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Can a marriage of convenience ever lead to true love? Immediately after Elizabeth Bennet refuses Mr. Darcy's proposal at Hunsford, her father dies, leaving Longbourn entailed away and little fortune to sustain his widow and daughters. Six months later, the Bennet family receives a visitor with a most unusual offer that promises to save the family from financial and social ruin.

When the two plainest people in London enter into an arranged marriage, the ton isn't so much surprised as counting the days to an arranged separation. Louise is too short, too dull, and too dowdy, and the earl is positively frightening, with his frowning demeanor and massive shoulders. He's willing to marry her because he doesn't expect a dowdy wife to impact his lifestyle and other relationships. She's willing to marry him because ugly and unmannerly as he is, she is—for some unaccountable reason—drawn to the man.

"If you dare leave me for another - if you ever look at another man - if you ever let anyone else touch you...I’ll not let him live, Beauty. I won’t stop until I’ve ground his face into the dirt, until I’ve pulled out his eyes for looking at you, broken his mouth for daring to speak to you, until I’ve pulled out his guts, and," I glare at her, "smeared his blood on the ground." Her breath hitches and her pupils dilate. My thirst for violence seems to fulfill a need deep inside of her - one she doesn’t bother to hide from me, either.

From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create 11 devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation.

When he invited me to join him for a drink, I thought Alessandro was an ordinary guest at my family's hotel. I didn't know I belonged to him until he told me right there in the restaurant. I thought I had a say in the matter. But when I stood up to leave, it just earned me a sore bottom for the plane ride to New York, where our wedding was already planned for the next day. But I was soaking wet for him before he even walked me down the aisle.

Du bist meine Frau, Perlinetta. Mein verdammter Besitz. Und so sehr du auch kämpfst — am Ende wirst du mich lieben. Ich bin der Kronprinz der Cosa Nostra, berüchtigt für meine Grausamkeit. Du dagegen solltest nur ein weiteres Statussymbol für mich sein. Schön. Gefügig. Gehorsam. Stattdessen widersetzt du dich. Und mit jedem Mal, wächst meine Obsession. Dein Herz mag mich hassen, Sofia — dein Körper jedoch will mich. Eine kleine Perle die sich zur Königin erhebt. Ein arroganter Principe, der zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben etwas zu verlieren hat. Eine Ehe, die alles verändern wird.

Magic, whales, and ships that pass in the night. Somehow Avalon and Jasper are drawn together and when Jasper jumps overboard... The heart knows what the heart wants.

My parents were burdened with two baby girls. Yes, burdened. A son would have been a blessing, but a daughter was only an expense. They didn't have a legacy to carry on their name—they'd have to pay a dowry and fund an elaborate wedding.

Mark Goldman has never gotten along with Shaina Fogel. Ever. Even when they were in diapers, their bestie mothers wanted them to grow up and get married. Not happening. Mark prefers his quiet, reserved life. But a family wedding is about to change everything Mark thought he knew about his archnemesis.

Eine Liebe, die nie starb. Zwei Vampire, die nie vergessen. Und eine Legende, die zur Wirklichkeit wird. Seit Xara weiß, dass sie adoptiert ist, suchen sie schreckliche Albträume heim. Um mehr herauszufinden, reist sie an ihren Geburtsort in ein mysteriöses rumänisches Dorf. Hier verstricken sich ihre Träume mit der Realität und sie muss sich fragen, ob die Legende um eine verfluchte Fürstin mehr als nur ein Märchen ist. Denn sie wird für genau diese gehalten und das allen voran von dem mächtigen Vampirfürsten Dorian und seinem charismatischen Diener Juraj.

Seit dem Kindesalter weiß Dion Windsor, wen er eines Tages heiraten wird: die wunderschöne Konzertpianistin Faye Matthews. Doch Faye ist die letzte Frau, die Dion in seiner Nähe haben will, und schon seit Jahren versuchte er, der Ehe mit ihr zu entkommen. Aber als er Faye eines Abends mit einem anderen Mann sieht, weiß Dion instinktiv, dass die Zeit des Davonlaufens vorbei ist. Er wird Faye heiraten und eine echte Beziehung mit ihr eingehen.

Christian Roberto Domenico Sovrano could have any woman he wants, but he's totally focused on me. He's obsessed with me. He lives to make my life miserable. It's why he asked me to pose as his fake wife for 30 days. Thirty days! In return for saving my life from the wrath of the Mafia. Oh! He also wants me to attend his family's Christmas getaway. And pretend to be his loving, devoted spouse. Guess what happens next? We get lost in the forest...and snowed in for Christmas. And have to share the same bed. But hell if I am going to simply agree to his terms.

Michael Byron Domenico Sovrano. Lord of the underworld. Master of all the criminal masterminds who ever crawled the underbelly of Sicily's notorious mafia company. Who just happens to be hot and snarly, and with a demanding manner, gulp! My father owed him, so he took me as payment. He gets what he wants, and I am his new obsession. To take. To break. As if I'll let him. He's out to destroy me, but I'll go toe-to-toe with him every step of the way. I'll do everything to make him fall for me. Until he springs the ultimate surprise.

Xara ist mitten in ein Spiel aus Leidenschaft und Macht geraten, seitdem der Vampirfürst Dorian und sein charismatischer Diener Juraj sie für ihre verstorbene Liebe halten. Während sie versucht, Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen, stößt sie auf immer mehr Geheimnisse. Ein jahrhundertealter Krieg zwischen zwei Vampirclans ändert alles für Xara – wird ihre Liebe überleben?

The epic finale to the bestselling The Wolf King trilogy – the sizzling sensation that has the internet obsessed! “I won’t be a pawn. Not again.” “Darling, we’re the ones who move the pieces.” Readers are obsessed with the Wolf King series! ‘It’s a little bit Outlander, a...

He’s my second chance. The man with the face of my first love. A terrifying and magnetically gorgeous man with brutal blue eyes. An outlaw whose very presence sucks the air from my lungs. A monster who doesn't remember his past, whose soul is shrouded in scars, pain, and darkness. A villain who refuses to acknowledge my very existence. The rogue who I am going to marry, for this may be the only chance I have to find happiness. So what if it means binding myself to a man who hates me? Except "until death do us part" is going to come quicker than anyone knows....

Jane Austen's most popular novel, originally published in 1813, some 17 years after it was first written, presents the Bennet family of Longbourn. Against the background of gossipy Mrs. Bennet and the detached Mr. Bennet, the quest is on for husbands for the five daughters. The spotlight falls on Elizabeth, second eldest, who is courted by Darcy, though initially she is more concerned with the fate of her other sisters.

I've hated Cavin McCarthy since the day he made me cry in a school closet. He was my tormentor. My nightmare. The cruel boy who turned my name into a punchline and my life into hell. Now? He's my fiancé. An arranged marriage neither of us wanted, brokered by families who deal in blood and power. I'd refuse if I could. But my sister is dying, and the McCarthy's hold the key to saving her life. So I'll walk down the aisle. I'll say the vows. I'll become Mrs. Cavin McCarthy. But I'll never forgive him.

Koreanische Mythologie meets fantastische Frauenpower: das Fantasy-Highlight endlich auch auf Deutsch! Lady Bin Seomoon hat ein Geheimnis: Sie ist eine Byeoksa – eine Seelenjägerin – und dazu verdammt, dem Treiben von Geistern in der Menschenwelt ein Ende zu bereiten. In der Hoffnung, bald ein normales Leben führen zu können, versucht Bin 108 Geister auszutreiben und dadurch ihr Schicksal zu ändern. Als Mann verkleidet, schleicht sie sich auf eine rauschende Party und trifft dort auf Eunho, einen loyalen Diener des Königs.

She should say no. Addison Davenport figures that most people likely would. But after having her life plans repeatedly derailed, she's come to wonder if her chance at marriage and kids ended with the death of her college boyfriend. So when business powerhouse Daxton "Dax" Mercier—a man who's suffered a similar loss, a man who's her first in every way—asks her to honor the fallback marriage pact they made years ago, she doesn't reject it out of hand.