Barbara Cartland - Bantam — Multiple Authors

• Nov-1978
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One of the most dashing and desirable bachelors in all London finds himself unexpectedly caught up in the plight of a beautiful young runaway. Lord Melsonby and the lovely young heiress, Perdita Lyford, become enmeshed in a romantic adventure that sw...

• Jan-1974
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For lovely young Atalanta Lynton, the proposed marriage to her cousin William, Viscount Cottesford, seemed an answer to her prayers -- until she found herself deeply in love with Paul Beaulieu, a handsome young painter. Atalanta is forced to choose b...

Paris in 1869 was a wildly extravagant society, one in which women valued jewels above love and lavish spending brought rich men to ruin. Yet it was to Paris that the breathtakingly beautiful Lady Corinna Vernon fled in order to escape her shrewish a...

• Mar-1974
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Lady Marisa Berrington-Crecy had decided to write a book -- an amusing, scandalous, gossipy book that would set Edwardian society on its decadent ear. And what better place to gather information than Vox Castle, home of the Duke of Milverley, an attr...

• Apr-1974
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Beautiful young Kamala Lindsey knew she had to run away. Her cruel uncle, with his Victorian ideas, had threatened her life if she did not marry whom he wanted --a tired old man of sixty! And so, she did run away from her uncle's home. Riding toward...

• May-1974
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1804. For as long as Lucretia Hedley could remember, she had loved the Merlyncourt estate and its handsome young lord, the Marquis of Merlyncourt. He was the most desired bachelor in all of England and now, suddenly, she was to become the Marquis' wi...

• 1974
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Lovely redheaded Fenella Lambert had loved her handsome cousin since they had played together as children. So when Lord Perequine Corbury returned from fighting Napoleon's Army to find himself destitute, it was she who suggested that daring plan that...

England, 1799. Alyna saw no escape. Her mother, a selfish and cruel woman, insisted that she marry the wealthy Prince Ahmadi of Kahriz, a man who made the beautiful Alyna cringe in horror. She saw only one way out -- a cold leap into the Thames. A...

• 1974
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The Earl of Rothingham was a rake, an unrepentant rake. All of eighteenth-century England declared him so after he refuses a request from the Prince of Wales requested to marry his mistress -- Lady Elaine Wilmot -- to choose himself a bride and leave...

• Sep-1974
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The lovely young Orelia Stanyon is a country girl, who was alone in the world. She was a little family, only a dying uncle and a wild cousin. Her cousin Caroline, a beautiful woman who lived a wild and impetuous existence, hardly was the proper guard...

• Oct-1974
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During a state ball at Buckingham palace, the lovelly half-Russian Tatika Lynch meets Lord Crowley, a wealthy member of Edwardian society. Tatika's exotic good looks first aroused the attentions of the lecherous Lord Crowley. Later, her wit and i...

• Nov-1974
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AN IMPOSSIBLE ARRANGEMENT When they were still children, their loving fathers had arranged that heiress Cassandra Sherburn would marry with the heir of the Duke of Alchester, the young Marquis of Charlbury. Now that Cassandra was old enough to beco...

• Dec-1974
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Lord Ranulf Colwall, owner of a famous name and the most impressive Norman Castle in England having experienced one disastrous marriage decides to choose the mother of his heir with care. He picks out Natalia Grey-Stroke, a girl of fifteen with the r...

• Jan-1975
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Lady Orissa Fane fled England in haste -- her only thought to escape her abusive stepmother -- and, enlisting her brother's aid, she booked passage for India under an assumed identity. Once there, she would join her uncle, Colonel Henry Hobart. ...

• Feb-1975
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1879. Lady Dorinda Burne had always led a retiring life -- a disfiguring skin complaint made her feel uncomfortable in company. But now she was chaperoning her sister to Singapore where Lettice would marry the fabulously rich, brilliantly clever Maxi...

The handsome Marquis of Ruckley was in a fit of temper. He raced his horses up the drive to his country estate with such speed he couldn't swerve to avoid the girl in the path of his carriage. Greatly relieved she was still alive, the Marquis carr...

• Apr-1975
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The Duke of Warminster was uncontrollably angry. First Jabina, the silly young twit had lied her way into his carriage -- forcing him to drive halfway across Scotland with her. Then, when the carriage overturned and he was injured, she lied again and...

• May-1975
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It was hardly a love match. The couple met for the first time at the altar when they exchanged their marriage vows. The bride's wealthy, dictatorial father had bribed and blackmailed Major Kelvin Ward into marrying his only daughter. Kelvin had no c...

• Jun-1975
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Celesta was terrified. Parentless and alone save for tl companionship of her old nurse, she had just learned that her brother Giles had lost their family home at the gambling tables. Celesta couldn't stay in her tiny cottage the edge of the estate wi...

• Jul-1975
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Emmeline Nevada Holtz was the richest -- and most sheltered -- girl in America. She has been arranged to be married to one of England's wealthy dukes. An accident to her chaperone gives her temporarily alone in Paris, and Emmeline realized that t...

• Aug-1975
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Her father had died on their way home to England, his career in shambles, his name disgraced by accusations of treason. Now Canuela Arlington and her mother were alone in London in desperate need of money. Canuela would have to find work. Knowing her...

• Sep-1975
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"And remember, Tilda, it is a great honour that Queen Victoria herself has arranged your marriage." Lady Victoria Matilda Tetherton Smythe murmured assent to her mother's reminder, but secretly worried whether marriage to Prince Maximi...

It was a message Lalitha Studley would rather have died than deliver. Her beautiful stepsister had suddenly decided not to go through with her elopement with the wealthy, handsome Lord Inigo Alexander Rothwyn. Lalitha had been sent to the church to i...

• Oct-1975
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Sir George Stanton dies leaving his wife, his four beautiful daughters and his son Nicky, the new baronet, with no money. To Lady Stanton, the idea was unthinkable. However, Nicky must finish his time at Oxford, so to help him Larisa decides to beco...

• Oct-1975
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Natasha Melikov was a Countess and a hostage. Kidnapped from her home in Tzarist Russia by Moslem rebels, she and her young brother were being held captive high in the Caucasian mountains. Overcome with fear, Natasha made an otherwise unthinkable ...

The Duke of Atherstone had been driven to a frenzy. Every debutante in London wanted to marry him. Their determined mothers had transformed all of England into a matrimonial obstacle course. Fleeing to the safety of his yacht, the Duke set sail fo...

• Nov-1975
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London, 1928. "Yes" was the one word everyone wanted from the beautiful, titian-haired Samantha Clyde.... "Yes" to the celebrated London photographer who wanted to make Samantha his top model.... "Yes" to the debonair...

• Dec-1975
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In 1819, Lady Vesta Cressinton-Font travels alone to the small Mediterranean island of Katona as bride by proxy to its hereditary Prince. As soon as she left her ship and set foot on to Katona, the blue-eyed, exquisitely beautiful Vesta felt frighten...

• Dec-1975
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The Marquis of Melford was actually relieved to be alone on his yacht. Carnival in Venice was every bit as gay and abandoned as the Marquis had remembered, but after a few days the revelling had begun to bore him. Even the seductive charms of his ...

• Jan-1976
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As she entered the empty ballroom, Alida heard the sound of music. Almost without realizing it, her feet carried her onto the polished floor on which the moonlight shone. She moved round the room, waltzing in an enchanted world. Then, her eyes...

• Jan-1976
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As far as Melissa Wade was concerned, the future could have hardly looked blacker. Her father's second marriage had been a disaster. His new wife was as crude as she was rich, interested only in the unbridled pleasures of strong drink and the ...

• Feb-1976
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Quintus Tiverton's handsome face was marred by an angry scowl. Granted he had saved Selina from a most unsavory predicament, but now he was forced to look after the girl. Quintus was on his way to fashionable Baden-Baden, pursuing his livelihood a...

• Feb-1976
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There was no doubt that this was the worst moment in Anastasia's young life. Standing trembling on the palace steps with the crowd cheering behind her, the exquisite little Princess was about to meet her future husband for the first time. A...

• Mar-1976
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The Marquis of Ruckford was enchanted. Vanessa was as delicately beautiful as the miniatures she worked so patiently to restore. She was like no other woman the Marquis had ever known. In fact, the more he saw Vanessa, the more he realized life wi...

• Mar-1976
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The mildness and beauty of Hong Kong were so welcome after the horrible English winters. As lovely and delicate as the flower she was named for, Azalea needed warmth and sunlight to survive. Not that Azalea would ever be truly happy in her new home....

• Apr-1976
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For once the handsome, self-assured Earl of Helstone had been caught off guard. The young lady had taken a nasty fall from her horse and the Earl rushed to her aid. But as he reached her side, he realized that the pretty little redhead was shammin...

• Apr-1976
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Wealthy, self-confident and powerful, Lord Hawkston always got what he wanted. He swept into Dominica's life with a startling proposal. He wished to take the pretty vicar's daughter to his plantation in the Ceylonese mountains as a wife for his yo...

• May-1976
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Linetta was alone in the world. Her dying governess instructed her to go to Paris and seek the help of her niece, Marie. Had that good lady known what had happened to simple, good-hearted Marie -- now Blanche d'Antigny, the toast of the Paris ...

• May-1976
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England, 1816. Andrina's two lovely sisters -- orphaned, penniless, buried in the country -- would never find suitable husbands unless they went to London, and to introduce them to society. Her sisters' beauty would accomplish the rest. Andrina i...

• Jun-1976
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Larina Wilton finds out that she has a month to live, and she decided contacted by her dead friend's brother, who was in Italy. Although he had dedicated much of his life to the pursuit of women, Wynstan Vanderfeld was unprepared for his first...

• Jun-1976
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The very thought of marriage to Lord Bantham made Vita Ashford shudder. Why the man was old enough to be her father! She'd rather die than marry him. Cleverly, Vita planned her escape. Her destination: the Syrian desert, where her cousin --...

Yamina froze as a new wave of terror swept over her. Life had become so dangerous. Caught in Constantinople during the Crimean War, the exquisite young Russian had been forced to seek refuge in a Sultan's harem from a mob that would have torn her ap...

• 1976
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Lady Ancella Winn has taken the position of companion to the Russian Princess Feodogrova Vsevolovski after the death of her father. If Ancella's prim maiden aunts could see her, they'd be horrified. Here she was in the gambling casino at Monte Carlo...

• Aug-1976
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It was impossible for Valda to do what her stepfather asked. He was French and the idea of arranged marriages came naturally to him. But she was not and the thought of being wed to a man she did not love -- did not even know -- repulsed her. "But V...

• Aug-1976
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There was no question that the Marquis of Aldridge had saved her life. The townspeople were convinced she was a witch. They were dragging her to the river to administer the ultimate test. If she drowned, she was innocent. If she floated, she was e...

• Sep-1976
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The Earl of Lemsford's daughters were very diferent, the eldest was a perfect lady and the second a little tomboy. When Lord Athol, the Duke of Doncaster sought the hand of his second daughter, the Earl stared at his prospective son-in-law in und...

• Sep-1976
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Perhaps Olinda Selwyn's mother had been right after all. Olinda had accepted a job restoring embroidered tapestries for the Dowager Countess of Kelvedon. The Selwyns certainly needed the money. But Olinda's mother was afraid -- afraid that...

• Oct-1976
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Theola would have done anything to get out of England, but escape was proving more confining, more dangerous than her former prison. She had always been nothing more than a glorified Cinderella -- a poor little cousin who waited hand-and-foot on t...

• Oct-1976
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Anthea Forthingdale had made the most costly mistake of her life. Granted she needed money to ease her mother and three sisters out of their impoverished existence. And granted Anthea's clever caricatures of London high society had been a smas...

• Nov-1976
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Leona stood before the Duke of Ardness, well aware that her whole body was trembling. "I understand that you rode off my land today," the Duke began slowly. Although he was speaking in a controlled, almost unemotional voice, Leona could fe...

• Nov-1976
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Ilona knew what it meant to be alone. Knew how it felt to be hungry, mistreated, defenseless. But now Ilona was going home. All the hardships of exile were behind her. She was going back to Dabrozka, the tiny kingdom whose throne would someday be he...

• Dec-1976
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Young Araminta is an innocent lady and a great cook, to help her family in a wager, she cooking undercover for the Marquis of Wayne. After the Marquis met her, he kissed her masterfully, passionately. "Tomorrow," he said, "I will take ...

• Dec-1976
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In a few short hours Cerissa would have everything she thought she wanted. A wealthy young lord was anxiously awaiting their wedding. Cerissa would become a great lady. No one would ever again mention her low birth. Yet her heart pounded for the ga...

• Jan-1977
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Lady Cordelia acompained her brother, who is on his way to Malta to become a Knight of St John. They are in Naples since the French are fighting in the seas and they meet up with their cousin, Mark Stanton, who is willing to take them to Malta. Th...

"I dislike all men and I shall never marry one!" When Durstan Hayle first set eyes on Lady Lorinda Camborne, the toast of St Jame's, her eyes were alight with amusement. Circling the ballroom on a black horse, she appeared to be naked except for the...

• Feb-1977
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Shimona was face to face with the notorious Duke of Ravenstone. She had imagined an older man with slanting eyes, arched eyebrows, a long thin nose and pointed ears. But as she looked across the room she saw not the devil she had anticipated, but a s...

• Feb-1977
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"How could I have been so foolish? How could this have happened to me?" Viola asked herself desperately as she looked at the grim prison walls surrounding her. Her only chance for release lay with the man she loved. Surely his influence could free...

• Mar-1977
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Giselda had nowhere to turn. Without the money for the operation her young brother might die. Her wealthy employer, the Earl of Lyndhurst, might be kind and generous but she could never accept his charity. He must not know the terrible reason for he...

• Feb-1977
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Melita's life at Martinique had seemed blessed with beauty. But when she heard the drums pounding softly in the night, she remembered what she had heard about Voodoo. Following the sound she pushed her way through the branches and saw a group of sla...

• 1977
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Lady Mary Emmeline Athena's grandmother has arranged her marriage to the Greek Prince of Parnassus. Disillusioned by the palace gossips she ran away to Delphi, the shrine of Apollo, to pray about her future marriage. There, Athena met the handsome Or...

• 1977
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Orlena could hardly believe her eyes. There, standing in front of her, was her new Guardian, the Earl of Ulverston, the man her late father had chosen to protect her large fortune. But this was no elderly, solicitous friend of her father's. Nor was...

• May-1977
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As the ship rocked violently Shikara clung to the Marquis' lapel with a frantic grip. "I am afraid," she said. "I cannot help it--I have always been afraid in a storm “It's all right,” he said soothingly. “It's quite understandable in -- ...

• May-1977
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Their brilliant plan, Tempera Rothley reflected, had brought utter disaster. Left penniless by the death of Lord Rothley, she and her beautiful young stepmother had no hope but to marry as soon as possible. Lady Rothley's chance came first: a hous...

• Jun-1977
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Rowena lived in a little village with her father, a doctor, when the Marquis of Swayne is injured in an accident and taken to their house. While recuperating, they fell in love. "I love you as I swear I have never loved a woman before," th...

• Jun-1977
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"What is your name?" the Duke of Arkcraig addressed her in a deep, low voice. "T-Tara... Your G-Grace." "Tara, you are to marry me. How old are you?" "Nearly eighteen, Your Grace." "Very well," he s...

• Jul-1977
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Nevada van Arden was cruel, selfish and utterly spoiled. An American heiress as rich as she was beautiful, she delighted in encouraging young men to fall in love with her so that she might break their hearts. Enraged by her callousness, Tyrone Stro...

• Jul-1977
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The masterful highwayman stood in the moonlight waiting for outrageous Lady Galatea Roysdon to relinquish her last jewel to his rakish, mocking command. "But you can not take this!" she protested. "It was my mother's and it is all ...

• Aug-1977
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Undercovered as governess in order to stay with her nephew and nieces after the death of their parents in a boating accident, Tamara started to work to their new guardian, the Duke of Granchester. The Duke's arms went around her and before Tamara re...

• Aug-1977
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Stanton Ware pondered the person who would be chosen as his companion on this dangerous mission to Peking. Undoubtedly it would be a man who was used to spy out the secrets of rivals. Certainly he would be a brave and patriotic companion. The door o...

• Sep-1977
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Bertilla's mother was a society beauty, who didn't want anyone to know she had a grown daughter, and decided send her away to her aunt in Sarawak. When she was fleeing a persistent suitor, she runs into handsome Lord Saire at the train station and la...

• Sep-1977
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Torilla heard voices drawing near and she braced herself for a contact with the Marquis--a man whose reputation for extravagance and cruelty terrified her. "Here is Gallen, Torilla, and now you can meet him," she heard her cousin say. With an e...

• Oct-1977
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Life had become a nightmare of terror and despair for lovely Wivina Compton. Jeffrey Farlow, leader of the village gang of smugglers, was determined to make her his wife. Wivina despised him. His crude advances repulsed her, and she was certain he...

• Oct-1977
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Lucilla now knew that her life had been empty before she came to Ecuador. At home in England, she was little more than a maid for her beautiful, temperamental older sister. But here in Ecuador, life was one glorious adventure after another -- beginn...

• Oct-1977
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"When I marry," Zenka cried, "I shall marry for love and no Queen or anybody else will persuade me to do otherwise." Her defiant vow was as brave as it was useless. Queen Victoria had already decided to marry the fiery-haired Princ...

• Nov-1977
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Vernita had never been so frightened or confused in her life. Trapped in Paris as Napoleon,was trying to imprison all English tourists, she was masquerading as a French seamstress. But she could never disguise her fresh young beauty and exquisi...

• Nov-1977
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Yolande's desperation knew no bounds. Up until now her life was as perfect as any princess in a storybook. A landed countess, blessed with beauty, intelligence and wealth, she lived in a magnificent castle on the edge of a dark, mysterious for...

• Dec-1977
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For a girl who'd led such a sheltered life, Bettina Charlwood had shot like a meteor to the dizzying heights of Regency society. To have gone straight from a convent school iri France to a yachting party hosted by the Prince Regent's most ...

• Jan-1978
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Pandora was not eavesdropping. It was only by accident that she found herself overhearing the horrifying conversation between her uncle and guardian--the Bishop of Lindchester--and his wife. "I have not had a chance to tell you," began Pandora's u...

• Jan-1978
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Can the Duke of Templecombe help her to scape to a married Russian Prince? Salena Cardenham knew something was desperately wrong the moment she saw her father waiting for her at the Monte Carlo railway station. "I think you have something to say t...

• Feb-1978
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How strange that a carriage accident could bring such enchantment into Petula's life. Buried in the country, she was completely unused to such witty or handsome company as Major Adrian Chester. What good fortune that he was forced to spend the nig...

• Mar-1978
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“Miss Alexia Minton, M'Lord!” A girl came into the room slowly. “You are the Marquis of Osminton?” she asked in a soft, quiet voice. “I am,” the Marquis replied. “I thought,” Alexia continued, “you might be able to help ...

• Mar-1978
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The king came to Xenia's bedside and looked at her luxurious red hair shining in the candlelight and at her tender lips, which were trembling because she was afraid. "Do you know how beautiful you are?" He said. Xenia knew the moment had finally co...

• Apr-1978
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New York City, 1907. Devina looked out of the window, very conscious that Gordon Thorpe's eyes were on her face. "You are lovely in a way I did not realize when I first saw you," he said quietly. "I find myself looking at your spirit shining throug...

• May-1978
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The Duc de Savigne turned his back on Syrilla and stood looking out of the turret window with unseeing eyes. "I am certainly not the Knight you believed me to be. I have committed every indecent crime imaginable. I have even ruined innocent women's ...

• May-1978
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Every day since she had fled to the farm, Romara had yearned for Lord Ravenscar, and had cried many bitter tears over him at night into her pillow. How, she asked herself, could she have been so foolish, so stupid, as to fall in love with a man wh...

• Jun-1978
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Jarita's hair was glinting in the light of the candles, and her eyes were wide and frightened in her small face. Another crash of lightning reverberated in the room and now, as if she could not help it, she reached out towards Lord Vernham and in...

• Jul-1978
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Saucy, headstrong Petrina had just escaped from her country school when she ran into her Guardian, Earl of Staverton. To her surprise he was not the old stuffed shirt she'd expected, but a young, strikingly handsome aristocrat--and without a doubt th...

When Gracila turned up her exquisite face to gaze at Lord Damien, he said in a trembling voice: ''For God's sake, do not look at me like that... you who are so pure, so perfect, so innocent. Now when I see you, I know that I must go away. Go away!''...

• 1978
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The Prince Ivan gazed down at Lokita's upturned face, then gently bent his head as his lips found hers. It was as if he asked her to to allow her soul to become his. Lokita had never experienced such feeling, such power. It was so compelling, so gl...

"Your heart spoke to my heart, and your soul to mine." Mariska was shocked that the German High Command should expect her to splay the spy -- and terrified of her husband's anger if she refused. While in Marienbad to report to Edward VII, Lord Arkle...

• Sep-1978
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Vulcan glanced at his painting, then at the others lying against the wall. "As soon as this one is engraved," he said, "I shall take them all to Paris. Are you coming with me?" Astara simply stared, feeling that she could not have heard him correc...

• Oct-1978
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Clint Wilbur was standing quietly in the Drawing-Room in front of the fireplace. Alita stood only a few feet away. "You are well?" "Of...course." The words they were speaking did not really matter. Something magnetic like a s...

For a moment they both stood still as if turned to stone. Then with a little cry Roxana moved into the Count's arms. He held her close, kissing first her lips, then her wet eyes and the tears from her cheeks. She felt as if her prayer had been answer...

• Nov-1978
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The Marquis took off his snow-covered overcoat and lowered himself next to her by the hearth. "I did not expect the storm to happen," he said, "but now it has I find it quite an adventure." "It will not be so enjoyable if we have to stay the night,...

• Dec-1978
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The Duke of Strathnarn went down on one knee before Clola and put his hands together, palm to palm. Then, looking up at her, he said very slowly: "I swear by Almighty God to protect and serve you. I will love you with my whole heart, worship you as ...

• Jan-1979
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Benedicta gave a little cry and threw herself against the Duke of Kingswood. "I am so frightened I may...disappoint you." He pulled her closer to him. "Do you think I want you to know anything but what I shall teach you?" he ...

• Jan-1979
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The Earl put out his arms towards her. But Demelza did not move and he stopped before he touched her. "May I kiss you?" he whispered. "I think ... if you kissed me it would be more wonderful than anything else in the world ... but it would be ....

• Feb-1979
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The lovely young novice Saona walked into the garden and Andre found that he was following her. "It is very pretty," she said. "And so are you." She looked up at him in surprise, and as their eyes met, it was impossible to lo...

• 1979
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On leaving the Italian convent in which she was educated, Una Thoreau set out for Paris to join her father in Montmartre. She arrives to discover that her father is dead. Alone in foreign city, her father's picture dealer, Philippe Dubucheron, be...

• Mar-1979
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"You have come!" The Prince Xanos of Cephalonia exclaimed. "Yes," said Angelina softly. "I have come." The prince paused for a moment looking at the beautiful young woman in a way that made her tremble. "You are so lovely and yet." There was a th...

• Mar-1979
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The Earl of Rochester thought that the room had suddenly been lit with a thousand candles as Ophelia's eyes met his. With a little murmur she moved towards him and hid her face against his shoulder. "I must be dreaming," she whispered. "I did not ...

• May-1979
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Major Tyson Dale returns home victorious from the wars against Napoleon to find his estate fallen into decay and the title stolen by his uncle. While drowning his sorrows at the local posting house, he overhears a plot to abduct a beautiful young gir...

• May-1979
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The Marquis of Rosyth' voice deepened as he spoke, "Have I spoilt what you felt for me, my precious? Neoma moved a little nearer to him. "I am... sure that if you... kiss me... we will find it is still there." She only whispered the words but the M...

The Earl of Winsford looked at her searchingly and then he said: "I want a wife to belong to me completely. To be mine exclusively for all time!" He paused before he said very quietly: "And I think, Sorilda, I have found her." Then, as in some mira...

• Jul-1979
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For a moment they looked at each other. Then Rex said: "I am afraid of telling you what is in my heart." Because his voice was very soft and gentle Quentella felt herself tremble. "You need not... be afraid." She was not sure whether she took a ste...

• Jul-1979
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Quite suddenly Susanna realized she was not alone. Someone was standing in the pool beside her. By the light of the moon she saw it was Fyfe! For a moment she thought she was imagining him, for there was no bandage over his eyes and he was looking...

• Jul-1979
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"Where have you been, Miss Windham?" The Duke of Strathrannock spoke so harshly that Fiona was startled. "I have...." she began feebly. "Do not bother to lie!" he said furiously. "Have you had enough lovemaking tonig...

• Sep-1979
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Valeta looked at the Marquis of Troon with gratitude."How can I... thank you?" He pulled her into his arms. "Like this," he answered and his lips were on hers. For a moment Valeta was too astonished to speak. Then the Marquis' lips aroused in her ...

• Aug-1979
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When the Duke held Aleta in his arms, he had never known such rapture. "Do you love me?" he asked. "Oh, Tybalt, you know I do." "You excite me so wildly, my precious." “I ... want to ... excite you ... as you excite me.” The Duk...

Brucena looked up, and, as she did so, Iain Huntley's lips took possession and held her captive. For a moment she felt nothing, not even surprise. But then as the man's arms tightened, her lips were suddenly soft beneath the insistence of his. Someth...

The Prince of Wales buys for Carlton House an exquisitely painted 15th century picture of "The Virgin of the Lilies" by Stefan Lochner. Both he and his close friend the Marquis of Fane are entranced by it. They are, however, stunned when the dealer b...

There was silence for a moment, then the Marquis of Sarne said: "There is only one way I can thank you, Romana." As he spoke he put his fingers under her chin and pressed his lips down on hers. His kiss was so perfect, so glorious, that Romana coul...

• Dec-1979
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"Have you ever been kissed" Pierre teased. But before Zaza could protest, her eyes met his and everything else seemed to fade away...her father, the Palace, her life as a Princess... Then, as if it was part of poetry and music, his arms we...

Iola awoke with a start thinking she had heard a noise, then she remembered where she was and thought it must be very early in the morning. She sat up and lit a candle beside her bed, and saw from her watch that it was just after half-past-five. Thi...

• Jan-1980
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In the light from the candles and the moonlight outside, Kelda saw an expression in Lord Orsett's eyes that made her heart start beating furiously and she could not look away. "I want your heart," he began. "I want it more than I h...

• Feb-1980
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Thalia walked slowly across the lawn, through a rose garden, to the lily pond. "It is a place for lovers," she thought instinctively. Then she drew her breath as if the thought stabbed her like a sharp dagger. "You are not crying, Thalia?" came an u...

Chandra Wardell, daughter of a world-renowned Sanskrit scholar, learns that her father has been commissioned to journey to Nepal to search for an ancient manuscript. Chandra is thrilled--till she discovers that the invitation, extended by staunch wom...

• Mar-1980
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Prince Ivan's words were passionate, unyielding, yet Alana allowed herself no surrender. "Love is something that cannot be denied, cannot be refused," Ivan protested, "though I thought the real ecstasy and wonder of it was something that would never...

• Apr-1980
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When handsome Duke of Welminster arrived in St. Petersburg to discuss the news of Napoleon's advance on Moscow. At that point, love is the furthest thing from his mind! Then, invited to the home of an old friend, Princess Sonia, the duke realizes...

"They have gone!" Yolanda gave a deep sigh of relief as she went limp in the Duke of Ilkeston's arms. "They have gone!" As she turned her head to speak to him, his lips came down on hers. This was the beginning of love, a love that shot through her ...

• May-1980
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"Why did you leave?" The Marquis of Sarle's question took Nolita by surprise. "Her Ladyship... dismissed me," she stammered. "Why?" Her heart quaking, she revealed the humiliating charges, certain that telling him would be the end of everything. Y...

• Jun-1980
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"Marcia, you are tempting Fate," the Earl said. The gas lamps had been extinguished, making the room intimate. The Earl moved towards her. He put his arms around her, kissing her fiercely, making her forget everything but the rapture that rose withi...

• Jul-1980
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BEYOND HER WILDEST DREAMS "What is happening?" Zosina asked, her voice shaking. She raised her face instinctively as she spoke, and, without her having any intention of doing so, her mouth touched his. A streak of lightning seemed to...

• Jul-1980
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The moon had risen and everything was enveloped with a light that seemed to come from the gods themselves. "It is so... lovely!" Latonia breathed. "And so are youl" Lord Branscombe replied softly. She felt his arm go around her as he said, "This. i...

• Aug-1980
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THE DAWN OF LOVE The Duke stood beside Lorena. She did not turn her head. The Duke tightened his fingers on hers and knew that as he did so she gave a little quiver. Lorena gave a deep sigh that seemed to come from the depths of her being. S...

• Sep-1980
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A warm wave of fragrance and sunlight greeted them as they crossed the room to the orchids. "I told you, Anita," said the Duke of Ollerton, "never come to a Conservatory alone with a man unless you want him to make love to you." Her eyes widened: "...

The stars shone brilliantly over the harbor as Ola's words concealed what was in her heart: "You have told me that you hate women as I hate men..." The color rose in her cheeks. The Marquis of Elvington replied, "I think we have a great deal to lear...

"I think, Prunella," the Earl of Winslow said slowly, "you are offering me a challenge." "I do not know what you are talking about," Prunella replied. "I am talking about love, and of course, your ignorance of it." To Prunella's astonishment, the E...

• Oct-1980
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The Duke of Oswestry was being blackmailed into marriage by his former mistress, who finds herself pregnant, but he knew that the child is by other man. He rescued the young inocent Udela, after his evil brother planned to send her to a London's brot...

Larentia felt the Duke of Tregaron's eyes upon her, as though her were speaking to her without words. "Look at me, Larentia!" She could not take her eyes from the Duke's and knew that she was his prisoner whether she wished it or not. Very slowly, ...

• Dec-1980
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The Earl of Hawkshead looked down at Baptista. Her face was hidden against his shoulder. "I am... sorry," she said in a muffled voice. "It was... my fault." He asked me if I... had ever been... kissed," Baptista said in a hesitating little voice, "a...

Jemima knew that Viscount Ockley was only marrying her because he had been jilted by her cousin, Niobe. Now that she had run away, Jemima no longer cared. She could not go on being beaten by her uncle and made so desperately unhappy. Marriage to a Re...

• Jan-1981
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Kistna straightened herself and turned to look at the water beneath her. With a shock of sheer horror the Marquis of Alchester realized what she intended to do. He reached her in a few strides and when he was beside her and his hands went out to tak...

• Feb-1981
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The Duke of Buckminster drew Princess Militsa of Russia along the passage and as they reached the end of it there was the sound of music. The Duke had given her his arm, and now as her fingers tightened on his, she said: "I... I shall not know... h...

• Mar-1981
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The Earl of Rockbrook, to escape an unwanted marriage, flees to the country where he meets with an accident...when he recovers consciousness, he finds himself being nursed by a simple country girl who he marries to escape the unwanted marriage, but f...

• Mar-1981
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Tula Audenshaw rose from where she had been sitting and walked slowly across the soft ground to the edge of the stream. "I have another suggestion," Lord Yelverton said at last. "Why do we not, because we are so lucky together, try to ...

• Apr-1981
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"Of course," Felica said, "and now you have saved me for the...second time!" She raised her face to his as she spoke, and by the light of the moon that was high overhead, the Duke of Darlington could see the tears glistening on her...

• May-1981
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SHE WAS BREATHLESS "You are mine, Caneda, and I want you! I want you now!" As Duc de Saumac finished speaking his lips were on hers and he was kissing her. Now there was a fire on his lips that was like nothing Caneda Lang had ever imagined, and ye...

"Gisela, It would not matter to me who you were. I realised that whatever the consequences, I could not live without you." The Prince of Hungary then kissed her fiercely, demandingly, as if he was still afraid he might lose her and the agonies he had...

Duke of Otterburn put his arms around Magnolia Vandevilt, then slowly, very slowly, as if he was still afraid to frighten her, his lips found hers. As he kissed her he knew, just as he had expected, her mouth was soft, sweet and innocent and gave hi...

• Jul-1981
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"I will never let you leave me." His lips came down on hers and swept away her fear, her unhappiness, and everything except the rapture of knowing that this was what Odetta had been longing for and thought she had lost forever. He kissed her while ...

• Jul-1981
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THE HEAVENS OPENED The Marquis of Vange looked down at Davita's face for a long moment, as if he wished to engrave it on his memory forever, then as his arms tightened his lips sought hers. It was as if the Heavens opened, and she knew an inexpress...

• Feb-1998
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England, 1870. For years the Dukes of Northallerton, and Lyncester had disputed the rightful ownership of the 10,000 acres that lay between their estates... Suddenly the Duke of Northallerton proposes that the quarrel shall be settled by the marri...

"I love you!" the Marquis said. "I love you until it is impossible to think of anything else but you. I cannot live without you!" Then his lips were on hers. To Mina it was as if there was a blazing light which came from the sky and enveloped them ...

• Aug-1981
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The Earl of Heversham seemed to fill the whole room, the sky, and the world itself, and she knew as she saw his eyes that he looked younger and happier then and completely different from the man she had left behind. Neither of them could speak, they...

• Sep-1981
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When they had gone back to the yacht, the Duke of Darleston took her down to his private cabin to put his arms round her. "You are mine," he said. "Whatever happened in the past, we are now together, and I swear that as long as we shall live, I will...

• Oct-1981
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"Shall we find out if the second time we kiss each other is a wonderful as the first?" Earl of Keswick did not wait for Alisa's answer, but his lips were on hers and Alisa knew at the first touch of them that this was what she had been longing and y...

• Nov-1981
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Zelina Tiverton lifted her face and he looked down at her for a long moment before his lips found hers. As he kissed her Zelina knew that his was what she had been waiting and longing for ever since they had been together on the Ischora. Lord Charn...

• Nov-1981
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Giona had not slept well because she had sensed when the Duke of Alverstode had said goodnight that something had annoyed him. "What has... upset him? What could... I have... done?" she asked herself. Then she went over it in her mind. The Duke had ...

• Dec-1981
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"Lalita!" he exclaimed. As he spoke, a flash of lightning revealed her frightened face framed by her fair hair. The next thing Lord Heywood knew, Lalita was clinging to him. He could feel her trembling. "It is all right," he said soothingly. "I... I...

Grania O'Kerry arrives back in Grenada, in 1795, and learns that her father intends her to marry Roderick Maigrin, a coarse, drunken, but rich planter. There is a rebellion and Grania flees to Secret Harbour for protection, but when she enters the ho...

• Feb-1982
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The Marquis of Staverton looked down at her cheeks wet with tears, her lips quivering, and her blue eyes too shy to meet his. "Tell me," he said, "why it matters to you what I think and feel about you." Gilda could only look up at him helplessly, th...

• Feb-1982
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Fabia's hands were clasped together, her head was bent, and the Duke of Ilminster was aware that she was praying. The Duke rose and walked towards her. " I... I had to come," she said. " I... I was... afraid." "There is no need to be," he said. Ver...

• Feb-1982
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Suddenly and unexpectedly, there was the sound of the bolt being raised on the door, and Carmela Lyndon sat up, alert and half-fearful that it might be Matthews or Lane returning. Then as the sunlight flooded in she saw the outline of a man, large an...

• Apr-1982
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" I cannot ... bear it!" Paulina protested. "I am not ... strong like . . . you. I want to be with you ... to see you ... to love you." Prince Maximus laid his cheek against hers. "I shall think of you, dream of you, and wherever I am, I shall fee...

• May-1982
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How long Pierre Valery kissed her she had no idea. Simonetta knew only that the rapture and ecstasy of it was out of time and might have lasted a few seconds or many centuries. "I did not know... I never guessed a... kiss could be so wonderful... s...

• May-1982
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"I think I... ought to... go away," Ilouka managed to say. The Earl of Lavenham smiled again. "Do you really think I would let you do that?" he asked. Ilouka stared at him as if she could not believe what he was saying. Then as she was trying to fi...

• Jun-1982
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As their eyes met she felt herself quiver with a feeling Arina Beverley had never known before that seemed to be rising within her, which made her feel it was impossible to breathe. " I may be quite wrong," the Marquess Alistair McDonon sa...

• Jul-1982
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Marista Rockbourne was still praying when the door opened and as she turned her head she saw in the moonlight the Earl of Stanbrook coming in. Marista drew in her breath, and the Earl came close to look down at her, at her hair falling over her shoul...

• Aug-1982
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Queen's Ford, a beautiful house built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, is crumbling into a ruin and the Forde family are so poor they can't afford to repair it. Jeremy, needing some new clothes, persuades is sister, Mariota, to help him hold ...

• Jul-1982
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Craig Vandervelt, handsome son of the richest man in America, is begged by his cousin, the Marquess of Landsdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, to undertake a secret mission. He must find a British agent who has disappeared in India. He encounters ...

• Aug-1982
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The Marquis of Broome walked deep into the stable. "Where are you?" "I am...here," Cara replied. He realized that she had climbed up into the hayrack. He walked to stand immediately below her and put up his arms. "I will not...

• Sep-1982
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Inspired and helped by Almiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. There was silence until Delora said, "so...you do not like...kissing me! To me it was the most wonderful thing that ever happened!" Captain Conrad Horn realised ...

• Oct-1982
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The Duke of Ravenstock awoke and was aware that everything was very silent. He looked for Anoushka, but at first he could not see her. Then he realised she was beside him in the bed, sound asleep. For the moment he was astonished. Then he realised t...

• Nov-1982
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Without thinking, simply because her terror about what had occurred was still with her, Lady Samala Wynn ran towards the Duke of Buckhurst and flung herself against him. "You... are safe!" Her hands had reached up towards the Duke's neck, and as he...

• Dec-1982
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Never had Atayla seen a man looking so angry, and before she could speak, before she could think or ask what he was doing, the Earl said: "I am well aware of why you came here, Miss Lindsay, and why my wife sent you to seduce me into giving her the ...

• Nov-1982
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Tormented by her cruel uncle, Sita contemplates suicide, but a mysterious Indian passenger on the voyage to Calcutta convinces her to go on. She was praying frantically, desperately, when she heard the bolt being lifted off the door. Now there was ...

• Dec-1982
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Ilina could only feel the violent, frantic beating of her heart and that the room was filled with a blinding light that came from the sky and yet was a part of the Duke and herself. He drew a little closer to her but did not touch her, and after a...

• Jan-1983
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Zita was suddenly aware that somebody, a man, was moving between the trunks of the trees, catching only a glimpse as he passed behind first one, then another. She thought that it would be a bore if she had to stop and talk as was customary in that pa...

• Jan-1983
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1894. The Marquis of Oakenshaw is asked by the Foreign Secretary to visit Siam to reassure the King who has been upset by Britain and France quarrelling over the frontiers. A dashing, wealthy and handsome bachelor, the Marquis asks several friends to...

• Feb-1983
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1824. With her father dying of starvation, Lucia had to sell his paintings. In desperation she accosted the Marquis of Wynchcombe who, bored with life and his Venerian mistress, set taking coffee outside Florian's cafi. This meeting with a seeming be...

• Mar-1983
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The Duke of Tynemouth, who is having a wild affair with the Countess of Langstone, learns that Queen Victoria is planning that he should marry. In a desperate effort to escape and to save his reputation, the Duke agrees to marry the Countess's niece ...

• May-1983
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1825. Because of her gypsy ancestry Princess Laetitia invoked the help of Romanies to waylay the King Viktor of Zvotana in the guise of a dancer to do whatever she could to prevent his betrothal to Stephanie, the girl her brother Kyril loved. They g...

• Jun-1983
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The Prince Janos Kovac gently put his arms around Forella and drew her close to him. He looked down at her for a long moment. "How can you be so perfect, so exquisite," he asked, "that I find it hard even when I am touching you to believe that you a...

• Jul-1983
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England, 1818. Lady Alvina Harling tore from her bedroom and along the corridor towards the master suite on the other side of the castle. She turned the handle and went into the small and elegant hall. There was one light flickering low in a sconce ...

• Aug-1983
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1970. After the death of her mother, Lady Ivona is forced by her uncle and guardian to become a postulant in a convent noted for its severity. During the journey across Alsace she manages to elude her escort and shares an unexpected refuge with the D...

• Sep-1983
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Minella faced the Earl, her eyes flashing with anger. Then tears suddenly blinded her eyes and ran down her cheeks. She felt the Earl's arms go round her. She put her face against his shoulder and went on crying. "A do not want you to upset yourself...

• Oct-1983
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When the Marquis of Ardley boasts that he could always tell a woman of high breeding, Lord Frodham and Sir James Overton decide to take up the challenge to find a woman who can fool him. On their way, they rescue beautiful Indira and persuade her to ...

• Nov-1983
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For a moment Rocana found it impossible to believe that the idea of the Marquis of Quorn driving some beautiful lady as he had driven her could evoke an agonizing sensation, which she though was even more painful than the wound in her arm had been. ...

• Dec-1983
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England, 1819. When Diona Grantley becames an orphan at her father's death, she is compelled to live with her uncle, Sir Hereward Grantley and his dim-witted son Simon. Her father died in debt, Her only comfort is her beloved dog, a Dalmatian cal...

• Dec-1984
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Pandia looked down at the book in her hand. Then as if he could not wait for her answer Lord Silvester asked: "Have you thought about me?" "It would be...difficult to think of anything...else." "That is what I hoped," he...

• Dec-1984
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"You are mine!" Torquil said fiercely. "Mine, and nothing in the world will stop me from loving you and keeping you with me from now throughout eternity!" " I... love... you!" Pepita whispered. He would have kissed her again but she put up her hand...

• Mar-1984
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" I... love you!" Tora was not even aware she had said the words, and yet they came to her lips. Miklos drew in his breath. Then he was kissing her again, kissing her with long, slow, passionate kisses that made her quiver in his arms, and she knew ...