CATHERINE COULTER LEGACY TR 3M (Legacy Trilogy) - used book

THE WYNDHAM LEGACY
At the age of nine, Josephina Cochrane is mockingly dubbed the "Duchess" by her half-cousin, Marcus Wyndham. Little does Marcus suspect that the Duchess will one day reign sovereign over his own future. When the Earl of Chase, the Duchess’s father and Marcus’s uncle, dies without a son, Marcus stands to inherit his fortune and title. But the old earl, bitter that Marcus escaped the tragedy that claimed the lives of his two sons, has laced his double-edged inheritance with vengeful stipulations. There is another Wyndham legacy, one beyond the Earl of Chase’s rank and holdings; a treasure from long ago that’s shrouded in legend. Before the rival legacies can be settled, the Duchess and Marcus must solve two mysteries - one from the past and one that shadows the present.

THE NIGHTINGALE LEGACY
On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, the vivacious Caroline Derwent-Jones looks forward to being free of her oafish guardian, Mr. Ffalkes. But Mr. Ffalkes has other plans for Caroline and her inheritance; Caroline must escape. In her flight, Caroline encounters Lord Chilton of Mount Hawke, Frederic North Nightingale, and finds herself tangled in mystery and romance. Amid murder, enigmatic secrets, and a long standing tradition of no women at Mount Hawke, Lord Chilton discovers his desire for Caroline.

THE VALENTINE LEGACY
Jessie Warfield is branded a disgrace for riding as a jockey on her father’s racehorses, wearing men’s clothing, exposing her skin to the sun and, in general, not acting like a lady. James Wyndham, eligible widower and owner of a nearby horse farm, is Jessie’s rival on the race track. Outwardly competitive to the extreme with James, she is secretly in love with him. James, having known her since she was fourteen, sees her only as a bratty little sister. When Jessie sets out to protect James from a marriage entrapment, she ends up compromising her own reputation and is pressured into leaving town. She flees to an unlikely haven: the estate of James’s British cousins, the Earl and "Duchess" of Chase. There she is transformed into a lady. Smitten by the new Jessie, James proposes and they marry. Their new, shared passion results in hideous nightmares that soon reveal themselves to be recovered memories of a long-ago attempted rape and murder. When connections are made between those events and the pirate Blackbeard’s diaries, the hu