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Book Synopsis A Scandalous Portrait by : Callie Hutton
Download or read book A Scandalous Portrait written by Callie Hutton and published by Callie Hutton LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is 100% created by the author. No AI was used. He took one look at the painting and all the air in the room disappeared. . . The Earl of Huntington (Hunt) is a silent partner in a successful gambling hell run by his two brothers. A well-respected member of the ton, he moves about in Society as an unknown agent for the Crown on its most sensitive matters. Lady Diana is a long-time friend of Hunt's with the ability to embroil herself in difficult matters that require his assistance. Once again she needs his help, but this situation could be a major scandal if discovered. Against his better judgment, Hunt agrees to her scheme, but this time the circumstances cause him to view the woman he’d always considered just a friend in a different way. The passion and desire that sparks between them must be squelched since she would never do as his Countess. Scandal follows her every move...
Book Synopsis In Pursuit of a Scandalous Lady by : Gayle Callen
Download or read book In Pursuit of a Scandalous Lady written by Gayle Callen and published by Avon. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entranced by a portrait, haunted by scandal, he would stop at nothing to learn the truth . . . even if it led to their utter ruin.
Book Synopsis Portrait of a Scandal by : Annie Burrows
Download or read book Portrait of a Scandal written by Annie Burrows and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her heart and hope long since shattered, Amethyst Dalby is content with her life as an independent woman. With wealth of her own, and no one to answer to, she is free to live as she pleases.
Book Synopsis A Scandalous Portrait (Rose Room Rogues, Book One) by : Callie Hutton
Download or read book A Scandalous Portrait (Rose Room Rogues, Book One) written by Callie Hutton and published by Callie Hutton LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earl of Huntington (Hunt) is a silent partner in a successful gambling hell run by his two brothers. A well-respected member of the ton, he moves about in Society as an unknown agent for the Crown on its most sensitive matters. Lady Diana is a long-time friend of Hunt's with the ability to embroil herself in difficult matters that require his assistance. Once again she needs his help, but this situation could be a major scandal if discovered. Against his better judgment, Hunt agrees to her scheme, but this time the circumstances cause him to see the woman he’d always considered just a friend in a different way. The strong attraction he feels must be squelched since she would never do as his Countess. Scandal follows her every move.
Book Synopsis The Borgia Portrait by : David Hewson
Download or read book The Borgia Portrait written by David Hewson and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson. When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess the journey he is about to embark on. Lizzie's mother, an Italian countess, disappeared thirty years ago, presumed dead. Her father, a famous, some say infamous, music promoter, has just died and now the family home Ca' Scacchi, a leaning palazzo in Dorsoduro, has fallen to her. When her mother vanished so too did a priceless painting, supposedly an erotic portrait of Lucrezia Borgia, which has captivated men for generations. When a body is discovered in a hidden crypt beneath the checkerboard courtyard of the palazzo, other secrets are unearthed with it. Lying with the body is a document, a story of an episode in Casanova's colourful life, and within it a set of clues that might lead to the location of the painting. But it quickly becomes apparent that Lizzie and Arnold are not the only ones interested in finding the painting. The search for the lost Lucrezia quickly becomes a race through the secret history of Venice, one with potentially deadly consequences.
Book Synopsis To Love a Scandalous Duke by : Liana De la Rosa
Download or read book To Love a Scandalous Duke written by Liana De la Rosa and published by Entangled: Select Historical. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family scandal drove Declan Sinclair into exile years ago. Now he’s been summoned home, only to find the devastating news that his brother’s been murdered. Now Declan is the new Duke of Darington, and he’s determined to unravel the truth behind his brother’s untimely demise. But just as Declan narrows in on his suspect—the same cur responsible for his own exile—he encounters a very comely complication...Lady Alethea Swinton. Alethea Swinton has cultivated her pristine reputation in the hopes of winning her father’s praise. Yet with Declan’s return, Alethea finds she’s willing to court scandal and defy her father to help the handsome new duke uncover the truth behind his brother’s death. But Declan’s redemption would mean her family’s ruin... Each book in the Once Upon A Scandal series is STANDALONE: * To Love a Scandalous Duke * To Resist a Scandalous Rogue * To Tame a Scandalous Lady * To Tempt a Scandalous Lord
Book Synopsis Rose Room Rogues Boxed Set by : Callie Hutton
Download or read book Rose Room Rogues Boxed Set written by Callie Hutton and published by Callie Hutton LLC. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SCANDALOUS PORTRAIT He took one look at the painting and all the air in the room disappeared. . . The Earl of Huntington (Hunt) is a silent partner in a successful gambling hell run by his two brothers. A well-respected member of the ton, he moves about in Society as an unknown agent for the Crown on its most sensitive matters. Lady Diana is a long-time friend of Hunt's with the ability to embroil herself in difficult matters that require his assistance. Once again she needs his help, but this situation could be a major scandal if discovered. Against his better judgment, Hunt agrees to her scheme, but this time the circumstances cause him to view the woman he’d always considered just a friend in a different way. The passion and desire that sparks between them must be squelched since she would never do as his Countess. Scandal follows her every move... A LADY'S TRUST Can he trust his instincts, or is she playing him for a fool? Driscoll Rose and his two brothers own and run The Rose Room, a well-known and profitable gaming club in London. Unknown to those who visit and spend their money there, the brothers also work for the Crown in positions only known to a mysterious man at the Home Office. Miss Amelia Pence is on the run from her step-brother who has nefarious plans for her. Late one rainy night she crawls into Driscoll’s office window and falls at his feet. Intrigued by the woman, he offers her a job as the only female dealer in the Rose Room. Much to Driscoll's frustration, Amelia is secretive about who she is, and where she lives since she can trust no one. The growing attraction between them and his desire for her is causing him to dismiss the fact that crowds of gamblers swarm her table each evening, but the profits she turns in are not what they should be. Can Driscoll convince Amelia to trust him with her secrets or will he discover a deception that contradicts everything he believes in his heart about heart? Just when he decides to confront her, she disappears. . . AN INCONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT Enemies to Lovers He's a rake and a rogue, owns a gambling club and works occasional assignments for the Crown. She's a language genius with a strong dislike for rakes, gambling, and other nefarious pursuits. When they are paired on an assignment animosity turns to passion. But is passion enough when danger comes to call? A ROSE FOR LAURA A tug of war over a house they each want. One will win, but will they both lose their hearts? Keniel Singh is a bi-racial by-blow of the former Earl of Huntington, unknown to his three brothers, owners of the well-known Rose Room gaming house in London. Raised in Jamaica, Keniel learns of his British heritage on his mother's death bed and sets out to find his family. Miss Laura Benson is an almost spinster who champions children on the London streets. She’s in need of a new home to lease for an orphanage she manages. She finds the perfect house, but Mr. Singh is also viewing the property and he plans to purchase it. When he ends up the owner, he offers to help Laura find a property for her orphans. As the attraction grows between the two while they spend time together searching for a suitable home, Keniel holds back, concerned his heritage would cause problems for Laura among her peers. Raised in a more tolerant home, Laura dismisses his issue and is more troubled by Keniel's tie to the sort of business that is patronized by the very men who create the orphans she loves. Will their differences keep them apart?
Book Synopsis How to Enjoy A Scandal by : Adrienne Basso
Download or read book How to Enjoy A Scandal written by Adrienne Basso and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posing as his twin brother to investigate improprieties at one of the family estates, Jason Barrington, a reformed rogue, finds himself drawn to the scandalous Gwendolyn Ellingham, whose sisters are caught up in the viscount's intrigues.
Book Synopsis Love and Depth in the American Novel by : Ashley C. Barnes
Download or read book Love and Depth in the American Novel written by Ashley C. Barnes and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think about the American love story and how we imagine the love of literature. By examining classics of nineteenth-century American literature, Ashley Barnes offers a new approach to literary theory that encompasses both New Historicism and the ethical turn in literary studies. Couples like Huck and Jim and Ishmael and Queequeg have grounded the classic account of the American novel as exceptionally gothic and antisocial. Barnes argues instead for a model of shared intimacy that connects the evangelical sentimental best seller to the high art of psychological realism. In her reading of works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Elizabeth Stoddard, Henry James, and others in the context of nineteenth-century Protestant-Catholic debates about how to know and love God, what emerges is an alternate tradition of the American love story that pictures intimacy as communion rather than revelation. Barnes uses that unacknowledged love story to propose a model of literary critical intimacy that depends on reading fiction in its historical context.
Book Synopsis A Scandal at Midnight by : Annie Burrows
Download or read book A Scandal at Midnight written by Annie Burrows and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reluctant debutante to scandalous bride! After a disastrous first Season, Lady Daisy Patterdale is relieved to be back home with her books. Looking for peace, she rows out to the island on the lake where she encounters Captain Lord Benjamin Bramhall — who’s been tricked and left there with no clothes! It’s a scandalous encounter which rushes them straight to the altar… But, despite her unwillingness to wed, Daisy’s drawn to charismatic Benjamin. If only he felt more for her than duty… Mills & Boon Historical — Your romantic escape to the past.
Book Synopsis Flights of Love by : Bernhard Schlink
Download or read book Flights of Love written by Bernhard Schlink and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters–men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception–are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. A young boy’s fascination with an eerily erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family’s secrets. The friendship between a West Berliner and an idealistic young couple from the East founders amid the prosperity and revelations that follow the collapse of communism. An acrobatic philanderer (one wife and two mistresses, all apparently quite happy) begins to crack under the weight of his abundance. By turns brooding and comic, and filled with the suspense that comes from the inexorable unfolding of character, Flights of Love is nothing less than masterful
Download or read book The Jazz Club Spy written by Roberta Rich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the “riveting” (Chicago Tribune) The Midwife of Venice, a fresh and sweeping historical novel following a Jewish woman attempting to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II. New York City, 1939: At the height of the Great Depression, a time when President Roosevelt is trying to keep America out of World War II, Giddy Brodsky is lucky to have a job as a cigarette girl at a Manhattan jazz club. Nevertheless, she dreams of establishing a cosmetics business and leaving the poverty-stricken Lower East Side tenements behind. She has lived there with her family ever since they fled Russia, forced to emigrate after a group of Cossacks burned down their village, and her memories continue to haunt her. Giddy tries to focus on the future until, during an evening streetcar ride, she thinks she recognizes one of the Cossacks who changed her life forever. Determined to get answers, she enlists the help of Carter van der Zalm, the Chief Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, who is hunting the same man. He suspects the Russian is involved in an assassination plot that will destroy American and Soviet relations, and he enlists Giddy to moonlight as a spy for him. But when she finally tracks down the man they’re both seeking, she finds herself in the middle of a shocking political conspiracy that changes everything she once held true. In the tradition of Lara Prescott’s The Secrets We Kept and Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code, The Jazz Club Spy is a glittering and gritty look at pre-WWII America, and the personal battle one woman wages between justice and forgiveness.
Download or read book Scandalous written by Minerva Spencer and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Have you no decency?” Straight-laced missionary Sarah Fisher has never met a man like Captain Martin Bouchard. He is the most beautiful person—male or female—she’s ever seen. Overwhelmingly masculine, elegantly attired despite months at sea, he is in complete command of everyone and everything around him: everyone, that is, except Sarah. But that’s about to change because Sarah has bought Bouchard’s mercy with the only thing she has to sell: her body. “None at all . . .” In spite of her outrageous offer, Martin has no doubt Sarah is a virgin, and a most delectable one at that. But instead of bedding her, he finds himself staring down the muzzle of his own pistol. Clearly, the longer she stays on his ship, the greater the chances that she’ll end up its damned captain! Most infuriating of all, she looks past his perfect exterior to the wounded man inside. Can Martin outrun his scandalous past in time to have a future with the first woman to find and capture his heart? Praise for The Outcasts series “Fans of Amanda Quick’s early historicals will find much to savor.” —Booklist (Starred Review) “Wicked repartee, savvy wit, and energetic libidos.” —Publishers Weekly “A remarkably resourceful heroine who can more than hold her own against any character invented by bestselling Bertrice Small . . . deliciously fun retro flavor.” —Booklist (Starred Review) “Sexy and wildly entertaining.” —Bookpage “Spencer shines . . . an author to watch.” —Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis Prelude to a Scandal by : Delilah Marvelle
Download or read book Prelude to a Scandal written by Delilah Marvelle and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Justine is willing to trade her good name, her reputation and her place in London's gossip-hungry ton to secure her father's release from prison. But when the notorious Duke of Bradford counters her offer with a proposal of marriage, the stakes grow higher still. For while the smoldering lord is famous for his conquests, the man is oblivious to both her devotion and her charms. And Justine is soon afraid she has wagered all for naught….
Book Synopsis The Library of Light and Shadow by : M. J. Rose
Download or read book The Library of Light and Shadow written by M. J. Rose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sought by society patrons who admire her ability to create stunning "shadow portraits" revealing her subjects' most scandalous secrets, a mystical artist in 1925 Manhattan renounces her gift in the wake of a tragedy and flees to southern France.
Book Synopsis Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by : Donna M. Lucey
Download or read book Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas written by Donna M. Lucey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
Book Synopsis Harlequin Romance September 2015 Box Set by : Michelle Douglas
Download or read book Harlequin Romance September 2015 Box Set written by Michelle Douglas and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Romance brings you four new titles for one great price,available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin®Romance box set includes: REUNITED BY A BABY SECRET (The Vineyards of Calanetti) MichelleDouglas After a vacation in paradise, Marianna Amatucci returns to Calanettiwith a very unexpected souvenir…she's pregnant! When she tracks downdad-to-be Ryan, he's nothing like the laid-back surfer she met on thebeach. What will walking into his high-flying corporate world mean fortheir baby…? A WEDDING FOR THE GREEK TYCOON (Greek Billionaires) Rebecca Winters Millionaire Vasso Giannopolous has kept his heart on lockdown aftersuffering the ultimate betrayal. But spending time with the beautifuland courageous Zoe reminds him that some things are worth riskingeverything for…especially walking down the aisle! BEAUTY & HER BILLIONAIRE BOSS (In Love with the Boss) Barbara Wallace Gradually losing his sight, Frederic keeps everyone at arm's length.But as trainee chef Piper brings laughter and light back into hisheart, she also opens his eyes to what life could be like…together.Can Piper convince Frederic that she is the missing ingredient to hishappily-ever-after? NEWBORN ON HER DOORSTEP Ellie Darkins When executive Nic Johnson and a newborn baby arrive on Lily Baker'sdoorstep, it seems she might finally have the family she's alwaysdreamed of! Nic isn't quite ready to let anyone into his guardedheart…until one magical, heart-stopping kiss with Lily makes himwonder how he'll ever let her go! Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Romance!
