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KEEPING IT LIGHT | THE LOOK OF LOVE BY SARAH JIO

LOOK OF LOVE Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to  see  true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday, or face grave consequences. When Jane falls for a science writer who doesn’t believe in love, she fears that her fate is sealed. Inspired by the classic song,  The Look of Love  is utterly enchanting. ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Jane Williams owns a flower shop in Pike Place marketplace in Seattle. Her love life is often messy or dried up at best, and whenever she gets around couples truly in love, she suffers major migraine attacks. The migraine attacks have actually plagued her her entire life, making her well acquainted with the neurology department of local hospitals. On her 29th birthday, answers to ...

A SIDE OF EGGPLANT | THE DUCHESS & THE DUPE (SWITCHING PLACES DUOLOGY BY CHRISTINA DODD)

SCANDALOUS AGAIN Madeline de Lacy, the duchess of Magnus, prides herself on being one of the most sensible young women in England, which is why she can't believe that, in a turn of the cards, her noble father has lost his entire estate -- and her! -- to a stranger. On a mission to salvage her family fortune, she changes places with her cousin and companion, sending the meeker Eleanor to confront the man who had won Madeline's hand. Now, Madeline is free to enter the home of a notorious gambler, and pretends to be meek, humble, and competent with an iron. She is, of course, none of those things; she simply is resolved to win her family's fortune back. Just when she thinks matters can't get worse, she meets Gabriel Ansell, the earl of Campion, and they do. Horribly worse. Four years ago, Madeline was engaged to Gabriel, and worshiped his arrogant kisses. Now, being forced to marry a man she doesn't know pales in comparison to the ordeal of facing Gabriel ...