Looking for more historical romance books? Browse the whole shelf → The person everyone overlooked turns out to be the most extraordinary person in the room — they simply stopped performing for audiences who never deserved it.
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Looking for more historical romance books? Browse the whole shelf → Performing love with someone you might actually love carries a particular danger. You can play at tenderness for an audience — manufacture the looks, the small touches, the way you lean slightly toward each other in conversation.
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