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The Duke's Pawn
JVernis
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JVernis
Ongoing, First published Jul 24, 2012
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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...
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The Heart of the Rose

21 parts Complete Mature

Rose has been taken in by the Dowager Duchess of Chester who has a set of twin sons who work for the crown. Rose works secretly for the crown and soon places herself in danger for the information she gathered for the Crown. Ethan the Duke of Chester must keep Rose alive despite her best efforts to thwart him at every turn. After numous attempts on her life they finally narrow down who is trying to kill her when another problem arises and Rose is abducted by someone else entirely and another race is on to save her life, and in the process Rose and Ethan happen to fall in love.

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