Dukes By the Dozen

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What’s better than a dashing duke?

A dozen of them!

Or in this case, a baker’s dozen—thirteen of your favorite historical romance authors have come together to bring you more than a year’s worth of tantalizing, never-before-released novellas.

Enjoy them all at once, or savor them month by month, it’s all up to you…

DUKES BY THE DOZEN

DUKE IN WINTER

JANUARY

ALYSSA ALEXANDER

PREFACE

When the highwayman demanded he stand and deliver, he didn’t know she would steal his heart.

CHAPTER 1

January 1802

An English Country House

“BEATRICE,” came the inebriated drawl. “Don’t be a prude.”

“Of course not.” There was a great deal of difference between prude and debauched, and Bea was decidedly in the middle.

Despite not being a prude, Lady Beatrice Falk wrinkled her nose, shifting the spectacles perched there. The scent of liquor in the room was strong enough it seemed a snifter had been waved beneath her nose. Or someone had bathed in brandy.

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