SULLIVAN SERIES di MARY BALOGH

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Courting Julia (1993): When Julia's rich stepfather died, his legacy drew suitors to Julia like bees to honey. Yet for all the practical men who offered their hands, none could make her heart soar like Frederick, the reputed rake. Julia knows it's safer to be sensible, but how can she resist the rapturous desire she feels for Frederick?

When Julia Maynard's step-grandfather dies, he leaves Julia nothing even though she has lived with him all her life and tended him in his last illness and loved him--and even though he appeared to adore her. But he does leave his precious unentailed home, Primrose Park, to whichever of his five nephews can win her hand within a month of the reading of the will. Four of them proceed to court Julia. The fifth--the new Earl of Beaconswood--does not. But then, he is the last man she would marry anyway.

Dancing with Clara (1994): Miss Clara Danford had no illusions about Frederick Sullivan. She knew that this handsome man was a rake whose women were legion and whose gambling debts were staggering. When he proposed marriage to her, she knew that he was in love with her fortune, and not with her.

Frederick Sullivan goes to Bath to find himself a rich wife in order to save himself from financial ruin. He sets his sights and his considerable charm on the plain and crippled--and enormously wealthy--Clara Danford. When she accepts his proposal, Clara is not for one moment deceived into thinking that he really cares for her. But she chooses to accept him anyway because her life has been almost devoid of beauty and Freddie is the most beautiful man she has ever seen.

Tempting Harriet (1994): She had resisted scandalous seduction once before, but now Lady Harriet Wingham was wealthy, experienced, and widowed. Lord Tenby still wanted Harriet as his mistress, but she doubted that she could surrender her body without losing her heart. The author of The Precious Jewel and other novels and the winner of the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award presents her newest Regency romance.

Once, when she was a mere lady's companion, Harriet Pope had spurned the attempted seduction of the Duke of Tenby. Now, six years later, she is the wealthy, titled widow of an older man, and she is the one who sets out to seduce the duke. Yet when she succeeds, it is to the discovery that an affair is not what she wants after all. An affair, though, seems to be all Tenby can offer.