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Unveiled (A Turner Series Book 1) Kindle Edition with Audio/Video

4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 871 ratings

Of all Ash Turner's accomplishments, stealing a dukedom from his old enemy is by far the most brazen. Now that he's been recognized as the heir, nothing remains but to head to Parford Manor and survey the estate that will be his. He expects opposition.

He gets Lady Margaret.

Margaret lost everything when Ash claimed the dukedom: her dowry, her legitimacy, and her place in society. Now Ash wants to take her family home, too. She disguises herself as a nurse, determined to learn his weaknesses. But the closer she comes to Ash, the greater the pull of his reckless charm. If she wants to reclaim what she has lost, her only choice is to betray the man she is beginning to love...

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Unveiled is the first book in the Turner series. The full series is:
    • Unveiled
    • Unlocked, a companion novella
    • Unclaimed
    • Unraveled
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    Historical goofs mar this otherwise compelling Victorian romance. Ash Turner becomes heir to the dukedom of Parford after uncovering evidence that the current duke's children, Ash's distant cousins, are illegitimate. Among the suddenly disinherited is the beautiful Lady Margaret Dalrymple, now shunned by society. Ash has no idea that the dying duke's beautiful nurse is actually Margaret, set to spy on Ash and collect material to support her brothers' countersuit for a decree of legitimacy. Instantly attracted to almost impossibly kind and charismatic Ash, Margaret is torn between newfound love and loyalty to her boorish brothers. While the love story is genuinely satisfying and Margaret's dilemma movingly portrayed, Milan (Proof by Seduction) leaves Ash's complex relationship with his brothers unresolved--perhaps to be explored further in sequels--and makes the conflict dependent on the unlikely scenario of Parliament legitimizing a bigamist's bastards, fatally marring an otherwise promising novel. (Feb.)
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    Ash Turner has taken everything from Margaret Dalrymple: her name, her dowry, and her fianc�e. But Margaret isn�t about to give up without a good fight. After discovering that Margaret�s father, the Duke of Parford, married her mother without bothering to divorce his first wife, Ash petitions Parliament to declare Margaret and her two brothers bastards, thus awarding the title�and everything that goes with it�to Ash. And when Ash arrives at her family�s ancestral estate to take up his duties as the new duke, Margaret is ready for him. While acting as nurse to her ailing father, who, until his death, is still the rightful duke, she intends to find out information about Ash that she can use to discredit his claims to the title. The flaw in her plan is the fact that Ash is so irresistibly nice. In her latest expertly executed historical, Milan delivers splendidly nuanced characters and a quietly compelling and emotionally complex plot. An addictively readable tale of revenge and redemption, love and family, Unveiled is brilliant. --John Charles

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    • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KUYCF2W
    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Entangled: Edge (July 7, 2014)
    • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 7, 2014
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • File size ‏ : ‎ 2477 KB
    • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
    • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
    • Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
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    Courtney Milan writes books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Her books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. She is a New York Times and a USA Today Bestseller.

    Before she started writing romance, Courtney got a graduate degree in theoretical physical chemistry from UC Berkeley. After that, just to shake things up, she went to law school at the University of Michigan and graduated summa cum laude. Then she did a handful of clerkships. She was a law professor for a while. She now writes full-time.

    Courtney pens a weekly newsletter about tea, books, and basically anything and everything else.

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    • Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2011
      First of all, it must be understood that I am a historical romance junkie, and I enjoy reading them even though I have to admit that by now they all seem to follow similar patterns and there isn't a lot that surprises me anymore. But I just don't care. I read 'em anyway.

      But this book just blew me away. Of course, I knew from the synopsis that the heroine's deception would drive the two lovers apart, because that is what always happens in these books. Guess what? It didn't. That was a nice surprise. But even then, I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen after that--although I have to confess that I wondered why there were still so many pages left in the book--and guess what? Wrong again. And then would you believe that I fell for it again? I'm such a sucker! I should have felt outraged at being so deftly deceived by this clever author, but I was too busy wiping tears away while racing through the book to see what happened next. So I guess you are forgiven, Ms. Milan.

      Throughout the book I had the overwhelming conviction that these two characters really love each other, so much that they do not fall for the typical misunderstandings that one finds so frequently in these books, not even in the catastrophic circumstances facing them that seem to prevent any sort of happy ending. The characterization is masterful; you don't just see characters walking on a stage, but you see how they grow and mature as events seem to be driving them further and further apart, and when you finally get to the end, you feel convinced that this is the way it really did happen. In real life.

      It may well be that English courts would never have considered legitimizing children of a peer's bigamous marriage--I do have my doubts--but this is one time I have to admit that I REALLY DO NOT CARE! I am not a lawyer and I don't know how screwed up the English legal system could have been back then, but everything else seemed real enough, and I thought the intricacy of the plot was absolutely brilliant

      As an aspiring author myself, I was humbled by this author's unbelievable talent (and no, I do not know her), and I am already mulling over what I need to do to make my own characters come to life so vividly.

      I would give this book TEN STARS if I could. And I will definitely be looking for more from Courtney Milan.
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    • Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2011
      If you like historical romance, you'll love it.

      If you're like me and don't read romance and generally prefer books that are character-driven, literary, and filled with solid prose rather than the cliches that mar nearly every romance and popular fiction book out there, you will enjoy this. It's good. And it's not filled with cliches and purple prose.

      No, it's not "literary fiction." (I don't mean that as a slur--this is just a different kind of fiction.) But it's the best kind of genre fiction, well-written and with characters who drive the plot as much as the far-fetched device of a vote in parliament to declare illegitimate children legal heirs. Within a chapter, you care about the characters, and they continue to surprise you with their humanity, basic intelligence, and ability to think and act like real adults, unlike the romance heroines and heros of the romances I recalled from the 80s bodice-rippers--you know the kind, the heroines who act in ways so immature and idiotic that even a teen in the throes of an I-hate-you-no-one-understands-me hissy fit wouldn't act like that.

      Plus, it's both romantic and sexy. Perfect beach read.

      This author writes well and tells a good story, with believable characters. I'll read more Milan on the beach and whenever I'm looking for a greater escape than my usual fare.
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    • Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2013
      Courtney Milan is easily, far and away, my favorite author of historical romance. She has a graduate degree in theoretical physical chemistry from UC Berkeley and graduated summa cum laude from law school at the University of Michigan, and after clerking for important judges and teaching law for awhile, she now spends her time writing the smartest, beautifully-plotted, emotionally-rich, gorgeously-written historical romance I've ever read. I live in wait for her books, and in between new releases, I re-read what she's written before. This week, I re-read Unveiled for the third time, and if you've never read it, get it and put it right at the top of your TBR pile right now.

      Unveiled is the first book of the Turner trilogy, which tell the stories of the Turner brothers, three brilliant men who have risen from modest beginnings to the top of Victorian English society despite a tortured childhood. After the death of their father, their pious-to-the-point-of-insanity mother gave everything the family had to the Church, leaving herself and her four children with nothing. When the only daughter, Hope, became sickened after a rat bite, the oldest child, Ash, walked twenty miles in order to beg the Duke of Parford (a distant relation) for enough money to hire a doctor to treat her. Parford only gave him a coin with which to buy himself a bath, the sister died, and Ash grew up determined to avenge this injustice.

      When Unveiled begins, Ash is on the cusp of accomplishing that revenge. He has discovered that Parford secretly married his mistress before he married the mother of his children. By unveiling (note this word: it's the book title for a reason) the duke's bigamy, Ash has had that second marriage nullified, Parford's children declared bastards and stripped of their inheritance, and himself installed as heir-apparent to the ailing duke. Parford's grown children, the Dalrymples, will lose everything unless they can convince Parliament to pass a rare act re-legitimizing them and restoring their inheritance.

      Ash and his youngest brother, Mark, go to Parford Manor to examine the estate. Ash believes that the Dalrymples are not in residence, but in fact the duke's daughter, Margaret, is posing as a lowly servant in order to keep an eye on the Turners and report back to her absent brothers.

      At its core, this is a book about the layers of loyalty (and disloyalty), trust (and mistrust), and love (and enmity) that make up relationships and the way these layers obscure the characters' ability to see one another and, sometimes, themselves. Over and over again, characters mistake one another. Ash mistakes Margaret for a servant because she masquerades as a servant, but many of the mistakes are not as straight-forward. For example, Ash's brothers don't understand him because they are men of learning while Ash is a man of instinct and charisma; they don't realize that Ash doesn't mean to be dismissive of their intellectual pursuits, but being dyslexic, he can't read Mark's book or share Smite's study of the law. In another instance, Ash is stung (and Margaret is offended on his behalf), when Smite comes to Parford Manor and seems to snub Ash, but it turns out that, though he and Ash can't show each other their true feelings, Smite is motivated by love and concern for Ash rather than malice.

      Although Ash and Margaret are set up as antagonists (in that Ash's success is literally Margaret's ruin), they bond because they are the same: both fiercely loyal to and devoted to their families, even though that devotion isn't requited (or in Ash's case, doesn't appear to be requited). Margaret's father is cruelly dismissive of her; her brothers are, at best, benignly inattentive to her situation, and at worst, cravenly unconcerned. Similarly, everything Ash does is motivated by love for his brothers, but Mark and Smite lived through childhood tragedies while Ash was in India (making a fortune in order to save them from poverty) and share a love of learning, and the two younger brothers share a bond that, intentionally or not, sets Ash forever apart.

      Ultimately, it is this sense of being outsiders to all others that allows Ash and Margaret to come together when all rational thought should keep them apart: they each crave acceptance and find it, not with their families, but with each other.
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    • Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2011
      This story is clever, realistic, and over all enjoyed it. I liked the characters, etc. I gave this three stars because I never fell in love with the book or the characters or their love story. On fact, it was so realistic that it lost the "romance" part that makes reading these types of books fun. I felt like the story was boring and I kept waiting for it to pick up...
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    • Lill
      4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
      Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2016
      an amazing read, thanks Courtney!
    • Merle
      5.0 out of 5 stars Schöne Post-Regency-Geschichte
      Reviewed in Germany on April 2, 2014
      Der gut geschriebene Liebesroman spielt in der Anfangszeit von Queen Victoria, allerdings ohne grosse geschichtlichen Erwähnungen.

      Die Kinder des sich dem Lebensende nähernden Duke of Parford erfahren überraschend, dass die Ehe ihrer Eltern ungültig ist und sie damit illegitim, also nicht erbberechtigt sind. Der nächste, zukünftige Duke ist ein entfernter Verwandter, der Emporkömmling Ash Turner, der sich darüber freut, seinen verhassten Verwandten schaden zu können.
      Zwecks Inventur findet sich Ash auf dem Landsitz des sterbenden Duke's ein und macht die Bekanntschaft der faszinierenden Krankenschwester Margaret, die in Wirklichkeit die Tochter des Herzog's ist.

      Diese Geschichte ist überraschend gut, die Charaktere interessant gezeichnet. Man lebt mit und bemitleidet die unschuldige und liebenswerte Margaret. Egal was sie macht, sie kann es nicht richtig machen; sie steht in einem unlösbaren Loyalitätskonflikt. Die Lösung ist schlussendlich gut gewählt und stimmig. Und bewundernswert ist der Lebensweg von Ash, auch wenn er kleine Fehler hat und stur ist. Eine kurzweilige und herzerweichende Geschichte, geeignet für Liebhaberinnen des Genres.
    • Rosco
      1.0 out of 5 stars Too verbose for me
      Reviewed in Canada on August 24, 2018
      The storyline is good but the verbosity of it all seems to drag the story that I lost interest at a quarter of the book. It became boring. I skimmed through it and skipped chapters.
    • Miss H
      4.0 out of 5 stars 4 stars book but 3 stars for me
      Reviewed in Germany on May 2, 2015
      In all truthfulness I wanted to give the book a 3 stars. But I don't think that would be fair for the book. The book itself is a great fun to read. It has substance, so you must take time to digest. It's written well, so you are not struggling to follow the writing. It's just not the kind of story that makes me ache for it. But again, I want to be fair to the book. It is a 4 stars book in its own right. But for me it was a 3 stars kind of reading experience.

      I will say a few things that bothered me:

      1. Ash isn't upset that Margaret lied about her identity?? I mean not even a little?? He doesn't need 15 minutes to recover??
      2. Margaret's brother Richard sacrificed her to gain back his dukedom. Soooo unattractive.
      3. Ash's unwavering love. I can accept that he had "instincts" about Margaret. and I think it's nice for once to read a hero who is not heartless. But love isn't always pretty. Love hurts and ridicules. It does with Margaret. But Ash is all loving and forgiving. I find it a bit odd, considering the context.

      I like the book for another reason: it grabs you but is asking you to take the time to read. Some books of similar length are sweet and all but oh so very brainless. you go through them like breakfast. this book is dinner material.
    • Kindle Customer
      4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book
      Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2013
      I loved the story, the characters were well drawn and the storyline was interesting. Will definitely put it in my favourites and enjoy reading it again.

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