Governess Brides — by Christina Dodd

• Sep-1998
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A DISASTROUS SEASON A simple statue began the scandal. A LADY CONCEALED An innocent English miss conceived of it, her hands gliding across the clay, delineating each smoothly defined muscle and sinew, creating a sculpture of the man she worshipp...

• Mar-2000
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The Rules of Employment for The Distinguished Academy of Governesses Always remember your station; after all, you are higher than the house servants but certainly not a member of the family. Be sure to maintain a disciplined schoolroom and to take y...

• Oct-2000
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The Rules of Engagement: Choose a bride from this year's debutantes. Decide on a proper settlement. Send an announcement to The Times. Inform the bride of her good fortune. Rules of Respectability Devon Mathewes, earl of Kerrich, has a plan...

• Mar-2001
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The Rules of Enticement: A woman should never surrender to a man Without knowing his intentions. A man should never seduce a woman For the purposes of revenge. Rules of Society After nine years, Hannah Setterington has decided to sell the Dis...

• Oct-2001
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Since she was a little girl, Celeste has had one burning desire: to marry Ellery Throckmorton. But what chance does a gardener's daughter have of capturing the heart of one of England's wealthiest gentlemen? However, the education she receives at the...

• Mar-2002
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A GROOM WHO CAN'T REMEMBER. A BRIDE WHO WANTS DESPERATELY TO FORGET. Enid MacLean is finally living a peaceful life when she receives word that an explosion has injured the husband she hoped she'd never have to see again. Reluctantly, she agrees ...

• Sep-2002
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When Miss Samantha Prendregast arrives at Devil's Fell to take charge of six rebellious girls, the vibrant, outspoken governess is not quite prepared to deal with the tall, dark and dashing master of the grand estate. The children she can manage with...

• Jun-2005
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Dear Avon, Thank you, thank you, for bringing back the men I love in your wonderful anthology Where's My Hero? But it's simply not enough! The pages of my favorite romance novels are still packed with breathtaking gentlemen who, though they played...

• Oct-2005
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LEARN HOW TO FLIRT IN TEN LESSONS OR LESS! Miss Caroline Ritter, accomplished flirt, acknowledged beauty, and ruined gentlewoman, offers lessons to any rich, noble lord too inept to attract a wife. Discard your silly affectations and your garish c...

• Mar-2010
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Demure lady's companion Emma Chegwidden never defies society's rules. Until the night she runs straight into the arms of the mysterious and menacing Reaper . . . a man who rides the night-shadowed countryside and conceals his identity behind a mask. ...

• Apr-2011
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Lovely Victoria Cardiff is very prim, very strict, very sure that England is the only civilized place in the world. She's about to find out she's right. Only Victoria knows the truth about dashing, dissolute, dangerous Saber Lawrence -- that he is a...

• Feb-2015
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Caitlin MacLean of Scotland is proud to announce her graduation from The Distinguished Academy of Governesses. She specializes in the womanly arts of housekeeping, picking locks, and overthrowing ruthless dictators, and looks forward to attaining a p...