Vanessa Riley
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Gran Toya: Born in West Africa, Abdaraya Toya was one of the legendary minos—women called “Dahomeyan Amazons” by the Europeans—who were specially chosen female warriors consecrated to the King of Dahomey. Betrayed by an enemy, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, Toya wound up in the French colony of Saint Domingue, where she became a force to be reckoned with on its sugar plantations: a healer and an authority figure among the enslaved. Among...
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Rogues and remarkable women volume 1
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English
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1814: "When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers...
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2022.
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English
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Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. Although Abigail has little connection with the lady in question, she expects to be under suspicion. Abigail’s skin color and her mother’s notorious past have earned her a certain reputation among the ton, and no amount of wealth or status will eclipse it. Abigail can’t divulge...
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2023.
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English
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"Portraying the true diversity of the Regency-era and the hidden intrigue of England’s abolitionist movement, this vibrant, inclusive new historical mystery from acclaimed author Vanessa Riley features an engaging heroine with an independent streak, a notorious past, and a decided talent for sleuthing… Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide...
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"For adventurous Jamaican heiress Cecilia Thomas, marrying charming military lieutenant Lord Gantry to save him from danger—and herself from mercenary suitors—was a painful mistake. Instead of a passionate life together, she's stranded at his chilly Mayfair mansion with his unaccepting family. Worse, she finds he is actually a spy dedicated to duty over wedlock—and secrets over trust. So when she hears her sister has been driven...
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Rogues and remarkable women volume 2
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Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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An OMag.com & Bibliolifestyle Most Anticipated Romance of 2021
A PopSugar Best Romance of April
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Romance of Spring 2021
A witty and moving story from the acclaimed author of A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby, about the lengths to which a woman will go for the love of her child...and the love of a man who knows her...
A PopSugar Best Romance of April
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Romance of Spring 2021
A witty and moving story from the acclaimed author of A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby, about the lengths to which a woman will go for the love of her child...and the love of a man who knows her...
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Advertisements for love novels volume 1
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Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Widow Theodosia Cecil is determined to protect her young son. If that means advertising in the newspaper for a husband to make sure her child's newfound inheritance stays safe, well, that's what she's going to do. What she didn't count on was Ewan Fitzwilliam coming back into her life at the worst possible time.
Ewan has been at war for six years, and while he tries to fight his attraction to Theo, the woman he believed betrayed him, he can't
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. Although Abigail has little connection with the lady in question, she expects to be under suspicion. Abigail's skin color and her mother's notorious past have earned her a certain reputation among the ton, and no amount of wealth or status will eclipse it. Abigail can't divulge...
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Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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To save her sister from scandal and ignite her own forbidden musical passions, a shy wallflower stages a shocking kiss with a reluctant composer, sparking a game of hearts and high society deception.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley is back with another novel based on the life of an extraordinary Black woman from history: Haiti's Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid, who escaped a coup in Haiti to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era, where she became a popular member of royal European society"--
"Acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley is back with another novel based on the life of an extraordinary Black woman from...
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Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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After Lady Abigail Worthing and her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson, get snowed in at a dinner party held at the home of Lord Charles Duncan, one of London's most powerful magistrates, an evening of dinner and debates turns deadly.