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Friends and Foes

Sarah M. Eden · 269 pages

After five years of tracking and capturing spies on English soil, Philip Jonquil, Earl of Lampton, is in pursuit of his last quarry--a dangerous French spy. But when Sorrel Kendrick inadvertently stumbles upon a crucial piece of the puzzle (making her indispensable to the mission), can these two proud hearts negotiate a ceasefire when cooperation matters most?

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Wrapped

Jennifer Bradbury · 314 pages

Seventeen-year-old Agnes Wilkins is about to make her debut into 1815 London society at a lavish party, where she meets Lord Showalter, a wealthy and eligible man who collects Egyptian antiquities and who is hiding a dangerous secret.

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The Lion's Lady

Julie Garwood · 360 pages

Christina Bennett had taken London society by storm. The ravishing beauty guarded the secret of her mysterious past until the night Lyon, Marquis of Lyonwood, stole a searching, sensuous kiss. An arrogant nobleman with a pirate's passions, he tasted the wild fire smoldering beneath Christina's cool charm and swore to posess her... But the feisty and defiant Christina would not be so easily con

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Once Upon a Winter's Eve

Tessa Dare · 180 pages

Violet Winterbottom is a quiet girl. She speaks six languages, but seldom raises her voice. She endured bitter heartbreak in perfect silence. The gentlemen aren't beating down her door. Until the night of the Spindle Cove Christmas ball, when a mysterious stranger crashes into the ballroom and collapses at Violet's feet. His coarse attire and near-criminal good looks would put any sensible young l

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My Lord and Spymaster

Joanna Bourne · 324 pages

After her father is wrongly accused of selling secrets to Napoleon, lovely Jess Whitby infiltrates the London underworld for the real traitor—only to end up naked in the bed of a rude merchant captain. Not only is she falling in love with him, but he may be the scoundrel she’s looking for.

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To Catch an Heiress

Julia Quinn · 377 pages

When Caroline Trent is kidnapped by Blake Ravenscroft, she doesn’t even try to elude this dangerously handsome agent of the crown. After all, she’s been running from unwanted marriage proposals. Yes, Blake believes she’s a notorious spy named Carlotta De Leon, but for six weeks until her twenty-first birthday, when she’ll gain control of her own fortune, hiding out in the titillating company of a

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A Noble Masquerade

Kristi Ann Hunter · 450 pages

"In this Regency romance, Lady Miranda Hawthorne enters her fourth season in the high society of London discouraged by her lack of suitors until private letters and a new valet bring a chance at love into her life"--

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Love and Let Spy

Shana Galen · 367 pages

Jane Bonde was raised to be a spy, but the ton knows her only as an elusive beauty who turns men's heads when she walks into a room. She's also the Crown's last best hope. If she can't find and destroy the diabolical Fonćé and his French spy ring, England's defenses may fall. But something even more dangerous than a madman stands in her way-- her fiancé.

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Prussian Blue

Philip Kerr · 550 pages

The French Riviera, 1956. Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice, and he's calling in a debt. Mielke wants Bernie go to London with the vial of Thallium, to poison a female agent they both have had dealings with. Friedrich Korsch, an old Kripo comrade now working for Stasi, is there to make sure Bernie gets the job done. As Bernie bolts for the German border, he

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What We Become

Arturo Perez-Reverte

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The Reluctant Widow

Georgette Heyer · 306 pages

A fateful mistake... Stepping into the wrong carriage at a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale is swept up in a thrilling and dangerous adventure. Elinor is rather surprised that her prospective employer is quite rich, and more so at tile decayed grandeur of the house to which she is transported. Elinor thought she was entering Highnoons as a governess, but Eduard Carlyon, the handsomely fashionable g

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The Lady Chosen

Stephanie Laurens · 566 pages

(Bastion Club, #1) The first book in a new series from bestselling author Stephanie Laurens! Meet the Bastion Club: seven English secret service members who've defeated Napolean to inherit land, titles -- and wives. Tristan Wemyss, Earl of Trentham, never expected he'd need to wed within a year or forfeit his inheritance. But he is not one to bow to the matchmaking mamas of the ton. No, he will m

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Beauty and the Spy

Julie Anne Long · 388 pages

SHOCKING! London's belle of the ball, Susannah Makepeace, is the last person who should suddenly be stuck in the sleepy village of Barnstable. In town, she would never have seen a man swimming naked in a pond. And she certainly would have resisted the urge to draw every single bit of him in astonishing detail! SIZZLING! Very few people know that Viscount Kit Whitelaw is the best spy in His Majesty

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The Lavender Garden

Lucinda Riley · 403 pages

After she inherits her childhood home, a magnificent chateau in Le Cote d'Azur, France, Emilie de la Martinieres realizes that it may hold secrets to her family's enigmatic past during World War II.

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Seducing the Spy

Celeste Bradley · 352 pages

Lady Alicia Lawrence was cast out of polite society and branded a liar for a youthful mistake. When she overhears details of a conspiracy that could affect her county's fate, she turns to the one person who might believe her- Stanton Horne, Lord Wyndham, Posing as Wyndham's mistress in order to root out the enemy. Alicia is drawn into an uneasy partnership... and a wildly seductive liaison. Lord

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Twice the Temptation

Suzanne Enoch · 374 pages

1814 –– Evangeline Munroe is determined to find a man she can control––after all, that's the only way she'll know her life will go according to plan. But once she receives a cursed heirloom necklace, things take a drastic turn. Her coach collides with another belonging to the Marquis of Rawley, a rogue who has left a string of broken hearts in his wake. Worst, he seems determined to charm and sedu

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As Luck Would Have It

Alissa Johnson · 300 pages

Young Sophie Everton, whose life has had more than its share of ups-and-downs, is determined to restore her family's fortune by becoming a spy for the Prince Regent, but finds the dark and dangerous Duke of Rockeforte in her way.

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Palace of Spies

Sarah Zettel · 367 pages

In 1716 London, an orphaned sixteen-year-old girl from a good family impersonates a lady-in-waiting only to discover that the real girl was murdered, the court harbors a nest of spies, and the handsome young artist who is helping her solve the mystery might be a spy himself.

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How I Met My Countess

Elizabeth Boyle · 370 pages

"The Earl of Clifton intended one day to find the perfect countess ... then he met Lucy. The improper daughter of an infamous spy, Lucy Ellyson saved Clifton's life and taught him everything he needed to know about serving his country ... even how to fall in love. He vowed he would come back and make her his unlikely countess, but the war kept them apart for too long, and when he finally returned,

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His at Night

Sherry Thomas · 417 pages

Lord Vere is used to baiting irresistible traps. As a secret agent for the government, he's tracked down some of the most devious criminals in London, all the while maintaining his cover as one of Society's most harmless--and idiotic--bachelors. But nothing can prepare him for the scandal of being ensnared by Elissande and forced into a marriage of convenience awash with seduction and dark secrets

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The Golden Hour

Beatriz Williams · 480 pages

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Revealed

Kate Noble

From the acclaimed author of Compromised comes a tale of love and war among the ton.Phillippa Benning is the unrivaled beauty of the Season. But when another lady challenges her for a marquis’s attentions, Phillippa entices him to a secret rendezvous—only to stumble upon The Blue Raven, England’s most famous spy, lurking at the site of her planned tryst.The Blue Raven has uncovered an enemy plot d

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My Lady of Deception

Christi Caldwell · 336 pages

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My Wicked Little Lies

Victoria Alexander · 374 pages

Living the perfect genteel Victorian life complete with a loving husband, Evelyn Hadley-Attwater, once a spy for England's most enigmatic intelligence agency, is summoned for one final assignment and finds the lure of her former life too hard to resist.

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