
How to Marry a Marquis
Agents of the Crown #2 (works standalone)by Julia Quinn
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Another Julia Quinn book — if you love their writing style, this is a natural next pick.
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When Gareth St. Clair inherits a mysterious Italian diary that may hold the key to saving his family's fortune, he reluctantly enlists the help of the brilliant but outspoken Hyacinth Bridgerton to translate it. As they work together to uncover the diary's secrets, their verbal sparring and undeniable attraction prove far more captivating than any hidden family treasure. What begins as a practical partnership soon becomes a passionate romance that neither of them saw coming.
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by Julia Quinn
Why you'll love it:
Another Julia Quinn book — if you love their writing style, this is a natural next pick.

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This romance shares a witty and warm tone that will resonate with It's in His Kiss fans.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to Marry a Marquis | Julia Quinn | 0 | 2004 | — | Same author |
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After finishing It's in His Kiss, readers most commonly pick up How to Marry a Marquis next. Alternatively, you might enjoy more books by Julia Quinn, such as To Sir Phillip, With Love.
Authors similar to Julia Quinn include Elsie Silver, Lucy Score, Brynne Weaver, Tessa Bailey, Jenny Han.
It's in His Kiss is a Romance novel by Julia Quinn, published in 2005. It features elements of Regency.
It's in His Kiss is 384 pages long.
Meet Our Hero . . .Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past . . . and the key to his future. The problem is--it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word.Meet Our Heroine . . .All the ton agreed: there was no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. She's fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken, and according to Gareth, probably best in small doses. But there's something about her--something charming and vexing--that grabs him and won't quite let go . . .Meet Poor Mr. Mozart . . .Or don't. But rest assured, he's spinning in his grave when Gareth and Hyacinth cross paths at the annual--and annually discordant--Smythe-Smith musicale. To Hyacinth, Gareth's every word seems a dare, and she offers to translate his diary, even though her Italian is slightly less than perfect. But as they delve into the mysterious text, they discover that the answers they seek lie not in the diary, but in each other . . . and that there is nothing as simple--or as complicated--as a single, perfect kiss.