A Valentine Bouquet

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THE PERFECT HOLIDAY FOR HEARTS AND FLOWERS — Celebrate Valentine's Day with a bouquet of exquisite stories by three acclaimed authors of Regency Romance.... — CUPID'S LEGACY by Paula Tanner Girard — The inheritance of a London townhouse gives spinster Delphinia Penn a fresh beginning and a new neighbor, Gregory Finch, a nobleman she mistakes for a handyman. Gregory doesn't care for domineering women, but he can't get this lovely lady out of his mind -- or heart -- as Cupid plays a role at the ton's most famous Valentine's Day Ball.... THE VALENTINE VICTORIOUS by Judith Lansdowne It is love at first sight when the Earl of Wheldon meets Anne Fairfax. But Anne is certain he prefers her far more beautiful sister, so she prepares to accept another proposal... unaware that the smitten earl is about to make a decision that will send him galloping toward disaster... or breathtaking romance. THE VALENTINE'S DAY HUSBAND by Carol Quinto In northern England, legend proclaims that a lady will marry the first gentleman she meets... on Valentine's Day. Miss Deborah Kensington doesn't believe in such nonsense -- until a carriage mishap brings her together with a rake of the first order, the notorious Marquis of Sunderland, who wins her heart in a most unexpected way.