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2013 Reading Challenge
Irina has read 1 book toward her goal of 60 books.
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[Rezension] Sherry Thomas: Tempting the Bride

Fitzhughes, #3 Verlagstext: Helena Fitzhugh understands perfectly well that she would be ruined should her secret love affair be discovered. So when a rendezvous goes wrong and she is about to be caught in the act, it is with the greatest reluctance that she accepts help from David Hillsborough, Viscount Hastings, and elopes with him [...]

[Keine Rezension] Judith Ivory: Sleeping Beauty

Verlagstext: Once, a long time ago, Coco Wild learned to never allow a man’s kiss to move her, for that way led to her downfall. A slender beauty with alluring eyes, she built impregnable defenses around her emotions. The men who came to adore her, fought to conquer her and learn her mysteries, made her [...]

[Rezension] Sherry Thomas: Ravishing the Heiress

Fitzhugh, #02 Klappentext: Millicent understands the terms of her arranged marriage all too well. She gets to be a Countess by marrying an impoverished Earl. And in return, the Earl Fitzhugh receives the benefit of her vast wealth, saving his family from bankruptcy. Because of her youth, they have agreed to wait eight years before [...]

[Rezension] Sherry Thomas: Beguiling the Beauty

Fitzhugh Trilogy, #01 Klappentext: When the Duke of Lexington meets the mysterious Baroness von Seidlitz-Hardenberg on a transatlantic liner, he is fascinated. She’s exactly what he’s been searching for—a beautiful woman who interests and entices him. He falls hard and fast—and soon proposes marriage. And then she disappears without a trace… For in reality, the [...]

[Keine Rezension] Jillian Stone: An Affair With Mr. Kennedy

The Gentlemen of Scotland Yard, #1 Klappentext: London, 1887. Part stoic gentleman, part fearless Scotland Yard man, Zeno »Zak« Kennedy is an enigma of the first order. For years, the memory of a deadly bombing at King’s Cross has haunted the brilliant Scotland Yard detective. His investigation has zeroed in on a ring of aristocratic [...]

[Rezension] Sherry Thomas: Not Quite A Husband

Deutsch: Gefährliche Leidenschaften Klappentext: Their marriage lasted only slightly longer than the honeymoon—to no one’s surprise, not even Bryony Asquith’s. A man as talented, handsome, and sought after by society as Leo Marsden couldn’t possibly want to spend his entire life with a woman who rebelled against propriety by becoming a doctor. Why, then, three [...]

[Rezension] Daisy Goodwin: Eine englische Liebe

Originaltitel: My Last Duchess aka The American Heiress Klappentext: Wie jedes Jahr verbringt Cora den Sommer mit ihrer Familie auf Rhode Island. Aber das Jahr 1893 ist für sie ein besonderes: Mit einem rauschenden Ball soll die zukünftige Erbin eines unermesslichen Vermögens in die Gesellschaft eingeführt werden. Cora scheint alles zu haben, wovon ein Mädchen [...]

[Rezension] Meredith Duran: A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal

Klappentext: IN GRITTY, WORKING-CLASS LONDON, SHE DOES WHAT SHE MUST TO SURVIVE . . . When Nell Whitby breaks into an earl’s house on a midnight quest for revenge, she finds her pistol pointed at the wrong man—one handsome as sin and naked as the day he was born. Pity he’s a lunatic. He thinks [...]

[Rezension] Lisa Kleypas: Love in the Afternoon

Klappentext: As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courted … and she has resigned herself to the fate of [...]

[Rezension] Sherry Thomas: His at Night

Inhalt: Lord Vere wird in seiner Funktion als Geheimagent aufs Land geschickt, um den verbrecherischen Diamantenhändler Edmund Douglas unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Mithilfe eines Tricks verschafft er sich in Douglas’ Abwesenheit eine Einladung ins Haus, wo er auf die Nichte des Verbrechers trifft. Vere ist gleichermaßen fasziniert wie abgestoßen von Elissande Edgerton, die stets [...]