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  A Shooting Star

  Barbara Cartland

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  The beautiful Flavia Linwood had been living in the country until she was nearly nineteen.
  She should have been a debutante in London the previous year, but she was in deep mourning for her mother who had died suddenly.  Now at last she travels to London for her Season.
  Her father, Lord Linwood, and his friend Lord Carlsby are courtiers in attendance on Her Majesty Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle and they are very proud of their position at Court.
  Quite by chance Flavia secretly learns that they are increasingly concerned that the Queen is becoming too interested in the handsome Earl of Haugton and heeds his advice rather than theirs.
  They therefore concoct plan to get him out of their way by marrying Flavia off to him.
  She is completely horrified at the idea!  She has long ago made up her mind that she will only marry someone she loves and who loves her.
  How she tries to avoid the Earl, but finally meets him face to face and then finds that he feels exactly as she does and learns that, although he is nearly twenty-eight, he has no intention of marrying anyone, not even to have an heir to his title and fortune.
  How Flavia and the Earl plan to circumvent the ingenious scheme of Lord Linwood and Lord Carlsby.
  And, how by a strange and frightening drama at Windsor Castle, they finally find what they are both seeking is all told in this unusal romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.

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  The Captive Heart

  Barbara Cartland

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  Young and beautiful Sabina Wantage travels to Monte Carlo to meet the mother of her fiancée, Lord Thetford. Agreeing to marry him after only knowing him a short time, she soon discovers he is not the man she had first thought. An accident throws her into the path of a wild and exotic tribe of Romany’s, where she meets the handsome and mysterious Romany king. Thrilled by the fun, excitement and beauty of Monte Carlo, Sabina cannot however stop thinking about the Romany king. When he declares his love for her, she is at a crossroads and left to choose between her heart and her duty. Will she choose her heart, and so sacrifice her family and everything she knows? or stay and accept a loveless marriage to the rich, but brutal Lord Thetford? What she decides and the truths she uncovers is all is told in this exciting and wonderous adventure

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  A Beautiful Disguise (The...

  Roseanna M. White

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  In Edwardian London, not all that glitters is gold as a lady and an intelligence officer's secret mission take them from the city's dazzling ballrooms to its covert intelligence offices. 
   
  Sir Merritt Livingstone has spent a decade serving the monarch in the field, but when pneumonia lands him behind a desk in the War Office Intelligence Division just as they're creating a new secret intelligence branch, he's intent on showing his worth. He suspects an aristocrat of leaking information to Germany as tensions mount between the two countries, but he needs someone to help him prove it, so he turns to The Imposters, Ltd. No one knows who they are, but their results are beyond compare. 
   
  Left with an estate on the brink of bankruptcy after their father's death, Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother open a private investigation firm for the elite to spy on the elite. Dubbed The Imposters, Ltd., their anonymous group soon becomes the go-to for the crème of society who want answers delivered surreptitiously. But the many secrets Marigold learns about her peers pale in comparison to her shock when she and her brother are hired to investigate her best friend's father as a potential traitor. 
   
  Lady Marigold is determined to discover the truth for her friend's sake, and she's more determined still to keep her heart from getting involved with this enigmatic new client . . . who can't possibly be as noble as he seems. 
   
  "White's well-woven plot is engaging from start to finish with delightful threads of mystery, romance, and inspiration."--CARRIE TURANSKY, award-winning author

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  On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor

  Jaime Jo Wright

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  1885.  
  Adria Fontaine has been sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes during the war. But when she arrives at Foxglove Manor--a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior--Adria senses wickedness hovering over the property. The mistress of Foxglove is an eccentric and seemingly cruel old woman who has filled her house with dangerous secrets, ones that may cost Adria her life.  
   
  Present day.  
  Kailey Gibson is a new nurse's aide at a senior home in a renovated old stone manor. Kidnapped as a child, she has nothing but locked-up memories of secrets and death, overshadowed by the chilling promise from her abductors that they would return. When the residents of Foxglove start sharing stories of whispers in the night, hidden treasure, and a love willing to kill, it becomes clear this home is far from a haven. She'll have to risk it all to banish the past's demons, including her own.

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  Once a Knight

  Christina Dodd

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  “Medieval fans have a real treat in store in Dodd’s newest. Dodd fashions her hero and heroine with such candor and wit that it tempts the imagination.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  A Lady’s Choice 
   
  Only desperation can make strong-willed Lady Alisoun hire Sir David of Radcliffe to protect her castle. He had once been a hero renowned for his brave daring and knightly skills. But few know what he has been doing these past years. 
   
  A Hero Again 
   
  At George’s Cross estate, Sir David does indeed discover danger afoot. But the danger that surprises him most is how quickly his own well-protected heart is falling to a fiery damsel who brings him to his knees. When put to the test, he must make a sacrifice. But will he lose his heart . . . or his life? 
   
  Praise for Christina Dodd 
   
  “Nobody writes historical romance better.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times–bestselling author 
   
  “A joy to read.” —Laura Kinsale, New York Times–bestselling author 
   
  “Treat yourself to a fabulous book—anything by Christina Dodd.” —Jill Barnett, New York Times–bestselling author

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  Stormswept

  Sabrina Jeffries

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  New York Times bestseller Sabrina Jeffries reignites a daring love affair in this intriguing tale of desire and deception—originally written as Deborah Martin and newly revised for today’s audience.The first wedding night that Lady Juliana St. Albans spent with the dark and daring Rhys Vaughan was intoxicating, the heady culmination of her new husband’s driving hunger and her own awakened sensuality. When he mysteriously disappeared the next morning, she waited for him in hope and desperation. And when he was finally proclaimed dead in a shipwreck, she bitterly mourned the loss of her love.The second wedding night that Juliana spent with Rhys Vaughan was six years later, after he returned to claim her just as she was about to wed another. This Rhys was different—bolder, harder, and convinced that she’d betrayed him. Only their blazing passion remains from their years apart. But is it enough to light their way through the maze of mystery, menace, and mistrust—to the love they once shared and would have to find again?

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