Bøger af Elizabeth Ellen Carter

The Past Casts a Shadow Over a Second Chance For Love.... Palermo, 1810 Morwena Gambino is struggling to keep her family's business going against mounting troubles. Her widowed father, once shrewd, is now increasingly forgetful, letting debts mount and disavowing his sons. Morwena runs the shop behind his back, forced to hide her enterprise not only from her father but also her bitter older brother. In Tunisia, Tewodros "Jonathan" Afua is struggling to stay alive. Once an Ethiopian prince, he is a captive of the corsairs who slaughtered his wife and children. When a US naval bombardment provides an opening for escape, Jonathan falls in with a seemingly deranged English pirate. Aboard Kit Hardacre's rundown ship with its ragtag crew, Jonathan learns the real reason he was taken by slavers. Reluctantly joining Hardacre's crew, he meets Morwena in Palermo. The fiery young Sicilian woman is the opposite of his quiet reserve, but he is attracted to her despite mourning for his late wife. As he and Morwena grow closer, it emerges that they have something in common - secret betrayal by those close to them - and they must count what they're willing to risk for a future together. ***** Read all three books in the Heart of the Corsair series: Captive of the Corsairs Revenge of the Corsairs Shadow of the Corsairs

Bluestocking Sophia Green's future is uncertain. Orphaned as a child and raised by the wealthy Cappleman family, she has become the companion to her attractive younger cousin, Laura, while harboring to her breast an unrequited love for Laura's diffident brother. Sea captain Kit Hardacre's past is a mystery - even to him. Kidnapped by Barbary Coast pirates at the age of 10, he does not remember his parents or even his real name. All he recalls are things he would rather forget. When Laura's reputation is threatened by a scandal, Sophia suggests weathering the storm in Sicily with their elderly uncle, a prominent archaeologist. Their passage to Palermo is aboard Hardacre's ship, but the Calliope, like its captain, is not all it seems. Both have only one mission - to rid the world of the evil pirate slaver Kaddouri or die in the attempt. Initially disdainful of the captain's devil-may-care attitude, Sophia can't deny a growing attraction. And Kit begins to see in her a woman who could help him forget the horrors of his past. Sophia allows herself to be drawn into the shallows of Kit's world, but when the naive misjudgment of her cousins sees Laura abducted, Sophia is dragged into dangerous depths that could cost her life or her sanity in a living hell.

A touch a kindness is all it takes to warm the coldest heart.Winter has had his heart broken a time or two. And he's tired of his well-meaning family trying to set him up with yet another vapid debutante. His attitude to attending a winter house party is frosty indeed until he meets fellow guest Caroline, a widow with a young son.As Christmas draws near Julian finds there is warmth in Winter's heart, after all.Read free in Kindle Unlimited!(Note: This story was first published as part of the Bestselling Boxed set Stars are Brightly Shining, November 2019)

Can love survive a dark heart? Rome, 235 A.D. A series of ritual murders of young boys recalls memories of Rome's most wicked emperor. Magistrate Marcus Cornelius Drusus has discovered the cult extends to the very heart of Roman society. Despite his personal wealth and authority, Marcus is a slave to his past - conflicted by his status as an adopted son, bitterly betrayed by his wife and forced to give up his child. Kyna knows all about betrayal. Sold into slavery by her husband to pay a gambling debt, she found herself in Rome, far from her home in Britannia. Bought by a doctor, she is taught his trade and is about to gain her freedom when her mentor is murdered by the cult. When the same group makes an attempt on her life, Kyna is forced to give up her freedom and accept Marcus' protection. With no one to trust but each other, mutual attraction ignites into passion.But how far will Marcus go for vengeance when he learns the cult's next victim is his son? Can the woman who is free in her heart heal the man who is a slave in his?

Can new love break the curse of an old enmity? England 1867A chance meeting on a train by travel writer Jemima Douglas and historian Dr. Monty Rhodes is more than fortuitous - it is fated. Bound for the same small village in Devon, Jemima and Monty discover that an old church and an even more ancient castle are entwined in a mystery that spans centuries: whatever happened to Isabeau de Bois, the Tudor bride who disappeared on the eve of her wedding? Villagers say the mysterious figure which appears in the castle and the village is the Ghost Bride who beseeches lovers to try to uncover her final resting place. As Monty and Jemima are drawn deeper into the tale, hearts and lives are in danger. (Note: This story was first published as part of the USA Today Bestselling Boxed set Upon a Midnight Dreary, October 2021)

Heav'n has no Rage like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury like a Mother scorn'd. Rescued after two years as a concubine in an Ottoman harem, former debutante Laura Cappleman faces a difficult journey back to normal life. As she travels to Palermo aboard Kit Hardacre's ship, the Calliope, she is deeply traumatized - and pregnant by her kidnapper. Laura rejects the emotional support of her long-time admirer, Calliope First Officer Elias Nash, and her cousin, Sophia, Kit's wife. She withdraws into herself and her art. Finally, after giving birth, she decides to return to London, hoping to erase tormented memories. Emir Selim Omar died on the day of Laura's rescue, but his wickedness lives on in his third wife, Rabia, in whose household Laura was held. The ruthless widow may yet hold on to the power she wielded as mother to the Emir's only male heir. However, as opportunists pick his empire apart, her child dies. When Rabia learns Laura has given birth to a boy, the solution is obvious - the concubine is stolen property and so is the child sired by her late husband. She will take the boy and kill anyone in the way. As Rabia's assassins close in, Elias - both embraced and rejected by the damaged woman he loves, uncertain she will ever return, and alone in Palermo with the child he has given his name - must take the battle to the enemy. Otherwise, there may be nothing for Laura to come home to.

He is a dangerous man. And his darkness runs deep...Book 3 is now available in The King's Rogues series. Read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!Reduced to genteel poverty following the closure of the family's Cornish tin mine, Alexandra Gedding and her twin are saved from the wrath of angry, unpaid workers by the timely intervention of a secretive stranger.David Manston, the disgraced Baron of Carreg, lives as a hermit in a clifftop cottage, his true identity unknown to everyone in the village - just as he prefers. His offer of mediation was to be a one-time act of kindness, but it does not stop Allie trying to pry into his past nor lessen his own attraction to the beautiful gentlewoman.In the midst of strange happenings at the rundown mine, a figure emerges from Allie's childhood - her notorious godmother, Lady Abigail, who possesses the means to lay bare David Manston's darkest secret...Will the truth bring Allie into his arms, or drive her away for good?The King's RoguesBook 1 - Live and Let SpyBook 2 - SpyfallBook 3 - Spy Another DayBook 4 - Father's Day (Xmas Novella)

To find his future he must own his past...Raised as an Englishman, Armand Danger, Comte de Ytres, is troubled by a dream from his childhood that leaves him speculating on his French past.He is convinced an elaborate clock belonging to his late father, executed in the French Revolution, holds the answers he seeks.Miss Jade Bridges works as a valuer in her family's London antiques shop and auction house. One day she receives mysterious letter from an anonymous client willing to pay any price for a very specific statue clock.While in pursuit of the clock, Jade and Armand meet and there's immediate attraction. But how can it amount to anything when they are rivals for the very same object?As the couple grow closer and attraction deepens, they agree to join forces to find the timepiece together.Then an antiques dealer is killed. It appears someone else is willing to extract a fatal price to possess the clock for themselves.What is it about this curio for the count that someone is willing to commit murder for it?Gems of LondonDeceiving the DukeA Curio for The CountThe Elusive EarlThe Matchmaking Marchioness

Revolution in France, rebels in England, and one woman caught in the crossfire...The powerful sequel to Moonstone ObsessionFor her unwitting participation in a plot to embezzle the Exchequer, Lady Abigail Houghall has spent the last two years exiled to the city of Bath. A card sharp, sometime mistress, and target of scandalous gossip by the London Beau Monde, Lady Abigail plots to escape her gilded cage as well as the prudish society that condemns her. But the times are not easy. France is in chaos, the King has been executed, and whispers of a similar revolution are stirring in England. And because of Abigail's participation in the robbery plot, the Spymaster of England is blackmailing her into passing him information about the members of London's upper crust.When dashing English spy Daniel Ridgeway takes a seat at her card table and threatens to expose her for cheating, Abigail has no choice but to do as he demands: seduce the leader of the revolutionaries and learn what she can about their plot. As she's drawn deeper into Daniel's dangerous world--from the seedy backstreets of London to the claustrophobic catacombs of a war-torn Paris--she realizes an even more dangerous fact: she's falling in love with her seductive partner. And the stakes of this game might just be too high--even for her.

The attraction between Selina Rosewall and Sir James Mitchell, Lord of Penventen, is mutual, but his investigation for the Crown into wreckers off the Cornish coast uncovers political machinations that threaten to draw England into the violent wake of the French Revolution. Can James protect Selina from danger that threatens her very life?

In her first posting as governess, Ella Montgomery discovers beautiful Blackheath Manor hides family secrets and suppressed passions. Mysterious piano music in the darkness of night draws Ella to the talented Thomas Worsley, the brother of her employer, the Earl of Renthorpe. Grievously wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, Thomas is held prisoner at Blackheath by more than his blindness and scars. Driven by bitter jealousy, the Earl has ensured Thomas is only a memory, his name etched on a marble memorial in the Bedfordshire village graveyard. Drawn together by their love of music, Ella and Thomas begin a clandestine affair, but how far will the Earl go to keep his family's secret?Nocturne is a novella from Elizabeth Ellen Carter whose full-length titles include Warrior's Surrender, Moonstone Obsession and Moonstone Conspiracy, the Roman era thriller Dark Heart and the three book Heart of the Corsairs series.. Australian Romance Today's pick of the Most Anticipated Romances of 2016.

In 1890 London, a diamond thief has left Scotland Yard clueless. Aspiring lawyer Caro Addison investigates a suspect of her own - the handsome Tobias Black, a magician known as The Dark Duke. But the art of illusion means not everything is as it seems, in both crime and affairs of the heart. A light-hearted Christmas mystery and romance novella.

Warrior's Surrender is a romance thriller by Elizabeth Ellen Carter set in 1077 Northumbria. Lady Alfreya of Tyrswick offers herself hostage to Norman Baron Sebastian de la Croix to save her brother's life. She finds Sebastian is not the monster she feared but he is a man with a secret that could destroy them both.