The Lady's Tutor
The Lady's Tutor

Author: Robin Schone

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2000-09-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780758203922

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AN EDUCATION IN PLEASURE Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man's loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic secrets of love. A LESSON IN LOVE The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasure. Scorned by society and challenged by prim Elizabeth's request, he undertakes her instruction in the art of sensual delight. But when the lessons become a temptation neither can resist, Elizabeth is forced to choose between obligation and a bold, forbidden passion...

Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand

Author: Franz Werfel

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1567924085

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This story is about a long suppressed love triangle between Leonidas Tachezy, a high-level Austrian career bureaucrat, his younger, trophy wife Amelie, and a Jewish woman from his past, Vera Wormser, with whom he'd fallen in love when she was fourteen. After his marriage, Leonidas encounters Vera in a German university town where she is studying philosophy. He makes a promise that implies marriage, but drops out of her life entirely to return to a comfortable existence until one day when a letter arrives, addressed with Vera's unmistakable handwriting in pale blue ink. Like Humbert Humbert in Lolita, Leonidas explains his "crime" against Vera to an imaginary courtroom in a way that anticipates Nabokov.

Garlands of Gold
Garlands of Gold

Author: Rosalind Laker

Publisher: Severn House Pub Limited

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9780727878168

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When the wealthy merchant household that employs her as a lady's maid moves from Rotterdam to England, Saskia hopes to win the heart of her employee's only son, Grinling Gibbons, and set up a business selling the beauty products she manufactures for a devoted clientele.

Fascinated
Fascinated

Author: Susan Johnson

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781575666068

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Works by four popular authors are featured in "Fascinated", a follow-up to "Captivated", an anthology of erotic romance. Presenting stories of sexual love and desire and deep emotional attachment are Bertrice Small, Susan Johnson, Thea Devine, and Robin Schone.

Beauty Tempts the Beast
Beauty Tempts the Beast

Author: Lorraine Heath

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0062951939

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Lorraine Heath ends her bestselling Sins for All Seasons series with the hero readers have been waiting for! She wants lessons in seduction Althea Stanwick was a perfect lady destined to marry a wealthy lord, until betrayal left her family penniless. Though she’s lost friends, fortune, and respectability, Althea has gained a scandalous plan. If she can learn to seduce, she can obtain power over men and return to Society on her terms. She even has the perfect teacher in mind, a man whose sense of honor and dark good looks belie his nickname: Beast. But desire like this can’t be taught Benedict Trewlove may not know his parentage but he knows where he belongs—on the dark side of London, offering protection wherever it’s needed. Yet no woman has ever made such an outrageous request as this mysterious beauty. Althea is out of place amongst vice and sin, even if she offers a wicked temptation he can’t resist. But as the truth of his origin emerges at last, it will take a fierce, wild love to overcome their pasts.

The Tarnished Lady
The Tarnished Lady

Author: Sandra Hill

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0062343947

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Passion ignites between an intense warrior and a disgraced beauty in USA Today bestselling author Sandra Hill’s The Tarnished Lady. Banished from polite society for bearing a child out of wedlock, Lady Eadyth of Hawks’ Lair spends her days hidden under a voluminous veil, tending her bees. But when her son’s detested father threatens to reveal the boy’s true paternity and seize her beloved lands, Lady Eadyth seeks a husband willing to claim the child as his own. Eirik of Ravenshire is England’s most virile bachelor, notorious for loving—and leaving—the most beautiful damsels in the land. Now a mysterious lady is offering him a vow of chaste matrimony in exchange for revenge against his most hated enemy, and Eirik simply cannot refuse. But the lusty knight’s plans go awry when he finds himself unable to resist Eadyth’s myriad charms . . . and he succumbs to the sweet sting of the tarnished lady’s love. “Sandra Hill writes stories that tickle the funnybone and touch the heart. Her books are always fresh, romantic, inventive, and hilarious.” —New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs “Sandra Hill always delivers smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud action.” —New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan Viking I The Relucatant Viking The Outlaw Viking The Tarnished Lady The Bewitched Viking The Blue Viking The Viking’s Captive A Tale of Two Vikings Viking in Love The Viking Takes a Knight The Norse King’s Daughter The Pirate Bride

A Geisha's Journey
A Geisha's Journey

Author: Komomo

Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated

Published: 2008-01-25

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9784770030672

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From the cobbled streets where Komomo walks in her elaborate dress to the inner sanctums of her dressing room, these pages offer a rare look at a contemporary teen's journey to becoming a geisha, photographed in full color by Naoyuki Ogino. This is the story of a contemporary Japanese teenager who, in a search for an identity, became fascinated with the world of geisha, and discovered in herself the will and the commitment to embark on the many years of apprenticeship necessary to become one. It is also the story of a young Japanese photographer who grew up

Unnatural Magic
Unnatural Magic

Author: C. M. Waggoner

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1984805851

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A “brilliant and terrifically fun”* debut novel brings an enchanting new voice to fantasy. Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the nation’s premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don’t think there’s anything untoward about providing a woman with a magical education. But as soon as Onna arrives, she’s drawn into the mysterious murder of four trolls. Tsira is a troll who never quite fit into her clan, despite being the leader’s daughter. She decides to strike out on her own and look for work in a human city, but on her way she stumbles upon the body of a half-dead human soldier in the snow. As she slowly nurses him back to health, an unlikely bond forms between them, one that is tested when an unknown mage makes an attempt on Tsira’s life. Soon, unbeknownst to each other, Onna and Tsira both begin devoting their considerable talents to finding out who is targeting trolls, before their homeland is torn apart… *Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians