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Handsome. Charming. Utterly untrustworthy. George Wickham — “one of the most worthless young men in Great Britain” — returns in this racy continuation of Pride and Prejudice. From London salons to Ramsgate intrigues, from the scandal of Lydia Bennet to the smoke of Waterloo, Wickham’s charm is matched only by his vices. Anne Harlowe blends Austen’s wit with meticulous historical detail to reveal the man behind the smile — and the trail of broken hearts he leaves behind.

In a world where wealth buys titles, and marriages are forged in contracts, not hearts, one young woman finds herself bartered into a ruinous alliance. Fanny Merchant is sold by her mercenary father to the dissolute son of an impoverished viscount. As her husband gambles away his birthright and pursues every vice, Elizabeth seeks solace in the charms of a rakish lawyer. But love is not so easily bought, and betrayal has its price. From lavish drawing rooms to sordid clinics and deadly duels, their tale unfolds in six vivid scenes—each more damning than the last. Hogarth's engravings are ...

In a world where reputation is currency and gossip is a weapon, no heart—or fortune—is safe. London society sparkles with wit, wealth, and whispers. Behind every closed door lies a secret: Lady Sneerwell's elegant drawing-room is a battlefield of malice; Mrs Candour's good intentions spread more trouble than kindness; and Sir Benjamin Backbite and Crabtree thrive on scandalous invention. Caught in the crossfire are Sir Peter Teazle and his young wife, Lady Teazle, whose marriage teeters between affection and intrigue. Meanwhile, Sir Oliver Surface, returned from abroad, must test the ...

The Mask and the Mistress is based on George Etherege's The Man of Mode. At its heart is Mr Dorimant—a charming libertine whose words are as polished as his manners—and the women who orbit his glittering but treacherous world: clever, vulnerable Mrs. Loveit; the innocent yet bold Belinda; and the spirited Emilia, who dares to love with sincerity in an age of masks and manipulation. Will virtue triumph over vanity? Or will style prove the greatest seduction of all?

A novelisation inspired by Hogarth’s paintings and Stravinsky & Auden’s libretto Tom Rakewell is young, handsome, and newly rich—thanks to an unexpected inheritance. But fortune, like love, is fickle. Lured from the modest affections of Anne Trulove into a glittering world of vanity, vice, and illusion, Tom sets off on a headlong pursuit of pleasure. In gaming halls, brothels, and high society salons, he gambles not just money but his very soul. Hogarth's engravings are included in the text, along with the verses for the engravings, written by John Hoadly.

Mr and Mrs Darcy have two daughters, the beautiful and talented Emily, and the plain but sensible Catherine. Both are heiresses and are vulnerable to fortune-hunters, but in their eagerness to protect them, Mr and Mrs Darcy have forgotten the lessons that they learned in their own courtship: that pride comes before a fall, and that love conquers all. Things come to a head when Emily declares that she has fallen in love with a poor, struggling artist.

M. et Mme Darcy ont deux filles, la belle et talentueuse Emily, et la simple mais sensée Catherine. Toutes deux sont héritières et sont vulnérables aux chercheurs de fortune, mais dans leur empressement à les protéger, M. et Mme Darcy ont oublié les leçons qu'ils ont apprises lors de leur propre cour. : que l'orgueil vient avant la chute et que l'amour triomphe de tout. Les choses atteignent leur paroxysme lorsque Emily déclare qu'elle est tombée amoureuse d'un artiste pauvre et en difficulté.

Darcy is beginning to fall in love with Elizabeth when he meets the perfect romantic heroine, Emily St. Aubert: she is fluent in several languages, she is widely read, she can sing like a nightingale, and on top of all this she is a creature of Angelic beauty – how can Elizabeth compete with all this?

Has Emily married a vampire? Not quite—but he certainly looks the part. When Lord Lacy’s daughter is pushed into marrying the ageing Lord Dalrymple, she dutifully travels to his remote Northumberland home. But Crookhill Abbey is no stately manor—it’s a crumbling gothic ruin filled with shadows, secrets, and a husband who seems more vampire than man. Emily soon realizes her new life may be far more terrifying than she ever imagined…

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), wrote a poem entitled Roxana, or, the Drawing-Room which consists of a series of sharp, satirical portraits of fashionable society—scenes of flirtation, rivalry, vanity, and quiet despair. This novelisation reimagines those scenes as a continuous story. In it, Lady Roxanaemerges as a woman of ambition, wit, and vulnerability. Her journey from drawing room to church pew traces a week of masks dropped and truths revealed.

A dazzling game of wit, love, and disguise in an 18th century play reimagined for readers of romantic historical fiction. Letitia Hardy has the fortune, the spirit, and the fiancé — but not the passion she desires. When her intended, the fashionable Doricourt, returns from Europe indifferent and unenchanted, Letitia refuses to be dismissed as merely "agreeable." With a mask, a plan, and the boldness only love can summon, she sets out to win not just his hand, but his heart. Set against the glittering backdrop of Georgian London, The Belle's Stratagem unfolds in a world of salons, ...

I love your fifty thousand pounds, It makes your lank and straggly hair Look beautiful, and your large dowry Makes even your flat chest seem fair. —John Willoughby, Ode to Miss Grey (first draft) Take a peep behind the boudoir curtains of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; find out what happened when Willoughby seduced Brandon's ward, Eliza; what happened to Colonel Brandon when he was stationed in the exotic East, how far Marianne allowed Willoughby to go when they visited Allenham together, and how he ditched her in favour of Miss Grey's fifty thousand pounds.

Darcy devotees, beware! These tales delight in the gothic rather than the romantic side of Austen—more Northanger Abbey than Pride and Prejudice. In the spirit of Austen’s youthful burlesques, they gleefully recast Fitzwilliam Darcy in outlandish, macabre adventures. In this collection you will read about: Darcy as Vampire, Darcy as Frankenstein’s Finest Creation, Piers d’Arcy and Beelzebub, The Pemberley Vampire, and many more Gothick horrors. The collection closes with a thoughtful essay on the character of Fitzwilliam Darcy—just to prove that the author truly knows (and loves) ...

Lord Lacy thinks poetry will win him love. It doesn’t. First, a society beauty laughs at his verse. Then the penniless curate’s daughter he truly loves is driven away by his pride—and his endless rhyming. When she finally agrees to marry him, she discovers his mistress is his muse. Now Lacy must choose between the poems he lives for and the woman he can’t live without.

Captain Cardew prefers balls at regional assemblies and small country houses because there he can meet the daughters of the lower class of gentry, who are impressed by his uniform and his rank, and are easily seduced. At one of these balls, at Hawtry Hall, he meets Millicent, a doctor’s daughter, and Hannah, a clergyman’s daughter, and seduces them both, one after the other. But, as he has found before, it is much easier to get into these affairs than to get out of them. WARNING! Hot! Contains numerous sizzling sex scenes!

When spirited young Gerty takes a job as a between maid at Crookhill Hall, she finds herself caught between two worlds. From dusty back stairs she glimpses the glittering lives of the aristocracy—never more dazzling than on the night of a grand ball. In comparison, her sweetheart, Tom, is a poor "trapper" in a coal mine, though he is studying at night school and hopes to better himself. Gerty encourages him but still dreams of balls and ballgowns. Her chance comes unexpectedly when the charming and wealthy Horace Egerton offers to reward her for saving his life after a bad fall. Gerty ...

Everything is going wrong for the Duke of Wharfedale: his wife his having an affair, a highwayman is haunting his domains, and Dalesman Dalton is opposing his plans for the new almshouse. Everything is going wrong for Dolly, too. Her father is insisting she marries sickleworker Fred Figget - and if that is not bad enough, she gets held up by the highwayman when she is delivering her father's churns to market. Matters come to a head when the duke's wife elopes with her lover, and Dolly finds the highwayman, badly wounded, in her aunt's barn. WARNING: Hot! Contains numerous sizzling sex scenes!

Sous la surface distinguée du monde de Jane Austen se cache un courant sous-jacent de désir. Cette version provocante lève le rideau du boudoir pour révéler ce qui s'est vraiment passé pendant les années mystérieuses du Colonel Brandon en Orient, les circonstances scandaleuses de la séduction de la jeune Eliza par Willoughby, et jusqu'où Marianne a laissé les choses aller à Allenham.

Darcy commence à tomber amoureux d'Elizabeth lorsqu'il rencontre l'héroïne romantique parfaite, Emily St. Aubert : elle parle couramment plusieurs langues, elle est très cultivée, elle peut chanter comme un rossignol, et en plus de tout cela, c'est une créature d'une beauté angélique - comment Elizabeth peut-elle rivaliser avec tout cela ?