Ergebnis für "The Masquerade" in Literatur & Belletristik

I’m Ivy Giacometti, a nightclub singer from New York, but tonight, I’m masquerading as Miss Black. I’m visiting my friend Tessa who lives in New Orleans and we’ve just been busted for gate-crashing a masked party after Tessa pretends to know Countess Montgomery, the mysterious hostess. A charming and devilishly attractive stranger saves us from humiliation and ushers us inside, and it soon becomes clear that this is not the kind of party I was expecting.

After walking away from her toxic boyfriend, Wren finds herself lonely and wondering if good men only exist in fiction. But at a Valentine's Day masquerade ball, she spots them—the three men who meet every week at the coffee shop she works at.

Let go from her sales job, Summer Kerrigan finds new employment at her local bar. It’s nothing like her old routine, but there’s welcome compensation in the shape of her cute boss, Eddie Quinn. When Eddie’s sister, businesswoman Heather, turns up at the bar selling tickets for the fundraising Masquerade Ball, he claims Summer’s his new love. But if Heather’s going to buy the lie they’re really a couple, they have to attend the ball as a couple - and with champagne flowing, passions run high....

Margaret Seymour is bored by the stifling constraints of society dictating her behavior as a debutante in search of a husband. Her prospects are promising by the standards of London society, yet, not one of them causes her heart to flutter, or her head to fill with scintillating, forbidden fantasies. Those feelings are reserved for Camden Rycroft, Duke of Avonleah - a man who isn't even aware of her existence.

Lady Elinor wants nothing to do with love. Her arranged marriage—and one glorious but ill-fated kiss with a handsome footman—cured her of any romantic notions she'd ever entertained. Now a widow, all Elinor plans to do is rebuild her life—without a man in it. She has no intention of falling for the charming and entirely too tempting American who seems so determined to win her favor. Stephen Worth is no longer the impoverished footman who lost everything because of the impulsive actions of a reckless young lady. Having reinvented himself long ago, his sole focus now is revenge.

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They met under the guise of a masquerade—their faces hidden—and yet they felt seen for the very first time. Eager to learn more about her darkest desires, Freya throws caution to the wind, attending Club Venom's masquerade ball with her best friend, never anticipating how her life would change. She's always known there's something different about her, but she's never given in to her wildest fantasies… until now.

"Avrei voluto dirle che poteva restare così per sempre, che l'avrei portata a casa, incorniciata come un'opera d'arte, la mia Venere. Che era perfetta, forse troppo per me. Che non la meritavo." Un accordo è un accordo. Accompagnare Caiden LaRouge al ballo di beneficenza è il prezzo che Janet deve pagare per ottenere ciò che più desidera: scoprire la vera identità dell'uomo con il volto coperto da una maschera che da sempre tormenta i suoi pensieri. Ma ciò che inizia come un semplice scambio si trasforma presto in un gioco pericoloso, in cui nulla è come sembra.

I woke to the soothing sound of a peaceful serenade...except there’s nothing peaceful about being kidnapped after being sold to the Devils of Sin. This never should have happened, because I did everything right. I accepted the invitation, attended the masquerade in the depth of the forsaken forest, and danced with whomever requested. The longer one remains, the more debt is cleared from the family name, so I danced through the night. I survived to the final note—and let me emphasize the survive part—but I’m starting to realize where the real problem lies.

The Royal Family was all but dead. Garth, Turck, Snaid, Maddock, and Rafe Metathis, the Undisclosed Ones, now ruled her people. The humans called them gargoyles. Well, that's what everyone thought, except for Marci, the one true heir to the throne that everyone thought was dead. Garth and his brothers sensed the danger that surrounded their woman, but the Metathis brothers knew they could protect her. The passion and the heat that came from her was the only thing that calmed the ranging animal in each of them.

They say you don't know what you've got until it's gone, but I knew long before the day I said goodbye to Ivy Prescott that I was never going to find another woman like her. Now, we're both six years older, and my sweet, innocent Ivy has become a sexy, irresistible woman. She wasn't ready for me then, but she's ready for me now. Ready to learn all the wicked, wonderful things I have to teach her.

Eve has worked for Degenerate for years, an exclusive nightclub that specializes in removing men from the lives of people who hate them. It fronts as a brothel but there's so much more to it than that. The men who find themselves as victims are shrunken down and toyed with by Ladies of the Night. This works fine for Eve until she falls in love with one particular assignment. Now, she plans to smuggle him out and keep him forever....

With a heavy heart, spirited but low-born Susanna Guthrie agrees to honor the deathbed request of the wealthy young woman who rescued her from a life of poverty. Masquerading as her benefactress, Susanna travels to the Virginia colony to take the dying heiress' place as head of the sprawling tobacco plantation Briarwood, and to "marry wisely." Once, she would have welcomed the attentions of handsome Adam Thornton. But now, consorting with a "hired hand" is unthinkable - though the raw, sensual power of the rugged plantation manager leaves Susanna breathless.

The Masquerade Ball was an annual party my boss held at his huge house and it gave some of us in his office the chance to dress up and pretend. I'd got my friend's younger one Dylan a job there a few months ago but he'd told me he couldn't make the party, so when the guy who I've just serviced takes off his mask to reveal himself I'm more than a little shocked to discover it's Dylan. We've already done something naughty, we might as well do something naughtier!

Dressing, doing, and living as he pleased, Santi dives into the heady world of satisfying his sexual cravings. He found out that there were many who were only too willing to oblige and discover fulfillment is possible in more ways than one. There was nothing to bar him now from tasting the delights of the body and experiencing the toy with the different pleasures that came his way.

When Nancy agreed to attend Mardi Gras with her cousin, she didn't know they would be attending a masquerade in a very old mansion. She should have known something was up when she was dressed up like Cinderella, glass slippers and all, or when a handsome Frenchman claimed her for the first dance.