Laura Lee Guhrke Knihy

Dear Lady Truelove . . Lady Truelove may be London's most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need a tutor, not a new mother. Yet Jamie, too, is learning surprising lessons-about desire, seduction, and passionate second chances .

Marie Martingaleová vyrůstala jako dcera kuchaře na panském sídle, vždy srozuměna s tím, do jaké společenské vrstvy patří a jaký život ji čeká. Nemohla tušit, že v sedmnácti se do ní zamiluje mladší syn domácího pána! Tajný sňatek je už na spadnutí, ale v té chvíli zakročí starší bratr Filip. Přece si kuchařova dcera nemůže vzít šlechtice! Přesvědčen o své pravdě Filip chystaný sňatek překazí. Uplyne dlouhých dvanáct let a Marie hledá místo, kde by si mohla zřídit vlastní pekárnu. Náhoda tomu chtěla, aby zvolila prostory v sousedství Filipova domu. Po letech se nečekaně potkávají – ona, které zhatil štěstí, a on, který... který v ní nachází zalíbení. Filip si to ale odmítá připustit: takový nerovný vztah, co by tomu řekli ostatní? Jak ale plyne čas, ve Filipově srdci začnou převažovat city nad smyslem pro rodovou povinnost. Podléhá Mariinu kouzlu stále víc a jednoho dne ji požádá o ruku. K jeho úžasu však Marie odmítá – a Filip pochopí, že ji bude muset o upřímnosti své lásky přesvědčit způsobem, jaký by mu byl ještě nedávno zcela proti mysli...

Miss Emily is hired by the aristocracy to teach young ladies etiquette, but her life changes when she meets the charming older brother of her latest student. She discovers that some rules, especially those regarding love, are meant to be broken.

Dear Lady Truelove, I am a girl of noble family, but I am painfully shy, especially in my encounters with those of the opposite sex . . . For Clara Deverill, standing in for the real Lady Truelove means dispensing advice on problems she herself has never managed to overcome. There’s nothing for it but to retreat to a tearoom and hope inspiration strikes between scones. It doesn’t—until Clara overhears a rake waxing eloquent on the art of “honorable” jilting. The cad may look like an Adonis, but he’s about to find himself on the wrong side of Lady Truelove. Rex Galbraith is an heir with no plans to produce a spare. He flirts with the minimum number of eligible young ladies to humor his matchmaking aunt, but Clara is the first to ever catch his roving eye. When he realizes that Clara—as Lady Truelove—has used his advice as newspaper fodder, he’s infuriated. But when he’s forced into a secret alliance with her, he realizes he’s got a much bigger problem—because Clara is upending everything Rex thought he knew about women—and about himself. . . .

Fans of Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn will adore this opposites-attract romance featuring a dashing duke, a shy bookshop owner, and a wager that will change their lives forever. Evie Harlow runs a quaint little bookshop in London, which is the biggest adventure an unmarried woman with no prospects could hope for. Until Maximillian Shaw, Duke of Westbourne, saunters into her shop with a proposition: to win a bet with his friends, he'll turn her into the diamond of the season. The duke might be devilishly attractive, but Evie has no intention of accepting his ludicrous offer. When disaster strikes her shop, however, she's left with little choice but to let herself be whisked into his high-society world. Always happy to help a lady in distress, Max thinks he's saving Evie from her dull spinster's life. He'll help her find a husband and congratulate himself on a job well done. But as shy Evie becomes the shining star he always knew she could be, she somehow steals his heart. And when her reputation is threatened, can Max convince her to choose a glittering, aristocratic life with him over the cozy comfort of her bookshop?

When Jonathan Deverill promised a dying friend he'd be guardian to the man's daughter, he envisioned a girl in pigtails and pinafores, a child he could leave behind in some finishing school. Problem is, his ward is actually a fully grown, defiant beauty whose longing for romance threatens to make his guardianship a living hell.

Daisy Merrick struggles to maintain a job due to her carefree nature. After losing her third job in six months, she finds hope as a theatre critic, but her first review of a popular playwright turns out to be a disaster.

Dear Lady Truelove . . . I have fallen in love, truly and completely in love, for the first time. The man whom I hold in such passionate regard, however, is not of my station. He is a painter, a brilliant artist. Needless to say, my family would not approve . . . Henry, Duke of Torquil, wouldn’t be caught reading the wildly popular “Dear Lady Truelove” column, but when its advice causes his mother to embark on a scandalous elopement, an outraged Henry decides the author of this tripe must be stopped before she can ruin any more lives. Though Lady Truelove’s identity is a closely guarded secret, Henry has reason to suspect the publisher of the notorious column, beautiful and provoking Irene Deverill, is also its author. For Irene, it’s easy to advise others to surrender to passion, but when she meets the Duke of Torquil, she soon learns that passion comes at a price. When one impulsive, spur-of-the-moment kiss pulls her into a scorching affair with Henry, it could destroy her beloved newspaper, her career, and her independence. But in the duke’s arms, surrender is so, so sweet . . .

She thought she was the luckiest woman in London . . Prudence is determined to marry for true love, and after seeing firsthand the splendid chivalry of a certain duke, only one man will do . . But he never expected to fall for Prudence, and when his shocking deception is revealed, he will stop at nothing to win her back . .