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    "title": "The Duke and I",
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    "description": "In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince\u2014while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable\u2026 but not too amiable.\n\nDaphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.\n\nAmiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society\u2014just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend\u2019s sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar.\n\nThe plan works like a charm\u2014at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London\u2019s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule...",
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