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1) Dangerous
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008, c1993
Language
English
Description
Sebastian, the notorious Earl of Angelstone, is intrigued when he receives an entirely improper visit from country bred Prudence Merryweather, who has put her reputation on the line in an attempt to convince him not to duel her with her hot headed brother, and as their acquaintance grows, he finds himself torn between wanting to possess the innocently bold young woman, and needing to protect her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Lady Ivy Sinclair, in a hurry to marry before her father cuts off her funds, plans on hooking the boring but respectable Lord Tinsdale, but when his attentions are diverted, she hires a handsome man to impersonate a marquess in order to make Tinsdale jealous, not realizing the blue-eyed rake is in fact the Marquess of Counterton.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Siblings Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive in Gooding, Texas, to fill the open positions for town doctor and veterinarian, but the town's residents are reluctant to accept the new doctor is a woman, until Taylor manages to melt the heart of Karl Van der Vort, who finds his feelings for her growing as he protects her from an unexpected threat.
Author
Series
Raj quartet volume 1
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The lives of a young English nurse and her forbidden Indian lover are tragically altered as Britain struggles to hold on to her most precious possession, the colony of India, during World War II.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In 1920s New York, where traditional and Jazz Age values have begun to clash, the lives of five socialites are forever changed when four of them see the fifth departing a hotel with another girl's fiancé and, despite their vow not to tell anyone, fall to the temptation of gossip.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Bow Street runner Nick Gentry, hired to track down Lottie Howard, the runaway fiancee of an elderly lord, finds his prey only to realize he must have her for himself, and while she agrees to his rash proposal of marriage, Nick and Lottie's secret pasts may keep them from finding a lasting love.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Husband and father Monte Becket, unable to repeat the success of his first novel despite years of attempts, leaves his family behind in Minnesota in 1915 to join self-confessed rascal Glendon Hale, an aging train robber, on a journey in search of the wife he abandoned nearly two decades earlier--pursued by ex-Pinkerton detective Charles Siringo every step of the way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Ashburton, hiding in a carriage to avoid being seen by an obsessed suitor, learns to her dismay that the vehicle belongs to the notorious Rowland Manning, who virtually holds her prisoner at his estate until he feels she has paid off her debt to him, giving them time to fall in love with each other.
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Margot Harrington, an expert at book conservancy, discovers a volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino in a convent library. When published over four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one--now unique--volume has survived.
14) Mistress
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A former English school mistress masquerades as the mistress of an infamous Earl in order to stop a blackmailer.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mary Seymour, a white magician in Queen Elizabeth's court, has vowed never to fall in love, but her attraction to her darkly handsome cousin Edmund, a black magician who seems to understand her better than anyone, cannot be denied, and she finds her beliefs tested when he becomes involved in a plot against the queen.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Sarah Conningham, having long nursed an infatuation for her neighbor Charles Morwellan, now the eighth Earl of Meredith, is stunned when he offers for her hand in marriage, and after a whirlwind two-week courtship she agrees to wed, only to have her passionate fiance turn into a remote husband.
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