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Go back to where it all began with the fourth book in Sunday Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's dazzlingly witty Bridgerton prequel series, featuring the ancestors of the Bridgerton characters we all know and love. A generation before the Bridgertons, there were the Rokesbys . .
She was given two choices . . .
Georgiana Bridgerton isn't against the idea of marriage. She'd just thought she'd have some say in the matter. But with her reputation hanging by a thread after she's abducted for her dowry, Georgie is given two options: live out her life as a spinster or marry the rogue who has ruined her life.
Enter Option #3
As the fourth son of an earl, Nicholas Rokesby is prepared to chart his own course. He has a life in Edinburgh, where he's close to completing his medical studies, and he has no time - or interest - to find a wife. But when he discovers that Georgie Bridgerton - his literal girl-next-door - is facing ruin, he knows what he must do.
A Marriage of Convenience
It might not have been the most romantic of proposals, but Nicholas never thought she'd say no. Georgie doesn't want to be anyone's sacrifice, and besides, they could never think of each other as anything more than childhood friends . . . could they? As they embark upon their unorthodox courtship they discover a new twist to the age-old rhyme. First comes scandal, then comes marriage. Could after that come . . . love?
Return to the world of the Bridgertons with The Rokesbys, featuring the ancestors of the Bridgerton characters we know and love . . .
Summer 1944: Stranded behind enemy lines in France,
eighteen-year-old Katrinka Badeau escapes German deserters with the
help of Major Willoughby Nye. Once an employee on her father's
merchant ship, Nye is now part of an undercover Jedburgh operation,
working for the Allies. When he offers her a job on his team, she
accepts. Her work throws her together with Sergeant Wolfe Farr, the
team's tough-talking radio operator, and they embark on an intense
love affair. But Katrinka is not prepared to accept Wolfe's plans
for the future. And her love for Nye, which has evolved from an
adolescent crush to that of a young woman, still endures. With the
liberation of France, both men are sent to the Far East. Realising
what she has lost, Katrinka joins a small entertainment troupe, and
sets out on an arduous journey around the world to find Wolfe. But
when the three are finally reunited, which love will withstand the
test of time? Praise for Just Another Girl on the Road: "Difficult
history, abuse, war and love combine in this emotional examination
of the end of World War II... A deep, evocative read ...inventive,
finely-woven and captivating." - IndieReader "Well-plotted and
often exciting... An informed, imaginative tale that adds some
romance to a well-researched war story." - Kirkus Reviews
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West River
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Bill Bishop
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Julius Caesar
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Christopher Andrews; Contributions by William Shakespeare
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Zekial
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The book that inspired the epic movie, Dances With Wolves, and its
sequel, The Holy Road, together in one volume for the first time.
1863. The last occupant of Fort Sedgewick, Lieutenant John Dunbar
watches over the American frontier. A thousand miles back east, his
comrades are locked in battle with the Confederates, but out here
he is alone. His desolate posting will bring him into contact with
the lords of the southern plains - the Comanche. He has no
knowledge of their customs but Dunbar is intrigued by these people
and begins a transformation from which he emerges a different man.
A man called Dances With Wolves. The story continues, 11 years
later in The Holy Road. Times are hard for the Comanche. The white
man is closing in from all directions, claiming land, driving the
tribes on to reservations. Should the Comanche fight or make peace?
Misunderstanding and duplicity lead to raids and atrocities on both
sides that can have only one conclusion. The man that was John
Dunbar must go to war again.
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