Vanessa Riley


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Genre: Historical Romance / Black Regency Romance

Setting: Regency England, with Jamaican connections

Tropes: Disability representation, fish out of water, enemies to lovers, amnesia, widowed hero, hidden identity, mystery and intrigue

For readers who love: Black Regency romance, Jamaican connections, amnesia and hidden-identity stories, formidable heroines searching for the truth, honorable heroes forced to break their own rules, found family, and romance mixed with danger and intrigue.

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Surviving a shipwreck en route to London from Jamaica was just the start of Jemina St. Maur's nightmare. Suffering from amnesia, she was separated from anyone who might know her, and imprisoned in Bedlam. She was freed only because barrister Daniel Thackery, Lord Ashbrook, was convinced to betray the one thing he holds dear: the law. Desperate to unearth her true identity, Jemina's only chance is to purloin dangerous secrets with help from The Widow's Grace--which means staying steps ahead of the formidable Daniel, no matter how strongly she is drawn to him . . .

Married only by proxy, now widowed by shipwreck, Daniel is determined to protect his little stepdaughter, Hope, from his family's scandalous reputation. That's why he has dedicated himself not just to the law, but to remaining as proper, upstanding--and boring--as can be. But the closer he becomes to the mysterious, alluring Jemina, the more Daniel is tempted to break the very rule of law to which he's devoted his life. And as ruthless adversaries close in, will the truth require him, and Jemina, to sacrifice their one chance at happiness?

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