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Mary Balogh · The Survivors' Club #7
A grieving duke seeks out the music teacher he met once and never forgot — to make her his duchess.
From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss and Only a Promise comes the final book in the rapturous Survivor’s Club series—as the future of one man lies within the heart of a lost but never-forgotten love...For the first time since the death of his wife, the Duke of Stanbrook is considering remarrying and finally embracing happiness for himself. With that thought comes the treasured image of a woman he met briefly a year ago and never saw again. Dora Debbins relinquished all hope to marry when a family scandal left her in charge of her younger sister. Earning a modest living as a music teacher, she’s left with only an unfulfilled dream. Then one afternoon, an unexpected visitor makes it come true.For both George and Dora that brief first encounter was as fleeting as it was unforgettable. Now is the time for a second chance. And while even true love comes with a risk, who are two dreamers to argue with destiny?

Mary Balogh · Westcott #1
An orphan discovers she's an heiress — and catches the eye of the coldest duke in London.
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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.
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A temporary wife hired to enrage a cold lord's father finds her contract — and her heart — at risk of breaking.
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Mary Balogh · Bedwyn Saga
A fake engagement between London's most notorious bachelor and a jilted bride becomes devastatingly real.
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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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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 · Bedwyn Saga #1
A proud colonel marries a stubborn stranger to save her home — and neither expected to fall.
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Mary Balogh · Simply Quartet #1
A snowstorm throws a prim music teacher into the arms of a viscount — one night becomes impossible to forget.
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A duke hires a desperate gentlewoman-turned-prostitute as his governess — and falls helplessly in love.
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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 God-fearing man marries a broken prostitute and loves her unconditionally — even as she keeps running away.
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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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Nicholas Sparks · The Notebook #1
A decade apart couldn't kill their love — but her upcoming wedding just might.
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After 51 years of waiting, a man finally tells the widow he never stopped loving her.
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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.
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A lonely widow places a want-ad for a husband, and an unlikely man answers her call.
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Josi S. Kilpack · A Proper Romance #1
London's most sought-after beauty loses everything — and finds unconditional love in exile.
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She's determined to reject every proposal and flee to India — until her childhood friend changes everything.
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A penniless girl with no options and a kind-hearted lord who can't stop helping her find her way home.
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A shy new bride discovers her husband's first wife may never truly be gone — and Manderley holds dark secrets.
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