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A recipe for intrigue and love:
A young woman determined to find her father’s killer.
An agent of the Crown who feels obligated to protect her.
Miss Marcie Woodforde’s nightmare begins when her father is shot by a traitor. Only moments before he dies, he charges Marcie to find the Earl of Campden and warn him that his life is in imminent danger. As luck would have it, she encounters Campden at an inn in Dover when he saves her from the advances of a drunkard. Afterwards, she refuses to docilely accept the Earl’s word to find her father’s killer. Instead, she defies the Earl and pursues bold steps to expose the murderer, only to find herself caught up in a web of intrigue—and in danger of losing her life as well as her heart.
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She’s fleeing an abusive guardian.
He wants to escape London’s Marriage Mart. With a chance encounter on a lonely road, she becomes his maid.
So how hard can that be?
How hard can a maid’s job be?
Fleeing an abusive guardian, Thalia encounters an Earl on a lonely road, who offers her a position as a housemaid at his country estate. But Thalia’s the daughter of a wealthy Viscount and, having led a privileged life, finds the life of a servant more challenging than she expected.
Playing the role of a Good Samaritan, Simon, the Earl of Chedworth, takes up the rain drenched young woman on his way to his estate. When weather forces them to stop at an inn, he’s appalled to find she’s been beaten. Even though she’s secretive about her circums | |  | | The Marquess's Perfect Match
A savvy business woman battles with an impoverish aristocrat: A stolen kiss with an unknown young woman at a ball ruins him for all other women. But she wants no part of him.
A kiss never forgotten . . .
Known for his roguish behavior, Grayson Brentford, the Marquess of Harberton, overhears a young woman being cruelly jilted at a ball, so he gives her a kiss to boost her moral. But it’s a kiss that haunts him, ruining all his romantic trysts ever since. Now seven years later, Gray’s inherited a near-bankrupt title, and only marriage to an extremely wealthy heiress can save the estate. He’s willing to bite the bullet, and fortunately, an heiress whose fortune is large enough is in Town. Then he realizes the cotton mill owner, Miss Sophia Wyndham, is the mys |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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