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Governess brides volume 7
Pub. Date
2005
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Miss Caroline Ritter, accomplished flirt, acknowledged beauty, and ruined gentlewoman, offers lessons to any rich, noble lord too inept to attract a wife. Discard your silly affectations and your garish clothing! Learn the art of witty conversation, elegant dancing, equestrian feats and irresistible seduction at the opera! With Miss Ritter's help, you can become the most sought-after aristocrat at the ball!Send your request to the Distinguished Academy...
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Queer principles of Kit Webb volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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Kit Webb has left his stand-and-deliver days behind him. But dreary days at his coffee shop have begun to make him pine for the heady rush of thievery. When a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop, Kit quickly realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this highborn man desires. In order to save himself and a beloved friend, Percy, Lord Holland must go against every gentlemanly behavior he holds dear to gain what he needs most: a book...
84) The painted lady
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Pub. Date
2007
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Araminta Jewell is a beauty; a dazzling young lady who manages to resist all the blandishments that come her way. But even her marriage to Sir Martin Culthorpe has not discouraged the rakes of London and she is still pursued with unflagging zeal. It is during her first sitting for a portrait that Christopher Redmayne meets the lovely Lady Culthorpe, although he has heard much about her. Before the portrait can be finished, however, Sir Martin is murdered....
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Rakes of Cavendish Square trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Scandalous divorc�e Thalia Lennox, who swore off men after her ex-husband's cruel lies ruined her reputation, resists the attentions of Lord Leo Byron, who wants her as his mistress, despite her temptation to yield to his charms.
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Desperate duchesses by the numbers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
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"Witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe has all society begging for one of her premiere governesses--except the powerful Edward Reeve, who bursts into her office with his arrogant demands. No question that Eugenia enjoys crossing wits with the brilliant inventor, but Ward wants far more than a governess. He wants Eugenia, and he'll stop at nothing to have her--including kidnapping"--Back cover.
87) A duchess a day
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[2020]
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"Lady Helena Lark has spent years trying to escape her wedding to the vain and boring Duke of Lusk. She's evaded, refused--even run away. When her family's patience runs out, they pack her off to London to walk down the aisle. But Helena has another idea: find a more suitable bride to take her place, even if she must look for a replacement duchess every day"--Provided by publisher.
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Reid Family volume 2
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Ophelia Reid has a reputation for being difficult. She purposely ruins her arranged engagement to Duncan MacTavish because she wants to make her own choices. Raphael Locke, who is disinterested in marriage decides to show her the errors of her ways, introduces the new Ophelia to London society and the marriage proposals start pouring in. Only then does Rafe realize that he has fallen for Ophelia himself.
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Inspector Monk returns to the scene of another Victorian-era murder mystery when the daughter of an upper-crust family is stabbed in her own home. Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat's daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the...
92) Bedchamber games
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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After her barrister father dies unexpectedly, Rosamund Carrow disguises herself as a man and steps into the courtroom to finish his cases and puts both her reputation and heart at risk after she defeats Lord Lawrence Byron, who is determined to discover everything he can about his rival, in court.
94) A useful woman
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"Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society--including who among the ton is capable of murder... The daughter of a baronet and a minor heiress, Rosalind Thorne was nearly ruined after her father abandoned the family. To survive in the only world she knew, she began to manage the affairs of some of London...
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Lady Worthing mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton’s judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition—and her fears that someone from her past...
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Keeping up with the Cavendishes volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
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"In the second novel of Maya Rodale|s enchanting Keeping Up with the Cavendishes series, an American heiress finds her reputation--and heart--in danger when she travels to London and meets a wickedly tempting rake...Lady Amelia is fed up with being a proper lady and wishes to explore London, so one night she escapes&and finds herself in the company of one Alistair Finlay-Jones. He|s been ordered by his uncle to wed one of the American girls. How lucky...
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2020.
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"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
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Byrons of Braebourne novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
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"He had to marry her. Everyone in London agrees the Byrons are just "as mad, bad, and dangerous to know" as their poetic non-relation. But Lord Jack Byron is facing a predicament that is scandalous...even for him! Marry a young woman because he lost a bet? Unreformed rake Lord Jack Byron would do anything to get out of it. But the rich merchant who holds his debt insists Jack lead his on-the-shelf daughter to the altar...and make her believe it's...