Böcker av Emma Hart

When bestselling romance author Ellie Aarons finds herself with chronic writer's block, she's pretty sure all she needs is a change of scenery. A beautiful lakeside cottage with her cat seems like a good idea.She's wrong. She needs more than a change of scenery-she needs a muse.Which is why it's so irritating that she's drawn to the enigmatic but grumpy Duke of Windermere who owns the estate she's staying on.They don't get along-not in the slightest. They could not be more different, which is why it's so irritating that Max seems to be the muse she's been looking for. No matter how hard she tries, she can't help but picture him as the hero in her next book.Oh, well. There's really not a lot she can do about it. The muse wants what the muse wants.Except Sir Winston Purrchill keeps exploring the goat barn, and Max's delivery of him for the fiftieth time means he sees her manuscript open on her laptop.He knows instantly that she's writing about him. The story she's written reflects their entire relationship until now, but that spicy scene?That hasn't happened. Yet.Max is ready to compromise-he'll give her the inspiration she needs for her novel, but she has to stop asking why he's so against the relationship his grandmother desperately wants him to have.With her deadline looming, Ellie has no other option but to agree.She just hopes that she won't do what her heroine is doing.And fall in love with the duke.

From New York Times bestselling author Emma Hart comes a swoony, hilarious romcom about what happens when you find yourself snowed in at Scottish castle... with only one bed to share with your aristocratic fake boyfriend... Literally colliding with the hottest guy in the world and agreeing to be his date to his sister's wedding? Done... for some reason. Finding out he's actually an aristocrat and will one day inherit an ancient Scottish dukedom and castle? Yep, that's a surprise.Sharing a bed with him at said castle because his family thinks I'm his girlfriend? Okay, I'm sure I'll survive. Even if he does make my heart pitter-patter and my lady bits-uh, never mind.Dealing with his family feud, his bridezilla sister, and his grandma's gobby cockatiel who fancies himself the castle alarm system? It's... well, it's... something.Oh, and a snowstorm, keeping my real identity a secret, trying to figure out where the heck I know the Glenroch family from, and why his mum keeps looking at me weirdly?Yeah, that I'll need some help with...

Taking a work call for my best friend in my undies? Check.Filling in for her after an emergency and getting mistaken for her? Check.Royally messing it all up until the hot duke-in-waiting I hate but can't keep my hands off steps in to save me? Uh, check... Yes, yes, that all sounds wonderful, doesn't it? Until you consider I now have to plan and execute an 80th birthday party for The Dowager Duchess of Devon, and I can't organise my hairbrushes. The current duchess is the ultimate Type-A personality, determined to micromanage the entire thing.I'm a type... XYZ...LMNOP... Maybe not even that.When all my attempts go to hell in half a handbasket-I can't even mess up properly-the only hope I have to pull this thing off is duke-in-waiting Hugo Edwards.The dreamy, handsome, makes-my-heart-pitter-patter, arrogant tosspot Hugo Edwards.He and his brother are the only people who know who I really am. The success of their grandmother's party relies on us getting along long enough to make it happen-and me and Hugo keeping our hands off one another behind closed doors.None of which is easy to achieve.When my best friend shows up to take over from me, the fact that I've fallen for Hugo is the least of my worries...

Looks at the shift from the marketplace as an actual place to a theoretical idea and how this shaped the early American economy. When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain's colonization of North America was a key moment in the market's shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy. Hart's book takes in the shops, auction sites, wharves, taverns, fairs, and homes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America--places where new mechanisms and conventions of trade arose as Europeans re-created or adapted continental methods to new surroundings. Since those earlier conventions tended to rely on regulation more than their colonial offspring did, what emerged in early America was a less-fettered brand of capitalism. By the nineteenth century, this had evolved into a market economy that would not look too foreign to contemporary Americans. To tell this complex transnational story of how our markets came to be, Hart looks back farther than most historians of US capitalism, rooting these markets in the norms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Perhaps most important, this is not a story of specific commodity markets over time but rather is a history of the trading spaces themselves: the physical sites in which the grubby work of commerce occurred and where the market itself was born.

A special two-book edition of the first two titles in the New York Times bestselling The Game series.