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Cut off by her relations, pretty dainty widow Eliza Budley must visit some other family manor to purloin expensive baubles. Happily, the Marquess of Peterhouse is in his dotage and wouldn't know a relative from a bedpost, so Eliza is sent to play the imposter. But Eliza is met by the new Marquess - wickedly handsome and with all his wits about him. Somehow Eliza finds herself confessing her bluff to him and he in turn is much taken with her daring...
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Life is not easy for the poor relations of England's upper crust. Periodically they are dusted off and conveyed to some relative's stately home, where they make themselves inconspicuous, hoping the regular meals will last as long as possible. Desperate to keep up appearances, these unfortunates keep their misery to themselves, until one momentous day when Lady Fortescue meets Colonel Sandhurst in Hyde Park. Upon seeing the Colonel's tattered yet dignified...
10) Perfecting Fiona
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Spinsters Amy and Effy Tribble take on another client at their school for manners, but it seems that Fiona Macleod needs very little tutoring.
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If only Sir Charles Dibgy hadn't kissed her, perhaps Delilah Wraxall would not be in the spiteful habit of declining so many marriage proposals. In that one impassioned kiss, she had learned the enchantment of true love--and the fury of a woman scorned when Sir Charles vanished without an explanation. Now she breaks hearts with glee, wreaking havoc among the surplus of suitors vying for her hand--and driving her father to desperate measures.
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The oddly assorted group met some time ago. All of them were poor relations, the genteel paupers of society, living on little more than their dignity. They banded together and started The Poor Relation hotel, hoping to be bought out by their embarrassed relations, but as the hotel prospered, they began to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But once more they are in need of funds. To stoop to crime in their days of poverty was one thing, but to turn...
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Lovely, wealthy, and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother, the Lady Clarendon, has tried to mold Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion--but until the fashions fit tall Clarissa, her mother's efforts are doomed to failure. Enter Amy and Effy Tribble, chaperones-for-hire, who have seen three charges through the perils of three Seasons and into...
16) Marrying Harriet
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Miss Harriet Brown, daughter of a Methodist minister, is the embodiment of propriety and Christian charity--too much so, perhaps, for her own good. The virtues Harriet possesses are far from fashionable, but Amy and Effy Tribble, chaperones-for-hire, feel confident that their new charge will attract a worthy vicar or two before the end of the Season. First, though, they must vanquish confirmed rake and gambler Lord Charles Marsham, catch though he...
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