The Painter's Daughter: A Marriage of Convenience Historical Regency Romance Novel
Julie Klassen
She married a stranger to escape scandal — then her former lover returned to complicate everything.
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"In 1815, a painter's daughter on the north Devon coast agrees to marry a stranger to avoid scandal, but her choice is complicated by the return of a former lover and a growing affection for the husband she barely knows"--
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