Kitap iki aile üzerinde yaklaşık 500 yıldır dolaştığına inanılan bir lanet etrafında şekillenmeye başlıyor . Lanet sebebiyle tuhaf ölümler ve uğursuz sayılabilecek olaylar cereyan ediyor . Ve bu laneti kırmak için dul bir İskoç hanım olan Lady Kathleen MacDavid sevmediği bir ingilizle -ki bu İn...
I really enjoyed this story. What could go wrong with hiring a band of actors to portray your family to impress a prince when your family is extremely unconventional? This book made me laugh, cry and fall in love Camille, Grayson and the rest of the clan, real and hire. Prince Nicholai not so ...
Listened to The Perfect Mistress by Victoria Alexander. Widowed Julia, Lady Winterset, inherited a shocking book that every gentleman in London wants. For a charismatic businessman, it could be a chance to build an empire. For a dashing novelist, it could guarantee fame. But to a certain proud, d...
A delightfully absurd tale of how much misunderstanding there can be between lovers. I couldn't help but think that the author got love just about right...we all make mistakes with the best of intentions and hurt those we love, but forgiveness is the only way to peace and happiness. Also the bick...
Lady Julia Winterset is a widow whose financial security is dwindling and she needs to get some income pretty quickly. Her salvation, she hopes, is the inheritance of a memoir or manuscript written by her great-grandmother, Lady Hermione Middlebury, who wrote down explicit details of what she cal...
In Victoria Alexander's My Wicked Little Lies, we were introduced to a married couple who had something to hide. For two years, Evelyn Hadley-Attwater was married to her husband Adrian. Before then, she was a spy known as "Eve". When she was called on again for a special assignment of theft of mi...
The book was... interesting to an extent. I was not as hooked as I was when i started reading the Effington series by the same author.This is the third book in the 'sinful family secrets' series but can be read as a stand alone which I just did. The book is divided into three parts. The first par...
What a fun book. Both Veronica and Sebastian find themselves at crossroads in their lives. They meet at the intersection and decide that they'd like to continue together. The problem is that they are looking down different roads. Both of them are accustomed to getting what they want and seeing th...
A secret list of the desires of Lady Olivia Rathbourne:Disregard conventionFollow my heartBed the Earl of WyldewoodA decade ago, Olivia had expected to marry the Earl of Wyldewood, only to have happiness stolen from her before his ring could be placed upon her finger. Now he stands before her, as...
Victoria Alexander has been one my favorite authors since I read her Last Man Standing series several years ago. Her heroines always have such a wonderful and witty personality. Her heroes, well ... are heroic, swooping in to save the day.Lady Theodosia is head-strong, willing to discretely work ...
Post listen review: I went into this thinking I would want to give it negative stars and chuck it out the window which is how I have felt about most of the romance books I have listened to in my effort to listen to all the fictional audiobooks at the library. But to my great surprise this one w...
Who will be the last unmarried man standing?No man in his right mind would want to get married, but every duke, earl, and viscount knows that a fellow must do his duty in the end. So four of London's most desirable gentlemen make a wager—the prize going to the one who remains unwed the longest.Gi...
When New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander created the Effingtons, she introduced an irresistible clan. Now, meet her most unforgettable hero yet . . . Dashing Jonathon Effington, the Marquess of Helmsley, has had more than one lady willingly fall into his arms. But he's so delici...
The first ever book I've read of Victoria Alexander and I totally loved it! I liked the heroine: Pandora, right from the start. I have always liked a challenging woman who kept the men on their toes. Pandora is replica of a hellion and though her character seems cliché; its very much likeable and...
LESSON #1: NEVER TEMPT A LADYBecome a bride? Never! Lady Marianne Shelton has come to London to experience life, and marriage is not part of her plan. To finance her independent future, the pretty country miss pens a series of anonymous stories. Soon they are the talk of the ton-and only she know...
Pamela is a mystery Alexei is determined to solve... Prince Alexei of Avalonia is a master at the art of seduction, but when a mysterious young woman he meets at a masked ball spends the night in his bed, he finds he is touched in ways he cannot forget. Still, he wonders if she was real or a dre...
Women never said no to the dashing Lord Matthew Weston and he never said no to them. But this was the first time he found one tempting enough to impetuously say "I do." Was it any wonder he awoke to discover her gone? And when Matthew learned the enchanting creature he'd married was of royal bloo...
London Spring 1818. An Unexpected Husband Lady Gillian Marley has two months before her thirtieth birthday to claim a hefty bequest from a distant American relative. A Marriage of Inconvenience Lord Shelbrooke, Richard Shelton, tops the widow's list, but refuses to be chaste, and shares a secret ...
Distressed over the current widespread disinterest inmatrimony among their eminently marriageable offspring, the formidable matriarchs of the ton have taken matters into their own meddling hands with the formation of The Ladies' Society for the Betterment of the Future of Britain. Their first cha...
Even at the tender age of ten, Lady Jocelyn knew what she wanted -- to be a princess. And since she wasn't born one, she knew she'd have to marry a prince to become one. Unfortunately, while there are plenty of princes in England early in the 19th century (George III had a large family), none of ...
Everyone knows that an Effington always getsher way ... but this time it's not going to be easy!Lady Elizabeth Effington simply could not suitably feel the joy of the Christmas season. Ten years had passed since she had boldly declared her love for Sir Nicholas Collingsworth. He rebuffed her and ...
An ideal spouse, the Earl of Wyldewood had decided, should be pleasant to look at and agreeable to display on his arm. She should have little effect on his well-ordered life, and little to do with his private pursuit of pleasure. After meeting Sabrina Winfield, he thought he had found the woman t...
Ophelia Kendrake had barely finished conning the coat off a cardsharp's back before she and her adopted sister stumbled into Dead End, Wyoming, and received a welcome fit for a queen. Mistaken for the Countess of Bridgewater, Ophelia saw no reason to reveal herself until she had stripped the haml...
A true American princess, Cecily White stands to inherit her father's business empire. With the 20th century right around the corner, she has no intention of marrying some foreign nobleman seeking her money. Then on a trip to England, Cece falls under the spell of a dashing peer who has more to r...
White Knights, Myths and MagicTessa St. James thought as little of love as she did of the Arthurian legend—it was just a myth. But when an enchanted tome fell into the lovely teacher's hands, Tessa found that she had to rethink her curriculum. Suddenly in Merlin's Camelot, Tessa learned that the ...
What lengths would a young lady go to in her pursuit of the perfect match?And how far would a gentleman go to stop her?Cassandra Effington is one of the most delicious debutantes to ever waltz across a London ballroom. But while her identical twin sister Delia is now wed, Cassandra is still uncla...
Lady Cordelia Bannister refuses to wed the man she has not chosen herself, no matter what her father decrees. So, pretending to be her own companion, she seeks out information about the designated groom by meeting with his secretary — a man who soon beguiles her. But Lady Cordelia doesn't know th...
Lady Amelia's Secret Love is a historical romance novel with a decidedly modern bent: Lady Amelia Hathaway's marriage has gotten stale over the past six years, so she decides to take a lover. She makes no secret of her intent - but what her husband doesn't know is that Amelia's real scheme is to ...
PORTRAIT OF LOVE An artist with no palate for business, Margaret Masterson could create a world of excitement on canvas, but her love life was as dull as flat paint. Then a carriage ride on a foggy night swept her back to Regency London and the picture-perfect nobleman she'd always yearned for.Pr...
Grayson Elliott . . . Millworth Manor, October 1887 “You didn’t need to come fetch me in person.” Samuel Russell smiled at his old friend. “I did manage to get from one place to another in France and Germany, you know, and I’d bet I could have...
“I’m what?” “He’s what?” Miss West said at precisely the same time. “It’s obvious to me that he has been hired by Jackson to keep an eye on me. To make certain I stay out of harm’s way. To keep me from doing anything that might be deemed scandalous. Or interesting.” Miss Merryweather huffed. “I c...
“I thought perhaps you weren’t planning on returning.” An annoyed frown creased his mother’s forehead. “She thought you might have escaped,” Lucy said. The innocent note in her voice did nothing to disguise the laughter in her eyes. “I would like to see Jackson alone, Lucinda.” Mother cast Lucy h...