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Author: Tom Quinn Publisher: Biteback Publishing ISBN: 1785904248 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 245
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When Gerald Grosvenor, sixth Duke of Westminster, died in August 2016 he was one of the world's richest men, his fortune estimated at just under £10 billion. Yet he hated his wealth and spent long periods suffering from severe depression, much of it brought on by a feeling that his whole life had been a failure and that his money had destroyed any chance of happiness. At the same time, he could be ruthless in running the business while often feeling he was only a mascot. Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession by mere chance – or 'rotten bad luck' as he put it. The third Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became fourth Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald's father, Robert Grosvenor, who lived on an island in Lough Erne where Gerald grew up. Tom Quinn interviewed the sixth Duke on a number of occasions as well as people who knew the duke socially or had at various times worked with or for him. He discovered a complex man tortured by what he saw as his failures. He was a man who longed to return to his idyllic rural childhood yet was only really happy as an adult in the company of call girls. The book looks at the long and often eccentric history of the Grosvenor family and its wealth and the complex means by which that wealth has been shielded from the taxman, as well as the bizarre life of a man who was that strangest of things: The Reluctant Billionaire.
Author: Tom Quinn Publisher: Biteback Publishing ISBN: 1785904248 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 245
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When Gerald Grosvenor, sixth Duke of Westminster, died in August 2016 he was one of the world's richest men, his fortune estimated at just under £10 billion. Yet he hated his wealth and spent long periods suffering from severe depression, much of it brought on by a feeling that his whole life had been a failure and that his money had destroyed any chance of happiness. At the same time, he could be ruthless in running the business while often feeling he was only a mascot. Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession by mere chance – or 'rotten bad luck' as he put it. The third Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became fourth Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald's father, Robert Grosvenor, who lived on an island in Lough Erne where Gerald grew up. Tom Quinn interviewed the sixth Duke on a number of occasions as well as people who knew the duke socially or had at various times worked with or for him. He discovered a complex man tortured by what he saw as his failures. He was a man who longed to return to his idyllic rural childhood yet was only really happy as an adult in the company of call girls. The book looks at the long and often eccentric history of the Grosvenor family and its wealth and the complex means by which that wealth has been shielded from the taxman, as well as the bizarre life of a man who was that strangest of things: The Reluctant Billionaire.
Author: Caitlin Crews Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1459293312 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 173
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An uptight governess wonders if she can tame her shameless boss in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. The brazen antics of Hugo, Duke of Grovesmoor, and the string of women to grace his bed are tabloid gold. But Eleanor Andrews, newly hired to care for the duke’s young ward, refuses to see him as anything but her boss. She desperately needs this job. No matter how gorgeous Hugo is, the stakes are simply too high . . . Well acquainted with lies and betrayal, Hugo is jaded and cynical, unconcerned with dispelling the salacious rumors about him. But there’s something about Eleanor that fires his blood, and he can’t turn down the challenge to unbutton his uptight employee!
Author: Kate Carlisle Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1459209273 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 11
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The first step…mix business with pleasure New hairdo? Makeup? A dress? Where did his efficient secretary go? Because the woman in front of Brandon Duke is not the Kelly Meredith who left on vacation two weeks ago. He is shocked—and curiously enchanted—by her transformation. She says this makeover is all part of her plan…to become more seductive. And this billionaire is just the man to give his suddenly sultry assistant a few lessons in love. He'll go slow, savor every moment and then say goodbye—as long as he can remember just who is seducing who!
Author: Sapna Bhog Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 362
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A saga of forgotten love and second chances. How would you feel when the man you have known and loved for the last five years is not who he said he was? That everything he ever told you was all a lie.An accident changed our lives forever and now I have to bring him back to us because he doesn't remember our life, our family or us. One minute, I was just a regular girl from India married to a man she loved, and the next, my life has changed completely because I'm married to an English Duke, who doesn't remember me.My name is Aaliya Singh Talbot and I will do whatever it takes to bring my husband back from the darkness and into the light.I will make him remember no matter what I have to do!I will make him remember everything--beneath all the lies! This is Book 1 in the Forgotten Trilogy--a Duke with amnesia romance. This is a diverse romance between an Indian girl and a British Duke.
Author: Peter Lance Publisher: Tenacity Media Books ISBN: 9780996285599 Category : Languages : en Pages : 78
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Cielo Drive cuts like a beautiful scar along the bottom of a V-shaped canyon in the hills of Bel Air, off of Benedict. In February, 1969, as she looked out on it from the red farmhouse at 10050 Cielo she and her husband Roman Polanski had just rented, Sharon had no way of knowing that she only had 6 months to live. On the night of August 9th, members of "The Manson Family" would invade that house and murder Sharon and three of her closest friends. But strangely, half a year earlier, she'd had a brush with a different killer. It happened after her younger sister Patti, then 11, looked across at the ominous Spanish-Moorish estate Sharon called "The Haunted House." In "Restless Souls," their remarkable memoir, Alisa Statmen and Brie Tate write that Patti then hiked down and across Cielo, walking up to No. 1436 Bella Drive. There, she encountered an open gate where white pillars bore the name: Falcon Lair. Once the home of Rudolf Valentino, it had been purchased in 1953 by the fabulously wealthy heiress Doris Duke. The wrought iron gates were open when Patti wandered inside. Suddenly, she heard, the caretaker yell, "This is private property!" Startled, she turned and lost her balance, skinning her knee, when just then, a black limo pulled in. A tinted window went down and a tall woman in back lowered her sunglasses to ask who she was. Once she ID'd herself as Patti, whose sister Sharon lived "across in the red barn," Doris knew that this wasn't just any child. She was the sibling of the hottest young star in town. So Doris snapped to the caretaker, "Stop being such an ogre and bring Patti in, so we can clean those scraps. And get me the Polanski's phone number." Later, the Duke staff was bandaging Patti's knee when Sharon arrived, "nervously chewing her lower lip" and apologizing to the blond billionaire who was the 3rd richest woman in the world behind Queen Elizabeth & Queen Juliana. But by then, Sharon Tate was Hollywood royalty herself; her husband Roman, coming off "Rosemary's Baby," was a kind of cinematic prince. So why was she nervous? What would make her bite her lip in the face of a woman whose caretaker's aggressive warning had caused her little sister to draw blood? Since Sharon was killed that summer, we'll never know. But one thing is clear: this wasn't the first time Sharon Tate had been pulled into Doris Duke's orbit. 2 1/2 years earlier, one of Sharon's closest friends, Eduardo Tirella, had been violently killed after Doris crushed him under a two-ton station wagon. At the time, all of Eduardo's friends suspected he'd been murdered. The brutal stabbing of Sharon Tate is the tragic tale of a young woman of great promise cut down in the prime of life. But the same could be said for Eduardo, whose own Hollywood career was just catching fire, when he told the possessive, heiress he was leaving her, just minutes before she ran him down outside the gates of her Newport, RI estate. Because she had the money and power, Doris Duke succeeded in effectively erasing his death from the narrative of her troubled life. For more than 50 years, the real truth behind what happened at Rough Point in 1966 has been hidden. Until now!
Author: Louise Bay Publisher: The Royals ISBN: 9781804569832 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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My family are fighting over who's the next Duke of Fairfax. The rules say it's me-if I'm married. It's not a trade-off worth making. I could never limit myself to just one woman. Or so I thought until my world is turned upside down. Now, the only way I can save the empire I built is to inherit the title I've never wanted-so I need a wife. To take my mind off business I need a night that's all pleasure. I need to bury myself in a stranger. The skim of Scarlett King's hair over my body as she bends over . . . The scrape of her nails across my chest as she screams my name . . . The bite of her teeth on my shoulder just as we both reach the edge . . . It all helps me forget. I just didn't bargain on finding my one-night stand across the boardroom table the next day. Scarlett's making a business proposal. I've got more interest in a (fake) marriage proposal. A sexy, standalone romance. Other stand-alone books in this series. They can be read in any order. Book 1. King of Wall Street (Max and Harper) Book 2. Duke of Manhattan (Ryder & Scarlett) Book 3. The British Knight (Alexander & Violet) Book 4. The Earl of London (Logan & Darcy) Book 5. Park Avenue Prince (Sam & Grace)
Author: Miriam Allenson Publisher: Msallenson & Associates ISBN: 9781733850148 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Contemporary romance set in England. Newbie author, Livvy Browne, is in England to unearth the last bit of research she needs to finish the book she's writing on the duke of Brompton's ancestress. The problem is the unbending duke won't let her into his private library to find it. Jack Anstruther, duke of Brompton refuses to have anything to do with Livvy since she's his hated business rival's daughter. Though she insists she wants less to do with her father than he does, he doesn't believe her. When she tries to worm her way into his life his first instinct is to send her packing.She won't go away, and now he doesn't want her to leave. There's no way the smart-mouthed American and the hot-as-sin aristocrat could ever fall in love?right?
Author: Gina Robinson Publisher: Three Jays Press, LLC ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 150
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THE BILLIONAIRE DUKE is book 1 of the Billionaire Duke series. She’s grudgingly willing. He’s reluctant. They’re made for each other. He's a Seattle billionaire who just inherited a British dukedom he doesn't want. She's the leading candidate for the wife he doesn't want. Can they get out of this? Do they want to? Seattle billionaire Riggins Feldhem just inherited a dukedom complete with a large British estate, a title, and the obligation to marry and produce an heir. With a woman his predecessor, the Dead Duke, has selected for him. A woman who uncomfortably stirs his jaded heart. But no one is going to force him into marriage. There has to be a way out of this mess. Haley Hamilton is young, just out of college, and looking for a hero. Riggins could give her everything. Or completely break her heart. She doesn't want to be anyone's forced duchess. But the Dead Duke, and Riggins' irresistible charm are making it impossible to resist. Scroll up and grab your copy today!
Author: Elizabeth Lennox Publisher: Elizabeth Lennox ISBN: 194013451X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 135
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Sierra couldn’t catch a break! Every time she thought she’d gotten her life back on track, something happened to cause it to come crashing down around her. She’d paid for her father’s arrest, her mother’s death and now…now she would pay for her brother’s crimes! Marriage to Harrison Aimsworth, Duke of Selton? He was the man who knew all of her secrets! And now he was demanding that she provide him with an heir? What more could go wrong with her world? Harrison had to marry and produce an heir or he’d lose his title. And he had a very short period of time in which to accomplish that miracle. Unfortunately, the only woman who had ever affected him wouldn’t give him the time of day…until he discovered her brother stealing priceless artifacts out of his home. Now he could manipulate the situation to his benefit. The woman who had evaded him for so many years would finally be his!
Author: Michelle Love Publisher: Blessings For All SC ISBN: 1648086349 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 926
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Enjoy this bad boy billionaire romance collection. Settle in for these three full-length standalone romances full of men who take charge in the boardroom and the bedroom! Don't miss this set of hot Bad Boy billionaire bosses waiting to be found out! Book One: Dirty News: A Bad Boy Billionaire Romance (Dirty Network Book 1) One job, two opponents, and one hell of an attraction between them... Why'd he have to be so manly, rugged, and inviting? Why'd there have to be that stupid no dating rule within the staff at WOLF? And why couldn't I turn my hormones off and be the professional I needed to be? I knew the answer to the last question. How could anyone turn off something so hot? When he touched me, it left my flesh sizzling. When our lips met for the first time, I knew I was done for. He had me right from the start. Took me higher than I knew was possible. My body was his, at his mercy, and he gave none. But our jobs might cost us the passion we'd found. Would we really let that happen? Book Two: Beautiful Assistant: A Christmas Romance (Dirty Network Book 2) I'd made the rules, so whose business would it be if I decided to change them ... From the moment we met, I knew she was something special. Everything about her pulled me in; she was my gravity. Purity and innocence blended with wisdom and clarity to make up her unique presence. She was one of a kind, in more ways than one. My fantasies about her were enough to turn me into a man I never knew I could be. The pleasure would be endless when we finally gave ourselves to each other. But forever isn't a promise that is easily made.And she wanted forever or nothing at all, making me wait and wonder if we would ever be more than just a boss and his assistant. Book Three: Dirty Desires: A Bad Boy Billionaire Romance (Dirty Network Book 3) Lost love can be hard to overcome, but maybe she can help me find my way back again... Her backside is what first caught my attention. Round, firm, plump, juicy. Those are the words that ran through my mind when I first saw her bent over the table in front of me. For a couple of years, she'd filled my fantasies, and now she was filling my dreams too. But someone else had lived in my dreams for a long time. I didn't want her knocking that person out of my life forever. Pushing her away seemed impossible. No matter how hard I tried, my arms kept pulling her back to me. And just when I was able to let it all go, it all came crashing down on me again. Had I been cursed? Doomed to live life without love? Or could she break that spell? Keywords: Billionaire romance, bad boy, new adult, instalove, age gap romance, alpha male, new adult romance, steamy romance, age gap romance older man younger woman, sweet romance, romantic novels, love, action, adventure, sexually romantic books, hot, alpha hero, contemporary romance, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, sweet romance, love books, love stories.
Author: Tom Quinn
Author: Tom Quinn
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