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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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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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Indiscreet

Mary Balogh · 497 pages

When Viscount Rawleigh attends a house party in the country, he plans to amuse himself with a beautiful young widow from a nearby village. He refuses to believe she is unwilling until it is too late. For her part, Catherine Winters has been living quietly in the village for several years, trying to keep a secret that could yet destroy her. She dare not give in to her attraction to the viscount. As

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Murder on Washington Square

Victoria Thompson · 326 pages

Turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Molloy are thrust into a twisted case of murderwhen a seductress falls victim to her own charades.

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A Lady Awakened

Cecilia Grant · 368 pages

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The Virtuoso

Grace Burrowes · 416 pages

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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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The Scottish Bride

Catherine Coulter · 358 pages

In this final book in Catherine Coulter's "Bride" series, the youngest Sherbrooke brother Tysen, a widower with three children, becomes a new Baron in Scotland. He visits his new castle, but the locals would as willingly slit his English throat as look at him. But the Local Bastard, Mary Rose Fordyce, a woman with a soft heart, comes unexpectedly into his life, in need of his protection.

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Twice Tempted by a Rogue

Tessa Dare · 370 pages

"Luck is a double-edged sword for brooding war hero Rhys St. Maur. His death wish went unanswered on the battlefield, while fate allowed the murder of his good friend in the elite gentleman's society known as the Stud Club. Out of options, Rhys returns to his ancestral home on the moors of Devonshire, expecting anything but a chance at redemption in the arms of a beautiful innkeeper who dares him

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The Countess

Lynsay Sands · 459 pages

The fairy tale courtship did not turn into a happily ever after… Not until her husband dropped dead, that is. He had been horrible enough to Christiana during their short marriage, and she was not going to allow the traditional period of mourning to ruin her sisters’ debuts as well. So Christiana decides to put him on ice and go on as if nothing’s happened… Until the real earl appears. Richa

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The Wild Marquis

Miranda Neville

The Marquis of Chase is not a reputable man.He is notorious for his wretched morals and is never received in respectable houses. The ladies of the ton would never allow him in their drawing rooms . . . though they were more than willing to welcome him into their bedchambers. Ejected from his father's house at the age of sixteen, he now lives a life of wanton pleasure. So what could the Marquis of

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In the Thrill of the Night

Candice Hern · 304 pages

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A Necessary Deception

Laurie Alice Eakes · 346 pages

"When young widow Lady Lydia Gale helps a French prisoner obtain parole, she never dreamed he would turn up in her parlor. But just as the London Season is getting under way, there he is, along with a few other questionable personages. While she should be focused on helping her headstrong younger sister prepare for her entre into London society, Lady Lydia finds herself preoccupied with the myster

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Our Wicked Mistake

Emma Wildes · 320 pages

When blackmail turns to murder, widow Madeline May turns to Luke Daudet, the notorious Viscount Altea, whom she greatly despises, for help in dealing with men of ill repute.

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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 Beginner's Guide to Rakes

Suzanne Enoch · 349 pages

All of London is abuzz with the return of the utterly alluring, recently widowed Diane Benchley. Will she remarry? What will she do with her late husband’s fortune? Society is shocked by her announcement—at the Grand Ball, of all places!—that she plans to open an exclusive gentleman’s gaming club in the family mansion. But no one is more stunned than the Marquis of Haybury, Oliver Warren. Years

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The Midwife's Revolt

Jodi Daynard · 416 pages

On a dark night in 1775, Lizzie Boylston is awakened by the sound of cannons. From a hill south of Boston, she watches as fires burn in Charlestown, in a battle that she soon discovers has claimed her husband's life. Alone in a new town. Soon, word spreads of Lizzie's extraordinary midwifery and healing skills, and she begins to channel her grief into caring for those who need her.

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The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill

Julie Klassen · 548 pages

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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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To Love a Lord

Christi Caldwell · 287 pages

All she wants is security: The last place finishing school instructor Mrs. Jane Munroe belongs, is in polite Society. Vowing to never wed, she's been scuttled around from post to post. Now she finds herself in the Marquess of Waverly's household. She's never met a nobleman she liked, and when she meets the pompous, arrogant marquess, she remembers why. But soon, she discovers Gabriel is unlike any

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A Kiss For Midwinter

Courtney Milan · 129 pages

"Miss Lydia Charingford is always cheerful, and never more so than at Christmas time. But no matter how hard she smiles, she can't forget the youthful mistake that could have ruined her reputation. Even though the worst of her indiscretion was kept secret, one other person knows the truth of those dark days: the sarcastic Doctor Jonas Grantham. She wants nothing to do with him ... or the butterfli

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Six Degrees of Scandal

Caroline Linden · 377 pages

After stumbling upon her late husband's diary, Olivia Townsend is pursued by a desperate man who believes she holds the key to a lost treasure, and must place her trust in the man who broke her heart years ago to elude the enemy.

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Dawn's Prelude

Tracie Peterson · 335 pages

Newly widowed Lydia Sellers discovers that through an unforeseen fluke, she is the sole recipient of her husband's fortune. But instead of granting her security, it only causes strife as her adult stepchildren battle to regain the inheritance for themselves. Lydia, longing to put the memories of her painful marriage behind her, determines to travel to Alaska to join her aunt.Lydia's arrival in Sit

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