[With Bonus Episode !] Including 4 special pages of additional story.In the gardens of a baron's historic manor, Jo meets and falls for March, the gardener. But she's rich, and has always been worried men only want her for her money—that is, until she gets to know March. He sees her for her, and that's all. But one night during a quarrel, his true identity comes to light—he's the baron of the manor! But why would someone like him hide his identity and try to woo her? Is he just after her money after all?

[With Bonus Episode !] Including 4 special pages of additional story.Joanna doesn’t know her husband’s whereabouts. At eighteen she lost her family, but after she married Gabriel, a man from an affluent family, she felt happier that she’d dreamed she could… But on their first night, her hopes were violently shattered. Two years have passed since then and, tired of living her life waiting for him to come home, she has decided to divorce him. But things take a sudden turn with the untimely death of her father-in-law. In order to inherit his vast wealth, she must remain married to her husband for an unbearable year and a day more. When Gabriel finally shows up to the funeral, his kiss will pierce her ice-cold heart!

The intimate story of a unique marriage spanning the heights of British glamour and power that descends into infidelity, manipulation, and disaster through the heart of the twentieth century. DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the royal family taking the Mountbatten name, he was Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War II and the last Viceroy of India. EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN: Once the richest woman in Britain—and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs—she emerged from World War II as a magnetic and talented humanitarian worker who was loved throughout the­ world. From British high society to the South of France, from the battlefields of Burma to the Viceroy's House, The Mountbattens is a rich and filmic story of a powerful partnership, revealing the truth behind a carefully curated legend. Was Mountbatten one of the outstanding leaders of his generation, or a man over-promoted because of his royal birth, high-level connections, film-star looks and ruthless self-promotion? What is the true story behind controversies such as the Dieppe Raid and Indian Partition, the love affair between Edwina and Nehru, and Mountbatten's assassination in 1979?

‘I was completely captivated’ Barbara Erskine The spellbinding new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Anne O’Brien.

Coroner Sir John is caught up in a seafaring conspiracy in this entertaining instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. 1196. When an unidentified body is discovered in the harbour town of Axmouth, twenty miles from Exeter, Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, is summoned to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute – but, as Sir John soon discovers, it was no accident. The victim did not drown, as the manor reeve alleges, but was strangled to death. In the ensuing murder investigation, Sir John is frustrated by what appears to be a conspiracy of silence among the seamen and townsfolk. Just what is the local population trying to hide? It soon becomes clear that some of Axmouth’s inhabitants will go to any lengths to ensure the shocking truth behind the death remains hidden. Sir John will need to muster all his courage, cunning and determination if he is to escape from the town alive . . .

This volume brings together contemporary popular entertainment, current political subjects, and medieval history and culture to investigate the intersecting and often tangled relations between politics, aesthetics, reality and fiction, in relation to issues of morality, identity, social values, power, and justice, both in the past and the present.

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of William Shakespeare.