Marguerite: 486 books

The secrets behind the wedding veil For penniless widow Ainsley McBrayne, marriage is the only solution. She's vulnerable yet fiercely independent, so shackling herself to another man seems horrifying! Until handsome stranger Innes Drummond tempts Ainsley to become his temporary wife. Once...

Scottish Highlands, 1822 Two hundred years ago, a witch cursed all the women in Jura Mcnair's family to be widowed on their first wedding anniversary, until a true and perfect love could break the spell. Jura has chosen a life of loneliness instead of risking the sorrow of losing a husband....

London, 1818 Troy Templeton, the Earl of Ettrick, has been tasked with the strangest job of his diplomatic career: visit London's most notorious courtesan, La Perla, to warn off the ambassador's besotted son. Instead, he's irresistibly drawn to her beguiling combination of sensuality and unexpected...

Lady Celia Cleveden thinks of herself as eminently sensible from the tips of her sturdy boots to the top of her unadorned bonnet. It seemed logical she would marry an equally practical gentleman. Until she's rescued by wildly enigmatic desert prince Ramiz of A'Qadiz, while traveling across...

Susanna Hunter once ignored Captain Fergus Lamont's warnings not marry a fortune hunter-a decision she lived to regret. Three years later and since widowed, she's surprised by his unexpected invitation to spend Christmas with him in the Highlands. But even more shocking is Fergus's new proposition: that she pretend to be his fiancée, with all the accompanying pleasures….

Arabia, 1801 When Prince Zafar al-Zuhr buys a frightened but proud French woman at a slave market, it is not to add her to his harem. Zafar intends to secure safe passage home for the delicate beauty. Haunted by the past, he has vowed never to take advantage of a woman under his protection-no...

This Sourcebook contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity. The detailed introduction provides full social and historical context for the sources, and guides students on how to use...

The three sections in Patterns in Henna contain poems from three parts of my life; most of the first two sections are set in British India in the thirties, forties, or earlier, an era and place gone forever. The poems in Section I are impressions from childhood with the point of view of a child...

The honorable Clarissa Warrington despairs when her beautiful, foolish sister becomes the latest female to set her cap at the Ton's most notorious rake. For Amelia's sake, Clarissa must act fast… The devastatingly attractive Kit, Lord Rasenby, is bored. London society has lost its thrill,...

Joel Goss knows that Little Bub is a special colt, even though he’s a runt. And when schoolteacher Justin Morgan asks Joel to break the colt in, Joel is thrilled! Soon word about Little Bub has spread throughout the entire Northeast—this spirited colt can pull heavier loads than a pair of oxen....

" Laced with gentle satire and personal confession, this is a collection of verses offering glimpses into six decades of living in two cultures, those of northern England and southern California. Verse forms vary from imitative rhymed sonnet and tetrameter to contemporary flowing freeform. Each...

All my life I have been 'taken captive by birds'. Their doings are the thread that runs through childhood, the link to people and to place. Their appearance and their presence can at once recall a name, a scent, a morning full of song and exploration; an evening sorrow, a childhood fear. For, somehow,...

Zippy Jones, Shopaholic is about a cat who went shopping with her family and creates havoc in the supermarket. It's Raining Cats and Frogs is about two children who find a frog when their water tank leaks. They make friends with him and have a lot of fun.

A hero…a rebel…a desire worth fighting for! When Major Finlay Urquhart was last on the battlefield, he shared a sizzling moment with daring Isabella Romero. Two years later, Finlay has one final duty to perform for his country-one that reunites him with this rebellious señorita! Except...