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Matilda Westcott has spent her life tending to the needs of her mother, the Dowager Countess of Riverdale, never questioning the life of solitude she has spun for herself. To Matilda, who considers herself the aging spinster daughter, marriage is laughable--love is a game for the young, after all. But her modest, quiet life of order unravels when a dashing gentleman from her past reappears, threatening to charm his way into her heart yet again. Charles...
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Abigail Westcott's dreams for her future were lost when her father died, and she discovered her parents were not legally married. Six years later, she enjoys the independence a life without expectation provides a wealthy single woman. Then she meets Gilbert Bennington, the lieutenant colonel and superior officer who escorted her wounded brother, Harry, home from the wars with Napoleon. Gil has come to help his friend and junior officer recover. If...
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Westcott novels volume 8
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At twenty-five, Jessica Archer decides it's time to wed. Though she does not believe in true love, as the sister of Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, she is still very eligible. When she meets the mysterious Gabriel Thorne, who has returned to England from the New World to claim a mysterious inheritance, Jessica considers him completely unsuitable because he had the audacity, when he first met her, to announce his intention to wed her. When Jessica...
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When Harry Westcott recovers from his wounds received in the Napoleonic Wars, he insists he enjoys his solitude, but wonders if he is lonely. Lydia Tavernor, a widower, wonders if she herself is lonely. When the two find themselves alone together one night, Harry's answer to the simple question, "Are you ever lonely," leads them down an unimagined path.