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What to read after “A Lady's Code of Misconduct” by Meredith Duran: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Highwayman
Kerrigan Byrne · 2015
Same genre: “Historical romance” and “Victorian romance”
Farah and Dougan share a brief friendship as children before he is torn away and imprisoned. Years later Farah meets the feared highwayman Dorian Blackwell, and recognises in the scarred, guarded man the boy she once knew. He must decide whether he can let her close.
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The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Jennifer Ashley · 2009
Same genre: “Historical romance” and “Victorian romance”
- Victorian London Atmosphere
- Slow Burn
Lord Ian Mackenzie is brilliant, eccentric and widely believed to be mad. Widow Beth Ackerley looks past the rumours and sees the man beneath. Drawn together in Victorian London and the Highlands, they must face his family's secrets and a danger that has haunted him since childhood.
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When a Scot Ties the Knot
Tessa Dare · 2015
Same genre: “Historical romance”
Shy Maddie Gracechurch invents a soldier suitor to escape the London season and writes to him for years. Then the real Captain Logan MacKenzie appears, demanding the bride he never knew he had. To keep her home, they marry as strangers, and the arrangement slowly becomes something more.
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The Bride
Julie Garwood · 1989
Same genre: “Historical romance”
The Scottish king orders laird Alec Kincaid to take an English bride, and spirited Jamie is sent north to marry a warrior she has never met. Wedded for peace between two suspicious peoples, the stubborn pair battle for control of their marriage until respect and tenderness take root.
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The Co-op
Tarah DeWitt · 2022
Shared in the plot: inherit, married
- Marriage of Convenience
- Forced Proximity
LaRynn and Deacon married young, divorced, and hoped never to see each other again. When they inherit a crumbling building that must be renovated before it can be sold, they are stuck working side by side and confronting why they failed the first time.
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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata · 2016
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Forced Proximity”
Vanessa spends years as the assistant to Aiden Graves, a silent, demanding football star, and finally quits. He then turns up at her door to ask her back and follows it with a bigger request: a marriage of convenience that helps his immigration case. The practical bargain and the time it forces them to spend together wear down his reserve.
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Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle · 2021
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Slow Burn”
- Forced Proximity
- Slow Burn
Maybell inherits her great-aunt's crumbling house in the Smoky Mountains, only to learn the grouchy groundskeeper Wesley is a co-inheritor with very different plans. Forced to renovate together, the dreamer and the shy, scowling loner slowly find in each other the safety they have always wanted.
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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Shared in the plot: married, enemy
Lara is raised as a weapon and married to the king of a rival realm so she can open its fabled bridge to invasion. She means to see her husband as nothing but the enemy she must destroy. The more she learns of Aren and his people, the harder the choice between her old home and her new one becomes.
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The Duchess Deal
Tessa Dare · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Slow Burn”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Scarred and bitter, the Duke of Ashbury needs an heir, so he offers a plain marriage of convenience to Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress. She accepts on her own conditions. Inside his forbidding house, two wary strangers slowly discover warmth, trust and unexpected love.
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Radiance
Grace Draven · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Slow Burn”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Idris and Brishen agree to a political marriage neither wants. To her people he is a monstrous creature; to his, she is ugly and fragile. They resolve to be friends and nothing more. Living together in a foreign court, their respect and affection grow into a love that surprises them both.
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Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Slow Burn”
- Forced Proximity
- Slow Burn
When nineteen-year-old Jordan and her boyfriend have nowhere else to go, they move in with his father, Pike. Sharing the house, she finds in the guarded older man the steadiness her life has lacked, and they both fight an attraction that is off-limits by every rule that matters.
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The Ugly Duchess
Eloisa James · 2012
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Slow Burn”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Lady Theodora Saxby weds her childhood friend James, Duke of Ashbrook, in a marriage meant to save their families. When his secret betrayal comes to light he flees abroad, and years later returns a changed man, forcing them to decide what their convenient marriage is really worth.