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English
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Widowed Lady Julia Winterset has just inherited a very shocking book, and now every gentleman in London seems to want it. Harrison Landingham, Earl of Mountdale, cannot permit obstinate Julia release a shameless memoir that could ruin his family's name. The only way to stop her may be equally sordid.
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Countess of Harleigh mystery volume 3
Language
English
Description
"1899. Risings, George Hazleton's family estate in Hampshire, is a perfect choice for the wedding of Lily, sister of Frances, the widowed Countess of Harleigh. But the bucolic setting harbors a menace. Above and below stairs, mysterious accidents befall guests and staff alike. Before long, Frances suspects these 'accidents' are deliberate, and fears that the intended victim is Lily's fiancé, Leo. As Frances and George search for the culprit, more...
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Series
Malory family volume 10
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Having returned from the high seas after dodging the fiancé his greedy father, the Earl of Manford, wanted him to marry, Richard Allen crosses paths with his furious fiancé and must flee with her on an ocean voyage once the Earl learns his son is alive.
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Series
Royal Spyness mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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While serving as an assistant to the hostess of a large Christmas house party in Tiddleton-under-Lovey, Georgie gets the attention of her retired detective grandfather after dead bodies begin showing up.
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Series
Countess of Harleigh mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, has no sooner sent her mother and daughter off on a shopping trip to Paris than she and her fiancé, George Hazelton, are socializing with visiting members of the Russian royal family. Scandal also comes calling: Inspector Delaney turns up outside Frances's house with a young French woman claiming she is Mrs. George Hazelton. Mrs. Hazelton, aka Irena, also insists that she is the illegitimate daughter...
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Malory family volume 4
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English
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Beautiful, mischievous and shamelessly daring, young Amy is a Malory through and through--as wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins. And now that she has reached marriageable age, Amy has set her amorous sights on a most unsuitable mate--the strait-laced American ship captain who once nearly had her Uncle James hung for piracy.
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Wallflowers volume 5
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English
Description
It's Christmastime in London and Rafe Bowman has arrived from America for his arranged meeting with Natalie Blandford, the very proper and beautiful daughter of Lady and Lord Blandford. His chiseled good looks and imposing physique are sure to impress the lady in waiting and, if it weren't for his shocking American ways and wild reputation, her hand would already be guaranteed. Before the courtship can begin, Rafe realizes he must learn the rules...
10) A duke too far
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Way to a lord's heart volume 4
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English
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"Peter Rathbone, Duke of Compton, is mourning the loss of his sister Delia, but the work of keeping his family's deteriorating estate afloat is never done. When Miss Ada Grandison, a close friend of his sister, arrives with a mysterious letter that she claims holds the secret to saving the family home, Peter is skeptical to say the least... his life is about to get even more complicated. Ada is eager to do whatever she can to help the Rathbones. She...
11) Not quite a wife
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Series
Lost lords volume 6
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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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 him, and he let her go without a word of protest. Now, ten years later they try to rebuild what was broken by facing common enemies and an uncommon love.
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Rogues and remarkable women volume 1
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English
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"When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his...
14) The distaff side
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A formidable upper-crust English matriarch engages in a battle of wills with her equally cunning daughter-in-law, a penniless beauty who poses as a long-lost Russian princess.
15) The Duke and I
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Series
Bridgerton volume 1
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince--while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood....
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Series
Huxtable quintet volume 2
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, is challenged to seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable, but finds his plans going wrong and devises a new wager that jeopardizes Katherine's reputation and forces her to wed him to avoid a scandal.
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English
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"Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money,...
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Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this Regency romance, wealthy, untitled Reginald Mason consents, and enters into a hostile engagement in which he and his prospective bride--Lady Annabelle Ashton, daughter of the Earl of Havercroft--are openly antagonistic, each one resenting the other for their current state of affairs while their respective fathers revel in their suffering.
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