Spend the holidays in Regency England! Seeking an heir to her fortune, a widow challenges her family to a wild holiday scavenger hunt in the novella "A Partridge in a Pear Tree"--and two people find a lasting love seeking the Twelve Days of Christmas...

A Partridge in a Pear Tree: A Regency Christmas Novella - Twelve Days of Christmas, #1

Londres, 1564 Devenir dame de compagnie de la reine Elizabeth ? Lady Rosamund n'y est pas préparée. Pas plus qu'elle ne sait comment affronter la vie à la Cour, ce monde où règnent scandales, faux-semblants, secrets d'alcôve et complots. Aussi se méfie-t-elle instinctivement de tous ceux qu'elle y rencontre. Notamment l'énigmatique Anton Gustavson, diplomate suédois en mission secrète à Londres, qui, pourtant, semble vouloir la protéger. Sous ses manières de gentleman, Anton est avant tout un homme de l'ombre, Rosamund le sait. Un homme irrésistiblement attirant qu'il pourrait bien être dangereux, pour elle, de trop laisser s'approcher...

La tentation d'une lady

'It's hard to admit, but you're not the son I once knew.'

 The obliterated battlefields of Spain are a world away from the privileged life of James Montague. Only nurse Catalina Moreno eases the deafening roar of mortar fire-and in a crumbling chapel by candlelight they make their vows. But before the sheets cool from their scorching wedding night Jamie has to leave on a brutally dangerous mission.

 Two years later, believing her husband dead, Catalina is shocked to see a man who looks and sounds like her Jamie at Castonbury-but where once there was warmth and charm, now unflinching torment lies in the gaze of the man she barely recognises.

A Stranger at Castonbury

8 ravishing Tudor romances that will transport you to another world of rakes, outlaws and pirates.

 Outlaw in the Tudor Court

 Ransom Bride

 Once a galley slave, now a Venetian merchant prince, Lorenzo Santorini has sworn revenge on his captor. Until English beauty Kathryn Rowlands appeals for help in finding a friend lost to pirates and Lorenzo struggles to maintain his cool detachment. For Kathryn stirs deep feelings he had long forgotten and now he must take drastic steps to protect her from his sworn enemy.

 The Pirate's Willing Captive

 Captive on the high seas by pirate Captain Justin Sylvester, with nowhere to run, Maribel Sanchez had never felt more at liberty. For if she returned to rigid Tudor Society she'd become an old man's unwilling bride. If she remained with Justin, he'd made it abundantly clear, she would become his more than willing mistress.

 Libertine in the Tudor Court

 One Night in Paradise

 Though Queen Elizabeth I's court at Richmond was a hotbed of illicit liaisons, beautiful Adorna Pickering remained unscathed. Yet the one man she couldn't resist had a reputation blacker than sin. And though Adorna didn't want to be just another easy conquest, she'd willingly forsake everything she held dear for one night in Sir Nicholas Rayne's arms.

 A Most Unseemly Summer

 Capable and determined Lady Felice has had to learn how to take care of herself. So she is shocked when the surveyor of her family's new home, Sir Leon Gascelin, forces her to accept him as her temporary guardian. Is it to stop tongues wagging because they reside under the same roof? Or has she deliberately been sent to this dangerously attractive gentleman to be well and truly tamed?

 Notorious in the Tudor Court

 A Sinful Alliance

 Daughter of a courtesan and a lord, Marguerite was forced to fend for herself in the dangerous world of French nobility-as the king's most feared spy. Sent on a mission to the court of King Henry VIII, Marguerite found her only friend was her old enemy, the sensually tempting Nicolai Ostrovsky. And their sinful alliance seemed set to turn her from old loyalties to new desires!

 A Notorious Woman 

 Beautiful perfumer, Julietta Bassano hides her secrets from the light of day, selling rose water and essence of violet rather than taking her rightful place in Venetian society. Until the seductive Marc Velasquez enters her world. But in the city of masks, plots spiral around Marc and Julietta-schemes that will endanger their lives and their growing love.

 Maiden in the Tudor Court

 His Runaway Maiden

 Escaping her cruel stepmother, Rosamund Appleby heads in disguise for London.until she is halted by Baron Alex Nilsson! He seeks to protect her as they journey together. But when Alex, who trusts no woman, finds himself conveniently married to beautiful Rosamund, he doesn't know which is more treacherous: the enemies plotting his downfall or the seductive lure of a woman in his bed.

 Pirate's Daughter, Rebel Wife

 When Captain Henry Mariner rescues a lone and vulnerable maiden from the sea, he has good reason to feel guilty about placing her in such a precarious predicament. But despite Bridget McDonald's reserve toward him, he knows there is no other option. The only way to protect her life - and her virtue - is to marry her!

In the Tudor Court Collection - Ransom Bride / The Pirate's Willing Captive / One Night in Paradise / A Most Unseemly Summer / A Sinful Alliance / A Notorious Woman / His Runaway Maiden / Pirate's Daughter, Rebel Wife

Angleterre, Portugal, Brésil, XIXe siècleMary a une chance incroyable, celle de pouvoir suivre son père dans tous ses voyages diplomatiques. De quoi lui permettre d’oublier le baiser que lui a donné lord Barrett, à Londres, un soir de bal. Malgré la terrible humiliation qui en a découlé, Mary peine à effacer le souvenir de cet instant magique. C’est d’autant moins facile que, depuis quelque temps, ce maudit lord ne cesse de croiser sa route. Elle a beau voyager de plus en plus loin, c’est lui qu’elle retrouve dans les salons de Lisbonne ou de Rio. Elle est pourtant fermement déterminée à ignorer le trouble brûlant qu’il lui inspire, et à demeurer la fille irréprochable que son père attend qu’elle soit.

Par-delà les mers

Angleterre, Portugal, Brésil, XIXe siècle. Mary a une chance incroyable, celle de pouvoir suivre son père dans tous ses voyages diplomatiques. De quoi lui permettre d'oublier le baiser que lui a donné lord Barrett, à Londres, un soir de bal. Malgré la terrible humiliation qui en a découlé, Mary peine à effacer le souvenir de cet instant magique. C'est d'autant moins facile que, depuis quelque temps, ce maudit lord ne cesse de croiser sa route. Elle a beau voyager de plus en plus loin, c'est lui qu'elle retrouve dans les salons de Lisbonne ou de Rio. Elle est pourtant fermement déterminée à ignorer le trouble brûlant qu'il lui inspire, et à demeurer la fille irréprochable que son père attend qu'elle soit.

An invitation to Venice.

 To save their marriage!

 Suggesting divorce to her estranged husband Jamie, Duke of Byson, takes all Rose Wilkins's courage. Years of distance and heartbreak have taken a toll-she needs a new start. But Jamie won't hear of divorce, for the scandal alone. His counter-offer: a trip to Venice. Might discovering Venice's delights together rekindle the still-simmering desire that drew Rose to Jamie as a starry-eyed young American heiress?

Winning Back His Duchess

Angleterre, 1816. Trois ans plus tôt, Jane a fui la capitale et son débauché de mari pour mener une vie sereine et solitaire à Barton Park. Trois longues années. c'est le temps qu'il lui a fallu pour panser ses blessures et admettre que son union idyllique avec le beau lord Ramsay, la coqueluche de Londres, n'était qu'une illusion. Une façade qui a trompé la bonne société et même son propre cour, jusqu'à ce jour terrible où elle a compris qu'il n'abandonnerait jamais son mode de vie dissolu pour tenir son rôle d'époux. Aujourd'hui, pourtant, tout cela est derrière elle : Jane est désormais déterminée à officialiser leur séparation et à reprendre sa liberté. Une résolution qui vacille pourtant lorsque son mari se présente un matin chez elle. Car non seulement il semble n'avoir aucune intention de divorcer, mais, pire encore, Jane s'aperçoit qu'il n'a rien perdu de son emprise sur son cour...

Une comtesse en fuite

When impoverished Alexander Kenton falls deeply in love with Georgina Beaumont, an independently wealthy artist, he learns some difficult lessons about marriage and money... Originally published in 2002 RT Reviewer's Choice Award nominee, Best Regency HOLT Medallion finalist "A contender for best Regency romance of the year" --Romance Reviews Today

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