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Mine Till Midnight

Lisa Kleypas · 377 pages

When an unexpected inheritance elevates her family to the ranks of the aristocracy, Amelia Hathaway discovers that tending to her younger sisters and wayward brother was easy compared to navigating the intricacies of the ton. Even more challenging: the attraction she feels for the tall, dark, and dangerously handsome Cam Rohan. Wealthy beyond most men’s dreams, Cam has tired of society’s petty res

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The Taming of the Duke

Eloisa James · 400 pages

Extra 1: Chapter 3 Imogen, Lady Maitland, has decided to dance on the wild side. After all, she's in the delicious position of being able to take a lover. A discreet male who knows just when to leave in the morning.But Lady Maitland is still under the watchful eye of her former guardian, the wildly untamed Rafe, the Duke of Holbrook. He believes she is still in need of a "watchdog." She laughs a

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The Hazards of Hunting a Duke

Julia London · 374 pages

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A Lady's Guide to Scandal

Sophie Irwin · 359 pages

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Lord Perfect

Loretta Chase · 304 pages

IDEAL The heir to the Earl of Hargate, Benedict Carsington, Viscount Rathbourne, is the perfect aristocrat. Tall, dark, and handsome, he is known for his impeccable manners and good breeding. Benedict knows all the rules and has no trouble following them—until she enters his life. INFAMOUS Bathsheba Wingate belongs to the rotten branch of the DeLucey family: a notorious lot of liars, frauds, an

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A Notorious Countess Confesses

Julie Anne Long · 384 pages

She rose to spectacular heights . . . From Covent Garden to courtesan to countess, beautiful, fearless, shamelessly ambitious Evie Duggan has riveted London in every role she plays. But the ton never could forgive her scandalous—if shockingly short—marriage, and when her star plummets amid gleefully vicious gossip, the countess escapes to the only legacy left to her: a manor house in Pennyroyal

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The Autumn Bride

Anne Gracie · 320 pages

Abigail Chantry, her sister Jane and friends Damaris and Daisy attempt to survive in London after a series of misfortunes. When Abigail explores a mysterious house near their lodgings, she is startled to find an old women left ill and uncared for inside. Lady Beatrice has been taken advantage of by unscrupulous servants, but the four young women resolve to help her, and soon her condition improves

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Seducing an Angel

Mary Balogh · 392 pages

In a time unlike any other, a family you'll never forget . . . Meet the Huxtables--three headstrong sisters and their dashing brother--each searching for love that's always a shocking indiscretion away. . . . In her magnificent new novel, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us into a world of scandal and intrigue--glittering Regency England--and introduces the youngest Huxtable: S

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Wicked Widow

Amanda Quick, Jayne Ann Krentz · 344 pages

Madeline Deveridge is all too aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But Madeline has a far more pressing problem than being called the Wicked Widow. She fears that she and her beloved aunt are being haunted!

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Brighter Than the Sun

Julia Quinn · 383 pages

When Charles Wycombe, the dashing and incorrigible Earl of Billington, toppled out of a tree and landed at Ellie Lyndon‘s feet, neither suspected that such an inauspicious meeting would lead to marriage. But Charles must find a bride before his thirtieth birthday or he’ll lose his fortune. And Ellie needs a husband or her father’s odious fiancée will choose one for her. And so they agree to wed, e

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One Night Of Scandal

Teresa Medeiros · 359 pages

Proper decorum has never come easily to Carlotta Anne Fairleigh -- not even tonight, when the lovely, impetuous miss is finally making her debut. As she waits to make her entrance, she can't help wondering about the darkened house next door, the supposedly abandoned home of Hayden St. Clair, the man society has dubbed the "Murderous Marquess." Certainly one small peek through his window before the

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The Inconvenient Duchess

Christine Merrill · 292 pages

Lady Miranda has been raised in poverty. Through the machinations of her stepmother and father, she is sent to be the bride of an embittered duke, a widower who has been persuaded by his dying mother that he needs to marry again. Miranda does her best to be a good wife, even as the duke’s younger brother plots against the new couple.

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Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes · 592 pages

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While

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A Night to Surrender

Tessa Dare · 389 pages

Welcome to Spindle Cove, where the ladies with delicate constitutions come for the sea air, and men in their prime are... nowhere to be found. Or are they? Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: the painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men; it is a haven for those who live there. V

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Lady Fortescue Steps Out

Marion Chesney · 209 pages

Elderly widow Lady Fortescue and her friends hatch up a scheme to escape from genteel poverty. If each of them can relieve a rich relative of an expensive trifle, they can gain funds to turn her townhouse into a hotel for the ton! Lady Fortescue's nephew, the devilishly handsome and haughty Duke of Rowcester, is horrified. There must be something wrong with his aunt's wits, to stoop to trade! He i

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An Infamous Army

Georgette Heyer · 438 pages

In the summer of 1815, beneath the aegis of the Army of Occupation, Brussels is the gayest town in Europe. And the red-haired widow Lady Barbara Childe, renowned for being as outrageous as she is beautiful, is at the centre of the social whirl and of all that is fashionable and light-hearted. However, the city was a nest of intrigue --Napoleon threatened Europe--but the talk was only of this dazzl

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A Dangerous Beauty

Sophia Nash · 368 pages

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose BierceA Courageous Outcast... Rosamunde Baird has lost everything and has no choice but to accept an invitation to spend a season with a dowager duchess and her clandestine ladies club. Determined to stay in the shadows and live

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At the Bride Hunt Ball

Olivia Parker · 384 pages

To Snare a Bride...To Gabriel Devine, Duke of Wolverest, the bonds of marriage are nothing more than shackles. But if he's to remain a lifelong bachelor, that leaves only his younger brother to carry on the family name. Inviting the ton's most eligible ladies to an elegant ball, Gabriel is certain any one of them would be all too eager to become the next duchess and provide an heir—leaving Gabrie

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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

Lauren Willig · 426 pages

Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she's always the one thrown into some stranger's lap. Plus, she's had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love. In fact, ever since she realized romantic heroes are a thing of the past, she's decided it's time for a fresh start. Setting off for England, Eloise

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen · 319 pages

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Fei

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A Lady Awakened

Cecilia Grant · 368 pages

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Minerva

Marion Chesney, M.C. Beaton · 259 pages

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The Wedding Bargain

Victoria Alexander · 384 pages

Maximillian Wells, the Earl of Trent, couldn't believe his ears-or his eyes. Before him stood beautiful, unattainable Pandora Effington, the town's most scandalous beauty, and the fiery heiress was making him a most tantalizing offer. If he wanted to take Pandora's hand in marriage, he had to play a game of her devising-and he had no intention of losing. Most of London's eligible bachelors left Pa

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