"Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman...

"Wealthy, orphaned Lady Lydia Eastlake reigns over Regency England as the town's most celebrated beauty. But she must face losing the only life she's ever known when her fortune suddenly disappears-and the only solution is to find a wealthy husband. Enter Captain Ned Lockton, a rich and dashing war hero who sends Lydia's pulse racing. Little does she know that the enigmatic captain's family estate is secretly on the selling block--and he's on the...

"T. Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American financier, loves every cent of his twenty million dollars. Lady Vera Mace loves T. Paterson Frisby whose secretary, Berry Conway, loves Frisby's niece, Ann Moon. Meanwhile, Lady Vera's nephew, 'Biscuit' Biskerton, begins by loving Frisby's niece but ends by loving Frisby's niece's friend, Kitchie Valentine. At the story's conclusion everyone is happy-- except, of course, Captain Kelly and Mr. Hoke-- but...

Best friends and blood sisters for life Melonee and Fiona have one goal in life; to get rich and live comfortably. But growing up in the inner city of Los Angeles, CA wasn't helping in obtaining that goal. That is, until Fiona comes up with the plan to marry for money and murder for even more. The girls seek out older, established, and wealthy bachelors, drawing them into their web of deception with their good looks, sexy bodies, and loving personalities....

"Gus Hollister owes all his success to his feisty grandmother, Rose, and her two sisters, Iris and Violet. They raised him, sent him to the best schools, and helped him start his own accounting business. Rose even bought the house Gus lives in with his wife, Elaine. Now, Gus stands to lose everything--his home, his car, and his business. Worse, he's alienated his beloved grandma, who tried to warn him about Elaine's greedy ways. Heartsick and remorseful,...

Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, chose a hiking trip rather than the comforting presence of Lored Peter Wimsey as a remedy, until, on an empty beach, on a lonely rock, she saw a clump of seaweed which turned out t obe the body of a bearded young man, with his throat cut. Apparently his death was recent. Unable to move the body by herself, Harriet (detective story writer that she was) photographed the corpse and...

A comedy on a gigolo. He is Dennis Racine, 31, who must outwit a younger rival for the affection of his sugar daddy, Farleigh Nock, 63, a Chicago theater producer. Racine conspires with Christos, now the cook but originally the gigolo Racine displaced, to take Nock to Greece, away from the rival's influence.

PORTRAIT IN SMOKE: a collections agent becomes obsessed with a status-climbing woman who always seems to be just out of his reach. THE LONGEST SECOND: Victor Pacific wakes with a cut throat and no memories--but his enemies certainly remember him.

Una comedia romántica de Regencia entre Bridgerton y Orgullo y prejuicio.Una historia adictiva, divertidísima y con unos protagonistas inolvidables. La cacería está a punto de comenzar... y no hay ni un minuto que perder. Kitty Talbot necesita una fortuna. O, mejor dicho, necesita a un hombre que tenga una. Al fin y al cabo, esto es 1818 y solo los varones cuentan con el privilegio de obtener su propia riqueza.Con apenas doce semanas para que...