Carlyle's Frederick the Great enters one of the darkest, most निर्णining moments in the young prince's life: crushed after his failed escape, Frederick is left shamed, shaken, and uncertain of his future while Katte's execution hangs like a warning over everything. At Custrin, Chaplain Muller labors over the prince's conscience, probing predestination, repentance, and obedience, even as Frederick's hidden anguish survives in scraps of theology, sketches, prayers, and grim reflection. Aroun...

Thomas Carlyle's Frederick the Great opens the Silesian drama on a grand scale, fusing war, geography, religion, and dynastic history into one sweeping account. Frederick's bold invasion of Silesia in 1740 unfolds against a richly drawn backdrop of mountains, rivers, industries, and borderlands, where the land itself seems to shape the fate of empires. Carlyle traces Silesia from its earliest peoples and uncertain name through Christianization, Piast rule, feudal entanglements with Bohemia...

In the swoon-worthy opener of her Princes of London series, Christy Carlyle takes readers on a breathless romantic suspense chase through Victorian London. A wild bluestocking from a family of treasure hunters and a handsome, serious gentleman from Scotland Yard butt heads while attempting to thwart a plot to steal the Crown Jewels, inspired by National Treasure.Alexandra Prince is clever, outspoken, and, yes, perhaps a bit impulsive. Yet she’s always been overshadowed by ...

USA Today BestsellerWhen a scheming marquess's daughter offers her one hundred pounds to publicly kiss a nobleman, a desperate Jessamin Wright agrees. She believes the money will save her failing bookstore and finally free her from her father's debts. But when Jess bursts into an aristocratic party and shocks the entire ton, she never expects to enjoy the outrageous embrace she shares with a grim viscount.Lucius Crawford, Viscount Grimsby, has never met, or...

Christy Carlyle dazzles with the first romance in her enchanting Love on Holiday series.Will Hart, the Duke of Ashmore, is everything his father was not: scrupulously honest, forbidding, and apparently joyless. As a duke, he’s a catch, but as a grumpy stick-in-the mud, no lady knows quite how to catch his eye. When his sisters concoct a plan for him to visit a run-down family property in Cornwall, he reluctantly agrees, hoping it will be a chance for him to redisco...

In the next installment of the swoon-worthy Princes of London series, Christy Carlyle takes readers on a heart-pounding hunt through Norfolk where a legendary treasure hunter and a fierce local woman battle over a Viking hoard, each determined to claim it for their own—and neither willing to lose their heart in the process…Dominic Prince is passionate, tenacious, and determined to carve out a legendary name for himself—just like his famous treasure-hunting father. ...

Christy Carlyle concludes her Duke’s Den series with this sparkling romance about two reluctant allies intent on following the rules and breaking every single one.His Only Regret…Rhys Forester, the new Duke of Claremont, lives his life by four words: Enjoy All, Regret Nothing. He’s devoted to the pleasure of his wild soirees, reckless behavior, and shocking the ton with his interests in trade. The debts that come with his title don’t fit th...

Kit Ruthven's Rules (for Rogues)#1 Love freely but guard your heart, no matter how tempting the invader.#2 Embrace temptation, indulge your sensual impulses, and never apologize.#3 Scorn rules and do as you please. You are a rogue, after all.Rules never brought anything but misery to Christopher Kit Ruthven. After rebelling against his controlling father and leaving the familys etiquette empire behind, Kit has been brea...

The philosophy of clothes, delivered by a fictitious German professor whose manuscript arrives in a paper bag, together with the lectures on heroes. Carlyle invented a whole language for this and it is either the most exhilarating or the most unreadable book of its century, depending on the reader.

Named best of the month by New York Post!A deliciously twisty novel of domestic suspense from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl in the Mirror, about a desperate young woman and the manipulative wealthy couple who will stop at nothing to ensure their worst nightmare becomes a dream come true."A gonzo thrill ride; the audacious Rose Carlyle kept me riveted and guessing.... I loved it and you will,...

When a young widow and an infamous duke meet at a country house party during the holiday season, the attraction that sparks between them takes them both by surprise.Lady Cecily Wainwright has emerged from mourning eager for experiences she’s been sheltered from for a year and yearning for the passion she never experienced in her marriage. When her friend, Lady Fiona, invites her to a house party over the holiday season, she leaps at the opportunity to escape London...

In the swoon-worthy finale of her Love on Holiday series, Christy Carlyle takes readers to the breathtaking coast of Ireland where a pretty, young countess’s secretary agrees to impersonate her mistress to help a duke appease his fortune-hunting family...until he falls for her instead.“Simply delightful!” —Julia QuinnMiss Evelyn Graves has never had a holiday. She is much too busy as the personal secretary to the Countess of Waverly. But the Duke of Ballymo...