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  Black Sheep

  by Georgette Heyer

  Abigail Wendover, "on the shelf,"' at 28 is determined to prevent Fanny, her pretty and high-spirited niece, from becoming attached to Stacy Calverleigh, a good-looking town-beau and an acknowledged fortune-hunter of shocking reputation. Miles Calverleigh, the black sheep of his family is enormously rich from a long sojourn in India, has a scandalous past, and is not at all inclined toward good manners. Could he... (more)
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  The Corinthian

  by Georgette Heyer

  Walking home at dawn, quite drunk, Sir Richard Wyndham encounters heiress Penelope Creed climbing out her window. She is running away from a dreaded marriage to her fish-lipped cousin, while Sir Richard himself is contemplating a loveless marriage with a woman his friends have compared to a cold poultice. Sir Richard can't allow her to careen about the countryside unchaperoned, even in the guise of a boy, so he... (more)
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  A Civil Contract

  by Georgette Heyer

  When his father, the Viscount Lynton, dies unexpectedly, Adam Deveril abandons soldiering to return to his ancestral home -- only to find the estate plagued by debt and the abundant land wilted with neglect. He must either sell everything and leave his family impoverished. . . or find a wealthy bride.Raised in privilege, Jenny Chawleigh is the only daughter of a doting, self-made financier who's... (more)
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  Alastair Trilogy: Book 1

  These Old Shades

  by Georgette Heyer

  Justin Alastair, the coldhearted Duke of Avon, had revenge in mind as he plucked a flamehaired urchin off the Paris streets. For Avon suspected the truth about his delicately handsome page—that "Léon" was really Léonie and none other than the wicked Comte de Saint Vire's legitimate daughter, deprived of her heritage by the comte's dastardly desire for a male heir. The duke's plan was simple: parade Léonie in front... (more)
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  The Grand Sophy

  by Georgette Heyer

  Set in the Regency era, The Grand Sophy revolves around the vibrant and irrepressible Sophy Stanton-Lacy. Her ways of managing delicate situations in the most unorthodox ways will have her endeared to you way before you know it. For several years Sophia Stanton-Lacy (known as Sophy to everyone) has lived away from England, following her diplomat father Sir Horace around Europe. But when her father... (more)