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The Storm Breaks by Julia Brannan
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE FOURTH BOOK IN THE ENTHRALLING SERIES FOLLOWING THE FASCINATING LIVES OF BETH AND ALEX MACGREGOR, THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS It is 1745 and the rebellion that the Jacobites have worked towards for so many years is finally under way. Prince Charles is in Scotland gathering the clans and they are rising, ready to fight and if necessary, die for him...Categorized as:
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The Devil's Deception by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHiding in plain sightWhen your life is destroyed by a faceless villain and the grief cuts so deep it could destroy you, there are two choices. Give up or fight. Lord Montgomery chose the latter. Society sees him as a bumbling fool, but in fact Theo is far from it. With the return of his childhood friend, Lady Iris Challoner, everything suddenly changes...Categorized as:
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A Pursuit of Home by Kristi Ann Hunter
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJessamine Beauchene has spent most of her life in hiding and always on the move in an effort to leave her past far behind her. But when she learns the family she thought long dead just might be alive and in danger, she knows her secrets can only stay buried for so long. Derek Thornbury loves the past, which has led him to become an expert in history and artifacts... -
Unlikely Spy Catchers by Carla Kelly
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Unlikely Spy Catchers is a novel about friendship and love, an unusual school for workhouse boys training for the Royal Navy, and the ever-present danger of life in a seafaring town at a time of grave national emergency, as Napoleon considers taking his war to England itself...Categorized as:
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Wagers of a Duke's Daughter by Samantha Holt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe wanted adventure. He’s about to give her that and so much more...Lady Demeter Fallon cannot help but want more from life. Now almost a spinster, she’s spent so long in the shadows of her sisters that the desire to do something exciting is nearly driving her mad. Which might explain what she’s doing when he finds her.. -
Barefoot in Hyde Park by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI’m not holding you to keep you from leaving. I’m holding you because it’s a way of showing you how precious you are to me. The wait is over! The anticipated "Barefoot in Hyde Park" is now available! Book 2 in "The Hellion Club" series. Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited! Lillian Burkhart could not be more different from her half-sister, Wilhelmina... -
A Rogue to Ruin by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Darcy Burke, your next Regency obsession: The Pretenders! Set in Burke’s popular world of The Untouchables, indulge in the saga of a trio of siblings who excel at being something they’re not...Categorized as:
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The Journey of Love by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes it takes getting lost to truly find one’s way home.What happens when a blazing hot Brayden hero matches wits with a strong-willed Farthingale heroine and the mysterious Book of Love?Camellia Farthingale, the youngest of the Devonshire Farthingale sisters, wants nothing to do with London and the Marriage Mart...Categorized as:
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A Season for Spies by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs she races to uncover the traitor, she can hide from him no longer...Perpetually vexed by his misbehaving niece, the Marquess of Camden and Spymaster to the Crown is putting his foot down once and for all. If Evie wants to participate in the hunt for the traitor, she will do so under the auspices of Captain Anthony Browne... the man who once asked her to be his mistress after she seduced him... -
Insatiable by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSociety’s most exclusive invitation...Welcome to the Phoenix Club, where London’s most audacious, disreputable, and intriguing ladies and gentlemen find scandal, redemption, and second chances.Lord Lucien Westbrook is Society’s most charming and helpful gentleman. Overlooked and discredited by his father, Lucien seeks to support others any way that he can—no one deserves to feel unloved... -
The Wicked Spy by Mary Lancaster, Dragonblade Publishing
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan her enemy melt her cold heart? Lady Anna Gaunt comes to Blackhaven on a government commission - to free a French prisoner of war, thought to be Napoleon’s spymaster, Colonel Delon, and learn his secrets. But Anna has to find him first, for the enterprising prisoner has freed himself and clearly has an agenda of his own to be played out in Blackhaven...Categorized as:
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Weathering Captain Storm by Jane Charles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaptain Nathaniel Storm fell in love with Miss Isabella Valentine during the time of war. She followed the drum, he knew his duty. If not for the fear of making her a widow, Nate would have claimed her as his long ago. Isabella knew Nate could never been hers, but that didn’t stop her from dreaming of what could have been if her life was as she claimed...Categorized as:
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Playing with Fire by Jayne Davis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrance 1793Phoebe's future holds little more than the prospect of a tedious season of balls and routs, forever in the shadow of her glamorous cousin and under the critical eye of her shrewish aunt. She yearns for a useful life, and a love match like her parents', if such a thing could ever be possible for an unwanted, poor relation... -
Mr. Notorious and the Nefarious November by Shana Galen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe may be Mr. Notorious…Three weeks in November. Munro Notley told himself he need only survive twenty-one days in London, then his niece would be married, and he could disappear again. He’d been wandering Europe for years now, ever since Beatrice Haddington Barnet rejected his offer of marriage and wed his best friend instead... -
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Undertow by Lara Hays
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe life she always thought she would have...or a new life she is just starting to imagine? Two paths lay before Tessa Monroe as she arrives in colonial St. Kitts with her rescuer, the rogue pirate Nicholas Holladay. Everything should be perfect, but her worlds are colliding...Categorized as:
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The Broken Heart by Mary Lancaster
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDanger, loyalty and loving the enemy… Book 4 in The Unmarriageable Series is now available! Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited! Shunned by society and even by her own family after the treachery of her late husband, Isabelle de Renarde has long given up any thought of love or remarriage...Categorized as:
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Kiss of the Lyon by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe was only supposed to win the high stakes game of chance, not a bride along with it. Lord Matthew Lyon is often called upon by the Crown because of his mathematical brilliance, and participating in a high stakes game of chance at the notorious Lyon’s Den should have been the easy part of his assignment...only it goes terribly wrong...Categorized as:
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The Vulgar Heart by Mary Lancaster, Dragonblade Publishing
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGet Book Three in the bestselling The Unmarriageable Series - read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited! When convention clashes with love… Eager to outshine her older sisters, Henrietta Maybury is disappointed to discover the first man to make her heart race is the scion of a banking family, and therefore quite ineligible as a husband to a viscount’s daughter...Categorized as:
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The Song of Love by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to more Regency fun and frolic in the romantic, bestselling Book of Love series. Now Violet Farthingale must put The Book of Love to the test to capture Romulus Brayden’s heart.What makes a man fall in love? Violet Farthingale is desperate to know, because she has just been caught in Captain Romulus Brayden’s home with her gown unlaced and his hands too far up her legs to explain away...Categorized as:
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The Ears Have It by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo see or not to see…Emmeline Bartlett has a secret. By day, she is the polite, proper, sometimes teacher of writing and rhetoric at the prestigious Miss Masters Finishing School. But by night, she disguises herself as the mysterious Ears, exploring and investigating the darker sides of London, writing articles about her discoveries under a pseudonym and exposing scandals... -
A Tip of the Cap by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith Cap in hand...Malcolm Colerain, Earl of Montgomery, needs a wife. He has four children, a peerage, and a demanding secret occupation as a member of the London League; all of which give him a fulfilling life, so a proper marriage of convenience is all he seeks. But when he meets Elizabeth Owens, things begin to change...Categorized as:
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Fall from Trace by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGone, but not forgotten...Alex Sommerville should have been dead. To the world, he had been dead for almost five years, and with him, the secrets he had carried as Trace, the most elusive member of the London League. When a chance to escape finally comes, Alex finds just enough life left in him to take it, and races off to return to the woman he loves...Categorized as:
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To Sketch a Sphinx by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the Hand of Sketch...Henrietta "Hal" Mortimer has been working with England's operatives and spies for years, her remarkable memory and artistic talents invaluable to many missions. The last thing she expects is to be pulled into a field mission herself, and to be partnered with the most insufferable asset she has ever met. Worse, then, that she has to marry the man.And the mind of Sphinx..Categorized as:
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A Rogue About Town by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA disgruntled operative… Gabriel Statler, Lord Wharton, has a problem. His duties as an operative for the Crown are being compromised for the sake of his cover, where he is known only as the Rogue. His days are now filled with trivial investigations, and none of the problems are ones he wants to solve...Categorized as:
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By Hook or By Rook by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe most dangerous journeys... Jeremy Pratt is a spy for the Crown, and one of the best. He had been in more dangerous situations than he can admit, and has always come out unscathed. But escorting his colleague’s cousin home to her family, even in disguise, just might be beyond his skills, and the temptation beyond his ability to withstand. May be ones of the heart..Categorized as:
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Fortune Favors the Sparrow by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMischief is as mischief does... Clara Harlow is perfectly content with her life as a teacher of art and French at the Miss Masters Finishing School, so nothing startles her more than to discover that the school is far more than it seems, and its purposes more complicated than anything she could have imagined... -
The Fourth Marchioness by Jayne Davis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s looking for a suitable wife. She’s looking for a traitor. It could be a most unusual courtship.England, 1794James, Marquess of Harlford, wants nothing more than to be left alone with his scientific research. Unfortunately his mother is determined to see him married and with an heir to secure the succession... -
Let Sleeping Dukes Lie by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratings“Strait-laced. Ruthless. Arrogant.”Alexander Westhide, the Duke of Rakecombe has no quarrel with such faint praise as he has forever shunned marriage, women and anything remotely resembling love. Indeed, the damning words merely serve to enhance his haughty façade. But beneath the controlled demeanour lies a duke beset by tragedy, a man turbulent and restless.“Forthright... -
The Mandarin of Mayfair by Patricia Veryan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Veryan outdoes herself." --Booklist TWO OPPOSING HEARTS FIND DESIRE WHEN THEY LEAST EXPECT IT! As a devious plot swirls to overthrow the monarchy, Gwendolyn Rossiter, whose brother leads the fight to defend the Crown, finds her lively wit and outspoken nature largely ignored by the haut ton. With one exception: August Falcon, a devilishly handsome resistance conspirator...Categorized as:
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Storm & Shelter: A Bluestocking Belles Collection with Friends by Bluestocking Belles, Grace Burrowes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a storm blows off the North Sea and slams into the village of Fenwick on Sea, the villagers prepare for the inevitable: shipwreck, flood, land slips, and stranded travelers. The Queen’s Barque Inn quickly fills with the injured, the devious, and the lonely—lords, ladies, and simple folk; spies, pirates, and smugglers all trapped together...Categorized as:
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The Most Unlikely Lady by Barbara Devlin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWoo a young lady with a fishing rod and a bucket of worms? Oh-so dashing - but untitled - Everett Markham seeks a bride, and he has charged the field of Miss Sabrina Douglas, a woman who prefers trout to truffles. But, sometimes, even when both hearts are engaged, happily ever after isn't so smooth a journey...Categorized as:
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Earl of Hearts by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove comes to those who need it most. What will happen when an earl determined never to love meets the only woman who can tear down his defenses?Lady Nicola Emory adored her brother’s best friend, John Randall, Earl of Bainbridge, from the moment she met him...Categorized as:
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The Tempting of a Devilish Lord by Samantha Holt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne might not know it to look at her, but the uptight Miss Lucinda Evans was once quite the adventurer. So much so it very nearly landed her in a whole world of trouble.Now nearing spinster age, Lucinda is determined the same fate won’t befall her headstrong little sister. All she needs to do is keep a careful watch over Mary-Anne and maintain her own prim and proper appearance and behaviour...Categorized as:
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Grasp the Thorn by Jude Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn accident brings them together. Will a scandal tear them apart?Bear Gavenor has retired from war and built a business restoring abandoned country manors to sell to the newly rich. He’d like to settle in one himself and raise a family, but the marriage mart is full of harpies like his mother.Rosa Neatham’s war is just starting...Categorized as:
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A Dangerous Lord by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA hardened spy. A stubborn debutante. And a madman that is intent to see them both dead. Lord Evan Corbyn is responsible for all of the agents of the Crown. It is a job that he takes most seriously, and it occupies nearly every moment of his waking life. When one of his agents is murdered, he is determined to bring the killer to justice...Categorized as:
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Lady Mary's Dangerous Encounter by Cheryl Bolen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Mary’s traveling companion has disappeared and only one man believes she ever existed. Lord Stephen Stanhope, a duke’s diplomat son who’s traveling to the Congress of Vienna, agrees to protect his friend’s wayward sister on Stephen’s journey to Austria. Lady Mary Beresford has impetuously set off on her own for Vienna...Categorized as:
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A Dangerous Game by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpies never play by the rules, especially when it comes to falling in love. Emmeline Lockhart is in an extraordinary position for a woman of her station. However, she has no desire to marry a duke who is old enough to be her grandfather. But what other options does she have? The only way out is to find someone who is willing to marry her... and quickly...Categorized as:
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Darcy's Longest Day: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by M.A. Sandiford
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFriday 18th May, 1804Dawn. St Albans, Hertfordshire. Fitzwilliam Darcy travels north with his sister, bound for Pemberley. In his frockcoat pocket lies a letter to Elizabeth Bennet, penned the night after his disastrous proposal. He intended to hand it to her before quitting Rosings for London, but their paths never crossed... -
M is for Marquess by Grace Callaway
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings***Specially Priced at US$2.99 until July 18th!*** A Prisoner of His Past Gabriel Ridgley, the Marquess of Tremont, is dubbed The Angel for his pristine reputation. Yet he harbors a dark secret: a spy during the Napoleonic Wars, he bears deep and dangerous scars... -
A Raven's Heart by K.C. Bateman
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAugust 1815. The war with France is officially over, Napoleon’s an exile on St Helena, but Europe is still a very dangerous place to be. Kidnapped and held for ransom at nineteen, ducal heir William Ravenwood knows the only person he can rely on is himself... -
The Debutante's Code by Erica Vetsch
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes in this new Regency mystery seriesNewly returned from finishing school, Lady Juliette Thorndike is ready to debut in London society. Due to her years away, she hasn't spent much time with her parents, and sees them only as the flighty, dilettante couple the other nobles love. But when they disappear, she discovers she never really knew them at all...Categorized as:
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The Wedding Affair by Heather Boyd
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe life she wants is the love he lost. Coming face-to-face before her wedding with the scoundrel who broke her heart and destroyed her trust could not be more awkward or ill timed for Sally Ford. When she agreed to give her hand and fortune to London’s most eligible earl, she did so believing she would learn to love him after they tied the knot...Categorized as:
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Captain of My Heart by Danelle Harmon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUpdated and revised from its original 1992 version.Excitement heralds the arrival of Captain Brendan Jay Merrick, a dashing privateer whose daring sea battles against His Majesty's fleet have made him a legend in the American colonies. Brendan has plans for the Ashton Shipyard to build his magnificent new schooner...Categorized as:
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Beauty Like the Night by Joanna Bourne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSeverine de Cabrillac, orphan of the French revolution and sometime British intelligence agent, has tried to leave spying behind her. Now she devotes herself to investigating crimes in London and finding justice for the wrongly accused. Raoul Deverney, an enigmatic half-Spaniard with enough secrets to earn even a spy's respect, is at her door demanding help... -
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A Dangerous Deceit by Alissa Johnson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Miss Jane Ballenger unexpectedly inherits her brother’s worldly goods—the furniture, paintings and bric-a-brac on which he frittered away their entire family fortune—the only thing to do is catalog the lot of it and sell it off piece by piece...Categorized as:
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The Lady and the Gent by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA woman of great fortune… Margaret Easton needs a husband, and she needs one now. Her parents are convinced that only a European will do, but Margaret wants nothing more than to stay in England. The trouble is that there is only one man Margaret can think of, or rather, one she cannot forget, and he wouldn’t do as a husband at all...Categorized as:
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Duke of Depravity by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBestselling author Scarlett Scott...Crispin Ashforth returns from battle the newly inherited Duke of Whitley with two sisters under his charge. Publicly lauded as a hero, he is haunted by the bitter mission that nearly saw him killed and cost the life of his best friend. He’s desperate to drown out the demons tormenting him by any means, regardless of how depraved...Categorized as:
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The Son of a Soldier by Eleanor Meyers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a woman be born a harlot? Lady Nora Leverton was. At least, that was what the ton believed. Born to a countess with an astonishing past, Nora never stood a chance when it came to the marriage market ... until the day she is approached by a gentleman who sees her plight and offers her a way out...Categorized as:
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To Tame the Wind by Regan Walker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParis 1782… AN INNOCENT IS TAKENAll Claire Donet knew was the world inside the convent walls in Saint-Denis. She had no idea her beloved papa was a pirate. But when he seized Simon Powell's schooner, the English privateer decided to take the one thing his enemy held most dear... her... -
Practice to Deceive by Patricia Veryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the loss of her father and brother in the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Penelope Montgomery finds herself a virtual prisoner in her own home, at the mercy of her cruel uncle and his vile wife. When her uncle announces her betrothal to his crony, the odious Roland Otton, she is very upset...Categorized as:
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