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Jacinta Buchanan never particularly wanted to be married, but desperate times call for desperate measures. She needs a plan to ensure her future before her horrid uncle completely depletes the fortune her late father worked so hard to build. Hearing that a new, eligible bachelor has recently returned home to the manor just outside the village, she is quick to hatch a plan she believes will benefit them both.

A mysterious highwaywoman emerges out of the evening mist to inflict her special brand of retribution on Lord Nano for his debauched behaviour in the brothels of eighteenth-century Leeds. A flesh and blood female avenger or a ghostly phantom? Whoever she is, by the end of the evening he will be stripped, cruelly tormented and wickedly humiliated. Has Lord Nano finally met his Nemesis?

Love doesn’t come easy. That is what Jonathon Edward Railey, eighth viscount of Aunton, found out the hard way. With his burden of family debt and eight younger brothers to feed, what woman would stick around? Miss Isabel Hathaway might have loved the viscount once, but she would be damned if she would allow him to marry her for her money. Better to have never loved at all then to have him bought. When fate throws them together again, will the love they once had be enough to see them through a new storm? Or are they destined to a life of want and heartbreak?

Divertida novela que transcurre al comienzo del S.XX, en Inglaterra. Dogson, sobrino de Lewis Carroll, tiene el mismo defecto de su tío; un excesivo amor por las niñas, lo cual le ha llevado a la cárcel. Allí, sin poder recibir visitas, pide por carta a un noble aburrido que le haga un gran favor; que le envíe una muñeca articulada con la forma exacta de una bella mujer para saciar sus instintos y paliar su soledad.