Résultats pour "The Bell" dans Victorien

“Shiveringly Gothic.”—New York Times Book Review A PopSugar and BookBub Best Romance of 2022! A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger. Tall, dark, and dour, the notorious Captain Jasper...

She came from nothing but shame and silence. He could sell anything—except the truth about his own heart. Martha Lowery flees her Irish family’s smallholding in Hexham with little more than her baking skills and a fierce will to survive. Haunted by the dark secrets of her childhood and a father whose cruelty drove her from home, working as a cook and cleaner. She hopes only for safety. Respectability seems far beyond reach.

Tragedy and a family feud years ago tore Cassandra Weatherstone and her twin apart. Cassandra exchanges lives with her sister to get to know her grandfather. She’s astonished to discover that Sir Marcus has arranged to betroth his granddaughter to his godson, Philip Raven. The problem is, she's the wrong granddaughter!

Flashy and irresistible, Lord Ashbee is used to getting what he wants. A hedonist, a ruthless businessman, and an exquisite lover, he is admired and warned about in the high society of Victorian London. When he encounters a beautiful young woman in the Belle House, the famous house of pleasure on Piccadilly, he is more than intrigued. With the help of in-house maid Krissy, he is determined to seduce the mysterious beauty.

This encapsulates a notion, a bit of whimsy that occurred to me. A "whatever happened to...?" for a minor character from Dickens' old tale. In the full text of A Christmas Carol, a mature Belle is briefly seen by Scrooge at home with her husband and children. She is also seen in a caregiving setting in the wonderful 1951 film version starring Alastair Sim.

The brand new novel from Britain's best-loved saga author Whitby, 1845 Amber Ainsley works as a laundry maid for the wealthy Greenwood family, but when she falls pregnant with her employer's illegitimate child, she is cast out, left homeless and destitute. She flees to Whitby, but Barnaby...