No woman could tame him . . . He moves with the grace of a predator-savage, dangerous, wild. For Grace Hawthorne, the newly arrived stranger is unlike any man she has ever known. Proud, defiant, mesmerizingly masculine, he flouts convention and refuses to enter into proper society. Is he the real Anthony Maddox, heir to a glittering earldom? Or an arrogant imposter, sworn to claim what doesn't belong to him? Including Grace. Practically engaged...

Cecilia is Fanny Burney's captivating novel of manners, exploring the social complexities of eighteenth-century England as Cecilia Beverly navigates London's high society in search of love and happiness. Young Cecilia is a beautiful and charming heiress who's set to inherit a large fortune from her uncle under one, quite peculiar, condition, whomever she marries must agree to take her surname. Arriving in London, she attempts to find her way through...

A reclusive widow known for her scientific scholarship, Lady Ciara Sheffield is shadowed by rumours that she poisoned her husband. She needs a titled fiancé to quell the slanderous speculations which may send her to the gallows. The scoundrel Lucas Bingham, Earl of Hadley, needs a brilliant scholar to help his elderly uncle decipher the secrets of the mysterious manuscript.

"Ellie's husband Thomas, a retired minister, is suspicious when he receives not one but five letters advising him that he has been bequeathed money by five different people in their wills. He barely knew three of his benefactors, and what could possibly connect him to the other two strangers? Sensing something isn't right, and with Thomas's reputation at stake, Ellie investigates but is soon distracted, not only by the problem of trying to ease Hetty,...

An English lord gambles away his estate and the family is banished to a small cottage. The lord has six daughters and the eldest, Isabella, must court the new owner to restore the family to its proper position. But when the handsome Lord Fitzpatrick arrives Isabella faces a problem, love or duty?

A ROOM WITH A VIEW is a whimsical comedy of manners that owes more to Jane Austen than perhaps any other of his works. HOWARDS END is a classic English novel.superb and wholly cherishable.one that admirers have no trouble reading over and over again.