Barbara Cartland - The Eternal Collection — Multiple Authors

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THE KISS The day Rodney Hawkhurst rode into her father's grand estate, Lizbeth was but a wild young girl of eighteen, red hair unkempt, dirt on her apron, and an archer's bow in her hand. Then Rodney rudely took her in his arms and kis...

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THE DIVIDED HEART 1750, Scottish Highlands. Four years after Bonnie Prince Charles had lost the battle of Culloden Moor, he and his friends are planning another Rising. The Duke of Arkrae, Chief of the Clan MacCraggan, is of great importance, o...

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PAWN OF VENGEANCE It was the gayest season Monte Carlo had ever known, and of all the beautiful bejewelled women, Mademoiselle Fantôme was causing a sensation. Who was the exquisite "ghost," with her shining golden hair and dreaming dark eyes? Wh...

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Could she set free from the secret that threatened their love? They were strangers, meeting by destiny in a lonely, moonlit wood. Because of an indiscretion, Lady Caroline Faye finds herself in a moonlit glade beside the body of a dead man, and hi...

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

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

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

• Oct-2012
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Lady Kasia Ross is the only child of a doting and exceedingly wealthy father -- yet the heiress is horrified to hear her father's plan to marry her to Lord Stefelton in order to save her from fortune-hunters. Protesting that she will marry only f...

• Oct-2012
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England, 1819. When Diona Grantley becames an orphan at her father's death, she is compelled to live with her uncle, Sir Hereward Grantley and his dim-witted son Simon. Her father died in debt, Her only comfort is her beloved dog, a Dalmatian cal...

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

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

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

• Oct-2012
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Life had become a nightmare of terror and despair for lovely Wivina Compton. Jeffrey Farlow, leader of the village gang of smugglers, was determined to make her his wife. Wivina despised him. His crude advances repulsed her, and she was certain he...

• Oct-2012
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The debonair Marquis of Sherwood was notorious in his disdain for the eligible young ladies of Society, preferring the glamourous, worldly, and amusing company of the celebrated Gaiety Girls. Then Lavina Vernon, shy and exquisite, was swept into a fr...

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

• Oct-2012
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Larentia felt the Duke of Tregaron's eyes upon her, as though her were speaking to her without words. "Look at me, Larentia!" She could not take her eyes from the Duke's and knew that she was his prisoner whether she wished it or not. Very slowly, ...

• Oct-2012
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The mildness and beauty of Hong Kong were so welcome after the horrible English winters. As lovely and delicate as the flower she was named for, Azalea needed warmth and sunlight to survive. Not that Azalea would ever be truly happy in her new home....

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

• Oct-2012
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Benedicta gave a little cry and threw herself against the Duke of Kingswood. "I am so frightened I may...disappoint you." He pulled her closer to him. "Do you think I want you to know anything but what I shall teach you?" he ...

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

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

• Oct-2012
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Marcus "Lucky" Logan was a London legend. Handsome and fearless, he traveled the world unearthing one astounding discovery after another -- and securing the fortunes of those who invested in his latest find... Belinda Wyncombe's Step-papa was less fo...

• Oct-2012
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Young and beautiful, Princess Marie-Therese of Wiedenstein is alarmed when her father tells her she is engaged to an English Duke -- she believes the English to be cold, arrogant and insensitive. And when her twin brother the Prince also hears unplea...

• Oct-2012
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Craig Vandervelt, handsome son of the richest man in America, is begged by his cousin, the Marquess of Landsdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, to undertake a secret mission. He must find a British agent who has disappeared in India. He encounters ...

• Oct-2012
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"Marquis of Buckwood" -- for that title Magnolia had betrayed Warren, and it had been that betrayal that sent Warren to Africa to forget the woman who held such sway over his senses. But now that Fate had made Warren master of the same tit...

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

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

• Oct-2012
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Zokala, 1850. Princess Ileana of Zokala was proud, headstrong, and fiercely devoted to her people. Besieged by suitors at court, Princess Ileana vows never to marry. Yet the Statesmen decreed that she could never rule until she found a husband. Many ...

• Oct-2012
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A warm wave of fragrance and sunlight greeted them as they crossed the room to the orchids. "I told you, Anita," said the Duke of Ollerton, "never come to a Conservatory alone with a man unless you want him to make love to you." Her eyes widened: "...

• Oct-2012
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1894. The Marquis of Oakenshaw is asked by the Foreign Secretary to visit Siam to reassure the King who has been upset by Britain and France quarrelling over the frontiers. A dashing, wealthy and handsome bachelor, the Marquis asks several friends to...

• Oct-2012
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Solita Gresham's shock upon arriving at Calver Castle was twofold. Not only had her Guardian, the formidable Duke of Calverleigh, forgotten he even had a Ward, but the sensuous and reckless peer was enmeshed in the exotic wiles of a sinister Russian ...

• Oct-2012
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The Duke of Strathnarn went down on one knee before Clola and put his hands together, palm to palm. Then, looking up at her, he said very slowly: "I swear by Almighty God to protect and serve you. I will love you with my whole heart, worship you as ...

• Oct-2012
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Vernita had never been so frightened or confused in her life. Trapped in Paris as Napoleon,was trying to imprison all English tourists, she was masquerading as a French seamstress. But she could never disguise her fresh young beauty and exquisi...

• Oct-2012
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Duke of Otterburn put his arms around Magnolia Vandevilt, then slowly, very slowly, as if he was still afraid to frighten her, his lips found hers. As he kissed her he knew, just as he had expected, her mouth was soft, sweet and innocent and gave hi...

• Oct-2012
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The Duke of Ravenstock awoke and was aware that everything was very silent. He looked for Anoushka, but at first he could not see her. Then he realised she was beside him in the bed, sound asleep. For the moment he was astonished. Then he realised t...

• Oct-2012
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Sandra is the exquisite only daughter of Lord Blackstone. When a stepmother's hatred forces her to flee her beloved home, Sandra becomes companion to the celebrated Countess of Kyle. The boldest day-dreams of this country beauty are surpassed when ro...

• Oct-2012
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Pandia looked down at the book in her hand. Then as if he could not wait for her answer Lord Silvester asked: "Have you thought about me?" "It would be...difficult to think of anything...else." "That is what I hoped," he...

• Oct-2012
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Edward, Earl of Lanbourne, was the heir to his uncle, the powerfull Marquess of Walstoke's estate, but he disappoints his uncle by making plans to marry an actress. He and his friend Sir Hubert Bryan quickly concocts a mock marriage between Harry and...

• Oct-2012
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The Earl put out his arms towards her. But Demelza did not move and he stopped before he touched her. "May I kiss you?" he whispered. "I think ... if you kissed me it would be more wonderful than anything else in the world ... but it would be ....

• Oct-2012
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Young Araminta is an innocent lady and a great cook, to help her family in a wager, she cooking undercover for the Marquis of Wayne. After the Marquis met her, he kissed her masterfully, passionately. "Tomorrow," he said, "I will take ...

• Oct-2012
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It was impossible for Valda to do what her stepfather asked. He was French and the idea of arranged marriages came naturally to him. But she was not and the thought of being wed to a man she did not love -- did not even know -- repulsed her. "But V...

• Oct-2012
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There was no question that the Marquis of Aldridge had saved her life. The townspeople were convinced she was a witch. They were dragging her to the river to administer the ultimate test. If she drowned, she was innocent. If she floated, she was e...

• Oct-2012
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Nevada van Arden was cruel, selfish and utterly spoiled. An American heiress as rich as she was beautiful, she delighted in encouraging young men to fall in love with her so that she might break their hearts. Enraged by her callousness, Tyrone Stro...

• Oct-2012
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Leona stood before the Duke of Ardness, well aware that her whole body was trembling. "I understand that you rode off my land today," the Duke began slowly. Although he was speaking in a controlled, almost unemotional voice, Leona could fe...

• Oct-2012
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BEYOND HER WILDEST DREAMS "What is happening?" Zosina asked, her voice shaking. She raised her face instinctively as she spoke, and, without her having any intention of doing so, her mouth touched his. A streak of lightning seemed to...

• Oct-2012
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To allay the suspicions of his mistress's husband, the Marquis of Stowe pretends to be engaged to the lovely Ajanta. The ruse seems to succeed, until the jealous husband presents an unexpected ultimatum, one that will force Ajanta to reveal her heart...

• Oct-2012
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Zita was suddenly aware that somebody, a man, was moving between the trunks of the trees, catching only a glimpse as he passed behind first one, then another. She thought that it would be a bore if she had to stop and talk as was customary in that pa...

• Oct-2012
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Without thinking, simply because her terror about what had occurred was still with her, Lady Samala Wynn ran towards the Duke of Buckhurst and flung herself against him. "You... are safe!" Her hands had reached up towards the Duke's neck, and as he...

• Oct-2012
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The Prince of Wales buys for Carlton House an exquisitely painted 15th century picture of "The Virgin of the Lilies" by Stefan Lochner. Both he and his close friend the Marquis of Fane are entranced by it. They are, however, stunned when the dealer b...

• Oct-2012
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When the Marquis of Ardley boasts that he could always tell a woman of high breeding, Lord Frodham and Sir James Overton decide to take up the challenge to find a woman who can fool him. On their way, they rescue beautiful Indira and persuade her to ...

• Oct-2012
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Queen's Ford, a beautiful house built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, is crumbling into a ruin and the Forde family are so poor they can't afford to repair it. Jeremy, needing some new clothes, persuades is sister, Mariota, to help him hold ...

• Oct-2012
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Lady Loretta's father has arranged for her to marry the son of le Duc de Sauerdun, the dashing Fabian, Marquis de Sauerdun. Knowing that it is usual amongst the French and British aristocrats to arrange marriages for their children, Loretta is still ...

• Oct-2012
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1825. Because of her gypsy ancestry Princess Laetitia invoked the help of Romanies to waylay the King Viktor of Zvotana in the guise of a dancer to do whatever she could to prevent his betrothal to Stephanie, the girl her brother Kyril loved. They g...

• Oct-2012
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Chandra Wardell, daughter of a world-renowned Sanskrit scholar, learns that her father has been commissioned to journey to Nepal to search for an ancient manuscript. Chandra is thrilled--till she discovers that the invitation, extended by staunch wom...

• Oct-2012
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Bored by Society, the Duke of Brockenhurst bets that he can travel from London to York incognito. On his journey he helps Valora Melford escape from marriage to a cruel Baronet. Pursued, they embark on a daring ride to safety in York. The Duke's disg...

• Oct-2012
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When fog maroons the dashing Duke of Marazion at a bleak inn, he soothes his restless soul with a brandy, a book, and a roaring fire. Never does he suspect that the furtive knock at his door will reveal the lovely artist Ilitta, or that he will guide...

• Oct-2012
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Exquisitely lovely Norina Wyn had fled her home, for her jealous stepmother, greedy for the young heiress's fortune, had tried to poison her. Now Norina, posing as a widow, was Secretary to a French Marquis de Carlamont, who was travelling to Paris t...

• Oct-2013
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Black magic? Dorina Stanfield, the Vicar's young and lovely daughter could not believe that she was hearing Jarvis Yarde's murderous incantations against the one man who stood between himself and the ancient Earldom of Yardcombe. Yet it was true... a...

• May-2013
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England, 1818 The victim of a tyrannical uncle and cousin, enchanting Ula Forde flees their grip, only to be rescued by the very man her beautiful but heartless cousin has betrayed. The Marquis of Raventhorpe pledges to avenge the cruelty to which b...

• May-2013
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"Where have you been, Miss Windham?" The Duke of Strathrannock spoke so harshly that Fiona was startled. "I have...." she began feebly. "Do not bother to lie!" he said furiously. "Have you had enough lovemaking tonig...

• May-2013
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AN INNOCENT IN LOVE... When her father dies, beautiful Candida Walcott, left penniless, knows she will have to sell the one thing she loves most in the world -- her black stallion, Pegasus. But, as luck has it, Major Hooper, the London stable-owne...

• May-2013
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The Earl of Winsford looked at her searchingly and then he said: "I want a wife to belong to me completely. To be mine exclusively for all time!" He paused before he said very quietly: "And I think, Sorilda, I have found her." Then, as in some mira...

• May-2013
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The stars shone brilliantly over the harbor as Ola's words concealed what was in her heart: "You have told me that you hate women as I hate men..." The color rose in her cheeks. The Marquis of Elvington replied, "I think we have a great deal to lear...

• May-2013
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Yolande's desperation knew no bounds. Up until now her life was as perfect as any princess in a storybook. A landed countess, blessed with beauty, intelligence and wealth, she lived in a magnificent castle on the edge of a dark, mysterious for...

• May-2013
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The dashing and raffish Justin, Marquis of Veryan awakes from a drunken sleep to the appalling realisation that in the throes of passion he has proposed marriage to renowned Society beauty Lady Rose Caterham.  Worse, still, she accepted and wil...

• May-2013
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Bertilla's mother was a society beauty, who didn't want anyone to know she had a grown daughter, and decided send her away to her aunt in Sarawak. When she was fleeing a persistent suitor, she runs into handsome Lord Saire at the train station and la...

• Aug-2013
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Natasha Melikov was a Countess and a hostage. Kidnapped from her home in Tzarist Russia by Moslem rebels, she and her young brother were being held captive high in the Caucasian mountains. Overcome with fear, Natasha made an otherwise unthinkable ...

• Aug-2013
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Melita's life at Martinique had seemed blessed with beauty. But when she heard the drums pounding softly in the night, she remembered what she had heard about Voodoo. Following the sound she pushed her way through the branches and saw a group of sla...

• Aug-2013
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The king came to Xenia's bedside and looked at her luxurious red hair shining in the candlelight and at her tender lips, which were trembling because she was afraid. "Do you know how beautiful you are?" He said. Xenia knew the moment had finally co...

• Aug-2013
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On a day unlike any other, Hermia Brooke, the poor but beautiful daughter of the Vicar of Little Millbrooke, stumbled upon a man who had difficulty removing a shoe from his horse's hoof in a country lane, and she helped him. He was a dark and very s...

• Aug-2013
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California, 1885. Amongst the mountains and lush plains of the American West, young and beautiful Lady Roberta Worth found the miracle of true love with the brilliant and passionate Adam Garson. But Adam's heart was torn between the spirited Brit...

• Aug-2013
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The Duke of Warminster was uncontrollably angry. First Jabina, the silly young twit had lied her way into his carriage -- forcing him to drive halfway across Scotland with her. Then, when the carriage overturned and he was injured, she lied again and...

• Aug-2013
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Sir Peter wants his sister Carola Greton to pretend to be the Marquis of Broxburne's wife, to foil an American multi-millionaire's wish to marry off his daughter to an English lord. Carola was only a sheltered young country gentlewoman, and the Marqu...

• Aug-2013
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Orphaned and homeless, young Jacoba Ford answers an advertisement for a companion for the Earl of Kilmurdock, a blind and deaf gentleman. She is interviewed and sent to Murdock Castle, that rose massive and splendid from the stern beauty of the Scott...

• Aug-2013
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Cyprian, Marquis of Melverley returned from fighting in Wellington's army only to discover that his mistress has returned to her husband and his favourite dancer was in bed with another man. Irate and running away from the betrayal, quiet the bejewel...

• Aug-2013
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A BESIEGED HEART Melina threw up her dull but safe job in a solicitor's office and answered an advertisement for a secretary/companion to a rich American. Mrs Schuster was travelling to Morocco and Melina had always wanted to see the country, but he...

• Jan-2014
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Lara is a country parson's daughter, eager for adventure, who trades places with a friend so she can experience first-hand the lives of the very rich. At the lavish estate of the Marquis of Keyston, masquerading as a governess, she learns an unexpect...

• Jan-2014
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1887. Vida Anstruther knows there is no other way. Her father, the Crown's most brilliant diplomat, has disappeared in Hungary, and his sudden silence has become ominous. When official channels prove helpless, it is up to the brave young beauty to di...

• Jan-2014
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The Marquis of Falcon needed a wife in a hurry. The solution seemed simple: marry the daughter of his fabulously wealthy country neighbor, the Earl of Warnborough. Then a misunderstanding saw him married to the wrong daughter, but the right wife--and...

• Jan-2014
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London, 1928. "Yes" was the one word everyone wanted from the beautiful, titian-haired Samantha Clyde.... "Yes" to the celebrated London photographer who wanted to make Samantha his top model.... "Yes" to the debonair...

• Jan-2014
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The moon had risen and everything was enveloped with a light that seemed to come from the gods themselves. "It is so... lovely!" Latonia breathed. "And so are youl" Lord Branscombe replied softly. She felt his arm go around her as he said, "This. i...

• Jan-2014
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Lord Victor Brooke, Queen Victoria's godson, has earned Her Majesty's disapproval for an amorous escapade--and so is banned from the Beau Monde while he escorts a royal fianceé to be wed with the King Stephen of the distant Realm of Zararis. To th...

• Jan-2014
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England, 1816. Andrina's two lovely sisters -- orphaned, penniless, buried in the country -- would never find suitable husbands unless they went to London, and to introduce them to society. Her sisters' beauty would accomplish the rest. Andrina i...

• Jan-2014
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The Earl of Hawkshead looked down at Baptista. Her face was hidden against his shoulder. "I am... sorry," she said in a muffled voice. "It was... my fault." He asked me if I... had ever been... kissed," Baptista said in a hesitating little voice, "a...

• Apr-2014
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She was the pawn in a rich man's game of love, until her heart betrayed her! LOVE'S COMMAND Lovely Aria Milbourne -- with her mysterious dark eyes and flaming hair -- disdained the world of glamor and fashion. Daughter of the notorious ...

• Apr-2014
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"Shall we find out if the second time we kiss each other is a wonderful as the first?" Earl of Keswick did not wait for Alisa's answer, but his lips were on hers and Alisa knew at the first touch of them that this was what she had been longing and y...

• May-2014
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The masterful highwayman stood in the moonlight waiting for outrageous Lady Galatea Roysdon to relinquish her last jewel to his rakish, mocking command. "But you can not take this!" she protested. "It was my mother's and it is all ...

• May-2014
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Yamina froze as a new wave of terror swept over her. Life had become so dangerous. Caught in Constantinople during the Crimean War, the exquisite young Russian had been forced to seek refuge in a Sultan's harem from a mob that would have torn her ap...

• May-2014
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Shimona was face to face with the notorious Duke of Ravenstone. She had imagined an older man with slanting eyes, arched eyebrows, a long thin nose and pointed ears. But as she looked across the room she saw not the devil she had anticipated, but a s...

• May-2014
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The Duke of Tynemouth, who is having a wild affair with the Countess of Langstone, learns that Queen Victoria is planning that he should marry. In a desperate effort to escape and to save his reputation, the Duke agrees to marry the Countess's niece ...

• Jun-2014
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Every day since she had fled to the farm, Romara had yearned for Lord Ravenscar, and had cried many bitter tears over him at night into her pillow. How, she asked herself, could she have been so foolish, so stupid, as to fall in love with a man wh...

• Jun-2014
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Never had Atayla seen a man looking so angry, and before she could speak, before she could think or ask what he was doing, the Earl said: "I am well aware of why you came here, Miss Lindsay, and why my wife sent you to seduce me into giving her the ...

• Jul-2014
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"And remember, Tilda, it is a great honour that Queen Victoria herself has arranged your marriage." Lady Victoria Matilda Tetherton Smythe murmured assent to her mother's reminder, but secretly worried whether marriage to Prince Maximi...

• Jul-2014
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Ursa Hollington and her elder sister Penelope were as different as night and day, or--more precisely--country and city. The innocent Ursa, is asked by her married sister to impersonate her and stay with Lady Brackley, Penelope's mother-in-law. Lady B...

• Aug-2014
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" I... love you!" Tora was not even aware she had said the words, and yet they came to her lips. Miklos drew in his breath. Then he was kissing her again, kissing her with long, slow, passionate kisses that made her quiver in his arms, and she knew ...

• Aug-2014
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Olivia Lambrick and her young brother and sister have hardly a penny to their name, being dependent on the allowance paid to them by the late Earl of Chadwood. The new Earl is returning from India. But when finally the new Earl of Chadwood finally ar...

• Sep-2014
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Home once more after the glorious adventure of Wellington's brilliant victories, the Marquis of Heroncourt -- shockingly handsome and exceedingly eligible -- was bored. Then Lady Mimosa Field, delicately lovely and frightened, appeared on the thresh...

• Sep-2014
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The very thought of marriage to Lord Bantham made Vita Ashford shudder. Why the man was old enough to be her father! She'd rather die than marry him. Cleverly, Vita planned her escape. Her destination: the Syrian desert, where her cousin --...

• Jul-2017
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"Why did you leave?" The Marquis of Sarle's question took Nolita by surprise. "Her Ladyship... dismissed me," she stammered. "Why?" Her heart quaking, she revealed the humiliating charges, certain that telling him would be the end of everything. Y...

• Oct-2014
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The Earl of Heversham seemed to fill the whole room, the sky, and the world itself, and she knew as she saw his eyes that he looked younger and happier then and completely different from the man she had left behind. Neither of them could speak, they...

• Oct-2014
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THE GIRL AND THE MONARCH The young Comtesse Wanda was lovely and innocent. She had come to Vienna to have fun, to go to balls, to meet eligible young men. But the first man she met was the handsome Prince de Metternich, the greatest statesman o...

• Dec-2014
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In the exclusive worlds of Paris and London, exquisite Kitrina had little more than the angelic beauty born of her parents scandalous love. Then the handsome, bold worldly wise Marquis of Elkesley knew all too clearly the shining young woman's future...

• Dec-2014
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As their eyes met she felt herself quiver with a feeling Arina Beverley had never known before that seemed to be rising within her, which made her feel it was impossible to breathe. " I may be quite wrong," the Marquess Alistair McDonon sa...

• Dec-2014
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AN IMPOSSIBLE ARRANGEMENT When they were still children, their loving fathers had arranged that heiress Cassandra Sherburn would marry with the heir of the Duke of Alchester, the young Marquis of Charlbury. Now that Cassandra was old enough to beco...

• Jan-2015
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Lady Ancella Winn has taken the position of companion to the Russian Princess Feodogrova Vsevolovski after the death of her father. If Ancella's prim maiden aunts could see her, they'd be horrified. Here she was in the gambling casino at Monte Carlo...

• Jan-2015
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England, 1867. Fleeing the shocking advances of a lascivious Lord, innocent Isla Kenway sought safety with the dashing Marquis of Longridge. Penniless and lovely, she was alone in the world, save for the nobleman who enraptured her very soul -- and ...

• Jan-2015
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When the Duke held Aleta in his arms, he had never known such rapture. "Do you love me?" he asked. "Oh, Tybalt, you know I do." "You excite me so wildly, my precious." “I ... want to ... excite you ... as you excite me.” The Duk...

• Jan-2015
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The Duke of Buckminster drew Princess Militsa of Russia along the passage and as they reached the end of it there was the sound of music. The Duke had given her his arm, and now as her fingers tightened on his, she said: "I... I shall not know... h...

• Feb-2015
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The Counterfeit Empress An amazing resemblance to the beautiful Empress Elizabeth of Austria led Lady Gisela Musgrave into a strange assignment -- to pose as the empress for a visit to the aging Lord Hugo Quenby, so that Elizabeth would not have t...

• Jan-2015
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The Malevolent Legacy The mysterious Lady Lynche's dying wish was that her small son be returned to Lynche Castle where he could claim his inheritance. Lovely Carina Warner, alone and penniless, agreed to accompany him despite misgivings. What...

• Jan-2015
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Perhaps Olinda Selwyn's mother had been right after all. Olinda had accepted a job restoring embroidered tapestries for the Dowager Countess of Kelvedon. The Selwyns certainly needed the money. But Olinda's mother was afraid -- afraid that...

• Mar-2015
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Shy, unworldly, and penniless, Zaria Mansford had never known the delights of love. Now, suddenly, she had inherited a fortune. And bewildered Zaria found herself a passenger on her own luxury yacht, disguised as another girl. Could she carry out the...

• Mar-2015
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MARRIED TO DANGER Skye Standish, rich, beautiful, and willful, does not want the things that most girls want. She does not want a husband to love, or a life of boring domesticity. What she wants is freedom, adventure -- even danger. And she fin...

• Mar-2015
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Lady Celita Dale and the Honorable Judy Forde travel to Provence, to the splendid Chateau of the equally magnificent Duc de Sahran, whom Judy's father has arranged for her to marry. The Duc is known as Monsieur Parfait, for he achieves perfection in ...

• Apr-2015
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When a dashing young gentleman runs into Wentmore Hall bleeding from his shoulder and crying, “Save me! Save me! If you cannot hide me, they will kill me!” the quick-witted beautiful young Novella Wentworth hides him in the secret passage that wa...

• Apr-2015
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LOVE'S COMMAND 1803 is the year of the expected invasion of Bonaparte's fleet, and hundreds of flat-bottomed barges in the ports of France are waiting to carry his seasoned troops across the Channel. Unprepared England is in the grip of spy fever an...

• Apr-2015
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The Duke of Atherstone had been driven to a frenzy. Every debutante in London wanted to marry him. Their determined mothers had transformed all of England into a matrimonial obstacle course. Fleeing to the safety of his yacht, the Duke set sail fo...

• Apr-2015
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England, 1870. Lord Hugo Chester, the Duke of Wynchester was easily the most eligible man in Queen Victoria's London, the dream of every unmarried girl in society. And of one married lady as well: the splendid and imperious Lady Olive Brandon, the D...

• Jul-2015
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For lovely young Atalanta Lynton, the proposed marriage to her cousin William, Viscount Cottesford, seemed an answer to her prayers -- until she found herself deeply in love with Paul Beaulieu, a handsome young painter. Atalanta is forced to choose b...

• Jul-2015
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In the woods near the magical pool, the Vicar's daughter, Shenda Lynd, was kissed by a handsome and gentle stranger. Not long afterwards, orphaned and penniless, Shenda sought refuge within the proud walls of Arrow Castle--only to discover that her s...

• Apr-2015
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Emmeline Nevada Holtz was the richest -- and most sheltered -- girl in America. She has been arranged to be married to one of England's wealthy dukes. An accident to her chaperone gives her temporarily alone in Paris, and Emmeline realized that t...

• Jul-2015
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Undercovered as governess in order to stay with her nephew and nieces after the death of their parents in a boating accident, Tamara started to work to their new guardian, the Duke of Granchester. The Duke's arms went around her and before Tamara re...

• Jul-2015
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England, 1799. Alyna saw no escape. Her mother, a selfish and cruel woman, insisted that she marry the wealthy Prince Ahmadi of Kahriz, a man who made the beautiful Alyna cringe in horror. She saw only one way out -- a cold leap into the Thames. A...

• Jul-2015
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When her grandmother dies, Paola, the beautiful young daughter of the Earl and Countess of Berisforde is dismayed to find that the family’s customary six months’ mourning means that she will miss her debut in the London Season.  Instead her ...

• Aug-2015
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Lady Orissa Fane fled England in haste -- her only thought to escape her abusive stepmother -- and, enlisting her brother's aid, she booked passage for India under an assumed identity. Once there, she would join her uncle, Colonel Henry Hobart. ...

• Aug-2015
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It was a wicked scheme! The handsome Duke of Dallwyn was being blackmailed into marriage with a girl he had never even seen--a simpering debutante, no doubt! At least her money would be useful to repair the Duke's beloved ancestral estate, Wyn Park ....

• Sep-2015
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Impoverished but beautiful Salrina could hardly believe what she was hearing. A French plot to kill the prince regent! She must tell someone -- and her only choice seemed to be the cynical, arrogant, maddeningly handsome Earl of Fleetwood, her next-d...

• Sep-2015
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Iola awoke with a start thinking she had heard a noise, then she remembered where she was and thought it must be very early in the morning. She sat up and lit a candle beside her bed, and saw from her watch that it was just after half-past-five. Thi...

• Nov-2015
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Rowena lived in a little village with her father, a doctor, when the Marquis of Swayne is injured in an accident and taken to their house. While recuperating, they fell in love. "I love you as I swear I have never loved a woman before," th...

• Nov-2015
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Sona McCarron, in Scotland to attend a wedding, soon realized the match between the Marquis of Inver--heir to the Clan Chieftain--and Lady Jean, daughter of a neighboring Cheiftain, is an arranged one. Nothing can stop it, even though Sona and the Ma...

• Nov-2015
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The Earl of Rothingham was a rake, an unrepentant rake. All of eighteenth-century England declared him so after he refuses a request from the Prince of Wales requested to marry his mistress -- Lady Elaine Wilmot -- to choose himself a bride and leave...

• Nov-2015
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It seemed a miracle from Heaven itself. Valessa Chester, lovely, alone and penniless, would be splendidly rewarded for her role in a house-party charade, a harmless prank to be played on the arrogant -- and compellingly attractive -- Marquis of Wyndo...

• Dec-2015
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As she entered the empty ballroom, Alida heard the sound of music. Almost without realizing it, her feet carried her onto the polished floor on which the moonlight shone. She moved round the room, waltzing in an enchanted world. Then, her eyes...

• Dec-2015
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Drogo Forde was a master in Queen Victoria's Secret Service. Yet when, on a street in exotic Kozan chance dropped Thekla into his life, he was taken utterly aback. The adventurous beauty was obviously sheltered and of high birth. But when the revolut...

• Jan-2016
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Inspired and helped by Almiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. There was silence until Delora said, "so...you do not like...kissing me! To me it was the most wonderful thing that ever happened!" Captain Conrad Horn realised ...

• Jan-2016
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To the honorable Anthea Brooke, raised in genteel country poverty the lavish and worldly pleasures of the haughty and handsome Marquis of Eaglescliffe -- new owner of her ancestral home -- were more puzzling than shocking. How could the sheltered bea...

• Jan-2016
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To help the elopement of her worldly cousin, the exquisite Lady Charis, shy, delicately lovely Alecia Stambrook agrees to impersonate her in France at the Headquarters of the Army of Occupation, where her Guardian -- the handsome but frightening Lord...

• Feb-2016
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Talbot McCaron's fierce Highland heart rebelled against his arranged marriage to the wealthy Lady Jane, Countess of Dalbeth. Yet the handsome young Duke of Invercaron knew this was a secret battle that honor and duty must win. But something was wrong...

• Feb-2016
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When lovely Filipa Seymour agreed to impersonate one of London's notorious Pretty Horse-Breakers, the country-bred beauty had no idea that she would win a race -- and lose her heart to the magnificent Marquis of Kilne. And when the handsome, jaded pe...

• Feb-2016
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When Claudia Anderson's mother and father are killed in a fire at the theatre, Claudia goes to live with her godmother, Lady Bressley, who takes her to Seville, Spain. Unfortunately, Lady Bressley is killed in a coach accident and Claudia is once aga...

• Mar-2016
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Nothing could have been further from Fenella's mind than romance when Major Rex Ransome appeared at her door and requested lodging. Her father's notorious lifestyle kept most passers-by from stopping at Four Gables, but Fenella was so busy ru...

• Mar-2016
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When they had gone back to the yacht, the Duke of Darleston took her down to his private cabin to put his arms round her. "You are mine," he said. "Whatever happened in the past, we are now together, and I swear that as long as we shall live, I will...

• Mar-2016
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Thalia walked slowly across the lawn, through a rose garden, to the lily pond. "It is a place for lovers," she thought instinctively. Then she drew her breath as if the thought stabbed her like a sharp dagger. "You are not crying, Thalia?" came an u...

• Mar-2016
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Was it the power of love itself that cast Lydia and the Earl ashore under the sensuous Hawaiian sun? Never would they be free to speak of the love that devoured them -- and that could never be theirs, prisoners as they both were to the code of honor ...

• Mar-2016
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His sister's folly and an aristocratic thief had combined to threaten the reputation of Lord Mere's family. The handsome peer was forced to leave his London pleasures for the ancient palazzi of Florence. While he is recovering his sister's valuable n...

• Mar-2016
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England, 1875. Lovely, impetuous Aldora rejects the advances of the dashing and rakish Duke of Wydeminster until a close encounter with disaster gives her new insight into her feelings. Driving to the Goodwood races the Duke of Wydeminster thought w...

• Mar-2016
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"You have come!" The Prince Xanos of Cephalonia exclaimed. "Yes," said Angelina softly. "I have come." The prince paused for a moment looking at the beautiful young woman in a way that made her tremble. "You are so lovely and yet." There was a th...

• Mar-2016
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Widowed after only weeks of marriage to an elderly American, young and lovely Crisa Royden is burdened with a staggering fortune and dreadful in-laws. Determined to escape from them shy Crisa boards the Europe-bound La Touraine with an assumed identi...

• Mar-2016
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At last Theresa felt safe. It was unlikely that her guardian, the Earl of Denholme, would trace her to the French countryside where she reigned--as chef to the Marquis de Sare! The Marquis himself seldom visited the chateau--caught up as he was in...

• Mar-2016
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While Corena Melville waits for her father to return from Greece she receives a horrifying demand for ransom. Unless she delivers Lord Warburton, a noted collector of antiques shortly to visit Delphi, into the hands of bandits, her father will be tor...

• Mar-2016
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On leaving the Italian convent in which she was educated, Una Thoreau set out for Paris to join her father in Montmartre. She arrives to discover that her father is dead. Alone in foreign city, her father's picture dealer, Philippe Dubucheron, be...

• Mar-2016
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Beautiful Donela Colwyn returned from a school in Florence looking forward to the Season in London. Immediately after she arrived, her stepfather arranged a marriage with his old friend, Lord Wallingham. Horrified at the idea of marrying a man old en...

• Dec-2016
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YOUR HEART WILL KNOW IT Enchanting young beauty and an arrogant man of means--Could a mysterious scheme destroy them both? "Listen, Karina," he had said. "You are so absurdly young and inexperienced. Do be careful what you do with your life. Do...

• Sep-2017
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Kistna straightened herself and turned to look at the water beneath her. With a shock of sheer horror the Marquis of Alchester realized what she intended to do. He reached her in a few strides and when he was beside her and his hands went out to tak...

• Sep-2017
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When Mimosa Shenson's mother died, her father, a brilliant historian, decided to visit Tunisia to forget his grief. When her father died of a snake-bite, she found herself orphaned and penniless in Tunisia -- until chance presented the resourceful be...

• Sep-2017
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Princess Giona's young and tender beauty was pledged to a loveless alliance of State with King Ferdinand of Slavonia, the old and cruel Monarch who lived in terror of the brave and handsome rightful King Miklos. But Giona's proud heart was with the r...

• 2017
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England, 1871. With innocent daring, Davina Brantforde plunged into a forbidden adventure -- a Royal Costume Ball in double disguise! Davina's springtime beauty made her appear to be the Queen of the Fairies indeed, while her assumed identity assure...

• Oct-2016
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Nadina Revon, governess to the cherished daughter of a wealthy Turkish businessman, saved Lyle Westley's life with her quick wit. Then the handsome British agent had gone... Suddenly, Nadina was in danger, sought by the Grand Vizier to be his third w...

• Dec-2016
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The Duke of Arkholme, a very handsome and very bored bachelor, organizes a musical Competition to add some spice to his life and satisfy his love for good music. But much to the Duke's chagrin, the Competition falls flat ... until he is awakened one ...

• Dec-2016
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Clint Wilbur was standing quietly in the Drawing-Room in front of the fireplace. Alita stood only a few feet away. "You are well?" "Of...course." The words they were speaking did not really matter. Something magnetic like a s...

• Dec-2016
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It was a message Lalitha Studley would rather have died than deliver. Her beautiful stepsister had suddenly decided not to go through with her elopement with the wealthy, handsome Lord Inigo Alexander Rothwyn. Lalitha had been sent to the church to i...

• Jan-2017
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"What is your name?" the Duke of Arkcraig addressed her in a deep, low voice. "T-Tara... Your G-Grace." "Tara, you are to marry me. How old are you?" "Nearly eighteen, Your Grace." "Very well," he s...

• Jan-2017
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1865 The Chateau Montveal, home of the notorious Duc Cesar, rose before Lady Yursa Holme's delighted gaze in all its fairy-tale splendour. And though the Duc was as scandalously handsome as his shocking reputation, between him and the innocently lov...

• Feb-2017
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Her father had died on their way home to England, his career in shambles, his name disgraced by accusations of treason. Now Canuela Arlington and her mother were alone in London in desperate need of money. Canuela would have to find work. Knowing her...

• Feb-2017
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"I love you!" the Marquis said. "I love you until it is impossible to think of anything else but you. I cannot live without you!" Then his lips were on hers. To Mina it was as if there was a blazing light which came from the sky and enveloped them ...

• Apr-2017
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Lady Marcia Woode was the beautiful, but strong-willed daughter of the Earl of Grateswood. Her forthright manner of dismissing her suitors was about to become the scandal of the London Season. A trip abroad was indicated, but when her father proposed...

• Apr-2017
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THE IMPRISONED HEART Sir Marcus Welton was wealthy beyond her wildest expectation -- wealthy and anxious to marry her. Was this not precisely the miracle for which Tina Croome had hoped when she urged her guardian, the Earl of Wynchingham, to spon...

• Apr-2017
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After two years as a celebrated soprano in London, Isa McNaver was home at last, among the hills and rocky coast of her beloved Scotland. All was peace...until Isa learned of a treacherous plot to unearth an ancient treasure -- and murder the powerfu...

• Apr-2017
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Lucy, Lady Wymonde, reluctantly agrees to her husband’s request that she would chaperone his innocent orphaned young niece, Ina, for her first Season as a debutante. It was infuriating to have to take another guest with her to Chale Hall, the Ma...

• Jun-2017
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Like a magical child, Daniela Brooke appeared beside the Marquis of Crowle in the Casino garden. Heiress to a fortune, Daniela was trapped in a shocking, wicked scheme -- Esme Blanc, her stepmother had organized Daniela's marriage with a Comte, in an...

• Jun-2011
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England, 1818. Lady Alvina Harling tore from her bedroom and along the corridor towards the master suite on the other side of the castle. She turned the handle and went into the small and elegant hall. There was one light flickering low in a sconce ...

• Jul-2017
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Ivan, Marquis of Windlesham, triumphantly returned from the Battle of Waterloo and was eagerly pursued by every hostess for his elegance and perfect charm. His young orphaned country neighbor, Sedela Craven was excited when she hears that the Marqui...

• Jul-2017
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Lovely Gytha Sullivan learns on her grandfather's death she will inherit a huge fortune with the Devil's choice of marriage to one of her detestable cousins. Desperately Gytha begs Lord Locke, a dauntingly handsome country neighbor, to help her. Beca...

• Aug-2017
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MASQUERADE IN MADRID With her dying breath Ventura's mother had said, "Go to Madrid," and Ventura knew that, somehow, her destiny lay in that city. She dared to travel as page to the English Lord Lynke who was on his way to an arranged...

• Aug-2017
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"You will be hanged from a gibbet for your crimes..." Even as the handsome Gentleman spoke, Idona Overton saw the other Highwayman pointing a pistol at him. Without thinking, she fired her own pistol.... Idona was horrified to learn tha...

• Mar-2018
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Tormented by her cruel uncle, Sita contemplates suicide, but a mysterious Indian passenger on the voyage to Calcutta convinces her to go on. She was praying frantically, desperately, when she heard the bolt being lifted off the door. Now there was ...

• Aug-2017
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The Marquis of Staverton looked down at her cheeks wet with tears, her lips quivering, and her blue eyes too shy to meet his. "Tell me," he said, "why it matters to you what I think and feel about you." Gilda could only look up at him helplessly, th...

• Oct-2017
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A Perilous Plot When her cousin Elizabeth's betrothal to the handsome but arrogant Sir Rupert Wroth was announced, Nerina felt only pity for her. First because the timid Elizabeth was already in love with another, a gentle and far more worthy man....

• Nov-2011
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The Prince Ivan gazed down at Lokita's upturned face, then gently bent his head as his lips found hers. It was as if he asked her to to allow her soul to become his. Lokita had never experienced such feeling, such power. It was so compelling, so gl...

• Oct-2017
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STRANGE PROPOSAL When the Prince of Meldenstein asks for Camilla's hand in marriage, he virtually saves her family from destruction. The huge marriage settlement will help her bankrupt father pay the doctor bills that will save her mother's life. Be...

• Oct-2017
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Zarina Bryden was so beautiful that her suitors would have married her even without her immense fortune. But after a successful London Season, a shock awaited Zarina -- her Guardian demanded that she wed a Duke. But this was no Fairy Tale match, for ...

• Dec-2016
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The Duke of Inglebury strode through the deep verdant lushness of the Javanese jungle, in search of a legendary Temple imperiled by those who would loot its ancient splendors. But within the Temple walls, the Duke found a great treasure -- Sarida, a ...

• Dec-2017
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Rake by name and Rake by nature... such was the reputation of the all-conquering Marquis of Rakemoore. And this was the husband Ila's father wished to impose upon her! Ila fled the Duke's heartless scheme, finding refuge in a humble village cottage. ...

• Jan-2018
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"You are mine!" Torquil said fiercely. "Mine, and nothing in the world will stop me from loving you and keeping you with me from now throughout eternity!" " I... love... you!" Pepita whispered. He would have kissed her again but she put up her hand...

• Jan-2018
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CARNIVAL IN VENICE Life was a gay charade for the exiled, disinherited Sir Harvey Drake, but it was a serious matter for Paolina, finding herself an orphan and alone in the world after a shipwreck off the coast of Italy. Reluctantly, she agreed to...

• Feb-2018
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Larina Wilton finds out that she has a month to live, and she decided contacted by her dead friend's brother, who was in Italy. Although he had dedicated much of his life to the pursuit of women, Wynstan Vanderfeld was unprepared for his first...

• Feb-2018
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SHE WAS BREATHLESS "You are mine, Caneda, and I want you! I want you now!" As Duc de Saumac finished speaking his lips were on hers and he was kissing her. Now there was a fire on his lips that was like nothing Caneda Lang had ever imagined, and ye...

• Mar-2018
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CHILD OF CHANCE Serena Staverley was happy at Staverley Court. She loved to roam the stately gardens of her family manor and dream of her future love. But then a cruel fate dealt her a shattering blow. Her father was killed in a duel after losing h...

• Mar-2018
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England, 1874 Mena Mansforde's sister Lais was determined to marry the Duke of Kemthorpe. All that remained was for him to meet her mother. But when they were invited for a weekend at the Castle, Mrs. Mansforde refused to leave young Mena behind -...

• Apr-2018
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TOO LATE FOR LOVE Sheena had come to the Mariposan Embassy in Paris under false pretenses. She pretended she was a widow, that she was English, and that she was an experienced governess. Sheena had no idea why her Uncle had asked her to partake in...

• Apr-2018
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Alveric, Duke of Quarrington, was well pleased. If his neighbor's niece, Miss Vina Wallace, proved willing to marry the Duke's debauched and raffish brother for the sake of a title, well and good. Her fortune would relieve the Duke of a wearisome b...

• May-2018
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THE STOWAWAY Elvina stood before the ship's captain feeling more afraid than she'd guessed she would. She watched him appraise her black hair, dyed the night before her skin darkened with berry juice, her skinny frame of a figure. She coul...

• May-2018
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1879. Lady Dorinda Burne had always led a retiring life -- a disfiguring skin complaint made her feel uncomfortable in company. But now she was chaperoning her sister to Singapore where Lettice would marry the fabulously rich, brilliantly clever Maxi...

• May-2018
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Wealthy, self-confident and powerful, Lord Hawkston always got what he wanted. He swept into Dominica's life with a startling proposal. He wished to take the pretty vicar's daughter to his plantation in the Ceylonese mountains as a wife for his yo...

• May-2018
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Lady Cordelia acompained her brother, who is on his way to Malta to become a Knight of St John. They are in Naples since the French are fighting in the seas and they meet up with their cousin, Mark Stanton, who is willing to take them to Malta. Th...

• Jun-2018
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England, 1817. Tiny, golden-haired Farica Chalfont had much to think about: The intriguing yet cunning Earl of Lydbrooke had proposed marriage, and she suspected more for her fortune than her beauty. She had gone riding to try and decide whether to ...

• Jun-2018
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"Your heart spoke to my heart, and your soul to mine." Mariska was shocked that the German High Command should expect her to splay the spy -- and terrified of her husband's anger if she refused. While in Marienbad to report to Edward VII, Lord Arkle...

• Aug-2018
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Quintus Tiverton's handsome face was marred by an angry scowl. Granted he had saved Selina from a most unsavory predicament, but now he was forced to look after the girl. Quintus was on his way to fashionable Baden-Baden, pursuing his livelihood a...