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Winner of the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series WriterAlice Lovesey and the long-deceased Eighth Duke of Haversham met quite accidentally one night as she gazed into his handsome portrait and called upon someone to save her from her miserable life as a servant in the home of the cruel Tenth Duke. Though unwilling at first, His Grace soon saw some promise in the chit. Included only in Romance 12 Series.

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Ein Mord unter Ladys und LordsLondon 1904: Lady Rose Summer brennt darauf, die Welt der arbeitenden Bevölkerung kennen zu lernen. Gegen den Widerstand ihrer Eltern fängt sie in einer Bank als Schreibkraft an. Doch schon bald erkennt Rose, wie mühsam es ist, sich seinen Lebensunterhalt selbst zu verdienen.Als ein bekannter Gentleman ermordet wird, beschließt sie, ihr Experiment abzubrechen und wieder in die Gesellschaft zurückzukehren. Denn nat...

Ein wunderbares Lesevergnügen für alle Fans von Anne PerryAls Lady Rose Summer an einer Demonstration für das Frauenwahlrecht teilnimmt, ist die Londoner Society entrüstet. Das gehört sich nun wirklich nicht für eine Debütantin. Einzig Sir Geoffrey Blandon macht Rose den Hof. Doch ihr Vater misstraut dem Verehrer und beauftragt Captain Harry Cathcart, den verarmten Sohn eines Barons, Blandons wahre Intentionen herauszufinden. Cathcart entdeckt...

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Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India. But then Harry's latest client, Dolores Duval-a vision of curves with a seductive French accent-starts appearing everywhere at his side. In a fit of rage, ...

Mannerling, the splendid family estate gambled away by Sir Beverly, remains the desire of his daughters. The eldest daughter failed in her bid to reclaim their home but is now blissfully wed. The mantle of savior then falls to the next eldest daughter, Jessica. How fortunate that the new owner of Mannerling has a son. In truth, Harry is a brutal lecher and a drunkard, but Jessica, blinded by determination, vows to secure a betrothal. She is ba...

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Isabella Beverley is blessed with unparalleled beauty but, unfortunately, has been raised in the most snobbish and haughtiest of families. When her father gambles away their fortuneincluding Mannerling, the exquisite family mansionIsabella discovers there is very little sympathy for her plight. As the eldest, Isabella is chosen to court Mr. Judd, the roguish bachelor who won Mannerling. Surely no sacrifice is too great to regain Mannerling? Bu...

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The haughty Beverley family is obsessed with regaining Mannerling, the exquisite seventeenth-century mansion their now-deceased father gambled away. Three of the six Beverley daughters have failed to win back the estatesettling for love matches over Mannerling's heirs. Now it is Rachel's turn to woo the latest bachelor-in-residence, handsome widower Charles Blackwood. But her plan to win Charles almost comes to naught: Rachel forgets herself a...

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When one of her sisters is attacked by Harry Devers, the lecherous son of Mannerling's present owner, Abigail Beverley puts her obsession with reclaiming the mansion on hold. It is then that Abigail meets the dashing and eligible Lord Burfield, back from the army and in pursuit of a bride. Meanwhile, unexpected circumstances force Harry to recuperate from a riding accident in the Beverley home, where Abigail's twin sister Rachel nurses him bac...

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Imagine if the rebellious sister from "Downton Abbey" and her maid got mixed up in murder. Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience--convenient for Rose, who wants to avoid being sent to India with all the other failed debutantes. Despite her considerable good looks, Rose's sharp intellect and radical ideas have served to repel her would be suitors. Rose's parents, unaware of the deception, are...

In any given glittering social season, Edwardian London's dizzying whirl had its share of surprises. The latest was Kitty Harrison, once achingly poor, suddenly an heiress and now, thanks to her determined mother, she was about to become a baroness. From the moment Kitty set eyes on Lord Chesworth she found him to be the most exciting man she had ever seen. But Kitty was young, innocent, and easily dazzled. She did not even question the motive...

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