Résultats pour "Luca" dans Régence

In 1813, upon her marriage to Mr. Collins, the rector of Hunsford Parsonage, Charlotte Collins née Lucas left her childhood home in Hertfordshire for Kent, where she is set to live out her life as the parson’s wife, in an endless procession of dinners at Rosings Park, household chores, correspondence, and minding her poultry. But Mrs. Collins carries with her a secret, a peculiar preference, which is destined to turn all her carefully laid plans on their head.

In una fredda notte di pioggia, una giovane in fuga da una situazione a dir poco insopportabile si presenta al Grand Palace sul Tamigi in cerca di una camera. È Mariana Wylde, nota cantante d'opera travolta da uno scandalo ed etichettata come la "sgualdrina di Haywood Street". Le proprietarie dell'albergo, Delilah e Angelique, decidono di accoglierla invogliate dall'idea di farla esibire, in cambio della pigione, durante la serata di inaugurazione della loro nuova sala da ballo.

Felicity Taylor and her guardian, Lucas Kincaid, don't see eye to eye on many things, but they both agree that her twenty-first birthday can't come quickly enough. Felicity is an heiress, but she'll lose her fortune if she marries without Kincaid's consent. Unless, of course, she waits until she comes of age, when she'll be able to marry without his permission. And since Felicity hates to ask Kincaid for anything, she's chosen to wait until she turns twenty-one to make her society debut.