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Courting Scandal With the Duke/Resisting The Forbidden Widow

By Ann Lethbridge and Maggie Weston
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Courting Scandal With The Duke - Ann Lethbridge His Grace or disgrace? She can’t have both! Dowager Countess Barbara’s two unhappy marriages taught her one lesson — never, ever again! To stop her ambitious father marrying her off once more, she’ll do anything. Even ruin herself... Read More
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Courting Scandal With The Duke - Ann Lethbridge

His Grace or disgrace? She can’t have both!

Dowager Countess Barbara’s two unhappy marriages taught her one lesson — never, ever again! To stop her ambitious father marrying her off once more, she’ll do anything. Even ruin herself so thoroughly that no groom will have her! And the quickest way to do that? Secure the disapproval of Xavier, Duke of Derbridge. He’s enormously influential and infamously strait-laced.

If only winning his censure wasn’t quite so fun, and his looks weren’t quite so intoxicating... Barbara’s steely resolve soon wavers. Because successfully disgracing herself would mean alienating the infuriatingly upright duke she craves — forever!

Resisting The Forbidden Widow - Maggie Weston

He has a list of eligible brides but his assistant isn’t on it...

After losing her husband so young, Mary vowed to never love again. So her new position as Cameron Sykes’s assistant is the perfect guarantee of independence. Until Cameron tasks her with helping him find a titled wife!

As they try to find his perfect bride, it’s only Mary that Cameron can imagine at the altar... and in the marriage bed! Yet she can’t give him the Society approval that his hard-working parents desperately craved. But can he resist the all-consuming lust that’s threatening to derail his plans?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781038960672

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 September 2025

Country: Australia

Imprint: Mills & Boon Historical

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 368g

Pages: 480

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Ann Lethbridge Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Romance Maggie Weston Romance

About the Author

Ann Lethbridge majored in history and business. She always loved the glamorous, if rather risky, Georgians and in particular the Regency era as drawn by Georgette Heyer. It was that love that prompted her to write her first Regency novel in 2000. She found she enjoyed it so much she just couldn’t stop! Ann gave up a career in university administration to focus on her first love, writing novels and lives in Canada with her family. Visit her website at: www.annlethbridge.com

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