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IMAGINE ME Madeline Duvall and her sister Lydia were born into the Merchant Class. Something Madeline overheard at 17, a fierce argument between the handsome Earl of Fairbane and his scandalous wife, forever changed that sense of being in control of her destiny and her heart, and a kiss of supposed anger, parting words of bitterness, forever placed Dorian Engstrom in her imaginings of what passion could be. CLANDESTINE Thornton St. Lyons has survived war, and a French prison. He's ready to return to the life he dreamed of at Greystone. But title responsibilities and finances force him to go to London in search of a bride. At first, Jane Archer seems plain yet intelligent to Thorn, but he quickly becomes aware of both Jane’s attraction to him, and his own interest in her. With the Greystone estate on the brink of ruin, nothing less than a proper heiress will do. And yet, in London, Thorn seeks out Jane and it only takes one kiss to lead them both down an impossible path.