Afin de venir en aide à son frère, candidat aux élections en posture difficile, Nick tente de persuader la belle Phoebe Sparks d'accepter une union avantageuse sur le plan politique.

Lively St. Lemeston Tome 1 : tourments et délices

He thought her money was the end of his problems, but it was just the beginning... Young Lord Nevinstoke enjoys every moment of his deep-gaming, hard-drinking, womanizing life. Then his father is killed in a drunken duel, and Nev inherits a mountain of debts and responsibilities. He vows to leave his wild friends and his mistress behind, start acting respectable-and marry a rich girl. Penelope Brown, a manufacturing heiress, seems the perfect choice. She's pretty, ladylike, good at accounting, and looking for a marriage based on companionship and mutual esteem, not love. In fact, the only rash thing she's ever done in her life is accept Nev's proposal. When the newlyweds arrive at Nev's family estate, they discover that all the respectability and reason in the world won't be enough to handle a hostile next-door neighbor, mutinous tenants, and Nev's family's propensity for scandal. In way over their heads, Nev and Penelope have no one to turn to but each other-but to their surprise, that just might be enough.

In for a Penny

Fire and ice cream... Robert Moon risked everything, including his father's hardwon legacy, to open his beloved Honey Moon Confectionery on the busiest street in Lively St. Lemeston. Now he's facing bankruptcy and debtor's prison. When a huge catering order comes in, he agrees to close the sweet-shop for a week to fill it. There's only one problem: his apprentice is out of town, so his beautiful shop-girl Betsy Piper must help Robert in the kitchen. Betsy's spent the last year trying to make her single-minded boss look up from his pastries and notice that she would be the perfect wife. Now the two of them are alone in a kitchen full of sweet things. With just one week to get him to fall in love with her, she'd better get this seduction started... She soon discovers that Robert brings the same meticulous, eager-to-please attitude to lovemaking that he does to baking, but can kisses-no matter how sweet-compete with the Honey Moon in his heart?

A Taste of Honey - Lively St. Lemeston, #4

London 1815, just before Waterloo... After her noble father disowned her, Lady Serena Ravenshaw clawed her way from streetwalker to courtesan to prosperous innkeeper. Now she's feared and respected from one end of London to the other, by the lowest dregs of the city's underworld and the upper echelons of the beau monde, and she'll do anything to keep it that way. When mild-mannered chemist Solomon Hathaway turns up in her office, asking for her help, she immediately recognizes him from one fateful night years before. She's been watching and waiting for him for years-so she can turn the tables and put him in her debt, of course, and not because he looked like an angel and was kind to her when she needed it most. She's determined not to wonder what put that fresh grief in his eyes. But after a betrayal even Serena didn't expect, she must put aside her pride and work with Solomon to stop a ring of French spies and save her beloved inn, her freedom-and England itself.

A Lily Among Thorns

Goldengrove's towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone's throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room. I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion. I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn't stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Tabby's mother, Sir Kit's companion, and Goldengrove's new mistress. All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her. Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on my guitar, why all the doors inside the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night. "It gave me nightmares.a furious, tender, aching, incisive masterpiece of a book." -Olivia Waite, author of The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

The Wife in the Attic - Rye Bay, #1

John Toogood, qui vient de perdre son emploi de valet, rencontre Sukey Grimes, petite bonne impertinente dont la beauté piquante déchaîne aussitôt ses fantasmes les plus osés. Mais elle est trop innocente pour qu'il profite d'elle. Quand on lui propose un poste de majordome à la condition expresse qu'il soit marié, John demande la main de la jeune fille, qui accepte. Très vite, ils découvrent qu'ils s'entendent à merveille au lit. Pourtant, Sukey la rebelle a bien du mal à supporter l'autorité d'un époux si autoritaire et protecteur.

Lively St. Lemeston Tome 3

**All or Nothing originally appeared in the Gambled Away limited-time historical romance anthology.**England, 1819-the hottest summer in years.Simon Radcliffe-Gould's career as an architect is stalled and his bank account is almost empty. Yet every week he finds himself losing money he can't afford at Maggie da Silva's bohemian gambling den, just so he'll have an excuse to see the beautiful, irrepressible hostess. Maggie thought she had her life sorted out. She has a best friend (with benefits), a successful business, and a truly spectacular wardrobe. But lately she's been.bored. Intrigued by serious, shy Simon, she finds a way to draw him into reluctantly betting on her favors at the faro table. A few glorious nights are all she expects. But when an old flame hires Simon to design a folly during a scandalous house party at his country estate, Simon asks Maggie to pose as his mistress so he can actually get some work done. Sure, she'd rather be his mistress, but she jumps at the chance for a well deserved, all-expenses-paid vacation. What could go wrong?Turns out, everything: Simon has unresolved issues with his ex, it's impossible to keep kosher, and worst of all, Maggie is in danger of losing her heart.

All or Nothing

Ash Cohen a eu une enfance difficile. Il a vécu de petites rapines qui lui ont permis d’élever son frère, Rafe. Depuis, les deux arnaqueurs se débrouillent en profitant de la crédulité d’autrui, jusqu’à ce que Rafe ait des scrupules. Il aspire à l’honnêteté et veut s’acheter une charge d’officier. Sauf que cela coûte cher. Alors Ash monte une ultime opération et ne tarde pas à trouver la victime idéale : Lydia Reeve, une jeune femme richement dotée, âme charitable et naïve à souhait, qui ne devrait pas résister très longtemps au charme ravageur de Rafe. Quand celui-ci l’aura épousée, il n’aura plus qu’à disparaître dans la nature. Un plan presque infaillible...

Lively St. Lemeston Tome 1 : tourments et délices

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