Bøger af Misty Urban

Eleven years ago, ragtag near-orphan Harriette Smythe made a lifelong friend when she defended the young Earl of Renwick from the village boys persecuting him for his stammer and clubfoot. When Ren returns to London with all the polish of his Grand Tour and the need to take up his duties, he finds a woman in crimson silk shimmying through his window: Harriette, all grown up into a delectable woman, who offers him a startling proposal.Harriette, now an artist, has been helping support her eccentric household with salacious sketches that have made her notorious, but she needs to redeem herself with a respectable-and rich-clientele if she wants to keep a roof over their heads. She offers Renwick a trade: she'll help him select a bride from London's marriageable maidens if he agrees to sit for a portrait.Ren soon falls back under the spell of wild, willful Harriette, the only person who thinks he's perfect just as he is. But winning the one woman he cannot have will mean risking his life to free her from the grip of her past and the forces bent on tearing them apart.

In 1776 London, orphaned vicar's daughter Amaranthe Illingworth supports her small household with her skills as a copyist, but her quiet routine is shattered the day three children show up at her door seeking aid from her brother, their tutor. Behind them storms in Malden Grey, would-be barrister and their erstwhile guardian, who accuses Amaranthe of kidnapping the young Duke of Hunsdon and his siblings.The former duke's illegitimate son, Malden Grey has learned to live by his wits, and he's told he'll advance to the bar if he takes a proper wife. As she helps him restore order at Hunsdon House, Amaranthe seems a likely candidate-if only Mal can unearth the truth behind the rumors that she's been forging, and selling, priceless medieval manuscripts. Amaranthe, in the meantime, needs to stay on her guard lest the charming Malden Grey steal her heart at the same time she's hoping to borrow from his library a priceless book that could make her fortune.But when Mal's foray into Amaranthe's past yields a discovery that will change both of their destinies, they'll have to fight together to clear their names and stake out a future together-if either has a future at all.

When the war-scarred Viscount Penrydd washes up in 1799 Newport minus his memory, Gwenllian ap Ewyas decides not to tell him he owns, and threatened to sell, the property she's made a refuge for her and other lost souls.Gwen found healing from her haunted past by making St. Sefin's into a sanctuary for the hurt and abandoned, and she'll do anything to preserve the place-including lie to the English lord who owns it until she can win him to her cause. But making Penrydd her stableboy is a dangerous game, especially when he's a target for an outside menace moving into Newport. Even more unsettling for Gwen, under the scars and arrogance is a man she can admire and possibly love. But as shadows from both their pasts appear at St. Sefin's, Gwen risks losing her livelihood, her home, and her heart when Penrydd learns just how far she's gone to deceive him.

Everlasting Love is in the air in Playa Negra, Costa Rica, and it's not only the couples who've been together for years who are enjoying the warm breezes and holiday spirit, it's their children too. And, as with everything that'd brought The Letter Club couples together, their kids' road to happiness is fraught with hurdles to overcome, and family complications. But these kids are lucky to have parents who know how to navigate the tumultuous waters of becoming a couple, and they were raised with the deep and abiding love that has kept their parents behaving like teenagers. Deep Dive Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, he walks into mine... Actually, it's a holiday resort in the Seychelles, and after what he did to Saba in Paris, Anton Olivier can get right back on that chopper and find another woman to make crazy. Saba Sweet doesn't feel any holiday good cheer toward the man who broke her heart, but he has other ideas, including making promises she wishes are true, and convincing her to believe in him.

SCENE TWO: TAKE FOUR Dale's in New Mexico licking her wounds. It's hard getting over a broken marriage, but seeing her daughter move on with her dad and his new wife is so much tougher. When a stalker walks up the pathway of the inn where Dale's working as the landscape designer, she attacks him with a mega blast from the garden hose. Turns out he's a new guest, and instead of booking in, he decided to take a tour around the inn. She's not in the mood to play host, not even when she learns he's Timothy Kay, one of Hollywood's top film directors who's scouting for a new location for his next movie. When the need to make amends overtakes her good judgment, she offers to give him a tour of the town. As the saying goes: one thing leads to another. Getting close to the hot A-lister is cut short when social media explodes with death threats from leaked compromising pictures of her daughter and her best friend. Once catastrophe is averted, Dale doesn't know if fixing her relationship with Timothy a possibility or just another in a long line of disappointments and heartbreak.

The Necessaries: Stories is a collection of short tales that will introduce readers to a group of characters you can't help but fall in love with as they live outrageously through what we all do only to come out the other end with a better view of that which truly holds importance, to them.