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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world she knows so well–Regency England–in a new novel filled with her trademark wit, sensuality, and breathtaking storytelling. With this, the first in a dazzling new quartet of novels, Balogh invites us into a special world–a select academy for young ladies–...
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world she knows so well–Regency England–in a new novel filled with her trademark wit, sensuality, and breathtaking storytelling. With this, the first in a dazzling new quartet of novels, Balogh invites us into a special world–a select academy for young ladies–...
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Tall, dark, and exquisitely sensual, Joseph Fawcitt is the epitome of male perfection. Not that Claudia Martin is looking for a lover. Or a husband. As headmistress of Miss Martin's School for Girls, she long ago resigned herself to a life of spinsterhood - until now. Irresistibly attracted to Claudia, Joseph embarks on an outrageous plan of seduction. But as heir to a prestigious dukedom, the Marquess of Attingsborough is expected to carry on his...
3) Simply love
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Anne Jewell, a teacher at Miss Martin's School for Girls, is on summer holiday in Wales when she meets and falls in love with Sydnam Butler, a hero from the Peninsular Wars. He's unlike any man she's ever met before but he harbors scars from his past. When she returns to the school, she makes a surprising discovery that causes her to test Sydnam's love.
4) Simply magic
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Susanna Osbourne is enjoying a perfectly lovely holiday in the countryside until she meets the wealthy nobleman Peter Edgeworth. Despite Susanna's best efforts to let Peter know she has no interest whatsoever in him, the viscount, who is visiting a friend at a neighboring estate, insists on flirting with her. (from Booklist)
5) The escape
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"After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in need of a healing touch. Never does Ben imagine that hope will come in the form of a beautiful woman who has seen her own share of suffering. After the lingering death of her husband, Samantha McKay is at the mercy of her oppressive in-laws--until she plots an escape to distant Wales to claim a house she has inherited. Being a gentleman, Ben...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A mesmerizing story of passionate awakening and redemption, Mary Balogh’s new novel unites a war hero consigned to darkness with a remarkable woman who finds her own salvation by showing him the light of love.
Desperate to escape his mother’s matchmaking, Vincent Hunt, Viscount Darleigh, flees to a remote country village. But even there, another marital trap is sprung. So...
A mesmerizing story of passionate awakening and redemption, Mary Balogh’s new novel unites a war hero consigned to darkness with a remarkable woman who finds her own salvation by showing him the light of love.
Desperate to escape his mother’s matchmaking, Vincent Hunt, Viscount Darleigh, flees to a remote country village. But even there, another marital trap is sprung. So...
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Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy, especially since a freak accident took her husband much too soon. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her. Hugo never intends to kiss Lady Muir, and frankly, he judges her to be a spoiled, frivolous, if beautiful,...
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As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead-only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. Suddenly the dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there-yet of one thing he is certain: The angel who nurses him back to health is the woman he vows to make his own. But like him, Rachel York is not who she seems. A lovely young woman caught up in a desperate circumstance,...
10) Only a promise
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Ralph Stockwood prides himself on being a leader, but when he convinced his friends to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, he never envisioned being the sole survivor. Racked with guilt over their deaths, Ralph must move on and find a wife so as to secure an heir to his family's title and fortune. Since her Seasons in London ended in disaster, Chloe Muirhead is resigned to spinsterhood. Driven by the need to escape her family, she takes refuge at the home...
11) Only Beloved
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Relinquishing all hope to marry after a family scandal, music teacher Dora Debbins finds her life forever changed by the arrival of the Duke of Stanbrook, who, unable to forget their meeting a year ago, makes her dreams come true.
12) Only a kiss
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Since witnessing the death of her husband during the wars, Imogen, Lady Barclay, has secluded herself in the confines of Hardford Hall, their home in Cornwall. The new owner has failed to take up his inheritance, and Imogen desperately hopes he will never come to disturb her fragile peace.
13) Slightly Tempted
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Lady Morgan Bedwyn, searching for her brother who has been reported missing in the Battle of Waterloo, is aided in her quest by Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, not realizing he plans to use her to revenge an old grudge against another of her brothers, and setting the couple up for a series of misunderstandings until they finally surrender to love.
15) Slightly married
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Includes previews of "Slightly wicked" and "Slightly scandalous."
16) Slightly wicked
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Rannulf picks up a fetching young woman whom he believes is an actress stranded in the rain due to a coach crash. Judith Law, a parson's daughter, is traveling to her aunt's home to live as a poor relation and has decided to have one fling.
17) A secret affair
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Hannah, the beautiful Duchess of Dunbarton, freed at the age of thirty by the death of her elderly husband after more than ten years of marriage, announces that she plans to take Constantine, the black sheep of the Huxtable family, as her lover, and while both intended to have only a brief fling, the scandalous union soon turns to love.
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"Kit Butler is cool, dangerous, one of London's most infamous bachelors. Marriage is the last thing on Kit's mind-- but his family has other plans. Desperate to thwart his father's matchmaking, Kit needs a bride... fast. Enter Mis Lauren Edgeworth"--P. [4] of cover.
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When Edward Ailsbury, the new Earl of Heyward, rescues Angeline Dudley from public embarrassment, Angeline falls instantly in love. But the stuffy Earl has little concern for Angeline. Edward wishes only to wed an old friend for an amicable companionship, a good match for his staid persona. But Angelina may show Edward that comfort is no match for passion.
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Dell Publishing
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[1999]
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375 pages ; 18 cm.
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The Earl of Kilbourne, Neville Wyatt, returns to England broken-hearted after losing his beautiful bride, Lily, during the war, but just when Neville begins piecing his world back together, Lily reappears and joins him in a new battle against their oppressive world.
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