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Neanderthal Seeks Duchess by Laney Hatcher
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere are three things you need to know about Lady Jane Morrison:1. She frequently finds herself the talk of the ton and for all the wrong reasons.2. A dashingly mysterious gentleman has caught her attention and even more dangerous...she has caught his. 3. She’s rubbish at embroidery. After scandalous events during the London season, Lady Jane is attracting the wrong kind of attention... -
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The Slum Angel by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPerfect for the fans of Anna Jacobs and Dilly Court. Orphan, Victoria Carlton is brought up by her uncle, a banker, to be a lady and make a good marriage. Yet, she is drawn to help the poor families in the slums, much to her family’s disgust. When her uncle dies suddenly, her cousins blame Victoria, and she is thrown out of the house with nothing... -
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Hallam Square by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this saga set in 19th-century Lancashire and featuring the Gibson family, Annie is now happily married to mill-owner Frederick Hallam, but a threat from the past emerges to cause her anxiety... -
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Dare to Be Wild by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTheir mothers dared all for love.Just imagine what their daughters will do...A serious dilemma...Miss Elspeth Cadogan is a cuckoo in a very lively nest. Her parents, Jerome and Bonnie Cadogan, are notorious for their wild parties and practical jokes. Elspeth is sensible, bookish, and just wants a quiet life... -
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![Sutton's Scandal by Scarlett Scott]()
Sutton's Scandal by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's a battle of wits and wills between a bold East End lady and the icy shop owner she can't resist in this deliciously steamy Regency romance from USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Scott.Lily Sutton has been running wild for years beneath her siblings’ noses. Born and raised in the rookeries, she is not afraid of anything or anyone...Categorized as:
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![Destiny's Path by Anna Jacobs]()
Destiny's Path by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony in 1866 and two are quite happy to forge new lives for themselves there.The third, Xanthe, yearns to see the world. But even if she could afford to travel, could she persuade her beloved twin to let her go? Maia has fallen in love with their employer, and would surely be happiest staying behind with him... -
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Ridge Hill by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis 3rd book in the Gibson saga is set in a Lancashire mill town in the 1850s. Annie Gibson gets married to wealthy mill owner, Frederick Hallam. But several people from her past resent her good fortune, and will stop at nothing to get revenge... -
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High Street by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of being able to open an elegant dressmaking salon in the High Street of Bilsden, a Lancashire mill town, have come true. And she is going to take her father and his second family with her, away from poverty, away from the Rows. But Annie has not left trouble behind. Someone is trying to undermine her business... -
![Dubious about the Duke by Alexa Aston]()
Dubious about the Duke by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn affable army colonel who abruptly becomes a duke. A shy beauty who missed her come-out. And two mischievous boys who bring this pair together . . . A confident Colonel Winston Cutler finds himself a sudden duke when the brother he loathed perishes in a fire. Win returns to London, only to find he has two by-blow nephews to care for—and their specialty is running off their latest governess... -
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The Theory of Earls by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Chemise. Stockings. Piano.” Three words, uttered by the beautifully rakish Lord Welles, leave Margaret Lainscott speechless. His improper request, that she play the piano for him in her…underthings is as shocking as it is titillating. Margaret should never have asked his help in reintroducing her to Lord Carstairs... -
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Cocky Earl by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn honorable Earl, an American Girl, and one lost bet that changes everything.Miss Charley Jackson didn’t want to sail to England. The British are stuffy, and arrogant, and think far too highly of themselves. Particularly, the ones who referred to themselves as Lords.Julian Wellstone, the Earl of Westerley, never walked away from a bet but should have known his luck would someday run out...Categorized as:
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![Duke of Disrepute by Alexa Aston]()
Duke of Disrepute by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWho doesn't love a duke? How about five of them? Welcome to bestselling author Alexa Aston's new Regency romance series, the Dukes of Distinction! These five aristocrats all come with nicknames Polite Society has bestowed upon them. Renown. Charm. Disrepute. Arrogance. Honor. A beautiful widow at the mercy of selfish relatives...A duke broken by a terrible secret.. -
![Lyon of the Highlands by Emily Royal]()
Lyon of the Highlands by Emily Royal
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarriage to an Earl destroyed her—can a highland beast mend her heart? After surviving an abusive marriage to an older man, Wilhelmina Redstone retreated from society. Her stepson’s wife, Lily, once her rival, promises to find Mina the perfect husband—a man to love her as she deserves—by engaging the services of Bessie Dove-Lyon, proprietress of the Lyon’s Den, who secured Lily’s own marriage... -
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Detecting Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe could no longer deny what was inside himWhen you knew someone almost as well as you knew yourself, you tended to take them for granted. Warwickshire Sinclair had always felt that way about Lady Samantha… until he didn’t.When Samantha left for a year to study art, he was determined the ache of longing and worry that had taken up residence in his chest would ease. It hadn’t... -
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Daring with the Rogue by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Philippa's first season had not turned out as she dreamed. There had been no grand love match. Despite following all society's rules, she was almost compromised by a lecherous fortune hunter. Shy Pippa decided that bold and decisive is what she must become. On return to Town, her first aim is to settle the score with the disgusting fortune-hunting lord... -
![The Making of a Gentleman by Kathleen Ayers]()
The Making of a Gentleman by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMiss Olivia Nelson has never done anything reckless in her life.Determined to be the perfect young lady amongst a field of wild Barringtons, Olivia strives for politeness. Modesty. Restraint. But when Lady Phaedra Barrington declares her to be boring and goads her into venturing to Elysium, Olivia reluctantly agrees...Categorized as:
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![The Mistletoe Dare by Emma V. Leech]()
The Mistletoe Dare by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheir mothers dared all for love.Just imagine what their daughters will do... An Outspoken Beauty… When Lady Georgina Anderson goes to spend Christmas with her godparents, The Duke and Duchess of Bedwin, she is full of anticipation...Categorized as:
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![The Difference a Dare Makes by Alyssa Clarke]()
The Difference a Dare Makes by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Agatha has spent three London seasons without an offer, achingly aware that several of her friends found love matches because they dared to reach for adventures and new experiences. She is determined to take some risk hoping it just might be what she needs to make a difference in her humdrum life... -
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Nicola's Virtue by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1867 Nicola Douglas attends a London lecture given by Miss Maria Rye, the founder of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, which inspires her to change her life. With no family, but a good education, she boards a ship to Australia with high hopes of a fresh start in a new country as a governess. But Sydney is full of young women with similar hopes and equally poor prospects...Categorized as:
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![A Wager too Wicked by Alyssa Clarke]()
A Wager too Wicked by Alyssa Clarke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLove becomes the ultimate gamble when a wager turns into a passionate affair.Lady Victoria Knightly is determined to prevent her cousin from being trapped in a loveless marriage. To achieve this, she decides to spy on Ethan Darlington, the formidable Earl of Townsend, hoping to uncover secrets to thwart his courtship intentions...Categorized as:
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To Dare the Darkness by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA young woman who is bolder than she knows... Miss Evie Knight, the daughter of Mr. Gabriel Knight and Lady Helena Knight has been the unlikely friend and confidante of the Comte de Villen for years. But despite her own shortcomings and the unlikeliness of a man like Louis César falling for plump little Evie, she must concede Louis appears to be madly in love with her...Categorized as:
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![Truly, Madly, Daring by Emma V. Leech]()
Truly, Madly, Daring by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA nefarious plot…Leander Steyning, The Marquess of Wrexham, was the ton’s most eligible bachelor. Handsome, charismatic, rich and titled, everything Wrexham wanted came to him with ease.Until the day he went blind... -
![Captivated by the Lyon by C.H. Admirand]()
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...Categorized as:
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Scandalous Duke by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFelix Markham, Duke of Winchelsea, has devoted his life to being the perfect statesman and raising his daughter after his beloved wife’s death. But when devastating bombings on the railway leave London in an uproar, he is determined to bring the mastermind of the attacks to justice. He will lure the fox from his den by any means... -
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![Catrina's Return by AnneMarie Brear]()
Catrina's Return by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Scottish Highlands, 1899. A life altering event led Catrina Davies to hide from her family and society. Alone in The Highlands she exists in a lonely world cared for only by her savior, a kind old gentleman. When she receives a surprise visitor, Travis Millard, the man she used to love, her head and heart are thrown into turmoil... -
![To Save a Love by Alexa Aston]()
To Save a Love by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBoth wronged by their fathers... two damaged souls longing for love and salvation... Childhood sweethearts Desmond Bretton and Anna Browning defy their powerful fathers and elope to Gretna Green when Anna is told she will marry a viscount old enough to be her grandfather. Caught before they cross the Scottish border, Dez is shipped off to the army, where he learns of Anna’s suicide...Categorized as:
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![Isabelle's Choice by AnneMarie Brear]()
Isabelle's Choice by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHalifax, 1876. On the death of her mother and sister, Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and her brother in a privately-run workhouse. After the matron's son attacks her, Isabelle decides to escape him and a life of drudgery by agreeing to marry a moorland farmer she has never met. But this man, Farrell, is a drunkard and a bully in constant feud with his landlord, Ethan Harrington... -
![Wrong Earl, Right Dare by Alyssa Clarke]()
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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Duke Takes All by Eva Devon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Duke With A Thousand Secrets: The Duke of Raventon has sworn to never reveal his entire heart and soul to anyone. He has known loss and pain and failure.So much so, that the only way he can make up for the past is in saving everyone he can. When the wild, beautiful Highland lass shows up on his doorstep, he can't turn her away...Categorized as:
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![BOUND BY THE EARL by Alyson Chase]()
BOUND BY THE EARL by Alyson Chase
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe ties that bind... After surviving a living hell, Miss Amanda Wilcox craves a peaceful life. Time with her sister and quiet fireside nights are all she desires. That, and some lessons in pleasure. Too disgraced to ever marry, with no virtue left to protect, she has no qualms indulging in a liaison. And she's found the perfect man to satisfy her...Categorized as:
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Derriford: Confirmed Bachelors Book 5 by Jenny Hambly
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsViscount Derriford likes to keep a low profile. He avoids ton parties and the ladies who frequent them whenever possible, preferring to spend time with his fellow bachelors. A predictable, undemanding existence suits him perfectly. Marriage has never been part of his plans; he is convinced he could never make any woman happy... -
![The Wayward One by Danelle Harmon]()
The Wayward One by Danelle Harmon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe bluest of blood; the boldest of hearts; the de Montfortes will take your breath away." Irish Captain Ruaidri O' Devir has no love for the English. Taken from his family and pressed into the Royal Navy at a young age, he is now a commander for the fledgling American Continental Navy, hand-picked by John Adams himself to steal a potent new explosive from the British... -
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Salem Street by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBanished from her home by a jealous stepmother, Annie Gibson finds work in a doctor's household, where she learns of the world beyond Salem Street. When her childhood sweetheart asks her to marry him, all her dreams come true, but suddenly abandoned and pregnant, her life is turned upside-down... -
![The Reluctant Duke's Dilemma by Trisha Messmer]()
The Reluctant Duke's Dilemma by Trisha Messmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.He never wanted renown. She longed to be free. Pressured by forces beyond their control, will they give in to forbidden desire?England, 1823. After establishing a successful practice in America, Dr. Harry Radcliffe swore he wouldn’t set foot on British soil again... -
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![The Miracle of Love by Meara Platt]()
The Miracle of Love by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe was only assigned to protect her for the week, but his heart wanted to protect her forever.Enjoy this next installment in the humorous and heartwarming, bestselling Regency romance Book of Love series.Deklan Quinton is a blazing hot hero who has more than earned his reputation as the Crown’s top agent... -
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Forever Yours Series Bundle by Stacy Reid
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMISADVENTURES WITH THE DUKE Christopher Worth, the Duke of Carlyle, has a carefully cultivated reputation of 'respectability' but he possesses a dark, lustful heart which he reins in rather well. Except someone is out to reveal him as a wicked rogue in the tongue in cheek articles written about him by a notorious gossip columnist...Categorized as:
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The Road to Scandal is Paved with Wicked Intentions by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Phoebe Darlington's life as she knows it is over. Impoverished and desperate, she has been forced to take up employment as a shop girl, which is humiliating enough. But when she and her mother are thrown out of their boarding house, she may have no choice but to live on the streets.Until a chance encounter at a pub on a rainy day changes her life forever... -
![The Dream of Love by Meara Platt]()
The Dream of Love by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGorgeous as sin Vicar Adam Carstairs is running from his past. Lady Remington Hartfield is running from her future. What will happen when their paths collide? Love is the one thing Lady Remington Hartfield has never had in her life and the one thing she dreams of finding... -
![The Beast's Beguiled by Eva Devon, Maire Claremont]()
The Beast's Beguiled by Eva Devon, Maire Claremont
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCatherine Ludlow knows the betrayal of family. Left alone, with a sister to support, and no money to run her house or even buy food, she takes matters into her own hands. She demands that the man responsible for her brother's infamous departure to the continent teach her how to be a mistress. After all, she will never choose to give her life into the hands of a husband now. .Categorized as:
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![Surrender to the Duke by Tamara Gill]()
Surrender to the Duke by Tamara Gill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSurrendering to the Duke will be easy. Not losing her heart to him is another matter entirely… Miss Lila York should have refused her sister’s request. But since she didn’t, she’s now in the unfortunate position of traveling to London, pretending to be her sister, and rejecting a man—a man she’s long coveted from afar for herself... -
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Dare to Risk It All by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Magnet for Trouble... When Greer Cadogan goes to her sister’s Christmas House party, she is all agog to meet the wicked Raphe Coote, Baron de Ligne. Raphe is her brother-in-law, the Viscount Roxborough’s best friend. The sinfully handsome baron is rusticating in the countryside at Rowsley Hall after sinking into a pit of vice so deep he nearly didn’t climb out again... -
![Dare to Be Brazen by Emma V. Leech]()
Dare to Be Brazen by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheir mothers dared all for love.Just imagine what their daughters will do...Dare to be BrazenThe perfect lady…Lady Elizabeth Adolphus, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Bedwin is the most sought-after young lady of the ton. Seen as the perfect debutante, beautiful, sweet-natured, and demure, she is besieged by offers from eligible gentlemen. And she doesn’t want any of them... -
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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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Fearless Duke by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMiss Isabella Hilgrove, proprietress of the Ladies’ Typewriting School, prides herself on the quality of her staff. After the Duke of Westmorland sacks the third typist she has sent him in as many days, she’s not just outraged, she’s determined to put the arrogant bully in his place. Benedict Manning, Duke of Westmorland, is having the worst week of his life...Categorized as:
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![Sophia and the Duke by Stacy Reid, AuthorsDesigns]()
Sophia and the Duke by Stacy Reid, AuthorsDesigns
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnother witty, sensual, and smart romance in the Forever Yours series!After losing the family she loved, Miss SophiaKnightly lives a carefree and unrestricted life; her tomorrows are promised tono one. The last thing she expected was William Astor, the Duke of Wycliffe, tocreate the scandal of the Season by chasing after her at a ball... -
![Misadventures with the Duke by Stacy Reid]()
Misadventures with the Duke by Stacy Reid
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A duke by any other name! Touted as honourable, and a sterling example for all young bucks to emulate, this author has it on the highest authority that a certain duke is nothing but a libertine! Grab your weekly features to keep abreast with the duke of disgrace!" Christopher Worth, the Duke of Carlyle, has a carefully cultivated reputation of 'respectability' but he possesses a dark,... -
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Adam by Sydney Jane Baily
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this sizzling early Victorian romance by USA Today bestselling author Sydney Jane Baily the heir to an earldom must take a suitable wife... unless he falls for a middle-class governess with a shadowy past.Lord Diamond leads a charmed life. The only brother amongst four sisters, he is touted as the best thing since frothy syllabub. Every young lady in London wants his leg shackled to hers...Categorized as:
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![When the Earl was Wicked by Stacy Reid, AuthorsDesigns]()
When the Earl was Wicked by Stacy Reid, AuthorsDesigns
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLady Verity Ayles will do whatever it takes to protect herself from a vile cur, no matter how scandalous or perilous it may be. And that means aligning with James Radcliffe, the Earl of Maschelly—a scoundrel who spends his days in sin and self-indulgence, and his nights in reckless pursuits. Clearly, a man any young lady of good sense and reputation should stay away from... -
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Philip's Rules by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMarried once to a Baron who needed a young bride to bear him an heir, Cordelia Astley found herself in an untenable situation after his death until Philip Stanley, the Marquess of Dunbury, asked her to be his bride. She knows he didn't marry her for love, but he was her white knight and, once they're married, she finds herself falling in love with him... -
![Wanton in Winter by Scarlett Scott]()
Wanton in Winter by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA desperate earl... Cameron Blythe, the Earl of Hertford, is about to lose nearly everything he owns to creditors in the wake of his blackguard father’s death. The only way to stave off ruin is to find a wealthy wife, even if it means aligning himself with one of the infamous Winter sisters. Any of the chits will do...
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