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The Mesalliance
Book Description: Lady Allegra Humphry knows her place is at the top of the aristocratic tree and she has no time for cits. But if she and her twin brother, Richard, the Earl of Witherton, wish to retain their position in society they will have to make compromises. Self-made millionaire Silas Tremayne now owns St Osyth [...]
Continue reading...The Unconventional Miss Walters
8. December 2009
Book Description: Eleanor Walters is obliged, by the terms of her aunt’s will, to marry a man she cordially dislikes: the irascible, but decidedly attractive, Lord Leo Upminster. Even a loveless union is better than being destitute, she reasons. Leo, an ex-colonel, is a man used to being obeyed instantly. He finds Eleanor’s unconventional behaviour infuriating, [...]
Continue reading...A Suitable Husband
8. December 2009
Book Description: Someone is trying to murder Sarah Haverstock and her son, Edward. His tutor, and veteran of the Peninsular War, Captain Oliver Mayhew is the ideal man to protect them and root out the perpetrators. Oliver accepts the position with the sole intention of charming his employer into matrimony, the attacks giving him the perfect [...]
Continue reading...Lord Thurston’s Challenge
8. December 2009
Book Description: When Charlotte Carstairs and her young sister and brother are orphaned by the death of their mother she has no choice but to seek out her estranged grandfather, Lord Thurston. However, Major Jack Griffin, a disfigured and dissolute Napoleonic war veteran, has inherited the title and is determined not to allow Charlotte and her [...]
Continue reading...The House Party
8. December 2009
Book Description: When Lady Dalrymple, Penelope Coombs great-aunt, accepts an invitation to Lord Weston’s prestigious house party, Penny is most displeased. She was slighted by the Earl of Rushford during her season and has no wish to repeat the experience.Lord Weston, who secretly works for the British government, is searching for the traitor who is smuggling [...]
Continue reading...Ghosts at Neddingfield Hall
8. December 2009
Book Description: When Miss Culley and her entire staff vanished without trace from Neddingfield Hall, Hester Frobisher was certain she could solve the mystery on her own and find her great-aunt. However, her cousin, the Earl of Waverly, thought differently, so she was obliged to accept his help. With Ralph, a formidable veteran of the Peninsular [...]
Continue reading...A Dissembler
8. December 2009
Book Description: Marianne Devenish arrives in Great Bentley expecting to find her great-uncle in residence. Instead she meets the Earl of Wister, Theodolphus Rickham, pretending to be Sir Theodore Devenish. Unable to stay in a bachelor establishment, Marianne moves in with the permanently impecunious Lord and Lady Grierson at Frating Hall. But what is their mysterious [...]
Continue reading...A Debt of Honour
8. December 2009
Book Description: Eliza Fox, devastated by the death of her father and fiance, recovers by assuming control of the family estate, firmly believing matrimony has no place in her life. Then Lord Wydale, a notorious rakehell, wins Grove House from Edmund Fox, who returns to his older sister hoping she can save their home.Mr Fletcher Reed [...]
Continue reading...Two Gentlemen from London
8. December 2009
Book Description: When Colonel Robert Sinclair and his friend Major Simon Dudley arrive unannounced, Annabel Bentley is greatly displeased. She and her mother, Lady Sophia, have been hiding from her stepfather, Sir Randolph Rushton, for years, but Rushton is well-known to the colonel. It is only a matter of time before their whereabouts are revealed and [...]
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8. December 2009
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