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1) The bachelor
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"Lady Gwyn Drake has long protected her family's reputation by hiding an imprudent affair from her youth. But when her former suitor appears at Armitage Hall, manhandling the heiress and threatening to go public with her secrets, it's Gwyn who needs protecting. Her twin brother, Thorn, hires Joshua Wolfe, the estate's gamekeeper, to keep her safe in London during her debut. As a war hero, Joshua feels obligated to fulfill the assignment he has accepted....
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Mariah Clarke inherits beautiful Hartley Manor but the manor's former owner claims Mariah's father won the estate by cheating at cards and attempts to regain it by courting Mariah. Mariah recklessly claims she is married making the lie come true when she rescues a man from the sea. But when the truth is revealed Mariah must make a terrible choice.
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"For Cecilia Charity Thomas, marrying David Felton Lance, the Viscount of Gantry, to save him from danger and herself from mercenary suitors was a mistake. Instead of a passionate life together, she's stranded at his mansion with his unaccepting family. Worse, she finds he is actually a spy dedicated to duty over wedlock. When she hears her sister has been driven to her death, Cecilia is determined to expose the man responsible. But when her pursuit...
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Disguising herself as a courtesan to get the attention of her husband, who she has not seen in eight years, the Duchess of Colton arrives in 1816 Venice in where she sets her plan of seduction in motion and is shocked to discover that the man she married just could be the love of her life.
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"1816. Lady Ainsley Matthews, heiress and darling of the ton, was expected to make a magnificent match. Instead she's hiding on a remote Scottish estate, terrified that her vicious former fiancé will use her pregnancy to force her into marriage. One man can help her--Royal Kendrick, son of a distinguished Highland clan. Though a mistake drove them apart long ago, Royal is the only person Ainsley trusts to protect her baby--even if that means agreeing...
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1815. Lady Grace Carpenter is ready to seize the day---or rather, the night--with the most compelling man she's ever known. Marriage would mean losing guardianship of her beloved siblings, and surely no sane gentleman will take on seven children not his own. But if she can have one anonymous tryst with Mattheus, Earl of Worthington, Grace will be content to live out the rest of her life as a spinster. Matt had almost given up hope of finding a wife...
9) The lover
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A wealthy spinster hires an expert in pleasure in this erotic historical by a USA Today–bestselling author who "tests the boundaries of romance fiction" (The Literary Times).
Living in Victorian London, thirty-six-year-old spinster Anne Aimes has only attraction: her wealth. Yet her plain looks mask a passionate woman who yearns to know a man's intimate caresses. Michel des Anges is renowned for his ability...
Living in Victorian London, thirty-six-year-old spinster Anne Aimes has only attraction: her wealth. Yet her plain looks mask a passionate woman who yearns to know a man's intimate caresses. Michel des Anges is renowned for his ability...
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"Elite McTiernay guardsman Hamish MacBrieve is looking for a clean start. But when his brother, laird of Foinaven Castle, leaves the family holdings dangerously unprotected, Hamish has no choice but to return and keep his clansmen safe. And when he does, he discovers that Foinaven's painful memories have been replaced by the most distracting opportunity for passion. When Mairead MacMhathain learns that the eldest MacBrieve is returning home, she imagines...
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Two Lives Saved, One Love Discovered, in A Season to be Sinful, a Historical Regency Romance from Jo Goodman
An orphan raised in the sanctuary of a French abbey, Lily Sterling flees to the bustling city of London to escape the clutches of an unwanted English lord. But fate has other plans. She soon finds herself ensnared by the very man she sought to evade, once again escaping, this time into the dangerous streets of Holborn, where she takes in and...
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1817. Two possible futures loom before Miss Anne Davenport. The first option: sharing an unhappy home with her father and soon-to-be stepmother. The second: a life of independence at the Spinster House, if only her friend, Cat, would vacate the premises and marry the Duke of Hart. A well-placed whisper about the pair's secret tryst might speed the course of true love. But the duke's stubborn cousin poses an obstacle. A ridiculously handsome, very...
13) Once a spy
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"Wearied by his years as a British intelligence officer, Simon Duval resigns his commission after Napoleon's abdication. Hoping to find new meaning in his life, he returns to England, where he discovers his cousin's widow, Suzanne Duval, the Comtesse de Chambron. Working as a seamstress, living in reduced circumstances, Suzanne has had a life as complicated as Simon's. While both believe they are beyond love, their sympathetic bond leads him to propose...
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"After her husband Afton, Lord of Langley, falls prey to a deadly plague, Englishwoman Igrainia finds herself a captive in her own castle...held hostage by Scottish warrior Eric Graham. To Graham, Igrainia is merely a political pawn, a pretty prize to dangle in front of the English king. But when the king refuses a trade--Igrainia for the wife of Scotland's ruler Robert the Bruce--Graham forces Igrainia to marry him. What Graham never expects is the...
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For Viscount Stillwell, finding a prospective bride seemed easy, but Win soon found out endless gossip had broken all his engagements. He decided to hire a company to repair his family's fire-damaged country house. Nothing disreputable in that--until the firm's representative turns out to be a very desirable widow. Lady Miranda Garret expected a man of Win's reputation to be flirtatious, even charming. But the awkward truth is that she finds him thoroughly...
17) MARRY ME
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When she becomes seriously ill, Rhyne Abbot is forced to leave her life of isolation on her father's ranch and come to town, where, while recovering in the home of Dr. Cole Monroe, she falls in love with her handsome caretaker.
19) Celine
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When Trevor, the scion of the Andrews family, steps off of a sternwheeler and into her life, Celine finds herself drawn to this man who exudes sensuality despite her best attempts to remain emotionless in his presence.
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Life taught her to fend for herself.
The second daughter of an impoverished, alcoholic earl, Samantha Douglas was forced to cope with a physical impairment caused by a childhood accident. Certain that her heart's desire—a husband and children of her own—is forever out of reach, Samantha keeps bitterness at bay and manages to retain her optimism.
Life taught him to be bitter.
Prince Rudolf Kazanov has fled his homeland to protect
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