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Author: Manda Collins | Website
Manda Collins is the author of the Ugly Ducklings Trilogy from St. Martin's Press, a trio of Regency Historical romances about three less than popular cousins and the gentlemen they love. The first, How to Dance with a Duke, spent five weeks on Nielsen Bookscan's Top 100 Romance list. How to Romance a Rake, the second in the trilogy, is scheduled for publication in August of 2012, followed by How to Entice an Earl in February 2013. Legally Yours is her first independently published novella.
Published Works & Book Reviews
Legally Yours
When Julie Streeter dropped out of law school to care for her little sister, one of the things she missed most was her crush-worthy classmate, Matt Ellis. Now, he's visiting the firm where she works as a paralegal and is just as sexy now as he was then. Matt Ellis never expected to run into Julie again--certainly not at the law firm where he's been sent to investigate leaks to the opposing team. When he finds the list of things she'd like to try before her thirtieth birthday, very sexy things, on the office copier he offers to be her list buddy while he's in town. And to his surprise, Julie agrees. Will their mind-blowing chemistry lead to more than just a fling, or could what started out as a crush turn into something neither one of them expected?
How to Romance a Rake
You can lead a wallflower to the ball, but you can't make her bloom--unless one daring young bachelor turns up the heat... What's a nice girl like Miss Juliet Shelby doing at a place like Lord Deveril's ballroom? With her shy demeanor, she's a total stranger to the dance floor and a source of mockery for the ton. So imagine her surprise when Deveril gallantly comes to her defense--and offers to teach her to dance! Juliet can hardly believe the most handsome bachelor in London would notice her, until he takes her in his arms and sets her heart ablaze... Lord Alec Deveril has never felt such a spark of attraction for an unmarried lady before. Unlike the "fashionable" ladies he's accustomed to, Juliet possesses a generous spirit, a fiery intelligence--and an explosive secret. Deep in the London underworld, a dear friend has vanished, and Juliet fears the worst. Deveril insists on helping, escorting her through the darkest alleys in town. But he too is hiding a shocking secret--and the only way he can defeat the devil in his past is to seduce the angel in his arms...
How to Dance With a Duke
What's a wallflower to do when she's suddenly in need of a husband? Use all the pluck and moxie she can muster to get what she wants. Miss Cecily Hurston would much rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the uncharted territory of marriage. But the rules of her father's exclusive academic society forbid her entrance unless she weds one of its members. To clear her ailing father's name of a scandalous rumor, Cecily needs to gain admission into the Egyptian Club-and is willing to marry any old dullard to do it. Lucas Dalton, Duke of Winterson, is anything but dull. He's a dashing and decorated war hero determined to help Cecily-even if that means looking the other way when she claims the dance card of Amelia Snow, this season's most sought-after beauty. But Lucas has a reason for wanting Cecily to join the Egyptian Club: His brother went missing during one of Lord Hurston's expeditions to Egypt. An alliance with the explorer's bluestocking daughter could bring Lucas closer to the truth about what happened.or it could lead him to a more dangerous love than either he or Cecily could have imagined..
Reviewer: Shannschoice
Review: Nov 17, 2011
Genre(s): Historical Romance
Cecily Hurston is on a mission. She needs to locate her father's travel journals from his latest expedition to Egypt in order to translate them for him. Her father was struck down apoplexy on the voyage home from Egypt, so Cecily has decided that she should translate them for him despite how much he despised her being an educated woman. With her father's assistant, Will Dalton, missing, there is no one lef
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