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Romance Advent Calendar December 9–”Book & Cookies”

“A Regency Christmas (VII)“ (anthology) featuring stories by Mary Balogh, Jo Beverley, Sandra Heath, Edith Layton, and Laura Matthews

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When you're trying to take a cute picture of your Friends of the Library haul, but you have kids.

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Legacy and Trust

“I think, my dear, that you can’t ever believe him until you do believe in yourself. For if you’ve no faith in yourself, you can’t have faith in any other person, can you?” AUDIOBOOK OF THE LEGACY AND OTHER STORIES BY EDITH LAYTON NARRATED BY PIPPA RATHBORNE AVAILABLE NOW AT AUDIBLE US, AUDIBLE UK, AMAZON AND iTUNES “I know it’s not what’s done, but I think it’s what I have to do—don’t you?” She…

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It was not a fashionable night to be seen in the streets of London.

–The Duke’s Wager

Although not as striking as the opening lines of Jane Austin’s Northanger Abbey or Pride and Prejudice, with this sentence author Edith Layton introduces a side of the Ton to which we are rarely exposed. No, this is not White’s or Almack’s. This is London’s demi-monde, where aristocrats hunt for new courtesans and trade those they’ve tired of to less prestigious and attractive friends. It is also a side where innocents can get themselves into a great deal of trouble. Regina Berryman, who has just arrived from the country to live with her new guardian, is determined to spend a night at the Opera, even if her uncle is away on a business trip. Little does she know that she’s picked the wrong night–and caught the eyes of London’s two most profligate rakes.