Harlequin Historical – May 2025 – Box Set 1 of 2

<strong>Harlequin ® Historical brings you a captivating trio of thrilling new romances in one collection!</strong><br /><br />This boxset includes:<br /><br /><strong>COMPROMISED INTO MARRYING THE DUKE</strong><br />by Lucy Ashford<br />(Regency)<br />Once Anthony had been Marianne’s brother’s best friend…and the man she’d secretly dreamed of marrying. Then he betrayed her by wedding someone else—for money! <br />Anthony had to bail out his debt-ridden father with his unwanted marriage. Now he’s the Duke of Cleveland and back in the ton after his wife’s passing. Once he sees captivating Marianne again, an unexpected attraction stirs… When she’s upset by a broken engagement, he tries to comfort her—but ends up compromising them both! Is Anthony really willing to have a second convenient marriage, this time to save Marianne’s reputation?<br /><br /><strong>ROMANCING HIS CONVENIENT VISCOUNTESS</strong><br />Part of <em>Widows of West End</em><br />by Maggie Weston<br />(Victorian)<br />When Willa finds herself hounded by her late husband’s debt collectors, she must enter a marriage of convenience with her childhood best friend, Leo, or face destitution! <br />Leo’s relieved to escape the matchmaking mamas, though his new bride seems determined to rebel against society—riding in breeches through Hyde Park, wearing red in her mourning period and generally shocking everyone! As memories of her unhappy marriage continue to trouble her, Leo knows Willa needs to feel wanted again…and to discover the delights of the marriage bed! <br /><strong> </strong><br /><strong>MARRIAGE BARGAIN WITH THE COMTE</strong><br />Part of <em>Proposals in Paris</em><br />by Parker J. Cole<br />(Louis XVI)<br />Dieudonné, the Comte de Montreau, steps in when he catches a disreputable suitor trying to ruin his friend, heiress Evena. Only to accidentally compromise her himself, forcing them to wed!  <br />Dieudonné might be the man who occupies Evena’s thoughts, but he’s not the well-connected nobleman she needs to help her ailing father. And now, as they head to the altar, their friendship is in jeopardy, too! Could her convenient husband ever see her as more than a burden…and could their bond become something even more thrilling?<br /><br />