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A corpse in a gilded cage A corpse in a gilded cage Robert Barnard Perce Spender, a working-class Londoner, is unexpectedly transformed into the twelfth Earl of Ellesmere when a distant relative dies. But he would rather be warming a bar stool in his local pub, and … OL10467098W
Les Liaisons dangereuses Les Liaisons dangereuses Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Cet ouvrage, ou plutot ce recueil, que le public trouvera peut-etre encore trop volumineux, ne contient pourtant que le plus petit nombre des lettres qui composaient la totalite de la correspondance … OL1157252W
The Season The Season Sarah MacLean Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seek… OL11976334W
What would Jane Austen do? What would Jane Austen do? Laurie Brown From the author of Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, a new time travel romance featuring a modern day career woman swept back in time to Regency England, where she thwarts a Napoleonic spy, chats w… OL13645189W
Untouched Mistress Untouched Mistress Margaret McPhee Guy Tregellas, Viscount Varington, has a rakish reputation, and when he discovers a beautiful woman washed up on a beach he is more than intrigued. He doesn't believe her claims that she is a respect… OL13820882W
Her Royal Spyness Her Royal Spyness Rhys Bowen INTRODUCING A FEISTY NEW HEROINE (JACQUELINE WINSPEAR) whos thirty-fourth in line for the throneand flat broke.From the Agatha Award-winning author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans myster… OL14865331W
Royal flush Royal flush Rhys Bowen A Royal Spyness mystery starring Lady Georgiana, thirty-fourth in line for the throne—and the mystery world’s favorite penniless heiress. With its posh clientele in the country for the summer, Georgi… OL14865333W
A royal pain A royal pain Rhys Bowen Another hilarious mystery featuring penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie, “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers” (Jacqueline Winspear). The Queen of England has concocted a pla… OL14865343W
Something Scandalous Something Scandalous Christie Kelley "Raised as the youngest daughter of the Duke of Kendal, Elizabeth learns a devastating truth on his deathbed: he wasn't her father at all. And because the Duke had no sons, his title and fortune must… OL14961149W
To Ruin the Duke To Ruin the Duke Debra Mullins A disreputable duke All of London is abuzz with the shocking exploits of Thornton Matherton, Duke of Wyldehaven, a man as sinful and wild as his name. He plays fast and loose with money, drink, and w… OL14963854W
Splendour & squalor Splendour & squalor Marcus Scriven **From stately homes and prisons to the House of Lords and Edwardian asylums—the stories, spanning the 20th century, of the disintegrating fortunes of three of Britain’s most illustrious aristocratic… OL15088609W
Chase the Dawn Chase the Dawn Jane Feather Fleeing a fiery inferno, beautiful, artisocratic Bryony Paget falls unconscious into the arms of a handsome stranger. She awakens with no memory of her proud aristocratic past--only the stirrings of … OL15170827W
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily The Betrayal of the Blood Lily Lauren Willig The heroines of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series have engaged in espionage all over nineteenth-century Europe. In the sixth stand-alone volume, our fair English heroine travels to In… OL15181100W
To Desire a Devil To Desire a Devil Elizabeth Hoyt NOTHING IS MORE INTOXICATING- Reynaud St. Aubyn has spent the last seven years in hellish captivity. Now half mad with fever he bursts into his ancestral home and demands his due. Can this wild-looki… OL15189117W
The virgin's secret The virgin's secret Victoria Alexander Gabriella Montini disguises herself as a penniless orphan in order to gain entrance to adventurer Nathanial Harrington's residence and steal back her brother's discovery, only to lose her heart to a … OL15221011W
By love undone By love undone Suzanne Enoch "Madeleine Willits was shunned by London society for a scandal that was no fault of hers, and forced to seek a paid position in the country. So when Quinlan Bancroft, Marquis of Warefield, comes to d… OL15389995W
Wait for me! Wait for me! Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish Duchess of Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents, sh… OL15455687W
That perfect someone That perfect someone Johanna Lindsey (Malory Family #10) Nine years ago, Richard Allen fled England and his controlling father. Determined to live his own life, he took to the sea and settled in the Caribbean, joining a band of trea… OL15632236W
The Attenbury emeralds The Attenbury emeralds Jill Paton Walsh The long-awaited new Lord Peter Wimsey novel, telling the story of his first case and his last. Paton Walsh, takes over from Dorothy L Sayers to bring back Lord Wimsey. OL15990372W
The American Heiress The American Heiress Daisy Goodwin "Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs t… OL15999265W
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