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THE DIAMONDS OF WELBOURNE MANOR
by Diane Gaston, Deb Marlowe and Amanda McCabe


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Category: HISTORICAL
Setting: Regency England
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: May 2009
Type: Historical (Anthology)

Three delightful authors pen a trilogy of stores about the Fitzmannings, England's most scandalous family. The enchanting characters and their tender, sensual, warmhearted romances and atypical antics make for a sprightly, engaging anthology.

Summary: Brenner delivers the news of the duke's and duchess's untimely deaths to the Fitzmannings out of duty to the duchess, who left his father for her lover. He's uncomfortable among them, except for Justine, who sees his pain and slowly brings him into the family and her heart. Gaston proves that "family is the country of the heart" in "Justine and the Noble Viscount."

Caricaturist Nicholas Milford comes to Welbourne expressly to research the scandalous Fitzmannings for his mocking broadsheets. He discovers a kindred soul in artist Annalise and, spending time with the wild and loving family, Nick comes to appreciate them and adore Annalise. But will his drawings destroy their fragile trust? Find out in Marlowe's "Annalise and the Scandalous Rake."

Childhood infatuation grows into adult passion in McCabe's "Charlotte and the Wicked Lord" as an old friend of her brother's arrives at Welbourne, igniting desire -- with a few surprising consequences. (HARLEQUIN, May, 300 pp., $5.99) HOT

—Kathe Robin
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