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William Mainwaring is the rejected suitor of the heroine in A Chance Encounter; he is the hero of The Wood Nymph
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Lord Edmond Waite is the villain of The Trysting Place; Mary Gregg, Lady
Mornington, is a minor love interest of the hero in A Counterfeit Betrothal.
Edmond and Mary are hero and heroine of The Notorious Rake.
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Jack Frazer is a cousin of the hero in The First Snowdrop. He is the hero of A Christmas Belle. His large family, headed by his grandparents, appears prominently in both books. |
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The Gilded Web, Web of Love, and Devil's Web were a planned trilogy.
They tell the love stories of two brothers and a sister. A Promise of Spring
is a spin-off of the first book. Sir Perry Lampman and his wife, ten years
his senior, minor characters in the trilogy, intrigued me so much that I had to tell their story in order to discover it for myself. |
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Sir Gerald Stapleton is the hero's friend in The Ideal Wife. He is the hero of A Precious Jewel. See also A Christmas Bride below.
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Many of the same characters appear and reappear in Dark Angel, Lord Carew's Bride, The Famous Heroine, and The Plumed Bonnet, sometimes as
minor characters, sometimes as heroes and heroines. See also A Christmas Bride below. |
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A Christmas Bride brings together characters from each of the two sets of
books above. The hero, Edgar Downes, is the brother of the heroine of The Famous Heroine and has connections with all the other main characters in
that series. The heroine, Helena, Lady Stapleton, is the villainess of A Precious Jewel and stepmother of its hero. |
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Freddie Sullivan is the villain of Courting Julia; he is the hero of Dancing with Clara. Harriet Pope is Clara's companion and friend in Dancing with Clara; Lord Archibald Vinney is Freddie's friend. Archie and Harriet are hero and heroine of Tempting Harriet. |
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Indiscreet, Unforgiven, and Irresistible tell the love stories of four close friends and former cavalry officers in the Napoleonic Wars. Two of their stories are combined, one in the main plot, the other in a sub-plot, in Irresistible. |
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Lady Emily Marlowe is the young deaf mute sister of the heroine in
Heartless; Lord Ashley Kendrick is the younger brother of the hero. Ashley and Emily are hero and heroine of Silent Melody |
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Lord Ferdinand Dudley is the younger brother of the hero in More than a Mistress. He is the hero of No Man's Mistress. Look too for a prequel to this series, soon to be written. It will be the
love story of Lady Angeline Dudley (sister of Jocelyn and Ferdinand)
and Lord Heyward. |
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Lauren Edgeworth is the bride abandoned at the altar by the hero in One Night for Love.
She is the heroine of A Summer to Remember. |
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The six brothers and sisters of the Bedwyn family are introduced in A
Summer to Remember. Aidan's story is told in Slightly Married,
Rannulf's in Slightly Wicked, Freyja's in Slightly Scandalous, Morgan's in
Slightly Tempted, Alleyne's in Slightly Sinful, and Wulfric's in Slightly
Dangerous. Characters from One Night for Love and A Summer to
Remember appear in some of these books. |
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The Simply quartet tells the stories of four lady teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls in Bath, England. Simply Unforgettable is Frances Allard's story. Simply Love is Anne Jewell's--and Sydnam Butler's, brother of Kit Butler in A Summer to Remember. (Note that the hardcover and the paperback editions have different covers) Simply Magic is Susanna Osbourne's story--and Viscount Whitleaf's, cousin of Lauren Butler in A Summer to Remember (two different covers again). Simply Perfect is Claudia Martin's story--and the Marquess of Attingsborough's, a character in One Night for Love and several other books. The Bedwyns make frequent appearances in the quartet--and Anne and Claudia first appeared in Slightly Scandalous. |