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(Disclaimer: This is not a new title; it is a reworking of "Captain Wentworth's Persuasion" from Ulysses Press.) The love affair behind Jane Austen's classic, Persuasion, rests at the heart of this retelling from Captain Frederick Wentworth's point of view. He loved her from the moment their eyes met some eight years prior, but Frederick Wentworth is determined to prove to Anne Elliot that she made a mistake by refusing him. Persuaded by her family and friends of his lack of a future, Anne had sent him away, but now he is back with a fortune earned in the war, and it is Anne, whose ...

A brisk early November Hyde Park morning is shattered by a child’s scream. How two adults react in those next few desperate moments sets the plot in motion in this Pride and Prejudice alternative focusing on 21-year-old Kitty Bennet.

At fifty-nine, Victoria Sterling has perfected the art of not feeling. Until one man reminds her what it means to be alive. Three years after finding her husband Daniel collapsed in his beloved rose garden, Victoria moves through her thirty-seven-room mansion like a ghost. She's transformed Sterling Vineyards into a profit-generating machine, but she's become one herself—processing information with ruthless efficiency while tasting nothing of the life she once savored. Her artist's studio gathers dust. The wine library remains untouched. Daniel's antique clocks count down the days until ...

It's 1862, during the reign of Queen Victoria in England. Lady Patricia Spencer of London inherits the family fortune - which includes a Keep in Scotland, a mysterious medallion that can bring hope of a better life to so many if put into the right hands.

The Symphony of Remembrance Margaret Walsh never expected to fall in love again at fifty-eight, especially not in the sterile hallways of a nursing home where she visits her Alzheimer's-stricken mother every single day. Three years after losing her husband Thomas, she's built walls around her heart as carefully as she's built her quiet routine of work, visits, and avoiding the piano that once brought her joy. But then she hears the music. James Harrington plays Debussy in the sunroom every afternoon for his wife Caroline, who hasn't recognized him in months. When Margaret finally works up ...

Una vuelta de tuerca a los clásicos romances de regencia inglesa. —¿Quién demonios es ella? ¿Es inglesa? —La verdad es que no estoy seguro. —Pero ¿pertenece a una buena familia o es una mujer del pueblo llano que se gana la vida? —Eso tampoco lo sé. —¿Se llama realmente señorita Smith? —Podría ser, no lo tengo claro. —Y por último, ¿es una dama honrada en la que se puede confiar? —Ojalá lo supiera. Y tú, ¿quieres averiguar de qué misteriosa mujer estamos hablando? Pues sumérgete en la historia cuanto antes. Tras la muerte de su padre y el paso del título de ...

The Lady Dicks dicktect history, mystery and paranormal tales from around the world. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Tae, Nikki and Andrea are a comedic trio that cover some of life’s biggest mysteries and peskiest ghosts. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

AITA for sabotaging my ex-company's AI system during a live investor presentation? I (28F) used to work at Helix Technologies developing AI frameworks until they fired me and replaced me with AIVA, the system I helped create. They said my "emotional decision-making was inefficient." After 78 job rejections, Alexander (35M), CEO of rival company Prometheus Tech, hired me to build ethical AI that works WITH humans instead of replacing them. Here's where it gets complicated: Alexander and I have been getting close while working on Project Synapse together. Like, midnight-strategy-sessions-...

A Pride and Prejudice variation. After the Netherfield Park ball, and the departure of its inhabitants, the Bennet family was struck with a devastating event. Elizabeth Bennet is determined to take a position as a lady's companion, which leads to her life being put in jeopardy. Will the culprit bring about her ruination or even succeed in his plot to eliminate her?

A Pride and Prejudice fanfiction variation. What if Mr Bennet was friends with Darcy's father? And what if an arrangement was made for Darcy to marry the first Miss Bennet, Jane? What would happen if, years later, Darcy meets Elizabeth, thinking that she is Jane?

Sumérgete en los mundos de la Regencia inglesa. Y abre el corazón y la mente a las sorpresas del amor. 12 años antes de los sucesos de EL MARQUÉS Y LA LADRONA y UN SUEÑO PARA UNA DAMA, en plena era Bridgerton… La sombra de la sospecha es alargada y temible. —Todo comenzó cuando mi hermana Victoria contrató a un bandido para que fingiera cortejarme. —Todo comenzó… cuando la vi. Dos caballeros que dicen ser la misma persona. Una vida en peligro de muerte. Un sinfín de mentiras. Alertada por sus presagios en forma de terribles pesadillas, lady Grace Wellfly ya no sabe en ...

After the untimely death of her husband Toby, Lady Victoria Howard discovers that she possesses the magical gift of time travelling, using an enchanted mirror in her grandmother's attic. During her foray through the mirror, she travels back in time, meeting people linked to her own aristocratic family, several generations earlier, which opens up some interesting questions for Victoria. In steamy, time-travelling adventures that would rival "Outlander", Lady Victoria Howard travels to a variety of different time periods and countries, enjoying exciting new experiences and pleasures.

Teaser Edition! Die Ausbildung beginnt – und diesmal gibt es kein Zurück. Daniel betritt die Academy – als Daniela. Verwirrt. Erregt. Bereit? Unter der strengen Führung von Lady Rosalie beginnt seine Verwandlung: Make-up. Haltung. Gehorsam. Disziplin… Jeder Blick. Jeder Schritt. Gesehen. Geleitet. Geprüft. Und ein kleines Gerät – zwischen den Schenkeln und tief in ihm – zeigt, was wahre Unterwerfung bedeutet. Mehr als ein Hörbuch. Es ist ein Ritual. Ein Spiel mit Kontrolle und Lust. Ein Abstieg in die Tiefen der Sissy-Identität.

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The Bennets’ first born child, Elizabeth Bennet, was overindulged and had no role model to guide her in controlling her temper. Now she has gained quite the reputation. Mr. Bennet must to go to extreme means to force his eldest to consider love. He informs her that none of her sisters may enter society until she has entered into a courtship. When her favorite sister meets a stranger and begins to fall in love, Elizabeth agrees to accept the next courtship offered. But with Elizabeth’s history, who would consider approaching her?

Elizabeth Bennet finds out that she will have to marry Mr. Collins. But Elizabeth doesn’t want to be forced to marry someone she does not love. Luck would have it that she met Darcy at the Netherfield Ball. Elizabeth brought up her wishes not to enter a forced marriage with Mr. Collins. Darcy then tells her his idea of how he can help by marrying her instead, due to being put under pressure by his own family to get married soon. Elizabeth doesn’t know which one would be better - a forced marriage with Mr. Collins or a marriage of convenience with Darcy.

When it comes to betrayal, no one understands the word better than Chrissy Shanice King. After learning her sister Lexi, carried on a two year affair with her husband; she knows her marriage is officially OVER! Discovering, Lexi even set her up to be rape and impregnated as a teenager; helped Chrissy see her sister for what she really is, and that's a scandalous h*e! Finally, setting Maceo free, and disowning Lexi, Chrissy is now focusing on herself. The only thing her heart desires is locating her twins, and building her fashion empire. Even though Chrissy tries her best to escape drama, ...

When Tameshia met Nathan during her freshman year of college, she just knew he was the one for her. But over time, decisions Nathan made caused her to question whether they should continue their relationship. Tired of fighting other females for his attention, Meshia finally reaches the breaking point and ends things for good. She is finally ready to move ahead with her life without the man who stole her heart three years ago.

Her uncle’s pet and her mother's trial, Elizabeth Bennet has always been...different. Blessed with a quick mind and a knack for all things mechanical, sometimes the simplest things — like love — are harder for her to fix. Fitzwilliam Darcy is anything but simple. A gentleman by birth but an engineer at heart, he wastes no time in dismantling Elizabeth’s secret. The gentleman, however, has secrets of his own that cause him to linger, to falter, and then to risk everything.

The Exile: The Countess Visits Longbourn is the second part and conclusion of the Bennet Wardrobe volume, chronicling the life of Kitty Bennet in the Wardrobe’s universe. This novel takes listeners on a journey that stretches from the early 19th into the mid 20th centuries.