

Andrea Cascardi, publisher and managing director of Egmont USA, and Margaret Coffee, sales and marketing director of Egmont USA, will remain until April 30 to oversee the transition to Lerner. "Egmont's dedication to quality shows in their list of award-winning and bestselling books and we look forward to reaching out to Egmont authors and welcoming them to the Lerner Publishing Group family."Įgmont USA will oversee the publication of the eight remaining titles on its 2015 winter list, which will be distributed by Penguin Random House until April 30, at which time Lerner Publishing Group will take over publication and distribution of all Egmont frontlist and backlist titles. "The acquisition of the Egmont USA list shows Lerner's commitment to building an acclaimed trade program," Lerner CEO and publisher Adam Lerner said.

The titles will be folded into Lerner imprints, including Carolrhoda Books, Carolrhoda Lab, Darby Creek and Millbrook Press. Bick, Patrick Jennings, Jon and Pamela Voelkel, Lex Thomas and Len Vlahos. The purchase involves nearly 100 titles, including books by Ilsa J. including their final chance at happiness.Lerner Publishing Group has bought the assets of Egmont USA from Egmont Publishing International, which in January decided to close its U.S. Then the terrors of the French Revolution hit close to home, and the two of them set off on a treacherous adventure that could cost them everything. Despite his best intentions, he finds himself falling in love with her. Quinton is dazzled by his new wife's grace and fortitude, as well as the fierce desire that rages between them. She has seen the misery love can cause and has vowed to give her heart to no man-especially a dangerously alluring duke.

So she agrees to the match with one condition: her husband must never ask for her love. Allegra decides that if she must marry, she might as well be a duchess. Her most ardent suitor is the arrogant but impoverished Quinton Hunter, duke of Sedgwick, who has little to offer a prospective wife except his grand title. Īs the daughter of the richest man in England, Allegra Morgan attracts a number of fortune hunters willing to overlook her flawed pedigree to gain her enormous wealth.

In this lush new novel, Bertrice Small has created a moving story of consuming passion and undeniable love set against the noble splendor of Georgian England.
