Author: Debbie Raleigh (aka Deborah Raleigh)Title: A Proper Marriage
Series: Vicar Humbly - BOOK I
Description:
After forty years of devoted service, Vicar Humbly is eager to retire to his pleasant cottage and tend to his garden. But before he can live in peace, he must salve his conscience by traveling to the homes of three couples whose marriages have troubled him. Though he is a man of the cloth, Vicar Humbly knows that desire sometimes needs a little help from unexpected places...and that he may have to be less the Vicar, and more Cupid's emissary...
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WHAT'S DONE
Coming from a family of gamblers, artists and poets, Adele Morrow has lived an eccentric, free-spirited existence. But her new role as wife to a noted scholar and prominent government member has forced her to conform to a life of dull duty and perfect order. Discarding her vibrant, daring gowns, Addy is outwardly the very model of propriety, though secretly she longs to be carried off by a dashing rogue--the sort of devilish man who would drive her wild with desire...
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CAN BE BLISSFULLY UNDONE...
At first, Adam Drake felt quite pleased with himself--he'd managed to turn a wild scrub of a girl into a quiet, unassuming wife who'd be no trouble at all...and no joy. A year later, unhappy and bored, Adam realizes that he has the compliant wife he demanded but desires the uninhibited beauty he once knew. Now, it is Adam's turn to change, and the quiet, conservative scholar will need a great deal of tutoring if he's to become the daring rake who can turn a perfectly proper wife into a very willing woman...
Author: Debbie Raleigh (aka Deborah Raleigh)Title: A Convinient Marriage
Series: Vicar Humbly - BOOK II
Description:
After forty years of devoted service, Vicar Humbly is eager to retire to his pleasant cottage and tend to his garden. But before he can live in peace, he must salve his conscience by traveling to the homes of three couples whose marriages have troubled him. Though he is a man of the cloth, Vicar Humbly knows that desire sometimes needs a little help from unexpected places...and that he may have to be less the Vicar, and more Cupid's emissary...
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SHE LOVED HIM FOR HIS MIND...
Heiress Beatrice Chaswell always said she would marry only for true love. Shy, plump, and possessing little social grace, she fears she'll never find a husband--until fate smiles upon her in the form of the devastatingly handsome Gabriel Baxtor. To Beatrice's astonishment, Gabriel seems enchanted by her every move...and before long, she gladly surrenders her heart--and her hand in marriage. But after the wedding, Beatrice discovers the true motives behind Gabriel's sudden seduction...
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...HE MARRIED HER FOR HER MONEY
When Gabriel inherits a crushing family debt, he knows he must wed a woman of wealth to replenish his meager funds. Beatrice Chaswell is the perfect choice--until she learns the real reason he took her as a wife. Suddenly, the warm-hearted creature Gabriel has grown fond of becomes cold and distant, even turning his servants against him! Now, to save his marriage, Gabriel must start from the beginning. He must woo Beatrice all over again, and somehow find a way to mend her broken heart...even as he realizes that the lady he married for convenience may be the woman of his dreams.
Author: Debbie Raleigh (aka Deborah Raleigh)Title: A Scandalous Marriage
Series: Vicar Humbly - BOOK III
Description:
After forty years of devoted service, Vicar Humbly is eager to retire to his pleasant cottage and tend to his garden. But before he can live in peace, he must salve his conscience by traveling to the homes of three couples whose marriages have troubled him. Though he is a man of the cloth, Vicar Humbly knows that desire sometimes needs a little help from unexpected places...and that he may have to be less the Vicar, and more Cupid's emissary...
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AN UNWILLING BRIDE
Ravishing Victoria Mallory knew exactly what she wanted in a husband...someone gentle and gallant with the soul of a poet. And when she met a man who seemed to embody her every romantic ideal, she counted herself most fortunate. But when Victoria decides to elope, her luck runs out. For a wicked mix-up leaves her locked in a delicious midnight embrace...with the wrong man! Now, to avert a scandal, Victoria must wed an arrogant, unyielding, darkly seductive rogue who is definitely no gentleman.
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AN UNREPENTANT GROOM
This was no marriage, this was war! For years, Julius, Lord Claredon had avoided the parson's mousetrap. But now, to his fury, the rakishly handsome lord finds himself well and truly leg-shackled. It doesn't help that his new bride is the most opinionated female who's ever crossed his path. Or that, try as he may, he cannot ignore the desire she so artlessly provokes. Yet even as Julius wonders if he'll ever find peace again, a mysterious intruder breaches the Claredon estate. Now Julius and his willful bride must put aside their differences...long enough to avert a deadly peril, and discover a priceless love.
