Corsets and courtship
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Last published Wed, May 1, 2019
Rosalie Breton must choose between love and duty when she is engaged to marry a man she doesn't love. Will she defy her father and marry her love, her Johnathon, or will she obey and marry the cruel lord Burke?
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