
Eleanor Farnes is a British writer, who wrote over 60 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1935 to 1979. Eleanor Farnes lived in England, but her family had a home in Spain, where she also spend part of each year. She also traveled widely in Europe, South Africa, and North America. She started to write after marrying and having 2 children. Her hobbies included the restoring of old houses and traveling, that had brought the charm and beauty of exotic locales to her novels, like Spain, Italy or Switzerland, that she knew personally. She also wrote doctor/nurse romances.
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Selena was only an ordinary working girl -- although she was a very nice and intelligent girl, and the work, designing beautiful and exotic dresses, was absorb-ing and rewarding work -- but the two men in her life were very far from ordinary: Martin ...
An ordinary girl in an ordinary job, a famous author, and a rich banker. But could she really expect to be happy with either man?...
Victoria thought she could look after her young brother and sister while her parents were abroad. They decided otherwise. So Victoria found herself in Italy, entrusted to the care of the disagreeable Charles Duncan, who was anything but pleased at...
Cristina's unexpected legacy from her grandmother brought about her trip to France. And it was there that she encountered Alastair, who was as committed to Sylvana as Cristina was to Vernon. But... ____ Cristina's legacy from her grandm...
When Tim Burnet-Wilde callously broke her young sister's heart, Andrea decided to pay him back in his own coin; so she got a job as his secretary, intending to make him fall for her and then leave him flat. But what if Tim didn't react as...
Juliet Arnold went to Spain to work, but her plans went awry and instead she found herself very much involved with two men. There was Harry Boyd, who was nice and calm and kind, who loved her and wanted to marry her. She always felt so comfortable an...
It was certainly a glamorous job that Madame Hartstein had offered Alison -- and there was the added bonus that it introduced her to two most attractive men, Piers Somerton and Louis Vanderveld. But was either man really what he seemed, and how genui...
Plenty of English girls go to Spain for their holidays -- and many of them, like Venetia Hamilton, think nothing of going alone. But few holidays turn out as romantically as did Venetia's, when she went to stay at the family castle of Don Andr...
The coolness between the Knight and Huwlett families had been going on for a long time, but it looked as if the younger generation, Gay Knight and Ivor Huwlett, might at last bring it to an end. Then they both found themselves on opposite sides of...
Even in his dreams, Andrew Kane could not escape the memory of his young wife Ingrid, who had died so tragically. Then he met Tessa Thornton, who was the image of Ingrid, and gave her a job. Soon it was evident that the feelings between them were rat...
~~~ original publication 1961 Since she lived and worked in London, Alison did not really have any use for the delightful Devonshire cottage that had come to her after her brother's death. But as soon as she met the detestable, overbearing Nei...
~~~ original publication 1959 Considering her narrow, rigid upbringing, it was not surprising that Philippa had been a complete "ugly duckling", but now, in her new-found independence, she was rapidly turning into a swan. She found a pleas...
~~~ original publication 1956 There were three conflicting interests in Alex's life: two men -- and her career as a dress designer. Terence offered her his love, but Charles Viddell could help her career. She knew that Charles found her attr...
She was homeless... alone and penniless It was the end of an era. Queen Victoria's reign was over and the Edwardian age had begun. Attitudes were changing. But the attitude toward women with blemished pasts remained rigidly the same. Thus t...
~~~ original publication 1953 Alison Vale was a welcome addition to the home of her guardian, Peter Malliner -- welcome to Peter himself and to his brother Douglas who was slowly recovering from an air crash, even, after a time to fussy and flutte...
~~~ original publication 1953 A night of heavy snow, and dogs barking outside an old Cotswold farmhouse.... When Nancy and her two sisters went out to see what was the matter, they found a handsome stranger unconscious in a snowdrift. They and the...
~~~ original publication 1956 Young love is a pretty sight; but is it always strong and durable? Fiona Chard was a nice girl, a very attractive girl -- but she was also very rich. Which was why her father had his doubts about her love for Guy, ...
~~~ original publication 1955 David Springfield of Springfield was ready to take on the tough job of pulling together the family's neglected estate. But to look after his brother's three orphaned (and rather unmanageable) children as well ...
~~~ original publication 1953 Aunt Irene was just as selfish as Aunt Jane, just as determined to exploit Jocelyn to the uttermost under the pretext of "giving her a home". Still, Jocelyn felt that in leaving Jane for Irene she had made a c...
~~~ first published in 1946 Laurie thought that marriage would open the door to a happy and carefree life, but she soon acquired a loved and loving husband, but an unwelcome admirer and a jealous, desperate enemy, who between them were almost to w...
~~~ first published in 1952 No one suspected Erica's heartbreak at having to put aside her musical training and career to take over the family affairs. Only when the conductor, Charles Winlake, aware of Erica's talent, brought her back ...
~~~ original publication 1954 A boys' public school, set in a pleasant old cathedral town, is the background for this charming story of Ingrid Southbrook, who came to keep house for her brother during his wife's illness. Sylvia Southbro...
~~~ first published in 1952 When Andre Savary, a bachelor and by no means an old one, found himself responsible for the upbringing of three orphaned nieces, he decided that they must have someone to look after them, make a home for them and see th...
~~~ first publication 1951 Sara Mervyn was a rising young ballet star. The ballet with its hard work and discipline, its triumphs and disappointments, absorbed her whole life, leaving no time for love or marriage -- or so she thought. And so th...
~~~ first published in 1951 by Mills & Boon Celia took her small niece to Switzerland for a long period of treatment, and fell under the spell of the majestic snow peaks and green fertile valleys. She fell under another spell too, that of Kurt St....
~~ First published in 1963 under the title "A Change of Heart" by Mills & Boon Caught up in a whirlwind romance with James, happily planning her marriage, Catrina was on cloud ten. And then, on the eve of her wedding, her world crashed in ...
~~~ Originally published in 1954 by Mills & Boon under the title "Song of Summer" A new beginning, or a heartbreaking end? Diana badly needed a job. Her elderly aunt had just died leaving her virtually penniless. To go to Switzerland as the compa...
~~~ original publication 1958 When Mike Patterson went back to England to see the village where his father had been born, he was full of the ideas -- and, it must be admitted, prejudices -- natural to a highly successful Canadian business man. At ...