"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta. At once retrospective and radically new, [this book] portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...

"When Wicked Comes Calling . . .When a mysterious stranger finds his way into her bedchamber and offers his help in landing a duke, Lady Felicity Faircloth agrees--on one condition. She's seen enough of the world to believe in passion, and won't accept a marriage without it. The Wallflower Makes a Dangerous Bargain . . .Bastard son of a duke and king of London's dark streets, Devil has spent a lifetime wielding power and seizing opportunity, and...

"Virginia Heath's Never Rescue a Rogue, the next book in the Merriwell Sisters series, is filled with whip-smart banter, swoony romance, hilarious mishaps, and twisty reveals that will make you gasp and laugh in delight. Diana Merriwell and Giles Sinclair only tolerate one another for the sake of their nearest and dearest. Everyone believes that the two of them are meant to be together, but Diana and Giles know that their constant pithy barbs come...

Brilliant scholar Genevieve Barrett's secret identity as the author of her father's articles is her greatest deception-until her father's handsome new student arrives on their doorstep. Genevieve recognizes him as the masked intruder who earlier tried to steal a priceless gem from their home. Keeping the seductive stranger's identity hidden is a risk, but she's got secrets of her own to keep. Sir Richard Harmsworth fakes a rakish facade to show society...

Lady Olivia, determined to win the admiration of her intended, sets out to find a match for his best friend and falls in love with him instead.

As Anna Martell grows into womanhood in the nineteenth-century English countryside, she is determined to overcome the legacy of her birth--as one of six illegitimate children--a goal aided by wealthy Timothy Barrington.

When she saves an enemy warrior from death, Alana, a bastard daughter of the mighty Comyn family, must keep her identity a secret as she is swept up into a forbidden affair that forces her to choose between love and loyalty.

"Hanka - owoc romansu matki z żonatym mężczyzną - wiedzie bardzo skromne życie w bieszczadzkiej wiosce, dopóki na jej drodze nie staje przyrodnia siostra, o której istnieniu dziewczyna nie miała pojęcia. Spokojna dotąd egzystencja bohaterki w jednej chwili staje na głowie, a ona sama niespodziewanie ląduje w samym centrum światka stołecznych celebrytów. Czy wychowana na głębokiej prowincji dziewczyna podoła wyzwaniom, czy też położy...

"Losy potomków krakowskiego aptekarza Franciszka Bernata, a zwłaszcza silnych kobiet, które nie boją się klątwy rodzinnej. Lata 30. dwudziestego wieku. Matylda Borucka, córka Wiktorii Bernat, nie chce kontynuować rodzinnej tradycji. Nie interesuje jej prowadzenie apteki, pragnie zostać aktorką, Tragiczny wypadek matki sprawia, że dziewczyna dowiaduje się, iż nie jest córką mężczyzny, którego dotąd uważała za ojca. Antoni Borucki...