful woman stealing his breath.

In 1850s South Carolina, ladies with ambition and a penchant for wearing trousers are rare indeed. But that’s Charlotte Whitney all over. Not only does Charlie yearn to resurrect her late father’s newspaper, she wants to be its editor. That position, however, has been handed to Richmond newspaperman Adam Chase. Undeterred, Charlie convinces Adam to teach her the journalism trade. In doing so, she teaches him how to open his heart.

When crusading lawyer Vikram Pandey sets out in search of a missing youth, his investigations take him to Holywell Street, London's most notorious address. He expects to find a disgraceful array of sordid bookshops. He doesn't expect one of them to be run by the long-lost friend whose disappearance and presumed death he's been mourning for 13 years. Gil Lawless became a Holywell Street bookseller for his own reasons, and he's damned if he's going to apologize or listen to moralizing from anyone. 

A collection of stand-alone novellas that explore what would happen between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet if her sister Lydia’s elopement were handled differently.

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