How to Pursue a Princess
How to Pursue a Princess

Author: Karen Hawkins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1451685211

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The second novel in New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins’s sparkling Duchess Diaries series features a young woman desperate for a wealthy marriage, a prince who pretends to be poor, and a meddling godmother. The sensible solution to her family’s dire financial woes is for Lily Balfour to marry the Earl of Huntley, a wealthy widower handpicked by her matchmaking godmother, the Duchess of Roxburghe. Huntley is pleasant and attractive, the perfect candidate in every way. But Lily knows she’s in big trouble as soon as passionate, unprincipled Prince Wulfinski sweeps a hot, possessive glance over her. By his own account, Wulf is a pauper, barely able to afford his own cottage. Yet nothing will stop him from pursuing the elusive beauty with every cunning trick he can muster. But which is more important: power and money...or love everlasting? To make the right choice, both Wulf and Lily must trust their hearts, not just their heads, to lead them to the happiness they desire.

How to Entice an Enchantress
How to Entice an Enchantress

Author: Karen Hawkins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1451685254

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The third sizzling novel in New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins’s Duchess Diaries series, featuring three unruly sisters and their headstrong godmother with a penchant for matchmaking. Scarred in the terrible accident that took his wife, gruff Lord Kirk has hidden himself from Society. When he meets his neighbor, Dahlia Balfour—a young beauty who shares his love for poetry and books—he realizes she is the one woman who could make him forget the past. But how can such a recluse attract the eye of an enchantress? Kirk appeals to his godmother, the Duchess of Roxburghe, to help him become the dashing, well-dressed hero of Dahlia’s dreams. Arriving at a house party given by the Duchess, Dahlia is unprepared for the change in her neighbor. Suddenly, she is seeing him in a whole new light. When he captures her lips with an ardent kiss, she realizes he could be her romantic hero, but then a jealous rival twists an inadvertent comment she makes. Now Dahlia must persuade Kirk that she’s not just a pretty girl feeling pity, but a passionate woman who sees past painful scars into the soul of the man she’s come to love.

Princess in Disguise: A Novella
Princess in Disguise: A Novella

Author: Karen Hawkins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-02-25

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1451696620

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An enovella featuring a runaway princess and the earl who finds her—a sneak peek into New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins’s delightful new Duchess Diaries series. Princess Menshikov of Oxenburg, Alexandra Romanovin, is done being courted by men interested only in her position and wealth. Inspired by tales told by a beloved tutor of the bold and brawny men of Scotland, Alexandra visits that misty land, hoping to find true love. But while traveling without the protection of her royal name, she finds herself accused of thievery by an angry innkeeper. Rescued by the dashing and handsome Earl of Kintore, she thinks she’s found the answer to her prayers—a man worth falling in love with. But Kintore has other ideas. An avowed bachelor who long ago swore off marriage, the earl wants nothing more than a passionate interlude with this beautiful, exotic stranger. But soon Alexandra’s intoxicating beauty and seductive touch leave Kintore wondering if a mere interlude will be enough...

How to Capture a Countess
How to Capture a Countess

Author: Karen Hawkins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 145168519X

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New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins sets Scottish hearts afire in this delightfully witty and sexy Regency romance, the first in her Duchess Diaries series. Urged by her favorite nephew, the intimidating Duchess of Roxburghe agrees to transform a thorny Scottish rose into a lovely bloom. But even she isn’t prepared for fiery Rose Balfour. At seventeen, Rose fell wildly in love with Lord Alton Sinclair, known as Lord Sin for his wicked ways. Stung by his indifference, the starry-eyed girl tried to win an illicit kiss, but then panicked and pushed the notorious rakehell into a fountain. Leaving Lord Sin floating among the lily pads to the mocking laughter of his peers, Rose escaped back to the obscurity of the Scottish countryside. Six years later, Sin convinces his aunt, the Duchess of Roxburghe, to invite Rose to her annual house party, where he plans to get revenge by making Rose the laughingstock of polite society. To his astonishment, he finds she has become an alluring woman who threatens to turn the tables on his nefarious plans. Thus Sin and Rose begin an epic battle of the sexes that becomes more passionate at every turn. Eventually, one will have to surrender…but to vengeance? Or to love’s deepest passion?

The Duchess Diaries
The Duchess Diaries

Author: Mia Ryan

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780739438749

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"The late Duchess of Marleston knew her fiercely independent granddaughter, Lady Lara Darling, never turns her back on a dare. So she bequeaths Lara money for a Season in London--and posthumously challenges her to find a man! To make sure Lara goes about it properly, the wily duchess leaves Lara her prized possessions: diaries filled with secrets for making the perfect match. Resigned to finding a kind elderly man for a husband, Lara keeps running into Lord Trenton, Griff Hallsbury, a man as inappropriate as he is irresistible. Disgraced and practically exiled from society, Griff intrigues Lara like no other. Appealing to her wild side, she can't help but embrace the newly awakened desire she feels for him. Now what do the diaries have to say about a rake like Griff?"--Page 2 of cover.

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914

Author: Carolyn Meyer

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0545576342

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Award-winning author Carolyn Meyer's ANASTASIA is back in print with a gorgeous new package! Anastasia is the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia. Anastasia is used to a life of luxury; her major concerns are how to get out of her detested schoolwork to play in the snow, go ice-skating, or have picnics. She wears diamonds and rubies, and every morning her mother, the princess, tells her which matching outfit she and her three sisters shall wear that day. It's a fairy tale life -- until everything changes with the outbreak of war between Russia and Germany. As Russia enters WWI, hunger and poverty grows among the peasants, and soon they are not pleased with their ruler. While the czar is trying win a war and save their country, the country is turning on the royal family. When her father and the rest of the family are imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, suddenly Anastasia understands what this war is costing the people. In the pages of her diary, Anastasia chronicles the wealth and luxury of her royal days, as well as the fall from power, and her uncertain fate.

The Duchess Diaries
The Duchess Diaries

Author: Barbara Dawson Smith

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-11

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780312932381

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Grant Chandler fell prey to Sophie Huntington Ramsey's duplicitous charms once before, but he isn't about be fooled by the lovely lady a second time.

The Poison Diaries
The Poison Diaries

Author: Maryrose Wood

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-07-20

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0061802360

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In the right dose, everything is a poison. Even love . . . Jessamine Luxton has lived all her sixteen years in an isolated cottage near Alnwick Castle, with little company apart from the plants in her garden. Her father, Thomas, a feared and respected apothecary, has taught her much about the incredible powers of plants: that even the most innocent-looking weed can cure -- or kill. When Jessamine begins to fall in love with a mysterious boy who claims to communicate with plants, she is drawn into the dangerous world of the poison garden in a way she never could have imagined . . .

A Romanov Diary
A Romanov Diary

Author: George (Grand Duchess of Russia)

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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"'A Romanov diary' spans 50 years in the life of Royal Europe (1884-1934) during one of its most turbulent periods of history. Grand Duchess George (Marie) of Russia, writes of Emperors, Kings, Queens and Royal cousins in their everyday, private lives, as well as their intricate relationships which determined the course of history.