Jason Sherbooke, el otro gemelo, nada como un pez, y adora tanto a los caballos que quiere dedicarse a su cría. Vive al momento, arriesgándose en mil y una aventura, libre como el viento y sin que nadie le ponga límites.Aunque vive amargado por los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar cinco años atrás, no puede perdonarse haber puesto en peligro a su propio padre y a su gemelo por su ceguera. Tras esos sucesos abandonó Inglaterra, incapaz de hacer frente a su familia. Se ha pasado los últimos cinco años en el exilio, intentado volver a empezar de cero, y fracasando en su empeño. Decidido a volver a Inglaterra, retoma su viejo sueño, e intenta comprar Lyon's Gate, una granja cerca de Northcliffe, aunque topará con una complicación llamada Hallie Carrick, una joven impetuosa que podría ser quien le devuelva la felicidad.

Jason Sherbrooke longs to breed and race his own horses, but it's a spirited woman who will claim his heart.

Highland Pleasures 4.5 The Mackenzies gather for a clan Christmas and New Year's in Scotland. In the chaos of preparations for the celebration--the first of Hart and Eleanor's married life--one of Ian's Ming bowls gets broken, and the family scrambles to save the day. Daniel busily runs a betting ring for everything from the time Eleanor's baby will arrive to whether Mac's former-pugilist valet can win a boxing match to who will be the first of the many guests to be caught under the mistletoe. Ian begins a new obsession, and Beth fears the loss of one of his precious bowls has made him withdraw once more into his private world. A Mackenzie Family Christmas will be released in print as well as on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple, and at other e-vendors.

An omnibus of novelsAn innovative ebook featuring two intertwined stories:Magic: When good witch Brianna James uses her magic and writes a sexy, forbidden love spell on her thirty-first birthday, on the thirty-first day of October during a full moon, and conjures up on roguish, bad boy warlock, she has no idea that she'll experience a passion so deep and so intense it would forever turn her good girl days into bad girl nights. But, when that spell lands in the wrong hands, be prepared for a little mayhem…Mayhem: When Abigail Garvey steps into Conjure, the local magic shop, all she's looking for are a few props to round out her fortune teller Halloween costume. Abby isn't looking for a love spell that turns her drop-dead gorgeous, but long-oblivious neighbor into an aggressive alpha sex machine… Sure his single-minded pursuit (and follow-through!) is the stuff her wickedest fantasies are made of, but how much of it is the real deal? And how much of it is just a little magical mayhem?

Spring, 1922 — Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess — who’s given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairytale castle is missing its princess, and Tessa is determined to keep it that way. But secret lives can be complicated. When a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa’s two lives collide — and in escaping her inheritance, she finds her destiny…

Philip Whitmore, vizconde de Greybourne, ha sobrevivido a tormentas de arena, ha desenterrado tesoros ocultos de antiguas civilizaciones y ha vencido a múltiples y peligrosos ladrones de tumbas. Pero una extraña maldición pesa sobre él: no es capaz de encontrar a una mujer que quiera casarse con él. Es como si todo su encanto, su título y su fortuna desaparecieran ante el altar. Tras el último fiasco, Philip recurre a la hermosa Meredith Chilton-Grizedale para encargarle la difícil tarea de encontrar la esposa perfecta. Pero desde el momento en que conoce al misterioso vizconde, Meredith se enamora perdidamente de él y, a pesar de la maldición y a riesgo de su vida, decidirá dar rienda suelta a una pasión que podría conducirla a la locura…¿Será el amor capaz de vencer a una extraña maldición?

Marianne tells the story of Marianne d'Asselnat, whose fate—by virtue of her own courageous spirit, coupled with the pull of destiny—became inexorably entangled with that of her native France during the decades when it was responding to Napoleon Bonaparte's vision of its greatness.Born and orphaned in the 1793 Reign of Terror, rescued by a priest and raised in exile in England, Marianne married, only to lose—at one stroke of fate on her wedding night—her love, her fortune, her illusions and even her security.As she flees England; as she is smuggled into Napoleon's 1809 France (at war with England) with a letter of recommendation to Napoleon's Minister of Police, Fouché; as she is placed by Fouché in the dangerous position of spy in the home of Talleyrand; and as fate, the course of historic events, and the powers of pure chemistry combine to lead Marianne into a love affair with the Master of Europe himself—Napoleon Bonaparte—the reader is treated to a magnificent picture of France in the years of her glory.Here is all the pomp of the First Empire at its peak, as well as a fascinating record of Napoleon's political maneuvers and of the strange manners of the Parisian underground. Here, too, often in their own words, are the host of colorful, talented, often eccentric characters who orbited around the Emperor. And here, finally, is Napoleon Bonaparte in one of the liveliest, most believable portraits ever drawn of him.Juliette Benzoni has in Marianne created a book that is at once historical fiction at its best and a magnificently documented portrait of a great nation in its hour of glory—and of peril.

Guarding with her life the secret she carries to save Napoleon, Marianne braves the barren steppes and hostile natives of Russia to deliver her message to the Emperor, who was once her lover. She is accompanied by her lover from New Orleans, Jason Beaufort, who has abandoned the charred hulk of his ship in the harbor of Constantinople to travel with her. Just inside the Russian border, they save the life of a beautiful young gypsy named Shankhala and take her with them. Shankhala offers no gratitude but shows a burning desire for Jason. Failing to allure him, she turns her witchery against Marianne.The Moscow they reach has already fallen under siege, and its citizens' fear has turned perversely into self-immolation. When Jason is thrown in prison after a duel with the Cossack who several years earlier had ravished and branded Marianne, she is left alone amid the swarming mass of panicked humanity—or, rather, almost alone, as the gypsy witch embraces Marianne, then stabs her and leaves her to be trampled and swept away by the maddened throng.The vicious Russian writer finds Moscow drowned in a sea of fire and Marianne nursed to health by angels in the forms of other French-women trapped in this hostile country. Risking her life to see him, Marianne finds Napoleon suffering from strain and despair and eager to regain Marianne's devotion. Once she has delivered her message, Marianne's life again becomes a series of questions: Will she ever return to her homeland? Will she ever find the child who was separated from her? And her husband, where is he? Does he even live? Marianne: Crown of Fire is an adventure in the truest sense—it is a fascinating torrent of desire, courage, terror, and one woman's struggle to survive. This sixth volume of Marianne's adventures will delight the reader who thrills to excitement and romance. Each of its predecessors has been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of readers around the world.

As the city of Florence basks in afternoon sunlight, pleasurable anticipation stirs in the heart of beautiful Marianne d'Asselnat, Princess Sant'Anna. The trials and uncertainties of her eventful past life seem almost over, for she is soon to rejoin her beloved sea rover Jason Beaufort and enjoy with him a peaceful future in America. So she is not particularly dismayed when called upon to render a last vital service to her master, the Emperor Napoleon, whom once she had known as lover and still called friend. But, abruptly, an ominous shadow appears in her future, cast by the dark influence of her unseen husband, the mysterious masked Prince Corrado. The tricks of fate then force her to embark on a perilous odyssey which carries her from luxurious Venice, through Greek islands smoldering with revolt, to the court of the legendary Sultans of the Ottoman Empire.Through all her adventures her spirit is sustained by her passionate love for Jason, yet always strange, dark forces seem intent on drawing him away from her...Here is another exciting novel of the world of Europe as Napoleon I strives to make France master of Europe, indeed of the world, and himself its tyrant. The action moves through the courts of Europe and the then largely unknown Ottoman Empire, and a host of characters from the pages of history flit through its pages, bringing a glittering age vividly to life. Marianne and the Rebels, like its author's earlier novels chronicling the adventures of Marianne d'Asselnat, offers historical romance at its satisfying, exciting best.

Le destin de Marianne, encore bouleversée par son aventure avec Napoléon, s’assombrit brusquement. Il y a cet homme en bleu, apparu dans une loge de théâtre le soir de son triomphe. Est-il bien Francis Cranmere, l’époux indigne qu’elle croyait avoir tué pour lui faire expier le déshonneur d’une nuit de noces jouée au whist ? Il y a aussi le prochain mariage de l’Empereur, qui plonge Marianne dans l’enfer de la jalousie. Seul un nouvel amour pourrait l’arracher à ce passé trop douloureux. Mais qui est cet inconnu de Toscane dont l’étrange et fastueux palais italien semble abriter de terribles secrets ?

La vie prodigieuse de Marianne d'Asselnat de Villeneuve commence en Angleterre, dans le paisible domaine de sa tante Ellis Selton qui l'a recueillie après la mort de ses parents, guillotinés sous la Terreur. Son adolescence prend fin brutalement le jour même où elle épouse le beau Francis Cranmere dont elle est secrètement éprise depuis longtemps. Au cours d'une nuit de noces effroyable elle perd à la fois son amour, sa fortune et sa sécurité. Marianne doit fuir, abandonner tout ce qu'elle aime, revenir en France où règne l'homme qu'on lui a appris à haïr jour après jour : Napoléon.

Quelle impérieuse raison pousse la jeune veuve du connétable de Luynes à fuir Paris un soir frileux d’avril 1622 ? Quel conseil va-t-elle chercher auprès de l’étrange personnage qu’elle abrite dans son château de Lésigny ? Belle à couper le souffle, riche, intelligente, spirituelle et ambitieuse, Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de Luynes, est poursuivie par la rancune de Louis XIII qu’elle a cru, un moment, asservir à son charme. Il lui faut, à présent, trouver au plus vite un moyen de se protéger d’une disgrâce qui la condamnerait à ce qu’elle redoute le plus : l’obscurité. Celle d’un couvent ou celle d’une prison ? Elle aime la vie fastueuse, les hommes, les joies intenses de l’amour, mais aussi le pouvoir qu’elle cherchera toute sa vie, sans se soucier de ceux qu’elle laisse en chemin. Aussi met-elle en œuvre toutes les ressources de sa séduction afin de reprendre sa place auprès de la reine Anne d’Autriche que, pour se venger du Roi, elle va s’efforcer de pousser dans les bras de l’Anglais Buckingham. Devenue duchesse de Chevreuse, elle trouvera devant elle un redoutable adversaire : le cardinal de Richelieu, dont elle n’ignore pas qu’il la désire.Sous la soie des paroles courtoises, les poignards sont affûtés. C’est le temps des duels, des conspirations, des répressions impitoyables ; celui aussi des Mousquetaires, dont le corps vient d’être créé. Marie collectionnera les amants, mais peut-être n’en aimera-t-elle qu’un seul…Marie des intrigues aura une suite : Marie des passions.

La suite des aventures de la belle Marie à la Cour de Louis XIII qui va devoir affronter un adversaire de taille : Richelieu...Exilée après une tentative d'attentat contre le cardinal de Richelieu, Marie, duchesse de Chevreuse, n'a de cesse de regagner la Cour, loin de laquelle elle dépérit. Seule sa passion dévorante pour l'aristocrate anglais Henry Holland illumine sa retraite.Dès son retour à Paris elle prend la tête, avec l'appui de la reine Anne d'Autriche, de complots aussi ambitieux qu'improbables. Mais chacune de ces conspirations l'éloigne un peu plus du pouvoir.Collectionnant les admirateurs, Marie connaîtra-t-elle enfin le bonheur d'un amour partagé ? Saura-t-elle, malgré ses erreurs, conserver son influence à la Cour ? Confiante en son extraordinaire destin, elle ne va pas hésiter à se mettre en danger pour obtenir ce qu'elle désire...