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Patience Sinclair, a recently widowed young woman, agrees to act as chaperone for her godmother’s daughter during the social season. When Lord Orpington arrives, he is convinced that his mother has again tried to set him up for marriage, and he intends to court Patience himself. Refusing to surrender her independence—even to a man of Lord Orpington’s attractiveness—Patience faces a choice between duty and desire in this Regency romance.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Fenella Miller
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