Historical Humor

When her beloved dies in battle, Lady Lydia Daughtry assumes she'll never love again. Until a deliciously handsome duke awakens a part of her she never knew existed. But how can she have such feelings for Tanner Blake, who is a constant reminder of all she has lost? Tanner Blake, duke of Malvern, promised his dying friend he'd take care of his "dearest Lyddie." So how dare he covet the lush, lovely young woman for himself—especially since he is all but betrothed to another? His solution: find Lydia a suitable husband immediately. But when both their lives become fraught with mystery and ...

Lord Gascoigne, Le presento mi oferta con toda sinceridad… Sus deberes según los términos de este trato incluyen guiarme a través de las aguas turbulentas del Beau Monde. Confío en mis instintos, pero sería inútil sugerir que tengo experiencia en cómo se maneja la sociedad. Pude ver desde un principio que usted sí. Pude notar a primera vista el peligro de su título, su buen parecer, y sus encantos, pero estoy muy segura de que nunca podría casarme con un hombre como usted. Delfina Delacroix ha vivido toda su vida como pájaro en una jaula de oro, sin poder salir de la mansión ...

¿Qué sucede cuando se mezcla a dos bellas hermanas y tres posibles enamorados, y se añade una pequeña confusión sobre cuál hermana es cuál? El resultado es esta brillante historia de amor. Honoria normalmente es la hermana tímida. ¿Cómo pudo terminar en un embrollo típico de algo que haría la audaz Serena? El Sr. Allison, uno de los solteros más codiciados de la sociedad, llega a la Mansión Fenton para pedirle matrimonio a Honoria, pero ella tiene un pequeño dilema. No se recuerda de la apariencia de su futuro prometido. Agobiada por la timidez, ella casi no pudo verle la ...

Available as a value box set (Frontier Valentine Romance Complete Series) amazon.com/dp/B083VSS4PD (copy and paste the link into your browser) A Mail-Order Bride’s Unexpected Love : A heartwarming tale of love, trust, and second chances. Don't miss this captivating historical romance! Elizabeth takes a leap of faith, leaving behind her home in Mexico to start anew in the small town of Far Water Grove, Colorado. With her young son by her side, she embraces the promise of love and security in the arms of Lawrence Cooper—a war-wounded sheriff searching for a fresh start of his own. Their ...

1870s, Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand and definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named prefect for Vigàta, a regional representative from the Italian government to oversee the town. But the rowdy and unruly Sicilians don't care much for this rather pompous mainlander nor the mediocre opera he's hell-bent on producing in their new municipal theater.

Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.

Behind every myth there is a spark of truth.... There's nothing special about Ben Garston. Or so he'd have you believe. He won't tell you, for instance, that he's also known as Red Ben. Or that the world of myth and legend is more real than you think. Because it's his job to keep all that a secret. But now a centuries-old rivalry has resurfaced, and the delicate balance between his world and ours is about to be shattered.

In the idyllic backdrop of Ballycross, County Cork, Seren once reveled in the bliss of marriage to Frenchman André while managing their quaint wine shop. A perfect world, it seemed, until an unforeseen tragedy shattered everything. Determined not to be a mere pawn in the game of fate, Seren takes charge of her destiny. In this journey, she discovers the stark difference between fate and faith—realizing that control is a powerful force. The revelation of an enigmatic email destined for her husband propels Seren into a harrowing mystery. Abandoning the comforts of Ballycross, she ventures ...

En esta fascinante novela, los enredos y las equivocaciones determinan el destino de la lucha por la Independencia de México. Con el implacable humor que inmortalizó a Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Los pasos de López cuenta el cauce cotidiano de una gesta insurgente protagonizada por personajes de carne y hueso, con dudas y vanidades, caprichos y torpezas. Una inigualable muestra del talento de un autor que se ha vuelto indispensable para la literatura hispanoamericana.

Is true love eternal, even if you suspect the one you loved the most turned you into a ghost? Irene Ferguson thinks she’s found her forever love with Wyatt Martin, the charismatic heir to Monaco Martin Estates. But their whirlwind romance ends in tragedy with Irene’s body hidden in a bourbon barrel. Fifty years later, whispers of Irene’s restless spirit linger in the mash-scented air. Despite her death, Irene’s love for Wyatt endures, transcending time and her spectral state. When a new engineer with the ability to see ghosts arrives at the historic distillery, Irene seizes her ...

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' '60s British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio's private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.

Una descripcion morbosa de la decadencia. La Montana Magica fue la obra que logro para Thomas Mann, el insigne escritor aleman, el Premio Nobel. En esa historia, situada en un sanatorio de tuberculosos en los altos de una montana, el autor creo un increíble microcosmos, reflejo de lo que el consideraba la decadencia de su patria y de toda la civilizacion europea.

Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he becomes a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing 20th century. East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation.

Invitation to Magic: Cinderella and Prince Wicked He's Prince Wicked. She's clueless. Stephanie Plum jumps into the rabbit hole! FREE on Kindle Unlimited! Meet Countess Melanie de Fontaine. She’s not only nice and sweet, she happens to be a super-duper domestic goddess. While juggling house chores for her needy and demanding faux-mother and faux-sisters, she’s busy searching for her mother who’s been missing for years. Then again, sometimes, life can be overwhelming. When the invitation to the Royal Dance of the Year arrives, her faux-mother shoves it in her face, knowing full well ...

Sergeant Dan Miller wanted to be a flying ace, but the air force grounded him for poor vision. To make matters worse, when the myopic Miller travels home to Minneapolis on furlough, he finds the local “feather merchants” - aka civilians - breaking all the wartime rules. They’re guzzling black-market gas, hoarding rationed food, and listening to suspiciously expensive radios. But the most troubling news of all arrives when Sergeant Dan’s main squeeze, the voluptuous Estherlee McCracken, declares that she wants nothing to do with a pencil-pushing GI.

Sir Alanbart avoids action, recoils from romance, and shuns self-sacrifice; yet when he finds himself drawn into a harebrained attempt to rescue King Arthur, he becomes a victim of all three, and then poor Alanbart must fight hard to stay true to his cowardly and indolent nature.

Three Days and Two Knights is a genre crossover that blends fantasy adventure, comedy, and romance in a historical literary setting.

Every Christmas Eve, a family make a short pilgrimage to the summit of the extraordinary and mesmerising hill that dominates their small East Lothian town. They celebrate this delightful festive occasion with food, beverages, and shadowy tales of the town’s historical past. But behind these seemingly innocent stories of whale bones, witchcraft, and retribution from times gone by, lies a tragic family secret that links to the present day. Will this be the Christmas Eve that the family can be reunited, and find the love and happiness that they once held so dearly? Christmas on The Law is a ...

Athens, 460 B.C. Life's tough for Nicolaos, sole investigating agent in Athens. His girlfriend's left him and his boss wants to fire him. But when an Athenian official is murdered, Pericles has no choice but to put Nico on the job. The case takes Nico, with a beautiful slave girl, to the land of Ionia within the Persian Empire. The Persians will execute him on the spot if they think he's a spy.

The Alehouse at the End of the World is an epic comedy set in the 16th century, where bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess, drunken revelry, bio-dynamic gardening, and a narcissistic, bullying crow, who may have colluded with a foreign power.

Alone in the midnight hours with nothing but dead leaves, stray cats, and legends of ghosts and ghoulies to accompany him. A sleeping village doesn’t mean a simple shift, though. Between the early risers of the farming community, a badger with a sweet tooth, and getting to know his new workmates, there’s no time for Nick to kick his feet up in the station. And of course there’s Claude Jeremiah Greengrass! Why did he have to retreat hastily down a ladder from a lady’s bedroom and what happened to his trousers and shirt?