Miss Winthorpe’s Elopement Lady Penelope Winthorpe is looking for a compliant husband to gain access to her inheritance. The drunken Adam Felkirk seems perfectly biddable–but she’s in for a surprise... Once sobered up, the arrogant, gorgeous Duke of Bellston is determined to awaken his bluestocking bride!
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.
The engagement escapade! This season, all eyes are on biddable, well-connected Lady Belle. And for ambitious Benjamin Lovell, she’s the perfect candidate for a convenient marriage. First, though, he must contend with her fiercely protective sister, Lady Amelia Summoner. Amy is determined that only the right man will win her sister, and rakish Benjamin is certainly not that. Every move he makes, she’ll be one step ahead! Until the games get out of hand…and Amy realizes she’s broken her own rules and fallen for Ben herself!
Though Lieutenant Tom Godfrey had never met Victoria Paget, he desired her. The late Captain Paget's stories of his wife--and her portrait--were enough to arouse his envy...and his lust. Now Tom's returned from the peninsula--and never expected to find the young widow in a bawdy house! Necessity had brought Victoria to the house of ill repute: it was the only place she could confront Tom, whom she suspected was responsible for her husband's death. But when she meets the virile soldier, his gallantry and her body's passionate response to him take her completely by surprise. What started as a one-night seduction may lead to much more...but will they still have a future when all their secrets are revealed?
One Wicked Christmas by Amanda McCabe Lady Cassandra Osborne is ready to take a lover to her bed – and she'll be at the same Christmas house party as Sir Ian Chandler, her late husband's rakish best friend... Virgin Unwrapped by Christine Merril Robert Breton's touch fills Anne Clairemont with a delicious, scandalous heat – but can Robert's mistletoe kisses seduce her into breaking her planned engagement? An Illicit Indiscretion by Brownyn Scott Dashiell Steen, heir to an earldom, craves one final adventure before settling down – and finds it with a vivacious beauty escaping from a manor window! A Rake For Christmas by Ann Lethbridge Lady Eugenie Hartwick is being driven wild with need by the sounds of unrestrained passion coming from notorious Lord Richard Townsend's bedroom! Spellbound & Seduced by Marguerite Kaye Cursed to be widowed on her wedding anniversary, Jura McNair chose not to marry, but, with handsome Lawrence Connaught, she feels the lure of forbidden desire...
Considered a spinster, Lady Drusilla Rudney has only one role in life: to chaperone her sister. So when her flighty sibling elopes, Dru knows she has to stop her She employs the help of a traveling companion, who looks harmless enough.... Former army captain John Hendricks is intrigued by this damsel in distress. Once embroiled with her in a mad dash across England, he discovers that Dru is no simpering woman. Her unconventional ways make him want to forget his gentlemanly conduct...and create a scandal all their own
A down-trodden duke beds an innocent governess and deals with more consequences than he thought possible in this Regency romance. Honorable—and handsome to boot!—Michael Poole, Duke of St. Aldric, has earned his nickname “The Saint.” But the ton would shudder if they knew the truth. Because, thrust into a world of debauchery, this saint has turned sinner! With the appearance of fallen governess Madeline Cranston—carrying his heir—St. Aldric looks for redemption through a marriage of convenience. But the intriguing Madeline is far from a dutiful duchess, and soon this saint is indulging in the most sinful of thoughts . . . while his new wife vows to make him pay for his past.
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