Includes author´s voice.Teresa Jones’s dreams of flying contrast sharply with her dreary, earthbound life working as a filing-clerk in a CD store, and suffering the constant nagging of her academic parents, who are outraged at her stubborn refusal to go to college. Her best friend the popular, successful and apparently happy college freshman Elena Kravchuk has the perfect prescription for Teresa’s depression: she needs to get laid. When the two girls meet Miguel Angel Ramirez, a misfit Mex...

Told with wit and pace, Martin Boyd’s The Montforts follows five generations of the Montfort family, members of Australia’s ‘colonial aristocracy’ as they navigate - and become part of - a new world.The novel’s concerns—the complex relationships between patriotism and civilisation, art and religion, the individual and his past, love and romance—are timeless.First published under the pen name Martin Mills in 1928 with the title The Madeleine ...

The classic tale of an Australian girl who marries into the English aristocracy at a time of great change to the traditional orderNovember 1910, and seventeen-year-old Lucinda is looking forward to being making her debut in Melbourne society. Beautiful and wealthy, she is set to make a brilliant match – and when she meets dashing army officer Hugo Brayford, the younger brother of an English viscount, it seems she has succeeded in landing her prize. Bowled over by h...

In this international romance, a beautiful veterinarian finds unbridled passion in Argentina—and winds up on the fast track to family!When young and innocent Faith arrives at Raul's luxurious Argentinean estancia, she is there to train his horses. But he instantly decides she'll make the perfect mistress as well! Dressed in diamonds by day and lying between Raul's silk sheets by night, Faith is swept away by her new lavish lifestyle. But then she discovers...

As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold.

Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! Escape with these four stories by USA TODAY bestselling authors. This Presents bundle includes Christakis’s Rebellious Wife by USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham, At No Man’s Command by USA TODAY bestselling author Melanie Milburne, Bound by the Italian’s Contract by *USA TODAY bestselling author Janette Kenny and The Ultimate Playboy by Maya Blake.Look fo...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Woolf...

A camping trip gone wrong…Traveling to Sweet Pines Campground with his sisters was supposed to mean a weekend of relaxation for Tyler. Things just never go quite as planned for the fox Omega – nicknamed “the klutz” by his family. Getting lost in the woods during a run, he soon finds himself face-to-face with not only one, but two wolves. And while they might be shifters just like him, that doesn’t mean he’s safe…It isn’t the two wolves that scare him th...

Step into a world of sophistication and glamour, where sinfully seductive heroes await you in luxurious international locations.Raul’s rules: Life is infinitely more pleasurable if there is someone warming his bed…Marriage and above all babies are strictly off the agenda! When young and innocent Faith arrives at his luxurious Argentinian estancia, Raul instantly resolves that she will make the perfect mistress!Dressed in di...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), Victorian England’s bestselling woman writer, blends Dickensian humor with chilling suspense in this “exuberantly campy” (Kirkus Reviews) mystery. The novel features Jabez North, a manipulative orphan who becomes a ruthless killer; Valerie de Cevennes, a stunning heiress who falls into North’s diabolical trap; and Mr. Peters, a mute detective who communicates his brilliant reasoning through sign language.This edition includes a critical ...

From the USA Today– bestselling author, enemies become lovers when a woman is forced by family duty to marry her rival in this sexy international romance.Why, why does her grandfather's dying wish dictate that Simone Hamilton must marry a man she hates? The marriage might unite their warring families, but formidable Spaniard Alesander Esquivel is the last man on earth Simone would want to be in the same room as—let alone ...

I HAVE endeavoured in writing and compiling this book, to emphasize not only actual deeds and historical facts, but to aspire to an even higher goal—to conjure to life for a few brief moments the "Souls" of my subjects, stark in all their deathless beauty. What task could be nobler than to delve in these vivid famous lives and bring to light, perhaps, some hitherto undiscovered motive—some delicate and radiant action which so far has escaped the common historian and lain unplucked like a w...