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The Secret Nabob

by Martha Kirkland

A Sister for Sale. Miss Madeline Wycliff had two sisters as different as night and day. There was Arabella, bold and brazen, who stole Madeline's chance for a London season, and wed a rake whose debts now threatened the family estate. And there was Priscilla, as untouched as she was exquisite-perfect marriage bait to hook their menacingly mysterious new neighbor, the fabulously wealthy heir to Balenger Hall. Somehow Madeline had to pull her family back from disaster while keeping Priscilla from a married fate worse than death. She would have to turn her back on the handsome seafaring stranger who offered her a voyage to the wilder shores of love. And she would have to get dangerously close to a nefarious nabob in his lordly lair to save Priscilla's happiness and innocence...even if it meant sacrificing her own....

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
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  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?