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Carolina's Walking Tour
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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On his return from the Peninsular War, grievously wounded and troubled in spirit, Alexander Quainton decides that an insouciant manner is the best way to avoid the pity he abhors. Exercising his damaged body with daily walking excursions proves an excellent way of avoiding social engagements. Carolina Finmere, shy and no more than passable in looks, has failed in three seasons to attract a suitor. For three months, they tramp Bath and its surrounding hills together, gaining in strength and--unwi... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 6874 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Romance
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Clemmie's Major
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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Clementina, eldest daughter of the Marquess of Cheriton, has always been able to solve her family's little problems and discontents. Now the widowed Countess of Carmelth, Clemmie finds herself facing problems she cannot solve alone. Someone is trying to harm her young son, and her brother is missing in action following the Battle of Waterloo. Major Gideon Rhyle may be able to help, but his assistance becomes another problem. For Clemmie falls in love with him and he, wounded and facing an uncert... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 57677 - Reading Time: 164-230 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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Comet Wine
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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A comet, they say, signals change. In a picturesque village in Cambridgeshire, India Pottersby did not think the Great Comet of 1811 would change anything in her quiet life as the vicar's sister. And she was content for it to be so. A difficult life had brought her at last to security with her younger brother in his vicarage, and she had no desire for alteration. Peter Trevayne had likewise come to harbour in the shire after fifteen profitable years in India. His purchase of Fencombe Hall create... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 7662 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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Emilina's Conquest
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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Necessity dictates that Emilina Brook supplement her family's income by accepting a position as music teacher in a young ladies' academy. Fate decrees that she meet Dr. Secord Cardew while journeying by stagecoach to the school in a distant town. Dr. Cardew is in turn charming, unkind, amiable, callous, appealing, and occasionally rude. Emilina is drawn to him, but the real Dr. Cardew is a mystery. Is he a worthy admirer or does he have insuperable flaws? (Published: 2009)
Words: 8658 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
Category: Romance
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Lost in Almack's
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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When Lady Genevra Haven becomes lost in the back corridors and staircases of Almack's, she needs courage and ingenuity as well as charm and confidence, to avoid social ruin and salvage her successful debut. (Published: 2009)
Words: 5785 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Romance
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Love's Liberty
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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Julia Clemence had loved Simon Mancroft-Martley her entire life, but when she was sixteen and he twenty-one, he had bought a commission and gone to war. He had been gone nearly five years, and on his return an unexpected encounter in the village church convinces Julia that he loves her as she does him. But Simon has lost an arm in battle, and is determined not to burden her with a crippled husband. Her parents concur with his decision, and she is forbidden to consider him eligible. Julia, by the... more info>>
Words: 5802 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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The Beggarmaid
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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Lady Iphigenia Brierley is trapped by a poverty that she must conceal from the beau monde. She lives on the fringes of society, satisfying her hunger at the ton parties to which she is invited and gambling to obtain money for clothing. The Marquess of Wessington is wealthy beyond her imagining, and has a respected and admired place in society. His return to London from travels abroad coincides with a time of crisis in her pitiable family. He offers himself first as her friend, then as her rescue... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 54210 - Reading Time: 154-216 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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The Disadvantaged Gentleman
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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When Rebecca Valence and Bennet Kelmarsh fall in love, their past histories make their future happiness impossible. And the orphaned child who brings them together may also drive them apart. (Published: 2007)
Words: 71327 - Reading Time: 203-285 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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The Earl's Peculiar Burden
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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Garret Kenning, the Earl of Therneforde, strives daily to conceal the strange secret that had plagued his family for generations. His home, Kenning Old Manor, is dominated by the last remnant of Kenning Castle--the Red Tower. The Tower has the strange capacity to transport people across time, and the constant possibility of peculiar arrivals encroaches on his freedom and his choices. Despite this worry, his life is ordered in comfortable lines with his aunt Lady Margery Kenning as his housekeepe... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 69468 - Reading Time: 198-277 min.
Category: Romance/Fantasy
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The Education of Portia
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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Portia Crossmichael is content with her life. She owns her own school close to London, and finds pleasure and satisfaction in educating the young ladies whom she is employed to teach. The companionship of her artist step-brother and her friends--some of whom she employs as teachers--enlivens her quiet days. Nothing, it seems, will disrupt the quiet tenor of her life. She has reckoned without the advent of Ingram Perrington, Lord Stadbroke, and his three daughters. He, freed in the past five year... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 72589 - Reading Time: 207-290 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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The Harmless Deception
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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Is a deception ever harmless? Can dishonesty ever be justified? Tansy Evens thinks so, as does milliner Grace Whitton. The scheme they propose will harm no one and will provide them with a basis for introduction to the high society of London. Their deception will afford well-born Grace an opportunity to take her rightful place, if only briefly, and it will supply Tansy with a brief, dazzling season. To Tansy's brother Rufus, the Baron Evenswood, it offers nothing at all. However, he is convinced... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 81189 - Reading Time: 231-324 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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The Rake's Reflection
by Lesley-Anne McLeod
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The 5th Earl of Torgreave, Rupert Manningford, has conceived a desire to reform his rakish ways and become a model aristocrat. His careful plans are destroyed however when Miss Cordelia Tyninghame of Edinburgh arrives unexpectedly, by the connivance of his housekeeper, at his London home. Unwittingly Delia's arrival reveals a remarkable secret; their lives will be forever altered by that secret and the love they discover. (Published: 2006)
Words: 69522 - Reading Time: 198-278 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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