The events of one horrible night left Lady Abigail Langdon prisoner to a secret. A secret that would change the rest of her life. Something so important that protecting it would prevent her from loving a man she wasn't sure she could live without. Ethan Cambridge, second son of the late Earl of Burnhaven, left his Caribbean hideout-the home of his heart-to try and salvage the mess his brother had made of the family's estate. Just stepping onto English soil put his life at risk, but once he met the reclusive Lady Abigail Langdon, the only home he wanted was at her side. Except, he knew she was harboring a secret that prevented her from giving him her heart.
Gideon Waverley, heir to the Duke of Townsend, had everything a young man could need a promising future, a title, charming good looks, great friends, and a family who adored him. Until his body turned him into a monster. He had no choice but to separate himself from the world, to hide his monstrous self from society, to cast away his future. But the brilliant and beautiful Eve Cornwell refused to believe he could not be saved, even as she refused to guard her heart. And all the while she knew she couldn't keep him once she'd loved him back into the light.
Lady Winnifred Waverley, daughter of the Duke of Townsend, walked the fringes of Society harboring a horrible secret. A secret so damning that it would shatter her entire family and destroy any chance for her younger sister Anne to find a love match. When the blackmail notes arrived on her doorstep, Lady Winnifred had no choice but to go time and again to The Soiled Dove, a secret gambling hell, where she won...and won...and won. Her brilliance at the gaming tables provided the only way she could gather funds to pay her blackmailers. But in so doing, she played into the hands of The Dove's unscrupulous owners. Now there was only one man who could save her from ruination at their hands. One man who guessed her secret. One man who stirred her frozen heart. One man who nearly died in her place. Nick Stillman knew he was right. Lady Winnifred was harboring a killer everyone thought was dead. But he couldn't prove it. Not without getting closer to the woman. If he could manage that, he could bring a fugitive to justice and free Lady Winnifred from her desperate need for funds. If he could manage that, Winnie would no longer feel the need to risk her virtue by gambling at The Soiled Dove. If he could manage that, he might have a chance at thawing the icy resolve of the lady who had stolen his heart.
BENJAMIN WAVERLEY, second son of the Duke of Townsend, knew he'd never marry. How could he? The moment some unsuspecting female took his name, the world might find out the despicable secret his family had been keeping and he'd be ruined. As far as he was concerned, his lot was cast. He would play the rake and that would be that. Until his father forced his hand in a marriage he knew would destroy not only him but his brilliant and beautiful bride. LADY RACHAEL NEWTON, daughter of the Earl of Kendrick, refused Benjamin Waverley's proposal not once but twice. He'd never have offered for her hand if he'd known the secret she kept from the entire world. Even her parents didn't know. Her weakness had ruined her once, but if her greater secret were found out her entire family would themselves suffer ruin. She wouldn't have it. But then, the matter wasn't hers to decide.
1494 Scotland Mairi MacBride had one desire-to escape to a convent and hide her gift from the world that would rather see her dead than exercising her second sight. It wasn't as if she could see events that would happen in the future. Her gift was much simpler than that. With a look or a touch, she could detect evil intent and deception. And for that, even her father wanted her dead. When Ian MacAlister is found mortally wounded near her hideaway, Mairi and her guardian tend his injuries and nurse him back to health. Blinded by his wounds, the laird of the clan MacAlister doesn't know he is being tended by the very woman he's been sent to find. Once his vision is restored, Ian takes Mairi into his life, introduces her to a world that accepts her as the laird's wife, a world vastly different from the isolation her father had forced upon her from the day she was born. She loves and is loved, cherishes each day as mistress of the keep. Each day, that is, until the laird's jealous brother discovers the one thing she's been hiding. Her gift.
Romance, deception, murder. Laura Landon's Victorian romance will bind you to the page as Jackson Rafferty crafts his revenge. Join readers who devour over one million pages of Laura Landon books each month as they linger in the pages of her great love stories.
Attraction. Conflict. Resisistance. Surrender. Each of the four books in Laura Landon's 2020 Victorian series are collected here in one great read. Together they joyfully prove that love can thrive in any season. Book One: Winter's Cold Heart Only a poisonous rumor stands between them. Can Lydia McDowell ignore an entire village and trust the shamed Doctor Jarvis? Or will doing so come at the cost of her brother's life...and her own frozen heart? Book Two: Spring's Tender Heart She sought escape. He sought seclusion. But an ill-timed near tragedy brings them together. Jonah Mason, Earl of Glassborough, thought he had closed his heart to love. It would have worked, had a beautiful woman not fallen-literally-into his arms. Book Three: Summer's Distant Heart Two wary souls, one tyrannical father, and no way to avoid a deadly clash. Amelia Halloway has lost her sister and gained an infant nephew. She knows she can keep him safe, as long as the child's grandfather never hears of his existence. And it's working, until the babe's uncle, Hunter Montclaire, the new Lord Atherton, arrives on her doorstep-a handsome devil whose father wishes the child dead. He says he's there to save the child. But can she trust him? Book Four: Autumn's Wild Heart She was invisible to him, until her loving betrayal opened his eyes...and his heart. Now can a forced marriage destined for loneliness become a match made in heaven? The tension mounts between Nella and James as the plus-sized wallflower tries to save her dashing bachelor and ends up ruining them both.
He was mesmerized by her composure, her knowledge of household business, to say nothing of her compelling natural beauty. He wanted to know more about her. But one thing he knew already. She was no housekeeper.
Barnaby Linscott spared nothing in his mission to kill or capture one of the most dangerous and predatory villains to threaten the Crown. And he was prepared to die. But the risks took an unacceptable turn when the woman to whom he was losing his heart revealed her intention to kill the man herself. And Lady Millicent Chandler meant to succeed.
Wealthy entrepreneur Blake Edison finds his quest for revenge suddenly thwarted by a beautiful daughter of the ton who not only steals his heart, but nearly ruins them both. Now not even her own entrepreneurial spirit can save them. Or the company they've started that will label her a bluestocking.
Grayson Delaney is a hero you'll never forget. The second son of the Earl of Camden, he knows what it's like to do something so horrific that he can never be forgiven. As penance, he lives up to everyone's low expectations. But when his father tires of his son's wastrel existence, Gray is forced to earn his living by running the brewery his father won in a card game. Now, he must learn everything about the brewery before anyone discovers that he is the new owner, while proving to the woman with whom he's fallen desperately in love that he is nothing like her father. Lady Margaret Bradford has one passion - the brewery that's been in her father's family for generations. But from the moment Grayson Delaney enters her life, she realizes she's not only in danger of losing the brewery that she loves, but also of losing her heart - to a man exactly like her father. Now, she must not only safeguard the brewery from accidents that are getting more deadly by the day, but protect her heart from a man who causes her to lose control of her emotions at every turn. If only he had never kissed her and awakened the passion she was so certain she'd buried.
Lady Amanda Radburn was the most outspoken, opinionated, impertinent, and irritating woman the Duke of Hadleigh had ever met. She delighted in insulting him, and arguing over the most insignificant matters. Yet when helping her was the only way he could restore a world that included a sister he loved but had driven away with his dominating ways, he realized he had stepped into a dark world of danger and intrigue. Now he is in peril of not only losing his own life, but the life of the woman he realizes he has come to love. Regretting his unguarded words that forced her to close her heart to him, he pursues her into a future that has turned dangerously dark.
Captain Austin Landwell lives with nightmares that torture him every day. So, when he's given the chance to redeem himself and make the family he destroyed whole again, nothing will stand in his way except...his love for a woman who has the power to breathe life back into a heart he thought was dead. Sarah Bentley is determined to honor the promise she made her dying mistress--to protect her babe from a man who wants the child dead. But when Captain Landwell discovers her hideaway, her loyalty now becomes strangely divided between the child entrusted to her and the man who has captured her heart. She must make a tortured decision that not only might put the child in danger, but threatens to destroy her heart as well. All that stands between eternal love and two broken hearts is one broken promise.
When ambitious attorney Claire Hewitt is asked to represent the Satoris, one of Philadelphia’s most prominent families, in a lawsuit over the death of their daughter, she is thrust into an opioid nightmare with deadly impact—and not for the first time. Claire’s guilt for not saving her sister, Molly, has not subsided in the twenty years since Molly’s almost certainly opioid-related death. Now, with this new assignment, her guilt comes full circle. Who was really at fault in Molly’s death? And who is at fault now? What begins as a quest for truth becomes infinitely more complicated as Claire struggles to balance her desire for justice with the Satoris’ thirst for revenge. She knows she needs to expose the greed that transforms legal opioid production into illicit fabrications and the neglect that is the breaking point between physicians and their patients. But there are powerful people who will seemingly stop at nothing to prevent these truths from seeing the light of day, and she is sabotaged at every turn. Can she push past the obstacles in her way to build a winning case? Based on true events, Side Effects Are Minimal is about a corrupt pharmaceutical industry, the guilt of physicians prescribing the opioids that kill, and the pain experienced by families who’ve lost loved ones to an epidemic that has brought the United States to its knees.
Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers, and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives, with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships, were caught between disdainful planters and defiant enslaved labourers, as they sought to advance their ambitions. Their history, revealed here in unprecedented detail, illuminates the complex power struggles and interplay of class and race in a volatile slave society.
Falling in love is supposed to be wonderful and magical, but for Lux and Gray, its also a nightmare filled with strict parents, steep punishments, and no hope of happily ever after in sight. That is, until she becomes pregnant, and marriage is the only solution to rectify their sins. But their happiness is short-lived when Gray is drafted into the army. He must leave behind his new wife and unborn child with the possibility of never returning. Some years later, the war ends and Lux has accepted that her husband wont be coming home. Soon, a mysterious stranger with no memory of who he is and who looks oddly like her dead husband enters her life. Blinded by denial and acceptance of Grays death, Lux struggles to see the truth behind the reality they are living in.
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