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Author
Series
Boscastle ; 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disgraced by her past employer, young governess Kate Walcott owes her loyalty to the only woman willing to hire her: the sought-after courtesan Mrs. Georgette Lawson. Georgette entrusts Kate with the care of her unruly children, and the writing of her shocking memoirs, which detail her affairs with famous gentlemen, including the rakehell who promised to marry her, then ruined her.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
One of Venice’s famous courtesans, Valentina, beautiful, cultured, deadly, seduces and kills men the Council of Ten orders her to, but when she’s ordered to kill a fellow assassin--and the man she loves, she must uncover the Council of Ten’s dark agenda, with the help of her fellow courtesans, to save him.
Author
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
He's a master of disguises… but he can't mask true love. Spymaster Harry Harmon's new assignment is to spy on enemies at a country house party. To do that, he'll require a courtesan: learned, truthful, and beautiful… Poor, sensible, smart Simone Ryland has come to Mrs. Burton's bawdy house in search of work. But instead, she finds Harmon in need of her special skills.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"For a man used to getting what he wants, King Rocco has met his match. His courtesan, Ottavia Romolo, insists they sign a legal contract. He would have laughed at such demands from any other woman. But Rocco wants Ottavia more than he could have imagined. Soon Rocco realizes Ottavia is an asset to him beyond the bedroom. And with his legacy in jeopardy, he must marry and produce an heir. Dare he enter into an even more binding union with Ottavia--turning...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Irish Times In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most unusual creature--and meets extraordinary woman-in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire with all the magnetism, originality, and literary magic of The Essex Serpent.One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London....
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Since the age of sixteen, Arabella Beaumont has been happily employed as a highly paid woman of pleasure. True, respectable ladies of the ton would never deign to call at Lustings, her delightful home. Then again, Arabella has no desire to make dreary small talk and sip tea when she could be enjoying the company of amusing, intelligent, and extremely generous gentlemen. But while Arabella's admirers are legion, she also has enemies. A paper knife...
35) Kismet
Author
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Raised in a brothel, Allegra Synnford learned at a young age that survival meant taking charge of her destiny. Now a renowned courtesan skilled in the pleasures of the flesh, she chooses her lovers carefully--vowing never to be vulnerable to any one man. Until a mesmerizing Sheikh strips that control from her...
Author
Series
Chimera ; 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when she becomes courtesan to the Shadow Lord, a revolutionary noble who brings laws and comforts once reserved for the wealthy to all. When her brother, Neri, is caught thieving with the aid of magic, Romy's aristocratic influence is the only thing that can spare his life--and the price is her banishment. Now back in Beggar's Ring, she has just her wits and her own long-hidden sorcery to help her and Neri...
Author
Series
Chimera ; 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Romy and her three partners in crime - a sword master, a silversmith, and her thieving brother - have embraced their roles as the Shadow Lord's agents, using their forbidden magic to accomplish tasks his other spies cannot. Now, they've been tasked with locating a list of powerful men and women pledged to assassinate the tyrant Protector of Mercediare, Cantagna's most dangerous enemy. Then, they must destroy the list before it falls into the Protector's...
38) David
Author
Series
Lonely lords ; 9
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Letty Banks is a reluctant courtesan, keeping a terrible secret that brought her, a vicar's daughter, to a life of vice. While becoming madam of Viscount Fairly's high-class brothel is an absolute financial necessity, Letty refuses to become David's mistress--though their attraction becomes harder to resist the more she learns about the man. David is smitten not only with Letty's beauty, but also with her calm, her kindness, her quiet. David is determined...
39) In Lucia's eyes
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Lucia, a servant girl, is engaged to a young man named Casanova, but flees when stricken with the pox, embarking on a wanderer's life for sixteen years until she is accidentally reunited with Casanova, who has become a legendary lover.
Building a living reality from the bare bones of historical fact in Casanova's memoirs, the author transforms a male tale of betrayal and disillusion into a woman's story of adventure, resilience, enlightenment and,...
40) The spitfire
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Leaving behind her life as a courtesan and madam, Clara Winters is moving far from the sinful life to which she was accustomed in the gaming hell the Devil's Den. Her more reputable and fulfilling endeavor is a music hall for the masses. One night, when she sees a man injured on the streets of East London, she rushes to his aid and brings him home. It's then that she discovers he's Henry March, Earl of Waterson, and a member of Parliament. No good...
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