The Inconvenient Duchess

The Inconvenient Duchess
Author: Christine Merrill
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459202740

Dear Cici and Father, I have come to Devon and married a duke. And I'm more tired and hungry than I have ever been in my life. Please let me come home. Compromised and wedded on the same day, Lady Miranda was fast finding married life not to her taste. A decaying manor and a secretive husband were hardly the stuff of girlish dreams. Yet every time she looked at dark, brooding Marcus Radwell, Duke of Haughleigh, she felt inexplicably compelled—and determined—to make their marriage real!

The Inconvenient Duchess (Mills & Boon Historical)

The Inconvenient Duchess (Mills & Boon Historical)
Author: Christine Merrill
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1474033903

Dear Cici and Father, I have come to Devon and married a duke. And I'm more tired and hungry than I have ever been in my life. Please let me come home.

Lady Priscilla's Shameful Secret

Lady Priscilla's Shameful Secret
Author: Christine Merrill
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459227492

Outspoken Lady Priscilla is the only woman in London brave enough not to simper at Robert Magson. As the Duke of Reighland, he needs a wife and this captivating woman would surely keep life interesting! Despite the obvious sexual attraction between them, Lady Priscilla doesn't wish to marry—ever—for she hides a shameful secret. Surely a duke deserves more than a ruined woman? But once Robert sets his sights on something beautiful, he will do anything in his power to claim it!

Paying the Virgin's Price

Paying the Virgin's Price
Author: Christine Merrill
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426860382

Chaperon Diana Price knew she was teetering on the edge of ruin. Her father had staked his fortune, and her virginity, at the card table—and lost! To the most notorious gamester in town… Nathan Wardale had money, plenty of it, but it was a long time since he'd been considered a gentleman. Still, he never intended to pursue this debt. Until he met Diana Price in the flesh—and began to wonder just how long his honor would hold out…

Dangerous Lord, Innocent Governess

Dangerous Lord, Innocent Governess
Author: Christine Merrill
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373296487

Daphne Collingham is masquerading as a governess in Lord Timothy Colton's home-- determined to discover if he is responsible for her beloved cousin's death. She's prepared to uncover secrets and scandal, but the biggest revelation is the way she feels under the lord's dark gaze.... Lord Colton is suspicious of the alluring new governess--and with the furor surrounding him he must control his passion. But a man has his limits, and the delectable Miss Collingham is pure temptation....

A Weekend at Blenheim

A Weekend at Blenheim
Author: J. P. Morrissey
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429978341

In this enthralling and atmospheric tale of murder, revenge and redemption, a young American struggles to make sense of a world he does not understand, where the price of acceptance may be murder. John Vanbrugh is an outsider in the England of 1905: A determined but unsuccessful American architect, he has moved to London to make a new life for himself and his wife, Margaret. When he receives an unexpected summons to meet the dazzling Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace, he is skeptical. The young duchess, Vanbrugh comes to understand, has her reasons. Like him, she is American-born: Consuelo Vanderbilt, one of the richest debutantes in America. Seemingly on impulse, the duchess hires Vanbrugh to renovate her rooms at Blenheim - a plum job Vanbrugh accepts. He and his wife join the weekend party at Blenheim, a group that includes the foul-tempered duke; his young cousin Winston Churchill; the society painter John Singer Sargent; the duchess' mother and American suffragette Mrs. O.H.P.Belmont; Gladys Deacon, an American friend of the duchess'; and the enigmatic Catholic Monsignor Vay de Vaya. Almost as soon as he begins work at Blenheim, Vanbrugh uncovers a series of unsettling letters that hint at a long-concealed deceit. As he tries to grasp the meaning of this discovery, a sketchbook owned by Sargent is stolen and a young housemaid is found in the courtyard, strangled. It is then that Vanbrugh realizes he is caught in a maze of duplicity and manipulation with no way out. Struggling to uncover the treachery he sees around him, Vanbrugh is forced to re-evaluate everything he thought about Blenheim, himself, even the very nature of truth. Part mystery, part gothic morality tale, A Weekend at Blenheim is a compelling, mesmerizing, deeply satisfying novel.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 13

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 13
Author: Joanne Shattock
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040129323

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.