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    "title": "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend",
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    "description": "<p>Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It&rsquo;s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth&rsquo;s skin crawl and she&rsquo;d rather be anywhere but here. Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and counting, with absolutely no intention of finding a husband, possibly ever. She figures she has plenty of security as the only daughter of a rakish earl, from whom she&rsquo;s gotten all her flair, fun, and less-than-proper party games. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s get them together,&rdquo; she says. It doesn&rsquo;t take long for Gwen to hatch her latest scheme: rather than surrender Beth to courtship, they should set up Gwen&rsquo;s father and Beth&rsquo;s newly widowed mother. Let them get married instead. &ldquo;It&rsquo;ll be easy&rdquo; she says. There&rsquo;s just&hellip;one, teeny, tiny problem. Their parents kind of seem to hate each other. But no worries. Beth and Gwen are more than up to the challenge of a little twenty-year-old heartbreak. How hard can parent-trapping widowed ex-lovers be? Of course, just as their plan begins to unfold, a handsome, wealthy viscount starts calling on Beth, offering up the perfect, secure marriage. Beth&rsquo;s not mature enough for this&hellip; Now Gwen must face the prospect of sharing Beth with someone else, forever. And Beth must reckon with the fact that she&rsquo;s caught feelings, hard, and they&rsquo;re definitely not for her potential fianc&eacute;. That&rsquo;s the trouble with matchmaking: sometimes you accidentally fall in love with your best friend in the process.</p>",
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