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If You Like... Bridgerton Try these compelling and racy historical romances.
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The Duke and I
by Julia Quinn
For those who want to read the books, this is the first in the Bridgerton series.
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Because of Miss Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
This lively, effervescent Georgian tale takes place a generation before Quinn's wildly popular Bridgerton series and nicely adds to the family history. The tomboyish Billie Bridgerton unexpectedly falls in love with longtime adversary and less-than-ideal match George Rokesby, whose arrogance and wicked sense of humor clash with Billie's proper sensibilities
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Much Ado about You
by Eloisa James
The oldest of four orphaned sisters, Tess Essex knows that it is her duty to marry quickly in order arrange matches for her three younger sisters, but her plans are threatened when her fiancé runs away, one of her sisters elopes, and she is confronted by a reluctant wedding to the irredeemable rogue, Lucis Felton.
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Devil in Winter
by Lisa Kleypas
Desperate to escape the clutches of her greedy and unscrupulous relatives, heiress Evangeline Jenner makes a deal with Viscount St. Vincent, the most dangerous rake in London, to exchange her fortune for a marriage of convenience, only to discover the true nature of passion in the arms of her libertine husband.
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The Trouble with Dukes
by Grace Burrowes
Hamish McHugh, the new Duke of Murdoch, to make his sisters happy, fights his hardest battle yet and decides to take on any challenge, including learning to waltz and Miss Megan Windham, the only woman who sees him as he truly is.
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Never Seduce a Scoundrel
by Sabrina Jeffries
Tired of the fobs and fortune hunters who make the rounds of the ballrooms of Mayfair, adventurous Lady Amelia Plume is finding London high society much more exciting since the arrival of Major Lucas Winter, an arrogant American with a dark and dangerous past, who may have an ulterior motive for his courtship.
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Her Night with the Duke
by Diana Quincy
After one night of reckless passion with a complete stranger, Lady Delilah Chambers is shocked to discover that he is none other than the duke who is set on wedding her beloved stepdaughter and must find a way to keep him at arm’s length.
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Forbidden
by Beverly Jenkins
Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always wanted--one that depends upon him passing for White, but after rescuing the beautiful Eddy Carmichael, he wishes, for the first time in years, that he could step out from behind the facade in this this appealing launch of a series set in the 19th-century American West.
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Someone to Love
by Mary Balogh
Arriving in London to claim an unexpected inheritance from the late Earl of Riverdale, orphan Anna Snow turns to the new earl¡s guardian, the Duke of Netherby, for help in transforming herself into a lady and navigate the very society that threatens to overwhelm her.
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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
by Lauren Willig
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers lost historical information that reveals the secret life of the most elusive spy of all time in this swashbuckling romp.
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One Dance with a Duke
by Tessa Dare
When she demands that Spencer Dumarque, the fourth Duke of Morland, forgive her brother's debts, Lady Amelia d'Orsay never imagines that she'd meet her match in this mysterious man who is perhaps connected to a shocking murder.
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A Rogue by Any Other Name
by Sarah MacLean
Determined to keep his new wife, the very proper Lady Penelope Marbury, away from London's illicit underworld, the Marquess of Bourne, the owner of London's most exclusive gaming hell, finds this task quite challenging when Penelope discovers her own desires.
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It Takes Two to Tumble
by Cat Sebastian
A page-turning Regency historical, which puts a clever, same-sex spin on the classic employer/governess trope, slowly unfolds into an unforgettable love story that manages to be both sweetly romantic and sizzlingly sensual at the same time,
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