They both stand to win… but only if they’re willing to risk their hearts. Only neither is prepared when very real feelings begin to grow between them. But instead of propositioning her, Montcroix makes Nève an offer she would be a fool to refuse: act as his fake fiancée in exchange for fortune enough to start over. When she accidentally saves the life of a handsome duke, she doubts the encounter will go any better than her last brush with nobility. After refusing to become a wealthy patron’s mistress, Nève was promptly shown the door to the streets. Once an up-and-coming ballerina, Miss Geneviève Valery is now hopelessly out of work. But when his reputation for being heartless jeopardizes a new business deal, he finds himself seeking a most unusual-and alluring-solution… Money, after all, can’t break a man’s heart-or make promises it can’t keep. After a series of betrayals, he keeps his emotions buried deep. Synopsis: Lord Lysander Blackstone, the stern Duke of Montcroix, has only one interest: increasing his considerable fortune.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Alanna: The First Adventure, In the Hand of the Goddess, Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Lioness Rampant, Trickster's Choice, Trickster's Queen, Wolf-Speaker, Emperor Mage, Realms of the Gods, First Test, Page, Squire, Lady Knight, Terrier, Bloodhound, Mastiff, Daja's Book, Sandry's Book, Tris's Book, Briar's Book, Magic Steps, Street Magic, Cold Fire, Shatterglass, The Will of the Empress, Melting Stones, Battle Magic, Tempests and Slaughterįirst in the Immortals series that follows Pierce’s Song of the Lioness series. It is part of the, series and is a fantasy in a paperback edition that was published by Simon Pulse on Jand has 362 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. 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Their glances had met, and her lovely gray-blue eyes had widened at his fierce black gaze. He had been visiting her father’s house in Alexandria on business, and had by mistake wandered into the women’s garden. In her semidelirium she remembered the day she had first seen him. She bore her travail grimly, refusing to cry out, for to do so was a weakness of character in her mind, and she had not won Zabaai by weakness. Her slim white body was tense with the agony of her travail, wet with the perspiration of her effort and the intolerable summer weather. Within, a woman labored to bring forth her child. On the edge of the great oasis city of Palmyra, the house of the famous Bedawi warrior chief, Zabaai ben Selim, stood alone. The onyx sky was studded diamond-bright with stars, and all was very, very still, as if the earth itself was poised, waiting. Not a hint of a breeze stirred the fronds of the tall, stately date palms. 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After a long search, and low on funds Georgina misses home and her overprotective brothers and wants to return back to the America's. But what she finds is a fiancee that married a English woman and already had children without a word to her. After her brother Thomas refuses to go in search for him, Georgina along with a trusted family friend and protector "Mac" go to England on their own to search for her missing fiancee Malcolm. Its been four years since he was taken by their Navy, and never heard a word from him. Georgina Anderson, has been on the hunt for the fiancee that disappeared during the war with Britain. It's up to her to find the legendary Lady of the Wilds and beg for a way to save her home. Cerys is forced on the run, her only companions a small and irritating fox from the royal garden and the magic in her veins. As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse-the magic-in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything. Cerys knows this all too well: When she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale-inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard. Juba’s scientific contributions are his greatest legacy to the modern world. None of his work survives complete, but we have more than 100 extracts quoted by later writers. He argued, no doubt with a degree of local pride, that the source of the Nile lay in Mauretania, and gave detailed descriptions of the North African elephant. Juba had started writing in Rome (including a history of the city and at least eight volumes on the subject of painting), and in North Africa he produced weighty studies of the region’s geography, history, and culture. The new king seems to have divided his time among the battlefield (there was plenty of “buffering” to be done), the library, and research trips to investigate the flora and fauna of the region. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Martin also notes that not all the characters who survived Game of Thrones will survive A Song of Ice and Fire, and not all of the characters who died on Game of Thrones will did in A Song of Ice and Fire. Martin notes that some things that happen in the later seasons of the show will still happen in The Winds of Winter (and its as-yet unbegun successor, A Dream of Spring), but "not quite in the same ways." But also, "much of the rest will be quite different." 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And Briseis's long-departed ancestors aren't going to let her rest until she accepts her place as the keeper of the terrible power that lies at the heart of the Poison Garden.Ĭinderella Is Dead author Kalynn Bayron brings a message of proud inclusivity to this empowering fantasy about a young woman finding the strength to challenge everything she has been told is true. A hidden altar to a dark goddess, a lineage of witches stretching back to ancient times, and a hidden garden overgrown with the most deadly poisonous plants on earth. And then Briseis inherits an old house from her birth mother and suddenly finds herself with the space and privacy to test her powers for the first time.īut as Briseis starts to bring the house's rambling garden back to life, she finds she has also inherited generations of secrets. It's a power she and her adoptive mothers have spent her whole life trying to hide. Flowers bloom in her footsteps and leaves turn to face her as though she were the sun. 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