Bücher von Julia London

Includes an excerpt from The dangers of deceiving a viscount.

The Lockhart brothers' quest for an ancient family heirloom has proved fruitless...and an unpaid loan has left them indebted to their rival, Payton Douglas. With no recourse, the Lockharts offer Payton their most valuable commodity: their sister Mared's hand in marriage. Raised to despise the Douglas name, Mared outwardly agrees to the marital bargain for the sake of her family; secretly, she concocts a plan to ensure Payton will not wish to marry her. Seeing the handsome, virile laird Payton face-to-face, however, threatens a centuries-long enmity -- and awakens Mared's deepest desires. But she will not be swayed. Choosing to repay her family's debt by working as his housekeeper instead of wedding him, she finds herself inexorably drawn to the man she vowed to resist. Then a profound discovery changes everything....Now, no longer bound by a promise to her family, Mared must let her heart decide if the laird Payton is the enemy of past legend -- or if he holds the key to a future filled with a passion beyond her wildest dreams.

New York Times bestselling author Julia London is at her best in this sensual Regency where a Duke must pretend his mistress is his wife.Kate Bergeron is the beautiful and mysterious former mistress of a cloth merchant...and the latest beauty to capture the interest of the Prince of Wales. Mired in a disastrous divorce, the Prince attempts to distract attention from his next amorous pursuit by ordering Grayson Christopher, the eligible Duke of Darlington, to pretend to London society that he is having an affair with Kate. When Grayson reluctantly agrees to his Prince's demand, he finds the lady no more willing than he is. Kate will grudgingly act the part in public, but her favors are not for sale to any man. As Grayson and Kate mimic ardor for the world to see, they find what started as a deception becoming all too real. And when passion flames into love, their predicament becomes extreme. For while marriage between a duke and a courtesan could never happen, Kate knows in her heart that she is willing to accept nothing less...

Originally published in New York by Pocket Books, 2010.

Ein Mann, so sündig wie der Teufel ...Miss Grace Cabot braucht dringend einen reichen Mann, um den Ruin von ihrer Familie abzuwenden. Deshalb stellt sie dem vermögenden Lord Amherst eine Falle: Wenn er zu ihrem heimlichen Rendezvous erscheint, wird sie ihn in eine kompromittierende Situation bringen und ihn so zur Ehe zwingen. Und kaum betritt sie den dunklen Raum, spürt sie seinen hungrigen Mund auf ihrem und das Reißen des Stoffs über ihren Brüsten ... Doch als das Licht angeht, sieht sie schockiert, wer sie da schamlos verführt hat: nicht der charmante Lord Amherst, sondern sein düsterer Bruder Jeffrey, Earl of Merryton! Man sagt, er sei mit dem Teufel im Bunde - und ihn muss Grace nun heiraten!»London weiß, wie man Pageturner schreibt.« Publishers Weekly

»Ich soll was für Sie tun?« George Easton traut seinen Ohren nicht. Hat Miss Honor Cabot ihn tatsächlich gebeten, die Verlobte ihres Stiefbruders zu kompromittieren? Die verzweifelte Debütantin nennt ihm sogar einen guten Grund: Besagte Dame droht damit, den Cabot-Schwestern die gesellschaftliche Stellung zu rauben. Halb amüsiert, halb beeindruckt lässt der uneheliche Sohn eines Adligen sich auf das riskante Spiel ein. Schließlich ist er berüchtigt für seine Affären. Doch nur allzu bald wird ihm klar, dass er viel lieber die erfrischend unkonventionelle Miss Honor verführen würde ...

A woman's desire...With dreams of a great romantic love, Abigail Carrington sails to England to marry the man she has loved since childhood, Michael Ingram, Marquis of Darfield. She believes her betrothed is a generous and noble man who has been longing for her. But the handsome man waiting for her at the altar is a dark, brooding stranger who rushes her into marriage, then abandons her at his country estate. Only the passion of Michael's kiss gives her hope that theirs can be more than a marriage of convenience.A man's need... With scandal shadowing his past, Michael, the Devil of Darfield, had no need for a wife. Remembering only the little hellion who made life miserable for him aboard her father's ship, he resents the agreement he made to marry her so he could save his ancestral home. Though determined to ignore her, he cannot stop thinking about his lovely violet-eyed bride. Her beauty tempts him. Her charm bedevils him. He tries to drive her away until he almost loses her. Then he vows to regain her love—before it is too late....