Volume One complements the first three books of the award-winning Roxton Family Saga: Noble Satyr, Midnight Marriage, and Autumn Duchess. With a foreword by a late-Victorian descendant, Alice-Victoria, 10th Duchess of Roxton.

    Heartbroken Antonia Varyshkova, who has lost her parents and her home in a St. Petersburg fire, stops in London en route to a new life with her brother in America. When her arrogant ship’s captain, Tobias Ormond, insists that she attend a ball with him, Antonia reluctantly agrees. The instant connection between Jean-Philippe and Antonia is soul-deep, but it seems that there cannot be a future for them. She sails off to America and he returns to his pirate’s life at sea … until an ancient Roman sword which may be cursed forces Beauvisage to chase down the very ship carrying the woman he loves. Set sail on the high seas of 1749 and hold on tight for a love story you’ll never forget! HEART OF FRAGILE STARS is a Beauvisage Family novella & a prequel to the Rakes & Rebels series. Approximately 110 pages in length, it originally appeared as part of the WITH DREAMS ONLY OF YOU collection. "Rakes & Rebels" combines the intertwining Raveneau and Beauvisage family novels into one captivating 9-book series! 0 - HEART OF FRAGILE STARS: a novella (Jean-Philippe & Antonia) 1 - SILVER STORM (Andre & Devon) 2 - CAROLINE (Alec & Caro) 3 - TOUCH THE SUN (Lion & Meagan) 4 - SPRING FIRES (Nicholai & Lisette) 5 - SMUGGLER'S MOON (Sebastian & Julia) 6 - SURRENDER THE STARS (Ryan & Lindsay) 7 - HER DANGEROUS VISCOUNT (Grey & Natalya) 8 - HIS RECKLESS BARGAIN (Nathan & Adrienne) 9 - TEMPEST (Adam & Cathy)

    Witty, wealthy and beautiful, Catherine was the most eligible of young ladies and was courted by royalty but, ignoring the warnings of her closest confidantes, she married for love. Her choice of husband was the charming but feckless dandy William Wellesley Pole, nephew of the Duke of Wellington.The pair excited the public's interest on an unprecedented scale with gossip columns reporting every detail of their magnificent home in Wanstead, where they hosted glittering royal fetes, dinners and parties. But their happiness was short-lived; just a decade later William had frittered away Catherine's inheritance and the couple were forced to flee into exile. As they travelled across Europe, they became embroiled in a series of scandals that shocked the public and culminated in a landmark court case.Meticulously researched and rich with dazzling detail, The Angel and the Cad is a gripping and tragic tale of love and drama that twists and turns until the final page.

    Unbeknown to Rose, her father, a plantation owner and secret patriot of the colonial independence movement, has accepted a betrothal on her behalf which will mean taking his precious daughter thousands of miles away from their home. Rose is to become engaged to an English peer of the realm. Finding herself transported against her will into eighteenth century Regency England and engaged to marry Lord Benedict Mortimer, the Right Honourable Earl of Straddock, Rose is flung into another world; one that operates with completely different cultural values to those she has left behind in the colonies of America. Neither Rose nor Benedict—Lord Mortimer—are thrilled by the prospect of marriage to one another, and sparks fly as soon as they first meet. Has Rose, a spirited and sassy colonial girl, met her match with her English lord? Can Benedict tame his American fiancée in time to make her his Christmas bride? How will the independent-minded Rose react to his very British brand of discipline? Join Rose as she embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, voyaging on the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean to land on foreign shores and navigate her way around the pitfalls of the English peerage system. How will a simple colonial girl from Virginia cope as she is groomed, primped and prepared to become an English Countess, an elite member of Regency English aristocracy, 'le bon ton'?

    What follows is a vicious and hilarious satire of the Soviet Union’s top-down approach to agriculture, genetics…and just about everything else. Harshly criticized at home upon its publication in 1966, The Goatibex Constellation is as fresh, imaginative, and damning today as it was then.

    In reaching out for democracy, the biggest obstacle Georgians face is lack of self-confidence. In politics Georgians are undermined by inner doubts about their capacity for democracy. Your taxi driver, struggling with a traffic jam, will remark “Georgians don’t know how to drive,” as though the problem was not as bad in Baku. Georgians bear a burden of masochism: they feel the problems that exist throughout the former Soviet space as though they were their very own personal responsibility, because they are Georgians.Georgia’s crisis of confidence is worsened by the inevitably imitative or derivative character of democracy in 2015. It is easy to slip into thinking democracy’s success in Western Europe comes from something in European culture or history that must be hard to transplant—or that it could be transplanted here only by turning into foreigners.Georgians need to know that democracy was discovered before in Georgia, and operated rather successfully in conditions of the utmost difficulty. This is why the experience of the First Republic is so crucial. It can show Georgians that they discovered democracy before, when they were even poorer, faced an even worse international environment, and were far less European. The First Republic, a depressing failure in power politics, is succeeding if it inspires you.Most of the Georgians who led the first movement for democracy and the First Republic itself were leftists, socialists of various sorts. Here we meet a second big need for this book. The most active fighters for democracy in today’s Georgia are students and recent students who are almost all on the left. The First Republic still has the capacity to inspire them, as this book shows. Moreover, if leftism too is not to be merely imitative, young people of today who attracted to the left need to think through Georgia’s first experience in discovering and applying socialist principles.Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr.Professor of Political Science,President, American-Georgian Initiative for Liberal Education

    No, this is a totally unusual tale about a young tribesman who falls in love with the dragon princess.A young boy from a wild tribe, Daniel, wishes to catch the dragon of wisdom, look into its fire, and obtain the ultimate wisdom. He writes a Dragon Book to help him explore the dragons and find the one he's looking for. It's a story filled with dangers and adventures. Will Daniel succeed, or will he fail? - Read the book to find out. --The book was originally written in Georgian and translated to English by the 16-year-old author.--The cover picture belongs to an amazing artist, Tatiana Makeeva, a. k. a. tatianamakeeva on deviantart.com.