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It is very hard to find books with sensible heroines, especially with heroines who don't fall in love (or in lust) with the heroes right away. In the books selected, the heroine develops feelings after spending significant time with the hero, usually developing a friendship first.
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Drury Lane Darling
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3.70 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Indiscretion
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3.91 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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Lace for Milady
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3.79 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Sensible Cecily
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Bel Lamington (Bel Lamington #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Charlotte Fairlie
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4.18 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Letters to a Lady
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3.75 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Lady Elizabeth's Comet (Clanross, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 604 ratings
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A Winter Chase (The Mercer's House, #1)
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Mary Kingswood (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
score: 93,
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Spring Magic
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4.15 avg rating — 937 ratings
score: 92,
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Polly and the Prince (Black Sheep Trilogy #3)
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3.73 avg rating — 112 ratings
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A Suggestion of Scandal: A Regency Novel
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Catherine Kullmann (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 507 ratings
score: 90,
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The Captain and the Country Cousin (Strangers, #2.5)
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Mary Kingswood (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 89,
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High Garth
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4.27 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Book of Love
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Erin Satie (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 334 ratings
score: 87,
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The Work of Art (Somerset Stories, #1)
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Mimi Matthews (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 9,254 ratings
score: 86,
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Katerina and the Reclusive Earl (Sisters of Castle Fortune, #3)
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Alicia Cameron (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 960 ratings
score: 85,
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The Ramshackle Suitor
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3.75 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Matchless Margaret (The Hapgoods of Bramleigh, #4)
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Christina Dudley (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 668 ratings
score: 83,
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A Most Unusual Lady
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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Cousinly Connexion
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score: 81,
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The Independent Heiress (Regency Romps #7)
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Elizabeth Bramwell (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 80,
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A Lady of Rare Quality
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3.66 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Bewitching Lady
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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THE WASTREL'S DAUGHTERS
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Arabella Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 270 ratings
score: 77,
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Sister of the Bride
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3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Kingscastle
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Sophia Holloway (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
score: 75,
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A Laird for the Governess (Lairds of the Isles Book 1)
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Catherine Tinley (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 115 ratings
score: 74,
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Love from Elizabeth
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Infamous Isabelle
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3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Cockermouth Mail
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4.14 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Two Corinthians
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3.90 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Cecilia or Too Tall to Love
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G.L. Robinson (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 549 ratings
score: 69,
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Georgianna (Miss Wolfraston's Ladies #3)
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Jenny Hambly (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 935 ratings
score: 68,
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Katherine, When She Smiled (Regency Charades, #3)
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Joyce Harmon (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 783 ratings
score: 67,
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Sweet and Twenty
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3.83 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Love Match
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3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Black Sheep
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4.11 avg rating — 12,741 ratings
score: 64,
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The Quiet Gentleman
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4.04 avg rating — 9,878 ratings
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The Five-Minute Marriage
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3.79 avg rating — 720 ratings
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The Scottish Legacy
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3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Devil's own Luck
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score: 60,
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A Proper Match
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The Marriage Brokers (Harlequin Regency Romance Series 2, #42)
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3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 58,
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Agatha
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Most Romantic City
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3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Man in the Dark
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4.11 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Lord Fordington's Offer
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3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Renegade Girl
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Nonesuch
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4.10 avg rating — 12,423 ratings
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The Castaway, A Novel.
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3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Saxon's Folly
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Grand Deception
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3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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