![]() He returns home to resuscitate his sham marriage, only to discover that Edie has closed herself off from love and happiness. ![]() ![]() Margrave agrees, but after a near-death experience in Africa, has a change of heart. When heiress Edie Jewell, the ruined heroine of Laura Lee Guhrke’s How to Lose a Duke in Ten Days (Avon paperback, $7.99), proposes to the impoverished Duke of Margrave, she does so on the condition that the marriage be in name only. This month, three romances explore the way love empowers even the most unlikely candidates, redeems the irredeemable and, ultimately, saves the day. ![]() In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines. Lancelot rescues Guinevere from death by fire. ![]()
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