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"Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in the neighboring village of Highgate with his wife and ten children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence,...
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Avon Books
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[2014]
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English
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Everyone knows that Mis Prudence Merryweather Payton is the only graduate from her finishing school to remain unwed on her fourth season--but no one knows why. With her romantic illusions shattered after being compromised against her will, Prudence accepts a proposal even though her betrothed is not exactly a knight in shining armor. When he cowardly pushes her out of their stagecoach to divert a highwayman, she vows never to trust another man again....
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The Men of the Bastion Club proved their bravery secretly fighting for their country. Now their leader faces that most dangerous mission of all: finding a bride. Royce Varisey, tenth Duke of Wolverstone, finds the young ladies that the grand dames would have him consider predictably boring. Far more tempting is his castle's willful and determinedly aloof chatelaine, Minerva Chesterton ... (Bestseller)
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Avon
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2014.
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"Being good has worked out very badly for Lady Olivia Archer. All she has to show for four seasons on the marriage mart is the nickname Prissy Missy. Her prospects are so bleak that her parents have betrothed her to a stranger with a dire reputation. If Phinneas Cole--aka The Mad Baron--wants a biddable bride, perhaps Olivia can frighten him off by breaking every ladylike rule"--Page 4 of cover.
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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[2012]
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English
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HE'LL NEVER SETTLE FOR ONE WOMAN...Debonair bachelor Lord Andrew Forest lives for pleasure and offers no apologies. But he receives a dose of his own medicine when his family's entrancing houseguest beds him, then disappears without so much as a by-your-leave. He'd like to teach the little vixen a thing or two about how to love and man...if he can find her.. And she won't settle for heartbreak...After the dashing man of her dreams is revealed as a...
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Governess Abigail Chantry will do anything to save her sister and two dearest friends from destitution, even if it means breaking into an empty mansion in the hope of finding something to sell. Instead of treasures, though, she finds the owner, Lady Beatrice Davenham, bedridden and neglected. Appalled, Abby rousts Lady Beatrice's predatory servants and -- with Lady Beatrice's eager cooperation -- the four young ladies become her "nieces, " neatly...
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When her father threatens to marry Abigail Montross off to a man twice her age (and with thirteen children!), she decides to elope instead with the irresistibly handsome Baron de Vasconia. She knows all about his notorious reputation. He is the most seductive man in all of London, but he's vowed to protect her, so she allows herself to be tempted into his bed, promising to guard her heart at all costs. Andres believes he's entered into nothing more...
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Avon Books
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2010.
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Since being named "London's Lord to Land" by a popular ladies" magazine, Nicholas St. John has been relentlessly pursued by every matrimony-minded female in the ton. So when an opportunity to escape fashionable society presents itself, he eagerly jumps only to land in the path of the most determined, damnably delicious woman he's ever met! The daughter'a of a titled wastrel, Lady Isabel Townsend has too many secrets and too little money. Though she...
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[2012]
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Headstrong Angelica Cynster is certain she'll recognize her fated husband at first sight. And when her eyes meet those of a mysterious nobleman across a candlelit ballroom, she knows beyond doubt that he's the one. But her heart is soon pounding for an entirely different reason--when her hero abducts her. The eighth Earl of Glencrae has no choice but to kidnap Angelica, the one Cynster sister he hadn't wanted to tangle with. But to save his castle...
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Avon Books
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2012.
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You thought you knew the dangerous Duke of Wycliff, London's globe-trotting adventure addict. Here's what you don't know: he's penniless. Sebastian Digby's dukely lifestyle is over forever unless he finds a rich bride. But thanks to The London Weekly, everyone knows better than to tangle with this lothario. Besides (as one writer can testify), it seems that Sebastian has been unable to keep his hands off his own lowly housemaid. Because that housemaid...
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"Lord Darcy is the quintessential Englishman: wealthy, titled, impossibly proper, and horrified that a pack of Americans has inherited one of England's most respected dukedoms. But his manners, his infamous self-restraint, and his better judgment fly out the window when he finds himself with the maddening American girl next door. Lady Bridget Cavendish has grand--but thwarted--plans to become a Perfect Lady and take the haute ton by storm. In her...
13) Duke gone rogue
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"Christy Carlyle dazzles with the first romance in her enchanting Love on Holiday series. Will Hart, the Duke of Ashmore, is everything his father was not: scrupulously honest, forbidding, and apparently joyless. As a duke, he's a catch, but as a grumpy stick-in-the mud, no lady knows quite how to catch his eye. When his sisters concoct a plan for him to visit a run-down family property in Cornwall, he reluctantly agrees, hoping it will be a chance...
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2013]
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Lady Emma Avery has accidentally announced her engagement to the most eligible man in England. As soon as it's discovered that Emma has never actually met the infamously attractive Duke of Ashbrooke, she'll no longer be a wallflower; she'll be a laughingstock. And then Ashbrooke does something Emma never expected. He plays along with her charade. A temporary betrothal to the irreproachable Lady Avery could be just the thing to repair Ashbrooke's tattered...
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Wild Wynchesters novel volume 3
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Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Nothing happens in London without Graham Wynchester knowing. His massive collection of intelligence is invaluable to his family's mission of aiding those most in need. So when he deciphers a series of coded messages in the scandal sheets, Graham's convinced he must come to a royal's rescue. But his quarry turns out not to be a princess at all... The captivating Kunigunde de Heusch is anything but a damsel in distress, and the last thing she wants...
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Berkley Sensation
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2013.
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English
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Impatient with the strictures of polite British society, Miss Abigail Harewood has decided to live life on her own terms and the first thing she requires is a lover. When the commanding Duke of Wallingford arrives on the doorstep of her leased holiday castle, she thinks she's found the perfect candidate: handsome, dashing, and experienced in the art of love. But tempting Wallingford into her bed proves more difficult than she imagined. Restless and...
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Avon
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[2010]
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English
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This sexy Regency romance trilogy comes to a seductive conclusion with "a dazzling combination of scintillating romance and wicked wit" (Booklist).
Knowing it is time to find a bride, the Duke of Exeter is determined to locate the passionate minx who enticed him in a pitch-black library. But how can you find someone you've never actually seen? Then, while supervising his young ward's education, he is irresistibly attracted...
Knowing it is time to find a bride, the Duke of Exeter is determined to locate the passionate minx who enticed him in a pitch-black library. But how can you find someone you've never actually seen? Then, while supervising his young ward's education, he is irresistibly attracted...
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Avon Books
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[2012]
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English
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Three young heirs, imprisoned by an unscrupulous uncle, escaped to the sea, to the streets, to faraway battle awaiting the day when they would return to reclaim their birthright. Once upon a time, he was Lord Tristan Easton now he is Crimson Jack, a notorious privateer beholden to none, whose only mistress is the sea. But all that will change when exquisite Lady Anne Hayworth hires his protection on a trip into danger and seduction. Desperation brought...
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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[2014]
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English
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Lord Oliver Stonenden gets whatever he wants-except the beautiful and headstrong Katharine Daltry. Katharine is the only woman who has ever denied him, and he cannot forget her. When he sees a chance to aid her cause by seducing a troublesome countess who is threatening Katharine's family, he rises to the occasion. Katharine Daltry concentrates on developing her skill at painting and avoids Polite Society, not least of all the handsome, heartless...
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Berkley Sensation
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2013.
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England, 1888. Quiet and scholarly Princess Emilie has always avoided adventure, until she's forced to disguise herself as a tutor in the household of the imposing Duke of Ashland, a former soldier disfigured in battle and abandoned by his wife. When chance draws her into a secret liaison with the duke, Emilie can't resist the opportunity to learn what lies behind his forbidding mask, and find out what adventure really means. The duke never imagines...
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