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This is the second in a delicious new series featuring three sexy dukes and the ladies who capture their hearts, from "New York Times" bestselling author Laura Lee Guhrke.

Meet Miss Manners for the Victorian era in another passionate and rich romance from "USA Today" bestselling author Laura Lee Guhrke. "Miss Emily" takes her position as the standard for all that's proper very seriously. Hired by the aristocracy to train their young ladies in proper etiquette, she knows it is even more important that she not put a single toe out of line. Of course, all her rules were much easier to follow before meeting the handsome older brother of her latest charge. Now that she's being put to the test, will Emily learn that some rules were meant to be broken...especially when it comes to affairs of the heart?

She thought she was the luckiest woman in London ...Surviving on a seamstress' income and a steady stream of fantasies, Prudence Bosworth has always longed for love and romance. Then she inherits a fortune from the father she's never seen, with the stipulation that she wed in one year. Prudence is determined to marry for true love, and after seeing firsthand the splendid chivalry of a certain duke, only one man will do ...Rhys de Winter, the Duke of St. Cyres, hides his cynicism behind a quick wit and an even quicker smile. He must marry an heiress, and as luck would have it, the pretty little seamstress-turned-heiress is exactly what he needs. But he never expected to fall for Prudence, and when his shocking deception is revealed, he will stop at nothing to win her back ...even if it means renouncing every last one of his wicked ways.

Phillip Hawthorne, Marquis of Kayne, has his life mapped out before him. He is a responsible member of the peerage, and rumor has it he may become the next prime minister. And then the unthinkable happens - he literally runs into the woman from his past...Twelve years ago, Maria Martingale was the cook's daughter, and she fancied herself in love with Lawrence Hawthorne, the Marquis' younger brother. But then Phillip got wind of it and threatened to cut Lawrence off, unless Maria left. Refusing to be the cause of family strife, Maria agrees. Now she has run into Phillip, still as cold and ruthless as he had been on that day twelve years ago. He's concerned that Maria will ruin things for Lawrence and his impending marriage, so Phillip does the only thing he can think of to distract her - seduction. But he may get more than he bargains for when his heart begins to thaw and he realizes propriety isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Daisy Merrick can't keep a job. Her confident optimistic outlook on life is put to the test when she loses her third job in six months, but she's sure she can find employment that suits her carefree personality. And she does...in the form of theatre critic. But her first review of a popular playwright is disastrous, especially when she is confronted by the very angry author himself. Sebastian Grant, Earl of Avermore, is not happy. How dare this...this critic call his work a piece of drivel! Never mind that he completely agrees with her. And to make it worse, his publisher is after him to finish his novel; so desperate, in fact, that he assigned Sebastian a writing partner - Daisy! Enemies at first sight, hatred quickly turns to desire. But will the temptations of Sebastian's dark past be too much to resist? Can Daisy dispel the darkness from Sebastian's soul and finally bring them both the happiness they so crave?

In the first of a dazzling new series, USA Today bestselling author Laura Lee Guhrke introduces London's most renowned matchmaker-and a scoundrel intent on seducing his way to the altar. She's the matchmaker ...Lady Belinda Featherstone's job is to guide American heiresses to matrimony, and away from men like Nicholas, Marquess of Trubridge. But the charming, disreputable marquess needs a wealthy bride, and he hires Belinda to help him find one. Her task seems easy: find that scoundrel the sort of wife he so richly deserves. But Nicholas's hot, searing kiss soon proves her task will be anything but easy. He's the perfect match ...Nicholas plans to wed a rich, pretty young darling to restore his fortune, and he's happy to pay a marriage broker to help him. But one taste of Belinda's lips and Nicholas's sensible scheme to marry for money goes awry, and he yearns to show his beautiful matchmaker he's the perfect match ...for her.

She's an American heiress. He's a devilish earl. When these two collide, the sparks ignite a shocking scandal in USA Today bestselling author Laura Lee Guhrke's unforgettable Victorian-era romance. Linnet Holland wants nothing to do with fortune hunters. No, she's determined to marry a man who loves her. But just as she's about to accept the perfect marriage proposal from the man she wants, the rakish Earl of Featherstone interrupts and ruins everything, including her reputation, with his smoldering kiss ...Jack Featherstone knows all about Linnet's "intended," and he's determined she won't fall prey to that villain as other women have in the past. But when his attempt to save Linnet ruins her instead, he knows he has to make things right. So he sets out to win this golden beauty ...and prove to her that being ruined by him was the best thing that could have happened to her.

Beloved authors Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane deliver the stories of four friends from Madame Rochambeaux's Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings..."Something Old" Julia Quinn's prologue introduces her heroine Beatrice Heywood and the premise for Four Weddings and a Sixpence. "Something New" In Stefanie Sloane's unforgettable story, an ever-vigilant guardian decrees that Anne Brabourne must marry by her twenty-first birthday. But love finds her in the most unexpected of ways. "Something Borrowed" Elizabeth Boyle tells the tale of Cordelia Padley, who has invented a betrothed to keep her family from pestering her to wed. Now she'll need to borrow one to convince them she's found her true love. "Something Blue" In Laura Lee Guhrke's story, unlucky Lady Elinor Daventry has her sixpence stolen from her and must convince the rake who pilfered the coin to return it in time for her own wedding. "...and a Sixpence in Her Shoe" Julia Quinn finishes with the story of Beatrice Heywood, who never believed that the sixpence was anything but a tarnished old coin-until it led all of her friends to true love.But her faith in the coin is tested when it keeps sending her to the wrong man!

Dear Lady Truelove . . .My twin brother and I need a new mother, though Papa insists he’ll never marry again. Must be nice, brainy, and fond of cats . . .Lady Truelove may be London’s most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need a tutor, not a new mother. They need a man tough enough to make his hellions tow the line, and James is determined to find one.Miss Amanda Leighton, former schoolteacher and governess, knows she has all the qualifications to be a tutor. And while female tutors are unheard of, Amanda isn’t about to lose the chance at her dream job because of pesky details like that. If Lord Kenyon insists on hiring a man, then she has only one option . . .Jamie isn’t sure what to make of his new employee, until he realizes the shocking truth—beneath the ill-fitting suits, his boys’ tutor is a woman. An unconventional, outspoken, thoroughly intriguing woman. Despite Amanda’s deception, he can’t dismiss her when his boys are learning so much. Yet Jamie, too, is learning surprising lessons—about desire, seduction, and passionate second chances . . .

Fans of Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn will adore this opposites-attract romance featuring a dashing duke, a shy bookshop owner, and a wager that will change their lives forever.Evie Harlow runs a quaint little bookshop in London, which is the biggest adventure an unmarried woman with no prospects could hope for. Until Maximillian Shaw, Duke of Westbourne, saunters into her shop with a proposition: to win a bet with his friends, he'll turn her into the diamond of the season. The duke might be devilishly attractive, but Evie has no intention of accepting his ludicrous offer. When disaster strikes her shop, however, she's left with little choice but to let herself be whisked into his high-society world.Always happy to help a lady in distress, Max thinks he's saving Evie from her dull spinster's life. He'll help her find a husband and congratulate himself on a job well done. But as shy Evie becomes the shining star he always knew she could be, she somehow steals his heart. And when her reputation is threatened, can Max convince her to choose a glittering, aristocratic life with him over the cozy comfort of her bookshop?

Grumpy meets sunshine in this charming tale featuring a haughty businessman and the headstrong event planner who steals his heart.Delia Stratham is a sophisticated, thoroughly modern woman who often flouts convention. Despite being well-born with plenty of money, she loves working at London's luxurious Savoy Hotel, coming up with ideas for the venue's lavish entertainments and then procuring whatever is needed to transform them into reality. Earning her own living planning the lavish banquets, balls, and parties for which the Savoy is famous gives her a satisfaction that none of her three marriages could-and she has no intention of giving it up.But when fraud is uncovered at the Savoy, ruthless hotel magnate Simon Hayden becomes a major investor and vows to clean up the corruption and fire anyone responsible for the thefts. But is the beautiful, beguiling Delia stealing from the hotel, or is it just Simon's heart she's running off with?

In this dazzling Victorian romance that "will appeal to fans of Julia Quinn and Amanda Quick," one unlucky lady believes her fate is finally changing until the rake that broke her heart returns to town (Publishers Weekly on Lady Scandal). Lady Kay Matheson is truly the bad luck bride. Her first try at matrimony was a disastrous failed elopement with handsome rake Devlin Sharpe. Soon after, Devlin departed for Africa without even saying goodbye, leaving Kay unwed and her heart in a million pieces. Her second attempt with the boy next door was the ideal match everyone wanted, until rumors of her previous elopement hit the papers and her perfect groom dumped her due to the scandal. Now Kay is forced to face life as a ruined and disgraced spinster.No one is more surprised than Kay when American millionaire Wilson Rycroft offers her a third chance at matrimony. Just when she's convinced her luck's changed and she finally will make it down the aisle, the scoundrel who took her virtue and broke her heart many years ago returns, with a young and beautiful fiancée of his own. Kay isn't the only one nursing grudges-Devlin has a few of his own. Like Kay, he just wants to forget the past and make a new life. But when circumstances force them together, reigniting the passions they felt long ago, it culminates in a searing kiss that threatens to ruin their perspective wedding plans and their futures, and make Kay the bad-luck bride all over again.