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THE FAMOUS HEROINE
\n<\/span>Cora Downes has beauty, spirit, and money, but no breeding. Yet when she gains renown for a daring rescue, she finds herself thrust into high society. Innocent and adrift in a world of beautiful banquets, bejeweled gowns, and snobbish standards, Cora is quickly compromised into a marriage\u2014to a frivolous lord whose interests seem to lie elsewhere. But could piercingly blue-eyed and well-mannered Francis Kneller turn out to be the most unexpected love of her life?<\/p>\n

THE PLUMED BONNET
\n<\/span>Alistair Munro, the Duke of Bridgwater, is looking for love outside the bounds of polite society. And that\u2019s what he expects to receive when he rescues a seemingly disreputable girl in a colorful bonnet off the side of the road. Yet Stephanie Gray, a former governess, has recently come into money and is eager for a proper match with a well-born man. Sure that he\u2019s sullied her name, Alistair offers marriage to make amends. And in this unlikely union, Stephanie and Alistair make a welcome discovery\u2014that sometimes it\u2019s possible to marry first, then fall in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About the Author<\/h3>\n
Mary Balogh<\/span>\u00a0is the\u00a0New York Times<\/span>\u00a0bestselling author of numerous books, including the acclaimed Slightly and Simply novels and the first five titles in her Huxtable series:\u00a0First Comes Marriage, Then Comes Seduction, At Last Comes Love, Seducing an Angel,<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0A Secret Affair<\/span>. A former teacher, she grew up in Wales and now lives in Canada.<\/div>\n

Excerpt. \u00a9 Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.<\/h3>\n
The Duchess of Bridgwater, formidably elegant in her purple satin evening gown with matching turban and tall plumes, bedecked and sparkling with the family jewels, looked Miss Cora Downes over with slow and methodical care, beginning at the top of her elaborate coiffure, and ending at her slippers, which were already cramping her toes.<\/p>\n

The slippers were cramping her toes because she had unwisely taken the advice of Lady Elizabeth Munro, the duchess\u2019s elder daughter, to buy the smaller of two sizes in footwear when in doubt, as gentlemen did not admire large feet. Cora\u2019s feet were not extraordinarily large, she had decided, holding them out in front of her, unshod, as she sat on the edge of her bed soon after the advice had been given. And really she did not care much for gentlemen\u2019s strange preferences in such matters. Did they crawl around on hands and knees examining a lady\u2019s feet before going to any other lengths to discover if she was someone with whom they would not mind dreadfully spending the rest of their days on this earth? But there was no escaping the fact that her feet were somewhat larger than Elizabeth\u2019s and decidedly larger than those of Jane, Elizabeth\u2019s younger sister. But then Jane was more than usually small and dainty.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[171],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3261","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-romance","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","add-to-wishlist-after_add_to_cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}