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Legend of the four soldiers volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Melisande Fleming and Lord Vale enter into a marriage of convenience, but both are shocked by the level of passion they feel for one another, but when a deadly betrayal from Lord Vale's past threatens their happiness, he must prove to his bride that his love is pure and their marriage is worth saving.
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Survivors' Club septet volume 2
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape his mother's matchmaking, Vincent Hunt, Viscount Darleigh, flees to a remote country village. But even there, another marital trap is sprung. So when Miss Sophia Fry's intervention on his behalf finds her unceremoniously booted from her guardian's home, Vincent is compelled to act. He may have been blinded in battle, but he can see a solution to both their problems: marriage. At first, quiet, unassuming Sophia rejects Vincent's...
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Essex sisters series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fueled by the knowledge that notoriety is better than failure, witty, unconventional Josie does what no proper young lady should—she challenges fate. She discards her corset and flirts outrageously. She attends the horse races and allows an arrogant rakehell to whisk her behind the stables for a surreptitious kiss . . . and is caught! She doesn't want to marry the young hellion—but who's to help? Her chaperone keeps disappearing for mysterious...
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The brides of Wishmore volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Blake Stephens is promised to one woman, but discovers his soul stirred by another. Lady Aileen Davidson's reputation was ruined ages ago, which is why she's buried herself in the country, but her fiery spirit and bold beauty threaten to bring Blake to his knees, making him wonder if he has proposed to the wrong lass!
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Devine and friends volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Adam Faramond, Earl of Rothbury, needs to find a wife--immediately!--or his beloved grandmother will leave him penniless. But Adam, an unrepentant rake, would reform for only one woman, the woman he's lusted after--and loved--for years. It's rather unfortunate, then, that Miss Charlotte Greene would never consent to be the blushing bride of a rogue ... or so he thinks.
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Huxtable quintet volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Desperate to rescue her eldest sister from a loveless union, Vanessa Huxtable Dew, a widow, makes an unconventional proposal to Elliott Wallace, the eligible Viscount Lyngate who is seeking a wife.
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"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades...
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie (Georgie), who has bolted from Scotland and headed to London, receives a summons from the Queen to spy on her playboy son.
11) Tarnished city
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Dark gifts trilogy volume 2
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English
Description
"The sequel to Gilded Cage. The rebellion to free the lower classes from ten years of forced service to unfairly advantaged, magically powered rulers may have failed. A brother and sister, would-be revolutionaries--one imprisoned, the other desperate for aid-- have seen their magical allies stripped of their power, while the mysterious young aristocrat has revealed the incredible extent of his dark gifts"--
12) Gilded cage
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Dark gifts trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Victoria Aveyard and Kiera Cass comes a darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule--and commoners are doomed to serve. NOT ALL ARE FREE. NOT ALL ARE EQUAL. NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. Our world belongs to the Equals--aristocrats with magical gifts--and all commoners must serve them for ten years. But behind the gates of England's grandest estate lies a power that could break the world. A girl...
13) The naked earl
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
Description
Overview: He Took Her By Surprise. When a naked earl climbs through the window into her bedchamber, Lady Elizabeth Runyon does the proper thing: She screams. Loudly. And then-well, Lizzie has had enough of being proper. She wishes to be bold. Wanton, even. She won't be commanded to put on her nightgown. Just this once, she will be absolutely daring. She Returned The Favor. Robert Hamilton, Earl of Westbrooke, has no intention of being tricked into...
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Cavendon chronicles volume 4
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English
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"For years things have run smoothly at Cavendon Hall, with very few quarrels, dramas, or upsets among the Inghams and the Swanns. But since the end of World War II, things have changed. The Secrets of Cavendon picks up in the summer of 1949, with the new generation of the estate at the forefront of the scandal and intrigue. With romance, betrayal, heartbreak, and possible murder threatening to tear them apart, the Inghams and Swanns will have to find...
15) The duke and I
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Bridgerton series volume 1
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English
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"The rakish Duke of Hastings will stop at nothing to hold the marriage-mongers and matchmakers of his town at bay, even if it means pretending to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton, but strong feelings soon intervene on both sides of this convenient arrangement"--
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Victorian society volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
Description
In Victorian London, spiritualists are all the rage and "Esmeralda" has gained the trust of the mother of Thomas Hyde, Viscount Varcourt. Thomas fears that the enigmatic Esmeralda is exploiting his mother's grief over his brother's mysterious death years ago. But as he watches the veiled beauty with cynical skepticism, another kind of interest ignites inside him. He's right, she's using his family, but not for the reasons Thomas believes.
17) Born to be Wilde
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Wildes of Lindow Castle volume 3
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English
Description
Desperate Lavinia Gray gets some unexpected help from Parth Sterling, the richest bachelor in England, with finding a husband, and as they work closely together, she vows to convince him that he is the only man for her.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
Description
Fallon O'Rourke has endured lecherous advances since her father's tragic death, but she is perfectly safe at the Mayfair manor of London's most licentious duke. That's because she's disguised as a footman. However, she never imagines her secret will be discovered.
19) Not quite a wife
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Lost lords (Mary Jo Putney) volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
James, Lord Kirkland, owns a shipping fleet, half a London gaming house, and is a ruthlessly effective spymaster. Laurel Herbert gave James her heart as an innocent young girl, until she saw him perform an act of shocking violence. That night she left the husband who is far more than the fashionable lord he seems, and he let her go without a word of protest. Now, ten years later, a chance encounter turns passionate, with consequences that cannot be...
20) Bright ruin
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Dark gifts trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Magically gifted aristocrats rule--and commoners are doomed to serve. But a rebellion threatens the old order. The dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City concludes. In a world where the lower classes must endure ten years of forced service to unfairly advantaged, magically powered rulers, a teenage boy dreams of rebellion, his older sister yearns for love and knowledge, and a dangerous young aristocrat seeks to remake the...
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