The Mélendez Forgotten Marriage - Melanie Milburne When fragile Emelia awoke from her coma she had no recollection of the strikingly handsome man before her, whose eyes glittered like fine-cut gems — hard and impenetrable. But he aroused something within her… Javier Mélendez had wed Emelia for convenience and bedded her for pleasure. The rules in place during their marriage had suited him perfectly, and he’d ensured his trophy wife adhered to them…but as Emelia’s memory slowly returned, she seemed to be labouring under a misapprehension…that their marriage was based on love! A Scandalous Midnight In Madrid - Susan Stephens Chef Sadie Montgomery’s life is changed forever by an intense moonlit encounter in Madrid with infamous Alejandro de Alegon. The sizzling anticipation he sparks tempts virgin Sadie all the way to his Spanish castle…and into his bed! She’s never known anything like the wild passion Alejandro unleashes. But their night of illicit pleasure soon turns Sadie into Spain’s most scandalous headline: Pregnant with Alejandro’s baby! The Spanish Duke’s Holiday Proposal - Robin Gianna When paramedic Mateo Alves unexpectedly becomes heir to his family’s dukedom, he’s asked to return home. But Mateo loves his New York career. So when sparks fly between him and beautiful ER doc Miranda Davenport he sees a way to appease his family over the holidays… Miranda can’t believe she’s agreed to be Mateo’s temporary fiancée but as love-child to the head of the wealthy Davenports she knows all about troubled families. Can a magical Spanish Christmas together bring them both the happiness and belonging they deserve?

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The Baby of Their Dreams - Carol Marinelli Seven years ago Dr Cat Hayes was left heartbroken after losing her baby boy. Now she’s focused on her career. But when she meets gorgeous Dr Dominic Edwards at a Spanish conference, resisting his scorching touch isn’t easy... Cat returns home sun-kissed and accidentally pregnant! Can the promise of a miracle baby heal both their hearts? Santiago’s Command - Kim Lawrence Santiago Silva is appalled to discover that his half-brother’s latest love interest is infamous femme fatale Lucy Fitzgerald — who clearly thinks the Silva fortune is an easy target! Simmering with fury, the formidable Santiago steps in to show her just how wrong she is and that the safest place for this woman is clear — with him! After all, without a heart to break, he’s the only man who can take her on without losing himself… Indebted To Moreno - Kate Walker Spaniard Nairo Moreno took Rose Cavalliero’s virginity before a misunderstanding led her to nearly destroy his life. But now he’s back and determined to collect the debt she owes him. But if Rose had known that accepting Nairo’s offer would see her blackmailed into becoming a more-than-convenient fiancée, she would have said no…wouldn’t she?

The Baby of Their Dreams - Carol Marinelli Seven years ago Dr Cat Hayes was left heartbroken after losing her baby boy. Now she's focused on her career. But when she meets gorgeous Dr Dominic Edwards at a Spanish conference, resisting his scorching touch isn't easy... Cat returns home sun-kissed and accidentally pregnant! Can the promise of a miracle baby heal both their hearts? Santiago's Command - Kim Lawrence Santiago Silva is appalled to discover that his half-brother's latest love interest is infamous femme fatale Lucy Fitzgerald -- who clearly thinks the Silva fortune is an easy target! Simmering with fury, the formidable Santiago steps in to show her just how wrong she is and that the safest place for this woman is clear -- with him! After all, without a heart to break, he's the only man who can take her on without losing himself... Indebted To Moreno - Kate Walker Spaniard Nairo Moreno took Rose Cavalliero's virginity before a misunderstanding led her to nearly destroy his life. But now he's back and determined to collect the debt she owes him. But if Rose had known that accepting Nairo's offer would see her blackmailed into becoming a more-than-convenient fiancée, she would have said no...wouldn't she?

Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston’s magisterial history of modern Spain. The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history of modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the modern world. Whereas so many twentieth-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Preston’s magisterial work begins in the late nineteenth century with Spain’s collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory. This loss hung over Spain in the early years of the twentieth century, its agrarian economic base standing in stark contrast to the emergence of England, Germany, and France as industrial powers. Looking back to the years prior to 1923, Preston demonstrates how electoral corruption infiltrated almost every sector of Spanish life, thus excluding the masses from organized politics and giving them a bitter choice between apathetic acceptance of a decrepit government or violent revolution. So ineffective was the Republic—which had been launched in 1873—that it paved the way for a military coup and dictatorship, led by Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1923, exacerbating widespread profiteering and fraud. When Rivera was forced to resign in 1930, his fall brought forth a succession of feeble governments, stoking rancorous tensions that culminated in the tragic Spanish Civil War. With astonishing detail, Preston describes the ravages that rent Spain in half between 1936 and 1939. Tracing the frightening rise of Francisco Franco, Preston recounts how Franco grew into Spain’s most powerful military leader during the Civil War and how, after the war, he became a fascistic dictator who not only terrorized the Spanish population through systematic oppression and murder but also enriched corrupt officials who profited from severe economic plunder of Spain’s working class. The dictatorship lasted through World War II—during which Spain sided with Mussolini and Hitler—and only ended decades later, in 1975, when Franco’s death was followed by a painful yet bloodless transition to republican democracy. Yet, as Preston reveals, corruption and political incompetence continued to have a corrosive effect on social cohesion into the twenty-first century, as economic crises, Catalan independence struggles, and financial scandals persist in dividing the country. Filled with vivid portraits of politicians and army officers, revolutionaries and reformers, and written in the “absorbing” (Economist) style for which Preston is so revered, A People Betrayed is the first historical work to examine the continuities of political unrest and national anxiety in Spain up until the present, providing a chilling reminder of just how fragile democracy remains in the twenty-first century.

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