Résultats pour "The Man" dans Régence

A generous, kind, and always hungry Charles Bingley sheds a little light on keeping company with the most interesting man in the world and shares his thoughts on puppies, his dreadful sisters, and the meaning of happiness.

Somerset, England, 1808. Elfrida Hapgood keeps her eyes on the prize. Born to a penniless squire, she's determined to follow common sense and marry an upstanding and steadfast gentleman. So when her brother-in-law's handsomely rakish sibling attempts to woo her, she rigidly ignores the flutter in her chest.

De inspiratiebron voor de #1 Netflix-hit Bridgerton. Gregory Bridgerton gelooft in ware liefde. Maar wanneer hij de vrouw van zijn dromen ontmoet, blijkt deze Hermione Watson al verliefd op een ander! Gelukkig is daar haar pragmatische beste vriendin Lucinda Abernathy, die Gregory belooft dat ze haar vriendin in zijn armen zal drijven. Maar hoe langer ze daarmee bezig is, hoe meer zij en Gregory van elkaar onder de indruk raken. Helaas is Lucinda al verloofd...

For seven long years, Sir Peregrine Sayre has tried to assuage his guilt over the horrifying events of his 21st birthday by immersing himself in political work - and by avoiding all entanglements with ladies of the ton. But when his mentor sends him on a quest to track down purportedly penitent prostitutes, the events of his less-than-innocent past threaten not just his own political career....

In the dazzling salons and ballrooms of Regency England there are the incomparables and there are the spinsters in training. Perpetual wallflower Charlotte Woodbridge, feels doomed to remain on the shelf, with no interest from any of the men who attend these high society functions. This all changes when she meets a penniless cousin of the Brazilian Ambassador and begins to hope that perhaps a man could care for her after all.

Aidan Dougal is deadly, and he knows it. His self-imposed isolation is to keep others out of harm's way. However, it also makes any kind of intimacy impossible...and certainly not marriage! Asking for help is beyond him until a woman unlike any he's ever met slips into his life like an answered prayer.

If Mary Babington-Smith knows nothing else, it's that Lord Edwin Sutton kissed her. With the deed witnessed, they have no choice but to carry on with a temporary, fake engagement. When Edwin sweetens the deal, offering Mary the money she needs to pursue her independence if she can play the lovesick fiancée for two weeks, Mary rises to the challenge. Despite Sutton's argumentative, self-assured nature, when Mary glimpses a sliver of the boy he used to be, she vows to peel away every layer of armor he uses to shield his emotions.

Lady Selina Primrose ses ofta som familjens svarta får. Hon är frispråkig, vild och alldeles för äventyrslysten för den engelska aristrokratin och även om hon vet hur hon förväntas bete sig är det fasligt underhållande att göra tvärtemot. När det görs tydligt för henne att hon behöver hitta en make så snart som möjligt för att undvika att Windermere Manor behöver säljas sätts hennes lojalitet till familjen på prov. Särskilt när ryktena om hennes släktskap börjar florera på nytt...

Having resigned his position at Bow Street, John Pickett waits in vain for someone - anyone! - to engage his services as a private inquiry agent. As weeks go by with no responses to his newspaper advertisement, he has taken to spending his days wandering idly about London rather than admit his failure to his wife.

Matilda Weldon refuses to marry the husband that her parents have chosen for her. She will, she says, marry the ugliest man in London rather than become the wife of a man she loathes. Her three loyal friends are determined to help her, but how does one advertise for an ugly husband? Then, one day, a solution appears.