Undercover with the Heiress: an Enemies to Lovers Historical Romance
Undercover with the Heiress: an Enemies to Lovers Historical Romance

Author: Alivia Fleur

Publisher: Spencer & Co Publishing

Published: 2024-12-09

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0645632287

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In the heart of London’s dazzling society, Rosanna Hempel seems to have it all—a doting father, a promising future as the heiress to the family business, and the adoration of a charming suitor. Her life is a flawless portrait of privilege and potential—until a single fateful moment in the park shatters her world. The lord who vowed her everything abandons her, leaving her only hope in the hands of the infuriating man next door, the bland, boring bank clerk, Phineas Babbage. Phineas, weary of his mundane life on Honeysuckle Street, dreams of escape and new beginnings. Yet, when he stumbles upon a distraught Rosanna Hempel, he finds himself ensnared in a web of passion, peril and wallpaper choices. His quest to unravel the mystery of his lost love intertwines with his unexpected enchantment with Rosanna, and as their sham marriage deepens, he must confront his own desires and fears. Will they find common ground? Can they set aside their differences and solve the mystery, annul their sham marriage and return to their individual lives? Because that’s what they both want. Isn’t it? Undercover with the Heiress is Book 3 in the Tales from Honeysuckle Street series. All books in the series are loosely connected standalone reads. With a guaranteed HEA, Undercover with the Heiress is a story of love lost, family and redemption. Its main tropes are enemies to lovers and age-gap. It features HOT open door intimacy. It includes strong language and sexy times. This novel contains references to the past loss of a child that some audiences may find confronting.

A Most Improper Duchess: A Duke and Courtesan Historical Romance
A Most Improper Duchess: A Duke and Courtesan Historical Romance

Author: Alivia Fleur

Publisher: Spencer & Co Publishing

Published: 2024-01-23

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0645632295

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Vivianne Chevalier is done with dukes. After another broken promise for a starring role on the Paris stage, the dancer and courtesan vows to walk away from it all. The viperous competition from the other dancers. The manipulations of the European nobility who only care for their own pleasures. Greedy, heartless people who want nothing more than to get ahead, no matter the cost to others. After years of failure, she craves a simple life, like the one she foolishly turned her back on when she was young. His Grace Arley West is familiar with the traps and trappings of a dukedom. After all, he was not even six when he became the Duke of Osborne. The constant demands, requests for favours, false friends wanting money, and never really being sure if people respect him, or his title, all are a regular part of his life. Is it any wonder he has become a grumpy recluse, only leaving his villa to attend to his parliamentary duties?That is, until he finds himself travelling to Paris incognito on a research trip for Spencer and Co Travel. Disguised as a merchant, he meets the vibrant and beautiful Vivianne, and for the first time in his life, he feels as if someone might truly love him for himself. A whirlwind romance and a proposal follow, and Arley takes his dancer fiancé back to London. He can't wait to tell her who he really is. She is going to be so surprised. After all, doesn't every woman want to be a duchess? A Most Improper Duchess is the second book in the Tales from Honeysuckle Street series. All books in the series are standalone reads. With a guaranteed HEA, A Most Improper Duchess features HOT open-door intimacy. It includes some strong language and sexy times. This novel also contains themes of parental death, prostitution and poverty that some audiences may find confronting.

Sweet Enemy
Sweet Enemy

Author: Heather Snow

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780451236104

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Geoffrey Wentworth, the Earl of Stratford, is a war hero focused on affairs of king and country rather than affairs of the heart. Nevertheless, his mother is playing matchmaker and has invited potential brides to visit the family estate. Geoffrey resigns himself to playing host to a gaggle of husband hunters more interested in his title than in him - until he unexpectedly meets one notable and intriguing exception. Miss Liliana Claremont has no interest in being an earl's wife, least of all Wentworth's - the son of the man she believes murdered her father. Liliana is determined to find evidence of the crime, but her behavior rouses the earl's suspicions as well as her own undeniable attraction to a man she thought was her enemy. As Geoffrey and Liliana explore their growing passion for one another, the truth behind their fathers' enmity threatens to destroy their newfound love . . . 'Heather Snow combines sizzling tension, witty dialogue, and achingly raw emotions for a passionate love story you'll remember long after the last page.' Kathyrn Smith, USA TodayBestselling Author of When Tempting a Rogue

Rules for Heiresses
Rules for Heiresses

Author: Amalie Howard

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1728217237

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USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard whisks you away with a historical romance full of drama, true love, and the perfect happily ever after. Readers will devour this tale of: A rebellious heiress determined to be independent A shunned duke forced to return to his family estate And a scandal between them that will have the whole town aflutter Sometimes, finding love means flouting the rules... Born to a life of privilege, Lady Ravenna Huntley rues the day that she must marry. She's refused dozens of suitors and cried off multiple betrothals, but running away—even if brash and foolhardy—is the only option left to secure her independence. Lord Courtland Chase, grandson of the Duke of Ashvale, was driven from England at the behest of his cruel stepmother. Scorned and shunned, he swore never to return to the land of his birth. But when a twist of bad luck throws a rebellious heiress into his arms, at the very moment he finds out he's the new Duke, marriage is the only alternative to massive scandal. Both are quick to deny it, but a wedding might be the only way out for both of them. And the attraction that burns between them makes Ravenna and Courtland wonder if it'll truly only be a marriage of convenience after all... Praise for Amalie Howard: "Her writing sparkles."—LISA KLEYPAS, New York Times bestselling author "Smart, sexy, deliciously feminist romance that I couldn't put down."—SARAH MACLEAN, New York Times bestselling author, for The Beast of Beswick "Amalie Howard is the fresh voice historical romance needs right now."—KERRIGAN BYRNE, USA Today bestselling author

The Flame and the Flower
The Flame and the Flower

Author: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0061743690

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New York Times bestselling author Kathleen E. Woodiwiss debut romance… The Flower Doomed to a life of unending toil, Heather Simmons fears for her innocence—until a shocking, desperate act forces her to flee. . . and to seek refuge in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger. The Flame A lusty adventurer married to the sea, Captain Brandon Birmingham courts scorn and peril when he abducts the beautiful fugitive from the tumultuous London dockside. But no power on Earth can compel him to relinquish his exquisite prize. For he is determined to make the sapphire-eyed lovely his woman. . .and to carry her off to far, uncharted realms of sensuous, passionate love.

Her Reformed Rake
Her Reformed Rake

Author: Scarlett Scott

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781986341912

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Rescued by ruinAmerican heiress Daisy Vanreid is desperate to avoid marriage to the aging aristocrat her abusive father chose for her. She'll do anything, even entrap the notorious Duke of Trent into marriage, to escape her fate. Losing her heart to her handsome husband after the wedding isn't part of the plan.Nothing is as it seemsAn elite spy, Sebastian, the Duke of Trent, is on a mission to unravel bomb plots in England's cities. Forced to wed Daisy as part of his cover, he has no intention of falling in love with a woman suspected of treason. But he's drawn to the feisty beauty he married, and he can't deny the way she makes him feel, even though he knows she could be the enemy he seeks.Duty versus loveAs danger strikes, Sebastian must choose between Daisy and his loyalty to the Crown. And when Daisy discovers the truth at last, will she ever forgive him?

New York Magazine
New York Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1987-09-21

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Within Our Gates
Within Our Gates

Author: Alan Gevinson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 1588

ISBN-13: 9780520209640

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"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.