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A countess turned servant . . . Forced to escape the French Revolution, resilient young Comtesse Marie-Christine D'Estelle flees to London. But when she finds herself unexpectedly penniless, Christa hides her aristocratic background to become a lady's maid. . . . Until rebuffing advances from both her tyrannical mistress's husband and her lover gets Christa cast into the streets; directly into a hero's arms . . . A Royal Navy commander . . . After...

Baroness Antonia Thornton, outrageous beauty, and her companion, gentle Judith Winslow, discovered new ways to intrigue the ton. Which one was dashing Adam Yorke interested in? Then there was his friend Simon, Lord Launceston, divinely handsome and eligible. What were his intentions? The two young ladies and their two young gentlemen led each other on a merry dance of confusion-and romance. Regency Romance by Mary Jo Putney; originally published by...

"MY CHILDREN NEED A MOTHER, BUT I DO NOT NEED A WIFE."
Dr. Sarre van Diederijk did a lot to restore Alethea's damaged pride when Nick Penrose badly hurt and humiliated her. So a short time later, when he asked her to marry him and go to Holland to live, she accepted. After all, Sarre was a very nice, kind man, and Alethea might actually be happier with him than she would have been with Nick, even though love wasn't part of the...

Taking a nursing job in Holland to secure the financial future of herself and her young sister, Lavinia Hawkins decides to instead embark on a marriage of convenience with Professor Radmer ter Bavinck--a practical arrangement that leads to love.

In the economic collapse that follows the Napoleonic Wars, retired Ambassador, Sir Horace Lambourn, and his family are all but bankrupt and cannot meet their ever mounting bills. Suddenly, though, a last minute rescue appears in the form of the request for the hand in marriage of Sir Horace's beautiful daughter, Camilla, from none other than His Serene Highness the Prince of Meldenstein. Sir Horace is cock-a-hoop, especially when he learns of the...

Lovely Constance Trent had been truly happy with the Coreys, her American foster family. Their warmth and vitality had won her heart. But she could not turn her back on her grandfather and the fabulous English estate of her ancestors. Now Con must face the gravest decision of her young life. She must choose between two worlds and between two men--her dashing English cousin, Ivor Hardwick, and the brilliant young lawyer, Peter Corey. Can it be that...