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Featuring the novellas Taken by the Duke and How to Steal a Duke
Taken by the Duke
A vexed viscount
When Henry Selkirk, Viscount Bexley, is proclaimed the Prince Regents Master of Ceremonies for His Highnesss birthday celebration, Henry wonders what he ever did to deserve such punishment. Taxed with curbing the extravagant princes spending, Henry juggles the prince and the difficulties of preparing the venue, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. While touring Vauxhall, Henry encounters a gang of thugs and is taken prisoner by a disreputable criminal who calls himself the Duke of Vauxhall. The pleasure gardens are the dukes domain, and he wants Henry gone. For good.
A woman with a secret
When Kate Dunn sees Henry Selkirk again, she hardly dares to believe her first love will remember her. Its been years since the two played as children together on the streets of London. She uses her influence to see him set free from the Duke of Vauxhalls clutches, but when Henry refuses to give up his position at Vauxhall Gardens, his days are numbered. To add insult to injury, Henry warns Kate that its she whos running out of time. He knows her secret, and once the gang finds out, shes as good as dead. As the night of Kates greatest heist ever approaches, she must choose between failing the gang and losing her life or disappointing Henry and losing her only chance at true love.
How to Steal a Duke (in Ten Days, Give or Take a Few Days, But Definitely in Less Than a Fortnight)
Dominick Spencer, the Duke of Tremayne, is a powerful man used to having his way. When he sets out to find the lost volumes of The Dukes Book of Knowledge to present to his favorite Oxford professor, Dominick takes his task seriously, even hiring a cat burglar to help him gain entry to a remote castle in Cornwall inhabited by a mad earl.
Rosalyn Dashner knows accepting the dukes assignment is dangerous, but her impoverished family and sick brother need the money. The daughter of a gentleman, Rosalyn is not impressed by titles. Shes not impressed by the haughty duke until she comes to know the kind but lonely man under the gruff exterior. The duke might be looking for a manuscript, but shes found a man she loves. When Rosalyn must risk her life to obtain the manuscript, will Dominick choose her or his quest for the Dukes Book?
**These novellas were previously published in the anthologies The Dukes of Vauxhall and How to Find a Duke in Ten Days.**
Genre: Historical Romance
Taken by the Duke
A vexed viscount
When Henry Selkirk, Viscount Bexley, is proclaimed the Prince Regents Master of Ceremonies for His Highnesss birthday celebration, Henry wonders what he ever did to deserve such punishment. Taxed with curbing the extravagant princes spending, Henry juggles the prince and the difficulties of preparing the venue, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. While touring Vauxhall, Henry encounters a gang of thugs and is taken prisoner by a disreputable criminal who calls himself the Duke of Vauxhall. The pleasure gardens are the dukes domain, and he wants Henry gone. For good.
A woman with a secret
When Kate Dunn sees Henry Selkirk again, she hardly dares to believe her first love will remember her. Its been years since the two played as children together on the streets of London. She uses her influence to see him set free from the Duke of Vauxhalls clutches, but when Henry refuses to give up his position at Vauxhall Gardens, his days are numbered. To add insult to injury, Henry warns Kate that its she whos running out of time. He knows her secret, and once the gang finds out, shes as good as dead. As the night of Kates greatest heist ever approaches, she must choose between failing the gang and losing her life or disappointing Henry and losing her only chance at true love.
How to Steal a Duke (in Ten Days, Give or Take a Few Days, But Definitely in Less Than a Fortnight)
Dominick Spencer, the Duke of Tremayne, is a powerful man used to having his way. When he sets out to find the lost volumes of The Dukes Book of Knowledge to present to his favorite Oxford professor, Dominick takes his task seriously, even hiring a cat burglar to help him gain entry to a remote castle in Cornwall inhabited by a mad earl.
Rosalyn Dashner knows accepting the dukes assignment is dangerous, but her impoverished family and sick brother need the money. The daughter of a gentleman, Rosalyn is not impressed by titles. Shes not impressed by the haughty duke until she comes to know the kind but lonely man under the gruff exterior. The duke might be looking for a manuscript, but shes found a man she loves. When Rosalyn must risk her life to obtain the manuscript, will Dominick choose her or his quest for the Dukes Book?
**These novellas were previously published in the anthologies The Dukes of Vauxhall and How to Find a Duke in Ten Days.**
Genre: Historical Romance
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