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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Much Ado About Dutton by Claudia Dain

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Also by Claudia Dain:

The Duke of Danby's Holiday Hijinx, November 2018
e-Book
Dismissing the Duke, June 2016
e-Book
The Duke's Christmas Summons, November 2015
e-Book
Chasing Miss Montford, April 2015
e-Book
An Encounter at Hyde Park, August 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Accidentally in Love, April 2014
e-Book
Much Ado About Dutton, September 2013
e-Book
An Encounter at the Museum, March 2013
e-Book
Daring A Duke, July 2010
Paperback
How To Dazzle A Duke (The Courtesan Series), June 2010
Paperback
The Courtesan's Wager, April 2010
Paperback
How To Dazzle A Duke, September 2009
Paperback
The Courtesan's Wager, February 2009
Trade Size
Private Places, August 2008
Paperback
The Courtesan's Secret, May 2008
Trade Size
The Courtesan's Daughter, October 2007
Trade Size
Unwrapped, November 2004
Paperback (reprint)
Silent Night, November 2004
Paperback
The Fall, September 2004
Paperback
The Temptation, December 2003
Paperback
Wish List, September 2003
Paperback (reprint)
A Kiss to Die For, March 2003
Paperback

MUCH ADO ABOUT DUTTON
By: Claudia Dain

More Courtesan Chronicles #1
Author Self-Published
September 2013
On Sale: August 23, 2013
232 pages
ISBN: 1940940036
EAN: 2940148789345
Kindle: B00ER275ZA
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Romance Historical

It all began in The Courtesan's Daughter and continued through the next four books of the Courtesan Chronicles. The Marquis of Dutton didn't pay the slightest bit of attention to Anne Warren until he found out that she was the daughter of a courtesan. His careless, confident, ill-considered pursuit of her began upon that lurid foundation.

Anne had been smitten by the dashing Lord Dutton from her first encounter with him. But to be pursued because her mother was a woman of the demi-monde? No. That was unacceptable. Anne was not going to make the mistakes her mother had made, each decision taking her further down the social ladder. Anne meant to improve her station, not hobble it with an amorous encounter with the nearly irresistible Lord Dutton.

Over the course of the London Season of 1802, Dutton pursued and lost Anne again and again. He became something of a drunken sot about it all, even a laughingstock. When Anne married Lord Staverton, his fall was complete. Anne married wisely, and Dutton was befuddled by it.

Two years later, in the 1804 Season, Anne is a widow and Dutton is sober. Lady Staverton and Lord Dutton, both available and both still interested, continue the seductive dance they began when she was his social inferior. She is no longer his inferior, and because of that, the tables have turned and Dutton is at her mercy.

Or perhaps Anne is at Dutton's mercy.

It all depends upon whom you ask.