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I don't want to die, she thought, I just want everything to be different, to get away from it all.Charlotte Comlyn is running away. From a marriage proposal, from her fortune, and from a series of misunderstandings with her parents. Disguised in her brother's clothes, she appears at the London home of her mother's estranged best friend, the actress Beth Prior, whose beauty and talent are exceeded only by her terrible reputation.But Beth is mor...

An intimate portrait of the two sides of the inimitable Jane Austen: the extraordinary public life of England's best loved novelist and the more private world of the woman behind the words.Pulling together the decorous and genteel young woman dedicated to family life and the enigmatic author who shied away from the spotlight, this biography sheds light on the great mind that, with acerbic wit and razor-sharp observation, illuminated women's li...

You may be an adventurer, but you strike me as a gentleman.'After the French suffer a bloody defeat at the battle of Leipzig, the survivors of Napoleon's army retreat through Germany. Plundering and pillaging along their way, a group of stragglers attack the Von Hugel estate. Hiding in the hayloft, Sonia von Hugel witnesses the massacre of her family. Apparently the sole survivor at the castle, Sonia is left desperate and alone.Forced to flee ...

A deception, a scandal, a forbidden passion, a great friendship, and a dangerous love.Christabel

Marriage, " said Miss Tillingdon, "is a very doubtful blessing. At least for a woman."Helen Telfair has sworn never to marry. She turns down countless proposals, but only one she regrets. She is haunted by her connection to the dashing Charles Scroope and her missed opportunity at love.When her dreams of an independent life are dashed by tragedy and brutality, Helen concedes that marriage is now her only option and enters into a loveless arran...

Madly readable." - Sunday TelegraphMarianne wakes with no memory and no idea who she is or where she was going - a name on her brooch the only clue to her identity. Lost, penniless, and convinced she's being followed, she pleads for help at the nearest village and is taken in by a lonely widow at her grand country home, Maulever Hall.An unexpected visit from the widow's aloof son and his soon-to-be-betrothed, Lady Heverdon, leaves Marianne des...

In just one night, all of Amanda's dreams come true. The following day, they all fall apart.A confession of long-held love to a childhood friend should have been the first day of a new life, but when he leaves for India without a word of goodbye, she's left heartbroken and abandoned.Amanda eventually concedes to her widowed mother's pleas that she marry to save their family from poverty and weds the wealthy Lord Meynel. She hopes for contentme...