Ergebnis für "The Widows" in Literatur & Belletristik

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages—a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls. Every woman has a secret life . . . Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local...

With a wrecked car and no cellphone reception, Freddy seeks help in the only place that he can—a run-down mansion that looks long abandoned. To his surprise, he finds a strange woman living there alone, but there's an ulterior motive to her gracious hospitality. Unfortunately for Freddy, he may already be caught in her web.

Lady Theodosia Dundas has spent years reveling in her role as the ton’s most scandalous villain. Known for spreading gossip, ruining reputations, and cutting down anyone who flaunts their happiness before her, while she’s sold to a decrepit viscount. But widowhood has its perks. Harcourt Eliot, Earl of St. Germans, has spent his life drowning his demons in brandy, women, and cards. Determined to right his father’s wrongs, he wins back an estate his father lost long ago… only for Theodosia, his sister’s best friend, to arrive at his door, ready to claim the home for herself.

When Sally's husband dies in a freak tractor accident, she is devastated, but not for the reasons most people thought. Secretly, quietly, Sally is glad he is gone, and she detests herself for having such hideous complicated thoughts. Jim had unknowingly broken her dreams, for there was always an undercurrent to her, a mismatched sexual electrical wire that no rancher could ever understand.

Widowhood has offered Joan Durbin the chance to experience life as she never has before. When rumors of an agency of male courtesans in London bring her face-to-face with Sir Piers Lovelace, she is introduced to a world of enticing pleasures - those of domination and submission, pleasure and discipline, and utter abandon. Her brazen nature and uninhibited charm make it difficult to remember that their arrangement is one of pleasurable business only. Neither is looking for love, but both will be hard-pressed to deny its call.

The dowager Duchess of Devonshire’s return to London high society is a fabulous one indeed when she accepts an invitation from Lady Pettiford to join an exclusive club of free women. The old countess runs the secretive Lady’s Side, hidden behind the walls of the famed Whitterfield’s gaming hell. Here, the widowed women of the ton are free to pursue every pleasure—with their money, their desires, and most importantly—their bodies.