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    Lady in Rags
    Lady in Rags
    Spiszy
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      Time 9h 59m
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    Complete, First published Nov 23, 2015
    Verity Baker has spent her life cleaning up after her father's mistakes. But one day, he goes too far and sells her, for one night only, to a local lord to pay his debts.
        
        What kind of man would buy a woman? What kind of woman would agree to be bought?
        
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    Table of contentsLast updated Dec 02, 2016
    • Chapter One: From Dusk to Dawn
    • Chapter Two: A Strange Woman
    • Chapter Three: Unfortunate Beauty
    • Chapter Four: Bad Fortune
    • Chapter Five: Broken China
    • Chapter Six: Home
    • Chapter Seven: For the Best
    • Chapter Eight: Like Cinderella
    • Chapter Nine: In the Bones
    • Chapter Ten: Women Know
    • Chapter Eleven: When She Falls
    • Chapter Twelve: Lesson One
    • Chapter Thirteen: Entrapment
    • Chapter Fourteen: Eighth Night
    • Chapter Fifteen: An Air of Abandonment and Waiting
    • Chapter Sixteen: Her Inattentive Prince
    • Chapter Seventeen: The Woman Who Could Return
    • Interlude (Chapter Seventeen and Three-Quarters)
    • Chapter Eighteen: Fair Weather
    • Chapter Nineteen: An Arrangement
    • Chapter Twenty: Further Damage
    • Chapter Twenty-One: Introspection
    • Chapter Twenty-Two: Desperate Conviction
    • Chapter Twenty-Three: She Did Not Look Back
    • Chapter Twenty-Four: He, She, and Scandal
    • Chapter Twenty-Five: That Fragile, Twisted Heart
    • Chapter Twenty-Six: The Unforgiving Weight of the Ocean
    • Chapter Twenty-Seven: Flood and Steel
    • Chapter Twenty-Eight: Fortune from Misfortune
    • Chapter Twenty-Nine: Promise Me
    • Chapter Thirty: Lunch
    • Chapter Thirty-One: In Disgrace and Humiliation
    • Chapter Thirty-Two: Petty, Selfish Adoration
    • Chapter Thirty-Three: Hope to Spring
    • Chapter Thirty-Four: Bone, and Tendon, and Skin
    • Chapter Thirty-Five: The Lesser Evil
    • Chapter Thirty Six: Clear Vision
    • Chapter Thirty Seven: The Other Woman
    • Chapter Thirty Eight: Not by Love
    • Chapter Thirty-Nine: In that Single Hour
    • Chapter Forty: Courting Trouble
    • Chapter Forty-One: Patchwork
    • Chapter Forty-Two: An Old Friend
    • Chapter Forty-Three: Enough Carnage
    • Chapter Forty-Four: Good Luck
    • Chapter Forty-Five: Guilt, not Love
    • Chapter Forty-Six: The Sleeper Wakes
    • Chapter Forty-Seven: Fare Thee Well
    • Chapter Forty-Eight: The First Night
    • Chapter Forty-Nine: Quest for the Past
    • Chapter Fifty: Dear Verity
    • Chapter Fifty-One: Innocence
    • Chapter Fifty-Two: A Series of Moments
    • Chapter Fifty-Three: Come True
    • Epilogue
    • Final Note

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    • Chapter One: From Dusk to Dawn
    • Chapter Two: A Strange Woman
    • Chapter Three: Unfortunate Beauty
    • Chapter Four: Bad Fortune
    • Chapter Five: Broken China
    • Chapter Six: Home
    • Chapter Seven: For the Best
    • Chapter Eight: Like Cinderella
    • Chapter Nine: In the Bones
    • Chapter Ten: Women Know
    • Chapter Eleven: When She Falls
    • Chapter Twelve: Lesson One
    • Chapter Thirteen: Entrapment
    • Chapter Fourteen: Eighth Night
    • Chapter Fifteen: An Air of Abandonment and Waiting
    • Chapter Sixteen: Her Inattentive Prince
    • Chapter Seventeen: The Woman Who Could Return
    • Interlude (Chapter Seventeen and Three-Quarters)
    • Chapter Eighteen: Fair Weather
    • Chapter Nineteen: An Arrangement
    • Chapter Twenty: Further Damage
    • Chapter Twenty-One: Introspection
    • Chapter Twenty-Two: Desperate Conviction
    • Chapter Twenty-Three: She Did Not Look Back
    • Chapter Twenty-Four: He, She, and Scandal
    • Chapter Twenty-Five: That Fragile, Twisted Heart
    • Chapter Twenty-Six: The Unforgiving Weight of the Ocean
    • Chapter Twenty-Seven: Flood and Steel
    • Chapter Twenty-Eight: Fortune from Misfortune
    • Chapter Twenty-Nine: Promise Me
    • Chapter Thirty: Lunch
    • Chapter Thirty-One: In Disgrace and Humiliation
    • Chapter Thirty-Two: Petty, Selfish Adoration
    • Chapter Thirty-Three: Hope to Spring
    • Chapter Thirty-Four: Bone, and Tendon, and Skin
    • Chapter Thirty-Five: The Lesser Evil
    • Chapter Thirty Six: Clear Vision
    • Chapter Thirty Seven: The Other Woman
    • Chapter Thirty Eight: Not by Love
    • Chapter Thirty-Nine: In that Single Hour
    • Chapter Forty: Courting Trouble
    • Chapter Forty-One: Patchwork
    • Chapter Forty-Two: An Old Friend
    • Chapter Forty-Three: Enough Carnage
    • Chapter Forty-Four: Good Luck
    • Chapter Forty-Five: Guilt, not Love
    • Chapter Forty-Six: The Sleeper Wakes
    • Chapter Forty-Seven: Fare Thee Well
    • Chapter Forty-Eight: The First Night
    • Chapter Forty-Nine: Quest for the Past
    • Chapter Fifty: Dear Verity
    • Chapter Fifty-One: Innocence
    • Chapter Fifty-Two: A Series of Moments
    • Chapter Fifty-Three: Come True
    • Epilogue
    • Final Note
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