Pride & Prejudice, Historical Romance, & More

Polaris Rising

Because the seventh of 9 youngsters, Ada von Hasenberg is aware of that her solely worth to Home von Hasenberg is as a political pawn in an organized marriage. However after watching two of her older sisters get auctioned off to horrible males, Ada refuses to play her half. She flees off-planet and disappears for 2 years.

Ada’s father, fed up together with her rise up, provides a bounty for her secure return. The universe is a giant place, however mercs are in every single place, and Ada is caught. With the merc ship full, she’s pressured to share a cell with Marcus Loch, the Satan of Fornax Zero. Rumor has it he murdered each commanding officer who issued orders in the course of the Fornax Insurrection. All anybody is aware of for positive is that the Royal Consortium desires his head.

Ada has no hassle believing the muscled man chained behind her cell is a killer. However when their ship is attacked by forces from rival Home Rockhurst, Ada should resolve whether or not to belief him—as a result of when you launch the satan, you possibly can’t put him again. And when the assault heralds the opening salvo of a a lot greater warfare, Ada should decide the place her loyalties actually lie.

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If I By no means Met You

If faking love is that this straightforward… how have you learnt when it’s actual?

When her associate of over a decade all of the sudden ends issues, Laurie is left reeling—not solely as a result of they work on the similar legislation agency and she or he has to see him day-after-day. Her as soon as excellent life is in shambles and the considered relationship once more within the age of Tinder is nothing wanting horrifying. When information of her ex’s pregnant girlfriend hits the workplace grapevine, taking the humiliation mendacity down is not an choice. Then an opportunity encounter in a broken-down elevator with the workplace playboy opens up a brand new chance.

Jamie Carter doesn’t imagine in love, however he wants a decent, regular girlfriend to impress their bosses. Laurie desires a scorching new man to present the rumor mill one thing else to speak about. It’s the proper proposition: a fauxmance performed out on social media, with strategically staged images and a selected finish date in thoughts. With the plan hatched, Laurie and Jamie start to flaunt their new couple standing, to the astonishment—and jealousy—of their associates and colleagues. However there’s a high quality line between pretending to be in love and really falling in your charming, good-looking faux boyfriend…

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Pleasure

Pleasure and Prejudice will get remixed on this sensible, humorous, attractive retelling of the basic, starring all characters of coloration, from Ibi Zoboi, Nationwide Guide Award finalist and creator of American Avenue.

Zuri Benitez has satisfaction. Brooklyn satisfaction, household satisfaction, and satisfaction in her Afro-Latino roots. However satisfaction may not be sufficient to save lots of her quickly gentrifying neighborhood from turning into unrecognizable.

When the rich Darcy household strikes in throughout the road, Zuri desires nothing to do with their two teenage sons, at the same time as her older sister, Janae, begins to fall for the charming Ainsley. She particularly can’t stand the judgmental and conceited Darius. But as Zuri and Darius are pressured to search out widespread floor, their preliminary dislike shifts into an surprising understanding.

However with 4 wild sisters pulling her in numerous instructions, cute boy Warren vying for her consideration, and faculty functions hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to search out her place in Bushwick’s altering panorama, or lose all of it.

In a well timed replace of Pleasure and Prejudice, critically acclaimed creator Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural id, class, and gentrification towards the heady magic of past love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved basic.

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A Duke within the Evening

Duke. Scoundrel. Titan of enterprise. August Faulkner is a person of many skills, not the least of which is engaging ladies into his bedchamber. He’s identified—and reviled—for getting and promoting corporations, accumulating scads of cash, and breaking hearts. It’s a status he wears like a badge of honor, and one he intends to maintain.

Clara Hayward, the headmistress of the Haverhall College for Younger Women, alternatively, is above reproach. But when she’s reunited with August, all she will be able to consider is the way in which she felt in his arms as they danced a scandalous waltz ten lengthy years in the past. Though her head is aware of that he’s solely again in her life to take over her household’s enterprise, her coronary heart can’t assist however open to the very duke who might destroy it for good.

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