Coventry — Multiple Authors

• Nov-1979
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Lucy Clifford had been quite unhappy living in the London home of her Aunt Fanny after her father died. So she gratefully accepted the invitation of her dear friend Melissa to live at Cumberley, the country home of the Penrose family. Lucy had alw...

• Nov-1979
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Had her father not been so irresponsible, Allegra Lakesby would never have had to leave her ancestral home to become a governess at Fetherstone. But not even the drab servant's dress could hide the glow of Allegra's beauty and glistening g...

• Nov-1979
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LUCIA was remarkably beautiful and sweet natured. But she could not live with the spitefulness of her stepsister. When Gervase Leigh, a wealthy man of impeccable background, asked her to marry him, she accepted this means of escape -- in spite of her...

• Nov-1979
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SOPHIE & SARAH It was difficult to say who was the more beautiful and enchanting -- Sophie Sandringham or her sister Sarah. In fact, it was quite impossible. For Sophie and Sarah were as lovely a pair of identical twins as ever baffled their...

• Nov-1979
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Megan Watkins was afraid everyone would think her a hopeless country girl when she arrived in London to be a companion to her beautiful cousin, Diane. And the vain Diane kicked up a bit of dust at the lovely, pink-complexioned Megan, whom she regarde...

• Nov-1979
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HELENE Beautiful, fair-haired Helene Ambel was the hit of the London season, the epitome of a refined young heiress. But she preferred books, horses, and intellectual pursuits to the dances, parties, and simpering, overdressed, foolish men she cou...

• Dec-1979
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THE STRANGER'S KISS Lady Carolyn was still young and lovely even though she had failed to snare a husband during the previous London season. Her family, however, persuaded her to give London another try. Then a funny thing happened on the way t...

• Dec-1979
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"YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD AND DUTIFUL DAUGHTER TO ME AND THE LEAST' I CAN DO IS PUT YOU INTO POSSESSION OF THE FACTS. "YOU ARE NOT MY DAUGHTER." With those words Mrs. Tracy gave lovely Charmian the shock of her life. The news that s...

• Dec-1979
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She was beautiful, young, and an heiress. Suddenly, she became an orphan - and the ruthless Colonel Fenshawe and his despicable family were offering her sanctuary. The Colonel cared nothing for Charmian, but he intended to force her into a marriage w...

• Dec-1979
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"JUST LIKE THE OLD DEVIL TO TAKE IT WITH HER." Unloved while she lived, tight-fisted, tyrannical old Aunt Sophie took her revenge when she died. No one would get her diamonds. She would take them with her to her grave. Claudia had neve...

• Nov-1979
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"My house or the poorhouse?" It wasn't much of a choice for Christina. The young Marquess was her guardian. She had to live by his impossible rules - until he found a husband for her. Christina was certain it was his evil influence that d...

• Dec-1979
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There was no way beautiful and spirited Lacey Burton would marry the fortune-hunting Lord Collymore, who was known to be dallying with her stepmother. Disguised as a man, Lacey took off for Bussingham Towers, determined to keep her identity -- and fo...

• Dec-1979
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When the impetuous and lovely Jynx Lennox suddenly asked her childhood friend, Shannon (now Viscount Roxbury) to marry her, he was shocked. "Don't refuse me," she implored. "At least not before you've given it some thought. You see, I do not expec...

• Jan-1980
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"We are on the verge," said Christian, "of becoming a gossip item. A very young widow and a stepson only a few years older living alone together under the same roof, we are bound to cause comment." This was the reason that Lady Ch...

• Jan-1980
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AN UNEXPECTED LEGACY With little to live on, spirited Jean Lindsay lived a rather dismal life with her nasty, drunken uncle. She was always the object of ridicule, that is, until news of her unexpected inheritance spread. Suddenly her worn dresses...

• Jan-1980
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It was no fund of goodness in Sir Hugo and young Lord Devaney that prompted them to turn Marin's future into a game. They had found the lovely young runaway in dire straits--accused of theft and wantonness. Now they wager that Lord Devaney can ...

• Jan-1980
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Sooner or later Susan supposed she'd marry. The idea of falling in love had never occurred to her -- until she met the elegant and wealthy Lord John. Even then she did not think it possible that he would be interested in her, since he was paying ...

• Jan-1980
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Deirdre had loved him since she was six years old. Now young Lord St. Clair was a soldier home from the wars with a scandalous tragedy trailing at his heels. She had to know if he was truly the man she once had loved, or the callous rake and murde...

• Jan-1980
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LADY HATHAWAY MUST HAVE BEEN MAD TO INVITE BOTH OF THEM. THE GREATEST FOOL IN THE WORLD KNEW THAT ONE DID NOT ASK THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF AVONDALE TO THE SAME PARTY The Duchess of Avondale--Belle to her friends --was absolutely finished with her m...

• Jan-1980
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Although she was no elegant beauty, Louisa Bardoff had a lively mind and a quiet charm that made her seem beautiful. Especially to young Lord Geffrey, who, misunderstanding Louisa's interest in another, resolved to put her out of his mind. When Lo...

• Feb-1980
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She was extremely beautiful, rich beyond dreams, and had admirers by the dozens. But lovely Fiona Cartwright was cool to her many suitors--a quality which earned her the nickname "Snow Maiden." Lecherous Lord Morney had long lusted after F...

• Feb-1980
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Even while she was growing up, she always looked like a woman. No awkward teen stage for the notorious Lady Barbara whose beauty was as unforgettable as her madcap adventures. Although dozens of eligible suitors pursued her, she cared for none of ...

• Feb-1980
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AT ODDS WITH LOVE... Although lovely Susan Eaton privately longed for something more than neighborliness from young Lord Woodstone, she gave no hint of these yearnings. Indeed, people were wont to call her "that nice, sensible Miss Eaton,"...

• Feb-1980
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She was everything a beautiful woman should be. Spirited, intelligent, and innocent. She was also without a penny. When her engagement to an Italian nobleman fell through -- or, rather, was pushed through by his Uncle Aldo -- Selina figured all was ...

• Feb-1980
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"IF ONLY MEN WERE HONEST WHEN THEY PROPOSED TO ME!" HARRIET CRIED. "IF ONLY ONE OF THEM WOULD SAY 'MISS ASHLEY I ADORE YOUR FORTUNE. MAY I MARRY IT?'" Harriet Ashley found it galling that so many men who didn't care a j...

• Feb-1980
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"I CANNOT LEAVE THIS HOUSE. IT IS THE ONLY LINK I HAVE WITH THE FUTURE. I'M NOT LADY ELSINGHAM. I'M KATHY HENDRIX." She was young, lovely, and newly jilted. And to make matters worse, it had started to rain. She sought refuge in the doorway of a s...

• Mar-1980
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Impish young Delilah wasn't at all prepared to live at the home of her cousin, the fierce but attractive duke. Her red hair and freckles were clues to make her mischievous ways that seemed to make her unacceptable to society. One of her most outrageo...

• Mar-1980
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Though she was well past her first season, she was still simply Fanny to all who knew and loved her. To her contemporaries, she was a dignified spinster -- plain, perhaps, but oh-so-elegant with a bearing and style all her own. Fanny had no intent...

• Mar-1980
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Miss Harriet Bannestock had suffered the most dreaded of fates for a young woman on the marriage market--she had not been taken. She had, however, secretly developed an affection for Julian Wickstead, someone she felt was far above her reach. Harr...

• Mar-1980
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She was American and beautiful. He was English and engaged to another and this would seem the end of it -- except... -- the beguiling tale of a charming young American girl who becomes the "guest" of a wealthy English family. Because Engla...

• Mar-1980
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"ONE CAN ONLY BE SORRY FOR HER THAT HER MOTHER DID NOT LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO TEACH HER THE THINGS A LADY SHOULD KNOW. INDEED SHE'S BEAUTIFUL, BUT OBVIOUSLY SHE KNOWS NOTHING OF GAY REPARTEE, THE NEWEST FASHION, THE LATEST DANCE." Kathleen had alway...

• Mar-1980
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To Felicia, the man who had rescued her was an enigma--frightening and fascinating, a pirate and yet a gentleman. They called him Valentine, and he was a dangerous buccaneer. He was also a fugitive who seemed to flirt with death. But death passed ...

• Apr-1980
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The lovely Justina had no intentions of falling in love with the handsome Captain Moresby. She was already engaged to marry another -- the dashing viscount who promised to give up gambling if he could make Justina his wife. Now Justina found herse...

• Apr-1980
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The last thing Ann Beverly expected when she left the home of her rich stepfather to earn her own living was to work as a housekeeper on a farm. But she soon came to love the Yorkshire countryside and was grateful for the kindness of Patrick, her emp...

• Apr-1980
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This merry tale of love, adventure, and deception plays out the tangled romance of pretty young Deirdre Chevington, who is engaged to one man and hopelessly in love with another. When Deirdre's lovely and clever aunt, Cassandra, decides to take a ...

• Apr-1980
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For so long Cecie had been merely a lovely child, to her cousin Peter a kind of little sister whom he had to protect. Now she was blossoming into a rare beauty and suddenly Peter found that his feelings were anything but brotherly. All might have rem...

• Apr-1980
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ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE WERE WAITING.... ...While Napoleon was being held prisoner aboard an English ship at Plymouth harbor. To the inhabitants of Bolt Hall, particularly the mischievous and beautiful Marie Boltwood, this lent an air of excitem...

• Apr-1980
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Jenny was not a beauty, but there was something about her that drew the enigmatic Peter Teverley. From the moment they met at the inn--where they suddenly discovered themselves embroiled in Emily Pellering's mysterious elopement -- Jenny found...

• May-1980
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"Twin Jewels. Not a Shade of Difference in the Hair. Spun Gold for Both of Them. Eyes Matching Brown. Same Tilt of the Nose. Charming. Alike as Two Peas in a Pod:" They were twins. Susan and Penelope. But they had been brought up apart. No...

• May-1980
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Lovely young Sophie Sandringham knew whom she wanted to wed -- Oliver Grantford, her childhood sweetheart. Happily, Oliver shared her desire. One obstacle stood in their path: Oliver's father, whose threat to strip Oliver of funds and future p...

• May-1980
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HER NAUGHTINES, THE WAYWARD LADY NESS.... Her real name was Vanessa and she was forever getting into scrapes that titillated her peers and shocked her parents. This time she'd really started the gossips mongering, so the lovely Lady Vanessa...

• May-1980
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“I THINK I AM GOING TO FAINT,” said Roseanna's mother when she learned that her sixteen-year-old daughter had been seen with Count Czarski, a man almost old enough to be her father. Worse, he was a Pole, an ally of Napoleon's and a prisoner of w...

• May-1980
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DARLING DECEIVER When Griselda (called Zelda by her friends) discovers that her irresponsible younger brother has lost the family mansion to a notorious gamester named Devil Fallon, she refuses to accept defeat. Unbeknownst to her brother, she ...

• May-1980
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The lovely Miranda was as scandalous as she was beautiful. Young Lord Romford had his hands full as her guardian and right now he was at his wit's end. Only the night before Miranda had allowed the dashing Viscount Brynmawr to unmask her at a ...

• Jun-1980
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LOVE, PASSION, AND DECEPTION Beautiful Madeleine Ardingley is shocked to learn that her beloved father is a liar and a cheat. The innocent, convent-educated girl is swept into the Parisian demi-monde and finds it not to her liking, though it appea...

• Jun-1980
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The beautiful, high-spirited Lady Sophia Drayton had planned a clever revenge against the Marquis of Damon. For had he not conspired to send her beloved brother into the battle of Waterloo that had sent him home a cripple? Now, Sophia faced Damon ...

• Jun-1980
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AN ENCHANTING TALE OF LOVE AND SECRET ADVENTURE She was gentle born and very much a lady. In fact, so much a lady that no one in town had guessed she had become the cherished leader on a band of young smugglers. Smuggling was the main source...

• Jun-1980
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Bronwen, the beloved foster-child of a wealthy scholar, had been deprived of her rightful legacy by her cruel and fanatical kinsmen. Reduced from her position as mistress of Twyning Hall to a virtual servant-girl, she fled the only home she had e...

• Jun-1980
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The petite Lady Margery Quennell at age twenty-three has graced the rows of wallflowers for many a Season. Except for Charles, the Marquess of Edgecombe, the only man who ever danced with her, Lady Margery has nothing to do with men; what's more,...

• Jun-1980
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Her real name was Christabel Devlin but she called herself Miss Stone. Because behind the glasses, and the plain dowdy figure an incredible beauty lay hidden. It was this loveliness that had caused her many problems with the titled gentlemen for w...

• Jul-1980
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What happens when the most sought-after beauty of the London season chooses to mock a stranger? What happens when she finds herself falling in love with that very stranger? And what happens when he chooses to take his revenge? A rollicking, ...

• Jul-1980
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THEY WERE SO RIGHT FOR EACH OTHER...AND SO MUCH WAS WRONG BETWEEN THEM. Proud, independent, talented, Glenna is about to marry Philip, Viscount Pontley--until a foolish quarrel estranges them. But Glenna cannot forget him, and when fate throws ...

• Jul-1980
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"I CAN'T MARRY YOU" SAID YOUNG LORD TRISTRAM Lovely Francesca Northwood sought refuge on a park bench when her spendthrift fiance told her their wedding was off. She appeared to be inconsolable until an elderly stranger approached her and promi...

• Jul-1980
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Linnet felt a heaviness of spirit as the stagecoach headed toward London and her new home with Lord and Lady Renfrow. How different London society would be from the tranquil simplicity she had known all her life on the Scottish moors. How differen...

• Jul-1980
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ALL OF THE SISTERS WERE BEAUTIFUL--EXCEPT ANGELICA. Why, oh why, did she have to be the ugly duckling when she so wanted to be a swan? Then one day a charming, green-eyed rogue came her way and caught a glimpse of the special beauty that was he...

• Jul-1980
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Zandra had blossomed from the love and kindness of Mrs. Thrikell, who had rescued her from a gypsy caravan at the age of twelve. Now, blissfully unaware of the radiant beauty she had become, Zandra was unprepared for the jealousy and hostility she...

• Aug-1980
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Alone in the dusky library, Olivia was torn by conflicting emotions. The man had frightened her and the memory of her fear infuriated her. At the same time she was outraged with herself for having allowed herself to be put in a situation in which he ...

• Aug-1980
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"LET ME TELL YOU, MY GIRL, PRIDE MAKES A VERY COLD BEDFELLOW." When Beth first set eyes upon the fiercely handsome Lord Barrington, she was totally indifferent. But when she and her fellow travellers were stranded by a snowstorm at the Bird and Bo...

• Aug-1980
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When shy Pippa Langley found the injured young Marquess of Merland she had no idea who he was. All she cared about was getting him well. Quentin, as his Lordship was called by his peers, found Pippa's presence comforting. But no thought of romanc...

• Aug-1980
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Her father was an eccentric, and had transformed his English country estate into a Gothic fantasy. His father had been an eccentric, and had steeped his estate in artifacts of ancient Egypt. And though Isabella de Hyville had always admired Sir Ranul...

• Aug-1980
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She was but seventeen when her father's sudden death wrenched the calm and quiet out of Letty Barlow's existence. Her previously well-ordered schoolteacher's life was about to change forever. The kindness shown by her late father's employer had be...

• Aug-1980
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Philip Woodville was dead. And only two people mourned him--his mother, the vindictive, autocratic Lady Amelia, and Jessica Durleigh, the beautiful farmer's daughter who had scandalized all of Somerset by agreeing to live with him in London. Now, ...

• Sep-1980
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STEAL HER BELOVED’S HEART FROM A FEMME FATALE? ‘TWAS POSSIBLE…IF THE RIGHT GAME WERE PLAYED! As much as she disliked untruths, and love games, Mary Montlaine was persuaded she had no alternative if she hoped to win Richard’s heart. Make...

• Sep-1980
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"MARY! I DO NOT WISH YOU TO MARRY A RAKE OR A GAMBLER, BUT WHEN YOU REALLY FALL IN LOVE, YOU WILL NOT BE THINKING ABOUT THE WORTHINESS OF YOUR LOVER!" Lovely Mary Wyndham had just about given up the notion of true love when she met Sir Ingram. Tha...

• Sep-1980
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The banks of the Nile held many mysteries for Christina. There were the secrets of the tomb her father had discovered, and the strange young man she found lying half-dead on the steps one fateful day. Taking pity on him. Christina secretly nursed ...

• Sep-1980
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"ALLOW ME TO PRESENT LADY CELESTE IMOGENE MARIE AUGE FAWTHROP." Lord Degan looked down on the ball of gray rags that appeared to be inhabited by some form of human life. He perceived that beneath the tatters and filth a pair of bright, topaz eyes ...

• Sep-1980
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From the moment dashing Lord Edenbury -- called Max by his friends -- caught seventeen-year-old Daphne throwing mice into the music room window he was taken with her. The mice, he soon learned, were a ploy to cement the romance between her sister ...

• Sep-1980
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A peasant girl forced into a fraudulent marriage must deny her dearest love to protect her dearest friend... The deception had seemed harmless enough. A schoolgirl's prank in which Miranda Testa would masquerade as her foster sister, Amanda, and t...

• Oct-1980
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BUT WHO ON EARTH WAS I? Sir Ludwig had rescued me after my "accident." But I remembered nothing about that--or myself. Now ensconced in Sir Ludwig's palatial home I had become the object of much gossip. I knew immediately that I was...

• Oct-1980
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Three beautiful sisters. Like lovely young buds waiting to flower. There was Faith, Hope, and Chastity. (Yes, Chastity.) Two of them had already found suitors, but Chastity wanted more than an arranged marriage. Already she felt the touch of passion ...

• Oct-1980
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HER ONLY LOVE SPRUNG FROM HER ONLY HATE! Beautiful young Robyn Wentworth was shocked to discover, upon the death of her father, that she was a ward of handsome Sir Francis Derringham, the darling of London's Beau Monde. His suave manners and d...

• Oct-1980
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"GUY WESTCOTT? WHY, HE HAS HAD MORE HANDKERCHIEFS THROWN AT HIM THAN CAN BE COUNTED. HE MUST BE THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER MAN IN LONDON!" Elizabeth Dasey, whose aristocratic bearing and loveliness belied her humble position as governess to Guy...

• Oct-1980
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"DON'T YOU REMEMBER ME? IT'S MISS CECILY HAWTHORNE. I'VE COME TO STAY." Cecily Hawthorne never dreamed she looked like an artist's vision of Pandora. But to dashing society painter Devin Sheridan, Cecily, with her cascading...

• Oct-1980
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"GOD HELP US ALL. I AM AFRAID THERE IS GOING TO BE HELL TO PAY AT HALVERTON HALL BEFORE LONG" It all started when Norris Halverton persuaded lovely but penniless Faine Tillery to pretend that she was married to him. Supposedly to protect h...

• Nov-1980
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"I DO SCORN THOSE PEACOCKS, THOSE POPINJAYS!" Lovely Lesley Dalrymple had quite convinced herself that she detested all men. It was not that she lacked for suitors, but she was sure that most were only after her fortune. When she discov...

• Nov-1980
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When lovely country belle Margaret Leighton is sent by her family to London for a season, she find the arrogance and petty conventions of society unbearable. What is particularly unbearable is the plight of her new companion, Angela, who is working f...

• Nov-1980
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IT COULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT SCANDAL Running away like that. An unchaperoned girl alone and on her own in the wicked world outside genteel society. But Evelina could not bear the thought of marrying a man she did not love. A marriage which her selfi...

• Nov-1980
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"A GLORIOUS GIRL" That's the way Selina was described. She was enormously wealthy, wonderfully beautiful--and very headstrong. When worldly Gareth Rushton wanted to buy some of her land for a hunting lodge, Selina gave his offer a flat refusal....

• Nov-1980
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Who could resist lips so delightfully lush and rosy -- skin so fair -- a nose so adorable and huge blue eyes that teased and tormented? Practically everyone. Because highly capricious Jaisy -- now the fabulously wealthy Lady Easterling -- had the...

• Nov-1980
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"SWEAR, CHRISTABEL! SWEAR THAT YOU WILL REVILE THE NAME OF VALQUESNE TILL YOUR DYING DAY. SWEAR IT!" And the child had sworn with all her heart and soul. Thirteen years later, Christabel encounters her avowed enemy in the guise of Mariu...

• Dec-1980
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FOR WANT OF A COOK TRUE LOVE WAS STIRRED... Actually, it was for a French chef that the lovely and honorable Pamela Pollworth was hunting. Since her family had moved to London they would be deeply embarrassed if they did not have a French chef in ...

• Dec-1980
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"I DON'T CALL FIFTY GUINEAS SILLY. I'D DO ANYTHING TO SAVE WARDLEY HALL AND I NEED MONEY TOO BADLY TO WORRY ABOUT DISHONESTY. I WAGER I'D MAKE A WONDERFUL HIGHWAYMAN:" Thus spoke the lovely Lissa Ward on the eve of her first adventure as a highway...

• Dec-1980
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"I am Miss Lamberton. Miss Constance Lamberton. I hoped that you would employ me as your companion." And so the quiet Constance Lamberton, an orphan, came to the household of the haughty and beautiful Lady Amelia Godolphin. She would serv...

• Dec-1980
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HENRIETTA. She is a high-spirited beauty who has been pursuing her cousin Roddy since they were children. Now they are grown, and though not a word of love has been uttered, Henrietta is certain that she can make Roddy ask for her hand. But it has...

• Dec-1980
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SERAPHINA'S LIFE WAS ORDERED AND TRANQUIL UNTIL .. . her niece, Georgiana, came to visit. First Miss Georgiana's canary flew over the gate and into the garden of Seraphina's long-lost fiance. Then Miss Seraphina Silk missed her weekly Ladies' Guil...

• Dec-1980
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Impetuous Petronella Fanshawe took the job as governess to Madame de Courcy's children only to escape the domination of her formidable guardian, Mrs. Deeping. But when the de Courcys moved to Paris, Petra traded her governess garb for the dark skirts...

• Jan-1981
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THEY ARE NOT ORDINARY RIVALS FOR THEY HAVE DUELED BEFORE -- ONLY THIS TIME IT IS BECAUSE OF A WOMAN.... Humphrey Freen, the Earl of Begbroke, and Major Guy Hipsley. This time they meet, not at dawn, but in the evening; not in the dewy forest, but ...

• Jan-1981
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“I SHALL NEVER MARRY NOW. I SHALL NEVER TRUST A MAN AGAIN!” When Dinah's father died suddenly, leaving her penniless, the fortune-hunting Clive Morrell found that his love for her had disappeared along with her dowry. Cruelly spurned by the...

• Jan-1981
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SHE DESPISED HIM. HE DID NOT TRUST HER. And so it began. This roguish tale of a pretty, unmarried girl of good breeding and superior intellect. Olivia. She decided that she would not be an ordinary governess. She would charge a great deal of m...

• Jan-1981
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TWINS. ONE GIRL. ONE BOY. AGE TWENTY. Madcap twins who were fond of dressing up as each other and fooling everyone. Well, almost everyone. This time the masquerade is not so simple. Jennifer, disguised as her brother (who preferred poetry to horses...

• Jan-1981
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IMPERSONATION, EVEN FOR THE NOBLEST OF MOTIVES, LEADS TO LIES... Joanna is a pretty, young, and quite innocent nursemaid. For the sake of her charge -- a boy she has raised with love -- she plays along with his wealthy relatives who have mistaken ...

• Jan-1981
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Chastity hated to be called sensible. But now, with three suitors clamoring after her, she found love more elusive than ever. There was Mr. Brockton. Nice. But boring. Then there was Count Orlanov. He certainly had dash. He was handsome, wildly passi...

• Feb-1981
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Is the handsome, dashing man Aurora meets so unexpectedly in the woods really the long-lost Lord Kenelm Raiher? Or is he actually Kenelm's illegitimate half-brother, posing as the baron? Aurora, captivated in spite of herself, is determined to le...

• Feb-1981
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GEORGIANA ALLISON, A TRADESMAN'S DAUGHTER, HAD ALWAYS HAD HER PRETTY HEAD FILLED WITH ROMANTIC NOTIONS. Then an unexpected proposal of marriage from Sir Miles Dynham brought the exciting world of balls and masquerades and titled wealth within ...

• Feb-1981
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IT WAS A PERILOUS MASQUERADE! Andrea knew her honor would be compromised if this escapade ever came to light. But she did not care. She had to discover who had murdered her father, the count, and Pola, her beautiful but wild sister. So, disguis...

• Feb-1981
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She was not his first love, but she would be his last. Angel was a beautiful, silver-eyed waif; a seventeen year old girl whose gamine graces charmed London society. But now she was the ward of Matthew Vail, the dashing hero of the French campaign,...

• Feb-1981
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SHE HAD LOST HER HEART TO THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER... Raven-haired Sophia knew him as Philip Rich, a poor relative of the Earl of Rame. And she knew that he awakened in her a craving that her betrothed, Sir John Bladen, could not satisfy. But sh...

• Feb-1981
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"I HOPE WE MAY NEVER MEET AGAIN, SIR." And the pale young beauty meant it with all her heart. But Serena Spence did meet handsome Giles Abbott again and again. And each meeting was marked by her deepening feelings for him. Feelings she ...

• Mar-1981
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SOMETHING WAS TERRIBLY AMISS AT QUENDON ABBEY! Alluring Brandy Fernwood knew her friend Lara too well to believe that Lara had simply given up her affection for Sir Reginald. What could account for her sudden change of heart? And what was the matt...

• Mar-1981
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THEY WERE LOVERS LIKE NO OTHERS... He was Neville Rossiter, titled, handsome, and fabulously wealthy. She was his magnificent wife, Arabella--a headstrong, independent beauty he lifted from a drab, but respectable country obscurity. They were admi...

• Mar-1981
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HONORA HAD NOT EXPECTED ROMANCE TO BE ONE OF HER SCHOOL'S SUBJECTS! But then, she had not expected to be left penniless at the death of her father. All she had were two houses in Bath, but they did provide her with freedom. And with the shocked di...

• Mar-1981
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It began in the kitchen of a roadside inn. Louisa, in the act of trying to rescue a small dog from the inhumanity of the innkeeper, was herself rescued by the dashing Lord Braybury. He mistakenly assumed that she was a fortune hunter. But, in trut...

• Mar-1981
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“SOMETHING IS WRONG, KATE. I KNOW IT. YOU WENT EVER SO PALE WHEN PAPA SPOKE OF LORD GILCREST.” Something was wrong. For when Kate realized that the man of her dreams, Lord Gilcrest, was being tricked into a betrothal with her cousin Belinda, ...

• Mar-1981
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SMUGGLERS, GHOSTS, AND MYSTERIES! Delicate and lovely Lilith Redshaw shivered as she looked up at Monk's House, her aunt's home on the desolate Kent shoreline. Lilith had been sent to visit with Lady Standish to escape the memories of an unhapp...

• Apr-1981
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WHATEVER COULD A POOR, ORPHANED YOUNG LADY DO? Willful, capricious Perdita, after shaking her golden curls, stamping her foot, and flatly refusing to marry the aged Mr. Croft, was hastily packed off to her aunt's house to avoid further scanda...

• Apr-1981
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HE WAS A ROGUE AND A HERO AND HE HAD MARRIED HER FOR HER MONEY Everyone in bon ton knew that Lord Hubert Challenge had married country mouse Mary Tyre for her dowry, but no one had yet guessed that Mary had actually fallen in love with her husband...

• Apr-1981
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Young Charlotte's loveliness lay not only in her violet eyes with their incredible lashes, but in her fanciful imagination. For instance, she fancied that she would be the one to help her beloved cousin Harry win the girl of his dreams. But the girl ...

• Apr-1981
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They may be cut from the same bolt of cloth but they rub each other the wrong way... Ever since his young wife's death, Lord Randolph Stanton had gone from gaming hall to music hall, running up gambling debts and living down a dissolute reputation. O...

• Apr-1981
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"O WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE, WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE!" Here is the Duke of Chatham, deeply in love with Lady Winship, but supposedly courting her daughter, Mariel, instead. And here is young Algernon Carleton, deeply infatuated with the...

• Apr-1981
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BEAUTY IN DISGUISE Her problem was that she was beautiful. And far too spirited. A combination devoutly to be wished for by anyone except a governess who is supposed to be prim and proper. For Graine Ashley (well born but penniless), her loveliness...

• May-1981
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HE CALLED HER A TERMAGANT. SHE CALLED HIM A RAKEHELL. And so it began--a tender and furious tale of love that would simply not keep to a straight line. A little deception here, a bit of smuggling there, and some unpleasant, pushy relatives keep Pr...

• May-1981
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WE HAVE PARTS TO PLAY, YOU AND I YOU MAY LOATHE MY EVERY FIBRE, BUT WE MUST APPEAR TO BE DEEPLY IN LOVE Once, Leone believed that her marriage to the handsome Christopher, Lord Aynsworth, would be her every dream come true. But the shivers of anti...

• May-1981
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“JUST WHAT IS IT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT ME, LORD LATTERIDGE?” For years, the red-haired, hazel-eyed beauty had been the favorite subject of gossips and rumor- mongers. But Marianne had held her head high and ignored, the sly glances, the leers, the...

• May-1981
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"PLEASE CALL ME TIGER." Chloe was masquerading as an untidy bundle of rags in the corner of the stable when Lord Randal Beresford found her. And to protect the "poor little dab of a female" from her wicked stepbrother, he dressed h...

• May-1981
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As the widow of a titled gentleman, the very beautiful Lady Caroline Kilgarron was pursued by fortune hunters and impetuous young men, and by aging rapes, too. One, the Earl of Farrowdale, was particularly insistent. And Caroline's unprecedented ...

• May-1981
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THE CHIT WAS A GREAT BEAUTY -- LUSTROUS GOLDEN HAIR, EYES LIKE BLAZING EMERALDS, SKIN LIKE DRESDEN PORCELAIN. AND HE MISTOOK HER FOR A SERVING GIRL. The first time the Marquess kissed her was in the blacksmith's barn. He took Kate for just ano...

• Jun-1981
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LADY TAFFETA WAS EVERYTHING AN HEIRESS COULD HOPE TO BE -- AND MORE! She was as high-spirited as her own Arabian gelding; as beautiful as the assembled jewels and lush lace that adorned Almack's at the height of her very first, very successful s...

• Jun-1981
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TWO IS COMPANY -- FOUR IS A LOVE KNOT THAT NEEDS UNTANGLING! Spirited Miranda Brandywine knew that even though Charles Hartley was a poet and a dreamer, there was no reason for her father to stop the marriage. And gentle, lovely Emily Rockhall ...

• Jun-1981
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Original title: The Avenhurst Inheritance. THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN THREE EXQUISITE PASSIONS THREE HEARTS BEATING WITH LOVE--FOR THE SAME MAN Handsome, passionate Jocelyn Rivers had fallen deeply in love with Celia Croyde , the neighborhood be...

• Jun-1981
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"CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I AM BEING SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!" Poor lovely Catherine Ebford. Being forced by her guardian into a marriage she did not want. And so Catherine, a stubborn young woman with a head full of romantic notions (with th...

• Jun-1981
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DIVORCED, DISHONORED--AND OUT FOR REVENGE! When Jessabelle ran off after a fight with her tempestuous husband, the Earl of Pennymount, she had not expected to be kidnapped by a highwayman. Nor had she foreseen that Lord Pennymount's displeasure, a...

• Jun-1981
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From the moment Judith laid eyes on her uncle's friend, Lord Harrow, she knew he was trouble. Things were already bad enough since she had involved herself in her uncle's sticky marriage arrangements She certainly did not need Lord Harrow's caustic a...

• Jul-1981
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VALERIE WAS A LIONESS! Tall, sandy-haired, with golden feline eyes. What better model could her eccentric aunt find for the heroine of her latest anonymous romance novel? But the plot of life proved far richer than fiction. For when Valerie ar...

• Jul-1981
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SHE FLED A PAST THAT HELD NO HOPE FOR A FUTURE THAT HELD ONLY DANGER. Alone in the world, lovely Letty Cartwright.. sought refuge as a serving girl at Falcondene Abbey, even though its lord, the infamous Black Baron, was known as a sorcerer and...

• Jul-1981
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BY DAY MARGARET GORHAM WAS A GOVERNESS--BY NIGHT SHE WAS MADAME FLEUR DE LA COEUR! To all appearances, she seemed to be a drab little nobody in brown serge. But she had secretly penned popular romances based on the characters of her current employ...

• Jul-1981
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"DO YOU KNOW, PETITE, THAT IF ANYONE EVER OFFERS YOU BODILY HARM IT WILL BE BECAUSE YOU HAVE POKED YOUR NOSE INTO WHAT YOU SHOULD NOT." What got Merrie Sherrington into so much trouble was her curiosity. And because she was always poking her pert ...

• Jul-1981
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ANASTASIA WAS FETED BY DUKES, COURTED BY PRINCES--AND IGNORED BY HER HUSBAND! Free-spirited Anastasia Morley's first Season had been an unqualified disaster. But now she was returning to London Society in triumph as the new bride of the dashin...

• Jul-1981
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SHE HAD ADORED SIR JUSTIN SINCE SHE HAD BEEN A GIRL. Now, a few years later, Olivia of the emerald eyes and sunset hair discovered him not only to be indifferent, but actually hostile. Was it her gambling fathers fault? He had misappropriated f...

• Aug-1981
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SHE WAS FORCED TO SUFFER THE SHAME OF HER FATHER'S CRIMES! Poor Vicky Lingford. Her feckless, handsome father had scandalously ruined the family name by swindling most of London's finest and fleeing to the continent Disgraced beyond rep...

• Aug-1981
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Rumor had it that Lady Waring was an accomplished flirt - and a mercenary adventuress... The Marquess of Brandsley had come out of the seclusion of his country estate to save his young cousin from the clutches of this beautiful widow. Only to fin...

• Aug-1981
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SHE WAS PURSUED BY A MAN SHE DETESTED. AND TORMENTED BY THE MAN SHE LOVED. Abused and neglected during all the years she had lived with them, Anabel fled her aunt and uncle's home on the eve of her proposed engagement to her loathed cousin Mil...

• Aug-1981
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IT WAS ALL ARRANGED.... When lovely Kitty Leyburne and young Kit de Fleming got engaged, they had never before set eyes on each other. Suddenly, their whole lives were set out before them, and they didn't like it one bit. But to all their r...

• Aug-1981
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BEAUTIFUL IMPOSTER Moments after lovely and spirited Annabel Haygarth was unjustly dismissed from her position as governess for allegedly seducing her employer's son, she found herself involved in a hairbrained scheme involving her employer's daug...

• Aug-1981
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AT THE GRAND SALONS OF LONDON OR THE SOCIETY SPAS AT BATH, CAROLINA MALLORY ALWAYS PUT HER ORPHANED FAMILY FIRST. BUT SHE COULD NEVER QUIET HER YEARNING HEART.... When her father died in disgrace and financial ruin, Carolina devoted herself to pic...

• Sep-1981
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Even though the irascible old Squire Ingram felt his end was near, he still wanted to control the future. To that end, he summoned his two nieces and his two nephews in an effort to pair them off. That way, the line would be guaranteed. But spitfi...

• Sep-1981
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From the moment Simon pulled her out of the fishpond (where she had chased her puppy), he found himself sympathetic to the drenched, waif-like little person he had rescued. Dressed as an urchin, Miss Harriet Pendeniston's disguise was a shock to ...

• Sep-1981
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The beautiful Lavinia was happily married until her encounter with Captain Stephen Milroyd. She flirted outrageously with him, unaware that her husband James, the Earl of Keynsham, was watching quite carefully. But then, James had his own secrets. ...

• Sep-1981
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"HE HAS ALREADY DECIDED IT IS NOT WORTHWHILE TO TEACH ME!" Sally Merryn was very pretty and almost eighteen. And all her life, her one passion had been to play the flute. The fact that she had little talent for such a sensitive instrume...

• Sep-1981
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NO ONE WAS GOING TO FORCE THE BEAUTIFUL BELINDA TO MARRY A MAN SHE HAD NEVER SEEN! She had been pledged to him since birth, but high-spirited Belinda Sayre rebelled against marriage to a stranger, even if he was the Duke of Romsdale. When she fled ...

• Sep-1981
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SHE WAS AS WILD AS THE IRISH COUNTRYSIDE SHE RODE. Cecilia Annesley, with flaming auburn hair and a temperament to match, galloped over hill and dale, trying to help the poor--and earning a reputation for being quite improper. Aside from her "s...

• Oct-1981
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She was lovely, the German heiress, Maria. She had the grace of a swan and the face of an angel. But she found the Englishman, Lord Moncrief unsuitable. Fascinating, but unsuitable. Too bold. Moncrief, for his part, appeared to prefer the enchanting ...

• Oct-1981
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It was some time before lovely, young Theodosia came to understand why she had become a governess instead of a wife. A spiteful relative of Lord Steyne's had told him that she had run off and married another. Then, suddenly, Theodosia met Lor...

• Oct-1981
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Miss Lydia, a young American heiress (and secret novelist), was traveling in Europe with her brother, not so much because of his fragile health, but because she had no wish to marry the man her family had chosen for her. He was stuffy, boring, domine...

• Oct-1981
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TOO GOOD FOR HER OWN GOOD? She was the very model of ladylike propriety. But when lovely, dark-curled Amelia realized that her role as the "sensible" elder daughter was part of her widowed mother's plan to keep her as spinster and companion for a ...

• Oct-1981
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Miss Marjorie Montmorency James was very lovely, very young, and very impressionable. Which is why she fell in love with Lord Philip's picture in the newspaper. Until then, she had only fantasized about a mysterious, shadowy lover whose features ...

• Oct-1981
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Yvette spent her childhood in the convent where her mother left her. Now her mother, who had been a famous and beautiful actress, was dead, and had left her daughter a legacy of precious jewels. Only, as it turned out, the jewels were worthless. Past...

• Nov-1981
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SHE WAS ALONE She had only her music, talent, and ambition to become a great concert pianist. A woman of gentle birth, Adela now lives as a companion and piano instructor in the household of her cousin, Lord Waterston. A cold, powerful patron of t...

• Nov-1981
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Lovely Arabella, disappointed in love when the man she had hoped to wed married someone else, went to London to soothe her aching heart. London welcomed her with balls, masquerades, theatres, dowagers and dukes--and more. Lies, scandal, and betray...

• Nov-1981
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EVERYONE KNEW THEY'D MAKE THE PERFECT MATCH -- OR PERFECT ENEMIES. No doubt wagers were being taken when Lord Rossington returned to London to brazenly ask for the hand of the lady he had jilted nine years before. Now it seemed all of England sto...

• Nov-1981
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The glittering world of London's ton lived to the fullest heights of excitement. Lady Emily Mardenvail--a beautiful heiress, bored and mischievous, confined to a dull country life. Emily's only hope of amusement is to convince her cousin Gracia to...

• Nov-1981
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ONLY ONE THING COULD SPOIL THE PERFECTION OF HER WEDDING DAY--THE APPEARANCE OF THE MAN SHE LOVED! The letter began simply, "I yearn to see you," but for Juliana Nevins it was a deeply distressing message. On the eve of her marriage to kin...

• Nov-1981
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YOUNG, LOVELY--AND AN OLD MAID? Forthright, sensible, attractive Caroline Draper. How could she have gone through two London seasons to no avail? Lovely Caroline, with her sparkling brown eyes and soft brown hair, thought herself well on her way t...

• Nov-1981
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SHE WOULD BEG, BORROW OR STEAL TO GET INTO ALMACK'S Obtaining a voucher to Almack's was about as easy as obtaining an audience with the Queen. And the ladies in charge were about as merciful as dragons. But Miss Keating, whose heart quickened at me...

• Dec-1981
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"THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES IN LOVE." Soon after these words were spoken to lovely Anna Whitten, she discovered their terrible truth: events on a faraway battlefield had left her a widow at twenty three. But she would not allow her grief to d...

• Dec-1981
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While Rowena Cherwood did not go around boasting of it, she had a tidy legacy from her parents and was free to choose the life she wanted. She did not care for the shallowness of high society, and so she accepted a position with Lady Bradwell as a co...

• Dec-1981
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SHE HAD ALWAYS DONE AS SHE PLEASED -- WITH NARY A THOUGHT TO THE CONSEQUENCES. Indeed, Sally Mallory's great success throughout the ton as a fine portrait painter had been aided by such spirited independence -- along with they wit and extraord...

• Dec-1981
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"I don't believe you. Sir Lawrence has shown me no sign of admiration. Indeed. I might say it's quite the contrary. It appears he finds me interfering and clumsy, and a good many other things. None of them complimentary." Thus spok...

• Dec-1981
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THE TOAST OF VIENNA SHE BECAME THE SCANDAL OF A COUNTRY TOWN! Only recently returned from glittering Vienna, where she had been feted by the most dazzling and influential citizens of Europe, Catherine Fothinby found a summer at her, cousins' c...

• Jan-1982
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Even a schoolteacher is entitled to romantic fantasies. But Delsie Sommers was eminently practical. She never dared to dream of a wealthy, handsome and titled husband. Then one day fate turned her world upside down and flung her into a marriage with...

• Jan-1982
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"YOU HAVE REACHED THE AGE OF THIRTY, WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT BUT A SET OF RACKETY FRIENDS AND A SERIES OF FRIVOLOUS ESCAPADES, ETC., ETC., ETC" Thus admonished by his irate father, young Viscount Ryven was literally driven to find a wife--the ...

• Jan-1982
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Olivia Thorne was pretty, penniless and unmarried--and likely to stay that way. Because the only man who had ever made her heart beat faster was also penniless; a charming rogue of an Englishman named Lucian who played the piano in public and was a r...

• Jan-1982
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Caroline had been left a tidy fortune by her father. Enough to attract a husband. But Caroline was not interested in being married for her wealth. Furthermore, her guardian uncle was 'investing' her money in some ridiculous scheme involving mechanica...

• Jan-1982
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CAN A SCULLERY MAID BECOME A LADY? CAN A DEVILISH GHOST BECOME A LOVER? When Alice Lovesey ran from the kitchen and sought sanctuary in the library of the great house, she found herself face to face with a portrait come to life. The dashing eig...

• Jan-1982
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EVERY DAMSEL DESERVES SOME DISTRESS! Filled with storybook notions, Miss Melpomene Rand yearns to be a tragic figure like the imperiled heroine of her favorite novella. But, alas, whenever she is hurled into a predicament, she comes to little harm...

• Feb-1982
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"WHAT AN ODIOUS MAN. HE WILL NEVER, NEVER MARRY YOU, LUCINDA." Marriage however, was precisely what that rakehell, the Marquess of Lothan was proposing. Melissa Grey, Lucinda's sister, was decidedly unhappy about the Marquess, she knew that he was ...

• Feb-1982
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"I DO NOT BELI EVE IN SUBTERFUGE AND PLAY-ACTING! That is why we are all here, is it not, to try to gain sole possession of a very large inheritance?" Five people and only five have been summoned to the bedside of Lady Cecily. But just one will...

• Feb-1982
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"I AM ANGELA SWANN, OF SWANHOLM IN CORNWALL. I AM RUNNING AWAY FROM MY STEPFATHER WHO PLANNED TO MARRY ME TO HIS NEPHEW" Angela explained all this to the sturdily handsome young farmer who had rescued her. Richard Bennet was a kind man, an...

• Feb-1982
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I WOULD AS SOON MARRY THE TERRIBLE BONEY HIMSELF AS A MAN LIKE TODD WENDOVER. NO GIRL WHO KNOWS TODD WOULD HAVE HIM. From the moment Mr. Kendall promised his lovely daughter, Rozelle, to young rakehell Todd Wendover, a storm of misunderstandings a...

• Feb-1982
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IT WAS WIDELY KNOWN THAT LADY SWEETBRIAR HAD A PAST But her fiance Sir Avery cared not a whit. He wanted her anyway. Lady Sweetbriar, known to her friends as Nikki, could not help it that she constantly got herself into scrapes. For instance, i...

• Feb-1982
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"AS FOR LORD LINFORD, HE COULD BE THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, VISCOUNT OR NOT, AND I COULD NOT CARE LESS." When Lady Gordon's lovely daughter Ancilla made up her mind, it was most difficult to change it. And that spirited female had decided...

• Mar-1982
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"I think it is a mistake for a man of unstable temperament to marry. Don't you?" "To marry a timid lady, yes. You must find someone who is not afraid of your blustering, arm her with a stout club, and marry her." Elizabeth B...

• Mar-1982
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DOWRY OR NO DOWRY JENNY DECIDED IT WAS HIGH TIME TO HAVE HER COMING OUT Tired of living with her highstrung, hypochondriac aunt and her equally eccentric uncle, Jenny decides to do something about changing things. When she meets the smug young ...

• Mar-1982
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TO TRAP ONE MAN YOU NEED ANOTHER! At least that was Astrea's philosophy. And since she was determined to trap her beloved David Monroe, quite naturally she went straight for his companion, Jack Millbank. Every time Astrea saw David, she got...

• Mar-1982
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IT ALL BEGAN WITH A MISUNDERSTANDING. Well, more of a hoax actually. Because when Vashti Beaufils, a beautiful French emigree, learned she had inherited her cousin Marmaduke's gothic mansion in England, she knew there must be some mistake. She...

• Mar-1982
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SHE HAD THOUGHT SHE WOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN. There was no mistaking Menwin. The way he moved, the line of his back. The last time Olivia had seen him was in Brussels. She had been in love with him then. When he left the city without even saying ...

• Mar-1982
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COULD SHE PAY HER BROTHER'S DEBT? Alison had never fought a duel, but her twin brother had run out on his obligation to fight the haughty Earl of Havard. Alison was sure Havard just wanted to teach Edmond a lesson for flirting with his sister. Aft...

• Apr-1982
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When shy Minna Redmond overheard the dashing Oliver Seymour call her plain and dowdy, she vowed to make him pay for that remark. She would make him fall in love with her and beg on his knees for her love.... Which is why she decided to masquerade...

• Apr-1982
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HE WAS AN IRRESISTIBLE ENEMY... When young Perola set out to avenge the death of her dear departed sister, she had no idea what to expect. She only knew that no matter what the cost, she would repay the rogue who had deserted her sister and left h...

• Apr-1982
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THEIR MEETINGS HAD BECOME PITCHED BATTLES. Wendy's brother-in-law, Lord Menrod, was an arrogant, high-handed, albeit dashing, tyrant who was no more fit to be the guardian of children than a dancing bear. So Wendy thought. The children in question...

• Apr-1982
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A DARING MASQUERADE... Mariotta Abingdon was growing restless under the restricted life she led in Bath. Miss Abingdon's dress, like her limited social circle, was dictated by her mother, who was a very strict lady. Imagine Mariottas delight wh...

• Apr-1982
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SHE HAD EXCHANGED ONE DANGER FOR ANOTHER.... Chantal would never marry Giffard Delaney and she was quick to tell him so. When it seemed that she was to be forced to do so, she escaped, only to fall into a pool at the bottom of a quarry. Awakeni...

• Apr-1982
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No one ever dreamed that Prudence Mallow, who wrote novels and was not London's most ravishing beauty, would ever capture the heart of the dashing Lord Dammler. The fact that he wrote poetry was, of course, a bond with his beloved. But he cherished h...

• May-1982
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THEY WERE SISTERS, DAUGHTERS, AND OCCASIONAL RIVALS IN LOVE.... What could be more idyllic than three lovely ladies sitting on the lawn of a Regency estate on a cloudless summer day? Nothing, it would seem, could blemish this picturesque scene ...

• May-1982
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THE VERY FIRST THING DIANA HEARD ABOUT THE DUKE OF CLARE WAS THAT HE WAS A RAKE AND A WOMANIZER. Which is why she tried not to be attracted to him, even though he declared that his intentions were honorable. But when she saw him with the beauti...

• May-1982
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She had been secretly in love with Max Trent for years. It was hopeless, of course, because Max was about to be married to Amy. So Kate tried to put it out of her mind -- until the day Max was falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit and wa...

• May-1982
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THEY WERE MARRIED IN NAME ONLY. To all appearances it was a grand affair-the marriage between Valentina Woodville and the Marquis of Stockdale. All London Society was present. But what was not known was that Valentina and Stockdale had made a p...

• May-1982
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TO BE POOR BUT HAPPY WAS ALL SHE WANTED. With the inheritance of her fortune, Katherine had become an overnight sensation. Suitors came from far and wide to woo her, and she mistrusted them all. But when Katherine meets Dermot, a gentleman of mode...

• May-1982
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When Elizabeth's father told her she was to wed the village's lecherous, sin-intoxicated Vicar, she fled in the night to London. Since she was a very sheltered and innocent creature, she did not realize she had taken refuge in a brothel. Nor did she ...

• Jun-1982
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When Lady March's charming and devoted husband, Marriot, disappears for six months; everyone is at a loss to understand his absence. Especially his lovely wife, Nell, who loves him dearly. Suddenly, on the eve of a friend's visit, Marriot rea...

• Jun-1982
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"ALICE, I'VE JUST HAD THE MOST FAMOUS IDEA ABOUT MY COUSIN AND YOUR GUARDIAN DRAGON. IF WE WERE TO WAGER WHICH OF THEM COULD BE FLUSTERED FIRST..." Two lovely and most mischievous maidens cook up a scheme to force their stony-visaged guardians int...

• Jun-1982
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SHE HAD REFUSED HIM HER LOVE -- NOW ONLY HE COULD RESCUE HER... Miss Thalia Temple is a dimpled young woman with a lovely face, very little money, and an abundance of foolish pride. So when the dashing Lord Philip Sandron flirts shamelessly with ...

• Jun-1982
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THEY LOOKED LIKE SISTER AND BROTHER WITH THEIR GOLDEN GOOD LOOKS AND CHARMING MANNERS. But they were not. In fact, they were adversaries. Evelina had caught the eye of David's uncle -- a dashing old roue--and David was certain that the young woman...

• Jun-1982
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A DAY WITHOUT CHAOS WAS LIKE A DAY WITHOUT SOPHIE! Sophie was a wild and restless young woman-as lovely and flighty as a butterfly, and as discreet as a two-legged mule. Quite naturally, she was always making complications, and to her family's hor...

• Jun-1982
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DASHING JUSTIN DEVENISH SUDDENLY FINDS HIMSELF SADDLED WITH A SPITFIRE REDHEAD. Recently injured in the Napoleonic wars, Justin reluctantly agrees to mind the estate of a budding beauty whose brother is trapped on the continent. What he doesn't an...

• Jul-1982
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MAJOR MORRISON WAS DEVILISHLY CLEVER, A PERFECT GENTLEMAN, AND A LIAR. BUT ANNA WAS DESPERATE. SHE COULD TRUST NO ONE ELSE. Her beloved father had been arrested as a jewel thief! Now, the sudden need for a governess in the home of old Mr. Beaud...

• Jul-1982
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THE STAKES WERE HIGH, BUT THE OFFER WAS IRRESISTIBLE. When the Earl of Astbury inherited his title, he also inherited enormous, overdue debts. But "Foxy's" keen mind and wizardry at cards soon changed all of that. Then the notorious gambler, Si...

• Jul-1982
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THEY WERE DISTANT RELATIONS CLOSELY ENTANGLED IN A KNOT OF LOVE. Twenty is too old to turn down good proposals, people keep telling Elizabeth. But she is far too fanciful to marry for anything but pure love; and there is only one man who really in...

• Jul-1982
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A LOVE CHILD BECOMES A LOVELY YOUNG WOMAN. BEFRIENDED BY THE RICH BUT NEVER ONE OF THEM. NOW HER PRIDE WOULD BE HER UNDOING. When Kitty Ralston discovered that her late father was not only alive but, in fact, had never marred her mother, she chang...

• Jul-1982
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Society gossips had branded her a harlot. Now, she was forced to live up to her reputation... Caroline Adams was one of the most ravishing creatures of her day. Yet her beauty had only brought her grief. She had been a profitable decorative addition ...