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Title: Four Weddings and a Sixpence
Author: Julia Quinn,
Elizabeth Boyle,
Laura Lee Guhrke,
Stefanie Sloane
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: December 27, 2016
Publisher: Avon
ASIN: B01DSV4PG2
“Something Old”
Julia Quinn’s prologue introduces her heroine, Beatrice Heywood, and the premise for Four Weddings and a Sixpence.
“Something New”
In Stefanie Sloane’s unforgettable story, an ever-vigilant guardian decrees that Anne Brabourne must marry by her twenty-first birthday. But love finds her in the most unexpected of ways.
“Something Borrowed”
Elizabeth Boyle tells the tale of Cordelia Padley, who has invented a betrothed to keep her family from pestering her to wed. Now she’ll need to borrow one to convince them she’s found her true love.
“Something Blue”
In Laura Lee Guhrke’s story, unlucky Lady Elinor Daventry has her sixpence stolen from her and must convince the rake who pilfered the coin to return it in time for her own wedding.
“...and a Sixpence in Her Shoe”
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Title: One Wild Winter's Eve
Series: Honeycote
Author: Anne Barton
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: October 27, 2015
Publisher: Forever
ASIN: B00T3E76V0
ONCE YOU'VE HAD A TASTE OF SCANDAL...
As the Duke of Huntford's sister, Lady Rose Sherbourne follows the rules of well-bred society. Always chaperoned. Never engaging in unseemly behavior. Well, except for that one summer, years ago. And yet she's never been able to forget that handsome stable master or the stolen moments they shared. She's always wondered what might have happened if he hadn't disappeared without a word...Now she's about to find out.
YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK
Charles Holland never expected to see Lady Rose again. And yet the years haven't lessened his devotion—or his desire—in any way. Despite their differences in class, Charles cannot stop himself from wanting to possess her. But as they uncover one intimate secret after another about her family, they realize that, this time, their love may come at a very dear price...
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Title: Scandalous Summer Nights
Series: Honeycote
Author: Anne Barton
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: October 28, 2014
Publisher: Forever
ASIN: B00I829QNY
HOW FAR WILL TEMPTATION TAKE HIM...
Lady Olivia Sherbourne isn't shy about speaking her mind, except when it comes to James Averill. For ten long years he has been her brother's best friend and her heart's only desire. But when Olivia hears James will soon set sail for an expedition to Egypt, she knows the time has come to make her move. It's now or never...
James has always found Olivia bewitchingly attractive, but what kind of gentleman takes up with his best friend's sister? Not that he's thinking particularly gentlemanly thoughts when she appears on his exploratory trip—three hundred miles from home!—and incites a tavern fight. No matter what the devil she's doing there, it's his duty to see her safely back to her family. But how safe will she be when every starlit night brings wicked temptation...?
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Title: Once She Was Tempted
Series: Honeycote
Author: Anne Barton
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: October 29, 2013
Publisher: Forever
ASIN: B00AFHH9VG
A Portrait of a Lady
...or is it? The risqué painting owned by Benjamin Elliot, the earl of Foxburn, features a stunning beauty with sapphire eyes, golden hair, and creamy skin. Ben recognizes this particular English rose the instant he meets her—though she's wearing considerably more clothing. In person, the demure debutante is even more irresistible...
In desperate need of money for her sick mother, Daphne Honeycote had posed for two scandalous portraits. Now she must hide her secret to save the Honeycote family name. Ben's possession of one painting makes him an insufferable thorn in her side—and yet he may be her best chance at finding the canvas's companion. As she becomes drawn to the dark-tempered earl, can Daphne risk laying bare the secrets of her heart?
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Title: Death Is Not Enough
Series: Karen Rose's Interconnecting Books,
Baltimore, MD
Author: Karen Rose
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: October 2, 2018
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0399586709
ISBN-13: 9780399586705
In his work as a defense attorney in Baltimore, Thorne has always been noble to a fault—specializing in helping young people in trouble in an attempt to atone for those he couldn't save when he himself was younger. He plays the part of the bachelor well, but secretly holds a flame for his best friend and business partner, Gwyn Weaver, a woman struggling to overcome her own demons. After four years, he thinks he might finally be ready to confess his feelings, come what may.
But his plans are derailed when he wakes up in bed with a dead woman, with no recollection of how he got there. Whoever is trying to frame Thorne is about to lead him down the rabbit hole of his past, something he thought he outran long ago—which means Thorne must figure out who's been keeping track of him, how much they know, and how far they'll go to bring him down...
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Title: To All the Rakes I've Loved Before
Series: Honeycote
Author: Anne Barton
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 3, 2013
Publisher: Forever Yours
ASIN: B00C4W7GYK
After being jilted by her former beau, Miss Amelia Wimple retreated to her Mayfair town house and her ever-growing collection of gossips rags. Now, almost two years later, not even her beloved cousins, Rose and Olivia Sherbourne, can persuade her to give love another chance. But an unexpected midnight caller may open her heart once more.
Lord Stephen Brookes is the prince of pleasure, the duke of decadence—and it seems his exploits have finally caught up with him. When Stephen comes to Amelia seeking refuge, she can’t deny him...or the intense desire he sparks. As he attempts to heal her broken heart, they indulge in a private passion unlike anything either has experienced. Stephen knows sweet, sensual Amelia is meant to be his one and only. Now, he will do whatever it takes to convince her that a rake really can change his ways.
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Title: The Wicked Wife
Series: Blackhaven Brides
Author: Mary Lancaster
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: October 4, 2018
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
ASIN: B07HPCMJYL
Can a wife hide behind a mask?
Lady Frances married her Scottish earl for love. Now one year and one child later, she feels bored, trapped and lonely, convinced Lord Torridon only married her for convenience. When she can stand it no longer, she flees his stately Highland home for the Edinburgh town house of her most scandalous friend, widow Ariadne Marshall.
Unfortunately, she has also brought the Torridon rubies, which she stakes in an outrageous wager with Ariadne—that their own families will not recognize them at a masked ball. In no time, they are off to Blackhaven, and the infamous masked ball at Frances’s old home.
Little does Frances know that her furious husband is on her trail...and that she is not the only one in disguise.
Among all the masks, misunderstandings, and general Blackhaven mayhem, can Frances and Torridon find a way back to each other before it’s too late?
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