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Lady Harriet Worthington's passions are strictly culinary. She runs a bakery, a mill, a household — and her own life. Elias Westwood, her partner in a West Indies spice company, is at his wit’s end. Harriet has been selling off shares of the business and distributing the proceeds to her neighbors for necessities like cows, sheep, food, and other provisions — until he is nearly ruined. He plots to win back his shares, but Elias’s extraordinary gifts of smell and taste — so useful in judging fine spices — prove his Achilles’s heel. Harriet’s meat pies leave him weak in the ...

Julian LeFevre, the Duke of Claridge, is a notorious and dissolute rake whose half-hearted attempt to reform his character has left him bored to death. To relieve the tedium, he wagers a friend that he can mold any pretty trollop from the London streets into a lady who'll past muster with society's elite. But Hannah Gregory is no biddable lump of clay. She has solemn gray eyes, a rebellious streak -- and is deaf from a long-ago accident. And although she conceals her real past, she can't conceal her attraction to the scoundrel who offers her a small fortune that could pay for a new medical ...

In this Regency love triangle, spinster Amanda Fitzhugh is far too level-headed to again fall for any man's seductive promises. She'd been down that road before and was lucky to escape with her virtue intact. She's content to chaperone her young cousin's come-out and betrothal to Simon Hannibal Thornton, one of England's most esteemed war heroes, now Lord Sommersby. But when the iron-willed earl with a haunted castle turns his soldierly skills from winning a bride to conquering her companion, Amanda discovers her own heart in mortal danger amid the ghosts of passion. --"What a splendid ...