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THE MAGIC WE MADE
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Fresh Fiction for August Is Here

Cowboys, castles, and shiftersβ€”this month has it all.

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Hotter than a Tuscan summer.


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Some promises cost you the one you love.


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Only she can pull him back from the darkness.


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One golden retriever knows this is love.


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Trust is the fiercest transformation of all.


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From Himalayan stargazing to the London Blitzβ€”one love endures.

The Secret Life of Lady Julia by Lecia Cornwall

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Also by Lecia Cornwall:

That Summer in Berlin, October 2022
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The Woman at the Front, October 2021
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Christmas In Kilts, October 2017
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Say Yes to the Scot, June 2017
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Beauty and The Highland Beast, July 2016
e-Book
What a Lady Most Desires, September 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Once Upon a Highland Autumn, July 2014
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Secret Life of Lady Julia, June 2013
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
How to Deceive a Duke, December 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Price Of Temptation, January 2012
Paperback / e-Book
All The Pleasures Of The Season, December 2011
e-Book
Secrets Of A Proper Countess, April 2011
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book

THE SECRET LIFE OF LADY JULIA
By: Lecia Cornwall

When star-crossed lovers reunite under strange circumstances in Regency England, will they be brave enough to take a second chance at love? Find out in Lecia Cornwall's stunning follow up to HOW TO DECEIVE A DUKE.


June 2013
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Featuring: Lady Julia Leighton; Thomas Merritt
384 pages
ISBN: 0062202456
EAN: 9780062202451
Kindle: B009NFMTH0
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Romance Historical

Lady Julia Leighton has been betrothed since her eighth birthday to an old family friend who feels more like a brother than the love of her life. At her long–awaited betrothal ball, she encounters a handsome stranger, and the heady mixture of champagne and experimental kisses leads to seduction born of a desire to feel something extraordinary in a man's arms before her marriage to the man her grandmother calls 'Dull Duke David".

Thomas Merritt is only at the ball to steal a magnificent tiara owned by Julia's mother. Disowned by his brother for his rakish behavior, Thomas makes his way in the world by seducing rich women and stealing their jewels. But when he catches sight of the beautiful young bride–to–be, and watches her fiancΓ© completely ignore her, he sets out to charm her, to flirt a little. When he steals a kiss, the intensity of his own feelings surprise him. He thought himself beyond feeling anything for any woman, but when he realizes too late that Julia was a virgin, he finds himself tempted to see her again. But she is betrothed to a duke, and he is more likely to end up dead than welcomed into the family. He leaves for Paris the day the Napoleonic wars officially end, both to find richer pastures and to try and forget Julia.

But when their paths cross again, years later, they are both in very different circumstances. Julia, disgraced after the death of her fiance, has a secret she's desperate to keep from Thomas. Thomas has a very dangerous secret of his own and it turns out that Julia is the only person who can help him. But will the past threaten to overtake their rekindled love?

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