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When Fitzwilliam Darcy meets Miss Elizabeth Bennet, his heart is almost immediately engaged. Seeing the pretty lady before him, a lady of no consequence or fortune, he believes he should not form an attachment to her, unsuitable as such a woman is to be his wife. What he cannot see, however, is the truth. That the simple country girl harbors a secret. Before she meets Darcy, Elizabeth has spent two years hiding from the men who killed her beloved first husband.

Dr. Ainsley Graham is cultivating a reputation as an eccentric. Two years ago, he catastrophically ended his academic career by publicly claiming to talk to ghosts. When Joachim Cockburn, a WWI veteran studying the power of delusional thinking, arrives at his door, Ainsley quickly catalogs him as yet another tiresome Englishman determined to mock his life's work. But Joachim is tenacious and openhearted, and Ainsley's intrigued despite himself. 

Drusilla Clare is full of opinions about why a woman shouldn't marry. But that doesn't stop the rush of desire she feels each time her best friend's brother, notorious rake Gabriel Marlington, crosses her path. So imagine her dismay when she finds herself in the clutches of a scoundrel, only to be rescued by Gabriel himself. And when Gabriel's heartless - and heart-pounding - proposal comes, it's enough to make Dru's formidable resolve crumble... 

Perhaps this concealment, this disguise, was beneath me… It is done, however, and it was done for the best. Elizabeth Bennet, walking in Kent the day after Mr Darcy’s proposal meets with an unfortunate mishap. A meeting with an adder has disastrous consequences for her and when she wakes from a period of unconsciousness, she has no memory at all of the last ten months of her life. To her complete shock she learns that she is engaged to a man called Darcy, a man she has no recollection of meeting before.

Newton Hughes has long dreamed of pursuing a career in law, an acceptable choice for a gentleman of status and wealth. His parents, however, disapprove of his ambition, urging him instead to take his rightful place as a gentleman of leisure - with a suitable wife of their choosing, of course. Ellie Napper would like nothing more than for her parents to abandon their incessant efforts to marry her off to the greatest possible advantage. Her lack of matrimonial enthusiasm drives her family mad.

There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In this second of the Bridgerton prequel series, following Because of Miss Bridgerton, we go back to where it all began. . . from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn. While you were sleeping... With her brother...

The gripping sequel to A Woman of Substance (now a major new tv series) and Hold The Dream. Set in Yorkshire, Hong Kong and America, this remarkable novel continues the story of an unorthodox and endlessly fascinating family. As the spirit of Emma Harte lives on in her granddaughter, Paula...

Alexander Grant had already built a legendary clan, won the favor of kings, and raised warriors who shook the Highlands. But his greatest challenges—and deepest joys—came in his later years. As Scotland's fight for independence raged, Alex stood beside Robert the Bruce, guiding his grandbairns through battle after battle. He watched a new generation of Grants rise: fierce, loyal, and every bit as formidable as the warriors he'd trained decades before.

Serving as the advice columnist, ‘Miss Busy B.’, for an often-subversive ladies’ magazine is the perfect outlet for Daphne Burke’s outspoken nature. But when she advises a young lady of the ton, to break off her engagement to a notorious rake, the consequences take Daphne beyond the page and into her real life.

Warrior. Protector. Legend. This is where it all began. Alexander Grant built Clan Grant into a force that kings relied upon and enemies feared. He stood victorious at the Battle of Largs, earned the favor of King Alexander III, and raised an army of warriors who would one day fight alongside Robert the Bruce for Scotland's freedom. But Alex's greatest legacy wasn't forged on the battlefield. It was forged in the way he held Maddie's hand through the birth of each of their children. In the orphans his clan welcomed as their own.

The boy no one wanted became the man everyone needed. He was a boy with no name worth keeping, no family to claim him, and no home but a weathered crate behind a tree in Ayr. But when Loki watched Clan Grant warriors thunder through the burgh — bold and fierce and belonging to something — he made a vow: someday, he would be one of them.

Paris de Norville (The Wolfe) and Jemma Scott Hage (The Wolfe) find love in their sunset years...with each other? It seems like an impossible suggestion. Paris and Jemma first met in The Wolfe in a fiery explosion of temper and taunting. Her temper mostly, because he was taunting. Handsome and arrogant in his youth, Paris was a powerful knight, second in command to the great William de Wolfe, and he found great sport in taunting a Scots captive named Jemma Scott.

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed! Gwen has a brilliant...

All the Best Parts of Beauty is a collection of Pride and Prejudice variations based on the premise: “What if Darcy and Elizabeth’s first meeting was not in Hertfordshire?” The featured stories are A Lasting Love Affair, Only a Heartbeat Away, Impertinent Strangers, and By Reason, by Reflection, by Everything. About the Featured Stories: Impertinent Strangers — A first meeting that takes place in Kent. Imagine Darcy and Elizabeth falling in love right under Lady Catherine’s watchful eye.

From the author of the international bestsellers The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes an enchanting novel that is “historical fiction at its very best” (Patti Callahan, New York Times bestselling author) as it follows five women living across three different times whose lives...

Stolen from her bed in the dark of night to save a dying chieftain, Brenna Grant never imagined that act of healing would change the course of her life—and the fate of an entire clan. A healer ahead of her time, Brenna rejected the brutal practices of medieval medicine, trusting instead in the wisdom passed down from her mother and grandfather. But it was her fierce, compassionate heart that truly set her apart—winning the devotion of the man she healed, the warrior who kidnapped her, and the sprawling family she built through birth, marriage, and love.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American—Mildred Fish Harnack—and her circle of women friends who waged a...

A friendship begun in honesty may prove the truest love of all. When Elizabeth Bennet travels to Netherfield to care for her sister, she expects nothing more than civility from the proud Mr. Darcy. But in a few honest, unguarded moments, she discovers a man of warmth, integrity, and surprising...

Don't miss the third book in the breathtaking new series from the number one bestselling author Santa Montefiore - coming soon! One final show. A love that defies time... "I started this, but truly, I have no idea how to end it without breaking my heart." When Pixie Tate is sent to solve a...

"Charis Michaels will make you believe in fairy tales."— #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn USA Today bestselling author Charis Michaels concludes her Awakened by a Kiss series with another enchanting romance, this time telling the real story of Cinderella’s stepsister and the...