Mills & Boon Historical — Multiple Authors

• 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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"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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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 ...

• May-1977
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Antoinette Dubec arrives from France to the war-torn Mexico of 1866 to learn of the death of her soldier father. Who is the fierce Mexican Major who breaks the news? Why does he act so coolly towards her? Against his advice she decides to stay on ...

• 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...

• Nov-1977
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England...a country torn in two by a bitter and bloody civil war. The handsome young king, Charles II, was on the run, ruthlessly pursued by Cromwell's Puritan forces. And with him, the man they called the King's Shadow, the legendary Sir Justin Doug...

• Oct-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...

• Nov-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...

• 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...

• Aug-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...

• Jun-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...

• Aug-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&...

• Aug-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 ...

• Aug-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...

• Sep-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...

• Sep-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. ...

• Oct-1978
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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...

• Oct-1978
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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...

• Nov-1978
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Inchman was mad! Mad with revenge. Joanna had rejected Lord Inchman 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, Joanna summ...

• Nov-1978
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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...

• 1978
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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 ...

• Dec-1978
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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 wi...

• Jan-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...

• 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 ...

• Apr-1986
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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...

• Feb-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...

• Mar-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 ...

• Mar-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...

• Apr-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....

• Apr-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...

• May-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...

• May-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 ...

• Jun-1979
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It was no easy matter for a respectable young woman in the 1840's to get from England to Australia. But when Dorothea's beloved fiance` is convicted as a counterfeiter and transported to the penal colony at Port Arthur, she determines that no...

• Jun-1979
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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...

• Sep-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...

• Jul-1979
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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...

• Aug-1979
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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...

• Aug-1979
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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 ...

• Sep-1979
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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...

• Sep-1979
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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...

• Oct-1979
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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 ...

• Oct-1979
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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 ...

• Nov-1979
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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? ...

• Nov-1979
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Everyone -- even her doting father -- thinks of Claudine de Trevires as a meek schoolgirl, too innocent to realize what it means to live in French-occupied Luxembourg in 1789. but at a time when another revolution is trying to sweep away the little d...

• Aug-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...

• Dec-1979
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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...

• Jan-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...

• Jan-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...

• Feb-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 ...

• Feb-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, ...

• Mar-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...

• Mar-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...

• Apr-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...

• Apr-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 ...

• May-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...

• May-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...

• Jun-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 ...

• Jun-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? ...

• Jul-1980
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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...

• Jul-1980
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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 ...

• Aug-1980
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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 ...

• Aug-1980
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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...

• Sep-1980
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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 healt...

• Sep-1980
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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...

• Oct-1980
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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...

• Oct-1980
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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...

• Nov-1980
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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...

• Nov-1980
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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...

• Dec-1980
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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, ...

• Dec-1980
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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 ...

• Jan-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...

• Jan-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...

• Feb-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...

• Feb-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...

• Mar-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...

• Mar-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...

• Apr-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." ...

• Apr-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 ...

• May-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 ...

• May-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...

• Jun-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....

• Jun-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...

• Jul-1981
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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...

• Jul-1981
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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...

• Aug-1981
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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...

• Aug-1981
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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...

• Sep-1981
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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...

• Sep-1981
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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...

• Oct-1981
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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...

• Oct-1981
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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...

• Nov-1981
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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...

• Nov-1981
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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...

• Dec-1981
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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...

• Dec-1981
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To escape the unwelcome advances of her stepfather, Hester Stanley runs away to become mistress of a man she hardly knows. Posing as brother and sister in pre-revolution Paris, Hester is blissfully happy with Beau Vane -- until doubts begin to eme...

• Jan-1982
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Bound from England to New Providence in the Caribbean in 1670 to marry her betrothed, Joanna Seldon falls into the hands of the notorious privateer Sir Christopher Venn, known to his admiring men as the Raven. he has just cause to hate all Puritans a...

• Jan-1982
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All that the orphaned Vanessa Bascombe lacks in her life is love. Heiress to a vast fortune, and convinced that her friends and relations are more enamoured of her money than herself, she runs away to London disguised as a boy in her cousin’s breec...

• Feb-1982
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Mary Burns is travelling through Europe with her friends when war resumes between Britain and France in 1803 and Napoleon orders the arrest of all British subjects on French territory. Their fate is to be decided by Captain Armand Dufour, who has bit...

• Feb-1982
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The year is 1651 and England’s only hope for the future lies in Charles Stuart’s escape to France from Cromwell’s rule. To Verity Ashbourne, a secret follower of the King, the advent of Richard Kingston, the commander of a troop of Roundheads b...

• Mar-1982
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• Mar-1982
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Emma Fraser willingly accompanies her spoilt cousin Anne to Russia in 1716, where she is to marry Prince Nikolai Adashev, for it can hardly be worse than her present life as unpaid drugde. On their arrival in St Petersburg she is horrified to find t...

• Apr-1982
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Charged with high treason and sent to the Tower of London on suspicion of involvement in the Gunpowder Plot, Philip Blount leaves behind him his beautiful fiancee Honoria Summerwell. Her only hope in obtaining his release lies with Sir Gavin Hamilton...

• Apr-1982
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To the small band of pioneers struggling westbound to the Rocky Mountains in the bitter winter of 1846, the chance meeting with Major Dart Richards of the U.S. Cavalry is a fateful encounter. And to the orphaned Polly Kirkham, it is especially distu...

• May-1982
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"You're not like other women my dangerous goddess. You're too beautiful. Men will you, kill for you.." Bound for India to join her solider fiance, Miranda Coulson lightly dismisses this description by a fellow passenger. On arrival...

• May-1982
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Alicia and Kit Kenyon are stunned to discover that their recently deceased brother has gambled away their family home. The find themselves tenants of Major Andrew Harbury, a man who both puzzles and provokes Alicia. Kit, on the other hand, is determi...

• Jun-1982
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• Jun-1982
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Miss Julienne-Eve Lawrence is a young lady of birth but no fortune and finds herself in the awkward situation of possibly being forced to marry someone against her will. Both the new Lord Rotherham and his loutish cousin, Sir Trevor, are competing to...

• Jul-1982
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The young widow Isobel Carnegie is much sought after for her beauty, as well as her fortune. But when she is kidnapped by the highland chieftain Hector MacLean it seems that he is only interested in her money. The gently-bred Isobel is horrified b...

• Jul-1982
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"I wish to purchase the Earl of Deversham." Nothing in her modish appearance suggested to the London lawyer that Dominga Romero-Browne had taken leave of her senses. Indeed, not only was she a vision of loveliness, she was also endowed wi...

• Aug-1982
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When her father dies in the bitter autumn of 1897, Sarah MacDonald is left stranded in the Yukon gold-mining shanty town of Skagway, just south of the Arctic Circle. With the onset of winter it is impossible to return to England, but Sarah is dete...

• Aug-1982
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Was she a fool to believe in miracles? Miss Dorcas Minster was penniless and without prospects. She had no choice but to accept a position as governess in Cockermouth, a remote town in the English Lake District. Resolved to make the best of her...

• Sep-1982
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Fleeing from the massacre of the Huguenots that began in Paris on St Bartholomew's Day 1572, Gabrielle deMaret is captured by a pirate ship, the Salamander. The captain, a man who calls himself Solitaire, is both an intriguing and frightening fig...

• Sep-1982
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“A rogue, a gamester, a cad and a rake!” This is how Briony Malleby views Sir Nicholas Darrell. Battling to keep house for her father, a dissolute, persistent and unlucky gambler, she is horrified to learn that he owes no less than 12,000 pou...

• Oct-1982
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'The Nile, the white fountains of the Nile...' Her father's last words haunt Harriet Latimer long after she has been rescued from the Nubian desert which they had been attempting to cross. Her rescuer, the insolent and devastatingly h...

• Oct-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 ...

• Nov-1982
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• Nov-1982
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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...

• Dec-1982
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• Dec-1982
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"You're my woman, Avon, I'll be coming to claim you.' To motherless Avon Meredith, fresh from England and traveling West to live with her uncle and aunt in the wild state of Montana in the 1880's, helping fellow passenger Ken Gran...

• Jan-1983
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The beautiful Miss Camilla Marsh has been groomed from childhood for her marriage to Javier da Silva Ballantyne, the aristocratic owner of a tea plantation in Ceylon. Yet when she travels there in 1877 to marry the man she has never seen, her romanti...

• Jan-1983
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• Feb-1983
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California or Bust! For Leah Cabot, gently raised in Boston and the last surviving member of her family after the ravages of the American Civil War, the trek Westward starts as a journey towards a dream. But the dream quickly turns into a nightmare....

• Feb-1983
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It is 1486; the proud Lord Alvar has come to claim his bride. The Lady Elspeth Murran was barely fifteen years old when she first set eyes on the man known as the Wolf of Alvar, yet she was fascinated by him....

• Mar-1983
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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 ...

• Mar-1983
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London, 1914. Lady Catherine Davencourt is eagerly awaiting her marriage to Robert, Marquis of Clare, when she is brought terrible news -- he has been brutally murdered. She is doubly horrified when her penniless stepmother schemes with her late f...

• Apr-1983
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In 1192 the orphaned Lady Judith of Claverham joins the Third Crusade to search for her only brother Edwin, rather than marry Geoffrey de Belgarde. Soon after landing in the Holy Land she is captured by a band of marauding soldiers and only the inte...

• Apr-1983
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Unlike her five older sisters, Miss Victoria Lynton is no beauty, but endowed instead with a lively mind and a tendency to outrageous behavior. Bored with being a debutante in fashionable Edwardian Society and intrigued by life below stairs, she disg...

• May-1983
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What can the Dowager Lady Middleton do when she finds herself in drastically reduced circumstances following the death of her husband? One solution is to find eligible husbands for both her daughters. Verity, the elder, strong-willed one, boldly ...

• May-1983
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Tired of constant scraps with the English, by 1837 the Dutch settlers in South Africa had resolved to trek north into the interior. Orphaned Laura Conway is living with her Dutch stepmother whom she dearly loves, so it seems natural that she should a...

• Jun-1983
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‘The gentleman you met on the sea. He will come for you.’ To Serena Wentworth, this prophecy can only mean the dashing Gavin Fawcett, who kissed her on the deck of the SS Aroya, outward bound for Ceylon. Or could it possibly be the daunting...

• Jun-1983
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Amid the brooding mountains of Glen Coe and the bleak windswept Rannoch Moor the bitter enmity between the families of the Campbell’s and the MacDonald’s blazes ever fiercer. Though it fifty year’s since that first terrible massacre, Catriona C...

• Jul-1983
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Reluctant Viscountess, Reluctant Bride According to her mother, Adrienne was far too clever. If only she'd be content wit her beauty instead of wanting to discuss politics and philosophy. But Adrienne had her romantic side, too. She longed to ...

• Jul-1983
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"Remember, from now on you are the daughter of the Lady Alys de Brusac. If you fall in any way you will die." In the turbulent early years of Henry II's reign, Kathryn's feudal overlord has dragged her from serfdom, scrubbed off her p...

• Aug-1983
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What can the Earl and Countess of Cumnor do to make their spirited twin daughters, the ladies Lucienne and Eustacia, conform to the rigid rules laid down by Victorian society? Bored by the attentions of a score of suitors fascinated by the rarity of ...

• Aug-1983
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In 1880 the meeting place of international royalty and the twilight world of the demi-monde is the dazzling casino at Monte Carlo. To the young and beautiful Charlotte Grainger, one figure stands out above Sarah Bernhardt, the Prince of Wales and the...

• Sep-1983
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For the luxurious and legendary S.S. Atlanta the crossing to Canada in mid-November 1906 is a momentous voyage…a chance to prove she is the fastest liner on the Atlantic Ocean. For Miss Faye Wainwright, granddaughter of the owner, this is the fi...

• Sep-1983
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“I am going to make the captain fall in love with me. And when he does I shall reject him utterly and there will be nothing he can do about it.” When Napoleon’s army occupies Vienna in the winter of 1805, Leon de Vaudry, Captain of the Drag...

• Oct-1983
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‘I don’t care for company, Miss Tarrant, and in particular, I don’t care for yours.’ When Abigail Tarrant is employed to escort the young Sophie Farraday to join her father in India, she is shocked by the coldness of their reception. For B...

• Oct-1983
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Left a house and a fortune by her godfather, Galina is delighted at the unexpected opportunity to enter the glittering society of St. Petersburg in the early nineteenth century. Yet she cannot help feeling uncomfortable about her new-found wealth,...

• Nov-1983
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The news of their elderly Uncle Claudius's impending nuptials has set the Lyle family on its ears. Joseph is faced with debtor’s prison, since he has lived on his expectancy for years. His mother is distraught, and his brother Robert, concerned...

• Nov-1983
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Eden Cortland a will brought up young lady travels out to the Barbary Coast to find out that she has inherited a share of a infamous gambling saloon in San Francisco. Chance Mallory her reluctant partner doubts Eden's ability to work with him in ...

• Dec-1983
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'Hasn't anyone told you that all the money in the world will not make a joyous marriage?' With these words Captain Lance Merrick makes it quite clear to Miss Elena Blake that he disapproves of her engagement to the wealthiest bachelor...

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• Jan-1984
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After bitter conflict and bloodshed over its precious water rights by the 1840’s the Valley de Lagrimas is one of the most peaceful, thriving areas of California until its owner Ysanne de Rivera, returns after spending six months in Monterey to fin...

• Jan-1984
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Miranda Vernon hates Gabriel Everard with every fibre of her being. At his command, her husband Robin was brutally killed during the Civil War, leaving Miranda a widow after just two months of marriage. So when Cromwell's spy-master John Thurloe a...

• Feb-1984
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India -- land of Melissa Castlewood's childhood dreams! When the Maharaja of Altabad bequeaths her her father's beautiful house Koh-i-noor, she longs to make it her home. But not everyone is as welcoming as the Maharaja... Melissa's drama...

• Feb-1984
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At twenty-four years old, Miss Kitty Price has yet to fall in love. In Victorian Society, where the only escape from a boring existence for a woman is through marriage, this is a serious situation. So she resolves to accept the hand of Sir Randolph S...

• Mar-1984
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Countess Tatya Kalinskaya resigns herself to a bleak future as she watches her friends one by one fall in love and get married. She is still beautiful, but who would want a widow who is unable to walk or dance? Then Vassily Karachev returns to St....

• Jan-1984
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In the bitter aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, a Scotsman lies imprisoned in the dreaded Bridge Hole at Inverness. His brother, Alan MacKenzie the master of Craigraven, believes there is just one last chance to obtain his release -- by kidna...

• Apr-1984
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As the tiny Grand Duchy of Carthia shudders in the bitter aftermath of the 1848 Revolutions, Princess Anna Theresa, daughter of the Grand Duke, narrowly escapes with her life when her parents are assassinated. She seeks refuge with her cousin Prince ...

• Apr-1984
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Lizzie Banister has always taken care of her little sister. Motherless since Jane was born, Lizzie learned early that it was up to her to make sure that her pretty and flirtatious sister doesn’t ruin herself. On a ship en route to Australia, Liz...

• May-1984
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To Mary Kate Whitney, living with her missionary father on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, Ross Pendennis is everything she has been brought up to detest. He drinks to excess, consorts with loose women and, worst of all, he mocks her faith. And yet she ...

• May-1984
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"You are a Mainwaring, my girl, and therefore endowed with plenty of courage and the stubbornness of twenty devils," Lord Cumnor tells his daughter as she embarks for the Crimea as one of Miss Nightingale's nurses. Lady Eustacia Mainwaring, acclai...

• Jun-1984
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• Jun-1984
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In 1666, bribed with the King's Dowry -- an ox and a cow, two pigs, a pair of chickens, two barrels of salted meat and eleven crowns in money -- Yvette journeys from her native France to find herself a husband in the New World. But how will she ...

• Jul-1984
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Just when Dona Marian Alvarez believes that war is over and Napoleon's troops are in retreat, she is captured by French officer Guy Dupre. He intends to hold her hostage so that the man he believes to be her lover, the infamous guerrilla leader F...

• Jul-1984
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Sparked off by poverty and famine in West Wales in the early 1840s, the Rebecca Riots were a popular protest against the injustice of the tolls. Dressed as women, large bands of men scoured the country by night, spurred on by their leader; known as &...

• Aug-1984
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'I'll make my fortune, no matter what I have to do...' Of all the desperate men who rush to dig for diamonds in the dust of Shelagh Maybury's South African farm, Luke Valentine, a handsome disgraced Englishman, is the most ruthless. ...

• Aug-1984
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Anything would be better than marrying Cousin George,' declares Miss Deborah Phipps, and thus rejects her only chance of a respectable but boring future. High ideals may be fine in theory, but, as soon she discovers, alone and destitute, in Vi...

• Sep-1984
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Celina MacNeill, daughter of Malcolm, Laird of Craig Tor, to be sold to the highest bidder... For Celina it all seems quite unbelievable -- yet the auction is as real as the atrocities she has witnessed at Culloden, the defeat of her prince, Charles ...

• Sep-1984
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It is indeed a match made by the angels of heaven -- or so the marriage between spirited Crystal Covendale and the autocratic Damien Granville appears to the citizens of Victorian Delhi. What they don't know is that Crystal has been blackmailed i...

• Oct-1984
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When Miss Sara Saunders married brooding Sir Tarquin Pengelly, she little dreamed of the depths of passionate delight he might awake in her. But once stirred, Sara vows she will never leave his side, even if that means embarking for Spain, where her...

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• Nov-1984
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Shipped out to the jungles and volcanoes of Java by her strait-laced Dutch relations, rebellious Anneke van de Velde finds a kindred spirit in Harvey Brand, artist, libertine and social outcast. And when she is pressured into betrothal to an austere ...

• Nov-1984
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'You're exactly the man I knew would come one day to take me home,' Sanna tells the handsome American who stops by her isolated trading post in Mexico. But the last thing Ben Maddox, hellbent on his own personal vendetta, wants is a woman...

• Dec-1984
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'No matter how it came about, we are undoubtedly engaged to be married', Judah Renshaw announces to Emerald Travers. Which comes as something of a shock to Emerald. Having tricked him into taking her into the Australian interior for find her fiancÃ...

• Dec-1984
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Like father, like daughter. Such was the handsome Lord Moreton's bitter reflection at the first sight of his brother's fiancee, the beautiful and spirited Diane de Verette. Knowing that her father was a traitor, he was determined that no offs...

• Jan-1985
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‘Save that bullet -- I’m coming back.’ When war-weary Jared Ruell arrives in Tanglewood, a vast cotton estate in South Carolina, he doesn’t expect to find it defended by its proud young mistress, Holly Beaufort. Nor does he expect to fall ...

• Jan-1985
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'She has the looks and the fortune to capture an earl or a marquis...' Such is the cry when Miss Isobel Ward arrives in Town for the season of 1763. Alas, the youthful charm which excites London's fortune-hunters earns her only the scorn of one eli...

• Feb-1985
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• Feb-1985
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From a comfortable house in Victorian London to a dilapidated cocoa plantation in the West Indies, flame-haired Triona Brooks follows her disgraced husband with naïve trust. But under the tropical sun of Ste-Martine she is forced at last to recogn...

• Mar-1985
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Rachel, good friend of Tess Mainwaring, has returned from the Crimean War to live with her aunt and uncle. The sudden death of her uncle leaves herself and her aunt destitute. They are offered the use of the old Dower house by Justin's parents th...

• Mar-1985
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"The Sultan has vowed to stable his horses in St Peter's. Go Home! Leave Vienna!" Heedless of Count Andrei Wiczasty's warnings, Arabella Lynton, daughter of the English envoy, is trapped in Vienna when the Turks lay siege to the city. With starvation...

• May-1985
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The River of Time flows on, and our past mistakes are irretrievable. All we can do is avoid making the same ones in the future. Asked to act as chaperon on a long and difficult journey across Russia, the widowed Mila de Romarin willingly accepts t...

• May-1985
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'Beware the conqueror, I say, come not with a sword in your hand, for it will avail you nothing against a woman’s smile.' Desperate to escape her arranged marriage, Elona, daughter of a Saxon lord, seeks out a sacred spot in the forest a...

• May-1985
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Bella Stanley's mission to Afghanistan is she knows a dangerous one, for she hopes to find her lost second cousin Resaldar, held captive for years by savage tribesmen. But when she finds him, Resalder is far from the pathetic figure of her imaginatio...

• May-1985
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'If there were any convents left in England I would gladly enter one,' Mistress Isabel Holstead tells Sir Ralph Overton. Anything would be preferable to marrying him! But in the troubled religious climate of 1581 it seems that she must reco...

• Jun-1985
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Relaxed though the morals of Restoration London are, when the Earl of Ravenswood marries a common tavern wrench from Wapping and sets up home with both his wife and mistress, speculation sweeps the Court. Only Sapphira, the new Lady Ravenswood, knows...

• Jun-1985
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• Jul-1985
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‘I am a man and a soldier, not a knight in shining armor!’ The army is no place for a woman of gentle birth, of that Charlotte Lacoste is aware. But if she is to find her fiancé she must cross the Alps with Napoleon’s army. And she knows onl...

• Jul-1985
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Spirited Miss Isobel MacIntosh is not to be persuaded into marriage against her will -- however handsome, charming and eligible Colin Frazer, her suitor, might be. She has set her heart on a rebel clansman -- and will have him even if she has to resc...

• Aug-1985
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THE NAKED FORTUNE HUNTER The handsome, charming Compte de Varron made no secret of why he had come to England, and now laid siege to Theodora Radlett. He sought to reclaim the fabulous necklace known as the Diamond Waterfall, once the property ...

• Aug-1985
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‘I have not come in search of adventure or romance ...’ But adventure and romance were just what Miss Caroline Emerson found in India in 1868. As governess to the children of the Maharaja of Vjaypur she was soon drawn into the palace intrigues a...

• Sep-1985
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She refused to believe the rumors about him -- certainly not until they could be confirmed or denied! Her curiosity was boundless... The arrival of Mr. John Harris, the new owner of Pinnacles House, was greeted with much interest by the inhabit...

• Sep-1985
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The moon rose over the Solway and false lights flickered as yet another shipload of men and women with rings on their fingers and guineas in their pockets were lured to their deaths by the wreckers. Watching them was Jack Jardine, Lord of Redayre and...

• Oct-1985
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HAWAII 1870 Katherine Beresford-Hawke came to Hawaii in 1870 to find the family she had never known - she never wanted to be plunged into a tense family drama in which she alone held the key that could destroy them all... Including the arrogant, pr...

• Oct-1985
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'I shall marry no man who cannot match me pound for pound and acre for acre,' vowed Cleo Mortimer. But as the beautiful and unprotected heiress to Happenstance Hall, her choice of suitors was limited. There was the new minister, Huw Clwyd,...

• Nov-1985
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Find me a wife and I’ll marry her now! Overwhelmed by pity and believing he had only a few hours to live, Roxanna agreed to marry the stranger she met in a Cornish inn. How could she have known that she would find herself caught up in a web of int...

• Nov-1985
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As an explorer's daughter, Catherine Lambard had made hazardous treks across the desert and perilous sea voyages. Now she faced the greatest challenge of all in search for lost civilizations amid the awesome mountains and jungles of Peru. And in the ...

• Dec-1985
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'You are full of surprises, Miss Frazer' -- little did Lord Marbrae realise the full brilliance of miss Catherine Frazer's complicated schemes! Intent on helping her brother win the hand of Lord Marbrae's sister, Catherine has resolve...

• Dec-1985
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Named by his crew for the god of the underworld, Captain Hades was a man with hell in his eyes and hatred in his heart, hatred for the Spaniard he had sworn to kill and for Queen Mary I. Now the Queen’s ward was his prisoner... Lady Katherine Wi...

• Jan-1986
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• Jan-1986
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'You're young, beautiful, poor and unhappy, can't you see it's a recipe for disaster?' Countess Gabriella knew that her behaviour was making her the gossip of fashionable Vienna. Only her dead husband's cousin, the Polish M...

• Feb-1986
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'Good evening, gentlemen. Welcome to Hell! I am Madam Satan...' The gentlemen in the ante-room had no idea who the mysterious woman was, but for Katharine Walcotte it had all started several years before... It all stemmed from her belief that...

• Feb-1986
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NO SURRENDER! From the moment Miss Charis Winslade met Major Daniel Hammond in a sudden thunderstorm, she could see that though he was an officer, he decidedly was no gentleman. She had only to feel his mocking eyes insolently surveying her drench...

• Mar-1986
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They were two unlikely heiresses who had been sent for as brides: Bridget Montresor was tall and vital, more shrewd than shrew; little Lucy Barnes was a timid, friendless waif. Yet it was Lucy who became caught up in a dangerous game of love… Sh...

• Mar-1986
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• Apr-1986
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Raven took what he wanted--gold, jewels ... and women Beautiful and headstrong, Angelina Blackthorne was plunged from the licentious court of Charles II into a world of treachery and intrigue, as she roamed the high seas in a desperate bid to sav...

• Apr-1986
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Edinburgh harbored all kinds of evil. So Cameron Kyle warned Rose Barbour when she arrived in the city. And, indeed, as companion to Miis Jean Brodie, Rose found herself caught up in a world of shadows and mystery. There was the sinister yet strangel...

• May-1986
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The trap was set -- and she was the bait It was strange that the fabulously wealthy Captain Moreton, hero of the Napoleonic Wars should find himself proposing to the first eligible female he met on his return to England. After all, he had vowed to...

• May-1986
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Count Sergei Borodinov demanded obedience -- from his soldiers, his serfs and his wife. In his household there would be no hint of the westernization ordered by the Tsar. But Kirsty, his beautiful young bride, was English and use to independence -- a...