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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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"From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him-including conservative thinker William F. Buckley-into helping set him free"--
2. Scoundrel
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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CHERYL HOLT dazzled readers around the world with her "Lost Lords of Radcliffe" trilogy. She continues the fun and excitement by telling Chase Hubbard's story… When readers last saw Chase-the most debauched wretch in the world-he was adventuring down the Nile where he ultimately disgraced himself by betraying his best friend. With his life in shambles, he fled Cairo, but what happened to him after he left Egypt? Only Chase could land himself in...
3. Scoundrel
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Publisher:
Zebra Books
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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The Blades of the Rose are sworn to protect the sources of magic in the world. But the work is dangerous--and they can't always protect their own. . . Ready For Action. London Harcourt's father is bent on subjugating the world's magic to British rule. But since London is a mere female, he hasn't bothered to tell her so. He's said only that he's leading a voyage to the Greek isles. No matter, after a smothering marriage and three years of straitlaced...
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Once Upon a Dukedom volume 1
Language:
English
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Lady Kathryn Lambert must marry a titled gentleman to claim her inheritance and has finally gained the attention of a duke. Yet she is unable to forget the scandalous second son who aided in her achievement, or his betrayal. Lord Griffith Stanwick is tormented by the bitter truth that as a 'spare,' he will never be able to give Kathryn what she yearns to possess. But when his father is found guilty of treason, Griff detours into the dark and dangerous...
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Part-time smuggler, arms dealer, marine surveyor, and suspected intelligence operative, American mercenary Paul Shanahan matches wits with the IRA, CIA, British Intelligence, and Palestinian terrorists when he agrees to transport five million dollars in gold--a fortune supposedly to be used for the purchase of Stinger missiles--across the ocean.
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USA Today-Bestselling Author: She swore to resist temptation-but on one last quest before she takes her vows, she finds that love may be her true calling . . . Journeying to Dunborough to learn the truth about her sister's murder, novice Celeste D'Orleau dons a nun's habit for safety. But seeing her childhood hero Gerrard of Dunborough makes her dream of pleasures that will be forbidden once she takes her final vows. Gerrard wrestles with his desire...
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Civil war hero and adventurer Thomas Scoundrel didn't expect the search for his friend's fiancée in frontier Colorado to be easy. He also didn't expect to be beaten and tossed into a desert ravine by a powerful cattle baron, tortured and held captive in an Indian village, or pursued for weeks by dozens of hired guns. He teams up with Marshal Bat Masterson, reunites with his old friend Buffalo Bill Cody and falls under the spell of Dawn Pillow, a...
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Publisher:
Courtney McCaskill
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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He swore he would never touch her… As his best friend lay dying on the battlefield, Gabriel Davenport made a pair of promises: One, that he would make sure Hart's little sister, Abigail, married another man.And two, that Gabe, a notorious rake with a reputation for being a magnificent lover, would never lay a hand on her. Four years later, Gabe has inherited his great-uncle's estate, and along with it, his great-uncle's astronomical debts. He needs...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him-including conservative thinker William F. Buckley-into helping set him free In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported...
15. Once a scoundrel
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Series:
Rogues Redeemed volume 3
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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The son of a proud naval dynasty, Gabriel Hawkins was born to command the sea, until he leaves the Royal Navy in disgrace and is disowned by his family. As captain of his own ship, he's earned his living in ways both legal and illegal, and his experience makes him the best choice to ransom an aristocratic beauty captured by Barbary pirates. Having avoided the traps of convention and marriage, Lady Aurora Lawrence is horrified by the prospect of spending...
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Publisher:
Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Beginning in 1880, thousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from British society. Still supported by their families, thus earning them the title "remittance men," these men set out to continue their lives of leisure in this new land. With education, respectable breeding and the belief "from birth that they were superior beings," the remittance men descended upon Western Canada with...
18. Scoundrels
Publisher:
Outland Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Stealing into shadows. Coveting blood. No one is safe from the schemes of those who lurk in the city's underworld-those who prey on the weak and naive. Within these pages lie tales of intrigue and murder, thievery, and revenge, by bestselling and award-winning authors like Bradley P. Beaulieu, Jean Rabe, Lian Hearn, Anton Strout, and many more!
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Publisher:
HQN
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Language:
English
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"When her younger sister is abducted, strong-willed Emma Linley-Kirov will make a deal with the devil himself to rescue her. Devastatingly handsome, Dimitri Tipova is a scoundrel, seducer...and the only man who can help her, though his motive is cold, hard vengeance. Emma dares to trust him, but at what price? As prince of Saint Petersburg's underworld, Dimitri has wealth, power, women--everything but revenge against his nefarious father. Emma is...
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Publisher:
Tortoise Books
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
A mysterious man appears suspended in the air above a major American city. A foul-mouthed posse of machete-wielding scoundrels wreak havoc on a small-town mayor. A cocaine-addled boxer starts a torrid affair with the wife of the Invisible Man-who just might be watching (and enjoying) all the freakiness. Darrin Doyle's latest book of short stories is an electrifying look at men behaving badly-or just being weird. Hilarious, madly inventive, and compellingly...