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Aphrodite and the Duke

An deserted magnificence and a regretful duke uncover second possibilities could be divine on this numerous Regency romance for followers of Bridgerton

Aphrodite Du Bell has at all times been sad together with her identify. Whereas ton members, and even the queen herself, reward her heat brown pores and skin, flawless curls and beautiful options, Aphrodite can not help however assume that residing as much as it literal magnificence goddess is asking a bit a lot. Her famend magnificence definitely did not cease the love of her life from abandoning her and marrying one other girl 4 years in the past.

When Aphrodite’s fearsome mom calls her again to London to assist together with her sister’s debut, she has no selection however to acquiesce. However Aphrodite is decided to disregard one man particularly: Evander Eagleman, the Duke of Everely, the person who devastated her all these years in the past. However why does her harmless coronary heart nonetheless stir on the sight of her?

Evander Eagleman misplaced his probability for real love, however now that he’s a widower, he’s decided to win again Aphrodite’s belief and her hand in marriage. However simply because the couple make strides to fix previous wounds, the actual motive Evander rejected Aphrodite threatens their coveted future…and even their lives.

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The Boxing Baroness

Impressed by the real-life boxing baroness, acclaimed writer Minerva Spencer sparkles with this brilliantly imagined story of her romance with an infuriating Duke within the first of a witty, Regency-style feminist collection exploring the function of ladies in a inflexible patriarchal society. A brand new technology of Bridgerton readers and followers will revel within the fast rapier wit, sexual fireworks and thought-provoking leisure of The Boxing Baroness.

Magnetic and educated, Marianne Simpson has the manners of a woman and the appears to be like of a lover, not a fighter. Neither explains her commerce as a boxer in her uncle’s circus, Farnham’s Fantastical Feminine Fayre. Nevertheless, when St. John Powell, the magnificent Duke of Staunton, begins exhibiting up at his exhibits, she finds herself dangerously distracted by the mysterious presence of the highly effective peer. Along with her security on the road, Marianne’s days within the ring are numbered. However how lengthy can she struggle her attraction to the person the ton calls Lord Flawless?

St. John Powell would not simply need Marianne Simpson, he wants her…to avoid wasting his brother, who’s being held for ransom by a traitorous English baron – the person all of Britain is aware of because the Rake of Rakes.

Irrespective of how badly Marianne needs to see her deceitful ex-lover, the person accountable for the boxing baroness’ humiliating nickname, St. John has to persuade her. Even when it means stepping into the ring with the gorgeous boxer and taking every little thing she has. . .

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For the Love of a Scottish Rake

After a sheltered upbringing, Girl Lucinda Sutcliffe lastly enters her first season, keen to search out out every little thing she missed. When Lucy realizes that her uncle plans to marry her off shortly in trade for a share of his fortune, she asks a favor from a brand new acquaintance, Ciaran Ramsey. If Lucy stays single till she is twenty-one, she – and her cash – will likely be out of her uncle’s energy. All of the charming Scotswoman has to do is woo her for six weeks, then dump her…

The Ramseys do not want the scandal of a bogus pledge connected to their identify. However Lucy’s older suitor is each obnoxious and harmful, and Ciaran cannot enable her pretty buddy to be compelled into marrying such a person. And apart from, the extra time Ciaran spends along with his new “fiancée,” the extra their ruse begins to look quite a bit like the actual factor. A ardour like that is unattainable to pretend, however how a lot is a thug keen to threat for love?

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Cartier’s Hope

From MJ Rose, New York Occasions bestselling writer of Tiffany Blues“a lush, romantic historic thriller” (Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale), comes a superbly crafted romance of ambition and betrayal set within the Golden Age.

New York, 1910: a metropolis of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling buildings on the Decrease East Aspect. A metropolis the place the suffrage motion grows stronger day-after-day, however the place most feminine reporters are nonetheless delegated to the style and life-style pages. However Vera Garland is decided to make her mark within the male world of great journalism.

Shortly after buying the world-famous Hope Diamond for a report sum, Vera begins to research rumors of schemes by its new proprietor, jeweler Pierre Cartier, to govern its worth. Vera is decided to uncover the reality behind the infamous diamond and its legendary curses, even higher when the publicity places her in the identical orbit as {a magazine} editor whose blackmail schemes led to the loss of life of her beloved father. .

Turning to a younger Russian jeweler for assist, Vera is unprepared when she begins to fall in love with him…and much more so when she will get caught up in her disappointments and dangers shedding every little thing for her. what she labored so exhausting.

Set towards the glitter and bravado of New York, ruthless males and the atrocities they commit within the pursuit of energy, this gripping historic novel explores our very human wants for love, revenge and the pursuit of our destiny, no matter the associated fee.

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