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Mr. Darcy hopes Christmastime will help him to forget the pair of fine eyes he left behind in Hertfordshire. When Elizabeth Bennet appears unexpectedly in London, Darcy decides to keep his distance, resolved to withstand his attraction to her. But when he learns Wickham is threatening to propose to Elizabeth, Darcy faces a crisis.

Count Anthony of Stratham almost drowned, and that's the second worst thing that happened to him this week. Now dragged into a courtroom battle with the owner of the ship that sank, the 28-year-old Count seizes his chance for a better life by blackmailing his adversary's daughter. All it takes is one invitation; all it takes is one night of passion. But Nerissa isn't ready to be ruined, by the devilishly handsome count or anyone else, and she has more than enough tricks up her sleeve to take on the bankrupt lord.

In a world ruled by faceless, uncaring mega-corporations, Frankie, a young woman who has resisted cybernetics, becomes the victim of a lethal Jacker Gang attack. Shot and left to die in the slums of Neo-London, she is found by a genius cybernetic doctor who is on the run from a powerful Corporation. Seeing an opportunity to finish his latest cybernetic masterpiece, he transplants Frankie's brain into a powerful prosthetic body. Frankie has barely woken up when the Corporation's forces attack and kidnap the doctor, forcing Frankie to go on the run in her new cybernetic body.

Each of these books has spice at its heart and a heart ready to lose, heroes in pain and heroines acting out of the ordinary. There are no ballrooms here.... This collected stories promises hours and hours of steamy hot listening.…

Sir Edmund Northmere doesn't have a family. Not after they disowned him and stripped him of his earldom, leaving him miserable, alone, and without the protection of his name. But when celebrating his five and 20th birthday, he's in for a shock: a woman who plays the cards as well as he does. Which might have been useful, if their mutual kidnappers cared about cards. Locked in a bedroom with no way out and nothing to do but talk, Miss Molly Kimble is determined to ignore him. There's nothing Edmund likes more than a challenge.

A shy beauty in distress: When Guineveve Holland arrives in London, she's full of apprehension. Mrs. Holland has no great affection for her daughter, but she still has grand ambitions. Guin is to be married off for wealth and position. Guin's own hopes are ignored. Stammering, shy and gauche, Guin does not shine in society. Sir Frederick Hawkesworth pities the beleaguered beauty. He has a soft spot for damsels in distress. As the London Season progresses, his interest in Miss Holland becomes far more personal than he ever anticipated.

James, Viscount of Paendly, has had enough of women. Bored with his traditional, constrained life as a Viscount, he is on his way home with nothing but 27 years of life experience to his credit. The one thing he could never have predicted was the entrance of Miss Rowena - known to him as Rebecca - entering the carriage, raging about an elopement gone wrong and desperate to save her reputation.

Beatrix Manning, cousin to the beautiful Lady Cordelia, wants to be a famous novelist. Although she enjoys reading out her silly stories to the Literary Gathering of Dubious Merit, she has secretly been working on a book that she hopes will change her fortunes, but it requires a rewrite due to some unflattering caricatures of the Ton within the pages. Felix Drake, a budding publisher and printer intent on growing his business, is flattered and grateful when an old friend invites him to read to her wealthy friends.

Danny has a new phone and wants to play on it, but his mum sends him upstairs to clear his Great Gran's box room. Danny finds an old photograph of a girl about his age and some small paintings tied in a red ribbon. When he undoes the ribbon, the girl from the photograph appears in the room. Her name is Kitty. She asks him to play a game with the pictures, but he is rude to her, saying he'd rather play on his phone. Kitty is offended and whisks him back to 1886, where the paintings are all real people. The game is that he has to find the person to help him unlock time to get back home.

Caught between her iron-willed father and the powerful, attractive earl. Barbara Cribbage has been sold into marriage by her common-born father in his bid to attain social status. He is forced into marriage. The Earl of Chatworth weds Babs in exchange for mortgages he inherited and his debts of honor, which Mr. Cribbage has fraudulently acquired. She takes a desperate gamble. Babs is not willing to be used as a pawn any longer. Summoning all her courage, Babs strikes a bargain with the formidable earl.

Luke, the marquis of Dewsbury, is a complete rogue. Bested by none and adored by many, he finds himself sent away from town by his embarrassed father where he discovers the young and innocent Miss Adena Garland. At only 18 years old, she becomes his unlikely companion as they become trapped on an island after high tide. The night is long and likely to be cold - but the heat rising between Miss Garland and the marquis of Dewsbury could keep both of them warm.

When Lord David Cardiff stumbles across an abduction, he gallantly saves the lovely heiress. Thea Stafford is grateful, but her zany family takes a different view. Lord Cardiff is kidnapped at gunpoint with Thea Stafford as his unwilling companion. So begins the strangest adventure of the wounded military hero's career. A funny flight into love!

Tragedy and a family feud years ago tore Cassandra Weatherstone and her twin apart. Cassandra exchanges lives with her sister to get to know her grandfather. She’s astonished to discover that Sir Marcus has arranged to betroth his granddaughter to his godson, Philip Raven. The problem is, she's the wrong granddaughter!

Philip Walsingham Sergeant's biography of Barbara from 1912 draws on contemporary writings to tell her story, giving a more vivid and faithful presentation of the spirit of the time. He traces her life from her early girlhood, through her time at Court, her exile, and ending with her involvement in a bigamy trial.

When a local man is brutally murdered in his home library, Kate and Nathan are brought in to find the killer. But this was no ordinary library. Filled with books on the occult, it’s clear that they were after something. Something that was not in the library. Something that they’re willing to kill for. With the clock ticking, Kate and Nathan must find the killers or the item they were after, before they kill again.

It is spring 1916, and Great Britain is at war with Germany. On the home front, stylish lady detective Miss Isabel Hewitt has joined the Women's Emergency Corps. Her duties include driving a military ambulance. But she continues with her detective work. One morning, she is approached by a wealthy young woman Miss Jen-Eva Howard. This lady's fiancé, a journalist by the name of Giles Chichester, has been brutally murdered.

When Frankie’s brain is transplanted into a cybernetic body, she fights back against the system and sparks a revolution against the tyrannical corporations that rule the world.

On the morning of the bell tolls, Cynn Jade wakes to find her world shattered. The baron and his wife, murdered. Hexed by powers she doesn't understand, Cynn is forced to flee all she knows. Hexed by enigmatic powers, she becomes a demon, an outcast shunned by the very world she could save. Changing her name to protect the family line will only go so far as she discovers the true depth of the war she’s fighting.

When you are framed for murder, you only really have one option: emigrating to America. That is the decision that Samuel, the Earl of Kincardine, takes when on his 30th birthday, a suspicious death seems to point to him as the murderer. He needs respectability, and that comes with a wife and wedding ring. The only trouble is, the ship he's aboard only has one single woman aboard: Miss Margaret Berry. Seduction may not come naturally to the Earl, but Samuel is determined. He will enter his new life as a new man - even if Margaret seems to have secrets of her own.

It was a ghastly horror of a house party. Miss Penelope Childe and all the others were awaiting the end of the wicked earl's rotten life. The disinherited son, the new heir, the illegitimate son - all of them are there. Murder is done. The centuries-old curse has struck again. Penelope alone heard the supernatural scream and sees the ghosts that no one else can. Penelope is a reluctant bride-to-be, contracted to wed a man she's never met before. She intensely dislikes her betrothed, the rakish Lord Taredell.