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The Bawdy Bride
The Bawdy Bride
The Bawdy Bride
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The Bawdy Bride

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Passion and treachery give this Regency romance a gothic twist—from the USA Today–bestselling author, “a most gifted storyteller” (RT Book Reviews).
  As the third and last unwed daughter of an earl, Lady Anne Davies doesn’t expect her marriage to be a love match. She is in need of a husband. Lord Michael St. Ledgers needs a woman to run his home and be a mother to his orphaned niece and nephew. It seems the ideal business arrangement. When Anne travels to Michael’s ancestral estate, the Priory, deep in the Derbyshire countryside, she starts to uncover his disturbing secrets. Michael’s brother perished under mysterious circumstances, and now someone at the Priory is stalking her. As Anne begins to fear for her life, she realizes that the greatest danger may come from the man she has come to trust—and love.
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Release dateMar 26, 2013
ISBN9781480406421
The Bawdy Bride
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Amanda Scott

A fourth-generation Californian of Scottish descent, Amanda Scott is the author of more than fifty romantic novels, many of which appeared on the USA Today bestseller list. Her Scottish heritage and love of history (she received undergraduate and graduate degrees in history at Mills College and California State University, San Jose, respectively) inspired her to write historical fiction. Credited by Library Journal with starting the Scottish romance subgenre, Scott has also won acclaim for her sparkling Regency romances. She is the recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award (for Lord Abberley’s Nemesis, 1986) and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award. She lives in central California with her husband.       

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    I liked it. But why is it called Bawdy Bride? The title and the story sketch provided iis completely false and do not match the book.
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    My favorite was the end when all was made known who was causing the trouble. Who would have thought that the butler was one you had to look out for. I could not stop reading until I finished the whole thing. I would reread it again. Great book.

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