Barbara Metzger

An Early Engagement

The Primrose Path

Miss Ada Westlake has two treasures at her fingertips. One is a cache of coins she discovered in her orchard, and the other is her friend (and sometimes suitor), Viscount Ashmead. She has been advised to keep a tight hold on both. But Ada must discover for herself that the greatest gift of all is true love.

Miss Westlake's Windfall

Queen of Diamonds

Lord Heartless

Adventurous Lady Emilyanne had no one but Viscount Stokely to turn to when her guardian tried to force her to marry his awful stepson. So the viscount married her while on leave and returned to his army unit. Which left Lady Em to attend to estate and ton matters pretty much as she saw fit—even if he didn’t quite agree with her methods. Regency Romance by Barbara Metzger; originally published by Fawcett Crest

Escaping to the country after being thrice engaged against his will, Alexander "Ace" Endicott, Earl of Carde, while searching for his long-lost stepsister, is dealt a new hand when he encounters Nell, a captivating woman who challenges his views on marriage. Original.

Ace of Hearts

Rosellen Lockharte, languishing on her deathbed, takes up a poisoned pen to condemn the man who has ruined her short life, Viscount Stanford, but she lives to be rescued by the very same heartbreaker

Miss Lockharte's Letters

When Amanda Carville, who has been shunned by polite society after being accused of murdering her stepfather, asks for his help in proving her innocence, Viscount Rexford, dealing with his own troubles, refuses to get involved, until his heart gives him no choice. Original.

Truly Yours

Marc Weller

The study is the result of an international collaborative project supported and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This multi-year venture has involved a research team of some forty chapter authors and commentators. The research has been accompanied by three major workshops on project methodology, initial chapter reviews and final discussions. A point was made of including both scholars and practitioners involved in power-sharing settlements in the review process, in the hope that more would be learned about the actual implementation of the settlements under investigation. The project team was united in its wish to explore whether long-standing secessionist conflicts have been addressed effectively through the significant number of self-determination settlements that were generated in response to the wave of internal conflicts of the 1990s. It was also committed to testing whether consociationalist and integrative techniques of conflict settlement really are as mutually exclusive as is sometimes supposed, or whether they can in fact be mutually reinforcing. Finally, the project derives its impetus from the necessity to critically rethink the doctrine of self-determination. One may question whether its traditional, restrictive interpretation will be adequate in confronting the wide variety of future challenges to the territorial integrity of states.

Complex Power-Sharing in Theory and Practice

Settling Self-Determination Disputes

20pt Large Print Edition! Give the gift of love this holiday season with five romantic, magical Christmas stories-and feel as if you've just been kissed beneath the mistletoe. Originally published in separate anthologies, and out of print for many years, these Christmas-themed novellas by legendary Regency romance author Barbara Metzger are in one volume for the first time ever! The spirits of a knight and his lady must help their descendant find a bride in order to break The Christmas Curse. A lord without a fortune becomes an unwilling guardian to an orphaned girl when he provides A Home for Hannah. A down-at-the-heels benefactor finds that a single penny-his last-is worth more than riches when it brings him face-to-face with a breathtakingly beautiful Christmas angel in The Lucky Coin. On the most magical night of the year, a practical young widow makes a wish. When fate sends her an old magician claiming to be The Enchanted Earl of her dreams-and wanting a kiss-she wonders if, just once, she should let herself believe in magic.... For Christmas, two little angels hatch devilish plans to get an elusive lord to marry their beloved guardian in Wooing the Wolf.

An Enchanted Christmas

To save her reputation, Imogene Macklin, a disgraced soldier's widow who is pregnant and alone, agrees to marry Sir Coryn of Ardsley, who, unbeknownst to her, has been forced by the devil to atone for his former life as a Crusader.

The Hourglass

When Rowanne Wimberley meets Carey Delverson, one of the Delverson Devils, at Almack’s, he is about to join his regiment in the Peninsula. Carey’s service is grueling, and his new sense of responsibility makes him offer (unsuccessfully) for a young relative. Rowanne isn’t waiting for this devil to capture her, but she’s in no hurry to settle for a man she doesn’t love. Regency Romance by Barbara Metzger; originally published by Fawcett

The Luck of the Devil

A war hero and Regency nonpareil, Viscount Knowle becomes a laughingstock when his late aunt leaves Primrose Cottage to her collection of dogs, under the doting care of her former companion, Miss Angelina Armstead

Never did Alexander "Ace" Endicott, the Earl of Cards, imagine himself to be thrice-betrothed against his will by the doings of three desperate debutantes. So he escapes London to his property in the country, where he follows through with his deceased father's last wish-to find his long-lost step-sister. His search takes a detour and leads him to Nell, who piques his interest. Now, Ace may have to reconsider his rejection of marriage and see if two mismatched lovers can make a royal pair.

Well-bred orphan Cristabel Swann tolerates her thankless teaching job -- until her uncle dies unexpectedly. Arriving in London to claim her inheritance, Cristabel encounters something else entirely -- a loutish naval captain who won all of the old man's property in an evening's gambling, leaving his niece nothing but debt! To his credit, Captain Chase recognizes her desperation and offers her a position as landlady of a "boarding house" in Kensington. Cristabel is happy with her new situation and with the female tenants of the house. They are exceedingly well dressed for working-class girls and have many admirers. Cristabel soon has a beau of her own -- the dashing Lord Winstoke, who seems just a tad familiar, both in appearance and in attitude. Of course, Cristabel maintains propriety in every situation. But she cannot understand why the men she meets are so forward. Could it be the company she keeps? CUPBOARD KISSES won Romantic Times magazine's Reviewer's Choice Award and the Best Regency Comedy award.

Cupboard Kisses

A war hero's widow, Graceanne still has her adorable three-year-old twin boys to love--until she receives a letter from her late husband's demanding cousin, Leland Warrington, the Duke of Ware. It seems that the duke--thirty-two years old, twice widowed, and with no forseeable plans to marry again--is in desperate need of an heir. And seeing that Graceanne has two boys, she could easily spare one. Well, couldn't she? Graceanne is too strong a woman not to stand up to Leland's completely unreasonable expectations. When she does, she unleashes a hair-raising maternal fury that takes Leland by surprise. He also finds it all, quite frankly, magnificent. So much so that he's now entertaining thoughts of winning Graceanne's heart, as well as an heir--a romantic scheme that grows more mischievous, and more unpredictable, with each passing winter night.

Father Christmas

Allison Lane

Amanda McCabe

Sandra Heath

Edith Layton

A magical collection of Regency romances follows five unlikely couples as they get a special gift during the holidays, and includes Amanda McCabe's Upon a Midnight Clear, in which a scarred naval captain finds his life forever changed when he encounters a woman rumored to be a witch. Original.

Regency Christmas Magic

When one of the Duke of Caswell’s painted portraits started talking to him, he knew he’d best find treatment for his problem. Sir Osgood Bannister offered such a program—and expected his niece, Lilyanne, to carry out the bland regimen. Lilyanne was not at all the sort of woman the duke would ordinarily meet—and her innocence intrigued him. But that wouldn’t do in his world, would it? Regency Romance by Barbara Metzger; originally published by Signet

The Painted Lady

Carla Kelly

Emma Jensen

Presents five stories set in Regency, England that capture the essence of Christmas.

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