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Mary Balogh · The Survivors' Club #6
A reclusive war widow and the charming earl who inherits her home must navigate grief, passion, and a fragile peace.
The Survivors’ Club: Six men and one woman, injured in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendships forged in steel and loyalty. But for one, her trials are not over....Since witnessing the death of her husband during the wars, Imogen, Lady Barclay, has secluded herself in the confines of Hardford Hall, their home in Cornwall. The new owner has failed to take up his inheritance, and Imogen desperately hopes he will never come to disturb her fragile peace.Percival Hayes, Earl of Hardford, has no interest in the wilds of Cornwall, but when he impulsively decides to pay a visit to his estate there, he is shocked to discover that it is not the ruined heap he had expected. He is equally shocked to find the beautiful widow of his predecessor’s son living there.Soon Imogen awakens in Percy a passion he has never thought himself capable of feeling. But can he save her from her misery and reawaken her soul? And what will it mean for him if he succeeds?

Mary Balogh · Westcott #1
An orphan discovers she's an heiress — and catches the eye of the coldest duke in London.
6 tropes in common

A temporary wife hired to enrage a cold lord's father finds her contract — and her heart — at risk of breaking.
7 tropes in common

Mary Balogh · Huxtable Quintet #1
A bold widow proposes to London's most eligible bachelor to save her sister — and gets more than she bargained for.
5 tropes in common

Julia Quinn · Bridgertons #1
A fake courtship between a too-honest lady and a duke determined never to marry turns scandalously real.
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Mary Balogh · Bedwyn Saga #1
A proud colonel marries a stubborn stranger to save her home — and neither expected to fall.
7 tropes in common

Mary Balogh · Simply Quartet #1
A snowstorm throws a prim music teacher into the arms of a viscount — one night becomes impossible to forget.
7 tropes in common

A duke hires a desperate gentlewoman-turned-prostitute as his governess — and falls helplessly in love.
7 tropes in common

Mary Balogh · Bedwyn Saga
A fake engagement between London's most notorious bachelor and a jilted bride becomes devastatingly real.
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A disgraced earl's daughter and a reluctant rake are forced to wed — but nothing about their match is what it seems.
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Mary Balogh · Mistress #1
An arrogant duke hires a bold, secretive stranger as his nurse — and finds himself falling for his mistress.
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A woman fleeing her dark past finds love with a gentle widower in a quiet coastal town — but danger followed her.
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A God-fearing man marries a broken prostitute and loves her unconditionally — even as she keeps running away.
9 tropes in common

Julia Quinn · Smythe-Smith Quartet #1
A bad violinist and her brother's best friend fall desperately in love while surviving fevers and terrible music.
6 tropes in common

Nicholas Sparks · The Notebook #1
A decade apart couldn't kill their love — but her upcoming wedding just might.
7 tropes in common

A shy new bride discovers her husband's first wife may never truly be gone — and Manderley holds dark secrets.
7 tropes in common

A bride-to-be's childhood bucket list brings her dangerously close to falling for the wrong man.
8 tropes in common

A secretive widow and a pitcher who lost his throw share a house — and a chance to start over.
10 tropes in common

Julia Quinn · Bevelstoke #1
She fell in love with him at ten — now he's bitter and broken, and she refuses to give up on him.
6 tropes in common

After 51 years of waiting, a man finally tells the widow he never stopped loving her.
5 tropes in common

Cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets, Addie LaRue finds the one man who remembers her name.
6 tropes in common