Masquerade — Multiple Authors

• Sep-1977
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"I won't marry anyone... no one but Hugh!" Beatrix was determined, but so was her father. With her impoverished cousin Eleanor, she was shipped off to London where her blond beauty would surely get her a suitable husband. But her ...

• Sep-1977
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She was abducted by Lucifer himself! Georgina White felt no safer now that Richard Barr had rescued her from the powerful Duke of Quinton. And, as they fled, she realized she was confused by her own mixed-up emotions. She knew, too, that for the firs...

• Sep-1977
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Her indifferent heart had never been touched ! Every man Juliet had met had tried. Now... it was different. She was irritated by the strange reserve of both the mysterious Stephen Thorne and the handsome Sir Nicholas Childe. For the first time ...

• Dec-1977
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TRAPPED BY LOVE Sleek high-fashion model Kristi Cole bore scant resemblance to the teenaged tomboy Jason McAlister had known. But inside she was the same person who'd spent her life in love with him. Jason was like a wildcat, tawny-haired...

• Dec-1977
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"That Stuart monster will never be my king!" Constance Aiken was no royalist When Cromwell fell she lost her ancestral estate. Then the Earl of Brede arrived in all his royalist splendor to take possession of her beloved home. Where was sh...

• Dec-1977
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She heard the waves roll in, roll in.... "Jeffrey! Jeffrey!" she sobbed, urging her pony down the steep cliffs to the sea. Gorse caught cruelly at her cloak and skirts, her petticoats flashed white. But Amy thought only of her desperate race again...

• Dec-1977
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"Now you belong to me...only me!" Her husband spoke softly, menacingly, and Francesca quivered beneath his touch. She had been forced to marry Raoul, a man who represented everything she despised. But, unable to ignore her growing attraction for hi...

• Mar-1978
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"This land is ours! Now we claim it!" Clad in muddy boots and dirty smocks, the peasants brandished murderous axes, pitchforks and sickles. Their cry grew ever more threatening, 'This land is ours, Excellency,' they repeated. 'Now...

• Mar-1978
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1816, London. He was determined she was stubborn! Harriet Yorke might have looked demure and unworldly but her frail appearance concealed a will of iron. And now the dashing and unpredictable, Marquis of Capel was up against her unyielding will. E...

• Mar-1978
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Love for such a man could lead only to disaster! Beauty and innocence were rare qualities in a woman in the turbulent times of eleventh-century Spain, but Madelon del Rivas y Montevides possessed both. Although desired by many men, she had fall...

• Jun-1978
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She was homeless... alone and penniless It was the end of an era. Queen Victoria's reign was over and the Edwardian age had begun. Attitudes were changing. But the attitude toward women with blemished pasts remained rigidly the same. Thus t...

• Jun-1978
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"Steer clear of her," was the dire warning "She'll bleed you dry and throw you to the dogs!" Such was Paul's introduction to Lady May, a fabulous beauty whose reputation left much to be desired. Yet Paul, an army cap...

• Jun-1978
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The path of defiance led only to danger! Seventeenth-century France was a time of fear and persecution. A time when those who dared to defy the King's religion were mercilessly oppressed or sent into exile. And one of those was Edouard, Clemence&...

• Oct-1978
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A time of terror, a time of death!! Atrocities were committed that made one's blood run cold. Men, women and children were massacred because they had been born into the aristocracy. 'Thus France was a death trap for the beautiful Catherine and ...

• Oct-1978
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The dreaded hoofbeats thundered on the moor His name was Darkness, and like the darkness he descended swiftly, furtively, instilling terror into the hearts of unsuspecting young women. What did this villain want from the beautiful Serena? He...

• Oct-1978
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The Woman screamed in helpless terror... Men leaped out of the bushes. steel glinted in the darkness. Scimitars clashed. A cruel face, topped by a turban, loomed before Felicity. She struggled helplessly against the grip of powerful hands. ...

• May-1979
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She had escaped, never to return! Disguised in boy's livery, young Beth Howard had fled from her cruel guardians in order to avoid marriage to a man she'd never met. But she was shortly to discover that the perils that lay ahead were fat worse...

• May-1979
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"Even the gutter is too low for you!" Babette was stunned, overwhelmed with shame. His cruel insult drove home the appalling lengths to which this Mississippi gambler would go to mend his wounded pride. He would ruin her family... and hers...

• Jun-1979
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The prospect was most terrifying! To shy, mousy Isabelle, hopelessly ignorant of city life, the idea of living in London with her wealthy uncle filled her with misgivings, and excitement. But her inability to cope with fashionable society became glar...

• Jun-1979
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Inchmann was mad! Mad with revenge! Joanna had rejected Lord Inchmann and he swore he would destroy her reputation. Now tongues were wagging and conversation hushed every time she entered the room. When she could stand the gossip no longer, Joa...

• Jul-1979
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Sold into marriage like a common chattel! Abigail couldn't believe this was happening to her. Despite her betrothal to a steadfast, clean-living Puritan like herself, her father was now selling her off like so much livestock--to a man who was ...

• Jul-1979
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Her heart soared as the king spoke At last, at long last, Perpetua was to have her heart's desire. Gaston, the man she loved, had just been granted permission to marry her. How wonderful the future looked now, Perpetua thought. Surely nothing ...

• Aug-1979
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At long last she would be free! The old viscount was dying, but Elizabeth, his young niece, found it difficult to grieve. For her miserly uncle had made her life miserable, and all that had existed between them was bitterness. As her head fille...

• Aug-1979
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"Many women marry and live in torment ... "...or do not live at all!" An uncomfortable silence fell at the young queen's pronouncement. Everyone knew what she was thinking. Her own mother, the bewitching Anne Boleyn, had paid for her love with ...

• Sep-1979
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New Blurb 2022: Major Orlov takes on the protection of Countess Berova… But can he let her go? Leading his battalion of injured and war-hardened infantry to safety, Major Lev Orlov is seeking shelter for his men in an abandoned inn when he fi...

• Sep-1979
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"Send you on such a mission? Never!" The laird's vehement refusal of Elizabeth's request to execute a dangerous journey into England made the girl more determined than ever. Impatiently she snapped, "Only a woman could succeed; a man would be arreste...

• Oct-1979
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What dreadful secret was he guarding? Isabella did not know nor even care to ask. She only knew that she passionately loved Jerome Hansford, a real man in a world of fops and dandies. For his part, Jerome was bitterly afraid he could never marr...

• Oct-1979
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A clamor of voices, a woman's screams... What was happening, Lucia wondered in fear, as hoofbeats thundered ever nearer. She ran to hide--but it was too late. A pair of powerful hands grasped her and lifted her onto the back of an enormous ...

• Nov-1979
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"You shall marry me! Any protest is futile! " Charlotte cringed as Lord Braybridge spoke. Flow she loathed this repulsive man! Surely, she thought, he could not possibly force her into a marriage she did not want. But she was wrong, so very wrong....

• Nov-1979
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He seemed to see right through her...and a little chill crept over Betsy. 'Tell me,' he said, eyes narrowing. 'what's the real reason you came to Yorkshire.' Her blood froze. Had Jeremy discovered her ruse. She'd taken a position as a paid companion ...

• Dec-1979
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"I'll never manage to hit a target!" Princess Anya was reluctant to take Zaro's pistol. She was a poor shot, and besides, even the murderous brigands surrounding their carriage were not enough to induce her to kill another person. But this was not wh...

• Dec-1979
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'I've hate enough for both of us!' Maura MacDonald shuddered at her brother's words. The battle that raged between the MacDonald's and the Campbell's had been going on for years and the vicious circle of destruction and re...

• Jan-1980
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"Be still, my lady, if you love your life!" The voice hissed harshly out of the pitch-blackness. Then a hand, firm and powerful, closed over Katharine's mouth, cutting off her screams. The terrified girl realized that she had fallen...

• Jan-1980
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She would be sold to the highest bidder There she stood in the center of a group of leering plantation owners, her once beautiful clothes in rags. Unjustly convicted of theft, Verity had been thrown into Newgate Prison, then shipped to Virginia to...

• Feb-1980
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A plea for help from her sister Natasha brings Countess Alexandreya Romonova to St Petersburg - a city soon to be at the mercy of the new Czar, Peter the Mad. The old Czarina had died and now Russia was divided into two camps: those who supported the...

• Feb-1980
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"You're not much of a gentleman," she accused. "But, my dear," he replied softly, "whatever gave you the notion I was a gentleman?" And before Catherine had a chance to form her furious retort, his hand tore at her...

• Mar-1990
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They were so young, so very, very young When Judith and Rodney first set eyes upon each other, they were little more than children. What Judith saw was a slim, fine-featured youth with arresting gray eyes; he saw a yellow-robed angel with hair of ...

• Mar-1980
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On and on she rode, through the moonlit night. Her mission was dangerous, but Sophie was driven by an emotion that far outweighed her fears. The life of a man she barely knew hung in the balance. Only her courage and wits could save him, and sh...

• Apr-1980
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The Black Fox liked women he had to tame.... And Isabel was truly one of his kind -- a spirited young woman with a mind of her own. But she had no intention of marrying Duncan Crawfurd, the cruel clan chieftain they called the Black Fox. To ple...

• Nov-1980
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"She's a fine lady who will suit Sir Giles well." Robina's heart sank at the words. The thought of Sir Giles marrying another woman was more than she could stand. But there was nothing she could do about the situation. Her pose ...

• May-1980
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Emily realized she was going to die The sole survivor of a shipwreck, she was all alone on an endless sea, her dreams of a new life in Bombay shattered. Her eyes closed and her head drooped onto the rim of the life belt Her tired arms could no ...

• May-1980
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ALL HER EFFORTS GONE TO WASTE For six long years, Georgiana, a young and lovely heiress, had kept up a grotesque and difficult masquerade. She had disguised her beauty and intelligence behind a mask of homeliness and stupidity. Her reason? ...

• Jun-1980
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She could have been the queen's twin! So great was Kirsty's resemblance to young Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, that people stopped in the streets and stared at her. It wasn't long before this uncanny resemblance drew the attention of the queen hers...

• Jun-1980
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She had no intention of marrying anyone! Especially the stuffy old Sir Hugh Eavleigh. Rosamund was young and headstrong. The idea of being tied to a man old enough to be her father horrified her. But she need not have worried, for Sir Hugh ha...

• Jul-1980
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She was no longer Miss Deborah Jones Now they called her Laughing Flame. Gone was the naive English girl, with the white skin and bright red hair, a girl who knew nothing of life or love. In her place was a strong Navajo woman dressed in buck...

• Jul-1980
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He was acting like a jealous man But the moment the thought entered her head, Tanya dismissed it as utterly impossible. A person had to have feelings in order to be jealous, and Prince Nikolai hadn't earned the name Ice King for nothing. He see...

• Aug-1980
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She was a woman who feared nothing Her mind told her to forget any ideas she harbored of covertly following her beloved Filippo on his dangerous mission... but her heart told her otherwise. And so Marietta concocted an ingenious and outrageous ...

• Aug-1980
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The hangman waited at journey's end Anstey Fraser, a proud and loyal young Scotswoman, had been charged with the murder of an English officer. Now she was being escorted to the Tower of London--and certain death. During the long journey south, ...

• Sep-1980
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When her mother remarried, Caroline decided to join Francis, a distant cousin, and his wife at their home in York. She looked forward to the visit, for she greatly admired Francis and in fact had a schoolgirl crush on him for years. But upon her arri...

• Sep-1980
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It was no place for a woman alone The year was 1862. New Zealand was an untamed country through which Abigail had been warned not to travel unescorted. But she felt she had no choice. Her only surviving parent, her beloved father, had set out m...

• Oct-1980
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She listened, horrified, as her cousin spoke "It's true," Elmira warned. "Father is going to insist you marry the Earl of Chacewater. If you refuse he'll send you away!" Barbara's young heart twisted with anguish. To...

• Oct-1980
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Deborah had been duly warned... Lord Mulgarth was incapable of lasting affection. Deborah must be careful not to fall prey to his charms. Of course he wanted her -- but in a way she could never allow. But she was extremely young and innocent ...

• Nov-1980
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'Stay where you are, or I'll pull the trigger!' Cherryanne Devenish meant every word she said. If the Marquis of Shalford moved one pace nearer she was prepared to shoot him. Yet still the arrogant marquis chose to ignore her threat. He s...

• Nov-1980
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It was a time of unrest and dissension... A Protestant queen sat on the English throne, facing the threat of King Philip of Spain, who plotted an invasion of English shores. In the midst of all this strife was Maria Elena, an innocent Spanish girl to...

• Dec-1980
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Miss Helen Shaw of Boston, New England, is delighted to learn she has become an heiress. The inheritance of her grandfather's house in the Connecticut mountains, together with a half-share in his prosperous ironworks nearby, means he has finally ...

• Dec-1980
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Sir Vincent was as fast as he was wily. And Cassandra was no match for a man who, despite his dissipated state, was as strong as an ox. As she struggled in his grip, revulsion in her eyes, he grated, "Do you truly think to treat me with disdain? ...

• Jan-1981
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No! cried Caroline's anguished heart Princess Vezenski had asked Caroline to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. But how could Caroline go through with it? For the princess was marrying Count Antonov, the man Caroline loved deeply and passionately...

• Jan-1981
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Lonely. Unloved. But dutiful. Duty had surrounded Deborah Halsey since infancy. It had been the motivating force of her Puritan upbringing, the principle that had guided her rigidly strict parents in molding their child. Now Deborah had grown ...

• Feb-1981
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England and Russia had declared war The staunchly determined Florence Nightingale set off for the Crimean front, intent on nursing the wounded. And Jessica Linton, rejecting the rich and idle life her guardians offered, went with her. Jessica ...

• Feb-1981
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If only she could somehow avoid him! It was impossible. His Grace the Duke of Carlington was back in London. He would no doubt call at Prue's home and she would have to receive him. Surely, she prayed, she would be strong enough to crush the...

• Mar-1981
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She found the soldier wounded and bleeding Cathie's generous heart went out to him. He was defenseless and without help would probably die. So she took him into her home, cleansed his wounds, gave him rest--and watched him slowly return to ...

• Mar-1981
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She watched him move slowly toward her He was the one they called Count Satan. Eloise was amazed that such a man had earned this cruel nickname. For it was immediately apparent to her that the handsome young Viennese nobleman was not the cruel...

• Apr-1981
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Marianne was a most unwilling bride... And the Earl of Tarrisbroke was an equally unwilling husband. But neither of them had any choice. Marianne Johnson, rich young widow of a merchant, could not destroy her family's one chance to be...

• Apr-1981
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Africa was no place for a woman alone Especially a woman who had never been in rougher terrain than the English countryside! But Cassandra Hudson was determined to be united with the man she loved-Martin Coleman, a missionary dedicated to conve...

• May-1981
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Fear stabbed through Lady Adela's heart. The door to her bedroom was flung open. An enormous Saxon barbarian entered, ordered her to dress, and then dragged her down the stairs to the main room of the manor house. And there, awaiting Adela, was the m...

• May-1981
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Virtually betrothed to three men! How had this happened to her, wondered Lady Annabelle Sarne, her head and heart swimming in confusion. First there was the Marquis d'Hubert, a perfumed and powdered French aristocrat to whom Annabelle's uncle h...

• Jun-1981
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She was to become Lady Windlow... But Miss Louisa Parke was not at all pleased by the prospect - despite the fact that Lord Windlow was one of the most handsome and eligible bachelors in London. Maybe if she'd had some say in the matter, ...

• Jun-1981
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After all this time... it couldn't be! Helen Caister was just eighteen, in the bloom of young womanhood. England had been her home ever since her parents' tragic deaths when she was only three. But suddenly her beloved guardian grandfather was ...

• Jul-1981
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Winner take all, they had said And all included the beautiful Katherine Honeywell! The Marquis of Wayleigh had challenged Katherine's beloved Lysander Derwent to a wild and dangerous curricle race. She trembled in fear at the knowledge that...

• Jul-1981
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At long last she was returning home Isabel could hardly wait to see her beloved Scotland again. But when she arrived she found her family riddled with treachery, her father dying, a vicious heir seizing power, and her gentle brother Duncan outlawe...

• Aug-1981
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He was her knight in shining armor Darkly handsome, daring and romantic, Sir Roger de Boveney embodied everything the lovely Alyce Beaumont wanted in a man. And he, too, seemed equally besotted by her. So when King William hinted that a marriag...

• Aug-1981
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She was brave as she was proud When her only hope of returning home lay in traveling a thousand miles on horseback, Camilla, unlike the fragile females of her society, was equal to the task. When food rations became meager, she ignored her hung...

• Sep-1981
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Anne had thought him lost to her forever But now, after six long years, the news arrived that Lord Ashorne was alive-not killed while fighting in Spain as she had believed. An irrational thrill surged through her... but the next moment Anne adm...

• Sep-1981
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The witch-hunters were close behind Spurred on by a twisted sense of justice, they wanted nothing more than to see Marietta burn at the stake. Terrified, Marietta ran till she could run no more. She collapsed on the ground and awaited her dread...

• Oct-1981
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"I will not marry a man chosen for me!" "But, Sophie, my dear," her stepfather said kindly, "you could not hope for a more advantageous match." Sophie put her hands over her ears. "You may talk as long as you like, but I will never listen." ...

• Oct-1981
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"Loyalty merely sleeps. It is not dead!" Lachlan's eyes kindled. "Every true Jacobite will fight and if needs be die for the Stuart--as I will!" Fiona shivered. If Lachlan were to die, Glen Seidhe would belong to his brother, Jamie, whose lust ...

• Nov-1981
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"Traitor's daughter! You're not wanted here!" It was a harsh welcome for Charlotte, returning home to France after four years abroad. The Franco-Prussian war was over, but the villagers of Montsapin had not forgotten it. They had ...

• Nov-1981
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"Sold!" bellowed the auctioneer And standing alone on the auction block, Peri shivered at the words. For only she knew she was not a slave but a Frenchwoman, noble born, whom the hand of fate had dealt a cruel blow. Slowly she turned to face...

• Dec-1981
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There was something about him... But Rosemary, an English girl visiting the Highlands for the first time, knew only that he was different from any man she had ever met. He was Robert Hamish Macrae, Laird of Ardrachan and ardent supporter of the...

• Dec-1981
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Her life changed almost overnight! All of Ellen's eighteen years had been spent in Cwm Bedd, a tiny village in Wales. She loved the countryside...but with her newfound womanhood, she yearned for something more. And then one day it happened....

• Jan-1982
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They said he was in league with the Devil! Richenda shivered at the thought. Lord Devenish, a commander in the enemy Royalist army, was known for his cruelty and senseless plundering, his looting and burning of all that lay in his path. And now...

• Jan-1982
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Why did he seem to dislike her so? Captain Valyev had been kindness itself when he stopped on the road to give assistance to Nadya, one of a vast crowd of refugees fleeing before Napoleon's advancing army. But the moment she told him her full name...

• Feb-1982
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A buccaneer's ship was no place for a woman.... Proud, but loving and impetuous, Corinna Barrett sails from England to the West Indies in search of her missing father, Lord Barrett. The door swung open and Corinna's tiny cabin was flooded with ligh...

• Feb-1982
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She was a most determined young lady! After her parents' death, Aurelia was saddled with enormous debts. When her lawyer stated she had no choice but to sell the family plantation, she resolved to find another way. So she took herself off to En...

• Mar-1982
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Dominic liked women who were soft... But Veronique, now that she shouldered all the responsibilities for her father's plantation, was becoming anything but. Yet why should she care? Despite her girlhood crush on the handsome Dominic d'E...

• Mar-1982
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Love had never entered her plans Elinor had come to London to find a rich husband. She found instead the poor but disturbingly attractive Mr. Christopher Brand. She thought him a dissolute gambler. He thought her a scheming minx. She revised he...

• Apr-1982
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Jenna was turned out into the night... And standing there in the darkness, she watched in horror as her Highland home was set ablaze. "Why?" she cried to the impassive stranger beside her. "Why burn it? Who are you? Why have you don...

• Apr-1982
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Sherida suddenly found she was an heiress But unfortunately her limited experience had not prepared her to deal with the countless London rakes looking for rich wives- especially ones as pretty as Sherida. And so there were many who thought her...

• 1982
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The heartless scheme of a heartless man... To inherit his father's wealth, Viscount Blackwood had to marry. But he wanted a very brief marriage, one that would not interfere for long with his pleasures. So he decided to marry a dying woman ...a...

• May-1982
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It was a year of triumph and excitement London, 1851. Queen Victoria opened the Crystal Palace, and thousands of visitors thronged the most dazzling exhibition in the world. It was also a time of gentility and decorum. Young ladies hid their an...

• May-1982
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She stared in horror as the soldier spoke His leader, William of Normandy, had conquered England's Saxon king. And now the soldier was telling Lady Elfrida that the lands of her noble father were forfeit to William. In fury she spat, "Y...