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It was indisputably love at first sight. But Victoria Lyndon was merely the teenaged daughter of a vicar. . .while Robert Kemble was the dashing young earl of Macclesfield. Surely what their meddlesome fathers insisted must have been true-that he was a reckless seducer determined to destroy her innocence. . . and she was a shameless fortune hunter. So it most certainly was for the best when their plans to elope went hopelessly awry.
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Lottie Fairleigh, an aspiring Gothic novelist known as the Hertfordshire Hellion, finds herself in another scrape when she's discovered kissing Hayden St. Clair, the "Murderous Marquess," just before her coming-out ball. But for the first time, Lottie can't talk her way out of trouble, and she's swiftly married and packed off to Cornwall, where the ghost of the marquess's supposedly murdered first wife haunts the mansion. Faced with a bratty stepdaughter...
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c2003
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Lady Allegra Nesbitt, an iconoclast, is appalled when her father, Oxie, tells her they're going to London to find her a husband, then, when they arrive, they're shunned. Five years earlier when her father inherited the title of earl, her parents went to London to take their place amongst the ton, but Regency society was contemptuous of Oxie's elaborate jokes and her mother's country manners. Now no one welcomes them except their neighbor, Armand Gauthier,...
5) Holy Fools
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c2004
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With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly beneath the surface of rustic village life. In Holy Fools, her most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, she transports us back to a time of intrigue and turmoil, of deception and masquerade. In the year 1605,...
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2003
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As a nation of young soldiers marches off to war, two women left behind will embrace a final keepsake, a profound reminder of the moment before their lives changed foreverits bittersweet images telling the story of an innocence lost, of a love just beginning, and of a family that may never be whole again. . . .
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