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Lady Ophelia's life is all mapped out: marriage to a cod-faced aristocrat and a life of dull respectability. Refusing to play along, she's banished to her ancestral home in the Highlands of Scotland. There, she'll be so bored, she'll come to her senses... won't she? Meeting her eccentric relatives (not to mention ruggedly handsome estate manager Hamish) Ophelia isn't so sure. Let the mayhem begin!

After laboring for decades in the mines of Skálavík, Viggo is lured by the promise of great riches, and joins his jarl's sea quest. But the daring adventure is doomed, the longship destroyed in a terrible storm. He awakes to find himself robbed of his sight, and his liberty. Signy knows what it is to suffer alone. The last thing she seeks is a man—even if the future of the island depends upon compliance. Thrown together, the two form an alliance. Viggo will impregnate her, in return for a promise that she'll help him end his misery.

Lecky Ferguson is growing up in a penniless but close-knit family in Jarrow. He relies on his imaginative Uncle Freddie for explanations of the world’s many mysteries. Packed with humour and adventure, this award-winning full-cast drama tells the life of a young man that is far from ordinary.

Arriving in Italy, Lady Cecile McCaulay is enchanted by the Castello di Scogliera and its glamorous inhabitants, but does their lavish welcome hide darker motives? A sumptuous tale of gothic romance, filled with mystery and intrigue.

When the Earl of Rancliffe suffers humiliation at the hands of the mysterious Mademoiselle Noire, he vows revenge. But his anger soon becomes obsession, as she leads him into ever more dangerous games. As cruel as she is beautiful, Mademoiselle Noire has no intention of revealing her true identity, nor of entangling her heart.

On the first night of Lady Cecile McCaulay's transatlantic crossing, a passenger is found dead. Cecile believes the murderer will strike again. Can she protect those she loves? Perhaps she can, but who will protect her?

Lady Finchingfield dons a disguise to infiltrate the chambers of London’s most exclusive gentlemen's club. Can she keep her identity secret, or is scandal inevitable? One thing is certain: falling in love can only bring disaster.

Five years after her heartbreak and humiliation, Sofia is determined to find out—and to claim her rightful place by his side, even if it means travelling to the wild mountains of Carpathia to make her home in a decrepit castle.

Five deliciously hot heroes. Five heroines whose hearts are swept away. Five love stories you won’t be able to resist. Our heroines’ lives are turned upside down as they face adventure, danger, and passion in these thrilling historical romance novels. Follow Rosamund, Flora, Ursula, Bathsheba, and Cornelia as each falls madly in love just when they least expect it! The Lady's Guide to Love features the first five volumes from The Lady's Guide series in one convenient bundle.

With limited funds, and a long way from Texas, Rosamund must pretend she's a wealthy catch. Meeting the Duke of Studborne, have her prayers been answered? Perhaps...but what of the mysterious disappearances at Studborne Abbey? If she is to uncover the truth, only one person can help her...the duke's annoyingly principled, far-too-honourable nephew.

With her name mired in scandal, Cornelia Mortmain's marriage prospects are nil. Wild adventurer Burnell is exactly the sort of "dangerous man" she's sworn off, and posing as his fiancée can only spell trouble. Or, make her so notorious she'll become irresistible. Can they convince everyone they're madly in love? The game is on!

Disinherited debutante Rosamund Burnell is in a fix. Pretending she's still a wealthy catch, she sets out to ensnare the Duke of Studborne. The only spanner in the works? Her growing attraction to the duke's very proper, very honorable, and very penniless nephew, Benedict. The duke seems enchanted, but his motives for courting her are not what they seem, and Rosamund is caught in a trap. She must uncover the truth, and only one person in the abbey can help her. The annoyingly principled Benedict!

Cory is not the only person who dislikes the new president of Nations of Earth, Simon Dekker. Many people at gamra and even within Nations of Earth have similar issues. In fact, the discontent was so bad that there was talk to unseat the president.

Tomkin Thornhewn, youngest son of the Duke of Marshwell, has a problem: He’s not heroic. Regardless of his aspirations, the bookish, untrained young man is better suited to recording the deeds of heroes than being one himself. Which becomes an obvious problem when he finds himself clinging to a ledge above a sleeping dragon. And instead of wielding his family’s great sword with valor and skill, he drops it - onto the dragon. The problem grows immeasurably worse when Tomkin himself falls off the ledge - also onto the dragon.

The stories of King Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot and Guinevere, Galahad, Gawain, Tristan and the rest of the Knights of the Roundtable, and the search for the Holy Grail have been beloved for centuries and are the inspiration of many modern fantasy novels, films, and shows. These legends began when an obscure Celtic hero named Arthur stepped on to the stage of history sometime in the sixth century, generating a host of oral tales that would be inscribed some 900 years later by Thomas Malory in his classic Morte D’Arthur (The Death of Arthur).

Under the protection of darkly handsome Captain Jorge de Silva, Lady Bathsheba Asquith lands on the tropical island of Vanuaka in search of her missing brother. The trials of the jungle strip away any pretense of propriety and passion flares, but de Silva is not all he seems, and Bathsheba is in more danger than she can imagine.

Whenever the fearsome fetch of Camdyn Dalreagh, first chieftain, plays a ghostly rendition on the bagpipes, a death is close at hand...so legend goes. But is the curse really true? Through the ages, Castle Dunrannoch has been a place of intrigue, ambition, and more than the occasional murder!

Texan rancher Rye Dalreagh, the long lost Dunrannoch heir, has been thrown in the deep end. During what should be the merriest of seasons, he must choose a bride, navigate an ancient curse, avoid being murdered, and try not to fall in love with his manners tutor.

Upon the night a knife is plunged into her father's heart, headstrong Flora Dalreagh flees the forbidding Highlander to whom she has been hastily wed. Entering his domain in the guise of a dairymaid, Flora never expects passion to burn as fiercely as her desire for revenge, but she soon discovers her secret is only one of many in the castle. Can a bride and groom each convinced of the other's treachery ever trust one another?

Cory has made several commitments to members of the Asto inner circles. He needs to spend time with Thayu's son. He has also been asked to give a favour to a boy of the Azimi clan. What better to do with a couple of pre-teens than to visit the theme parks that are historic relics from the 21st century on Earth?