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The Duke's Pawn

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Parts 13
Time 1h 44m

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Dijon, Duchy of Burgundy, 1474. Alienor Bernard, seventeen, is facing a dull future. Unable to find a husband, she is to be sent to a convent. Raised as a knight, her unusual education is everything her potential suitors do not want in a wife. But she is exactly what Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy is in desperately looking for, and the deal he has to offer might lead her to a fate much worse than death...All Rights Reserved

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Fight of the Kingdoms by DragonRider4

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His Innocent Rose (Hinley Manor Book 1) by RaeySam

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The Reluctant Queen

Born a Princess and widowed by age 19, Tye is now betrothed to the prince and soon to be king of a faraway land. She must now, once again, learn to love her new husband. And make him love her as well. Unbeknownst to her, she will also find she must untangle a plot of treason. If she can't, it can cost her father, brother and new husband, their lives.