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The Day of the Duchess

Sarah MacLean · 309 pages

Malcolm Bevingstoke, Duke of Haven, returns to London to resolve his marriage as his exiled wife, Seraphina, Duchess of Haven, does the same. Can the Duke convince his wife they have a future together in just one summer?

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 182 pages

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to

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The Last Letter from Your Lover

Jojo Moyes · 489 pages

When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair despite her own romantic entanglements with a married man. -Google Books.

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Love the One You're With

Emily Giffin · 347 pages

A chance encounter forces one woman to question her decisions, her marriage, and herself.

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Coming Up for Air

Patti Callahan Henry · 261 pages

Struggling with the disintegration of her marriage at the same time her controlling mother passes away, Ellie is perplexed when she learns that her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, is creating a documentary about her mother.

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Vince and Joy

Lisa Jewell · 502 pages

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A Time to Dance

Karen Kingsbury · 336 pages

When they learn that their daughter is getting married, John and Abby postpone their separation only to find their relationship growing stronger through the wedding planning process.

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Falling for My Husband

Pamela Ann · 312 pages

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An Affair Before Christmas

Eloisa James · 388 pages

Magic under the mistletoe . . .One spectacular Christmas, Lady Perdita Selby, known to her friends and family as Poppy, met the man she thought she would love forever. The devilishly attractive Duke of Fletcher was the perfect match for the innocent, breathtakingly beautiful young Englishwoman, and theirs was the most romantic wedding she had ever seen. Four years later, Poppy and the duke have be

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Not Quite a Wife

Mary Jo Putney · 359 pages

Marry in haste, repent at leisure. James, Lord Kirkland, owns a shipping fleet, half a London gaming house, and is a ruthlessly effective spymaster. He is seldom self-indulgent. . .except when it comes to the gentle, indomitable beauty who was once his wife. Laurel Herbert gave James her heart as an innocent young girl—until she saw him perform an act of shocking violence before her very eye

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Broken Country

Clare Leslie Hall · 307 pages

*“The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.”* Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel W

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Scarlett

Alexandra Ripley · 832 pages

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Never Desire a Duke

Lily Dalton · 400 pages

Estranged from her husband Vane Barwick, the Duke of Claxton, Lady Sophia finds her passion for him ignited after a fateful encounter in a crowded ballroom. "Lady Sophia has long been estranged from her husband, Vane Barwick, the Duke of Claxton, whose rumored list of amorous conquests includes almost every beautiful woman of the ton. Yet a shocking encounter with him in a crowded ballroom--and

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Rock Wedding

Nalini Singh

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The Gilded Web

Mary Balogh · 449 pages

From one of America's most beloved storytellers comes a classic love story--the breathtaking tale of a man and a woman caught in a web of temptation and seduction. All she wanted was to escape the hot, crowded London ballroom. But moments after stepping into the bitterly cold night, she is seized by a pair of strong hands and spirited away. Fully expecting to be ravished, sheltered Alexandra Purne

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Passions of a Wicked Earl

Lorraine Heath · 384 pages

Known throughout for his prowess in the bedroom, Morgan Lyons, the eighth Earl of Westcliffe, cannot forgive an unpardonable affront to his honor. Discovering his young bride in the arms of his brother was a staggering blow so he banished the beautiful deceiver to the country and devoted himself to the pursuit of carnal pleasure. Claire Lyons was an innocent, frightened girl on her wedding day, s

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Marriage Games

C.D. Reiss · 296 pages

THIRTY DAYS That’s all Adam Steinbeck demands of his wife. Thirty days in a remote cottage, doing everything he commands. After that, he’ll sign her divorce papers and give her complete ownership of their company. That’s how long he has to rediscover the man he once was. The Dominant Master he hid when he fell in love with her five years before. She wants the business they built badly enough t

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The Stuff That Never Happened

Maddie Dawson · 325 pages

"Comparing her stable marriage to a passionate affair she had twenty-six years earlier, Annabelle feels neglected by her busy husband and cares for her pregnant daughter before an encounter with her past love forces her to question her choices." -- NovelList.

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The Marriage Bed

Laura Lee Guhrke · 374 pages

Everyone in society knows that the marriage of 35 year old Lord and 26 year old Lady Hammond is an unhappy one. Everyone knows they have barely spoken to one another in over nine years. But what no-one in society knows are the reasons why ... Lady Viola Courtland was a romantic and impulsive young girl when she fell instantly in love with the handsome and dashing Viscount Hammond. Unbeknownst to V

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Deeper

Megan Hart · 392 pages

Twenty years ago she had her whole life spread out before her. She was Bess Walsh, a fresh-scrubbed, middle-class student ready to conquer the design world. And she was taken. Absolutely and completely.But not by Andy, her well-groomed, intellectual boyfriend who had hinted more than once about a ring. No. During that hot summer as a waitress and living on the beach, she met Nick, the moody, dark-

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Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage

Jennifer Ashley · 336 pages

Highland Pleasures: Book 2 Six years ago, eighteen-year-old Lady Isabella Scranton scandalized all of London by eloping the night of her come-out ball with the notorious rake, Lord Mac Mackenzie. After three turbulent years of marriage, she scandalized London once again--this time by leaving him. Now the reformed Mac has returned, and he wants one thing: Isabella back in his life, his hous

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A Husband's Regret

Natasha Anders · 310 pages

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Seven Years to Sin

Sylvia Day · 344 pages

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Almost Life

Kiran Millwood Hargrave · 384 pages

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