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The Lyon's Surprise: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe was an agitated beast, a Lyon of Mar. THE Lyon of Mar. Cheyne Lyon, Duke of Mar is at first surprised when his wastrel brother dumps a wife and baby on his doorstep. But Jennifer is intelligent, nurturing, and sweet, just the sort Cheyne could love, if only she wasn't already taken... -
Wicked Exile by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe can't afford to love anyone. He will never marry. They can never have a future...or can they?A fallen lady with a heart of gold and a spine of steel.Long ago, Madame Juliet Thomson was exiled from her family. A fallen lady, she's worked in one of London's most famous gaming hells for the last six years... -
Lady Luck and the Lyon by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEnter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made... unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves.Kissing her had been a terrible miscalculation on his part... -
The Mistletoe Dare by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheir mothers dared all for love.Just imagine what their daughters will do... An Outspoken Beauty… When Lady Georgina Anderson goes to spend Christmas with her godparents, The Duke and Duchess of Bedwin, she is full of anticipation...Categorized as:
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The Difference a Dare Makes by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Agatha has spent three London seasons without an offer, achingly aware that several of her friends found love matches because they dared to reach for adventures and new experiences. She is determined to take some risk hoping it just might be what she needs to make a difference in her humdrum life...Categorized as:
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Truly, Madly, Daring by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA nefarious plot…Leander Steyning, The Marquess of Wrexham, was the ton’s most eligible bachelor. Handsome, charismatic, rich and titled, everything Wrexham wanted came to him with ease.Until the day he went blind... -
Once Upon a Christmas Wedding by Scarlett Scott, Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTis the season... for wedding bells! But, the path of true love never did run smooth... as our brides and grooms soon discover. From the snowbound Scottish Highlands to candlelit ballrooms, follow our fearless heroines as they scorn etiquette and defy danger in pursuit of their heart's desire... -
The Rake of Hearts by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the heart is afire…By his own admission, Lord Ernest Brook is a rake. With sapphire gaze, sinfully handsome looks and a duke for a brother, the pleasures of London have come with ease…apart from one.Ever since the gauntlet of her first wintry dismissal was thrown, the widowed Hebe Lock has stirred his deepest desires, but just what would it take to woo such a woman?Sparks will fly... -
Slightly Wicked by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMiss Eleanor Fairbanks is the most sensible of all the sinful Fairbanks siblings until she has a chance meeting with the too handsome gambling den owner Lucien Glendevon. Ellie knows that her duty to her family should be more important than her own personal desires. The dowager countess has made it clear that she must help rebuild the family's reputation by making a respectable match...Categorized as:
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Dangerous Duke by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s lethal and ruthless. Suspended from his work as an agent for the Crown, Griffin, Duke of Strathmore, exists under a dark cloud of suspicion for crimes he didn’t commit. He’s on a desperate race to clear his name by any means until a grave error lands him under house arrest with the last sort of distraction he needs. She’s the sister of his nemesis... -
Forever Yours Series Bundle by Stacy Reid
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMISADVENTURES WITH THE DUKE Christopher Worth, the Duke of Carlyle, has a carefully cultivated reputation of 'respectability' but he possesses a dark, lustful heart which he reins in rather well. Except someone is out to reveal him as a wicked rogue in the tongue in cheek articles written about him by a notorious gossip columnist...Categorized as:
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The Beast's Beguiled by Eva Devon, Maire Claremont
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCatherine Ludlow knows the betrayal of family. Left alone, with a sister to support, and no money to run her house or even buy food, she takes matters into her own hands. She demands that the man responsible for her brother's infamous departure to the continent teach her how to be a mistress. After all, she will never choose to give her life into the hands of a husband now. .Categorized as:
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Lady Wicked by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne reckless moment was all it required for Lady Julianna Somerset to lose her innocence to her best friend’s brother. But when he broke her heart, she fled London to heal her wounded pride. A desperate change in circumstance has forced her to return. And in a cruel twist of fate, the man who ruined her may be the only one who can save her... -
Sweet Scandal by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNot the average lady...Lady Helen Harrington is a spinster by choice. She hasn’t any desire to entangle herself in romantic nonsense. Instead, she prefers to spend her time championing the causes nearest to her heart through writing articles for the London Beacon... -
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Reckless Need by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDon't miss the third book in Scarlett Scott's sweeping historical romance series...A staid dukeHeath, the Duke of Devonshire, has been living a passionless life of penance after losing the woman he loved. Determined to do his duty, he's in search of an innocent bride with a sterling reputation. A bride who's nothing at all like Tia, Lady Stokey...Categorized as:
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Of Valor & Vice: A Revelry's Tempest Novel by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHer life was charmed, until it was not. Near destitute after the sudden death of her wastrel husband, Lady Pipworth must find a way to support herself and her young nieces until her brother returns home to assume his role as head of the family... -
The Bachelor Earl: Includes Bonus Scenes from The Untouchables by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRead the untold story of how Lord and Lady Satterfield met and fell in love in this prequel novella to the bestselling The Untouchables series...Categorized as:
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Duke of Chance by Tammy Andresen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis duke will chance anything... except his heart.The Duke of Durham, better known as the Duke of Chance, is an unrepentant rake, a gambler, a club owner, and an all-around sinner. Which is why, taking over the gaming hell, the Den of Sins, suits him perfectly. And while he knows he’ll have to marry at some point, he looks upon the institution the way some might consider having a tooth extracted... -
Lord Scot by Jade Lee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to book 1 in the "Always a Scot" series from USA Today Bestselling Author Jade Lee.Lord Laughton needs a strong wife to help him corral his wild Scottish relations. Of course, he may be the wildest of them all, or so thinks Lady Cora. The last thing she wants is to leave her beloved London for the highlands... -
Rogue Be A Lady by Eva Devon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Lady Gone Rogue: Miss Emmaline Trent is notorious. And she loves it. Once, she was a sweet young lady, eager to please all around her. But a single act of a stranger ruined her reputation and the young man she so desperately loved rejected her and her “sins”. But when the truth is revealed, it is too late and she has chosen to embrace her scandalous state...Categorized as:
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Lady Amelia Takes a Lover by Sofie Darling
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA proper English lady…A little time in beautiful Italy is just what Lady Amelia Windermere and her eccentric family need while their latest scandal dies down. Amelia is hard at work on their triumphant return to London society when she meets His Grace Tristan Carteret, Duke of Ripon, a sculptor who is too wild for any proper lady...Categorized as:
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The Lyon's Share by Cerise DeLand
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made... unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves. She’d spend every last penny to marry again for security, comfort—or even friendship... -
The Perfect Christmas by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMiss Eliza Cline, a vicar’s sister, has accepted her life as a quiet industrious spinster.Lord Crestwood, the dashing widowed baron, is the rogue from her past.A chance meeting at a Christmas House party presents a second chance for both of them. But Eliza must decide: has the Baron’s unforgivable sin already doomed their love forever?This is a story about forgiveness... -
Bed Me, Duke by Felicity Niven
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA desperate Scottish countess seeks lovemaking lessons from a gorgeous rogue.He can’t stand her fierce resistance to his charms. She can’t stand his dazzling good looks. But why bother standing when they’d both prefer to lie down on a bed together? Especially since neither has any intention of falling in love... -
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Cast in Ice by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Winnifred Waverley, daughter of the Duke of Townsend, walked the fringes of Society harboring a horrible secret. A secret so damning that it would shatter her entire family and destroy any chance for her younger sister Anne to find a love match...Categorized as:
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The Plain Bride by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSinclair Wortham, Lord Mayville is a man haunted by the sins of his family and by the rejection of the woman he once loved. Seeking solace from his loneliness and an escape from the secrets hidden within the crumbling walls of his family home, he heads to the local tavern for some company and truly atrocious brandy. But Sinclair makes a terrible mistake... -
The Christmas Countess by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA shunned lady determined to keep her secrets. A new newly minted earl looking for a fresh start. A love gone wrong gains a second chance in the light of the Christmas moon...Categorized as:
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My One and Only Earl by Stacy Reid
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames, Lord Kingsley’s best friend’s dying wish was that he married his spinster sister. Unluckily, James is honor-bound to fulfill another oath and can never marry Miss Poppy Ashford, no matter how delightfully charming and sensual he finds her.Treated horridly by her stepmother and half-sisters, Poppy has little to anticipate for her future...Categorized as:
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Rebel Love by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA determined womanLady Bella de Vere's matchmaking mother has vowed to win her a duke and nothing less. But Bella secretly yearns for her brother's enigmatic American friend, Mr. Jesse Whitney, even if he's determined to treat her as nothing more than a younger sister.A man with a pastAdrift since the Civil War's end, Jesse's been through the fires of hell and back...Categorized as:
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One Wylde Night by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Wylde Wallflowers follows the Wylde twins, Felicty and Charity, along with their two cousins, Benedicta and Cordelia Wylde, as they join their eccentric aunt in London for one last season and one last chance to find husbands. But the girls have their own plans… they want adventure and excitement... -
Her Missing Marquess by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsNell, Lady Needham, has earned her scandalous reputation by devoting her days to an endless barrage of wild parties in the wake of her husband’s devastating betrayal. But her appetite for distraction is no longer as voracious as it once was. She longs for a true marriage and a family, and she has finally found just the man to give her both...Categorized as:
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Between Scandal and Desire by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNicholas Fairbanks, younger brother of the newly minted Earl of Celdon, is shocked. And shocking one of the ‘very bad Fairbanks’ was a fairly difficult thing to achieve. Lady Cressida Winters, the auburn-haired beauty he had been obsessed with all season, daringly visits his lodgings and demands that he paints her...Categorized as:
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The Perks of Loving a Viscount by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA man who cherishes his freedom at sea. A woman who fears she will never find her place in Polite Society. Two unlikely people who come together—and find love . . . As a boy, Seth Atwell falls in love with the sea. His uncle, Lord Hopewell, arranges for Seth to become a cabin boy, and over the years, Seth works his way up to the position of captain of a trading vessel...Categorized as:
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Restless Rake by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe wants her freedom… Clara Whitney is desperate to leave London and return to her native Virginia. She'll do anything, even if it means striking a deal with the most notorious earl in England, to get what she wants... -
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A Summer to Remember by Mary Balogh
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMary Balogh weaves a tantalizing web of wit and seduction in her new novel—an irresistible tale of two unlikely lovers and one unforgettable summer.Kit Butler is cool, dangerous, one of London’s mostinfamous bachelors—marriage is the last thing on his mind. But Kit’s family has other plans. Desperate to thwart his father’s matchmaking, Kit needs a bride...fast. Enter Miss Lauren Edgeworth... -
The Scoundrel You Know by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeet the Fairbanks— a family struggling to adjust to becoming newly rich when they have been naughtily doing whatever they wanted their whole lives! This scandalous middle-class country family hadn’t expected their eldest sibling to inherit an Earldom and their grand aunt who intends to transform their no good, dissolute reputations into models of propriety!Those Very Bad Fairbanks tell stories...Categorized as:
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Lords by Stacy Von Haegert
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLondon 1830... Anastasia Lintel never wanted for more than a simple existence, arranging flowers in her father's shop, catering to the soft-palmed elite. However, when tragedy strikes, taking with it the only family she has ever known, Anastasia must adapt to an unexpected new life... -
Two Dares, a Duke, and a Runaway Bride by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a botched elopement, Lady Evie hatches a daring impersonate the wife of a soon-to-depart duke to gain lodging at an inn. However, an unexpected storm traps them together, igniting undeniable chemistry.As their pretend marriage morphs into nights of fiery passion, Evie grapples with her growing feelings, fearing she's diving headlong into a love that promises only heartbreak... -
A Question of Trust by Angeline Fortin, Celine Cody
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Jack Merrill becomes earl Haddington inheriting not only a title but the devastating debt that came with it, his friends convince him that there is nothing for it but to gain quick wealth the really old fashioned way…marry into it! On the hunt for a wealthy bride, Jack stumbles upon Kitty Hayes, the sister of his former target Evelyn...Categorized as:
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Stealing the Duke by Lexi Post
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan she convince the duke a woman has a brain? Lady Joanna Mabry has many flaws, one is her penchant for stealing books from her peers’ homes. Since she returns them, usually to the same house, she feels it’s a harmless flaw until she’s almost caught by James Huntington, the Duke of Northwick. His outspoken views on a proper woman’s education have left her bristling...Categorized as:
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The Duke of Distraction by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter witnessing how love embittered his uncle and broke his father, Felix Havers, Earl of Ware vows never to love. He conceals his emotions behind a wall of wit and charm, and is celebrated as the master of entertainments—parties, picnics, races. When his best friend’s wallflower sister needs to find a husband, he promises to make her the toast of London... without losing his heart...Categorized as:
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Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume One by Ashley Gardner
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collection of the first three novels in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series plus two Captain Lacey short stories originally published in mystery magazines...Categorized as:
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Broken Promise by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVictorian Romance Captain Austin Landwell lives with nightmares that torture him every day. So, when he’s given the chance to redeem himself and make the family he destroyed whole again, nothing will stand in his way except...his love for a woman who has the power to breathe life back into a heart he thought was dead...Categorized as:
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Marry Me, If You Dare by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMarry Me, If You Dare is the 2nd book in the steamy Regency Historical romance series, Wagers and Wallflowers!They are wallflowers, bluestockings, merry widows, and debutantes—members of a secret, exclusive Lady’s Club in Berkeley Square! There ladies indulge in daring wagers, learn to fight, read scandalous books, and learn the art of wooing the gentlemen they will bring to their knees…The last... -
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Odd Earl Out by Anna Bradley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis reluctant belle… Juliet Templeton didn’t embark on a risky London season in search of a fairy-tale. Fluttering hearts, yearning glances and stolen kisses are for starry-eyed debutantes, not disgraced, penniless females approaching spinsterhood... -
Just Beyond Tomorrow by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMauritius has long been a prime holiday destination with its balmy climate, splendid beaches, coral reefs and translucent lagoons. This guide provides information on the island's history, topography, climate, economy, vegetation, flora, fauna, bird life and its beautiful underwater life... -
My Heart's True Delight: True Gentlemen book 10 by Grace Burrowes
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAsh Dorning has loved Della Haddonfield from afar for years. He has played the part of the cordial family connection and battled every demon from lack of funds, to meddling relatives, to a recurring case of the blue devils—while other men have won Della's smiles...Categorized as:
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Christmas at Thorncliff Manor by Sophie Barnes
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMore than love is in the air …Join the Heartly family as they return to Thorncliff Manor for the holiday season where four sisters and four very handsome, very eligible bachelors, are about to enjoy a lively Christmastime filled with laughter and love. But aside from the covert matchmaking undertaken by the eccentric hostess, Lady Duncaster, the thrill of adventure is sweeping through the estate... -
Never Say Never to an Earl by Grace Callaway
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Wallflower Who Guards Her Secrets Miss Polly Kent has no illusions about finding love. Not only is she a wallflower, but her freakish ability to read others’ emotions has led to devastating rejection time and again. When it comes to her future, she knows that a marriage of convenience, one in which she can keep her secret affliction hidden, is the only safe choice... -
December Heart by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAt twenty-seven years old, Mariah Travers has become what she most feared—a spinster and a perpetual adolescent in the eyes of her family and the law. But her fortunes change when her father announces that he has promised her hand in marriage to an old friend and colleague in the House of Lords...
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