"You'll be mine. You'll be my wife." With her identity concealed, Allegra Valenti enters Italy's most glorious masquerade ball determined to make happy memories to sustain her through her impending coldly arranged betrothal. But a passionate encounter with a masked stranger has consequences that tear apart her dutiful life. Brooding Spanish duke Cristian Acosta cannot believe the masked siren he let his guard down for was his best friend's sister—the pampered heiress he grew up despising. To safeguard the Acosta legacy, Cristian must adorn Allegra with a trinket of his own—a gold wedding band!
A waitress’s hot night with a billionaire comes with consequences in this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Leandro Carrera Marquez, Duque de Sandoval, was as aristocratic, proud, and arrogant as his name . . . and darkly handsome in an impossible, breathtaking way. What would this billionaire Spanish banker want with a struggling, impoverished waitress like Molly? But Leandro did want Molly—and he took her, accidentally making her pregnant with his child. In Leandro’s traditional world, there was only one option—marry the mother of his heir. After all, none of his noble ancestors had actually married for love. . . . Originally published in 2009.
The last thing billionaire Ricardo Almanza wants is to be married. Unfortunately, the notorious playboy needs wife before he’s thirty, and time is running out, His stepmother’s sexy, debt-ridden personal assistant seems like the perfect solution, so he makes her a business deal she can’t refuse—one million euros for three months as his wife. He might even enjoy being married to Helen...providing he can convince her not to kick him somewhere painful again. Helen Marshall can’t believe Ricardo’s outrageous proposal, or that she’s considering it, but she must help clear her parents’ debts or her family faces financial ruin. The small print on the marriage contract states they’ll be husband and wife for three months in every way—including in the bedroom. But there’s nothing in the contract about falling in love, or what they do when the three months is up and they want to negotiate a clause binding them forever.
“A delightful Regency read” (June Calvin) from one of Signet Regency Romance’s beloved authors, Amanda McCabe. Available Digitally For the First Time Six years have passed since Carmen Montero, a Spanish countess, and Peter Everdean, the Earl of Clifton, fell desperately in love on a Spanish battlefield. The two were blissfully married before a congregation of army tents and bursting cannonballs. But after a single night together, Carmen and Peter were separated during the chaos of wartime. Each believing the other dead, they survived the war—if survival is possible after losing one’s heart. Now, fate has reunited the soul mates—but pride and dark secrets stand in the way of recapturing the love they once shared… Amanda McCabe writes “Flawlessly crafted historical romance.”—Chicago Tribune Don’t miss Amanda McCabe’s Scandal in Venice and more of her Signet Regency Romances: Lady Rogue, The Star of India, The Errant Earl, available September 2012, The Golden Feather, available October 2012, One Touch of Magic, available November 2012, and The Rules of Love, available December 2012.
Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men (and a handful of women), heretofore unexamined as a group, made up the medical staff of the Tudor and Stuart kings and queens of England (as well as the Lord Protectorships of Oliver and Richard Cromwell). The royal doctors faced enormous challenges in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from diseases that respected no rank and threatened the very security of the realm. Moreover, they had to weather political and religious upheavals that led to regicide and revolution, as well as cope with sharp theoretical and jurisdictional divisions within English medicine. The rulers often interceded in medical controversies at the behest of their royal doctors, bringing sovereign authority to bear on the condition of medicine. Elizabeth Lane Furdell is Professor of History at the University of North Florida.
The stories of 23 little-known but remarkable inhabitants of the Spanish, English and Portuguese colonies of the New World. These include women and men of all the races and classes of colonial society.
This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention. It contains the full text of fifteen plays; an introduction to each play with information about the author, the work, performance issues, and current criticism; and glosses with definitions of difficult words and concepts. The extensive bibliography provides opportunities for further research.
In Wicked Women, Dennis Stevens, a criminology professor and prison counselor, shares the fascinating life stories of fifteen super predators, detailing their early life experiences and criminal activities through the time they interacted with him in prison. Withholding their names and identities, he presents disturbing evidence and chronicles the long, destructive journeys of these super predators. Dr. Stevens spent several years among high-risk felons in some of the most heavily researched penitentiaries in America while teaching criminology at various universities. He uses his vast professional experience to create fictional vignettes based on real-life situations, offering a glimpse into the souls of creatures who carry out wicked acts under the cover of a mask of sanity. While presenting bizarre accounts of incredible human cruelty of every varietyincluding border raids, brutal beatings, cannibalism, rape, and gang warfareDr. Stevens provides a never-before-seen look into the backgrounds and twisted minds of people like Margo, a transgendered drug addict obsessed with setting fires, and Mary, a former New Orleans police officer convicted of killing her partner. Without censorship or interference from political police, Wicked Women presents eye-opening, unforgettable accounts of the outrageous thoughts and gruesome destruction of super predators.
