Résultats pour "Tess" dans Régence

After eight years of waiting for Piers Brandon, the wandering Marquess of Granville, to set a wedding date, Clio Whitmore has had enough. She's inherited a castle, scraped together some pride, and made plans to break her engagement. Not if Rafe Brandon can help it. A ruthless prizefighter and notorious rake, Rafe is determined that Clio will marry his brother - even if he has to plan the dratted wedding himself.

Minerva Highwood, one of Spindle Cove's confirmed spinsters, needs to be in Scotland. Colin Sandhurst, Lord Payne, a rake of the first order, needs to be...anywhere but Spindle Cove. These unlikely partners have one week: to fake an elopement to convince family and friends they're in love to outrun armed robbers to survive their worst nightmares to travel four hundred miles without killing each other. All while sharing a very small carriage by day and an even smaller bed by night.

Welcome to Spindle Cove, where the ladies with delicate constitutions come for the sea air, and men in their prime are..nowhere to be found. Or are they? Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: The painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men; it is a haven for those who live there. Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, knows he doesn't belong here.

Miss Eliza Cade is a lady in waiting. And waiting. Because of a foolish mistake in her youth, she's not allowed ""out"" in Society until her three older sisters are wed. But while she's trying to be good, she keeps bumping elbows—and, more distressingly, lips— with notorious rake Harry...

Minerva Highwood, selverklæret pebermø og amatørgeolog, må og skal til et videnskabeligt symposium i Skotland. Den berygtede skørtejæger Colin Sandhurst skal væk fra Spindle Cove i en farlig fart. Løsningen bliver at overbevise alle om, at de er forelskede og vil stikke af sammen. Det betyder dog, at de skal tilbringe en uge i en lillebitte vogn og i en endnu mindre seng, selvom Colin irriterer Minerva grænseløst. Og hvis det faktisk lykkes dem ikke at slå hinanden ihjel, er der både landevejsrøvere og mange andre mareridt på rejsen.

Hertugen af Ashbury har brug for en arving, men efter at han blev vansiret under krigen og siden forladt af sin forlovede, står de unge kvinder mildest talt ikke i kø. Da en ung kvinde iført brudekjole træder ind ad hans dør, kigger han derfor en ekstra gang. Syersken Emma Gladstone har efter et brud med sin familie skabt sig en ny, omend fattig, tilværelse i London, så da en kunde efter en afbrudt forlovelse efterlader en ubetalt regning, må hun tage drastiske midler i brug. Emma forventede, at hertugen ville betale sin tidligere forlovedes gæld.

Velkommen til Spindle Cove, en by fuld af kvinder, der nyder roen og den friske luft. Kvinder fra pæne familier, som enten er for generte eller for optagede af de forkerte mænd. Kvinder, der er blevet skuffet, og kvinder, der har brug for lidt fred. For Susanna Finch er livet i byen alt, hun kunne ønske sig: ingen mænd eller andre distraktioner i sigte... Indtil Bramwell, den nye Jarl af Rycliff, dukker op for at etablere en milits i den lille by. Susanna ser sit paradis forsvinde som dug for solen og beslutter sig for, at ingen mand skal ødelægge alt det, hun elsker.