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Venetia, set in regency England, is a romance novel about a woman on the verge of spinsterhood and a rogue. Venetia is twenty-five years of age, virtually "on the shelf," and is the only person who is unconcerned about this fate. When she meets and falls in love with Damerel, who is held to be a man of low character, she must be clever if she is going to convince him that it is okay for them to marry.

Venetia is a woman in her mid-twenties who has spent her life in virtual seclusion. Her mother ran off (although Venetia has been told she died) her father left her in Undershaw manor to take care of the manor, herself, and her lame little brother, Aubrey. She has two suitors, but likes neither. She has never traveled far enough to speak of, and was even denied the tradition of 'coming...
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