In Balanced Singing, Xenia Meijer provides professional and aspiring singers and voice teachers with holistic methods and practices that have rarely been associated with classical singing, but which can help singers and teachers deal with the challenges and difficulties of singing and performing. Drawing on more than 35 years' experience of performing and teaching, Xenia Meijer guides the reader through accessible, practical strategies for avoiding common pitfalls for singers and teachers....

It's 1889 and love is starting to blossom in the dusty faraway corner of the West.This inspirational historical Wild West Romance series is about strong women on their quest to turn around their downtrodden situation, their triumphs of discovering real men and true love in the mid-and late 19th-century.Meet Ruby Jones, once a happy wife now a widow at twenty-two! She was left to raise their three-year-old daughter Eliza alone, with no means of income. Out of desperation, Ru...

Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western short story romance. This is book number one, the foundation for the series.Meet Eva Crabtree was a handsome woman, straight-backed and buxom, in her early forties. No one knew her true age for sure. After graduating, Eva had started her own small psychologist's office, specializing in helping women.Her little business was quite the success, plus getting married to a tall and handsome James. S...

New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries offers a sizzling short ebook featuring a mysterious French maid who mends marriages.Lady Eleanor Langston has a problem: her husband Henry, prime-minister-in-the-making, is too caught up in his work to notice her. Despite her involvement in his various public appearances, she feels shut out of his life, especially with their one-year anniversary looming. When Henry hires a highly recommended French lady’s...

A witty, sexy novella about a virgin widow and a rake with something to prove.Eighteen months ago, Lizzie Troutt’s husband died in his mistress’s bed, leaving her determined to never marry again….and unfortunately virginal.Eighteen years ago (give or take a few) the Honorable Oliver Berwick blackened his own soul, leaving him hardened and resolutely single.When the chance for redemption in the form of a country house party invitation comes his way, ...

A witty and sparkling Regency romance novella by Eloisa James, author of My American Duchess, linked to the bestselling Essex Sisters seriesEighteen months ago, Lizzie Troutt's husband died in his mistress's bed, leaving her determined to never marry again . . . and unfortunately virginal.Eighteen years ago (give or take a few) the Honorable Oliver Berwick blackened his own soul, leaving him hardened and resolutely single.When the chance fo...

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to meDreadful relations, high expectations, a**nd a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee.It is the event of the season—on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the Prince Consort himself is expected. Captain Ian Hollys brings his fiancée Alice Chalmers to London to attend and to meet his family...

Governess or duchess?After spending the last ten years following her late husband on campaign, the irrepressible Jane Kimball finds herself badly in need of a position to support herself. Marriage holds no appeal; she’s not likely to find a husband like her Jimmy again. But when Miss Thorn of the Fortune Employment Agency offers her a post with the Duke of Wey, Jane feels drawn to help the lonely widower with his three daughters. He may seem a bit aloof, but Miss...

A gritty, heartwrenching historical saga from the TOP TEN bestselling author Lindsey HutchinsonWhen 12 year-old Jared Johnson’s little sister dies, just hours after his mother breathes her last after wasting away so her children could eat, he knows he is on own.Desperate to avoid the workhouse, he does everything he can to survive the inhospitable streets of Birmingham. Jared is blessed with the gift of the gab and soon attracts the attention of the King ...

'A gorgeous story of family and secrets and the redemptive power of love' - Kate Morton, bestselling author of The Distant Hours and The Forgotten Garden.From the class divisions of depression-era Glasgow, to the rolling pastures of a rural Tasmanian sheep farm. An unforgettable story of passion, love, secrets and loss.Beattie: Glasgow, 1929Beattie Blaxland had dreams. Big dreams. She dreamed of a life of fashion and fabrics. One t...

Lord Pomeroy has been rejected by his long-time fiancé and must find a woman to marry for his ill fathers sake. His sister suggests Claire Sutton, who has been on the shelf for years. And Bertram is willing to consider her, except that shes shy and her sister is such an outspoken, outrageous chit. Then theres Lord Winterborne, heir to the Marquis of Bellingham, who pretends to court Lizzie Suttonat her instigationbut is intrigued by her older sister Claire. Add to this bumblebroth the fact...

When one of the Duke of Caswells painted portraits started talking to him, he knew hed best find treatment for his problem. Sir Osgood Bannister offered such a programand expected his niece, Lilyanne, to carry out the bland regimen. Lilyanne was not at all the sort of woman the duke would ordinarily meetand her innocence intrigued him. But that wouldnt do in his world, would it? Regency Romance by Barbara Metzger; originally published by Signet