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The Look of Love

When Lady Olivia Gosling finds The Book of Love in a musty bookshop, she is most eager to try out its love "recipes" on someone safe. Well, Beast isn't really safe, but with her odious guardian about to marry her off to one of his unsavory friends, she needs her childhood friend to fall in love with her fast. If Beast can love her, then any man she chooses will certainly do the same.

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The Touch of Love

What makes a man fall in love? The Book of Love holds the answer, or so Poppy Farthingale believes...

Poppy Farthingale has made a pact with her two best friends to use The Book of Love to find true love. How else will Nathaniel Sherbourne, Earl of Welles, ever notice her? With a small dowry and no prominent lineage, Nathaniel will never consider her a suitable wife, especially when her competition is a beautiful duke's daughter who has already been declared an Incomparable. Poppy has four days to win his heart, but with time running out and her rival about to attend a weekend party at Nathaniel's country home, is all hope lost?

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The Taste of Love

Will the mysterious Book of Love lead Penelope to her true love?

Lady Penelope Sherbourne is not - absolutely not - going to fall in love with Thaddius MacLauren, Laird of Caithness, even if he is a big, handsome Scottish brute and ridiculously protective of her. But now that the Book of Love has fallen into her hands, Thad is the only one she trusts to test out the sensations she must explore in order to find the perfect husband. She wants a mild-mannered English earl, one who lives near her family, and who will not make her heart leap or her bones melt as Thad does every time he looks at her.

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The Song of Love

What makes a man fall in love? Violet Farthingale is desperate to know because she has just been caught in Captain Romulus Brayden's home with her gown unlaced and his hands too far up her legs to explain away. It was an innocent misunderstanding, of course. She was attacked by bees and he came to her rescue. No one seems to care that nothing happened. She is now forced to marry this handsome stranger. Everyone knows Farthingales only marry for love, so how does she make this big and brawny Royal Navy captain fall in love with her? And how will she fall in love with him in under a week?

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The Scent of Love

Will The Book of Love work its magic on Belle and Finn?

Belle Farthingale knows something is wrong in the family business and is worried her father has gotten in over his head. She needs Finn Brayden's help to get him out of trouble, but after their humiliating encounter at Lady Dayne's tea party, will he ever speak to her again?

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The Kiss of Love

Will The Book of Love find a way to bring these two souls together?

Honey Farthingale has a devastating secret that could destroy her chance of ever finding love. For this reason, she has sworn off marriage. But if she is to live out the rest of her days as a spinster, what harm can there be in stealing a kiss from the season's most sought after bachelor, the handsome as sin Earl of Wycke? Yet, she dares not get too close to him, for he has the power to steal her heart and make her wish for things that can never be.

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The Chance of Love

How could someone so buttoned up shoot fire through his blood the way she did?

Holly Farthingale is a young widow who hardly knew her husband before he went off to war and met his untimely end. She does not want to go through the pain of that loss again and intends never to marry. But now that she has come to London to chaperone her younger sisters during their debut season, her family is shoving The Book of Love at her and insisting she discover the meaning of true love.

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The Hope of Love

Two lost hearts and a little holiday magic can bring about the hope of love.

Wellesford's lovely bookshop owner, Felicity Billings, was raised in an orphanage and never knew her family. She's feeling quite sad this holiday season, fearing she'll end up alone and unloved. But handsome doctor, Angus Carmichael, has secretly loved her for years.

Will a brewing snowstorm, a Christmas goose, and the magic of The Book of Love finally have him reveal his feelings for Felicity and give her the hope of love?

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The Gift of Love

Will The Book of Love bring Dahlia Farthingale the gift of love?

Dahlia Farthingale thought magic would happen when she was the next to have The Book of Love. But instead, the elegant lord she thought would propose to her wound up humiliating her in front of all of her family and friends. She is now convinced no man can possibly want her, especially not handsome Royal Navy captain Ronan Brayden. Ronan can make a brilliant aristocratic match for himself, so why is he insisting on reading the book with her?

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Tempting Taffy

Someone is out to kill Gavin Carstairs, the Marquis of Falkirk, and his young son, but he cannot figure out who or why. He takes refuge at Hartland Abbey, the isolated country home of his friend, the Duke of Devon, while sorting it out. But all is not as it seems at Hartland Abbey either. Taffy, the maid assigned to attend to his quarters is temptation itself, and one thing is for certain, she is no maid.

Who is Taffy Ralston? And why is his heart, and his son, telling him to trust her?

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The Heart of Love

Welcome to Regency England and the Farthingales of Chipping Way.

Heather Farthingale has always dreamed of marrying a marquess and that dream is about to come true. She has made a brilliant match with a handsome, wealthy nobleman who is everything elegant and refined that irreverent Highlander, Captain Robert MacLauren, is not. So why does the Book of Love keep pointing her toward Robbie? And why does her heart insist on listening?

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The Promise of Love

Can The Book of Love bring together two hearts passing in the night?

Juniper Farthingale is on her way to London for her debut season when she meets handsome Scottish general Augustus MacLauren by chance at an elegant coaching inn. The man is so obviously right for her. But how can she convince this big, brawny Scot they are meant for each other when she has known him for only a day? Will the Book of Love work its magic to help her convince Augustus to marry her before he rides off for Scotland and she never sees him again?

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The Wonder of Love

She was in danger. He meant to protect her. But could he protect his heart?

More Regency fun as The Book of Love brings together two reluctant hearts.

Willow Farthingale never meant to punch Taunton's magistrate, Shayne Brayden, in the nose. And she certainly did not set the fire that destroyed the coaching inn's carriage house the very morning she was to leave for London and her society debut. But she might have seen who did, and now the handsome magistrate is not letting her out of his protection until the culprits are safely rounded up. Well, if he's going to hold her in town under his watchful eye, then she may as well use the time productively and test out those love recipes in The Book of Love on him.

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The Journey of Love

Sometimes it takes getting lost to truly find one's way home.

What happens when a blazing hot Brayden hero matches wits with a strong-willed Farthingale heroine and the mysterious Book of Love?

Camellia Farthingale, the youngest of the Devonshire Farthingale sisters, wants nothing to do with London and the Marriage Mart. However, she has agreed to go along with her sisters, Juniper and Willow, preferring to face the ordeal of a society debut with them rather than alone. But now her sisters have found love, and Cammy is on her own after all. She cannot go to London and runs away, for she harbors a secret she dares not tell anyone, not even Lorcan Brayden, the man charged with bringing her home.

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The Treasure of Love

Her life was a lie, but his love was real.

Another blazing hot Brayden hero is about to meet his match as he goes on the run with a beautiful bluestocking and The Book of Love.

Donal Brayden is the Crown's top agent and he will need all his wiles to protect the bookish Luciana Lessing from the villains who are after her. He has no idea who they are or why they want her, only that they will go to extraordinary means to kill her. As he takes the beautiful bluestocking into hiding, he realizes two things. First, that Lucy is not the Lessing's daughter but her necklace may be a clue to her true identity. Second, that he is falling in love with the brainy beauty. But how does he protect her from an unknown enemy determined to take her life? And how does he protect his heart?

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The Dance of Love

She was ballrooms and glitter. He was grit and brawn. They should have been wrong for each other, but they weren't.

This blazing hot Brayden cousin has no idea what the beautiful, obviously refined young woman is doing in his office, but he has no intention of ever letting her go.

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The Dream of Love

Gorgeous as sin Vicar Adam Carstairs is running from his past. Lady Remington Hartfield is running from her future. What will happen when their paths collide?

Love is the one thing Lady Remington Hartfield has never had in her life and the one thing she dreams of finding. Cast out by her overbearing and demanding father, dismissed by her self-absorbed and apathetic mother, she does not know where else to turn for help but Wellesford's handsome vicar. She knows he is hiding torments from his past, but he has always been kind and protective of her. Now, she has only one week to find a husband before her father foists his choice on her. Will Adam step forward to marry her? Or will her love for him remain forever a dream of love?

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The Remembrance of Love

The heart always remembers.

Lord Innes Buchan, son of the late Duke of Buchan, spent his childhood apprenticing as a cabin boy on Captain Romulus Brayden’s ship and sharing Christmas holidays with the Brayden family when his own wanted nothing to do with him. He is all grown up now and so is the captain’s hoyden daughter, Hyacinth, the beauty who is determined to turn his life upside down. He never forgot her, for the remembrance of the bright-eyed girl is buried deep in his heart. But is he too damaged to take a chance on love?

Hyacinth Brayden has decided it is about time for Innes Buchan to marry and no one is more suitable to be his wife than Hyacinth herself. All she wants is his love.

But how can she prove it to the handsome lord when he has closed his heart to everyone and probably believes her to be another fortune hunting debutante interested only in his wealth and title?

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