Ergebnis für "Leech" in Liebesromane

Sie will die Wahrheit herausfinden und weil ich eine Ablenkung brauche, helfe ich ihr dabei - komme, was wolle. Brook. Mein Ziel, den Baustoffhandel meiner Familie zu expandieren, ging wortwörtlich in Flammen auf. Und das ausgerechnet, nachdem mir ein Konkurrent drohte. Ein Zufall? Wohl kaum. Allerdings denkt die Feuerwehr, mein Vater wolle Versicherungsbetrug begehen. Nur einer von ihnen glaubt uns - Liam, ein viel zu gutaussehender Kerl und Adrenalinjunkie. Vermutlich hilft er mir genau deswegen bei meinem riskanten Plan, die Unschuld meines Vaters zu beweisen.

Being dared to kiss a man in the moonlight is all well and good, but men and moonlight do not fall from the skies at will. Until they do. Under instruction from a friend, drab Alice Dowding lingers alone on a moonlit balcony. Not the most sensible course of action for a usually sensible girl. Yet, being sensible has gained Alice a seat among the wallflowers, and her only likely chance of marriage to a man she finds nigh on repulsive. Something must be done.

Ein freies Leben, Fotografie, das übliche Chaos und mein altes Wohnmobil Mitzi, mehr brauche ich nicht! Doch warum weckt dann ausgerechnet der pedantische Leftwing Ryan mein Interesse? Holly: Als neue Fotografin der Philadelphia Pucks kann ich nicht nur meiner Leidenschaft nachgehen, sondern auch einen Neuanfang wagen. Neue Stadt, keine Dramen, nicht der Liebe hinterherrennen, spießig werden. Es ist ein seltsamer Wink des Schicksals, dass ausgerechnet hinter Ryan - der seinen Rasen mit der Nagelschere zu schneiden scheint - so viel mehr steckt, als ich zunächst annehmen wollte.

Widowed farmer Ned Hardy is facing a bleak winter and a lonely Christmas alone, when a beautiful young woman turns up on his doorstep in the middle of the night, frozen and terrified. Stunned by the arrival of a fine lady who looks like a Christmas angel, all of Ned’s protective instincts flare to life. Grace Honeyfield is on the run from her abusive brother and the terrifying man he’s forcing her to marry. Escaping into the darkness on a snowy night, she stumbles onto an isolated farm, and into the arms of a handsome farmer.

Harry Browning was a motherless guttersnipe, and the morning he came across the elderly Alexander Preston, The Viscount Stamford, clinging to a sheer rock face, he didn't believe in fate. But the fates have plans for Harry whether he believes or not, and he's not entirely sure he likes them.

Benedict Rutland - the darkly handsome earl of Rothay - gained his title too young. His youth was spent clawing back the family fortunes. Now a man in his prime and financially secure, he is betrothed to a strict, sensible, and coolheaded woman who will never upset the balance of his life or disturb his emotions.... But then Miss Skeffington-Fox arrives. And as family members in line for the dukedom begin to die at an alarming rate, all fingers point at Benedict, and Miss Skeffington-Fox may be the only one who can save him.

Surely the daughter of a viscount, even an impoverished one, ought to be able to live, just a little? But her father, Viscount Rennard, is a violent man, and one who is hard to thwart as he harshly restricts Keziah's society. When Keziah learns of her father's plans to marry the recently widowed and fabulously wealthy duchess of Chartley, it doesn't take the lovely Miss Todd long to realize that the woman's only son, Felix - the new duke of Chartley - is an inconvenience that her father will remove with haste.

Perfect for fans of Code Name Verity and The Girl in the Blue Coat, Wait for Me, from debut author Caroline Leech, brings a fresh new voice, and a perfect blend of sweet romance and historical fiction, to a much-loved genre. It’s 1945, and Lorna Anderson’s life on her father’s farm in...