En matière d’organisation, Owen Montgomery est un pro. Alors autant dire que le projet qu’il mène à bien avec ses deux frères et sa mère est géré d’une poigne de fer. La transformation d’une vieille bâtisse en hôtel, n’est-ce pas passionnant ? S’il y a une chose qui n’était pas dans ses plans, c’est Avery MacTavish, son ex- petite copine qui travaille à deux pas de l’hôtel Boonsboro. Avery et ses regards loin d’être innocents...
A Boonsboro, petite ville du Maryland, les frères Montgomery ont un projet qui leur tient à coeur : transformer en hôtel une demeure vieille de deux siècles, laissée à l'abandon. Une de ces maisons dont Beckett, l'architecte de la famille, dirait qu'elle est "habitée" tant il sent parfois une insaisissable présence féminine entre ses murs. Comme d'étranges effluves de chèvrefeuille... Beaucoup moins insaisissables, en revanche, sont les sentiments qu'il éprouve depuis le lycée pour Clare, la libraire, de retour en ville avec ses trois enfants après avoir perdu son mari. Mais que pèse un flirt de jeunesse face à une véritable histoire d'amour marquée par un drame ?
Christian Delacorte seeks a peaceful life with Detective Raven Mackenzie, but his past resurfaces when assassin Jasmine Lee demands his help to rescue her kidnapped lover, Nicholas Charboneau, tied to Chicago's underworld. Despite his mistrust, Christian is drawn into her dangerous world when he learns of his connection to Charboneau. With only seven days to save a father he never knew, Christian faces a perilous challenge, realizing that betrayal lurks around every corner and his life hangs in the balance.
Mary's plans to marry the handsome Viscount Wetherly are disrupted by the irresistible Duke of Blackstone, who persistently teases her. As she tries to ignore him, Blackstone realizes he might be falling for her, despite his intentions to protect his brother from her charms. Will love prevail?
Lady Summer kämpft verzweifelt um das Wohl ihrer Familie und sieht in Lord Ruark die Rettung. Seine Küsse wecken ihre Gefühle, doch ein schlimmes Missverständnis bedroht ihre Liebe und stellt alles auf die Probe.
From a magnificent ballroom ablaze with lights to an imposing country house steeped in shadows comes a breathtaking tale of an impetuous miss—and a passion that leads to peril . . . At five and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew very well tht risks a woman took by visiting a gentleman in the dead of night. But bearding the notorious Earl of Angelstone in his den was the only way to stop him from engaging her hot-headed brother in a duel. And that was why she found herself ushered into Sebastian's frobidding presence at three in the morning—and thoroughly kissed before dawn. She was a country-bred innocent—and an intriguing experience for a man who dwelt more in the shadows than in the sunshine. Yet as her boldness drew Prue into one dangerous episode after another, Sebastian found himself torn between a raging hunger to possess her and a driving need to protect her. And the reckless beauty would soon need all the protection she could get. . . .
Crime and punishment is Lieutenant Eve Dallas's business. Murder her speciality. Named by the social worker who found her when she was a mere child roaming that city's streets, Eve Dallas is a New York police detective who lives for her job. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all - and knows her survival depends on her instincts. But she's going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, a charismatic Irish billionaire - and a suspect in Eve's latest murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules of their own, and it's up to Eve to take a chance in the arms of a man she knows nothing about - except the addictive hunger of needing his touch. From international bestselling author NORA ROBERTS, writing as J.D. Robb, comes a novel set in a richly imagined futuristic world. But for New York cop Eve Dallas one irresistible impulse still rules the heart: passion.
Ein mysteriöser Fremder rettet Olympia Wingfield vor einem Nachbarn und wird ihr neuer Hauslehrer Chillhurst. Mit Geschichten von fernen Ländern fasziniert er die träumerische Olympia, doch seine wahren Absichten sind schurkisch.
Die junge Museumsdirektorin Anna Lundgren wird zur Hauptverdächtigen, als ein Wärter ermordet und ein Maya-Dolch gestohlen wird. Nur Detective Gil Garcia glaubt an ihre Unschuld und versucht, sie vor einem cleveren Mörder zu schützen, der anscheinend auch Gils Geheimnisse kennt.
Journalist Lindsay Drummond is about to re-make her she plans to move out of London, change her job, and above all cure herself of her hopeless love for her unfairly handsome colleague, Rowland McGuire. Deadline day is Hallowe'en - but an encounter then with Rowland's friend, Colin Lascelles, a man much less innocent than he seems, quickly teaches hear that the best-laid plans can go delightfully awry... In New York, actress Natasha Lawrence is also trying to rebuild her life. Pursued by a stalker for the past five years, still to her ex-husband, the celebrated film director Thomas Court, she retreats with her son to the precincts of the exclusive - and haunted - Conrad apartment building. But will it provide her the security she so desperately seeks, and will she and her husband be albe to lay to rest the ghosts of their past? Lindsay's and Natasha's lives become inextricably entangled; when the cast of characters gathers for Thanksgiving at the sinister Conrad building, anything can happen, for romance and retribution, marrige and murder are in the air.
