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Defending the Duke by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCan love grow between a reluctant duke and an illegitimate shop girl?Read Book 4 in the bestselling "The St. Clairs" series for free with Kindle Unlimited!Anthony Godwin, trusted staff officer to the Duke of Wellington, returns from the Napoleonic Wars to learn both his father and brother are dead and he is the new Duke of Linfield...Categorized as:
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Sinfully Wanton by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA seductive virgin. An experienced older rake. Lady Aurora Sinclair is no stranger to scandalous behavior, after all, she is a Deadly Sin. Now that she’s survived two Seasons, Aurora is bored. Far more curious about things of a physical nature than she should be, her interests will soon lead her down the path to ruin. A solution presents itself, in the form of Mr...Categorized as:
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Love me, If you Dare by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey 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…Sebastian Crawford, Duke of Hartford, cares about his duty, honor, and family... -
Delighting the Duke by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAccused of something they never did. Five boys banished from their homes in disgrace, to the place where they find the brothers of their heart—and build new family ties that will last a lifetime.An army major whose soul is stained by war. A lonely bluestocking who failed miserably during her first Season. Two strangers who bond over an injured kitten..Categorized as:
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Disrupting the Duke by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAccused of something they never did. Five boys banished from their homes in disgrace, to the place where they find the brothers of their heart—and build new family ties that will last a lifetime.A brash army major who surprisingly becomes a duke. A lady who has no interest in ever wedding. An attraction that leads to passion... and love..Categorized as:
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The Desire of a Duchess by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unexpected encounter leads to a passionate affair…Beatrice Howard, the widowed Duchess of Castlemare was once considered the jewel of London. Lauded and sought after for her beauty, decorum, and pedigree, Beatrice was also despised for her malicious and petty nature... -
Captivated by the Lyon by C.H. Admirand
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA man searching for the truth, and a woman afraid to reveal it, cross paths in the middle of the notorious Lyon’s Den! A year after his brother Adam, the former Viscount Moreland’s untimely death, Edmund Broadbank is still searching for clues to unravel the identity of the mysterious woman who arrived at Templeton House the day after his brother died... -
Three Sins and a Scoundrel by Tracy Sumner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMeet the newest member of the Leighton Cluster! The final novel in the popular Duchess Society series by USA Today bestselling author Tracy Sumner!Beneath his disguise lies a secret life…and a secret love.Jasper Noble is the most feared man in London, a ruthless scoundrel with a reputation as dark as the rookery alleys he prowls... -
To Trust a Duke by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 3 in the exciting new Soldiers and Soulmates series has arrived. A soldier returning from war. A war widow who’s created a new life for herself. An attraction that brings them together... Forced to marry a stranger after one chaste kiss, Lady Ashlyn Dunwood spends a single night with her new husband before his regiment ships off to war...Categorized as:
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The Lord's Desperate Pledge by Kate Archer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Steely Lady and a High Stakes Lord Book 3 in The Dukes' Pact Series—six dukes take dire steps to force their heirs to marry, while those heirs fight just as hard to remain bachelors. A sweet regency romance.Lily Farnsworth is a resourceful lady. As well she should be, her father has spent years dragging the family’s estate from the edge of ruin and she’s always had to make do with little...Categorized as:
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Temptations of a Duke's Daughter by Samantha Holt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSolving a murder is dangerous business. So is falling in love…Lady Chastity Fallon will not stand idly by while her sister is suspected of murder. Since no one wants to help, she’ll take matters into her own hands. The plan? Simple. She’ll disguise herself as a servant and investigate...Categorized as:
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Wrong Earl, Right Dare by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLucinda Darby never dreamed that she would accidentally climb into the wrong bed during her seduction when she accepted a wicked dare! After one night of passion with Alexander, the Earl of Chisholm, Lucinda finds herself more than attracted to Alexander. Still, she is wary of involving herself too deeply as the earl is a right rogue who does not believe in attachments...Categorized as:
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Midnight with the Marquess by Alexa Aston, Dragonblade Publishing
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan love heal a wounded army officer who doesn’t believe it exists? Lady Rachel St. Clair has witnessed how powerful love can be, thanks to the example her brother and wife set, and she won’t settle for anything less. At a house party, Rachel meets an officer returning from the Peninsular War and believes she may have found love, thanks to their clandestine midnight lessons in kissing...Categorized as:
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One Wedding and An Earl by Tracy Sumner
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this sizzling Regency romance by USA Today bestselling author Tracy Sumner, a notorious earl, and an infamous hellion need to face an unforgettable passion.A scarred earl with a big heart—and a big problem.Since his return from war, the Earl of Stanford’s life has been anything but simple... -
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Wild Jasmine by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"SPELLBINDING." --Romantic Times From the palaces of pashas in seventeenth-century India to the scandalous court of James Stuart of England, one woman struggles against fate to find true love...Categorized as:
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My Saving Grace by Danelle Harmon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Impetuous Noblewoman...Lady Grace Fairchild is impetuous, free-spirited — and single. With her mother on her fourth husband and her future uncertain, Grace has set her sights on the most eligible naval officer on the marriage market. Dashing and decorated, every woman's dream, she needs to find a way to impress him with her sailing skills...Categorized as:
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Cocky Baron by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Bethany Wellstone’s season in London was cut short when her father is killed in a duel. She believes it is a sign—a sign that she was never meant to marry. Besides, no one can ever live up to the man she’s secretly loved for most of her life—a man who also happens to be one of her brother’s closest friends...Categorized as:
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The Unlikely Master Genius by Carla Kelly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSailing Master Able Six, Royal Navy, is a man like no other. To call him a mere polymath is to sell him short. Someone with his extraordinary gifts should rise to the top, unless it is the 1800s, where pedigree and money govern Regency society, as sure as Napoleon seeks world domination...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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Truth or Dare by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNot a daring daughter…Agatha de Montluc’s life is a fairy story.Born in the rookery and alone in a dangerous world, the day she picked the Comte de Villen’s pocket might have seen her transported, or even hanged. But the beautiful comte’s past was dark too, and he sees himself in the grubby urchin he determines to save...Categorized as:
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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... -
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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Sin and the Soldier by Mary Lancaster
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA damaged soldier bound to a musician with a past.They have never spoken. But for two years, the haunted soldier has attended Natalie’s concerts at Maida Gardens, bringing her a little self-belief and a few harmless daydreams.Captain Lord Richard Gorse, wounded in body and soul, finds the beautiful harpist’s music is the only thing that soothes his troubled spirit...Categorized as:
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My Lady Pirate by Danelle Harmon
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNote to readers: This e-book is an extensively revised edition of the 1994 paperback. Proud Pirate Queen. With her feisty band of warrior women, Maeve Merrick, the notorious Pirate Queen of the Caribbean, commands the seas in her beautiful schooner Kestrel. Burned by the treachery of men and nursing a painful betrayal from her past, Maeve wants for nothing ..Categorized as:
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Lord of the Sea by Danelle Harmon
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Sea Devil Who’s Reckless At Heart...Captain Connor Merrick’s thirst for danger has brought him fame and fortune as one of the most brazenly successful privateers of the War of 1812. But deep beneath his swagger, derring-do and charm, the handsome American captain is hiding a devastating secret, and he’ll go to any lengths to protect it . . .A Beauty Who Gets More Than She Bargained For..Categorized as:
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An Excellent Walker: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Lyndsay Constable
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIs Mr Darcy capable of wanting to marry just for the sake of love?AN UNEXPECTED MEETING between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet becomes suddenly and shockingly dangerous. Mr Darcy is determined to protect Elizabeth but his exertions leave him grievously wounded... -
Earl of Infamy by Tammy Andresen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's been given a mission...The Earl of Infamy must escort one mourning lady out of London and hide her away in the country. Should be easy. But, from the moment he steps into her life, things get...complicated. Not only is she far too pretty for his liking, but she's got a knack for telling him no."No, I don't want to go to the country with you.""No, I won't share your room... -
Taken by Storm by Danelle Harmon
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFearing that an endangered racehorse will die at the hands of her reckless brother, Lady Ariadne St. Aubyn disguises herself as a man, steals the horse, and abducts the handsome Colin Lord to help her plot...Categorized as:
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The Wayward Son by Caroline Warfield
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe knew Willowbrook would never be hers. How can she make the heir love it as she does? Welcome to book 1 in the exciting new series by bestselling author Caroline Warfield!Sir Robert Benson’s life is in London. He fled Ashmead the day he discovered the man he thought was his father had lied to him, and the girl he loved was beyond his reach...Categorized as:
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Sinfully Mine by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAndrew Sinclair is not your ordinary rake. He’s a Deadly Sin.Andrew Sinclair, the dashing, card-playing younger brother of the Earl of Emerson is shocked to find he’s been left an estate by a gentleman he barely remembers.Not only does Drew detest animals, dirt, and endless fields of barley he hates the country in general... -
An Heiress for August by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLondon’s most notorious rake needs to wed.August Wade was never meant to be the Duke of Courtland. Now he’s inherited the title from his uncle along with the poorly managed ducal estates. After months of attempting to remedy the situation, August concludes that he must wed an heiress. Specifically, Miss Hazel Dartmont, only child of an obnoxiously wealthy textile merchant...Categorized as:
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Kiss The Rake Hello by Tracy Sumner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCortland DeWitt is the most infamous second son in England. Twin to a duke, he thankfully lost out on the ducal title by a mere three minute's grace. And he's never looked back, living his life with one rule and one rule only: no attachments.But to Alexandra Mountbatten, the fearless woman who's known him since childhood, Cort is merely the loathsome boy next door... -
Wicked at Heart by Danelle Harmon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEngland, 1813. Damon de Wolfe, the sixth Marquess of Morninghall is dark, diabolical, and very, very dangerous. Tortured by his past and driven by his desire for revenge, the former naval hero has fallen from grace after infuriating his superiors. Now seething with anger in his lowly role of prison ship commander, he has locked away his brutal childhood memories and allows no one into his world...Categorized as:
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The Marquess' Daring Wager by Kate Archer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Willful Lady and a Daring Lord. Lady Sybil Hayworth might be petite, but her looks are deceiving—she comes from iron-willed stock. Her family claims a winding descent from Margaret Beaufort and they are unwavering in defense of their honor. An insult is easily taken, it invariably leads to a feud, and a Hayworth feud will continue until all parties to it have expired...Categorized as:
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The Governess by Christi Caldwell
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRegina (Reggie) Spark has loved Broderick Killoran, the resourceful and protective proprietor of the Devil’s Den, ever since he saved her from the streets and made her his right hand at the notorious gaming hell. For just as long, Reggie has never admitted her true feelings for him. Nor has she revealed her spirited ambitions—to buck convention and expectations and open a music hall... -
The Heiress's Deception by Christi Caldwell
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the final installment of USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell’s Sinful Brides series, a runaway heiress entrusts her fate to the man she betrayed. Lady Eve Pruitt has never forgotten her childhood friend, the young pickpocket Calum, who she feared had been condemned to the gallows. Now, years later, Eve is the one in danger...Categorized as:
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Lord Satyr by Jade Lee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLord SatyrLord Sayres has a reputation for frivolity when what he wants is something substantial. He’s looking for a business endeavor free from his past entanglements. Something fresh and completely new for a world that has seen and done everything.Lady GwenMasquerades are not Lady Gwen’s typical entertainment. She’s a bluestocking with a love of botany... -
The Matter of a Marquess by Jess Michaels
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsViscountess Aurora Lovell has been in love with one man her entire life, but life intruded and never allowed her to be with him. She came to accept it, marrying for title rather than love. Now a widow, she’s busy trying to figure out how to manage a scandal about to destroy her world when she is invited to a country party. Desperate to escape the realities of her life, she accepts... -
The Redemption of a Rogue by Jess Michaels
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe next steamy historical romance from USA Today Bestseller Jess Michaels.Imogen Huxley was already questioning her decision to seek out a lover at a notorious brothel, but never more so than after she witnesses a murder! She flees for her life and runs right into the arms of Oscar Fitzhugh, a mysterious club owner... -
A Scandalous Bargain by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.33 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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Pearls of Fire by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDo the mysterious pearls with the red-gold color of the burning sun hold the key to love... or to a curse? Emma Langdon’s life was changed by a kiss that never happened. Hugh Le Brecque, the handsome viscount meant to do the kissing never showed up, and Emma has been trying to forget him ever since...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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Twice As Wicked (Wicked Secrets) by Elizabeth Bright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMiss Alice Bursnell is determined to wreak revenge on Nathaniel Eastwood, Viscount Abingdon, for the seduction, ruin, and death of her beloved twin sister. But how to expose a seducer without falling prey herself? As she gets closer to Nathaniel, she finds she is in serious danger of following in her sister’s much-too-tempted footsteps. The man is nothing like the heartless rake she expected..Categorized as:
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The Tantalizing of a Scandalous Rake by Samantha Holt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen lines are crossed, sometimes it's unclear exactly who is tantalizing who...The plan was simple. Lord Adam Moncrieff was to lay low in the countryside until the scandal passed. It would've been so easy...if only he hadn't met the infamous Beauty of Buttermere there. And if he hadn't been stabbed, of course..Categorized as:
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My Wild Duke by Eva Devon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Unlucky Lady: Lady Beatrix Westport was once destined to be the most successful debutant the ton has ever seen. Now, it is all she can do to recover from the brutal coaching accident which killed her entire family. Now, she has only one purpose. Continue her family line and secure her father’s earldom...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 Scot is Hers by Eliza Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHighland war heroes rebuilding their lives grapple with ladies forging their own paths—who will win?Regency Scotland comes alive in the vibrant and sexy new SCOTS OF HONOR series by USA TODAY bestselling author Eliza Knight...Categorized as:
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The Heart of a Storme by Sandra Sookoo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWeakness and courage are found in the same broken form if one can but see. Major Phineas Allan Storme is struggling with his new life. After being paralyzed from injuries received during Waterloo, he’s confined to a Bath chair. Depression bedevils him, making him feel useless and helpless...Categorized as:
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The Hero and the Hellion by Ava Devlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne Last Scandal, for Old Time's Sake ... A Hero's HomecomingLieutenant Callum Laughlin has spent four long years at war. Finally, he has enough status and fortune to return to Yorkshire and reclaim the woman of his dreams - a girl he could never have wed when he was a mere stable boy. What awaits him at Somerton is far from the warm welcome he imagined...Categorized as:
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A Reckless Runaway by Jess Michaels
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second in the bestselling series by USA Today Bestselling Author Jess Michaels Anne Shelley has always been known as the “wild” one of the infamous Shelley triplets, and never has that been truer than when she ran away from her engagement with a scandalous man...
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