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The Plumed Bonnet
Mary Balogh
Deceiving the Duke
There was no reason for a lord as handsome and high and
mighty as the Duke of Bridgewater even to glance at a
humble vicar's daughter like Miss Stephanie Gray. No
reason except that the Duke was in need of amorous
amusement, and that he was mistakenly convinced that
Stephanie was precisely the kind of woman that she most
decidedly was not.
It was one thing for Stephanie to be grateful to the Duke
for rescuing her from a horrific highway mishap. It was
quite another, however, to repay him by accepting what
she long had been told was a fate worse than death. So
when the Duke stooped to conquer, Stephanie rose to
defend her virtue-only to find that even the most proper
young lady on the brink of the deepest of dangers could
nonetheless fall in love. ...
Signet (Regency), September 1996
ISBN: 0451190513 Paperback $4.99
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