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Lady Allegra Nesbitt, an iconoclast, is appalled when her father, Oxie, tells her they're going to London to find her a husband, then, when they arrive, they're shunned. Five years earlier when her father inherited the title of earl, her parents went to London to take their place amongst the ton, but Regency society was contemptuous of Oxie's elaborate jokes and her mother's country manners. Now no one welcomes them except their neighbor, Armand Gauthier,...
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Harlequin Mills and Boon Limited
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The marriage of convenience plot is familiar to many readers of romance. What lifts this far above the average is the intensely realistic portrayal of the hero. He is totally human, multi-dimensional, and so real he jumps off the pages and into our hearts. The reader lives his dilemma and, while he makes mistakes, he learns from them and is changed by his relationship with the heroine and by his love for her.
7) Badlands
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Center Point Publishing
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Chance Pagan headed to the badlands, intent on clearing his name and bringing the right man to justice. All he had to do was stay alive long enough.
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Center Point Publishers
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The valley ranchers were against Owen Tolliver . Tolliver, ramrod of the Box M ranch, had proposed a suicide winter drive---- a desperate plan to haze eight hundred steer through blizards and drifts to relieve a band of starving, snowbound indians. Tolliver was determined. Failure meant freezing to death in the mountains. Success could mean lynching when he returned.
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Harlequin Mills and Boon Limited
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When Morganna Ashworth's father died, leaving her his depts. Sloan Montgomery realized he could finally achive his two lifelong ambitions: the acquisition of a socailly acceptable wife, and revenge on the Ashworth family! In return for him paying the depts, Morganna became Mrs. Sloan Montgomery. But once they were wed, sloan didn't bargain on falling deeply in love with his trophy wife! Especially considering all the secrets and lies between them......
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Lottie Fairleigh, an aspiring Gothic novelist known as the Hertfordshire Hellion, finds herself in another scrape when she's discovered kissing Hayden St. Clair, the "Murderous Marquess," just before her coming-out ball. But for the first time, Lottie can't talk her way out of trouble, and she's swiftly married and packed off to Cornwall, where the ghost of the marquess's supposedly murdered first wife haunts the mansion. Faced with a bratty stepdaughter...
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Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season.
14) In the Dark
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Thomas T. Beeler
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Attractive actress Emily Silver is haunted by the mysterious deaths of her parents when she was only nine years old. The police closed the case with a verdict of murder-suicide following a drunken domestic brawl, but Emily has always believed her parents were killed by a gravelly voiced stranger she overheard the night of their deaths. After years of trying to discover the truth, Emily has finally settled down with her lover, Mike. Imagine her shock...
15) Don Desperado
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There were some varmits who didn't want Connegan to find his brother, and now that they had him under their guns-----would Con pay with his life before he could clear his brothers name?
16) Envy
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Maris Matherly-Reed is more than an editor. She's also the beloved daughter of the publishing house's highly respected and successful leader, and the wife of Matherly Press's second-in-command, the smooth, suave, double-dealing Noah Reed. Reed, it develops, is the real target of the literary scam set up by the reclusive writer of the novel whose opening pages so captivate Reed's spouse. P.M.E., the writer, has a score to settle with Maris's husband,...
17) The last girls
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This group of former coeds, who once traveled down the Mississippi on a raft of their own construction, reunite to make the same trip on a fancy steamboat to scatter the ashes of one departed member. Along the way, we learn the stories of the unmarried Harriet, wealthy romance writer and once-poor West Virginia girl Anna, straying society wife Courtney, and Catherine and husband Russell. Each has had troubles and romances, and as they trace their...
18) Pelican Coast
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Center Point Publishing
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A tale of old New Orleans, which recreates the romantic old city with both historical truth and the beauty. French privateer Jaque Durossac throwing in his lot with legendary John Lafitte.
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Center Point Publishing
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A series of family tragedies leaves fourteen-year-old Dove, her younger sister, Molly, and their baby brother, Little Ellis, in the care of their stepmother, seventeen-year-old Crystal. Born into a hardscrabble world of poverty and abandonment, Dove must take on much of the responsibility for her siblings after Crystal turns to their Bible-thumping Aunt Bett for help.
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Center Point Publishing
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In this astute novel of Americans abroad, Ward Just turns his keen eye toward the dark underpinnings of nationalism, fame, and artistic integrity. When a famous Hollywood director travels to post-Wall Germany to rekindle his genius, he is unexpectedly reunited with an actress who mysteriously disappeared from the set of his movie thirty years before. Masterly and atmospheric, The Weather in Berlin explores the subtleties of artistic inspiration, the...
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