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Marrying Winterborne
by Lisa Kleypas
Book 2 in the The Ravenels series.
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Welsh department-store owner Rhys Winterborne believes his engagement to Lady Helen Ravenel has ended, but Helen takes the initiative to restore it. Their union is tested by a secret about her birth and by the social contempt directed at a self-made businessman seeking entry into aristocratic society.
The novel places romance within the expansion of department stores, consumer culture and metropolitan wealth. Rhys’s commercial empire represents the new urban economy that could outspend the aristocracy while still being denied its social legitimacy.
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