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The Heart's Charge by Karen Witemeyer
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMembers of Hanger's Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he'd nearly married a decade ago...Categorized as:
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Aurora by D.G. Rampton
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings70,000+ readers have already discovered the Regency Goddesses Series. The books, which can be read in any order, are regularly in the U.S. top 20 for Historical Romance and Humor & Satire...Categorized as:
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The Mystery of Mr Daventry by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow long can one keep up a charade?A gentleman who hides many secrets.Society thinks it has the measure of Lucius Daventry, illegitimate son of the Duke of Melverley, but they know nothing of the dangerous man who lies beneath the constructed façade. As a member of a secret group known as the Order of Themis, he works to right injustices, to make wicked men pay...Categorized as:
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The Devereaux Affair by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo lonely children form a bond.As the daughter of a famed courtesan, Julianna de Lacy had seen more than her share of heartbreak. As a child, her own heart was broken the night her mother dragged her from the Marquess Devereaux’s mansion and forced her into a stranger’s carriage...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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Unmasked by Her Lover by Mary Lancaster
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRevealing the true love of her life! The thrilling conclusion to the Season of Scandal series! Lady Meg’s parents decide that the best solution to the scandal breaking over her head, is to marry her to her old childhood friend, Harry. Meg will not allow it. Instead, she persuades Harry to take her secretly to her twin sister’s house in Kent to ride out the storm...Categorized as:
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Wooed by a Wicked Duke by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s betrothed…but not to the woman who holds his heart She’s hiding from the past… Hoping to put the shame of her father’s disgrace behind her, Jessica Brentwood is determined to be the epitome of decorum and propriety her first London Season. All is well until she’s discovered naked in the arms of a notorious rake, Crispin, the wicked Duke of Bainbridge... -
Mysterious Lover by Mary Lancaster
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to a thrilling new series, "Crime & Passion," from USA Today Bestselling Author Mary Lancaster.London, 1851In the shadow of the Great Exhibition, poverty and crime stalk the meaner backstreets of the city. But sin is not confined to the underworld. One couple passes seamlessly between the neighboring worlds of privilege and privation, solving crimes and enabling love to bloom... -
The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Cross-Country Trip through Regency England Brings Intrigue, Rogues, and High Adventure The must-read conclusion to Michelle Griep’s Bow Street Runners Trilogy: Life couldn’t be better for Abigail Gilbert—but it’s been a long time in coming. Having lived with a family who hated her, it’s finally her time for love...Categorized as:
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Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith a “knack for romantic tension and page-turning suspense, this one is a winner.” The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful New York Times bestselling novel by Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas (Booklist, starred review)...Categorized as:
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The Lieutenant and the Lady by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow can he choose between duty and the woman he’d give his life for? When Blaire Culpepper returns to England, she hopes to finally declare her love to dashing Lieutenant Julian Drake. Except, in her absence, he’s inherited his brother’s estate, sold his commission, and has been courting another woman. According to the rumor mills, a marriage announcement is expected any day...Categorized as:
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Marquess of Menace: Regency Romance by Tammy Andresen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s a rake beyond redemption...The Marquess of Milton was the sort of handsome that made women swoon at his feet. Which suited him just fine. Of course, no mother would allow him near her daughter, which worked even better... -
Letters to a Lover by Mary Lancaster
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill blackmail wreck their marriage? Or save it? When Azalea, the beautiful Viscountess Trench, receives a note threatening to expose her adulterous love letters unless she pays up, she faces even greater anxieties than most blackmail victims...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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So True a Love by Joanna Barker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDanger and passion collide when a plucky young woman becomes embroiled in a Bow Street investigation alongside a handsome officer. London, 1803As the daughter of a renowned actress, Verity Travers is a privileged lady of high society —and the last woman one would suspect of working as a private investigator...Categorized as:
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The Steel Rogue by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA scarred lady, living in the outskirts of society. A hardened rogue brought up from the worst of humanity. One seeks revenge. One seeks redemption. Neither is prepared for a love that will defy all odds.A scarred lady, living in the fringes. Lady Alton knows she doesn't fit into polite society. Her scars determined that long ago, and marrying a viscount never helped the matter...Categorized as:
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Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“It’s all a bit sleight of hand, isn’t it? This business of seduction.” Faced with the devastating and impending loss of her stepfather and the all too real threat of unscrupulous relatives who would have her inheritance at any cost, Miss Margaret Upshaw flees to London. Her stepfather has tasked her to make her way to the Lyon’s Den to seek the assistance of Mrs...Categorized as:
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More than a Masquerade by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn enquiry agent seeking her first case.After spending weeks eagerly awaiting an assignment, Rachel Gambit is instructed to meet her potential new client at a Vauxhall masquerade. She’s been given a list of instructions: to wear red, to find the mysterious gentleman amongst the crowd, with no clue to his identity... -
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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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..Categorized as:
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Marquess to a Flame by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA winter's heart..."Debonair, handsome and with a devil's smile. How could any woman resist?"The Marquess of Winterbourne has long been guided by his Rules of the Rogue, but as emissary for the Crown, his next mission will break every single one. Sent to the wilds of Cornwall to beguile secrets from a country miss, the last thing this rogue expects is to unearth his own buried heart...Categorized as:
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The Noble Smuggler by Sian Ann Bessey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDespite living at her father’s inn her entire life, Elizabeth Doyle has always managed to avoid involvement with the smugglers who frequently gather there. Until now. When a handsome smuggler is brought to her with dire injuries, Elizabeth risks everything to hide him—completely unaware that the wounded man is not who he appears to be...Categorized as:
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Blind Faith by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wounded horse. A half-dead man. She thinks she can save the horse. She doubts the man will survive...Painter Alena McClaine’s world turns upside down when an unconscious rider arrives on his injured horse at her isolated California cabin. Both the animal and the stranger sport bullet wounds. Much to her surprise, the man lives—and hasn’t a clue about his identity. Even worse, he’s now blind...Categorized as:
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His Wallflower White by Tammy Andresen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’ll keep her safe no matter the cost...When The Honourable Patrick Cranston is hired by the White family to guard a duke’s sister, he’s relieved. Watching one debutante is a fair sight easier than bareknuckle boxing; at least, that’s how it seems. At first... -
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A Precarious Excursion: An Austen-Inspired Romance by Wendi Sotis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUpon arriving in London from Kent, Miss Elizabeth Bennet assumes it was an error in her behaviour that made Mr. Darcy believe she would accept his proposal. Elizabeth decides she should act more like her sister Jane from this point forward...Categorized as:
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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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Betting Against The Scoundrel by Mariah Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I'll be your scoundrel, not your hero."Broken and devastated, the former Duke of Grandhampton, Lord Spencer Seaton, returns home from the war to find he has lost everything. His only goal is to exact vengeance upon the man who took everything from him.Nothing will stop Spencer... except, Miss Joanna Digby—intelligent, cunning, and mysterious...Categorized as:
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Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.38 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...Categorized as:
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Hell in a Hand Basket by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSophia Babineaux has landed a husband! And a good one at that! Lord Harold, the second son of a duke, is kind, gentle, undemanding. Perhaps a little too undemanding? Because after one chance encounter with skilled rake, Captain Devlin Brooks, it is glaringly obvious that something is missing between Lord Harold and herself… pas-sion… sizzle… well… everything...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... -
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.. -
An Unwelcome Suitor by Ashtyn Newbold
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFalling in love with her sister's suitor had never been part of her plan. After losing her parents, Elizabeth Watts and her two sisters are taken under the care of their great-aunt, who has promised them her estate upon her death. From a young age, however, Elizabeth has learned not to expect to keep things that can be taken away...Categorized as:
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A Gentleman's Honor: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Rachel
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomeone wants Elizabeth Bennet dead. It’s all Fitzwilliam Darcy’s fault.Elizabeth Bennet wants the truth from Mr. Darcy. When she follows him from the ballroom to insist upon it, she becomes an unwilling witness to a scandalous scene. And for once, she cannot blame Mr. Darcy for disdaining his company. Not even when he departs Netherfield in the middle of the ball...Categorized as:
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With the Wind by Elizabeth Johns
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive years have passed since Lady Anjou Winslow, one of the triplet daughters of the Marquess Ashbury, watched her love, Lieutenant Gardiner, leave for the war in America. They were secretly married just before his departure, and though the War Office has declared him dead, she refuses to believe it. No trace of him was ever found...Categorized as:
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An Extravagant Duplicity by Lynn Messina
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhy, yes, the former Beatrice Hyde-Clare is distracted. Having settled comfortably into marriage to the Duke of Kesgrave, she is nevertheless surprised to find herself in an interesting condition. And it has to be that—the unsettling prospect of motherhood—that causes her to overlook the obvious clue that Roger Dugmore had indeed been killed in his sleep...Categorized as:
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Asperfell by Jamie Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnly the darkest and most dangerous of Mages are sentenced to pass through the gate to Asperfell. Not one has ever returned.Never did Briony dream she might set foot in the otherworldly prison of Asperfell. She was, after all, neither Mage nor criminal...Categorized as:
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Pursued by the Rake by Mary Lancaster
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWelcome to the new series Season of Scandal by USA Today Bestselling Author Mary Lancaster!Four innocent young ladies-in-waiting to the Princess of Wales spend the night sheltering from a wild party in her residence – only to discover in the morning that Her Highness was never there. And the news is already out.The ladies flee the scene to fight as best they can for their lost reputations...Categorized as:
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The Weaver's Daughter by Sarah E. Ladd
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKate's loyalties bind her to the past. Henry's loyalties compel him to strive for a better future...Categorized as:
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Saving Shadow by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBorn with a perfect memory, Lady Elizabeth Beckett has become one of the world’s most notorious spies, despite being the daughter of a duke. She is shielded only by her code name: Shadow. When young ladies of High Society begin disappearing from London, Eliza has no doubt who is orchestrating these crimes; a heinous man she has been investigating for years... -
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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Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings by Lin Mei Wei
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a disastrous proposal in Hunsford, all Elizabeth and Darcy want is never to see each other again. But when a horrible storm traps them both at Rosings, they are forced to at least be civil to one another...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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Risking the Detective by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was swindled, ruined, and left for dead. She is determined to rise -- but she will never fall in love again.Madeline Castleton was played for a fool, tricked into a sham of a marriage to a masquerading earl who only wanted her fortune. Now she is determined to prove that she is not a naive young woman but capable of running her father’s stone company...Categorized as:
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A Season for Smugglers by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill his daring debutante rescue reveal the traitor to the crown? Lily Davies' first—and final, if she has anything to say about it—Season in London is mercifully coming to an end... -
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Forgetting the Scot by Jennifer Trethewey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVirginia Whitebridge is trapped in a loveless, abusive marriage. The law says her husband can have whatever he wants from her—so he's taken her inheritance. And he tried to kill her. After a close escape, Virginia feels protected for the first time in forever, thanks to the Scottish Highlands and the Highlander Magnus Sinclair...Categorized as:
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The Countess Intrigue by Wendy May Andrews
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuring her second Season, Lady Elizabeth Castleton is found in a compromising position with Lord Justice Sinclair, the Earl of Heath. Despite her attraction to him, she is dismayed to find herself betrothed to the man who is rumored to have killed his first wife. Regardless of the rumors, she is soon married and on the way to her husband’s estate...Categorized as:
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Why the Earl is After the Girl by Tabetha Waite
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA missing heirloom. A stolen inheritance. Can love conquer mistrust? Athena Hawthorne never imagined that she would lose everything she'd ever had. But after the death of her father, his prosperous jewelry store is sold off to pay his supposed debts...Categorized as:
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Hollow Out the Dark by James Wade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward-winning author James Wade blends atmospheric prose with soul-stirring themes in Hollow Out the Dark, a gothic adventure set against a Depression-era landscape where a whiskey war threatens to decimate a small Texas town.A veteran of the Great War, Jesse Cole is grateful for the quiet life he now leads...Categorized as:
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A Counterfeit Courtesan by Jess Michaels
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe final book in the popular series by 10 time USA Today bestselling author Jess Michaels The last of the Shelley triplets to remain unmarried, Juliana Shelley has never felt like she’s recognized as her own person. But now, scarred by a terrible attack, she’s never felt so alone. Or so tired of cleaning up every else’s mess. She longs for something just for herself...Categorized as:
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Desiring the Devil of Duncraven by Jillian Eaton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's a dangerous bounty hired to track her down...she's a beautiful duchess with a wounded heart. When these two meet, one thing is certain: the Devil of Duncraven is never letting her go...Categorized as:
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