Elizabeth Ashton

• Oct-1987
• / Contemporary Romance

An arranged marriage was not the answer! Sancia longed to be free from the restrictive atmosphere of her father's house -- but her loveless upbringing had convinced her that she'd never be able to respond to a man's lovemaking. So, ...

• Oct-1982
• / Contemporary Romance

His hatred was as strong as her love Laurel wanted to keep her nephew, Peter, after the death of her sister and her sister's husband, Pedro de las Aguilas. For Peter's sake, however, she felt compelled to take him to his father's famil...

• Dec-1981
• / Contemporary Romance

'We've met before, Mr. de Savigny." Josephine's words startled the snobbish French aristocrat, who had earlier mistaken her for a stable boy. The error was understandable, for Jo liked her tomboy image and scorned feminine things l...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance

The love Noelle had felt for her fiance Hugh had died with him and she knew she would never care for another man again -- which was why she had agreed to marry Steve Prescott. Steve was handsome rich and forceful -- and Noelle didn't have a trace...

• Sep-1981
• / Contemporary Romance

His proposal came as a complete surprise Frances was flattered by it. After all, Gray Crawford was a prominent figure in the speedboat-racing world. Frances hadn't minded working as a domestic in his Scottish Highlands house, but it wasn...

• May-1981
• / Contemporary Romance

His approach to life was irresponsible! Niccolo Martelli was the most exciting man Lucy had ever met, yet she had no illusions about him. He was a rich aristocratic Sicilian; Lucy was an English children's nurse. Then she learned the match...

• Apr-1981
• / Contemporary Romance

Janet couldn't match her beautiful cousin She'd always lived in Renata's shadow, so when Renata decided against eloping with Alex Leandris, Janet had the unenviable task of telling him. Jan, however, had had several skirmishes with ...

• Aug-1980
• / Contemporary Romance

She had thought herself in love That was two years ago -- and Shane Riordan had proved unfaithful. Now Lynsey planned to marry Norman Melville and share his quiet, undemanding life. Unfortunately, Shane's untimely reappearance shocked Lyns...

• Apr-1980
• / Contemporary Romance

Sonya would never succeed on her own! But for her father's sake she had to keep on trying. Sonya had been raised in the world of figure skating. Her parents were famous before the accident that claimed her mother's life and left her fathe...

• Feb-1980
• / Contemporary Romance

"Here's to a joyous adventure, Suzanne!" Susan responded eagerly to Raoul Sansterre's toast. Was she toasting the adventure of opening up Thurstan Hall as a high-class restaurant, or the exciting prospect of getting to know this su...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance

Miles was like a desert mirage! Working in Egypt, Lorna met the fascinating Miles Faversham, who rescued her from the burning sands. Despite her hardened cynicism, Lorna fell in love with him. She thought that Miles loved her, too. But she knew...

• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance

He had risked his life to save hers! Cass Dakers had rescued Rachel from drowning off the coast of Corfu. He had taken her into his home, and suggested that they get married so that she would have someone to protect her from her pursuers. Rachel w...

• Mar-1979
• / Contemporary Romance

Rosalie had kept her identity secret She'd been wooed for her prospects before. Now she was suspicious of any man who took an interest in her. But Don Rafael's interest in her was revenge. He knew her as a hotel waitress, sister of the ...

• Sep-1978
• / Contemporary Romance

She had been jilted, but she'd survive. Shelagh tried to treat her predicament with bravado. Arriving in Italy on the eve of her wedding, she'd learned of Camillo's desertion. Their holiday romance had blossomed quickly, but in spit...

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance

"All I want from you is that gold medal!" Adrian Belmont, the great running coach, had never trained a woman before. So, when he told Rosamund that he wanted to coach her to win an Olympic gold medal, she was pleased and flattered. She ...

• Jul-1978
• / Contemporary Romance

"Aren't you going to kiss me good night?" Clare blurted out the words awkwardly. His first reaction of surprise was not entirely flattering. Clare's lifelong ambition was to write a romantic novel -- but how could she when she h...

• Jun-1978
• / Contemporary Romance

Istanbul was strange and mysterious to English-born Venice Franklin, yet she soon fell in love with it -- and with the aloof Kemal Osman. But Kemal was a man committed to serving his country and his ambition did not include a foreign wife. "A mar...

• Nov-1977
• / Contemporary Romance

Toni forced herself to face the truth. Either Julian would marry the nice woman she detested, or he'd go off for years on an overseas assignment. Toni had been a girl when she'd first declared her love for Julian -- too young to handle...

• Aug-1977
• / Contemporary Romance

The conversation Audrey had overheard still rang in her ears. Her golden dream dissolved like mist. What a fool she had been! The thought of how easily she had been deceived with sweet words and tender glances made her wince. Damon had agreed to m...

• Jun-1977
• / Contemporary Romance

Priscilla was enraged that the lordly Nikolaos Palaeologus thought her sister Prunella was a nobody, unfit to marry his younger brother. And just because Prunella was an actress! Well, Priscilla was an actress, too. She would go to Greece and teac...

• Mar-1977
• / Contemporary Romance

"I don't regret helping you," Teo said gallantly "You're still like the boy you pretended to be -- and a good companion; I appreciate you." Peta listened to his assessment with mixed feelings. Apparently she possessed so li...

• Feb-1977
• / Contemporary Romance

Young Mea Marlow met Lucian Becker in Switzerland -- the first man she had met, in fact, since leaving school -- and lost no time falling in love with him. But Lucian, it was clear, had been earmarked by Mea's beautiful mother as her next husband...

• Jul-1976
• / Contemporary Romance

Jacqueline had always loved Gino, and when he asked her to marry him she gladly accepted. But she knew he wasn't marrying her for love, only because he wanted a competent helpmate. Then her glamorous sister came along and announced that she an...

• May-1976
• / Contemporary Romance

Averil was whisked from obscurity to potential stardom by the celebrated director, Philip Conway. But already she had been foolish enough to fall in love with him; and even if he returned her feelings, what could she do about her engagement to Joh...

• Feb-1976
• / Contemporary Romance

To regain his family's chateau and fortunes, Raoul, Comte de Valpres, had only to marry the more-than-willing Mariette Dubois, spoilt daughter of the chateau's present owner. But how could unimportant Halcyon Grey, who loved him, stand by ...

• Dec-1975
• / Contemporary Romance

She had no idea who she was or where she came from -- only that she had been in an accident somewhere in the remote northwest of India and that Clive Stratton had rescued her. He found a name for her -- Angela -- and took her under his wing. Back ...

• Oct-1975
• / Contemporary Romance

The famous actor Dorian Armitage had been a hero of Jocelyn's ever since she had once worked with him. Now, quite by accident, she had the chance to be part of his private life as well -- as companion to his motherless small son. Although she ...

• Jul-1975
• / Contemporary Romance

Julie was in Provence to visit her French grandfather and perhaps heal the breach between them -- but instead she had managed to fall in love with the elusive Armand Beausset. But what would come of that? As Armand's rejected girl friend said:...

• Apr-1975
• / Contemporary Romance

Had it been only a holiday romance? Lois, a receptionist at a hotel in Italy, was afraid the answer was yes. Her whirlwind courtship with the visiting Canadian businessman, Val Daventry, ended abruptly when he had to leave for Germany. True, he...

• Feb-1975
• / Contemporary Romance

Mavis had grown accustomed to the fact that men found her glamorous sister Aline more attractive than her nondescript self. But when David MacAuchie came on the scene, for once she felt like competing with her sister. She had got off to a head sta...

• 1975
• / Contemporary Romance

When Selina Stevens went out to the tiny South American country where her father lives she soon got into the bad books of her father's friend, Alastair Grainger. Alastair thought her a silly, frivolous playgirl who would be better advised to leav...

• Dec-1974
• / Contemporary Romance

Francesca Temple came to Italy to stay with her parents and to introduce them to her fiance Desmond. But fate decreed that her visit was to end in her marriage to another man -- the disturbing Angelo Vittorini. Could Francesca ever understand the ...

• Sep-1974
• / Contemporary Romance

Lorena encountered the domineering Mario Marescu in Sardinia -- and from the first he made it clear that he disapproved of her way of life. How dared he presume to judge her? Lorena had never met such an exasperating, arrogant male. Yet why did it...

• Jun-1974
• / Contemporary Romance

Antoine de Mericourt was going to turn Sylvie into a great star of the ballet -- which was why he had married her, just to ensure that no romantic distractions would interfere with her career. He had no intention of allowing the marriage to beco...

• Mar-1974
• / Contemporary Romance

"Men were deceivers," Imogen told herself bitterly when Raymond let her down. She was never going to let it happen again. Her resolve might have weakened when she met Christian Wainwright and knew she could easily fall in love with him, b...

• 1974
• / Contemporary Romance

When Auriol had first met the dashing Rudi von Grieffenhagen she was very young, fresh from the convent, and still under the thumb of a possessive father. So perhaps it was inevitable that she should have plunged into a brief and disastrous marriage...

• 1974
• / Contemporary Romance

• Dec-1973
• / Contemporary Romance

Charity wanted to work with children, and the chance of becoming nanny to Frances, the granddaughter of her sister's friend, seemed too good to miss. But how was she to receive the attentions of Gabriel, who made it obvious that he found her attracti...

• Sep-1973
• / Contemporary Romance

Eve had lost both the man she was to have married, and her brilliant career, and life for her seemed to be over. Max Linden was determined to shake her out of her apathy -- but just as she began to realize that she had fallen in love again, she le...

• Feb-1973
• / Contemporary Romance

It was only by chance that Charmian had met the worldly Alex Dimitriou in Paris, and it was only a brief meeting, but it was long enough for her to learn his philosophy -- "Love and marriage are two very different things." She would never...

• 1973
• / Contemporary Romance

When Kit was fourteen, starry-eyed as only a schoolgirl can be, Nicholas Redfern had told her, "If you wait for me, I'll marry you". He had gone off to Africa, and that was that. True, he had now turned up in her life again, but every...

• Nov-1972
• / Contemporary Romance

Catherine remembered a song about journeys ending in lovers' meeting, but a lover was the last thing she expected to meet in Seville. Had she not been named for St. Catherine, who was the patroness of single women and seamstress? And yet, in ...

• Oct-1971
• / Contemporary Romance

Could she marry just to save her home? Damaris loved her home, Ravenscrag, more than anything else in the world. Under the terms of her grandfather's will, the only way she could keep it was to marry his heir -- her unknown cousin Mark. Yo...

• 1971
• / Contemporary Romance

• 1971
• / Contemporary Romance

• Dec-1970
• / Contemporary Romance

When Lina's father died, leaving her destitute, she could have found an easy way out of having to sell up everything, even her beloved horse, by marrying her rather dull suitor, George. She would never admit that a reason for not doing so could b...

• Aug-1970
• / Contemporary Romance

Renee was delighted when her resemblance to the famous model, Antoinette, resulted in a move from London to Paris. The couturier, Leon Sebastian, it seemed, needed a replacement for Antoinette. Then Renee heard the rumor that it was not just as a ...

• Feb-1970
• / Contemporary Romance

When Amanda overheard Louis Meyering describe her as a 'crow', she was stung into doing something about her appearance -- with spectacular results. Now all seemed set fair for Amanda -- until the redoubtable Hermien arrived upon the scene....

• / General Fiction