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In the Barrister’s Chambers

By Tina Gabrielle - Published 2011

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Tina Gabrielle creates a compelling story of Regency murder featuring a barrister, Jack Harding, and a law professor’s daughter, Lady Evelyn Darlington, ...Read Review

Nowhere Near Respectable

By Mary Jo Putney - Published 2011

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Romance

Part of the Lost Lords series, Nowhere Near Respectable mixes romance and Regency history in equal measure and produces a riveting story. Lady ...Read Review

The Naked King

By Sally MacKenzie - Published 2011

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Romance

Stephen Parker-Roth, nicknamed the King of Hearts, is a wealthy man-about-town, with a reputation with the ladies. Lady Anne Marston is a red-haired ...Read Review

An Invitation to Sin

By Jo Beverley - By Kaitlin O’Riley - By Sally MacKenzie - By Vanessa Kelly - Published 2011

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Romance

An Invitation to Sin is a series of four historical romance novellas, unrelated by anything but the Regency time period. In Forbidden Affections (...Read Review

Rapture Becomes Her

By Shirley Busbee - Published 2011

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Romance

Born and bred on a Virginia plantation, Barnaby Joslyn migrates to England and is installed as the new viscount on his family’s ...Read Review

Marry Me

By Jo Goodman - Published 2010

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Romance

This historical romance breaks some conventions and comes out a winner. Coleridge Monroe takes a job as physician to Reidsville, Colorado in 1884. When ...Read Review

A Knight’s Enchantment

By Lindsay Townsend - Published 2010

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Romance

It’s spring of 1210 in England, and plucky alchemist Joanna of Glastonbury faces a desperate situation. With her father as prisoner, unscrupulous Bishop ...Read Review

Never Less Than a Lady

By Mary Jo Putney - Published 2010

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Romance

Regency England. Widowed Lady Julia Raines’ soul and body bear scars given to her by her abusive late husband  the worst being the ...Read Review

Scoundrel’s Kiss

By Carrie Lofty - Published 2010

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Romance

Ada of Keyworth is unusual for a medieval woman. Educated by her family, she’s adventurous, headstrong, and strikingly beautiful—but she’s ...Read Review