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Comment faire ses débuts dans le monde quand on est une jeune fille anxieuse et d’une timidité pathologique ? Madeline Gracechurch est une godiche et elle le sait. Incapable d’affronter le badinage de la haute société, elle s’est inventé un soupirant pour qu’on lui fiche la paix : un fringuant Écossais, le capitaine Logan MacKenzie, qu’elle aurait rencontré à Brighton, et qui est fou d’elle car, dans sa correspondance avec ce fiancé imaginaire, Madeline a toutes les audaces. Fort heureusement, ses missives, égarées dans quelque caserne lointaine, resteront scellées à jamais. C’est ce qu’elle croyait, jusqu’au jour où Logan MacKenzie vient frapper à sa porte, bien décidé à exiger tout ce qu’elle lui a promis dans ses lettres !

On the night of the Parkhurst ball, someone had a scandalous tryst in the library. Was it Lord Canby, with the maid, on the divan? Or Miss Fairchild, with a rake, against the wall? Perhaps the butler did it. All Charlotte Highwood knows is this: it wasn’t her. But rumors to the contrary are buzzing. Unless she can discover the lovers’ true identity, she’ll be forced to marry Piers Brandon, Lord Granville—the coldest, most arrogantly handsome gentleman she’s ever had the misfortune to embrace. When it comes to emotion, the man hasn’t got a clue. But as they set about finding the mystery lovers, Piers reveals a few secrets of his own. The oh-so-proper marquess can pick locks, land punches, tease with sly wit . . . and melt a woman’s knees with a single kiss. The only thing he guards more fiercely than Charlotte’s safety is the truth about his dark past. Their passion is intense. The danger is real. Soon Charlotte’s feeling torn. Will she risk all to prove her innocence? Or surrender it to a man who’s sworn to never love?

VOSSA EXCELÊNCIA ESTÁ CONVIDADA A COMPARECER AO ROMÂNTICO CASTELO TWILL PARA CELEBRAR O CASAMENTO DA SENHORITA CLIO WHITMORE E... E...? Aos 17 anos, Clio Whitmore tornou-se noiva de Piers Brandon, o elegante e refinado Marquês de Granville e um dos mais promissores diplomatas da Inglaterra. Era um sonho se tornando realidade! Ou melhor, um sonho que algum dia talvez se tornasse realidade... Oito anos depois, ainda esperando o noivo marcar a data do casamento, Clio já tinha herdado um castelo, tinha amadurecido e não estava mais disposta a ser a piada da cidade. Basta! Ela estava decidida a romper o noivado. Bom... Isso se Rafe Brandon, um lutador implacável e irmão mais novo de Piers, não conseguir impedi-la. Rafe, apesar de ser um dos canalhas mais notórios de Londres, prometeu ao irmão que cuidaria de tudo enquanto ele estivesse viajando a trabalho. Isso incluía não permitir que o Marquês perdesse a noiva. Por isso, está determinado a levar adiante os preparativos para o casamento, nem que ele mesmo tenha que planejar e organizar tudo. Mas como um calejado lutador poderia convencer uma noiva desiludida a se casar? Simples- mostrando-lhe como pode ser apaixonante e divertido organizar um casamento. Assim, Rafe e Clio fazem um acordo- ele terá uma semana para convencê-la a dizer sim ao Marquês. Caso contrário, terá que assinar a dissolução do noivado em nome do irmão. Agora, Rafe precisa concentrar seus punhos e sua força em flores, bolos, música, vestidos e decorações para convencer Clio de que um casamento sem amor é a escolha certa a se fazer. Mas, acima de tudo, ele precisa convencer a si mesmo de que não é ele que vai beijar aquela noiva.

Diana Highwood estava destinada a ter um casamento perfeito, digno de flores, seda, ouro e, no mínimo, com um duque ou um marquês. Isso era o que sua mãe, a Sra. Highwood, declarava, planejando toda a vida da filha com base na certeza de que ela conquistaria o coração de um nobre. Entretanto, o amor encontra Diana no local mais inesperado. Não nos bailes de debute em Londres, ou em carruagens, castelos e vales verdejantes... O homem por quem ela se apaixona é forte como ferro, belo como ouro e quente como brasa. E está em uma ferraria... Envolvida em uma paixão proibida, a doce e frágil Diana está disposta a abandonar todas as suas chances de um casamento aristocrático para viver esse grande amor com Aaron Dawes e, finalmente, ter uma vida livre! Livre para fazer suas próprias escolhas e parar de viver sob a sombra dos desejos de sua mãe. Há, enfim, uma fagulha de esperança para uma vida plena e feliz. Mas serão um pobre ferreiro e sua forja o "felizes para sempre" de uma mulher que poderia ter qualquer coisa? Será que ambos estarão dispostos a arriscar tudo pelo amor e o desejo?

"Izzy sempre sonhou em viver um conto de fadas. Mas, por ora, ela teria que se contentar com aquela história dramática." A doce Isolde Ophelia Goodnight, filha de um escritor famoso, cresceu cercada por contos de fadas e histórias com finais felizes. Ela acreditava em destino, em sonhos e, principalmente, no amor verdadeiro. Amor como o de Cressida e Ulric, personagens principais do romance de seu pai. Romântica, ela aguardava ansiosamente pelo clímax de sua vida, quando o seu herói apareceria para salvá-la das injustiças do mundo e ela descobriria que um beijo de amor verdadeiro é capaz de curar qualquer ferida. Mas, à medida que foi crescendo e se tornando uma mulher adulta, Izzy percebeu que nenhum daqueles contos eram reais. Ela era um patinho feio que não se tornou um cisne, sapos não viram príncipes, e ninguém da nobreza veio resgatá-la quando ela ficou órfã de mãe e pai e viu todos os seus bens serem transferidos para outra pessoa. Até que sua história tem uma reviravolta: Izzy descobre que herdou um castelo em ruínas, provavelmente abandonado, em uma cidade distante. O que ela não imaginava é que aquele castelo já vinha com um duque...

Pode um amor avassalador apagar as marcas de um passado sombrio? Após anos lutando por sua vida, a doce professora de piano, Srta. Kate Taylor, encontrou um lar e amizades eternas em Spindle Cove. Mas seu coração nunca parou de buscar desesperadamente a verdade sobre o seu passado. Em seu rosto, uma mancha cor-de-vinho é a única marca que ela possui de seu nascimento. Não há documentos, pistas, e nem ao menos lembranças... Depois de uma visita desanimadora para sua ex-professora, que se recusa a dizer qualquer coisa para Kate, ela conta apenas com a bondade de um morador de Spindle Cove, o misterioso, frio e brutalmente lindo, Cabo Thorne, para voltar para casa em segurança. Embora Kate inicialmente sinta-se intimidada por sua escolta, uma atração mútua faísca entre os dois durante a viagem. Ao chegar de volta à pensão onde mora, Kate fica surpresa ao encontrar um grupo de aristocratas que afirma ser sua família. Extremamente desconfiado, Thorne propõe um noivado fictício à Kate, permitindo-lhe ficar ao seu lado para protegê-la e descobrir as reais intenções daquela família. Mas o noivado falso traz à tona sentimentos genuínos, assim como respostas às perguntas de Kate. Acostumado com combates e campos de batalhas, Thorne se vê na pior guerra que poderia imaginar. Ele guarda um segredo sobre Kate e fará de tudo para protegê-la de qualquer mal que se atreva atravessar seu caminho, seja uma suposta família oportunista... ou até ele mesmo.

On the cusp of her first London season, Miss Madeline Gracechurch was shy, pretty, and talented with a drawing pencil, but hopelessly awkward with gentlemen. She was certain to be a dismal failure on the London marriage mart. So Maddie did what generations of shy, awkward young ladies have done: she invented a sweetheart. A Scottish sweetheart. One who was handsome and honorable and devoted to her, but conveniently never around. Maddie poured her heart into writing the imaginary Captain MacKenzie letter after letter . . . and by pretending to be devastated when he was (not really) killed in battle, she managed to avoid the pressures of London society entirely. Until years later, when this kilted Highland lover of her imaginings shows up in the flesh. The real Captain Logan MacKenzie arrives on her doorstep—handsome as anything, but not entirely honorable. He''s wounded, jaded, in possession of her letters . . . and ready to make good on every promise Maddie never expected to keep.

— Vous êtes sournoise et démoniaque ! Ainsi s''emporte Griffin, duc de Halford, envers sa propre mère qui a eu le culot de le droguer pour le traîner de force à Spindle Cove. Il n''est que temps qu''il se marie, se défend-t-elle. Et cette ville regorge de filles célibataires. Il n''a qu''à en choisir une, n''importe laquelle, elle se fait fort de la transformer en femme du monde. Ah vraiment? Eh bien, dans ce cas, il va choisir la première venue. Et rira bien qui rira le dernier. Évidemment il n''envisage pas une seconde d''épouser cette Pauline au bout du compte. Sauf qu''avec cette drôle de petite paysanne, il n''est pas au bout de ses surprises...

She’s on the hunt for a hero… Luke Trenton, Viscount Merritt, returned from war a changed man. Battle stripped away his civility and brought out his inner beast. There is no charm or tenderness in him now; only dark passions and a hardened soul. He has nothing to offer the starry-eyed, innocent girl who pledged her heart to him four years ago. But Cecily Hale isn’t a girl any longer. She’s grown into a woman—one who won’t be pushed away. She and Luke are guests at a house party when a local legend captures their friends’ imaginations. While the others plunge into the forest on a wild goose...er, stag chase, Cecily’s on the hunt for a man. She has only a few moonlit nights to reach the real Luke…the wounded heart she knows still beats inside the war-ravaged body…or she could lose him to the darkness forever. This is a novella of approximately 20,000 words, or 80 pages. It was originally published under the title The Legend of the Werestag.

"Ce soir, Morland dansera avec moi !" Lady Amelia d’Orsay sait bien qu’il n’y a aucune chance pour que celui que l’on surnomme le Duc de Minuit l’invite ce soir-là. Riche comme Crésus, il fait partie du club le plus privé de Londres, et a toute la gentry à ses pieds. Alors qu’elle-même se sait parfaitement insignifiante. N’empêche que, de gré ou de force, ils valseront. Car Amelia a une requête pressante à lui adresser concernant son idiot de frère. Jack a beau être totalement irresponsable, elle l’aime tendrement, et cela lui donne toutes les audaces. Toutes ? Pas sûr. Osera-t-elle devenir... duchesse ?

Après des années de guerre, Rhys St. Maur, devenu lord Ashworth, revient dans les ruines du domaine familial. Au village, il n’est pas le bienvenu. La misère règne et seule Meredith, la jeune veuve qui tient l’auberge, s’en sort à peu près. Ébloui par sa beauté, Rhys lui propose de l’épouser. « C’est notre destinée ! » affirme-t-il. Interloquée, Merry refuse. Elle ne croit pas à ces sornettes et pense qu’il repartira vite. Or, à sa grande surprise, Rhys s’installe et entreprend de reconstruire le château de Nethermoor Hall. Devant tant d’obstination, le cœur de Merry chavire... en dépit d’un douloureux secret.

Cuando un pícaro sinvergüenza y una sabelotodo engreída intentan ponerse de acuerdo..., no siempre sale como ellos imaginan. Minerva Highwood, una de las solteras de Cala Espinada, necesita ir a Escocia. Colin Sandhurst, lord Payne, necesita... salir de Cala Espinada. Tienen solo siete días para planear una fuga, convencer a sus familiares y amigos de que, a pesar de sus conocidas diferencias, se han enamorado locamente. Una semana que será su ruina. En estos siete días de locura deberán recorrer con éxito 650 kilómetros, esquivando a los salteadores de caminos. Un viaje en el que se verán obligados a superar sus miedos más profundos sin cometer un asesinato. Pero tal proeza les parecerá imposible pues no les quedará más remedio que compartir un pequeño carruaje por el día y una cama, aún más pequeña, por las noches. ¿Será la atracción que de forma inesperada empieza a surgir entre ellos, una salvaje pasión que late ensus corazones, la encargada de conseguirlo? ¿Lograrán recorrer la distancia y cumplir todas las promesas que se han hecho? O por el contrario, ¿recorrerán únicamente el camino hacia lo más profundo de sus almas? Aunque quizá..., solo quizá..., este sea su viaje hacia el amor...

As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. The storybooks offered endless possibilities. And as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off. One by one by one. Ugly duckling turned swan? Abducted by handsome highwayman? Rescued from drudgery by charming prince? No, no, and . . . Heh. Now Izzy’s given up yearning for romance. She’ll settle for a roof over her head. What fairy tales are left over for an impoverished twenty-six year-old woman who’s never even been kissed? This one.

En convalescence, le lieutenant-colonel Bramwell reçoit pour mission de lever une milice. Lorsqu''il débarque avec ses officiers à Spindle Cove, charmante station balnéaire, c''est l''émoi chez les demoiselles du pensionnat, un établissement un peu particulier qui accueille les jeunes filles qui ont du mal à se plier aux codes si stricts de la société anglaise. A leur tête, la délicieuse Susanna Finch, féministe convaincue, voit d''un mauvais oeil ces jeunes hommes bouleverser la paix du village. Surtout ce Bramwell si autoritaire. Qu''il n''espère pas faire la loi ici, elle ne le craint pas ! La guerre est déclarée à Spindle Cove.

What''s a duke to do, when the girl who''s perfectly wrong becomes the woman he can''t live without? Griffin York, the Duke of Halford, has no desire to wed this season—or any season—but his diabolical mother abducts him to "Spinster Cove" and insists he select a bride from the ladies in residence. Griff decides to teach her a lesson that will end the marriage debate forever. He chooses the serving girl. Overworked and struggling, Pauline Simms doesn''t dream about dukes. All she wants is to hang up her barmaid apron and open a bookshop. That dream becomes a possibility when an arrogant, sinfully attractive duke offers her a small fortune for a week''s employment. Her duties are simple: submit to his mother''s "duchess training"… and fail miserably. But in London, Pauline isn''t a miserable failure. She''s a brave, quick-witted, beguiling failure—a woman who ignites Griff''s desire and soothes the darkness in his soul. Keeping Pauline by his side won''t be easy. Even if Society could accept a serving girl duchess—can a roguish duke convince a serving girl to trust him with her heart?

Take a trip to Spindle Cove in New York Times bestselling author Tessa Dare''s gorgeous and sexy Regency romance. Beautiful and elegant, Miss Diana Highwood is destined to marry a wealthy, well-placed nobleman. At least that''s what her mother has loudly declared to everyone in Spindle Cove. But Diana''s not excited by dukes and lords. The only man who makes her heart pound is the village blacksmith, Aaron Dawes. By birth and fortune, they couldn''t be more wrong for each other . . . but during stolen, steamy moments in the smithy, his strong hands feel so right. Is their love forged strong enough to last, or are they just playing with fire?

C''è solo una cosa che potrebbe spingere un libertino inveterato come sir Tobias Aldridge a giurare fedeltà a un''unica donna: la vendetta. E quando il premio è Isabel Grayson, la sorella dell''uomo che gli ha rubato la fidanzata, la rivincita è doppiamente gratificante. Da poco tornata dalle Indie, Isabel sta cercando un marito nobile e influente, che la aiuti a combattere le ingiustizie sociali. Sir Toby non è sicuramente un buon partito, ma sa accenderle la passione come nessun altro. E se lei riuscisse a correggerlo, potrebbe comunque ottenere ciò che desidera. Ma si tratterà di un gioco pericoloso, perché qualora sir Toby dovesse vincere, le ruberebbe il cuore.

Spindle Cove, nestled in a peaceful corner of Regency Era England, has long been known as “Spinster Cove,” due to its preponderance of unwed ladies of “delicate constitutions”—and that’s the fictional setting for a delightful historical romance series by USA Today bestselling author Tessa Dare. In A Lady by Midnight, a young woman searching for her family finds love unexpectedly with a handsome colonel—but the secrets of her heritage threaten to disrupt their romance…and their upcoming nuptials. Concerning the heart-soaring romantic fiction of Ms. Tessa Dare, fans of Lisa Kleypas and Eloisa James would do well to heed Julia Quinn’s admonitions and “prepare to fall in love!”

L''ereditiera Sophia Hathaway si imbarca sul veliero Aphrodite fingendosi una governante. Desidera una vita libera e anticonvenzionale, ma un conto è tratteggiare a pennello quelle audaci fantasie, un altro è trovarsi faccia a faccia con l''incarnazione di una di queste: l''affascinante quanto pericoloso capitano della nave, Benedict Grayson.

Come Diana, dea della caccia, Lucy Waltham non esita a lottare per ottenere quello che vuole. E ora vuole sir Toby, l''unico uomo che ha sempre sognato di sposare, e che sta per fidanzarsi con un''altra. Tuttavia per sperare di conquistarlo, Lucy deve prima mettere alla prova le proprie arti seduttive.

Unexpected lovers find themselves together in Spindle Cove with A Week to be Wicked—the second book in Tessa Dare’s utterly delectable historical romance series. This Regency Era delight finds a restless British lord desperate to escape the quaint and too quiet small seaside resort he’s trapped in…and he gets much more than he expected when he eagerly agrees to escort a beautiful, brilliant, socially awkward lady scientist to Scotland. Concerning Tessa Dare and her irresistible romances, bestselling author Julia Quinn is spot on when she says, “Prepare to fall in love!” And anyone who loves the novels of Lisa Kleypas, Christina Dodd, and Liz Carlyle is going to adore having A Week to be Wicked.

A handsome and reclusive horse breeder, Spencer Dumarque, the fourth Duke of Morland, has a reputation as the dashing "Duke of Midnight." Each evening he selects one lady for a breathtaking midnight waltz. But none of the ladies of the ton catch his interest for long, until Lady Amelia d''Orsay tries her luck. In an effort to get the Duke to forgive her brother''s debts, Amelia claims the duke''s dance. But she is playing a dangerous game with a notorious rake... The first novel in Tessa Dare''s delightful Stud Club trilogy. Other titles in this series are Twice Tempted by a Rogue and Three Nights with a Scoundrel. Rouge Romance - your first stop for romance books

“An engaging love story with strong, believable characters. I can’t wait to read the sequels!” —Mary Balogh “Prepare to fall in love.” —Julia Quinn Presenting the winner of the Avon FanLit contest, the immensely talented Tessa Dare! Tessa’s first Avon historical romance, A Night to Surrender, is a love story to remember—kicking off her wonderfully inventive Spindle Cove series, set in England’s Regency Era in a small seaside resort town that caters specifically to ladies “of good breeding and delicate constitution.” Fans of Lisa Kleypas, Christina Dodd, and Liz Carlyle will delight in the passionate chaos that ensues when a dashing British officer, under orders, “invades” this community of strong-willed “spinsters,” only to discover he’s met his match in Miss Susannah Finch!

In Tessa Dare’s dazzling new trilogy, the men of the Stud Club live and play by their own rules—until passion changes the game. The bastard son of a nobleman, Julian Bellamy is now polished to perfection, enthralling the ton with wit and charm while clandestinely plotting to ruin the lords, ravish the ladies, and have the last laugh on a society that once spurned him. But after meeting Leo Chatwick, a decent man and founder of an elite gentlemen’s club, and Lily, Leo’s enchanting sister, Julian reconsiders his wild ways. And when Leo’s tragic murder demands that Julian hunt for justice, he vows to see the woman he secretly loves married to a man of her own class. Lily, however, has a very different husband in mind. She’s loved Julian forever, adores the man beneath the rakish façade, and wants to savor the delicious attraction they share—as his wife. His insistence on marrying her off only reinforces her intent to prove that he is the only man for her. Obsessed with catching a killer, Julian sinks back to the gutters of his youth, forcing Lily to reach out with a sweet, reckless passion Julian can’t resist. Can her desire for a scoundrel save them both—or will dangerous secrets threaten more than their tender love?

Horses, gambling, and secrets are the game played by the men of the Stud Club—until love raises the stakes in Twice Tempted by a Rogue. Luck is a double-edged sword for brooding war hero Rhys St. Maur. His death wish went unanswered on the battlefield, while fate allowed the murder of his good friend in the elite gentlemen’s society known as the Stud Club. Out of options, Rhys returns to his ancestral home on the moors of Devonshire, expecting anything but a chance at redemption in the arms of a beautiful innkeeper who dares him to take on the demons of his past—and the sweet temptation of a woman’s love. Meredith Maddox believes in hard work, not fate, and romance isn’t part of her plan. But when Rhys returns, battle-scarred, world-weary, and more dangerously attractive than ever, the lovely widow is torn between determination and desire. As a deep mystery and dangerous smugglers threaten much more than their passionate reckoning, Meredith discovers that she must trust everything to a wager her heart placed long ago.

In One Dance with a Duke—the first novel in Tessa Dare’s delightful new trilogy—secrets and scandals tempt the irresistible rogues of the Stud Club to gamble everything for love. A handsome and reclusive horse breeder, Spencer Dumarque, the fourth Duke of Morland, is a member of the exclusive Stud Club, an organization so select it has only ten members—yet membership is attainable to anyone with luck. And Spencer has plenty of it, along with an obsession with a prize horse, a dark secret, and, now, a reputation as the dashing “Duke of Midnight.” Each evening he selects one lady for a breathtaking midnight waltz. But none of the women catch his interest, and nobody ever bests the duke—until Lady Amelia d’Orsay tries her luck. In a moment of desperation, the unconventional beauty claims the duke’s dance and unwittingly steals his heart. When Amelia demands that Spencer forgive her scapegrace brother’s debts, she never imagines that her game of wits and words will lead to breathless passion and a steamy proposal. Still, Spencer is a man of mystery, perhaps connected to the shocking murder of the Stud Club’s founder. Will Amelia lose her heart in this reckless wager or win everlasting love?

New author Tessa Dare takes passion to the high seas in this steamy tale of a runaway bride and a devilishly disarming privateer. Desperate to escape a loveless marriage and society’s constraints, pampered heiress Sophia Hathaway jilts her groom, packs up her paints and sketchbook, and assumes a new identity, posing as a governess to secure passage on the Aphrodite. She wants a life of her own: unsheltered, unconventional, uninhibited. But it’s one thing to sketch her most wanton fantasies, and quite another to face the dangerously handsome libertine who would steal both her virtue and her gold. To any well-bred lady, Benedict “Gray” Grayson is trouble in snug-fitting boots. A conscienceless scoundrel who sails the seas for pleasure and profit, Gray lives for conquest–until Sophia’s perception and artistry stir his heart. Suddenly he’ll brave sharks, fire, storm, and sea just to keep her at his side. She’s beautiful, refined, and ripe for seduction. Could this counterfeit governess be a rogue’s redemption? Or will the runaway heiress’s secrets destroy their only chance at love?