Ergebnis für "The Piazza" in Historische Liebesromane

Il barone Andrew Hastings è un furfante della peggior specie: libertino, arrogante e pieno di sé, è soprannominato il Selvaggio di Hungerford, e non ha mai fatto nulla per smentire la sua fama, ma quando rivede Rhiannon deve fare i conti con il suo passato e con tutti gli errori che ha commesso. Rhiannon deve sposarsi, o finirà i suoi giorni da zitella. Resta solo un dubbio: quale pretendente scegliere, se l’unico che l’attrae è anche il solo da cui deve tenersi alla larga?

Frederick, VII duca di Marlborough non può credere ai suoi occhi: come ha osato Emaline pronunciare quelle menzogne su di lui in un'intervista per il Daily Courant? La detesta, eppure, ogni volta che si incontrano segreti, battibecchi, amore e passione si mischiano tra loro, in un vischioso sentimento che riesce a mettere in dubbio le loro più profonde convinzioni.

When young cook Kat Holloway learns that the children of London's Foundling Hospital are mysteriously disappearing and one of their nurses has been murdered, she can't turn away. She enlists the help of her charming and enigmatic confidant Daniel McAdam, who has ties to Scotland Yard, and Errol Fielding, a disreputable man from Daniel’s troubled past, to bring the killer to justice. Their investigation takes them from the grandeur of Mayfair to the slums of the East End, during which Kat learns more about Daniel and his circumstances than she ever could have imagined.

For grieving Nicole Clicquot, saving the vineyards her husband left behind is her one chance to keep a roof over her head and provide a future for her little girl. She ignores the gossips who insist the fields are no place for a woman. But one day, buying fresh croissants at the boulangerie, Nicole is shocked to hear a rumour about her husband. They say he died with a terrible secret. One that brings disgrace on Nicole and turns the whole town against her.

All of London is abuzz with the shocking exploits of Thornton Matherton, Duke of Wyldehaven, a man as sinful and wild as his name. He plays fast and loose with money, drink, and women. Or does he? An impostor has tarnished Thornton's good name, and the real duke will not rest until he has proven his virtue.

A stranger who appears on Kat's doorstep turns out to be one Charlotte Bristow, legal wife of Joe Bristow, the man Kat once believed herself married to—who she thought died at sea twelve years ago. Kat is jolted by Charlotte’s claims that Joe was not only murdered but that he also had amassed a small fortune before he died. Charlotte makes the cook an offer she cannot refuse—if Kat can discover the identity of Joe's murderer, Charlotte will give her a share of the fortune Joe left behind. Kat must race to catch the real killer before she loses her job and possibly her life.

Paris, 1860s. For Mimi Bisset, survival is everything on the streets of Paris. She tries to forget the pain of losing her daughter Colette, who was born out of wedlock and forcibly given away to a rich family. But Mimi’s world turns upside down after a chance encounter with handsome artist Édouard Manet.