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Lexie Holloway falls desperately in love with the Earl of Synley after a brief encounter at a ball. But Synley is already engaged to be married and the heartbroken Lexie leaves for a new life in Italy. Years later, she returns home to find that much has changed - the once notorious Earl is a reformed character, and no longer married but it appears that his life may be in danger.…
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The Gentleman's Deception
- By: Karen Tuft
- Narrated by: Luone Ingram
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned actress Ruby Chadwick, the Darling of Drury Lane, has long planned and prepared for her final performance. With exceptional beauty comes the unwanted attention of men, and after years of fending off odious suitors, Ruby is ready to leave it all behind in favor of a quiet life. The first step is to reclaim a piece of her past: her true identity as Lavinia Fernley.
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a little slow but good
- By Customer jf on 07-20-22
By: Karen Tuft
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The Heir
- Reid Family, Book 1
- By: Johanna Lindsey
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The grandson of a Scottish clan laird, Duncan MacTavish is shocked to learn that his other grandfather was an English marquis whose title and London estate he is now required to take on. Worse still, he is engaged to a stranger who has mocked him in public. But his bride-to-be, Ophelia, has been guiding a lovely and witty, if dreadfully inexperienced, country girl named Sabrina through the latter's all-important first coming-out season.
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Weak Premise for Scandal
- By Rita on 09-07-10
By: Johanna Lindsey
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An Heiress at Heart
- By: Jennifer Delamere
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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With An Heiress at Heart, Jennifer Delamere delivers the first in a historical romance series sure to set hearts aflame. After five years in exile for a youthful indiscretion, Lizzie Poole is given a second chance to join London society when her best friend, Ria, takes to her death bed and asks Lizzie to assume her identity. Ria wants Lizzie to carry out her final wishes, but neither knows that Lord Somerville has designs on Ria - and that maintaining the ruse will put Lizzie’s heart at risk.
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A Captivating Read
- By Rita Henriquez-Green on 12-15-22
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His Wicked Reputation
- By: Madeline Hunter
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Gareth Fitzallen is celebrated for four things: his handsome face, his notable charm, his aristocratic connections, and an ability to give the kind of pleasure that has women begging for more. Normally he bestows his talents on experienced, worldly women. But when he heads to Langdon's End to restore a property he inherited - and to investigate a massive art theft - he lays plans to seduce a most unlikely lady.
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Surprisingly good!
- By Jonna on 03-28-15
By: Madeline Hunter
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Ruined by Rumor
- By: Alyssa Everett
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Who could possibly throw over a woman as beautiful and vivacious as Roxana? Certainly not Alex Winslow, the Earl of Ayersley, who has spent years trying in vain to forget his unrequited love. When he learns she's been abandoned by her cad of a fiancé, he finds himself offering a shoulder for her to cry on. Comfort soon turns into a passionate kiss—and scandal when they are caught in an embrace.
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Good Old-Fashioned Romance!
- By Lady M on 09-28-13
By: Alyssa Everett
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Surrender Becomes Her
- By: Shirlee Busbee
- Narrated by: Ashford Macnab
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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Reliable. Trustworthy. Dignified. A few of the characteristics supporting Marcus Sherbrook’s reputation as the perfect gentleman. Or almost perfect, as there is one significant smirch on his record: The rebellion of one Miss Isabel Dunham who, at the age of seventeen, defied Marcus’s guardianship, eloped, and fled to India. The widowed Isabel returned to England ten years ago, and has been making Marcus’s cool gray eyes flash ever since...
By: Shirlee Busbee
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Wager for a Wife
- By: Karen Tuft
- Narrated by: Luone Ingram
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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It is her first London season, and Lady Louisa Hargreaves could not be more pleased. She has attracted the attention of the earl of Kerridge, and the two are on the cusp of an official betrothal. That is, until she learns of a generations-old family debt: Her grandfather gambled her hand in marriage and lost, and now, Louisa must pay the price. She will marry not the earl but a man she just met who has taken her freedom in one fell swoop. Even as she struggles to understand the handsome and aloof man she is to wed, Louisa is irresistibly drawn to him - and he to her.
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Unusual story line
- By Gloria Hubbard on 08-01-22
By: Karen Tuft
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The Scoundrel's Daughter
- Brides of Bellaire Gardens Series, Book 1
- By: Anne Gracie
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Alice, Lady Charlton, is finally free of her dominating husband, but on the verge of her new life, she is trapped when a blackmailer threatens to publish letters that could ruin her. To protect the secrets of her past Alice must find a lord for his daughter, Lucy, to marry. Alice reluctantly agrees to find the girl a noble husband but when Lucy arrives, she's difficult and uncooperative and has no interest in her father's scheme. A lord, she says, will only look down his nose at her-and she's having none of that! Desperate, Alice enlists the aid of her handsome young nephew.
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Stopped listening @ Ch14 bc of coercive "romance"
- By potsherds on 01-20-22
By: Anne Gracie
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A Little Thing Called Love
- By: Cathy Maxwell
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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In New York Times best-selling author Cathy Maxwell's new novella, beautiful Jennifer Tarleton has no lack of noble suitors, but the only man who captures her attention is the one her father will never let her marry: Fyclan Morris. He's a brash adventurer, witty, courageous...and Irish! Even worse, her father blames her for their reversal of fortune. And it's a fortune - or, rather, his grandmother the fortune-teller - who foretold that Fyclan would meet "the one", a love prophesied in the stars.
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Wonderful Feel Good Novella
- By Colleen on 10-17-22
By: Cathy Maxwell
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Miss Wonderful
- Carsington Brothers, Book 1
- By: Loretta Chase
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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War hero Alistair Carsington really really loves women, and his romantic impulses have landed him in nearly as much danger as the Battle of Waterloo. To avoid his usual temptations and perhaps even repay the friend who saved his life, he's exiled himself to a place far from civilization - Derbyshire - in winter! Fate laughs at his good intentions and drives him straight into conflict with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, his match in tenacity, intelligence, and deviousness - who also happens to be wildly irresistible.
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Couldnt finish
- By I like to shop on 06-18-16
By: Loretta Chase