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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Bow Street Runner John Chase has been called upon to protect Marina, the daughter of rich London merchant Hugo Garrod. Transplanted from her home in Jamaica, Marina has failed at the London social scene and lives in isolation among the Garrod family in Clapham. Someone is playing malicious tricks on the young heiress, some of which harken back to the island heritage of Obeah, and Chase must determine if she is truly a victim--or something else.
Author
Publisher
Riptide Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"By the good offices of Riptide Publishing, KJ Charles's new Entertainment WANTED, A GENTLEMAN Or, Virtue Over-Rated. The grand romance of Mr. Martin St. Vincent . . . a Merchant with a Mission, also a Problem, Mr. Theodore Swann . . . a humble Scribbler and Advertiser for Love."--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The moment orphaned American heiress Titania 'Tansy' Danforth arrives on English shores she cuts a swath through Sussex, enslaving hearts and stealing beaux. She knows she's destined for a spectacular titled marriage, but the only man who fascinates her couldn't be more infamous--or less interested"--Page 4 of cover.
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Beatrice Goodwin left Manhattan a duchess and has returned a divorcee, ready to seize control of her fate and the family business. Goodwin's Department Store, once the pinnacle of fashion, has fallen from favor thanks to Dalton's, its glamorous competitor across the street. For Wes Delton, Beatrice has always been the one--the one who broke his young heart by marrying a duke, and now, the one whose cherished store he plans to buy, just so he can...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home; and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family's silly inheritance rules! But now her little fib means that she and her completely unsuspecting husband are going to inherit big - and very messy! -trouble in this spicy, sexy delight from bestseller Suzanne Enoch, Something in the Heir"--
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A notorious heartbreaker is about to meet his match...When the 'thief' caught driving his stolen vintage car turns out to be a stunning runaway heiress, Mercury Steele is conflicted. On the one hand, Sloan Donahue, broke and on the run from her tyrannical family, triggers the billionaire playboy's protective instincts. But she also triggers red-hot desire. Mercury refuses to think his simple seduction is becoming something deeper, especially when...
Author
Series
Girl Friday mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known for busting up organized crime--but the next day, Viviana...
Author
Series
Heiress in London volume 2
Publisher
St Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"The wealthiest heiress of the season, Lindsey Crompton finds detective work more fascinating than social engagements {u2013} until she meets Thane Parker, the Earl of Mansfield. Thane is a paradox: a war hero and a scoundrel. When Lindsey sneaks into his house to investigate his role in a series of murders, he blackmails her into a betrothal. Thane has a secret life. He{u2019}s working with the Bow Street Runners to track a killer who may be one...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
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Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi blues-man who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. The opportunity...
Author
Series
Harlequin presents volume 4015
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For the last fifteen years, everyone thought I, Valentin Silvera, was dead. But I'd faked my death to escape my abusive father. Now I've returned to take what's mine, including diamond heiress Olivia Wintergreen -- my childhood sweetheart and heartless twin brother's fiancée! Olivia isn't the wild girl I remember. She's poised, controlled and not afraid to challenge me! My plan to wed her never included our once-youthful connection growing into an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Celebrated Bollywood heiress Anya Raawal lives her life in the spotlight. And fiercely protects the secret of an impossible choice she was once forced to make. But when she meets magnate Simon De Costa, a shocking discovery sets them on a collision course... Because Simon's adopted daughter is the child Anya had to give up! The connection between them is instant, yet it's clear the guarded widower buried his heart with his wife. Anya knows she can't...
72) Last promise
Author
Series
The McBride brothers volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For British heiress Mary Ann Hardwicke, the Wild West is the perfect place to make her own life and escape the stifling privilege of an arranged marriage. Hard at work proving her independence, it's little wonder she has no time for handsome cowboy Luke McBride. No matter that he somehow understands the freedom she so badly needs--how could she trust such a wild spirit, much less find a way to love him? Like the broncs he busts, Luke doesn't see himself...
73) Worth a fortune
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Harriet Browning has thrived as the heiress to a lumber fortune, living lavishly among New York's elite. Her father's death reveals unexpected financial woes, and Harriet is left to face a sudden, harsh reality. Ava Clark threw herself into the war effort when her brothers enlisted. Suddenly, the war is over, and she's without a cause and a job. An ad for a personal secretary from Harriet--the woman she loved...
Author
Series
Rules for the reckless volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Trapped in the countryside, facing an unwanted marriage and the theft of her fortune, Jane Mason is done behaving nicely. To win her freedom, she'll strike a deal with the most dangerous man she knows, a rising star in politics, whose dark good looks mask an even darker heart. The bitter past has taught Crispin Burke to trust no one. He'll gladly help a lovely young heiress, provided she pays a price. Yet when a single mistake shatters his life, it...
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English
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"Paris, 1889. The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe...including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire. Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over three generations, but...
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English
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"A surprise inheritance. A cache of family secrets. A choice that will change her life forever. Lillian Doyle has lived her entire high-society life with her widowed mother, believing her father died long ago. But when news arrives that her estranged father only recently passed away--in jail--Lillian is startled to find that the man has left a business and all of his possessions to her, making her a rather unusual heiress. When she goes to take...
77) Felice
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When beautiful shipping heiress Felicité Marielle Christiane Andrews finally returns to New Orleans after two years abroad, she does not expect to come face to face with the man she cannot forget, or to find him more captivating than ever. Now she must remind herself that she: Lives a fabulous life in England; is engaged to marry a fine man of nobility; cannot allow the wicked Cajun back into her life. But indeed, she does. Charismatic René Thibodeaux,...
78) The marvelous
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Publisher
A Swoon Reads Book, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone thinks they know Jewel Van Hanen. Heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app, Golden Rule. After mysteriously disappearing for a year, Jewel makes her dramatic return with an announcement: she has chosen a few lucky Golden Rule users to spend an unforgettable weekend at her private estate. But once they arrive, Jewel ingeniously flips the script: the guests are now players in an...
79) Alice Knott
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious near-identical brother. Much of her family's fortune has been spent on a world-class collection of artwork, which she stores in a vault in her lonely, cavernous house. One day, she awakens to find the artwork destroyed, the act of vandalism captured in a viral video that soon triggers a rash of copycat incidents. As more videos follow and the world's...
80) Taming Angelina
Author
Series
Temptation saga volume 4
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Learn to run a ranch? Angelina Bay would rather wear last season's clothes. But if she doesn't, her father says she can kiss her inheritance goodbye. Teach a spoiled heiress how to ride a horse? Not in this lifetime. Rafe Grayhawk is busy enough as a ranch hand, saving every extra penny to fund his chronically ill father's move to Arizona-- until beautiful Angelina makes him an offer he can't refuse. Rafe's rules are simple-- show up on time for...
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