A Regency Courtesan's Pride: More Than a Mistress / The Rake's Inherited Courtesan

A Regency Courtesan's Pride: More Than a Mistress / The Rake's Inherited Courtesan PDF Author: Ann Lethbridge
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474038018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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More Than a Mistress Charles Mountford, Marquis of Tonbridge knows he must do his duty as a gentleman and take a wife. But when he’s left snowbound with the unconventional Miss Honor Meredith Draycott, Charles can’t resist allowing his inner rogue to come out to play one last time... The Rake’s Inherited Courtesan

A Regency Courtesan's Pride: More Than a Mistress / The Rake's Inherited Courtesan

A Regency Courtesan's Pride: More Than a Mistress / The Rake's Inherited Courtesan PDF Author: Ann Lethbridge
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474038018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Book Description
More Than a Mistress Charles Mountford, Marquis of Tonbridge knows he must do his duty as a gentleman and take a wife. But when he’s left snowbound with the unconventional Miss Honor Meredith Draycott, Charles can’t resist allowing his inner rogue to come out to play one last time... The Rake’s Inherited Courtesan

The Rake's Inherited Courtesan

The Rake's Inherited Courtesan PDF Author: Ann Lethbridge
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426831463
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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A courtesan’s daughter is shocked to be named in her guardian’s will—as a bequest to his handsome nephew—in this scandalous Regency romance. Dover, 1816. Daughter of a Parisian courtesan, Sylvia Boisette longs for respectability, though gossips say she is nothing more than a gentleman’s paramour. Now, with her guardian dead, she finds herself in a shocking situation. . . . Christopher Evernden is appalled to learn that his uncle has just left him Mademoiselle Boisette, with all expenses paid! Although his body responds to Sylvia’s tempting sensuality, he knows he should rid himself of his disreputable charge. But, surprisingly, Sylvia has a vulnerability to match her exceptional beauty. Perhaps his inherited mistress could become his rightful bride . . .

Regency Scoundrels/The Rake's Inherited Courtesan/Lady Rosabella's Ruse

Regency Scoundrels/The Rake's Inherited Courtesan/Lady Rosabella's Ruse PDF Author: Ann Lethbridge
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1489248129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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The Rake's Inherited Courtesan Daughter of a Parisian courtesan, Sylvia Boisette longs for respectability, though gossips say she is nothing more than a gentleman's paramour. Now, with her guardian dead, she finds herself in a shocking situation... Christopher Evernden is appalled by his uncle's will – Mademoiselle Boisette is now his courtesan! Although his body responds to Sylvia's tempting sensuality, he knows he should rid himself of his disreputable charge. But, surprisingly, Sylvia has a vulnerability to match her exceptional beauty. Perhaps his inherited mistress could become his rightful bride! Lady Rosabella's Ruse None of the women at an 'anything goes' house party catch Garth Evernden's jaded eye. The only one worth noting is a covered–up lady's companion with an intriguing hint of exotic beauty the eighth Baron Stanford would like to uncover... Rose is in fact posing as a widow to find her inheritance – without it, she and her sisters will surely perish! The baron is known for his generosity, and he is so very handsome! A new solution springs to Rose's mind...surely becoming mistress to this rake would bring definite advantages?

The Rake's Inherited Courtesan/lady Rosabella's Ruse

The Rake's Inherited Courtesan/lady Rosabella's Ruse PDF Author: Ann Lethbridge
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9781489247025
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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The Rake's Inherited Courtesan Daughter of a Parisian courtesan, Sylvia Boisette longs for respectability, though gossips say she is nothing more than a gentleman's paramour. Now, with her guardian dead, she finds herself in a shocking situation... Christopher Evernden is appalled by his uncle's will - Mademoiselle Boisette is now his courtesan! Although his body responds to Sylvia's tempting sensuality, he knows he should rid himself of his disreputable charge. But, surprisingly, Sylvia has a vulnerability to match her exceptional beauty. Perhaps his inherited mistress could become his rightful bride! Lady Rosabella's Ruse None of the women at an 'anything goes' house party catch Garth Evernden's jaded eye. The only one worth noting is a covered-up lady's companion with an intriguing hint of exotic beauty the eighth Baron Stanford would like to uncover... Rose is in fact posing as a widow to find her inheritance - without it, she and her sisters will surely perish! The baron is known for his generosity, and he is so very handsome! A new solution springs to Rose's mind...surely becoming mistress to this rake would bring definite advantages?

More Than a Mistress

More Than a Mistress PDF Author: Ann Lethbridge
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780263882674
Category : Love stories
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Public Gentleman, Private Rogue! Charles Mountford, Marquis of Tonbridge, has long felt the weight of responsibility. He knows he must do his duty and take a wife. But when he's left snowbound with the unconventional Miss Honor Meredith Draycott, he finds his inner rogue wants to come out to play...Merry doesn't need a man - no matter how handsome he is! Sadly society takes a different view. Charlie is more than happy to make her socially acceptable, but only if she acts publicly as his betrothed and privately as his mistress!

Lords of Passion

Lords of Passion PDF Author: Virginia Henley
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758271565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
This glittering collection of Regency romances features "Beauty and the Brute" by Virginia Henley, "How to Seduce a Wife" by Kate Pearce, and "Not Quite a Courtesan" by Maggie Robinson, in which sensible bluestocking Prudence Thorn's thirst for adventure is quenched by worldly Darius Shaw. Original.

Sinful in Satin

Sinful in Satin PDF Author: Madeline Hunter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101443626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Celia's quiet life ends when her mother, a famed London courtesan, dies, leaving her a small house in town-and a darkly handsome, reputedly dangerous tenant. Watch a Video

Seven Nights to Forever

Seven Nights to Forever PDF Author: Evangeline Collins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101445130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
The author of Her Ladyship's Companion once again pushes the erotic boundaries of Regency romance. Destitute after her father's death, Rose Marlowe has debts to settle and a younger brother to support. But she also possesses a matchless beauty-one that could command quite a price. Now, every month, Rose spends one week at a decadent London brothel, where she's become a sought-after prize. Then one night she meets a wealthy merchant. Handsome, kind and compassionate, with a lonely soul that matches her own, James Archer is not her typical client. Falling in love with a client, never mind a married one, is unthinkable. Yet Rose can't help but lose herself as one night becomes seven-and seven nights leads to a chance at forever.

A Devil of a Duke

A Devil of a Duke PDF Author: Madeline Hunter
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 142014393X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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From a New York Times bestselling author comes a Regency romance featuring a decadent duke and a secretary with a secret. HE MAY BE A DEVIL He’s infamous, debaucherous, and known all over town for his complete disregard for scandal, and positively irresistible seductions. Gabriel St. James, Duke of Langford, is obscenely wealthy, jaw-droppingly handsome, and used to getting exactly what he wants. Until his attention is utterly captured by a woman who refuses to tell him her name, but can’t help surrendering to his touch… BUT SHE’S NO ANGEL EITHER… Amanda Waverly is living two lives—one respectable existence as secretary to an upstanding lady, and one far more dangerous battle of wits—and willpower—with the devilish Duke. Langford may be the most tempting man she’s ever met, but Amanda’s got her hands full trying to escape the world of high-society crime into which she was born. And if he figures out who she really is, their sizzling passion will suddenly boil over into a much higher stakes affair… “Rich with scandal and sensuality...Scintillating love scenes are plentiful in this page-turning tale, which is enhanced by a cast of memorable characters and smart, witty protagonists.”—Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW, Best Books of Summer 2018 “Another passionate, adventurous, captivating romance from a grand mistress of the genre. Hunter combines a heated love story with a feminist vibe…Readers will find the pace never slows as they try and keep up with a bold thief and a devilish duke engaged in a subtle game of seduction.”—RT Book Reviews, TOP PICK

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.