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The Abandoned Bride - Jilted Beauty!
by Edith Layton
ISBN 0-451-15838-5 Signet
Summary
Strikingly beautiful young Julia Hastings had been an inexperienced innocent
when handsome, high-born Robin Marlowe induced her to elope with him --
only to abandon her without a word of explanation on their wedding night.
Julia was left with her virtue intact but her reputation in tatters. Her life became a struggle to defend herself against gentlemen who henceforth considered her easy prey.
By now, Julia knew better than to trust any man, even when that man was the overwhelmingly attractive Lord Nicholas Daventry, Robin's own uncle. But if Julia had learned how dangerous blissful ignorance was in matters of the heart, she had yet to discover what folly it was to be too wise...