Best of
Georgian

2013

The Georgian Romance Collection: Ask for It / Passion for the Game / A Passion for Him / Don't Tempt Me


Sylvia Day - 2013
    1 bestselling author, Sylvia Day, now available in one exclusive e-bundleAsk For It - Agent to the Crown, Marcus Ashford has fought numerous sword fights and dodged bullets. Yet nothing arouses him more than his hunger for former fiance, Elizabeth. Years ago, she'd abandoned him for the charming Lord Hawthorne. But now Marcus has been ordered to defend Elizabeth from her husband's killers. He will be at her service, in every sense.Passion for the Game - Lady Maria Winter is coerced into using her searing beauty to find out why dangerous pirate Christopher St. John has been let out of jail. But St. John's only chance of avoiding death is to use his seduction skills to melt Lady Winter's heart. Entangled in a twisted game of deception and desire, Maria and Christopher are each determined to be the one to win this lusty battle of wits.A Passion for Him - Miss Amelia Benbridge and the Earl of Ware are the most anticipated match of the Season. But Amelia's love will always belong to her childhood sweetheart, the gypsy Colin - who died tragically. But when a brooding stranger at a masquerade ball offers a sensual kiss passions rise and she is determined to unmask her phantom admirer. And though deception lies in this stranger's heart, her body cannot hold her back.Don't Tempt Me - Lynette Baillon's twin, Lysette, died in an accident. Or so Lynette believed until sexy stranger Simon Quinn mistakes her for her sister Lysette. To be reunited with her twin she must enter an alluring but ensnaring underworld of dark and twisted desires, where Quinn rules.

The Admiral’s Heart


Danelle Harmon - 2013
    Ten years have elapsed since Lady Philippa Ponsonby Hatfield made a painful sacrifice in giving up the dashing Royal Navy captain with whom she was desperately in love. In the years since, Sir Elliott Lord has gone on to become a famous admiral and hero of England, and now, fate throws them together once more at a glittering ball hosted by none other than Lucien de Montforte, the mighty duke of Blackheath … where love gets a second chance in this sweet and sexy short story by the bestselling, award-winning author of the critically acclaimed de Montforte Brothers series.

Cant - A Gentleman's Guide: The Language of Rogues in Georgian London


Stephen Hart - 2013
    This fascinating guide will teach you all you need to know about the vocabulary of the Rogues of Georgian London and how to function in society at the lowest level. Along the way you will acquire some much-needed information and advice on how to make false dice; how to pick pockets; how best to rob a man on a horse; and where to find a good cup of coffee at 3:00am in the morning.

Sacred Darkness


Levan Berdzenishvili - 2013
    But rather than being the hell he expected, jail allows him access to a wide array of intellectuals, professionals, citizens of all walks of life, many of whom, he freely admits, he would not have had the chance to meet if he had not been in jail. Here he bears witness to those lives. Each chapter carries a single person’s name and focuses on a single story. Collectively, however, these portraits create a multifaceted and vast picture of life in the Soviet Union and during its demise. A nation seeks to suppress its brightest citizens, to keep them locked away in the dark. But in that darkness, unbeknown to the jailor, bonds stronger than walls were forming.

The Gin Lane Gazette


Adrian Teal - 2013
    The first flowering of the great age of newspapers and caricature gave us boozy Prime Ministers and party leaders who settled their political differences with duels in Hyde Park (when they weren't gambling, or writing essays about farting); peers of the realm who sat the unburied corpses of their cherished mistresses at their dinner tables; entertainers who rode horses standing upright in the saddle, while wearing a mask of bees; and celebrity courtesans who ate 1,000-guinea banknotes stuffed into sandwiches, simply to make a point. Before it was dashed from their lips by the Victorian party-poopers, our Georgian forebears drank deep from the cup of life. The Gin Lane Gazette is a compendium of illustrated 'best bits' from a fictional newspaper of the latter 1700s. It contains some of the most sensational headlines and true stories of the period. Presided over by inky-fingered hack Mr. Nathaniel Crowquill, the editor and proprietor, its premises are located in Hogarth's chaotic Gin Lane. Mr Crowquill has devoted fifty years to sniffing out scandal and intrigue. His drunken acolyte, Mr. Jakes, supplies merciless caricatures and engravings for every page. Sports reports, obituaries, fashion news, courtesans of the month, book reviews, and advertisements for bizarre - and often alarming - goods, services and entertainments also feature in a riotous melange of metropolitan mayhem