Of Beauties And Beasts
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Highest Rating: #1 in Historical Fiction.  
Currently #1 under Historical Romance

Lady Ginny Sherman is forced into an arranged marriage to Lord Stephen Knightly when her parents leave her and her sister alone and destitute after they die in a stagecoach accident.  Ginny's life is completely flipped upside down. This man is vile and cold and wants nothing to do with her.  And neither does his ex-fiancee.

What she doesn't know is that Stephen has some dark secrets of his own.  His past has torn him apart, and Ginny might be just the girl to mend his broken heart.  It's a tale as old as time.

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