title: Rivals of Fortune / The Impetuous Heiress
author:  Jane Ashford 
description: " Jane Ashford delivers two lovely traditional Regency Romances with this Historical duo... This author writes with an impressive vibrancy that I look forward to experiencing every time I read one of her stories.<br />" - <strong><em> Night Owl Reviews</em></strong>
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  A compromising situation...
  
  for an innocent lady!
  
  After fending off ruffians with her parasol and hauling a battered man into
  her carriage, Jane Newnham finds herself unwittingly compromised with
  enigmatic Ivo Merton, Earl of Kendall! Jane always intended to become an
  artist, not a wife, and now she has no choice but to become betrothed. They
  strike a bargain that means she can continue to paint, but Ivo has awakened
  another passion in her—to uncover his secrets...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Liberated Ladies
  
  Unconventional heiresses...full of big ambitions!
  
  Friends Verity, Jane, Prue, Melissa and Lucy are unconventional ladies with
  scandalous yearnings and big ambitions—to be writers, painters, musicians—but
  the only safe sanctuary to exercise their talents is in one of their family’s
  turrets!
  
  They have no wish to conform and be drawn into society’s marriage mart, unless
  they can find gentlemen who value and cherish them for who they truly
  are...and no