Heartless

Zusatztext Everyone loves Mary Balogh!   “One of the best!”— New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn   "Balogh is today’s superstar heir to the marvelous legacy of Georgette Heyer! (except a lot steamier!)”— New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips   "With her brilliant! beautiful and emotionally intense writing Mary Balogh sets the gold standard in historical romance."— New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz   "When it comes to historical romance! Mary Balogh is one of my favorites!"— New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James Informationen zum Autor Mary Balogh grew up in Wales and now lives with her husband, Robert, in Saskatchewan, Canada. She has written more than one hundred historical novels and novellas, more than thirty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. They include the Bedwyn saga, the Simply quartet, the Huxtable quintet, the seven-part Survivors’ Club series, and the Westcott series. Klappentext From New York Times bestselling legend Mary Balogh—and the beloved author of Longing, Silent Melody, and Beyond the Sunrise—comes a ravishing novel of passion and duty, love and menace.... Life has taught Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, that a heart is a decided liability. Betrayed by his elder brother, rejected by his fiancée, banished by his father, and shunned by his mother, Luke fled to Paris, where he became the most sought-after bachelor in fashionable society. Ten years later, fate has brought him back home to England as head of the family who rejected him. Unwilling as he is to be involved with them, he must assume responsibility for his younger siblings, the family estate he once loved—and the succession. He faces the prospect of marrying with the greatest reluctance—until he sees beguiling Lady Anna Marlowe across a ballroom one night. Anna, far from being the bright-eyed innocent Luke takes her for, is no more a stranger to the shadows of a painful past than he is. But for her, marriage cannot so easily solve what is wrong in her life—not when a tormentor stalks her to the very doors of Bowden Abbey, where Luke and Anna must learn to trust in each other or risk any chance they may have for a happy future.   Dear Reader, I am very delighted that Heartless (with its companion piece, Silent Melody , to follow next month) is being republished in this lovely edition. It has one of my all-time favorite heroes. The story is set in eighteenth-century England, an earlier era than my usual Regency setting. I made the change deliberately so that I could dress up my characters in all the splendid plumage of the time. Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, has just returned from Paris, undisputed center of the fashionable world, having unexpectedly inherited his title and position as head of the family that had spurned and exiled him many years before. Now he has power to wield and old scores to settle, and he looks upon his world with a cold and dangerous cynicism. I enjoyed creating that very masculine aspect of his character, but I positively reveled in clothing him in all his Parisian splendor. He attends a ball early in the book in a wide-skirted scarlet coat and a gold waistcoat, both sparkling with gold embroidery, while white lace froths at his neck and wrists. He wears satin knee breeches with white stockings and jeweled shoes with high red heels. His long hair is powdered and crisply curled at the sides and bagged at the back, and he wears cosmetics and carries a fan. But he also carries at his side a jewel-hilted sword with which he is said to be more than ordinarily adept, and for all the languid grace of his manner, there is that look in his eyes—a look he soon directs across the ballroom at Lady Anna Marlowe. And so begins a passion-fraught love story that kept me pounding the keybo...

Product details

• Authors: Mary Balogh
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2015
• EAN: 9780451469731
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46973-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Series: A Georgian Romance; Georgian Romance; A Georgian Romance
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature