Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Romance - Historical - Gilded Age

Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison--as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch's most notorious figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the first...

New York City, 1894. To Gramercy Park, bordered by elegant town houses, cloistered behind its high iron fence, comes Mario Alfieri, a celebrated tenor and the toast of Europe. Poised for his premier at the Metropolitan Opera, the summit of society, Alfieri needs a refuge from the clamor of New York's elite . . . and from the eager women who rule it. He finds it, he thinks, at Gramercy Park, in the elegant mansion of the recently deceased Henry Ogden Slade. The house is available, but not quite empty. Clara Adler, Slade's former ward, lives there still, friendless and alone. Who is this...

Set against the turbulent and glamorous backdrop of Prohibition and the rise of the jazz age, Jamie Brenner's "The Gin Lovers" was first published as a six-part e-serial. Now this sensual and romantic story of how one high society woman's passion and courage lead her to love is available for the first time ever as a complete book.

It's 1925, and the Victorian era with its confining morals is all but dead. Unfortunately, for New York socialite Charlotte Delacorte, the scandalous flapper revolution is little more than a headline in the tabloids. Living with her rigid and controlling...

Bittersusser Liebesroman mit eindeutigen erotischen Szenen

Frankreich, 1765: Sie ist eine junge Witwe, die mit ihrem kleinen Sohn vor den Haschern des Konigs fluchtet. Er ist ein an Leib und Seele gezeichneter Kriegsheld, der mit dem Schicksal hadert. Als Claire de Beaufort von Wegelagerern uberfallen wird, bewahrt ein unheimlicher Fremder sie vor dem Schlimmsten. Ihre Erleichterung wahrt allerdings nicht lange, denn ihr Retter ist Julien, Marquis de Sauvigny, ein treuer Gefolgsmann Ludwig XV. und einer der gefurchtetsten Manner Frankreichs. Also verschweigt sie ihm ihre wahre...

Set in New York City's Gilded Age, Joanna Shupe's Avon debut introduces an English beauty with a wicked scheme to win the man she loves--and the American scoundrel who ruins her best laid plans...

Lady Honora Parker must get engaged as soon as possible, and only a particular type of man will do. Nora seeks a mate so abhorrent, so completely unacceptable, that her father will reject the match--leaving her free to marry the artist she loves. Who then is the most appalling man in Manhattan? The wealthy, devilishly handsome financier, Julius Hatcher, of course....

Julius...