Resultado de "Julie Anne Long" em Todas as categorias

Dopo ben tre anni di prigionia, la leggendaria spia inglese Christian Hawkes è finalmente libera. Il conte di Brundage, però, ha per lui una missione: cercare la sua fidanzata in fuga. Lady Aurelie Capet pensa di aver trovato rifugio in Inghilterra dopo che la Rivoluzione francese ha distrutto la sua famiglia, e alloggia sotto falso nome al Grand Palace sul Tamigi, dove pian piano sta ritrovando la pace. Finché uno splendido sconosciuto attraversa le porte dell'albergo, dando inizio a un complesso gioco d'astuzia che risveglia in lei un inaspettato desiderio.

In una fredda notte di pioggia, una giovane in fuga da una situazione a dir poco insopportabile si presenta al Grand Palace sul Tamigi in cerca di una camera. È Mariana Wylde, nota cantante d'opera travolta da uno scandalo ed etichettata come la "sgualdrina di Haywood Street". Le proprietarie dell'albergo, Delilah e Angelique, decidono di accoglierla invogliate dall'idea di farla esibire, in cambio della pigione, durante la serata di inaugurazione della loro nuova sala da ballo.

Lillias, figlia del conte di Vaughn, si trova ospite del Grand Palace sul Tamigi, un albergo nei pressi dei docks di Londra. Da anni Lillias è innamorata di Giles, futuro conte di Bankham, ma ha saputo che lui sposerà un'altra. Affranta, viene scoperta da Hugh Cassidy, intraprendente americano di bell'aspetto, a fumare un sigaro di nascosto. Hugh riferisce la cosa al conte e Lillias viene confinata in albergo. Nonostante il risentimento nei confronti di Cassidy, l'attrazione che prova per lui ha presto la meglio e i due vengono sorpresi in atteggiamenti intimi.

He would pay any price to possess her. But even though Alexandra Bellamy sacrifices herself to save her family’s fortunes, a shocking betrayal sunders her marriage to a taciturn brute of a war hero, Colonel Magnus Brightwall, before it even begins. Five years of icy separation later, a scandal—with Alexandra at the middle—reunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront the ton, rescue their reputations, then Magnus will banish her to another continent—forever.

A London season is the chance of a lifetime for Catherine Keating. But the ton’s glitter and decadence and casual cruelty threaten to crush her hopes of finding a husband before her season even begins...until she accidentally acquires one of the most scandalous men in England as a secret chaperone.

Angelique Breedlove e la sua amica Delilah sono le orgogliose proprietarie del Grand Palace sul Tamigi, un piccolo albergo nei pressi dei docks di Londra. Angelique è una donna dal passato misterioso, che diffida degli uomini e ama la tranquillità della sua nuova vita. A portare un certo scompiglio è l'arrivo di un ospite affascinante, Lucien Durand, visconte di Bolt, da tutti creduto morto.

Rimasta vedova all'improvviso, Delilah scopre non solo che lord Derring, suo marito, la tradiva, ma anche che era indebitato fino al collo. Decide così di trasformare un vecchio palazzo nella zona dei docks di Londra, unica eredità che le è rimasta, in una pensione: il Grand Palace sul Tamigi. Non immagina però che Derring usasse proprio quel palazzo per attività di contrabbando e che il capitano Tristan Hardy sospetti che la moglie porti avanti i suoi traffici.

Single mom Eden Harwood has a lively daughter, a blooming business - and a juicy secret she’s hung on to for 10 years. She doesn’t mind a bit that there’s no room for romance in her whirlwind life...until six-foot-infinity, smoldery-eyed, bass-voiced Gabe Caldera reminds her of what she might be missing.

She arrives in the dead of night, a mob out for blood at her heels: Mariana Wylde, the “Harlot of Haywood Street”, an opera diva brought low by a duel fought for her favors. But the ladies of the Grand Palace on the Thames think they can make a silk purse from scandal: They’ll restore her reputation and share in her triumph...provided they can keep her apart from that other guest. Coldly brilliant, fiercely honorable, General James Duncan Blackmore, the Duke of Valkirk, is revered, feared, desired...but nobody truly knows him.

He clawed his way up from the gutters of St. Giles to the top of a shadowy empire. Feared and fearsome, battered and brilliant, nothing shocks Lorcan St. Leger—not even the discovery of an aristocratic woman escaping out a window near the London docks on the eve of the storm of the decade. They find shelter at a boarding house called the Grand Palace on the Thames—only to find greater dangers await inside.

He’s the battle-hardened son of a bastard, raised in the wilds of New York. She’s the sheltered, blue-blooded darling of the London broadsheets, destined to marry a duke. Their worlds could only collide in a boardinghouse by the London docks...and when they do, the sparks would ignite all of England. Nothing can stop Hugh Cassidy’s drive to build an American empire...unless it’s his new nemesis, the arrogant, beautiful, too-clever-by-half Lady Lillias Vaughn. The fascination is mutual. The temptation is merciless. And the inevitable indiscretion? Soul-searing.

The mission: Find the Earl of Brundage’s runaway fiancée in exchange for a fortune. Child’s play for legendary British former spymaster, Christian Hawkes. The catch? Hawkes knows in his bones that Brundage is the traitor to England who landed him in a brutal French prison. Hawkes is destitute, the earl is desperate, and a bargain is struck.

He has devil’s blood in his veins. At least, that’s always been the legend. How else could the Duke of Brexford’s notorious bastard son return from the dead? The brutal decade since Lucien Durand, Lord Bolt, allegedly drowned in the Thames forged him into a man who always gets what - and who - he wants. And what he wants is vengeance for his stolen birthright...and one wild night in Angelique Breedlove’s bed.

Delilah Swanpoole, countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring”, is a lot more interesting - and perfidious - dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man. But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless.

I Kissed an Earl is another installment in rapidly rising star Julie Anne Long's sensual and emotionally charged Pennyroyal Green series, centered around the longstanding feud of the wealthy Eversea and Redmond families of Pennyroyal Green, Sussex. I Kissed an Earl absolutely brims with romance, adventure, and, of course, intense passion, as a beautiful, willful Regency lady searching for her lost brother stows away on a sailing ship - and ends up enchanting the vessel's highborn, hard-headed Captain.

For years, he's been an object of fear, fascination...and fantasy. But of all the wicked rumors that shadow the formidable Alexander Moncrieffe, Duke of Falconbridge, the ton knows one thing for certain: Only fools dare cross him. And when Ian Eversea does just that, Moncrieffe knows the perfect revenge: He'll seduce Ian's innocent sister, Genevieve - the only Eversea as yet untouched by scandal. First he'll capture her heart...and then he'll break it.

Fearless. Loyal. Brilliant. Ruthless. Bold words are always used to describe English war hero Captain Chase Eversea, but another word unfortunately plays a role in every Eversea's destiny: trouble. And trouble for Chase arrives in the form of a mysterious message summoning him to a London rendezvous...where he encounters the memory of his most wicked indiscretion in the flesh: Rosalind March - the only woman he could never forget.

It's the last chance for Cynthia Brightly, the town's most bewitching belle. Driven out of London by a secret scandal, she must find a grand husband at the Redmonds' house party before word of her downfall spreads all over England. Unfortunately, someone at Pennyroyal Green is already privy to the whispers of broken engagements and dueling lovers: Miles Redmond, renowned explorer and - thanks to his brother's disappearance - heir to the family's enormous fortune.

Scandal has rocked the city of London. Colin Eversea, a handsome, reckless unapologetic rogue is sentenced to hang for murder and, inconveniently for him, the only witness to the crime disappears. Then again, throughout history, the Everseas have always managed to cheat fate in style: Colin is snatched from the gallows by a beautiful, clever mercenary. Cool-headed, daring Madeleine Greenway is immune to Colin's vaunted charm. Her mission is not to rescue Colin but to kidnap him, and to be paid handsomely for it.

The moment orphaned American heiress Titania "Tansy" Danforth arrives on English shores she cuts a swath through Sussex, enslaving hearts and stealing beaux. She knows she's destined for a spectacular titled marriage - but the only man who fascinates her couldn't be more infamous...or less interested. A hardened veteran of war and inveterate rogue, Ian Eversea keeps women enthralled, his heart guarded and his options open: why should he succumb to the shackles of marriage when devastating good looks and Eversea charm make seduction so easy?