Ergebnis für "Lifer" in Viktorianisch

Eloisa Holt is not the type of woman to wander London on her own. In fact, she's not even the type of woman to consider such a thing. After all, her governesses hailed her as a paragon of everything proper. But when a nude painting of her mother scandalizes the ton, Eloisa must stop more paintings from being displayed. This debutante is desperate.

Violet Hamilton is a woman who knows her own mind. Which, in 1896, can make things a little complicated... At 28, Violet's father is beginning to worry she will never find a husband. But every suitor he presents, Violet finds a new and inventive means of rebuffing. Because Violet does not want...

From the bestselling author of A Woman of Substance, a page-turning epic Victorian historical family saga. London 1889: Victorian London is a place of wealth, privilege and poverty, a city of extremes. For James Falconer, who grew up as a barrow boy on a London market, it is a city of...

After almost a year spent playing chaperone to Mr Daventry’s female enquiry agents, Miss Trimble knows she must find a new position. All his agents are married, and so what other reason could he have for calling her to his office late at night? Except her employer is a master matchmaker, a man who has discovered her true identity, knows her real name, and her darkest secret. A man who leaves her no choice but to confront her past and work alongside his client—the illegitimate son of an earl.

Set deep in the Yorkshire Dales, Diane Allen’s A Child of the Dales is a sweeping novel of family, deceit, separation and love. Abandoned as a baby on the steps of a remote inn, Ruby Blake has been raised by the innkeeper’s wife, Martha Metcalfe, unknowing of the family searching for her...

When the past haunts Mary, will she live long enough to make it right? Mary escaped the horrific clutches of Victor Del Avilasto, a man hell-bent on leaving no loose ends. Before Victor’s dead body is buried in the Denver cemetery, her past comes alive. What she thought well behind her in Kansas City, is now in front of her with revolvers and a hangman’s noose. Ross Montgomery was with Mary when they escaped Victor’s clutches. Mary saved his life. This rough around the edges woman captured his heart, but before he could strum up the courage to call on her, she’s taken.

A princess enslaved becomes goddaughter to a queen. By the time she was seven years old, Aina had been born into life as an Egbado princess, witnessed the brutal killing of her entire family, and been enslaved to a rival chieftain. With a death sentence hanging over her head, she would also face...

The stunning first instalment in The Breckton Novels, To Catch a Dream by Mary Wood tells the tragic tale of Bridie O'Hara, as she struggles to overcome her misfortune. Can she follow her dreams when she has lost everything? Young Bridie O'Hara is torn away from her native Ireland by her father...

Previously published as The Summer Season. For fans of Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, The Canal Girl is a heartwarming novel from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Nursemaid's Secret Wales, 1883. Young Ruth Owen, a talented musician with a scholarship to a prestigious music school, has a...

A moving Yorkshire saga, The Windfell Family Secrets is the much anticipated follow up to Diane Allen's The Mistress of Windfell Manor. Twenty-one years have passed since Charlotte Booth fought to keep Ferndale Mill and her home at Windfell Manor following her traumatic first marriage. Now...

Before there was a Lady Travelers Society, there was just one lady traveler… Some marry for love. Some marry for money. But Violet Hagen’s quick wedding to irresponsible James Branham, heir to the Earl of Ellsworth, was to avoid scandal. Though her heart was broken when she learned James...