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In the Eye of the Storm by Robert Thier
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsEgypt... land of romance, mystery, and exploding camels. Lilly Linton thought she’d be ready for anything after one month of working for her boss – cold, calculating businessman Rikkard Ambrose... -
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Storm and Silence by Robert Thier
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFreedom—that is what Lilly Linton wants most in life. Not marriage, not a brood of squalling brats, and certainly not love, thank you very much!But freedom is a rare commodity in 19th-century London, where girls are expected to spend their lives sitting at home, fully occupied with looking pretty...Categorized as:
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![Hell's Belle by Annabelle Anders]()
Hell's Belle by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere comes a time in a lady’s life when she needs to take matters into her own hands… A Scheming Minx Emily Goodnight, a curiously smart bluestocking – who cannot see a thing without her blasted spectacles – is raising the art of meddling to new heights...Categorized as:
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![Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen]()
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 100 ratingsSince its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr... -
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![The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6 by Beth Brower]()
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6 by Beth Brower
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere is bedlam, and there is delightful bedlam. This afternoon touched on the second, much to my pleasure. The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age of friendship with Pierce, Islington, and Hawkes, Emma is confident she will manage whatever comes her way...Categorized as:
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![The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 by Beth Brower]()
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 by Beth Brower
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"The image of Pandora’s Box being opened by my own hand flashed across my mind. A sobering and somewhat disappointing realization when one understands they are their own worst enemy."The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age of friendship with Pierce, Islington, and Hawkes, Emma is confident she will manage whatever comes her way...Categorized as:
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![The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 by Beth Brower]()
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 by Beth Brower
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsI took Treasure Island to church with me as a talisman.“What a lovely bible,” Mrs. Tribly said.“Isn’t it just?” I replied, hoping she would not ask me to read a favorite verse aloud.I do not believe the psalmist wrote,Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest,Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian’s...Categorized as:
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![A Lady on the Chase by Jessica Scarlett]()
A Lady on the Chase by Jessica Scarlett
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHer father promised her to one man.She promised her heart to a second.Until she meets the third.Lady Alicia Kendall has it all: wealth, beauty, suitors--and a history of creating scandals. The only thing she doesn't have is her best friend and man of her dreams, Henry Crawley... -
![The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower]()
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“I was sitting at my desk reading, with a cup of tea, my windows flung open, when I heard The Tenant enter his garret, just on the other side of the wall from myself.” The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian’s...Categorized as:
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Truce by R.L. Mathewson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author R.L. Mathewson comes the fourth installment in the Neighbor from Hell series…For readers who enjoy touching stories that make them smile, laugh, and fall in love.Elizabeth knows what’s expected of her, perfection...Categorized as:
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![Dare to Cause a Scandal by Emma V. Leech]()
Dare to Cause a Scandal by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTheir mothers dared all for love. Just imagine what their daughters will do…A one track mind…Miss Arabella Hunt is a vivacious redhead with a kind heart and decisive nature. The daughter of the man who owns the notorious gambling den known as “Hunters” has set her sights on the beautiful Louis César de Montluc, the Comte de Villain. The trouble is, the devil doesn’t know she exists...Categorized as:
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![Battling the Bluestocking by Martha Keyes]()
Battling the Bluestocking by Martha Keyes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGreat minds do NOT always think alike.Phineas Donovan is possessed of a sharp intellect. Fresh from Cambridge, he obtains a generous live-in position as tutor for the son of the wealthy Lord Bettencourt. If he can prove his value, he has hopes of being given the patronage of his employer, allowing him to take up a position as vicar... -
![A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke by Emily Windsor]()
A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“So tell me, Miss Beaujeu, why should I employ you as governess?”A question to rouse fear within the breast of any prospective governess but for Isabelle, a lady with impeccable references and tightly pinned hair, it barely raises a brow... -
![Lady At Last by Annabelle Anders]()
Lady At Last by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe can't make a baby without a husband! Or can she? A fter witnessing the miracle of birth, self-determined spinster Miss Penelope Crone is having second thoughts about swearing off marriage. She wants – no, she needs – to experience the blessed event herself...Categorized as:
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![Forever Her Marquess by Scarlett Scott]()
Forever Her Marquess by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes a scorching-hot series that returns to the Notorious Ladies of London world. Six friends, one house party, and a whole lot of scandal...Lady Clementine Hammond may be polite society’s most notorious matchmaker, but she’s perfectly happy remaining unattached herself... -
![Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey]()
Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAlso see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] ACE #1 Heartsick and desperate to return home to America, Georgina Anderson boards the Maiden Anne disguised as a cabin boy, never dreaming she'll be forced into intimate servitude at the whim of the ship's irrepressible captain, James Mallory...Categorized as:
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![The Perfect Spinster by Annabelle Anders]()
The Perfect Spinster by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s more rake than gentleman and she’s more minx than spinster. Miss Olivia Redfield’s prospects for marriage are nonexistent, bleak at best. Removed from society for an ill-fated physical defect, she’s resigned herself to caring for others in a somewhat dreary existence...Categorized as:
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![The Goose: The Sixth Day by Peggy L. Henderson]()
The Goose: The Sixth Day by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnd on the Sixth Day of Christmas… After a disfiguring accident leaves her on the run, Molly Norris is seeking a fresh start far away from home. Traveling with her only companion, an overly protective goose, she dreams of having a life of adventure with a new husband. When the town of Noelle does not live up to its description, she can only hope everything else about her journey is true... -
![Lord Farleigh and Miss Frost by Sally Britton]()
Lord Farleigh and Miss Frost by Sally Britton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn Irish miss and a duke's son have little in common, but Christmas at the castle has a way of bringing the most unlikely people together.Isleen Frost wishes her family had stayed in Dublin for Christmas but understands it would have been folly to decline an invitation to the Duke of Montfort’s Christmastide house party. Isleen refuses to allow the opulent castle and powerful duke to impress her... -
![The Impertinent Miss Templeton by Lynn Messina]()
The Impertinent Miss Templeton by Lynn Messina
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA PATENT FOR PASSION No, no, no! It doesn’t matter how many times the Duchess of Trent (The Harlow Hoyden) requests her help with a delicate matter regarding a patent for her sister’s invention, Tuppence Templeton will not lend a hand... -
![The Lord and the Cat's Meow by G.L. Robinson]()
The Lord and the Cat's Meow by G.L. Robinson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA languid Lord Devin is astonished when a petite virago called Wilhelmina accuses him of selling an unfit horse to a drayman. He isn't aware of the irregularities in his stables. Later, she foists a stray, starving kitten called Horace on him. But Hermione, his betrothed, hates cats. And Horace hates her... -
![The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey]()
The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAlso see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] ACE #1 ACE #2 As wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins, Amy Malory has reached a marriageable age and has set her sights on a most inappropriate mate: the straight-laced American ship captain who once nearly had her Uncle James hung hanged for piracy... -
![A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare]()
A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen a devilish lord and a bluestocking set off on the road to ruin... time is not on their side. Minerva Highwood, one of Spindle Cove's confirmed spinsters, needs to be in Scotland. Colin Sandhurst, Lord Payne, a rake of the first order, needs to be... anywhere but Spindle Cove... -
![Frederica by Georgette Heyer, Clifford Norgate]()
Frederica by Georgette Heyer, Clifford Norgate
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRich and handsome, darling of the ton, the hope of ambitious mothers and despair of his sisters, the Marquis of Alverstoke at seven-and-thirty sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. Until a distant connection, ignorant of his selfishness, applies to him for help...Categorized as:
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![Five Kisses by Rachael Anderson]()
Five Kisses by Rachael Anderson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first kiss crumbles her world. The second mystifies. The third unbalances. The fourth sends her reeling. And the fifth –ah, the fifth . . .Inspired by Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Miss Sarah Meacham has always behaved circumspectly, until an emotional outburst directed at a well-deserved gentleman earns her the nickname of Miss Shrew. As a result, she vows to never trust—or love—again... -
![In Good Company by Jen Turano]()
In Good Company by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Next Delightful and Lively Historical Romp from Turano After spending her childhood in an orphanage, Millie Longfellow is determined to become the best nanny the East Coast has ever seen. Unfortunately, her playfulness and enthusiasm tend to bring about situations that have employers looking askance at her methods...Categorized as:
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![Hope by Beverley Watts]()
Hope by Beverley Watts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere was no doubt that things had definitely looked better for Gabriel Atwood, one time Viscount Northwood. Mainly because everyone who knew him or of him almost certainly believed him dead - the bastard who’d betrayed him had made sure of that...Categorized as:
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Venetia by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwenty-five-year-old Venetia Lanyon's beauty is rivaled only by her sensibility. Intelligent and independent, her future seems safe and predictable...Categorized as:
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![When He Was Wicked: The 2nd Epilogue by Julia Quinn]()
When He Was Wicked: The 2nd Epilogue by Julia Quinn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDo the best things really come to those who wait? Three years have passed since Francesca's and Michael's marriage, and they are still childless. And Francesca wonders, can a woman be truly and completely happy when a little piece of her heart remains empty? But just when she makes peace with her fate, something unexpected occurs...Categorized as:
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![Tender Rebel by Johanna Lindsey]()
Tender Rebel by Johanna Lindsey
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsScottish beauty Roslynn Chadwick needs the safety of marriage to protect her from an unscrupulous cousin and the fortune-hunting scoundrels who covet her wealth. And Anthony Malory is precisely the sort of handsome rogue she's been warned against...Categorized as:
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![The Re-education of Mr. Darcy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Alexa Douglas]()
The Re-education of Mr. Darcy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Alexa Douglas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”– Mark TwainElizabeth Bennet is the daughter of one of New York’s first families. When her grandparents take her and her sisters on a journey abroad, she is not surprised to encounter anti-American prejudice among the members of the English upper class...Categorized as:
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![The Gentleman's Confession by Anneka R. Walker]()
The Gentleman's Confession by Anneka R. Walker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInexperienced in love, Jemma seeks help from her best friend, Miles, unaware that he has secretly loved her for years.Brookeside, England, 1822Jemma Fielding has always considered herself an independent woman, but to honor her beloved grandmother’s dying wish, she makes a promise that she will marry and fall in love...Categorized as:
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![The Earl’s Hideaway, No Ladies Allowed by Esther Hatch]()
The Earl’s Hideaway, No Ladies Allowed by Esther Hatch
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf there is one woman Samson Rutherford, Earl of Riverton, can’t abide, it is his meddling sister. He has spent his whole life being a pawn in her plans and tricks, but when one of her schemes leaves him dressed in women’s clothing, he has finally had enough...Categorized as:
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![A Town and Country Season by Joyce Harmon]()
A Town and Country Season by Joyce Harmon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo identical sisters – one London season. Identical twins Elizabeth and Marianne always imagined they would have a London season together. But money is tight. Marianne will have a season, while Elizabeth will spend the summer in the bucolic country village of Piddledean. But the twins have a plan of their own... -
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![The Lord and the Red-Headed Hornet by G.L. Robinson]()
The Lord and the Red-Headed Hornet by G.L. Robinson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAmelia Organizes Herself Into Trouble!She's a born organizer and a redhead to boot. Can she get everyone around her marching to her tune?Amelia and Aurelius are orphaned twins. She's a bossy, fiery red-head. Her handsome brother wants to join Wellington's army. But she wants him to become a diplomat...Categorized as:
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![Love and Other Historical Accidents by PacificRimbaud]()
Love and Other Historical Accidents by PacificRimbaud
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHermione Granger and Draco Malfoy never intended to blow up their life's work, but that's rather what they've gone and done. Now they're trapped 200 years in the past, with a broken Time Turner, a missing snuff box, a handful of overly-eligible daughters, and a House-elf in a cable knit cardigan... -
![The Rivals of Rosennor Hall by Rebecca Connolly]()
The Rivals of Rosennor Hall by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne estate. Two heirs. No rules, only battle lines. Sophia Anson does not have much in her life to call her own and never has. Nothing surprises or delights her more than to suddenly be named mistress of Rosennor Hall, and from a relation she had never heard of nor met at that. But her elation is short lived, for she is not the only heir to the estate, and the will is very specific... -
![Manor for Sale, Baron Included by Esther Hatch]()
Manor for Sale, Baron Included by Esther Hatch
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe has everything Lord Farnsworth wants, including his manor.Lord Farnsworth would rather rot in debtor’s prison than sell the one place that feels like home to him—his mother’s manor. That is, until he meets the woman who wants to buy it. Sally Duncan is beautiful, intelligent, and as rich as a baron—a rich baron, not a cash-strapped one like Lord Farnsworth...Categorized as:
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![Arabella by Georgette Heyer]()
Arabella by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTo Arabella Tallant, the eldest daughter of a penniless country clergyman, the invitation to stay with her London godmother was like the key to heaven, for in addition to living in the glamorous city, Arabella might even find a suitable husband there...Categorized as:
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![Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer, Barbara Leigh-Hunt]()
Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith her high-spirited intelligence and good looks, Abigail Wendover was a most sought-after young woman. But of all her high-placed suitors, there was none Abigail could love. Abigail was kept busy when her pretty and naive niece Fanny falls head over heels in love with Stacy Calverleigh, a good-looking town-beau of shocking reputation and an acknowledged seductor... -
![Emma by Jane Austen]()
Emma by Jane Austen
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 86 ratingsEmma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect...Categorized as:
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![Delphine and the Dangerous Arrangement by Alicia Cameron]()
Delphine and the Dangerous Arrangement by Alicia Cameron
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"My lord Gascoigne, I wish to lay my bargain before you with all openness... Your duties, under the terms of this bargain, are to guide me through the dangerous waters of the Beau Monde. I trust my instincts, but it would be useless to suggest that I am experienced in the ways of the world. I can see at once that you are... -
![Katherine, When She Smiled by Joyce Harmon]()
Katherine, When She Smiled by Joyce Harmon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKatherine Rose has a secret. She was shocked to discover that her late father, a famous scholar, was secretly the author of lurid Gothic novels. These novels, wildly popular though critically disparaged, are her family’s main source of income... -
![Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean]()
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsA lady does not smoke cheroot. She does not ride astride. She does not fence or attend duels. She does not fire a pistol, and she never gambles at a gentlemen's club.Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has always followed the rules, rules that have left her unmarried—and more than a little unsatisfied. And so she's vowed to break the rules and live the life of pleasure she's been missing...Categorized as:
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![Heart of the Dragon by Jamie Sullivan]()
Heart of the Dragon by Jamie Sullivan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe greatest thief captures an unexpected prize. Madfall is the greatest thief in the kingdom, stealing crowns off the very heads of kings. His hoard is legendary. Simply put, he’s a dragon through and through. So, when he steals a basket of “gold” from the king’s castle but finds a baby inside, he’s at a loss... -
![Highland Treasure by Mary McCall]()
Highland Treasure by Mary McCall
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan the Highlands survive a gifted soul with a tendency toward mischief? Leonce MacPherson became chieftain after a Norman slaughtered his father and clansmen. For two years he raided Northumbria seeking vengeance while a dream woman promises the return of his great sword, stolen in the massacre... -
![A Warriner to Rescue Her by Virginia Heath]()
A Warriner to Rescue Her by Virginia Heath
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTempted by the damsel in distress! Captain James Warriner is startled to find a curvaceous beauty caught up a tree in his orchard! Despite his shattered leg, he rescues Miss Cassandra Reeves, then is determined to have nothing more to do with the enticing vicar's daughter. Except when Cassie seeks Jamie out to apologize, they find themselves persuaded to work together on her storybook...Categorized as:
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![A Warriner to Protect Her by Virginia Heath]()
A Warriner to Protect Her by Virginia Heath
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn heiress in distress and an earl in disgrace… When heiress Violet Dunston escapes from an abduction, she finds an unlikely protector in Jack Warriner—a member of one of England's most infamous families... -
![Miss Benwick Reforms a Rogue by Maggie Fenton]()
Miss Benwick Reforms a Rogue by Maggie Fenton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA lady in disguise...A rogue out for revenge... What better way to escape an abusive fiancé and a tyrannical mother than by masquerading as the very male secretary to the most infamous scientist in the land? Davina Benwick can't think of a single one. But pretending to be a man is hard work, especially around her employer... -
![Hell Hath Frozen Over by Annabelle Anders]()
Hell Hath Frozen Over by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Duchess of Prescott, now a widow, fears she’s experienced all life has to offer. Thomas Findlay, a wealthy industrialist, knows she has not...Categorized as:
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