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The Duke's Magnificent Obsession by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf there is one thing I know, kisses have a tendency to alter things irrevocably.Abandoned at the family’s country estate by her employer, Minerva Stone realizes that the concerns harbored about her position with Mrs. Charlotte Entwhistle-Graves were well founded...Categorized as:
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The Soul of a Rogue by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA lady who swore she’d never love again. A bitter rogue out to avenge horrors of the past. Two hardened souls are forced together in an adventure to break a curse, sparking to life a sizzling attraction that will not be denied in this newest novel from USA Today Bestseller, K.J. Jackson.A lady who swore she’d never love again.Eliana Graham, Dowager Countess of Raplan, had once had it all...Categorized as:
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The Devil's Den by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1540, newly married and pregnant Isobel Devlin vanished from a tiny island in Lancashire, never to be seen again.In 2020, leaving London for the first time since the pandemic began, Nicole Rayburn and Kyle Walsh head to a guesthouse in the Lake District for a much-needed holiday...Categorized as:
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Cocky Viscount by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when a lady breaks the rules?Felicity Brightley is the most genteel of ladies. Raised to marry the Earl of Westerley, she’s never failed to follow the dictates of society. Doing so, she’d been promised, ensured lifelong security and happiness. When her future is shattered, however, she decides it’s time she tests those rules—perhaps make up a few of her own...Categorized as:
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Dangerous Lover by Mary Lancaster
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA danger to the world? Or just to her heart? Alexandra Battle is desperate enough to accept a new post as governess to the illegitimate daughter of Sir Nicholas Swan, without having met either of them. Fortunately, Evelina turns out to be delightful as well as challenging, though her father, from their first encounter in the dead of night, remains a disturbingly attractive mystery...Categorized as:
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The Secrets of Lord Grayson Child by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the world of the Cynsters’ next generation with the tale of an unconventional nobleman and an equally unconventional noblewoman learning to love and trust again... -
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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The House at the End of the Moor by Michelle Griep
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat Can a London Opera Star and an Escaped Dartmoor Prisoner Have in Common? Opera star Maggie Lee escapes her opulent lifestyle when threatened by a powerful politician who aims to ruin her life. She runs off to the wilds of the moors to live in anonymity. All that changes the day she discovers a half-dead man near her house... -
Prince of Persuasion by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.An illegitimate son bent on revenge is swept up in an unexpected affair with an unexpected lady...The gossips say his soul is as black as his cravats.Handsome, enigmatic Duncan Kirkwood is the prince of London’s most exclusive—and wicked—gaming club... -
Italian Sonata: by Emmanuelle de Maupassant
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTowering above its island of wave-lashed rock is Castello di Scogliera. Look up at the narrow windows, and you might think yourself watched. Something, or someone, has been waiting for Lady McCaulay to arrive… What dark secrets lie within those walls? Madness, abduction, imprisonment... murder? The past does not lie quietly... -
The Time for Love by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens explores what happens when a gentleman intent on acquiring a business meets the unconventional lady-owner, only to discover that she is not the biggest or the most lethal hurdle they and the business face...Categorized as:
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Deception in Emeralds by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBARNABY LINSCOTT, under orders from the Crown, must apprehend or kill one of England’s most elusive villains. The means to accomplish his mission are anything but clear, but his mind is resolved. The man has already murdered three government agents, and Barnaby vows he will not be the fourth, though he has little to lose... -
The Bowes Inheritance by Pam Lecky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEngland, 1867- A Game of Chance and a Property Lost Who could have known what the consequences would be? Fifteen years later, Louisa Campbell, living in genteel poverty in Dublin, Ireland, is more than surprised to learn that she is the new owner of Bowes Farm...Categorized as:
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The Wicked Marquis by Mary Lancaster, Dragonblade Publishing
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGet Book Five in the exciting and sensual BLACKHAVEN BRIDES series! Or read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited! The lady meets her match - and he's hopelessly ineligible. Poverty stricken marquis, Lord Tamar, is regarded in Blackhaven as an amiable eccentric and a gifted painter, rather than as a wicked man...Categorized as:
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A Conquest Impossible to Resist by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the Cynsters’ next generation to bring you a thrilling tale of love, intrigue, and fabulous horses.A notorious rakehell with a stable of fabulous Thoroughbreds and a lady on a quest to locate such horses must negotiate personal minefields to forge a greatly desired alliance—one someone is prepared to murder to prevent... -
Her Noble Captive by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlternate cover edition of ASIN B06X9XD55WThat bitter winter of 1813…Her… Miss Rosalind Trewent. Irrepressibly vivid. Improperly spoken. Burdened by secrets. Refuses to marry.Noble… Major Lucas Mainwaring. Excessively grouchy. Reluctant earl. Self-admitted wreck. Can never marry... -
At Last the Rogue Returns by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA lady discovers that the monster of her nightmares just might be the hero of her dreams. The lady labels him a devil. Miss Lydia Lovell is on a quest for justice. For years, Lord Greystone's tenants have suffered at his hands. While he abandoned his estate to rusticate abroad, poverty and illness crippled those who depend upon him...Categorized as:
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Curse of the Wicked Scoundrel by Sadie Bosque
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeople call him Hades. He is like the dark prince himself: enigmatic, mysterious and dangerous. Nobody knows his real name. Nobody knows anything about him. Only that he's been cursed to lead his life in loneliness. Because everyone who's ever been close to him, very soon, died.Eloise has led a dull, practical life...Categorized as:
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Just a Little Seduction by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Wirth has made it his life’s work to fight for the rights of those who cannot defend themselves and to navigate England’s choppy legal waters for fellow members of The Brotherhood. Tracking down the three villainous noblemen, including a powerful duke, who have masterminded a child kidnapping ring promises to be the pinnacle of his career seeking justice for the helpless... -
Speculations in Sin by Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo save an innocent man’s life, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must expose a financial scam that could ruin the most powerful aristocrats in Victorian-era London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Bow Lane...Categorized as:
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A Lady in Disguise by Sandra Byrd
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this intriguing novel of romance, mystery, and clever disguise set in Victorian England, a young woman investigates the murder of her own father. After the mysterious death of her father, Miss Gillian Young takes a new job as the principal costume designer at the renowned Drury Lane Theatre Royal... -
A Season for Treason by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA traitor. A courtship. A scandalous Season.In the race against time, will this pair reach the altar or the traitor first?In the service of England's spymaster (well, his niece, but surely he'll appreciate the help), Miss Mary Wilson is on a mission to uncover a treasonous plot... -
Discreet Destruction by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA wayward ruler of the London underworld. The woman determined to protect him at all costs. Where betrayal and obsession meet, does love stand a chance in this adventure-filled historical romance?He’s oblivious to the danger bearing down on him.A titan of the rookeries, the last thing Declan Rudderton needs in his life is another thing to worry about... -
A Dog in a Doublet by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHarry Browning was a motherless guttersnipe, and the morning he came across the elderly Lord Preston clinging to a sheer rock face he didn't believe in fate. But the fates have plans for Harry whether he believes or not, and he's not entirely sure he likes them. As a reward for his bravery, and in an unusual moment of charity, miserly Lord Preston takes him on...Categorized as:
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The Duke of Lies by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVerity Beaumont has suffered domineering men most of her life, first with her father and then with her husband. Free from both men, she has finally found peace. Even meeting a kind and hard-working gentleman who just might be the perfect father her young son so desperately needs. But as she dares look to the future, her carefully ordered world is shattered when her dead husband returns... -
The Vanishing of Lord Vale by Chasity Bowlin, Dragonblade Publishing
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook Two in the bestselling 'The Lost Lords' Series! Read for free in Kindle Unlimited! Elizabeth Masters has put her scandalous and painful past behind her. She’s taken a position as companion to the tragic Lady Vale and her primary duty is to dissuade the woman from believing that everyone from the butcher’s delivery boy to the ostler at an inn is her missing son... -
A Wicked Wager by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo lonely people discover that true love doesn’t have to be perfect. The gentleman makes a wager. Devlin Drake is out for revenge. Since his brother’s mysterious death, the cruel and devious Miss Bromfield has taken to spouting vicious lies, spreading vile gossip—and he vows to make her pay. How better to punish the lady than to make her his wife? A lifetime of misery is what she deserves... -
Surrender/Seduction by Amanda Quick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSEDUCTION SURRENDER SEDUCTION Townsfolk called him the devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Now country-bred Sophy Dorring was about to become Ravenwood's new bride... -
Tregaron's Daughter by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExcitement, drama and suspense were only part of Cadi Tregaron's new life. It had been a sunny afternoon when she glanced from the cliff where she sat reading and saw below her in the sea a sight that would change her life...Categorized as:
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The Detective Duke by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHe was never meant to be a duke. She was always destined to be a duchess.Grit, determination, and a will of steel have propelled Hudson Stone through life. No case he faced as Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard went unsolved. But nothing could have prepared the implacable investigator for inheriting a dukedom...Categorized as:
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Dead Beside The Thames by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings#1 NYT-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with a confounding case that sees her favorite sleuths acting to save a friend wrongly accused of murder.When a detested viscount is found murdered by the banks of the Thames and Charlie Hastings becomes the prime suspect, Barnaby and Penelope Adair join forces with Stokes to discover the real story behind the unexpected killing...Categorized as:
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A Crown for a Lady by Tanya Anne Crosby
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Richly sensual, each tale is magnetic.” —Nationally Bestselling Author Stella Cameron A deception of royal proportions thrust Ian MacEwen into the very center of the ton's marriage mart, forcing him to choose a bride who would be queen. All he wanted was to uncover the answers denied him from birth...Categorized as:
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His Improper Lady by Candace Camp
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome family secrets were never meant to be disturbed. It’s been a year since Tom Quick became a partner at the detective agency Moreland & Quick, which he operates with his lifelong friend Constantine Moreland. When he catches an intruder breaking in to the agency, obviously looking for something, it’s clear that a new case is afoot... -
Just a Little Temptation by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the owner of an orphanage in a poor neighborhood of London, Stephen Siddel has the weight of the world, not to mention the care of tender souls, on his shoulders. He is a devoted father to dozens of children and an upstanding member of the community, in spite of his rivalry with the local nuns... -
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This Time Forever by Constance O'Day-Flannery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsConstance O'Day-Flannery has touched millions of readers' hearts with her magical romances that stir the imagination. Now, she delivers the story of a fiery Irish woman who travels forward in time to the 20th century and meets the man who will change her fate--forever...Categorized as:
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Lessons in Trust by Charlie Cochrane
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe thought he knew who he was. Now he’s a stranger to himself. When Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith witness the suspicious death of a young man at the White City exhibition in London, they're keen to investigate--especially after the cause of death proves to be murder. But Police Inspector Redknapp refuses to let them help, even after they stumble onto clues to the dead man's identity... -
Just a Little Danger by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverett Jewel is the hottest star the London stage has seen in a generation. He is brash, sensual, and sure of himself. Men and women throw themselves at his feet, and he laps up the attention. But all of Everett’s glittering star power hides his wounded heart. He has adoration, but he longs for a love that he doesn’t think he’s worthy of, due to his dark past... -
Forsaking The Prize by Heather Boyd
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was a faithful widow until… Abducted at fourteen and sent away to sea, rough and ready sailor Tobias Randall endured exile and cruelty only to have his plans for revenge crumble. He may have made a terrible first impression upon his return to Romsey Abbey, but he has a plan to reclaim his place—he’ll marry quickly and marry a woman of wealth...Categorized as:
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Clue of Affection by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsViolet Harrington will marry for no reason other than love. The daughter of a Duke, her mother is determined to find her a suitable match, but she is holding out hope that despite approaching spinsterhood she will find the love she is looking for. Then one night she witnesses a murder in the gardens outside a ball, and it changes her life forever...Categorized as:
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The Blushing Harlot by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s nice to be naughty…. After her naughty escapades the night of Lady Charlotte Grey’s engagement party, poor Rebecca Burgess has been shunted off to Miss Dobson’s Finishing School—which everyone knows is little more than a reformatory for young ladies who had sullied their reputation. She would do anything to break free and to find herself in the arms of Bow Street Runner, Nigel Kent, again... -
Dark Intentions by Diana Bold
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Allison Croft has vowed never to wed. An heiress in her own right, she is determined not to let any man have power over herself or her money. She's convinced herself she can be happy living a quiet life doing charitable works. But when Polly, a former prostitute she's trying to help, is brutally murdered, her entire world is turned upside down...Categorized as:
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Charming the Recluse by Mindy Burbidge Strunk
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA gothic castle, a noble curmudgeon, and a candid miss.After the tragic death of his sister, Arawn Beavin withdrew from all Society and vowed to stay cooped up in his family’s castle for the rest of his life. If only his mother were so accommodating. As their year of mourning comes to an end, his mother summons her favorite modiste to the castle...Categorized as:
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Just a Little Heartache by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLondon playwright Niall Cristofori stands on the verge of becoming one of the most celebrated authors of his generation with the highly-anticipated production of his latest work, Love’s Last Lesson. But Love has a few lessons left to teach Niall himself. He has never been able to get over his first love, the man who made his world come alive ten years ago, then left him heartbroken... -
A Duke is Never Enough by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNotorious rake Marcus Raleigh, Marquess of Ripley, is gracing the gossip pages for a new reason: the rumors he may have murdered his swindling cousin. His quest for answers regarding his cousin’s death leads him to an incomparable self-declared spinster, and he is—for the first time—beguiled beyond reason. Neither is what the other wants, and yet their intense mutual infatuation is inescapable... -
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What You Deserve by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLove — Betrayal — A wicked deception. A gentleman desperate to numb the pain of the past. Tristan Wells lost everything the day he discovered love was nothing more than a bitter lie. Now, having spent five years working for the Crown in France, his brother’s death forces him to return to London... -
A Simple Case of Seduction by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew release $0.99 promotional price for a strictly limited time! From the back streets of London to grand country estates, theirs is a journey of self-discovery, a breathtaking story of love and redemption. Nothing is simple when it comes to seduction. Daniel Thorpe has made a point of avoiding Daphne Chambers ever since she refused his proposal of marriage...Categorized as:
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The Gentleman Who Loved Me by Grace Callaway
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this sweeping finale to the Heart of Enquiry series, a flawed heroine seeking redemption meets the hero who is everything she needs—but who can’t give her the one thing she wants… Her Goal is Respectability The product of her mama’s youthful indiscretion, Primrose Kent makes the painful discovery that, in Society’s eyes, neither her beauty nor her charm can overcome the fact that... -
Curse of the Gypsy (Lady Anne Addison Mysteries) by Victoria Hamilton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFans of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries will love these Georgian historical mysteries. Finally home in Kent after her recent adventures in Yorkshire and Cornwall, Lady Anne Addison is shocked to spy her erstwhile suitor, the Marquess of Darkefell, skulking around the gypsy camps near her property...Categorized as:
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Stranger at Wildings by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere is a tale of charm and adventure-set in Europe around the turn of the century-whose colorful action ranges from a touring circus in Hungary to the fox-hunting society of the English countryside to the elegant circles of wealth and fashion in London...Categorized as:
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Merlin's Keep by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHEY CALLED HER JANI BUT SHE ONCE HAD ANOTHER NAME. AND A PAST SHE NEVER KNEW.From far-off Tibet to England's rich countryside, this marvelously enchanting novel unfolds the incredible saga of a beautiful, young half-caste whose strange destiny pulls her into a world of love and terror--a worlds a mysterious power moves slowly toward her, threatening her sanity...and her life...
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