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Author
Series
Tricks of the Ton volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sue Green just wanted one night to be the pretty one. But a few glasses of champagne and one wild disguise later, she's in some serious trouble. Who knew the devastatingly handsome face of Lord Holden Ellis would get in the way of her foot? And how exactly did all that high-kick dancing start in the first place? At least she blamed it all on her new persona, Suzanna. So Society's most eligible bachelor will never find out the truth. All Holden wants...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When he discovers that the young lad he has rescued from bandits is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise, Highlander Campbell Sinclair agrees to help her deliver an important document to the clan MacKay.
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series comes a new, mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe. He's a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they're in his way: he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables. In this series launch,...
7) Tried & true
Author
Series
Wild at Heart volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Of jade and dragons volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After her father's murder, eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying travels to the capital, where she diguises herself as her brother and infiltrates the Engineers Guild as she tries to solve her father's murder with help from a prince with plans of his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Though raised as a gentleman{u2019}s daughter, Lorna Gordon is obliged to take a position as an upstairs maid at Blackhall Castle when her father dies. Alex Russell, the Duke of Kinross, is the most tempting man she{u2019}s ever seen{u2014}and completely unattainable{u2014}until, at a fancy dress ball, Lorna disguises herself as Marie Antoinette and pursues an illicit tryst{u2026}with scandalous consequences. Months after his mysterious seductress...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Now orphaned, sixteen-year-old Faolan, who has been disguised as a boy by her grandfather for most of her life, is deemed unfit to stay on her homestead, so the mayor hires a gunslinger to send her to the mysterious Settlement, where ominous secrets and deadly creatures compel her to escape for survival.
Author
Series
Devil's duke novels volume 4
Publisher
AvonBooks, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Libby Shaw is determined to become a member of Edinburgh's all-male Royal College of Surgeons. Disguising herself as a man, she attends the surgical theater and nearly fools everyone. Forced to leave his home as a boy, famed portraitist Ziyaeddin is secretly the exiled prince of a distant realm. When he first met Libby, he memorized every detail of her face and drew her. But her perfect lips gave him trouble--the same lips he now longs to kiss. When...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A fearless thief and master of disguise plots an impossible crime"--
Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it's the most powerful who have him in their grips. It's not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it's the fact that Riley has to...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Arriving in the ancient Byzantine city in the year 1273, Anna Zarides has only one mission: to prove the innocence of her twin brother, Justinian, who has been exiled to the desert for conspiring to kill Bessarion, a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves freely about in society, using her skills as a physician to manoeuver close to the key players involved in her brother's fate.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenaged Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure.
Author
Series
Wild Wynchesters volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a polite young lady--or a bawdy old man. She'll do whatever it takes to solve the cases her family takes on. But when Tommy's beautiful new client turns out to be the highborn lady she's secretly smitten with, more than her mission is at stake... Bluestocking Miss Philippa York doesn't believe in love. Her heart didn't pitter-patter when she was betrothed to a duke, nor did it break when he married...
17) Tides of mutiny
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a world where female sailors are executed, sixteen-year-old Lane's dream of being a ship's captain seems impossible. Sea life is all she knows, and she wouldn't give it up for anything, even if it means she has to hide as a captain's boy to avoid being killed. But Lane's carefully constructed world begins to crumble when an old pirate enemy comes after her father. And she begins hearing rumors that her father was once a pirate as well.
18) Venom & vow
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who's doubling for his brother. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect. Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy. Cade doesn't know that Gael and Valencia are the same person. Valencia doesn't know that every time she thinks she's fighting Patrick, she's fighting...
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Impossible doesn't belong in Riley Wolfe's vocabulary. He's a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley ... No matter--with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Georgia's Swallow Hill turpentine camp in 1932, Rae Lynn Cobb, disguised as a man, hides out from those who would wrongly accuse her for murdering her husband and struggles to survive harsh, brutal conditions with the help of two individuals with their own tragic pasts.
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