In this feisty and frolicsome historical, Kleypas (Where Dreams Begin, etc.) proves that turning 30 can signal the beginning of an exciting new decade, even for a 19th-century spinster. Free-thinking Amanda Briars, who writes scandalous tales of...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-77353-4
Beautiful, protected Anastasia Kaptereva was about to make a brilliant marriage to the wealthy Prince Mikhail Angelovsky. The problem is she's killed him. At least she was found unconscious near his body with the bloody knife in her hand. In 1870,...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-77355-8
In English exile from his Russian homeland and his family, Prince Nikolas Angelovsky is a wonderfully romantic, dark and brooding hero complete with a haunted past. One of his occupations in exile has been watching Emma Stokehurst and waiting for...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-78143-0
Married as children--he was seven, and she was four--Damon, the Marquess of Savage, and Julia Hargate have gone their separate ways. With Julia's dowry, Damon has become rich and powerful; and Julia, who never wanted Damon's title anyway, has...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-78145-4
Lara, Lady Hawksworth, is sure her husband died in a shipwreck off the south Indian coast, but three years later someone answering to the name of Hunter, Lord Hawksworth, reappears. He's accepted by everyone save his uncle, who'd claimed the earldom
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Lisa Kleypas, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-80230-2
Untypically, this Regency features lower-class protagonists: a rough-around-the-edges Bow Street runner and a notorious, unlikable courtesan. Grant Morgan, once a poor orphan, has become rich in the service that was the precursor to London's modern-d
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Lisa Kleypas. St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-60588-9
Kleypas launches the Friday Harbor trilogy with a delightful portrait of a picturesque town where people know everything about everyone and look out for each other. Friday Harbor, Wash., gets claustrophobic for Lucy Marinn when her boyfriend of two...
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Lisa Kleypas, St Martin's, $16.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-312-60586-5
Kleypas (Love in the Afternoon) finds a little romantic magic in this spritely charmer. Mark Nolan's happy-go-lucky bachelorhood is interrupted by the death of his sister and his subsequent guardianship of her six-year-old daughter, Holly, who is...
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Lisa Kleypas. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-60537-7
Kleypas satisfyingly concludes her Texas-based Travis Brothers quartet (after Smooth Talking Stranger) with this sweet contemporary. Avery Crosslin may be a wedding planner, but she certainly doesn’t believe in happily ever after; having been jilted
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Lisa Kleypas. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-237181-2
This Victorian romance from Kleypas (the Wallflowers series) is dripping with period flavor and beautifully written depictions of the peculiarities of running a foundering estate, but its hero is less than heroic. Devon Ravenel inherits an earldom,...
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Lisa Kleypas. Avon, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-237191-1
Kleypas sets the implausible fairy tale of Garrett Gibson, the only woman doctor in 1876 England, in working-class Clerkenwell, but this sanitized version of London has the squeaky-clean artifice of a toothpaste commercial. Garrett, a constable’s...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . Avon $7.50 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-81106-9
Against the grit and glamour of London's crime-fighting Bow Street operation, Kleypas weaves an exceptional early-Victorian-era romance that is driven by much more than mere sexual attraction and sizzling loves scenes (of which there are plenty...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . Avon $7.50 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-050736-7
Kleypas has given Only in Your Arms, her first title for Avon, a makeover, and the resulting book boasts a tighter plot and richer characterizations. Set in New Orleans in the early 19th century, this atmospheric tale portrays the romance between...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . Avon $7.50 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-81107-6
Like a bottle of champagne, Kleypas's Victorian-era romance opens with gusto, but the deeper tastes of this delightful story are what make it a truly magical experience. Although former criminal and current Bow Street Runner Nick Gentry has...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . Avon $6.99 (391p) ISBN 978-0-380-81108-3
Kleypas (Worth Any Price,
etc.) has made a name for herself with her darkly sensual historical romances and her willingness to treat the social issues of the Victorian era with the same intensity she brings to the relationships in her novels. Her...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . Avon $6.99 (375p) ISBN 978-0-06-009129-3
Deftly evoking not only the romantic tension between hero and heroine but also the conflicts and challenges of the Victorian era, this superb romance from Kleypas launches her new series centered on the Wallflowers, four young ladies who are sick of
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . Avon $7.50 (391p) ISBN 978-0-06-056249-6
Though this historical romance kicks off on a corny note—with the heroine, who has a supersensitive sense of smell, buying a seemingly magical perfume—the story quickly evolves into the kind of engrossing, dynamic romance that readers...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . St. Martin's $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-35162-5
Mass market bestseller Kleypas makes her hardcover debut with this entertaining chronicle of Liberty Jones's rise from the trailer park to life in a Texas mansion. The daughter of a Hispanic father (who dies during Liberty's childhood) and a
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . St. Martin’s $7.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-312-94980-8
Historical romance master Kleypas reintroduces Cam Rohan, the wealthy half-Gypsy first seen in 2006’s Devil in Winter
, in her latest page-turning Victorian. Rohan, manager of a London gentleman’s club, decides to do a favor for the...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . St. Martin's $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-35164-9
Scenes of domestic abuse and the journey to recovery make Kleypas's modern romance anything but fluff. A Wellesley grad and daughter of a Houston energy baron, Haven Travis is an unlikely romantic heroine until her brief but ardent encounter with a...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . St. Martin's $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-53378-6
American cad Rafe Bowman goes bride shopping in London and must choose between love and money in Kleypas's coy Christmas romance. Rafe is wealthy in his own right, but his grossly wealthy father demands he marry the uninteresting Lady Natalie....
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Lisa Kleypas, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-35166-3
Ella Varner grew up with a troublesome mother and an insecure sister, but she has managed to come out of it reasonably sane, with a good (if vegan) boyfriend, Dane, and a job as an advice columnist. All of this gets turned upside down when her...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author Avon $7.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-06-056251-9
Bestseller Kleypas's latest begins with the rake Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, striking a deal with Evangeline Jenner, the stuttering daughter of a sickly club owner whose uncle is plotting to marry her to a cousin, kill her and take her father's...
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Lisa Kleypas, read by Susan Duerden%E2%80%A8. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-5225-0%E2%80%A8
Accused of murder and sentenced to hang in her native Russia, beautiful Anastasia escapes to Victorian England, takes the name Karen Billings, and gets work as governess to the daughter of an arrogant yet grieving widower, Lord Lucas Stokehurst....
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Lisa Kleypas, Author, Julia Quinn, Author, Kinley MacGregor, Author . Avon $7.50 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-050524-0
Unlike some romance anthologies, this refreshing volume is more a tribute to the authors' fans than a marketing tool. That isn't to say that the book won't be a major money-making machine for Avon—it will—but that the...
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Lisa Kleypas, Author, Emily Durante, Read by , read by Emily Durante. Brilliance $36.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59737-871-0
Finding herself responsible for her troubled sister's newborn son, advice columnist Ella Varner is determined to track down the baby's father so she can get back to her own life. The first of her sister's former dates she confronts is
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Lisa Kleypas, Author, Jeannie Stith, Read by , read by Jeannie Stith. Brilliance Audio $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59737-851-2
Stith gives a fine performance in the first-person role of Liberty Jones, a Texas girl from the wrong side of the tracks who struggles to make a life for herself and her younger sister after the death of their mother, and struggles even more with...
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Lisa Kleypas et al. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-274723-5
Four talented authors combine four Regency-era short stories into one spirited, scintillating holiday treat. In Kleypas’s “I Will,” prim and proper Lady Caroline Hargreaves loathes everything about fiendish Andrew, Lord Drake, but she agrees to a...
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Lisa Kleypas. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-237194-2
Opposites attract in spectacular fashion in the sixth Victorian-era Romance in bestseller Kleypas’s Ravenel series (after Devil’s Daughter), which pairs a true romantic with a cynical intellectual. Lady Cassandra Ravenel has turned down many...
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Lisa Kleypas. Avon, $8.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-237196-6
Kleypas continues her winning streak with a thoroughly engrossing crossover between her Regency Wallflowers series and Victorian Ravenels novels. Three years after Lady Merritt Sterling’s husband’s death left her in charge of his shipping firm, a...
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