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Fresh Pick | HOW TO DAZZLE A DUKE by Claudia Dain
Fresh Pick / November 12, 2009

The Courtesan Series #4 September 2009On Sale: September 1, 2009Featuring: Duke of Edenham; Penelope Prestwick; Marquis of Iveston336 pages ISBN: 0425229688EAN: 9780425229682Paperback$15.00 Romance Erotica Sensual, Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com How To Dazzle A Duke by Claudia Dain New in award-winning author Claudia Dain’s dazzling Courtesan series. Miss Penelope Prestwick wants a duke for a husband and clearly the dashing Duke of Edenham is the best choice. Just as Lady Dalby is clearly the best person to arrange the match. But how exactly should Penelope go about dazzling a duke? Surely a show of cleavage never hurt anyone. Perhaps a kiss or two, just to make a lasting impression. And a bit of competition usually helps move things along. To that end, Penelope approaches the Marquis of Iveston with a request. Would he kindly appear interested in her so that the Duke of Edenham will take note of it? Alternately amused and annoyed, Lord Iveston agrees; he even places a wager on White’s betting book to draw attention to the fact that he is pursuing Penelope. Soon, it’s wagers and counter wagers as all of Society tries to determine who will actually marry Penelope. Edenham she’s been hotly pursuing or…

Fresh Pick | HOW TO TEMPT A DUKE by Kasey Michaels
Fresh Pick / November 11, 2009

September 2009On Sale: September 1, 2009Featuring: Rafael Daughtry; Charlotte Seavers352 pages ISBN: 0373773714EAN: 9780373773718Paperback$7.99 Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com How to Tempt a Duke by Kasey Michaels He’d returned from war a duke. Now Rafael Daughtry was battling a force more terrifying than Napoleon’s army—his family. Thankfully, his childhood friend Charlotte Seavers had agreed—reluctantly—to a bargain. While Rafe would provide her with the home she’d lost, Charlotte would provide him with a chaperone for his unruly twin sisters. But who would chaperone Rafe? For the feisty young girl he remembered had blossomed into a sensual woman—a woman whose haunting beauty and deeply kept secrets drew him like no other. Charlotte had good reason to mistrust men—yet could Rafe’s sizzling seduction convince her to give in to temptation? Excerpt Charlotte Seavers was on the hunt. And she was in a mood to take no prisoners. Only scant minutes earlier Charlotte had been comfortably ensconced in the drawing room of her parents’ small manor house, happy in her ignorance, enjoying the sight of a mid-November frost glittering on the newly bare tree branches outside her window while she stayed warm and toasty inside. But then the housekeeper had brought her one of…