Seit dreissig Jahren veranstaltet Lord Robert, Viscount von Marchwood, einen Weihnachtsball. Aber dieses Jahr ist dieser Ball besonders wichtig. Seine Tochter, Lady Audrey, ist soeben achtzehn Jahre alt geworden und soll bei dieser Gelegenheit in die Gesellschaft eingefuhrt werden. Es ist Lady Audreys erst, beste und vermutlich auch einzige Chance einen passenden Ehemann zu finden. Vor allem, da sich hartnackige Geruchte halten, das Vermogen der Marchwoods sei bald versiegt. Aber die dickkopfige Lady Audrey ist sich gar nicht sicher, ob sie einen Ehemann will. Seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter ist...

Eine zuckersusse Liebesgeschichte zum Valentinstag. Jonathan Brodie ist der einzige Sohn von Sir Roger Brodie und seiner Frau. Sein ganzes Leben hat er in dem Dorf Maplebridge verbracht. Penelope Baldwin ist die Tochter des Blumenhandlers von Maplebridge, der sie als Baby adoptierte. Die beiden konnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein, doch eines frostelnd kalten Januarmorgens kreuzen sich ihre Wege - ein zufalliges Treffen, das ihr Schicksal fur immer verandert. Bald erfahrt Jonathan, dass Penelope nicht das stille Mauerblumchen ist, fur das er sie gehalten hat, sondern eine schone Rose, die nur...

Jonathan Brodie, the only son of Sir Roger and Lady Brodie, has lived in the village of Maplebridge his whole life. Penelope, the daughter of the local florist, was adopted by the Baldwins when she was just a baby. They could not be more different and yet, one blustery January morning, their paths collide in a chance encounter that is destined to change their lives forever. Jonathan soon discovers that Penelope is far from the quiet wallflower that she first seems, but rather a beautiful rose just waiting for its chance to bloom. After spending more and more time together, it's not long...

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you... When teacher Leo Tyndale moves to the small English town of Sandercombe after five years in India, he does not expect that his time at the local school will be a long one. But a brief encounter with the beautiful -and fiercely independent - Hestia Royce soon has him changing his mind. As he settles in to his new position, Leo finds that his mind increasingly wanders to Hestia. She is known by his pupils as 'the strange woman', who left Sandercombe to be married, Hestia returned without a husband to a town rife with rumours....

Seasons of Love sees all four of Emily Murdoch's regency romance novellas brought together for the very first time in this beautifully moving collection. A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE Every year for thirty years Lord Robert, the Viscount of Marchwood, throws a Christmas Ball. But this year the Marchwood Christmas Ball holds extra importance as his daughter, Lady Audrey, has just turned 18 and it is time for her coming out. With the Marchwood family fortune all but gone, Lord Robert is keen to secure her a prosperous match. But when a handsome, masked stranger threatens to steal Audrey's heart, will it...

Every year for thirty years Lord Robert, the Viscount of Marchwood, throws a Christmas Ball. But this year the Marchwood Christmas Ball holds extra importance. His daughter, Lady Audrey, has just turned eighteen, and it is time for her to be introduced into society. It is Audrey's first, best, and potentially only chance of securing a husband. Especially seeing as there are rumours that the Marchwood money is running dry. But headstrong Lady Audrey is not sure she wants a husband. Ever since her mother died she has been left to her own devices. Though she is very close to her father, it was...

Normandy. 1067. England has been brought to its knees by the invasion of William the Conqueror and his Norman troops. Lady Catheryn, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, is taken against her will to Normandy after the invasion. She arrives, a prisoner, at the castle of Lord Geffrei, a ruthless invader who hopes to gain a ransom for her. Her husband Selwyn is dead, slain in the Conquest, and her daughter Annis has been left behind in England at the mercy of the invaders. Catheryn is treated like an animal, and left in a cell until she begins to despair. When Queen Matilda, William the Conqueror's wife,...

Anglo-Saxon England. Having built a rich empire and keen to win the favour of the royal court, Hilda and AElfgard have little time for their daughter, Catheryn. But one man, Selwyn, is intrigued by the intelligent and high-spirited girl. Selwyn sends Catheryn a love letter as a joke, disguising it as though it is from one of her father's thanes. Catheryn is fascinated by the letter, and cannot imagine who would be capable of sending a poem of such imagination and beauty. When Selwyn offers to help Catheryn identify the mysterious suitor, she accepts, and they start to realise that they have...