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She is the opposite of what he needs, but she’s everything he wants... Hadrian Ames, the Duke of Clayton, needs a bride. He even has the perfect one picked out. That is, until he meets outspoken American Natalie Fanshawe – the opposite of what a man of his high rank should desire in a wife.Natalie couldn’t care less about Hadrian’s title or his need to marry. He can’t understand what it’s like to be a busy woman, planning to open a school while trying to reunite a six-year-old orphan with his English relatives.Nevertheless, Hadrian launches his campaign to win Natalie’s heart. But can the American beauty ever find a way to love him, despite his being a duke?A dazzling and fun Regency romance perfect for readers of Suzanne Enoch and Joanna Shupe.

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Can she teach a duke how to love...?Tessa James has worked tirelessly to open her own millinery shop. All she needs now is a loan from the lord who sired and abandoned her. The easiest way to track him down? Infiltrate the aristocracy by becoming a governess.Guy Whitby, the Duke of Carlin, has returned to London after years abroad to discover that his young daughter, Sophy, has been scaring away her governesses. So when bold and beautiful Tessa applies for the job, he hires her despite his misgivings that she might be fibbing about her qualifications.But Guy’s murky past is coming back to haunt him, and when an old enemy threatens his family, he and Tessa are thrown into the path of danger.A stunning Regency romance for fans of Tessa Dare and Mary Jo Putney.

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An unexpected reunion… a second chance at love.Abigail Linton has devoted herself to caring for her parents and her siblings’ children. Eager to create a life of her own, Abby seizes upon a position as a governess on a neighbouring estate. Unfortunately, her employer is Maxwell Bryce, the Duke of Rothwell – the notorious rake who once broke her youthful heart.Since he hasn’t set foot on his estate for fifteen years, Abby assumes she’ll never have to see him… Until, one day, he appears. Max is stunned to come face to face with the girl he fell for, before he went away and she stopped writing to him.Both Abby and Max have changed over the years, but has their passion for each other remained unchanged?A sweeping Regency romance for fans of Lisa Kleypas and Mary Balogh.

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When two lovers find themselves together after ten years apart, does their romance have a chance to be rekindled now that he’s a duke and she’s a governess? On the cusp of thirty, Abigail Fairchild is sick of the role as the unpaid servant to her family. So she applies for the post of governess to the Duke of Rothwell’s adolescent sister, who lives on the neighboring estate. Although Abby has never forgiven Maxwell Bryce, the Duke of Rothwell, for a terrible betrayal in their youth, he hasn’t returned to the estate in over a decade, so she suspects she’ll never see him again. Soon after Abby arrives at Rothwell Court, Max and a small party show up unexpectedly, and Abby is face to face with the man she’s never forgotten. And when Max insists that it was her that drove them apart - could a misunderstanding have kept them separated all these years? Regency romance readers will fall in love with bestselling author Olivia Drake’s lush story of a secret romance torn apart by family secrets in this fantastic start to her new series.

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