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Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel features Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould—one of the most memorable characters from the Thomas Pitt series—who...
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2013.
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Enlisted by Her Majesty the Queen and the Dowager Duchess to groom Jack Altringham -- the Duke's newly discovered heir fresh from the Outback of Australia -- for high society, Lady Georgiana Rannoch is living the high life at one of England's most gorgeous stately homes. But when the Duke announces that he wants to choose his own heir, the house falls in to chaos, and Jack's hunting knife somehow finds its way into the Duke's back. And while Jack...
3) The familiar
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2024.
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, an establishment for daring women. There the mysterious Lady Sundridge begs her to take on an impossible task -- saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution.
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Maiden Lane romances volume 8
Pub. Date
2015
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When she is targeted by kidnappers, Lady Phoebe Batten, who is going blind, is surprised to discover an unexpected tenderness beneath the tough exterior of her bodyguard, Captain James Trevillion, as he tries to protect her.
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Huxtable quintet volume 3
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A scandal sends Duncan Pennethorne back home where he finds out he must wed in fifteen days or be cut off without a penny. He learns that Margaret Huxtable is looking for a husband so he sets off to convince her to accept his marriage proposal.
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Malory-Anderson family saga volume 8
Pub. Date
2006
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503 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Simply quartet (Mary Balogh) volume 1
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En route to Bath, England, to teach at Miss Martin's School for Girls, Frances Allard seeks refuge from a snowstorm at a nearby inn and finds unexpected passion with Robert Marshall, unaware that Robert is the heir to the Earl of Edgecombe.
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Charlie Mortdecai mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2004, c2001
Physical Desc
174 p. ; 21 cm.
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Muses' salon volume 2
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Disguising herself as a scullery maid to escape an arranged marriage, heiress Arabella Lucia Fairborne finds a savior in injured spy Colin Somerville, who needs her help to get a baby to the royal palace.
18) Royal blood
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With her hateful brother, Binky, in town, Lady Georgiana Rannoch is desperately seeking an escape, which comes in the form of an invitation from the queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. The bride happens to be her old school chum, Marty. But staying in her macabre-looking castle proves to be unnerving - especially when she finds dear Marty with blood running down her chin, and a prominent wedding guest is poisoned.
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Scandalous series (Caroline Linden) volume 3
Pub. Date
c2015
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378 p. ; 17 cm.
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When scandal forces her to marry Benedict Lennox, Lord Atherton, the man she detests, Penelope Weston tries to deny her attraction to the arrogant scoundrel as they start their new life together in name only.
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