Lauren Smith (magánkiadás) strana 4 z 4

She’s an heiress who needs a husband fast…he’s the brooding, handsome footmen who comes to her rescue…Lady Venetia Dunham has plenty of money and freedom, until her father dies, leaving her and her feisty grandmother at the hands of her less than noble cousin when he becomes the new earl. Her cousin makes his wishes clear. She will marry a man of his choosing, a man who will split her fortune with her cousin.Determined to avoid that fate, Venetia and her grandmother flee to a country house party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devon where Venetia stumbles into the arms of Adrian Montague, a handsome footman with a tragic past.When Venetia sprains her ankle, she and Adrian are closeted together for a week. The attraction between them is undeniable and forbidden. Their passion could wreck Adrian’s life if they were discovered together. When love blooms between them, it comes at a great cost, and Venetia must choose to follow society’s laws or her own heart.

A duke with a broken heart discovers he has one last chance to win back the woman he loves on Christmas Eve…Nathan Powell, the Duke of Hastings broke the heart of the only woman he ever loved when he ended their engagement in order to save her family. He demanded one promise of her…that she marry another man and live a happy life. Now he’s desperate to avoid marriage to someone else at all costs. When his younger brother tricks him into attending a Christmas Ball, he discovers his beloved Thea will be there.Thea Swann has plenty of problems, with six unmarried younger sisters to keep in line, she doesn’t worry that she’ll run into the reclusive duke that stole her heart eight years ago. But when she comes face to face with Nathan, and he begs her for just one dance…she wonders, will he steal one last dance, one last kiss before walking away forever and taking her broken heart with him?

A pair of alpha Irish vampires holiday is disrupted when they rescue a young woman who makes them believe in love again…From their earliest days as young Irish vampires, Ian and Connor have shared everything, including women. What they won’t share is their hearts. At least until a cold night brings them a chance to nurse back to health more than stray kittens.Connor swore never to let another mortal woman pay the price for loving him and Ian. He won’t risk more than a single night’s lustful conquest. That is until he sees…and kisses Zoey. With a heart of gold and a stubbornness to rival his own, she’s just the sort of woman to make him break his vow to keep his darkest desires restrained.Ian didn’t ask for a holiday surprise, but he’s finally met the one person that makes Connor willing to take a chance again. And not just to make her their lustful plaything. This time, Ian sees a chance for love. He doesn’t realize that for Zoey, that’s the problem. She’s lost enough people over the years, and so have they.But one bite sparks lust between the three of them that demands to be satisfied. Soon they’re caught in a holiday menage of historic proportions, one that will test their desire for the promise of forever.Warning: This book contains two scorching-hot Irish vampires, one lady with plenty of pluck but zero luck, naughty lingerie, and enough Christmas cheer to redeem even the darkest creatures.

Sedurre un’ereditiera non e mai stato piu facile…L’aitante Oliver, visconte Conway, ha un bisogno disperato di denaro per salvare la tenuta della sua famiglia dai debiti, e sa esattamente come fare: deve sposare un’ereditiera. Quando mette piede su un treno in partenza per Londra, si imbatte in Rayne, la donna piu incantevole che abbia mai conosciuto e, guarda un po’ la fortuna, un’ereditiera americana. La donna giura di non volersi sposare, men che meno con un cacciatore di dote. Oliver deve conquistarla a qualunque costo, anche se cio significa compromettere la signora su un treno e rubarle il cuore.Evitare i cacciatori di dote non e mai stato piu difficile…Rayne Egerton e lieta di fuggire dalle sale da ballo di New York per viaggiare con suo padre in Inghilterra, dove lui ha degli affari di cui occuparsi. Quella che avrebbe dovuto essere una piacevole vacanza natalizia e scombinata da un momento di passione inattesa quando uno sconosciuto nella cabina accanto alla sua le ruba un bacio rovente. Il misterioso lord Conway e tutto cio che Rayne desidera e teme in un uomo, col suo aspetto peccaminosamente attraente, il sorriso malizioso e il baciare devastante. In quanto erede della fortuna di suo padre, Rayne non ha intenzione di rinunciare alla sua liberta per un uomo, a meno che questi non sia in grado di amarla anche senza il suo denaro. Mentre il treno attraversa la campagna innevata inglese, Rayne comincia a chiedersi se Oliver non sia il dono natalizio in cui aveva segretamente sperato.

A long lost princess…a forbidden love with a royal guard…a prince who will do anything to be with the woman he loves…Royals have the best secrets. Virginia moved on from her royal life in Caledonia and all its painful memories a long time ago. Or at least she thought she did.For High Prince Darius, those memories aren’t so far buried. Determined to fulfill his father’s request to marry Virginia, Darius and his best friend and loyal bodyguard, Dorin, track down the long lost princess. But she won’t come willingly, so it's time for a bit of a princely persuasion.They’ve only got one night to remind her of all she’s left behind. One night to entertain her dark desires and convince her to take her rightful place at their sides. Captured by a Prince is a standalone dark, sexy, forbidden MMF royalty romance. If you like alpha males and menage, you’ll love these three.  *Note this a short story of 6,000 words with a happy ending.

Danger makes the heart grow fonder… Miss Philippa Wilson makes the best of a bad situation. Her lot in life isn’t what she’d choose, but being an upstairs maid for a wealthy baron is better than living on the streets. Little does she know her lackluster days are about to become decidedly more interesting…and dangerous. When a madman wants Philippa dead, it’s going to take more than the plan of her good-hearted employer to save her and find out why she’s being targeted. It’s going to take a hero…or maybe a rogue. Beauregard Boudreaux is a notorious rogue, living uneventful days and terribly scandalous nights with little thought to settling down. He needs nothing more than a strong drink, a beautiful mistress, and a spirited card game to be happy…When he intervenes to rescue a friend’s upstairs maid from a killer, he’s drawn into a game of cat and mouse with the maid used as bait to draw out the killer. But the more time Beau spends with Philippa as her protector, the more he has an irresistible attraction to this mysterious woman. He also can’t shake the feeling that he’s seen her somewhere before. But Beau has lost too much in life to risk being hurt again. He can’t let himself fall in love, not even with the temptation Philippa presents to him.  And bloody hell, she is oh-so tempting…

When English naval officer Nicholas Flynn is sent on a mission to learn the whereabouts of an infamous pirate, he falls for a mysterious young woman posing as a pirate. As forbidden passion ignites he learns the dangerous truth of who she really is and it might cost him his life to save her.

A lady’s guide to surviving aboard a pirate ship:  -  Dress as a cabin boy.  -  Avoid drinking too much rum when the handsome captain is around.  -  Do not let the captain kiss you…again.   The last thing Roberta Harcourt needs is to be trapped on a ship with pirates. After she is separated from her father when their ship is attacked, Roberta finds herself the unwilling guest of sinfully handsome Captain Dominic Grey. He gives her two choices: to share his bed and maintain her life as a lady, or she can sleep on the floor of his cabin and live the life of a cabin boy until he decides to set her free. Refusing to be seduced by a pirate, she dresses in breeches and assumes duties on board his ship among the men, but each night, sharing a cabin with the brooding, seductively intense captain, she begins to wonder if letting him kiss her again might be a rule worth breaking…   Dominic lost his innocence long ago when he was kidnapped and sold into indentured servitude in the West Indies. Determined to leave the painful memories of his past behind, he looks only to the future and the next prize he and his crew can capture on the high seas…until he discovers and captures the feisty daughter of a naval admiral. Protecting her from other pirates and preventing her marriage to an English officer is all in a day’s work for a pirate. But Dominic is determined to play the gentleman he once was born to be. He tries to resist the siren’s call of her sweet lips, especially when she’s arguing with him. But damned if the woman wasn’t meant to be a pirate because she’s stealing his heart…

Fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series and Johanna Lindsey Malory series will love this wild and adventurous Regency romance series full of passion and intrigue!Wicked Designs–The League of Rogues Book 1A feisty young debutante is kidnapped by a brooding duke with bewitching green eyes and his league of roguish friends in revenge for her uncle's financial scheming against the duke. His Wicked Seduction–The League of Rogues Book 2A young woman embraces the Christmas spirit and decides once and for all to seduce the man she's loved all her life, her brother's best friend, an infamous member of the League of Rogues.Her Wicked Proposal–The League of Rogues Book 3An heiress desperate to escape fortune hunters after her father's death, proposes to the one man she can trust, the recently blinded golden boy of the ton, and a member of the League of Rogues.