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The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. The quiet dinner party held by Alberton and his wife seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensions and barely concealed violence in this well-appointed mansion. For two of the guests are Americans, each vying to buy Alberton's armaments....
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 19
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[2012]
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English
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"A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary...
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In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of slight disrepair (thanks to an aged, now deceased, uncle). Set in a small circle of houses and a communal garden, it seems a near idyllic setting. That is until a dead body turns up half-hidden under the bushes of the communal...
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Willowmere volume 1
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Thorndike Press
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[2010]
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English
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Marigold (Mary) Bascombe, the eldest of four sisters, is fiercely determined to keep her family together after her mother dies even if it means escaping to England to contact their distant grandfather, the Earl of Stewkesbury. Although their English mother was estranged from her father, they must depend on old family ties to shelter them. But when Mary and her sisters are mugged at the London docks, Sir Royce Winslow -- who knew nothing of an American...
6) That summer
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When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house-with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas-bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers...
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Keeping up with the Cavendishes volume 2
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Thorndike Press
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2017.
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English
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Fed up with being proper, Lady Amelia escapes and finds herself in the company of Alistair Finlay-Jones. He was ordered by his uncle to wed one of the American girls, and she's stumbled right into his arms! During one perfect day in London, they fall in love. If anyone finds out, Amelia will be ruined. Then Amelia finds out Alistair was ordered to marry her . . .
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Willowmere volume 2
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Thorndike Press
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[2010]
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Married young to a charming but improvident army officer, Eve Hawthorne was widowed with little left but a few extravagant trifles. Desperate to avoid her domineering stepmother, she accepts employment as chaperone to the Earl of Stewkesbury's American cousins. Who better than a levelheaded widow to remind the girls that they no longer live on a frontier? But then she flirts with a handsome stranger who turns out to be the earl's brother.
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In the first novel of Maya Rodale's enthralling new series, an English duke vows to make an American seamstress his duchess... In Gilded Age Manhattan, anything can happen... Seeking a wealthy American bride who can save his family's estate, Brandon Fiennes, the duke of Kingston, is a rogue determined to do the right thing. But his search for an heiress goes deliciously awry when an enchanting seamstress tumbles into his arms instead. ...and true...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 18
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©2013.
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When a finely wrought silver sleigh figurine turns up in her thrift shop, Lori Shepherd recognizes it instantly. The object had mesmerized the sweet but very poor nine-year-old Daisy Pickering at Sproggton Manor, the bizarre Jacobean house-turned-museum that Lori recently visited with her twin sons. Lori decides to speak with the museum curator, who turns out to be oddly uninterested in the theft. But Lori's search for the sleigh's true owner leads...
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"Summer 1942. The world has been at war for three long and desperate years. In the remote English village of Little Buffenden, the Redfern family's house and farmland has been requisitioned by the War Office as a new airfield for the American Air Force. The village's Air Raid Warden, twentysomething Poppy Redfern, spends her nights patrolling the village and her days writing a novel of passion. It is a far cry from the experience of the other young...
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Beatrice Goodwin left Manhattan a duchess and has returned a divorcée, ready to seize control of her fate and the family business. Goodwin's Department Store, once the pinnacle of fashion, has fallen from favor thanks to Dalton's, its glamorous competitor across the street. But this rivalry has a distinctly personal edge... For Wes Dalton, Beatrice has always been the one--the one who broke his young heart by marrying a duke, and now, the one whose...
13) Beyond compare
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Mad Morelands volume 2
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Thorndike Press
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[2004]
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Though Kyria Moreland is beautiful enough to earn the sobriquet "The Goddess" and rich enough to attract London's most sought after gentlemen, she has yet to find love and refuses to marry without it. When she receives a strange package under mysterious circumstances, she is confronted with danger, murder and a handsome American whose destiny is entwined with hers . . . Rafe McIntyre has enough charm to seduce any woman, but his smooth façade hides...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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©2014.
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From the moment she met the devil-may-care Duke of Margrave, Edie knew he could change her life. Their marriage of convenience transformed her from ruined American heiress to English duchess. Five years later, she's delighted with the arrangement, especially since her husband lives on another continent. For Stuart, who was able to settle his family's enormous debts, Edie's terms that he leave England forever seemed a small price to pay. But when a...
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Thorndike Press
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2017.
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Forced to marry an American heiress to save his family, Graeme Parr, Earl of Montclair, vowed their marriage would be in name only. Abigail Price thought handsome, aristocratic Graeme was her knight in shining armor, rescuing her from her overbearing father. But when she was spurned by her husband on their wedding night, Abigail fled home to New York. Now, years later, Abigail has returned. But this sophisticated, alluring woman is not the drab girl...
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Thorndike Press
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[2004]
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Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her American first husband appears at the school gates, their dreadful secret is revealed, and the county is scandalized. In the character of Dr Wortle, the combative but warm-hearted headmaster, who takes the couple's part in the face of general ostracism, there is an element of self-portrait....
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