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One Chance by littleLo
One Chance
littleLo
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To save her family from financial ruin, Annaliese Dawson agrees to marry a stranger. She knows that the arrangement would probably never lead to love, but as the two begin to trust each other, could it be that they have a chance at true love? ***** Matthew Cassidy is a widower baronet with three young children. Convinced that his children deserve a mother, a marriage is promptly arranged between Matthew and Annaliese, a pair that have never met, and are complete opposites. What will it take to bring these two together? They have but one chance to get it right. [[word count: 80,000 - 90,000]] Cover designed by Morgan Sangster
Freya by ElizabethRees
Freya
ElizabethRees
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The daughter of a powerful King, Freya was promised to Ewen the Cold. The union was meant to cement an alliance between the two most powerful men in the land. A pawn in a world of violence and lust, Freya is meant to be a dutiful and obedient wife. But what if she isn't?
The Corinthians Series: Rules of Masquerade by ZafArielZul
The Corinthians Series: Rules of Masquerade
ZafArielZul
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What will you get if you pair a reckless, impulsive, dramatic young lady and London's corinthian and master conspirator in an obscure engagement? Simple: the bride to be will try to flee and the groom to be will do what he does best, to seduce and conspire!
The Season (Season Series #1) by MissKatey
The Season (Season Series #1)
MissKatey
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**Only the bonus chapter is paid, the rest of the story is (and will stay) free!!** Libby Marks-Whelan is decidedly not a lady. Kicked out of nearly every finishing school in the country, she's shocked when her demure, straight-laced cousin Ella invites her to the royal court as attendant during her debutante season. What Ella fails to realize, however, is that Libby's brand of mischief is exactly the kind of distraction Prince Andrew is looking for during his inaugural season as an eligible bachelor. Cover designed by Adam Budny
Rushbrooke End (Book 4) by soitsash
Rushbrooke End (Book 4)
soitsash
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"Perhaps I could run away," she murmured to herself, stopping to look at the low hanging brach of a willow and determining whether or not it would hold her weight. "From what? To where?" She turned at the voice, nearly sinking into the ankle deep snow as she spied Lord Grimshaw picking his way towards her. "From everything I know, to everything I don't." "Why? Are you bored by the mundane already?" "Aren't you?" "I survive the mundane," he cocked his head to one side, searching for words in the air, "because certain people make it extraordinary." Lilly Thorpe has never shown an interest for love in her own life. She has always been content with her romance novels, ignoring the going ons of her large and busy family. When the Thorpes embark on a journey to Hertfordshire Lilly makes the acquaintance of the intelligent, mysterious but handsome Earl of Tavistock. The earl and his home, the gothic Rushbrooke End, are both shrouded in secrets and mysteries, including the strange circumstances that surround his mother and sister's deaths. In a holiday of secrets, madness and envy, Lilly finds that perhaps real life can be just as thrilling as her beloved novels. No Ordinary Romance (Samuel)-Complete An American Promise (Emilia)-Complete Saving June (June)-Complete Rushbrooke End (Lilly)-Complete An Acceptable Marriage (Arabella) - Ongoing When the Curtain Falls - (Frances) Nothing But the Best
The Accidental Countess (Forever His Series Book one) by VeeWood
The Accidental Countess (Forever His Series Book one)
VeeWood
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Highest rank in romance #2 - "I'm a complete and unashamed history geek...there I said it. I spend my days surrounding myself with old portraits, rusty suits of armour and Fading tapestries. Yep, I'm living the dream...And that's the way I like it. Who said you can't live in the past? I beg to differ" Cassie Allen spends every spare moment she has at Arundel Castle, studying the lives of all those who have come before her and daydreaming her life away; and she's content to carry on living that way. That is until the unthinkable happens and she's suddenly thrust back in time to Medieval England and meets the all too familiar Earl, Sir Maxwell Fitzalan. A man she's spent years pining for - from his centuries old portrait! Now she has to contend with a brooding Earl that she's inexplicably drawn to, a jealous lady of the Court who will stop at nothing to get what she wants and somehow finding a way home out of this mess. Only it's not long before she's in much deeper than she ever expected and she'll have to decide whether returning home is really the right thing to do...
To Love The Enemy | ✔️ by southsunshine
To Love The Enemy | ✔️
southsunshine
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Maria, a married Frenchwoman living in Nazi-occupied Hautmont in the Second World War, is in need of a unique kind of love. Who would've thought that uniquely forbidden love comes in the form of a devilishly handsome Nazi Lieutenant? (Inspired by Suite Française)
One Glance by littleLo
One Glance
littleLo
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The Napoleonic Wars have kept Captain Luke Cassidy away from home, and away from his wife and son, for three years. There was nothing more in his life that Luke wanted than to see his son for the first time. There was nothing more in his life that Luke wanted than to reunite with his family after three long years apart. But just as Britain can begin celebrating victory, Luke suffers an injury at the hands of the French that will change his life, and the life of his family, forever. Can a marriage between two people that have spent more time apart than together survive such a test? Or will Luke and Isabella succumb to the obstacles in their way? Not everything is as it seems.
The Highlanders English Lass by luv_me_red
The Highlanders English Lass
luv_me_red
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It was a time when young girls where raised to be proper lady wives. men battled for the best wife, families payed to have there daughters married off. young and carefree, Arabella the young lass of her family finds herself being married off to the laird of Mackay in the Scottish highlands. will love come or will something break them apart?
All the Wrong Reasons by shelbylw03
All the Wrong Reasons
shelbylw03
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They married for the wrong reasons. He married her for the money and status, while she married him to start over again. It doesn’t really matter why exactly they married, but what happens when he starts to feel something towards his own wife. And what happens when the trouble she left behind catches up with her?