Bøker av Sylvia Halliday

A duke sets out to seduce an utterly uncouth lady in this historical romance by a RITA finalist... The year is 1725. Lady Gloriana Baniard is a beautiful fish out of water. Brought up on the mean streets of London, she is a brash, blunt, obscene force of nature. But thanks to a brief marriage to a disgraced aristocrat, she is forced to live with his noble family and endure the humiliating process of learning proper ladylike behavior. Rebelling, she runs away to Yorkshire, where she intends to be a blacksmith, a skill at which she excels. She knows she'll need a manservant to front for her. When John Thorne appears, she hires him, stirred as much by his irresistible attraction as by his strength. John Havilland, Duke of Thorneleigh, is an arrogant, indolent gambler and womanizer. Having seen Gloriana just once, he yearns to make her his own. When he learns she has run away from her family, he makes a wild bet with his wastrel companionshe will find the lady and bed her. Disguised as a humble servant, he becomes her assistant, learning the blacksmith trade. The clash of wills between these two proud people creates more sparks than a blacksmith's anvil. As Gloriana learns to be a lady, Thorne learns humilityand desire deepens to love...

The award-winning author of Lysette delivers a ';well-crafted tale' of Western romance ';that will both inspire and pull at your heartstrings' (RT Book Reviews). Seeking to ease her ailing father's mind in his final days, Callie Southgate agrees to marry a mail-order groom coming to Colorado from back east. When she first meets her husband-to-be, she cannot help being timid around the handsome, mysterious man. But when they marry, Callie finds a passion she never knew in his embrace. Con-man and bank robber Jace Greer is given the perfect opportunity to start over when a stagecoach carrying a mail-order groom is ambushed, leaving Callie's future husband dead. Taking on the deceased man's identity as his own, Jace continues to the Southgate home with the hope of leaving his sinister past behind him. But as true love blooms between Jace and Callie, secrets Jace tried to keep buried begin to surface, threatening their futuresand their lives. Will Callie be able to see beyond Jace's transgressions and love him for the man he has become?

An RT BOOK REVIEWS top pick. ';Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous taleas stubborn lovers enter into a clash of wills on board a ship.' RT BOOK REVIEWS Prudence Allbright believes Lord Jamie's declarations of loveso much so that she vows to follow him to the Colonies. It is onboard the ship that will take her to him that she meets the honorable Dr. Ross Manning, and a flame of passion ignites. Ross is determined not to defile the memory of his late wife, but night after night he longs to hold Prudence in his arms. When Prudence discovers Jamie has already gone back to England without her, Ross knows he may have only one last chance to claim Prudence as his own. But can love stand against the secrets of Prudence's past?

';[A] powerful romance brimming over with intense emotions and dark passions' set in 18th-century England from the award-winning author of Lysette (RT Book Reviews). Young, passionate, and willful, Allegra Baniard is out for revenge. After her family had been branded traitors and banished from Shropshire, she was forced to spend eight brutal years as an indentured servant in the Colonies. Now, she has returned to the ancestral home of her once-noble family, vowing to avenge them. But when she meets Greyston Morgan, the new owner of Baniard Hall, he ignites a desire in Allegra's heart that burns as fiercely as her wrath. And even as she tries to hate him, she realizes that she may be sacrificing more than she thought for her vengeance. Caught between her newfound love and a long-simmering hate, Allegra must decide whether to destroy those who wronged her and give up her last chance for happinessor surrender to her deepest desires and betray the ghosts of her family... In this story of unexpected love and retribution, ';fans of historical romance will feel right at home with Halliday's setting... and with her florid dialogue and emotional complexities' (Publishers Weekly).

';Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale. RT BOOK REVIEWS Born the illegitimate daughter of a great French nobleman, Ninon knew only a harsh life of cruelty and hardship. It isnt until the dashing Count of Froissart, Philippe, whisks her off to a different world that she begins to hope for a better future. But she soon learns her new life is hollow, promising unhappiness, not joy. A slave to his powerful title and an unbreakable marriage vow, Philippe's love remains just beyond Ninon's reach. In despair, she runs away and joins a traveling acting company. Can she dare give her heart to Valentin, the handsome and cunning rogue and actor who rules the troupe?

';Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale. RT BOOK REVIEWS Armed only with her wavering courage and her fear that her brother has been captured during the Huguenot uprising against Louis XIII, Marielle Saint-Juste enters the Rebel prison to search him out. But it isnt her wounded brother she finds, but a mysterious strangerand her destiny. In the darkest shadows of a French dungeon, love illuminates a brilliant path for two hearts. Marielle and Andre will face their deepest fears and trials, but their lives will be forever changed.