Book 1 of The Rakehell Regency Romance Series

A Desperate Gamble … on Love!

Wealthy heiress Vanessa Hawkesworth is offered as the stake in a card game by her half-brother Gerald in order to cover his gambling debts.

Clifford Stone, their nearest neighbor, only agrees to play for her hand in marriage in order to free her from Gerald’s excesses. Clifford is fascinated by the lovely if unworldly young bluestocking.
As his attraction grows, so too does his certainty that his new-found love is in increasing danger from malevolent forces who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to seize her newly-acquired fortune.
Vanessa must learn to trust a complete stranger with her heart, and her entire life. Stunned at her new fiance's accusations against Gerald, she is sure she is going mad, torn between loyalty to her family and the wildfire passion that flares every time Clifford touches her.
As new a series of crimes in the district threatens her new-found love and happiness, Vanessa must gamble all herself in order to protect her beloved Clifford, and bring the men responsible to justice before it's too late.
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Whether you call HeartsBlood a paranormal romance or urban fantasy, any reader of Charlene Harris or J.R. Ward will be fully satiated by HeartsBlood. And any fan of True Blood or Amanda Hocking will love this new take on "blood magic."

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Even in a drunken stupor it is hard for Captain Cape Thomas to ignore his recurring vision of a beautiful woman and the swaddled baby she holds. On a rare, sober day he begins a casual search through college yearbooks and yellowed courthouse records in hopes of finding the one who got away. Instead, an unrecorded codicil suggests their one union was fruitful and reveals a possible heir to an old-moneyed family used to scams and scammers making claims against the estate. After run-ins with a cabal of bankers, lawyers, in-laws, outlaws, and even the F.A.A. Cape begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together...
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As Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, "the scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynne's bosom." The clear, compelling prose of The Scarlet Letter made Hawthorne's finest novel a true classic of American fiction. This listening experience of Hawthorne's masterpiece heightens the sense of lyric poetry that permeates every line of the great novel. Four-time Emmy winner Michael Learned evokes the brooding atmosphere of Puritan New England as she reads this classic tale of a passionate young woman who transcends the shame of adultery. Abridged on 2 cassettes.
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This second edition of Franklin's famous autobiography is accompanied by a portfolio of illustrations and an introduction that provides background for students and invites them to think about the work's lasting impact on American society and culture.