Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was a English writer, during her long career, she wrote over 700 books, making her one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century. She sold over 1,000 million copies throughout the world, earning her a place in the Guinness Book of Records. The world's most famous romantic novelist, she also wrote autobiographies, biographies, health and cookery books, and stage plays and recorded an album of love songs. She was often billed as the Queen of Romance, and became one of the United Kingdom's most popular media personalities, appearing often at public events and on television, dressed in her trademark pink and discoursing on love, health and social issues.
She started her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express. She published her first novel, Jigsaw, a society thriller, in 1923. It was a bestseller. She went on to write myriad novels and earn legions of fans, she also wrote under her married name Barbara McCorquodale. Some of her books were made into films. Ever the romantic, during WWII, she served as the Chief Lady Welfare Officer in Bedfordshire. She gathered as many wedding dresses as she could so that service brides would have a white gown to wear on their wedding day. She also campaigns for the rights of Gypsies, midwives and nurses.
Barbara Cartland passed away on 21 May 2000, with 160 still unpublished manuscripts, that are being published posthumously.
PRISONER OF WEALTH AND UNDISCOVERED PASSION Lady Diana Stanlier was the most desirable beauty in fashionable London. Headstrong, reckless, and adorable, her escapades scandal and delight of the press. Half the eligible men in town were helplessly en...
Original title: A Virgin in Mayfair A Debutante In Love Lovely young Maxine left the nuns' school eagerly awaiting the glamour and gaiety of coming out. Her sophisticated and beautiful Aunt Dorothy would teach her everything, introduce her to e...
She Had To Make Her Own Way... Fiona was an orphan at the height of the financial ruin of the late 1920's. She had no skills; she had no benefactor. A beautiful face and a lovely figure were the only tools with which she could earn her living. ...
Life for Doreen Wallis had reached its lowest point, child of a father who had been cashiered from his Regiment, and a querulous mother, she had been brought up rootless and insecure in Cairo. Pepi, rich and more than twice her age, had married her. ...
Love's Fortunes... Lovely Diana Headley, London's brightest socialite, had everything--wealth, beauty, her choice of suitors. Then tragedy struck her family. Overnight she was penniless, a social outcast. Leaving the remnants of her shattered l...
Gift Of Innocence Linda Snell, a rising young model at one of London's best fashion houses, had many rare qualities besides her golden hair and frail beauty--especially her courageous honesty and appealing innocence. Linda never denied that she...
Vanda Sudbury and Robert, the Earl of Cunningham, had been friends from childhood. They knew all each other's faults and weaknesses and squabbled like brother and sister.So when her father tried to force a marriage between them, they were equally hor...
"This book portrays a woman's pilgrimage as she searches for the enlightenment and illumination of her mind and soul. Every contact we make with other people, every difficulty, every disillusionment can teach us a lesson. Only in finding the Spiritua...
LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM To be alone with him was all Vivian desired. To feel Jimmy Loring's lips on hers, to hear his tender words of love was a dream of ecstasy. Then one night, as they stood together in the shadows of a summer-house in Monte Carlo, s...
Young, beautiful Marcia Fletcher was obliged to be her father's companion until she married, but the men she met on the Riviera filled her with loathing. She dreamed of a Prince Charming whom she would love and who would love her. She never showe...
LOVE'S PAINFUL INTERLUDE Ravishing Helga Hildergard had no way of knowing, when first she set eyes on Frank Swinton, that he would be the love of her life. Yet, before long, to be his bride was her only desire. Then, in a twinkling, Helga learned...
Love's Surprises When young attractive Lydia Brant was widowed, she agreed to become companion to the willful, golden-haired Ann Taverel. Eighteen-year-old Ann was determined to travel to Cairo, to visit the mother who had deserted her eleven year...
First meeting....? When young Lady Gwendolyn Sherbroke first meets Sir Philip Chadleigh, the devastatingly handsome Member of Parliament, she knows there is something strangely familiar about him. But she is sure she has never met him before. She ha...
Original title: The Gods Forget LOVE'S POWER Beautiful innocent Jacinda was defiant when Helen, her ravishing and impulsive mother, took her sister Fleur and fled the Castle. Since then, Jacinda had dedicated herself to her willful and exorbita...
LOVE'S GAMBLE Lorna was too busy being a mother to her younger brothers and sisters and brother to think about romance, even though the town's young doctor ardently wanted to marry her. Then a dashing airman swept into town, who came into Lorna's l...
TOO LATE FOR LOVE Lovely young Mela thought her heart was broken when her fiance Tim found a new love. Jilted, she tries to escape from unhappiness by flying from Canada to England, perhaps working as secretary for her uncle, who is a member of the ...
THE FLAMES OF LOVE Exquisite, flame-haired Mona had known an ecstasy too powerful to resist. But now the forbidden interlude was over. Now she was returning to her ancestral village, hiding the hurt in her heart. "At least," she thought, "I can find...
Journey to love Lady Stella Marsden had been crushed in an explosion. Only the incredible skill of a famous surgeon had saved her life. But lovely Stella longed to die. Her hopes and dreams had been shattered--first by the stinging cruelty of her ...
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 running th...
CRISIS OF LOVE Theirs had been an ecstatic marriage, blessed with love and wealth and passion. But now their lives were strangely altered. Confined to a wheelchair for more than six years, beautiful Lydia's marriage had slowly crumbled about her. W...
UNCERTAINTY Christine read the letter in disbelief. Was she really to have another chance? Could she bear to return to her childhood home to care for her brother's three orphan children? She had run away with a married actor twenty years before an...
LOVE'S DARK SECRET Fleur Garton was lovely. Yet it seemed she was born under a tragically unlucky star. She was a perpetual refugee from the ravages of war. And she found herself an unwitting victim of a series of unhappy love affairs. Her destiny...
FORBIDDEN LOVE Yesterday her future seemed to rest upon the charity of a distant uncle who had always regarded her with contempt. But a deathbed promise had brought golden-haired Sylvia Wace to the imposing estate of Sir Robert Sheldon. There s...
LESSONS OF LOVE Sir John Melton was handsome, reserved, and formidably rich. When he offered to marry charming Ann, daughter of an impoverished country doctor, she reluctantly accepted. She would be able to keep her motherless family together. ...
Love's revenge When exquisite Cynthia Standish met Michael Fielding, he harshly accused her of betraying his friend. Outraged by Michael's arrogance, Cynthia was determined to get revenge. And so -- with the consummate art o f a woman bred to w...
A MAN OF MYSTERY Cynthia had lost the two things she loved most in the world--first Peter, the man she was to marry, and then Birch Vale, the country estate that had been her family's pride. She had not been able to help losing Peter. Birch Val...
SECRET DREAMS When their father died, he left a wealth of respect and affection behind, but very little money. So the enchanting sisters left Cornwall to look for work in London. Exquisite golden-haired Anne dreamed of marrying a distinguished ...
WEAPONS OF LOVE Now Jean knew that she loved him, overwhelmingly and with every fiber of her being. She had loved him from the first second of their meeting--loved him when she had first trusted him, when she had known she must do whatever he wished...
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...
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...
FAMILY SECRETS When her Aunt Amy died, lovely Sally St. Vincent had no choice but to go to London and seek the sanctuary of the mother who had deserted her many years before--the famous actress Lynn Lystell. Lynn Lystell was as beautiful as Sal...
KNAVE OF HEARTS He was altogether the wrong sort of guardian for a beautiful young heiress -- a worldly rake and heartbreaker to guard the morals of an innocent child just out of school! But such was the fascination of the dashing Duke of Melcomb...
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, owing...
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? Why ...
LOVE IN DANGER Armand, Viscount Sherringham, first saw the beautiful young Comptesse bathing in a magical moonlit wood near Paris. And the worldly Armand knew this was the one woman who could make his life a glorious and exciting adventure. Bu...
BEAUTY ON TRIAL Rivaled only by the King's mistress, Lady Panthea Vyne was the most widely adored young beauty at the sumptuous Court of Charles II. But she could only think of the mysterious Cavalier who had once saved her from a harrowing life of ...
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....
STOWAWAY A French foundling and a royal Englishman--could the gulf that separated them be bridged by love? When Amé fled the convent and hid herself in the Duke's carriage, she had no idea what awaited her in Paris, a city in the grip of intr...
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 kissed her ...
DANGEROUS MASQUERADE Lady Lily Bedlington, the most beautiful woman at the Court of Edward VII, is terrified when her husband suspects her of having a love affair with the handsome young Duke of Roehampton. She is also furious when she learns that s...
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...
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 finds...
Wildly excited Sabina Wantage, the eldest daughter of a country parson, is on her way to Monte Carlo. She had come with a sense of excitement and anticipation. How different it all was from the country parsonage she had left in England. Unexpectedly ...
UNPROTECTED Cleona Wickham's mother preferred to keep hidden the fact that she had a grown daughter. She sent Cleona to the country far from her glittering, sophisticated world. But when her mother suddenly decided to visit the country estates, Cle...
The feverish blood of Czars and Kings ran in his veins, and it was hotter than anyone suspected. As a child, he adored his beautiful, vivacious mother. But in his teens he heard gossip of her amorous intrigue and in rage he flung himself away from he...
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 marriage wi...
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 to int...
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...
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...
LOVE OR LOYALTY Sir Hugh Ruckley lives with his young sister Leona in a castle on the Sussex coast. The caves below the castle have been used as a cache for contraband for many years. Leona saw her pleasure-loving brother falling ever more heavily i...
NO ESCAPE From the moment Gretna set out for London she was entangled in a web of perilous adventure. Her sudden encounter with the strange Marquis of Stade introduced her to a world of reckless pleasure seekers. When she arrived in London she found...
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 could see that...
LOVE'S DILEMMA When Andora Bland's old-fashioned, mud-splattered coach rattled into the courtyard of Greenwich Palace, Sir Hengist Wake roared with laughter at the traveling "Ark." Andora was only a country maid, but she had the pride of a tartar....
THE ENIGMA OF JOSEPHINE She was to lie in the bed of Marie Antoinette and be crowned Empress of France. She was wanton, seductive and often deceitful--generous, extravagant, and incredibly greedy. She kept Napoleon waiting for her embrace until sh...
PRISONER OF LOVE Amanda Burke, daughter of a country vicar, had little experience with men until the day the dissolute Lord Ravenscar saw her in his garden -- and decided he must have her. Amanda's family was both shocked and pleased by the lor...
Proud golden-haired Sheena McCraggan had come to France as companion to the young Mary Queen of Scots, who was taking refuge in the court of Henri II. Sheena had heard much about Henri's sumptuous court-about the beautiful flirtatious women and the...
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 she w...
THE SECRET HEARTBREAK To the world, it was the most fantastic of marriages. One day Lucinda was an obscure, dowdy country girl; the next, she was the diamond-decked mistress of a vast London town house and wife to a young lord, legendary for his w...
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...
A YOUNG GIRL'S RUDE AWAKENING It was the spring of 1909, when Gardenia Weedon's mother died, leaving her penniless, Gardenia ran to the Paris home of her one living relative--the wealthy and beautiful Duchess de Mabillon. Travel-stained, weary and p...
A BEAUTIFUL IMPOSTOR Cleona had agreed to the daring masquerade only for the sake of her best friend, Leonie. Cleona, impersonating her friend, was to visit the Dowager Duchess of Lynke--the grandmother who had not seen Leonie since childhood. ...
WAKE TO A NIGHTMARE Penniless and therefore of no consequence, Melinda lived with her uncle, Sir Hector Stanyon. But she was too beautiful for an orphan--too enchanting not to attract the young man her cousin Charlotte hoped to marry--she felt only ...
THE RANSOMED HEART In a swirling sea mist the Lord Trydon Raven, Duke of Westacre came upon an extraordinary young woman. She was beautiful, spoke with the voice of a lady, and treated him with disdain. Caroline Standish was, in fact, the most bewit...
In 1902. Plump Virginia Clay, was dominated by her mother, Mrs. Stuyvesant Clay, widow of an American millionaire. She knew quite well why Sebastian Ryll, the future Duke of Camberford, wanted to marry her. He was sorely in need of money--and Virgini...
When the Marquis of Meridale returned to his castle at last, many surprises awaited him. Among them was Arabella--a wispy, outspoken girl who was as baffling as she was beautiful. Why did Arabella shrink from his touch? Why did she never speak of he...
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...
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-owner wh...
TOO LATE FOR LOVE 'Druscilla, it is I - Valdo. For God's sake open the door.' It is the raffish, irresistible Marquis of Lynche, an avowed bachelor, who pleads for help. Earlier in the day he had taken refuge from some wild party games in the S...
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...
LOVELESS BRIDE The handsome Earl of Droxford relished all the privileges of being wealthy--and a bachelor. Now, because of King William's decree, he must be married within a month. "Find me a wife," he told his beautiful mistress. "A complacent, c...
SHE IS LOVELY The Marquis gazed in amazement at Fortuna's gold-white hair and enchanting little face. "She's unlike anyone I've seen before:" But that was not true, he realized. She was like someone! Who was it? Who could it be? When the Mar...
REJECTED LOVE Handsome Lord Melburne was restless and bored. Bored with the Prince of Wales' lavish parties and the fashionable beauties who longed for his love. Then a strange message from an unknown woman lured him away from London. And he met t...
One of the most dashing and desirable bachelors in all London finds himself unexpectedly caught up in the plight of a beautiful young runaway. Lord Melsonby and the lovely young heiress, Perdita Lyford, become enmeshed in a romantic adventure that sw...
Paris in 1869 was a wildly extravagant society, one in which women valued jewels above love and lavish spending brought rich men to ruin. Yet it was to Paris that the breathtakingly beautiful Lady Corinna Vernon fled in order to escape her shrewish a...
The lovely young Orelia Stanyon is a country girl, who was alone in the world. She was a little family, only a dying uncle and a wild cousin. Her cousin Caroline, a beautiful woman who lived a wild and impetuous existence, hardly was the proper guard...
Celesta was terrified. Parentless and alone save for tl companionship of her old nurse, she had just learned that her brother Giles had lost their family home at the gambling tables. Celesta couldn't stay in her tiny cottage the edge of the estate wi...
IN SEARCH OF A DUCHESS "His Most Noble Perfection," the London Bucks called him. The elegant Duke of Selchester was indeed perfection--with his handsomely garbed figure and his devastatingly good looks. Now he wanted the perfect wife, well-bred and ...
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 be...
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...
Sir George Stanton dies leaving his wife, his four beautiful daughters and his son Nicky, the new baronet, with no money. To Lady Stanton, the idea was unthinkable. However, Nicky must finish his time at Oxford, so to help him Larisa decides to beco...
In 1819, Lady Vesta Cressinton-Font travels alone to the small Mediterranean island of Katona as bride by proxy to its hereditary Prince. As soon as she left her ship and set foot on to Katona, the blue-eyed, exquisitely beautiful Vesta felt frighten...
Lady Marisa Berrington-Crecy had decided to write a book--an amusing, scandalous, gossipy book that would set Edwardian society on its decadent ear. And what better place to gather information than Vox Castle, home of the Duke of Milverley, an attrac...
Beautiful young Kamala Lindsey knew she had to run away. Her cruel uncle, with his Victorian ideas, had threatened her life if she did not marry whom he wanted --a tired old man of sixty! And so, she did run away from her uncle's home. Riding toward...
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 leaves t...
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...
1804. For as long as Lucretia Hedley could remember, she had loved the Merlyncourt estate and its handsome young lord, the Marquis of Merlyncourt. He was the most desired bachelor in all of England and now, suddenly, she was to become the Marquis' wi...
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...
During a state ball at Buckingham palace, the lovelly half-Russian Tatika Lynch meets Lord Crowley, a wealthy member of Edwardian society. Tatika's exotic good looks first aroused the- attentions of the lecherous Lord Crowley. Later, her wit and inte...
Lord Ranulf Colwall, owner of a famous name and the most impressive Norman Castle in England having experienced one disastrous marriage decides to choose the mother of his heir with care. He picks out Natalia Grey-Stroke, a girl of fifteen with the r...
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. But on...
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 Maxim...
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...
It was hardly a love match. The couple met for the first time at the altar when they exchanged their marriage vows. The bride's wealthy, dictatorial father had bribed and blackmailed Major Kelvin Ward into marrying his only daughter. Kelvin had no c...
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 this wa...
The Marquis of Melford was actually relieved to be alone on his yacht. Carnival in Venice was every bit as gay and abandoned as the Marquis had remembered, but after a few days the revelling had begun to bore him. Even the seductive charms of his da...
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 t...
"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 Maximilian of Ober...
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...
Natasha Melikov was a Countess and a hostage. Kidnapped from her home in Tzarist Russia by Moslem rebels, she and her young brother were being held captive high in the Caucasian mountains. Overcome with fear, Natasha made an otherwise unthinkable ...
The Duke of Atherstone had been driven to a frenzy. Every debutante in London wanted to marry him. Their determined mothers had transformed all of England into a matrimonial obstacle course. Fleeing to the safety of his yacht, the Duke set sail fo...
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 young officers who always wan...
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...
As far as Melissa Wade was concerned, the future could have hardly looked blacker. Her father's second marriage had been a disaster. His new wife was as crude as she was rich, interested only in the unbridled pleasures of strong drink and the hunt...
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...
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. Anast...
The Marquis of Ruckford was enchanted. Vanessa was as delicately beautiful as the miniatures she worked so patiently to restore. She was like no other woman the Marquis had ever known. In fact, the more he saw Vanessa, the more he realized life wi...
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....
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 sight...
For once the handsome, self-assured Earl of Helstone had been caught off guard. The young lady had taken a nasty fall from her horse and the Earl rushed to her aid. But as he reached her side, he realized that the pretty little redhead was shammin...
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...
Linetta was alone in the world. Her dying governess instructed her to go to Paris and seek the help of her niece, Marie. Had that good lady known what had happened to simple, good-hearted Marie--now Blanche d'Antigny, the toast of the Paris demi-mon...
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...
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...
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--t...
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 her pretty, ...
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 smashing...
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...
The Earl of Lemsford's daughters were very diferent, the eldest was a perfect lady and the second a little tomboy. When Lord Athol, the Duke of Doncaster sought the hand of his second daughter, the Earl stared at his prospective son-in-law in undisgu...
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...
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...
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 feel the a...
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...
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 you to a house...
In a few short hours Cerissa would have everything she thought she wanted. A wealthy young lord was anxiously awaiting their wedding. Cerissa would become a great lady. No one would ever again mention her low birth. Yet her heart pounded for the ga...
Theola would have done anything to get out of England, but escape was proving more confining, more dangerous than her former prison. She had always been nothing more than a glorified Cinderella--a poor little cousin who waited hand-and-foot on the...
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...
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. The ...
"How could I have been so foolish? How could this have happened to me?" Viola asked herself desperately as she looked at the grim prison walls surrounding her. Her only chance for release lay with the man she loved. Surely his influence could free...
"I dislike all men and I shall never marry one!" When Durstan Hayle first set eyes on Lady Lorinda Camborne, the toast of St Jame's, her eyes were alight with amusement. Circling the ballroom on a black horse, she appeared to be naked except for the...
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...
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...
Orlena could hardly believe her eyes. There, standing in front of her, was her new Guardian, the Earl of Ulverston, the man her late father had chosen to protect her large fortune. But this was no elderly, solicitous friend of her father's. Nor was...
Lady Mary Emmeline Athena's grandmother has arranged her marriage to the Greek Prince of Parnassus. Disillusioned by the palace gossips she ran away to Delphi, the shrine of Apollo, to pray about her future marriage. There, Athena met the handsome Or...
As the ship rocked violently Shikara clung to the Marquis' lapel with a frantic grip. "I am afraid," she said. "I cannot help it--I have always been afraid in a storm "It's all right," he said soothingly. "It's quite understandable in -- a woma...
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...
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," the Marquis ...
"What is your name?" the Duke of Arkcraig addressed her in a deep, low voice. "T-Tars... Your G-Grace." "Tara, you are to marry me. How old are you?" "Nearly eighteen, Your Grace." "Very well," he said as the door opened and the minister entered....
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 forest....
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...
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 I have left to rem...
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...
Stanton Ware pondered the person who would be chosen as his companion on this dangerous mission to Peking. Undoubtedly it would be a man who was used to spy out the secrets of rivals. Certainly he would be a brave and patriotic companion. The door o...
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...
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...
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...
Lucilla now knew that her life had been empty before she came to Ecuador. At home in England, she was little more than a maid for her beautiful, temperamental older sister. But here in Ecuador, life was one glorious adventure after another -- beginn...
Jarita's hair was glinting in the light of the candles, and her eyes were wide and frightened in her small face. Another crash of lightning reverberated in the room and now, as if she could not help it, she reached out towards Lord Vernham and instan...
"When I marry," Zenka cried, "I shall marry for love and no Queen or anybody else will persuade me to do otherwise." Her defiant vow was as brave as it was useless. Queen Victoria had already decided to marry the fiery-haired Princess to King Mikl...
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...
For a girl who'd led such a sheltered life, Bettina Charlwood had shot like a meteor to the dizzying heights of Regency society. To have gone straight from a convent school iri France to a yachting party hosted by the Prince Regent's most valued f...
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...
Can the Duke of Templecombe help her to scape to a married Russian Prince? Salena Cardenham knew something was desperately wrong the moment she saw her father waiting for her at the Monte Carlo railway station. "I think you have something to say t...
Saucy, headstrong Petrina had just escaped from her country school when she ran into her Guardian, Earl of Staverton. To her surprise he was not the old stuffed shirt she'd expected, but a young, strikingly handsome aristocrat--and without a doubt th...
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...
How strange that a carriage accident could bring such enchantment into Petula's life. Buried in the country, she was completely unused to such witty or handsome company as Major Adrian Chester. What good fortune that he was forced to spend the nig...
"Miss Alexia Minton, M'Lord!" A girl came into the room slowly. "You are the Marquis of Osminton?" she asked in a soft, quiet voice. "I am," the Marquis replied. "I thought," Alexia continued, "you might be able to help me. As I now have ...
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...
New York City, 1907. Devina looked out of the window, very conscious that Gordon Thorpe's eyes were on her face. "You are lovely in a way I did not realize when I first saw you," he said quietly. "I find myself looking at your spirit shining throug...
The Duc de Savigne turned his back on Syrilla and stood looking out of the turret window with unseeing eyes. "I am certainly not the Knight you believed me to be. I have committed every indecent crime imaginable. I have even ruined innocent women's ...
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...
For a moment they both stood still as if turned to stone. Then with a little cry Roxana moved into the Count's arms. He held her close, kissing first her lips, then her wet eyes and the tears from her cheeks. She felt as if her prayer had been answer...
When Gracila turned up her exquisite face to gaze at Lord Damien, he said in a trembling voice: ''For God's sake, do not look at me like that... you who are so pure, so perfect, so innocent. Now when I see you, I know that I must go away. Go away!''...
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 ....
"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...
Vulcan glanced at his painting, then at the others lying against the wall. "As soon as this one is engraved," he said, "I shall take them all to Paris. Are you coming with me?" Astara simply stared, feeling that she could not have heard him correc...
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 spark of fire ran betw...
The Marquis took off his snow-covered overcoat and lowered himself next to her by the hearth. "I did not expect the storm to happen," he said, "but now it has I find it quite an adventure." "It will not be so enjoyable if we have to stay the night,...
For a moment they looked at each other. Then Rex said: "I am afraid of telling you what is in my heart." Because his voice was very soft and gentle Quentella felt herself tremble. "You need not... be afraid." She was not sure whether she took a ste...
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 ...
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, befrie...
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 asked. "I adore your ...
The lovely young novice Saona walked into the garden and Andre found that he was following her. "It is very pretty," she said. "And so are you." She looked up at him in surprise, and as their eyes met, it was impossible to look away. They just st...
Major Tyson Dale returns home victorious from the wars against Napoleon to find his estate fallen into decay and the title stolen by his uncle. While drowning his sorrows at the local posting house, he overhears a plot to abduct a beautiful young gir...
"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...
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...
The Earl of Rochester thought that the room had suddenly been lit with a thousand candles as Ophelia's eyes met his. With a little murmur she moved towards him and hid her face against his shoulder. "I must be dreaming," she whispered. "I did not ...
The Marquis of Rosyth' voice deepened as he spoke, "Have I spoilt what you felt for me, my precious? Neoma moved a little nearer to him. "I am... sure that if you... kiss me... we will find it is still there." She only whispered the words but the M...
When handsome Duke of Welminster arrived in St. Petersburg to discuss the news of Napoleon's advance on Moscow. At that point, love is the furthest thing from his mind! Then, invited to the home of an old friend, Princess Sonia, the duke realizes...
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...
Valeta looked at the Marquis of Troon with gratitude."How can I... thank you?" He pulled her into his arms. "Like this," he answered and his lips were on hers. For a moment Valeta was too astonished to speak. Then the Marquis' lips aroused in her ...
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 Duke co...
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...
Quite suddenly Susanna realized she was not alone. Someone was standing in the pool beside her. By the light of the moon she saw it was Fyfe! For a moment she thought she was imagining him, for there was no bandage over his eyes and he was looking a...
Brucena looked up, and, as she did so, Iain Huntley's lips took possession and held her captive. For a moment she felt nothing, not even surprise. But then as the man's arms tightened, her lips were suddenly soft beneath the insistence of his. Someth...
"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 tonight or are you looking for more?"...
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 run thr...
There was silence for a moment, then the Marquis of Sarne said: "There is only one way I can thank you, Romana." As he spoke he put his fingers under her chin and pressed his lips down on hers. His kiss was so perfect, so glorious, that Romana coul...
In the light from the candles and the moonlight outside, Kelda saw an expression in Lord Orsett's eyes that made her heart start beating furiously and she could not look away. "I want your heart," he began. "I want it more than I have ever wanted an...
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...
THE DAWN OF LOVE The Duke stood beside Lorena. She did not turn her head. The Duke tightened his fingers on hers and knew that as he did so she gave a little quiver. Lorena gave a deep sigh that seemed to come from the depths of her being. S...
"Have you ever been kissed" Pierre teased. But before Zaza could protest, her eyes met his and everything else seemed to fade away . . . her father, the Palace, her life as a Princess . . . Then, as if it was part of poetry and music, his arms wen...
Bereaved of her beloved father at sixteen, and now her mother, Belinda Wyncombe’s only comfort is that she still has the family’s home. Until she finds her irresponsible stepfather, Captain D’Arcy Rowland, has squandered their moneyand fraudule...
ADVENTURE IN ROME Dacia Vancroft was young and pretty. And now she was in fabulous Rome, private nurse to Sir Marcus Cunningham. It would have been a thrilling week, if Sir Marcus hadn't been so hateful. He was rude, arrogant, and quarrelsome, and...
Prince Ivan's words were passionate, unyielding, yet Alana allowed herself no surrender. "Love is something that cannot be denied, cannot be refused," Ivan protested, "though I thought the real ecstasy and wonder of it was something that would never...
"They have gone!" Yolanda gave a deep sigh of relief as she went limp in the Duke of Ilkeston's arms. "They have gone!" As she turned her head to speak to him, his lips came down on hers. This was the beginning of love, a love that shot through her ...
Sir Norman Melton had not always been a wealthy man. Determination and a driving ambition took him from a lowly position on the factory floor to ownership of the Melton Motor Company. Fiercely independent, he also harbored a strong mistrust of women;...
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...
Love, true Love! For the lovely, widowed Lady Sherington, it bloomed in her thirty-sixth year, when she was still ravishing enough to pass as the twin of her daughter Trina. But her gentle heart was racked with doubt--for if she were to remarry, h...
"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...
The Duke of Oswestry was being blackmailed into marriage by his former mistress, who finds herself pregnant, but he knew that the child is by other man. He rescued the young inocent Udela, after his evil brother planned to send her to a London's brot...
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...
Jemima knew that Viscount Ockley was only marrying her because he had been jilted by her cousin, Niobe. Now that she had run away, Jemima no longer cared. She could not go on being beaten by her uncle and made so desperately unhappy. Marriage to a Re...
"Marcia, you are tempting Fate," the Earl said. The gas lamps had been extinguished, making the room intimate. The Earl moved towards her. He put his arms around her, kissing her fiercely, making her forget everything but the rapture that rose withi...
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 she was pe...
"I think, Prunella," the Earl of Winslow said slowly, "you are offering me a challenge." "I do not know what you are talking about," Prunella replied. "I am talking about love, and of course, your ignorance of it." To Prunella's astonishment, the E...
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, ...
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...
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...
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: "...
Heiress Oletha Ashurst's father has arranged her marriage to the Duke of Gorleston. To discover what her future husband is like, Oletha poses as the daughter of a curator engaged to find the duke......
SHE WAS BREATHLESS "You are mine, Caneda, and I want you! I want you now!" As Duc de Saumac finished speaking his lips were on hers and he was kissing her. Now there was a fire on his lips that was like nothing Caneda Lang had ever imagined, and ye...
"Gisela, It would not matter to me who you were. I realised that whatever the consequences, I could not live without you." The Prince of Hungary then kissed her fiercely, demandingly, as if he was still afraid he might lose her and the agonies he had...
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...
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...
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...
"I will never let you leave me." His lips came down on hers and swept away her fear, her unhappiness, and everything except the rapture of knowing that this was what Odetta had been longing for and thought she had lost forever. He kissed her while ...
THE HEAVENS OPENED The Marquis of Vange looked down at Davita's face for a long moment, as if he wished to engrave it on his memory forever, then as his arms tightened his lips sought hers. It was as if the Heavens opened, and she knew an inexpress...
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...
The Earl of Rockbrook, to escape an unwanted marriage, flees to the country where he meets with an accident...when he recovers consciousness, he finds himself being nursed by a simple country girl who he marries to escape the unwanted marriage, but f...
Tula Audenshaw rose from where she had been sitting and walked slowly across the soft ground to the edge of the stream. "I have another suggestion," Lord Yelverton said at last. "Why do we not, because we are so lucky together, try to ...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
Zelina Tiverton lifted her face and he looked down at her for a long moment before his lips found hers. As he kissed her Zelina knew that his was what she had been waiting and longing for ever since they had been together on the Ischora. Lord Charn...
When he meets the beautiful Aspasis at the house of the Duchess of Grimstone, the Marquis of Thame assumes she is a skillful actress, superb in her role as an innocent girl. The debauchery of the Duchess and her guests is whispered about throughout E...
"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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Lina was the spirited young daughter of the Earl of Wallingham, who escaping from an arranged marriage, applies for the post of a lady's maid - and finds herself involved in a plot to dupe a French roué - the Duc de Saverne.......
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...
Grania O'Kerry arrives back in Grenada, in 1795, and learns that her father intends her to marry Roderick Maigrin, a coarse, drunken, but rich planter. There is a rebellion and Grania flees to Secret Harbour for protection, but when she enters the ho...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nelda Harle was a young English girl raised on the wild Colorado frontier. Orphaned in an Indian raid, she is rescued by her distant relative, the haughty and handsome Lord Harleston... but who will rescue Selby Harle when he finds himself falling in...
" I cannot ... bear it!" Paulina protested. "I am not ... strong like . . . you. I want to be with you ... to see you ... to love you." Prince Maximus laid his cheek against hers. "I shall think of you, dream of you, and wherever I am, I shall fee...
The Earl of Poynton is known throughout England for his superb taste in race-horses and for his affairs with married women. Yet the Lennox's raffish heart is touched by the beautiful young Cledra Melford, who asks him to help save her beloved thoroug...
How long Pierre Valery kissed her she had no idea. Simonetta knew only that the rapture and ecstasy of it was out of time and might have lasted a few seconds or many centuries. "I did not know... I never guessed a... kiss could be so wonderful... s...
"I think I... ought to... go away," Ilouka managed to say. The Earl of Lavenham smiled again. "Do you really think I would let you do that?" he asked. Ilouka stared at him as if she could not believe what he was saying. Then as she was trying to fi...
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...
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 said after m...
Marista Rockbourne was still praying when the door opened and as she turned her head she saw in the moonlight the Earl of Stanbrook coming in. Marista drew in her breath, and the Earl came close to look down at her, at her hair falling over her shoul...
The Marquis of Broome walked deep into the stable. "Where are you?" "I am... here," Cara replied. He realized that she had climbed up into the hayrack. He walked to stand immediately below her and put up his arms. "I will not let you fall." She pu...
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 up a coa...
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 ...
At sixteen and a half, Lady Imeldra is ready to leave school and resume a carefree life with Earl Kingsclere, her father. But the Earl has other plans for Imeldra who rebels at being sent to live with her strict grandmother. She runs off to the estat...
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 ...
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 ...
Fabia's hands were clasped together, her head was bent, and the Duke of Ilminster was aware that she was praying. The Duke rose and walked towards her. " I... I had to come," she said. " I... I was... afraid." "There is no need to be," he said. Ver...
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 ...
Ilina could only feel the violent, frantic beating of her heart and that the room was filled with a blinding light that came from the sky and yet was a part of the Duke and herself. He drew a little closer to her but did not touch her, and after a m...
1860. At her rich, look-alike cousin's pleading, impoverished Sacha Waverley undertakes a daring masquerade. She travels to Scotland posing as Lady Deirdre to care for her cousin's fiance, the handsome, wealthy Duke of Silchester who has been tempora...
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...
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...
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 ...
Original title: The Captive Heart Sabina had come to Monte Carlo with a sense of excitement and anticipation. How different it all was from the country parsonage she had left in England. It was exciting to be traveling alone, though a little frigh...
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 ...
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 British ...
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...
The Prince Janos Kovac gently put his arms around Forella and drew her close to him. He looked down at her for a long moment. "How can you be so perfect, so exquisite," he asked, "that I find it hard even when I am touching you to believe that you a...
1970. After the death of her mother, Lady Ivona is forced by her uncle and guardian to become a postulant in a convent noted for its severity. During the journey across Alsace she manages to elude her escort and shares an unexpected refuge with the D...
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...
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 ...
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 called ...
Minella faced the Earl, her eyes flashing with anger. Then tears suddenly blinded her eyes and ran down her cheeks. She felt the Earl's arms go round her. She put her face against his shoulder and went on crying. "A do not want you to upset yourself...
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 said. "Your face is...
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 ...
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. ...
Tony Burke, the son of Lord Birkenhall, persuades his sister Octavia to run away with him in order to avoid the debts left by their father. Tony plans to meet up with the girl he hopes to marry. But when they meet in Alexandria, there's no room for O...
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...
" 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 ...
"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 title, Magnol...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
It was obvious to Delysia that her lovely sister, Fleur, was deeply in love with young Lord Sheldon, and he with her. It was in fact obvious to all London, including Lord Sheldon's betrothed and Lord Sheldon's intimidating Uncle, the redoubtable Magn...
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...
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...
The queen's request was, of course, a command, intended to cure the maddeningly handsome Marquis of Weybourne of his dangerous penchant for the wives of peers. Still, London's most eligible bachelor, with his spellbinding charm, was an odd choice of ...
"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...
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...
Dordogne, 1886. Governess in the ancient and splendid chateau of the Duc Etienne de Sauterre! To exquisite young Lady Arletta Cherrington-Weir, left penniless and alone by her father's death, the timely job seemed the fairy-tale answer to a young wom...
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 ...
Schooled at the most elite academies, violet-eyed Ilita Darrington-Coombe lived in pampered luxury. Then tragedy struck: her father died and a spiteful, bitter aunt exiled her to decaying Lyss Castle. Ilita was unaware how her courageous spirit and h...
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...
"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 that before her...
After he unexpectedly returns to Paris, handsome but cynical Lord Kirkly takes on the cause of Otilia Ashe, a very pretty, desperate young heiress, and becomes involved in a scheme he will surely regret....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Helga Wensley is hiding in London from her stepfather. She takes a role in the Duke of Rocklington's private play only to find out that she may play a more permanent role in his life! ...
International espionage and intrigue. Two great enemies â€" the Russian and Ottoman Empires conspiring to defeat the British Empire. A father at death’s door and mother at her wits’ end. And lovely young Rozella Beverly, embroiled by events...
Far from the dazzle and extravagance of London's society, Nerissa Stanley and her brother lead a quiet country life as she keeps house for her father, a distinguished but impoverished author. Suddenly their elder sister Delphine arrives. Some years b...
Madrid, 1883. Lovely Valeda Alcester has adventurously agreed to pose as Governess to her young niece, a charade devised by her scheming sister to ensnare the elusive Don Carlos, Marques de Silvala. But inspired by the beauty of Spain, Valeda finds ...
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...
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...
Clova McBlane, a penniless orphan living in Paris, becomes the hereditary Chieftain of a Scottish Clan! She meets the dashing Tarquil, Laird of Cowan, whose clan has been feuding with hers and they team up against a greater enemy!...
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...
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...
When her beloved brother incurs a disastrous gambling debt, lovely Carmella knows that his reckless plan offers their only hope of escaping disgrace. But does their host, the formidable Marquis of Ingleton, really believe her to be a worldly Society ...
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 ...
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...
In Germany on a delicate mission for the Prince of Wales, Lord Braydon finds himself in danger and in love with Loelia Standish, a young woman determined to save her father from the Kaiser's grasp....
Ina Wescott was young, innocent, and desperate. Alone and penniless, she turned to her aunt, the celebrated - and notorious - retired actress, Rosie Rill. But Rosie had plans of her own for the sheltered country beauty: a drama of heartbreak and reve...
England, 1886. Lord Hue, the Earl of Dolphinston, was the cynosure of the sparkling, scandalous Marlborough House set. But while jaded court beauties vied for his favors, the passionate and dangerous Lady Hester Stansfield plotted to make the handso...
An adventurer was planning an expedition to recover an ancient Roman treasure -- at the expense of the wealthy, handsome Marquis of Quinbourne, who was cynical but amused. But less amusing was the adventurer's mysteriously lovely daughter, the solemn...
Marriage to a Duke? The lovely orphaned Katrina Darley never expected to find herself engaged to the dashing, influential Duke of Lyndbrooke... but when her aunt, the vain Lady Branston, discovers the Duke in her niece's bedchamber, she jealously arr...
Harry, Arilla's London cousin, agrees to help her in her attempt to find a wealthy suitor.......
Neula and her mother were safe, for the moment. Neula's stepfather would never seek his runaway wife at her childhood home, now the property of the notorious Marquis of Kerne, dubbed 'the Pied Piper' for the conquests that were the scandal of the Cou...
Zenobia and her father Lord Chadwell, have travelled all over the world, but when he dies, she finds that her stepmother has spent all of his money, and she intends to marry Zenobia to one of her own lovers. Because Zenobia is fluent in the Eastern...
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...
The Marquis of Vale was handsome and wealthy - but utterly bored with London's predictable pleasures and amorous titled beauties. Then an early-morning message plunged him into a perilous maelstrom of intrigue in the Far East, and the unexpected rapt...
Felicita had never known such despair, not even as a penniless and hungry seamstress. Now, splendidly dressed and honored as a noblewoman, the beautiful young woman would pay the price .. . For when the handsome and toweringly proud Marques Alvaro le...
England, 1870 The Duke of Mortlyn was as stubborn as he was handsome -- and he was the most handsome man Selma Linton could imagine. The villagers affectionately named her the White Witch, and indeed, only her remarkable gift for herbal healing ena...
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...
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...
Fleeing the cruel threat of a forced Marriage, the Honourable Thelma Fern rode towards an unknown future -- straight into the arms of love! The Earl of Merstone was instantly attractive, as noble in spirit as in name. He had been treacherously impove...
This romance, with a twist of the exotic, features the Marquis of Anglestone who has been blackmailed by a previous lover. Rather than face the consequences of disgrace he takes a wager to follow the ancient Incense Route into the Forbidden City of M...
Royal intrigue, arranged marriage and forbidden love in the reign of Queen Victoria. From the moment their eyes met, in the gilded corridors of Hampton Court, Princess Zorina and the passionate foreigner she knew only as Rudolf were wed in the mirac...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
For the Marquis of Shawforde and Lucille Winterton, it was love instantly and irrevocably. The country-bred beauty was worldly enough however to know that the Marquis's family would never countenance their union... and in fact the Shaws sent Her Maje...
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 power...
Tall, arrogant, his steel-gray eyes seemed to pierce her very soul, the Earl of Ravensdale was even more formidable than Noella Wakefield had feared. And this was the man whom the tremulous country beauty meant to deceive! But Noella's desperate pret...
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...
In desperation, Princess Thea of Kostas fled the Royal Court and the tyranny that would wed her blossoming loveliness to the aging Monarch of a neighboring Realm. As she rode through the majesty of mountains and forests Thea exulted in her newfound f...
My Fair Lady meets Arabian Nights â€" Desire in the Desert is the thrilling story of a bewildered, orphaned Missionary’s daughter’s rollercoaster ride of love. Plucked from the orphanage and whisked away to the country estate of the dashing Druce...
I have the privilege of being half-Scottish and for me Scotland is the most romantic country in the world.I admit to a number of Scottish admirers and indeed I married two Scotsmen.But for me nothing can compete with Scotland's rugged sweeping mounta...
The illegitimate child of runaway lovers, lovely young Areta is condemned after her parents’ to life in the shadow of her beloved and equally beautiful cousin Lady Millicent… Despised by her aunt and uncle as a “bastard child”...
Alone in the world, Norita Combe found refuge as Governess to the little daughter of the haughty Marquis of Hawkhurst, a Widower of compelling presence and mesmerizing charm, society's darling. Yet aboard his pleasure yacht, bound for the mysterious ...
The proud and handsome Earl of Charncliffe, competing for the cool hand of a noble Incomparable, was off to Paris to do her bidding. But amid the treasures of a vanished aristocracy, the Earl discovered a wealth he'd never dreamed--in the shy lovelin...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
Lord Selwyn's legacy could not have come at a better time. The Plantation in exotic Penang was thousands of miles from London -- and just as far from the treacherous society heartbreaker who had betrayed the proud and handsome nobleman. Here in the F...
"Forewarned is forearmed!" But nothing could have prepared Kezia for the overwhelming magnetism of the notorious Marquis de Bayeux. Just a glance from his blue eyes, darker than the sea, warmed her very heart ... and his lightest touch evoked such di...
Malvina Maulton was attractive, imperious--and the wealthiest young lady in England. Dubbed the "Heartless Heiress; Malvina much preferred arguing with her spirited country neighbour, Lord Flore, to fending off Society's fortune-hunting Bucks. Indeed...
The young Earl of Blakeney, who served with distinction in the Duke of Wellington's army, returned to England and lost all his money at the gaming tables. Lady Aleda was the bride of a stranger! It had happened so quickly--her brother's ruinous deb...
Odella Wayne's radiant beauty is untouched by the ways of the world, but she knows wickedness when she hears it--the Fortune-Teller at the Fairground is a spy for the French! The Marquis of Midhurst receives Odella's news with gratitude--and a perilo...
Lela Cavendish, young, well-bred, and delicate, was a talented young artist, who flees from a brutal stepfather and an unwanted suitor and seeks sanctuary in Amsterdam where she finds safety with a titled art collector, or so she thinks. Carew, Marq...
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...
The Earl of Inchester reveals a strange sense of priorities when, in the interest of family honor, he chooses to save his ancestral home by marrying the daughter of a despicable usurer....
The worldly Marquis of Okehampton was startled to learn that he had inherited a Ward, Zia Langley -- whom was in the Convent of the Holy Thorn in Cornwall. The philandering Marquis visits her on impulse. There he finds a false priest and Zia, his lon...
The position -- companion to the Earl of Ingleton's Ward -- was the answer to Gina Borne's prayer, rescuing the enchanting, spirited orphan from her Uncle's aristocratic but grim household. Quick-witted Gina soon unmasked the shocking scheme whose vi...
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...
When her elder brother lost a fortune to the wicked Earl of Gorleston, it was up to Minerva Linwood to save their home. She devised a reckless plan -- but she was unprepared for what was to come. Imprisoned with the notorious Earl in a gloomy dungeon...
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...
The newly orphaned Orina Vandeholt had wealth, beauty and aristocratic blood. Prey to every fortune hunter on both sides of the Atlantic, Orina was forced to flee New York when a suitor's excesses threatened scandal. Yet in Mexico, a terrifying adven...
Orphan Velda Armstrong's search for a sponsor for her young brother's education leads to Mike Medway, a wealthy and powerful merchant who is used to having his own way with women....
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...
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 th...
In order to protect his country from the might of Russia, the King of Vultarnia appeals to Queen Victoria to find him an English wife. Pythia was aghast at her own daring. The diminutive young beauty had impulsively taken her cousin's place in a ma...
The Fates were conspiring to lead the Marquis of Calvadale to Fez, one of the splendid and mysterious Holy Cities of Morocco. A secret mission awaited the handsome master of disguise there--and he was unwillingly accompanying an impetuous young lady....
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...
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...
This was to be lovely Lady Aletha Ling's first Season. Her father, the Duke of Buclington, knew full well that his cherished daughter's beauty wealth and rank would make her the innocent prey of fortune-hunters. He would protect her at all costs --...
The Duke of Moorminster thanked Providence for revealing his mistress's betrayal only moments before he proposed marriage. Now, though, he had to replace the scheming Society beauty in the Christmas pageant he was composing for Their Royal Highnesse...
Eva, beautiful, young and very innocent, is alone in Paris. her father, the distinguished Sir Richard Hillington, has died in the house of Leonide Le Blanc, one of Paris's most famous Courtesans. His shirt-stud is missing and Eva visits Madame Le Bla...
The Marquis of Ridgmont sets off for Turkey with Nikola, the innocent sister of Sir James Tancombe. She saves his life, and he eventually finds happiness....
Just home from Waterloo, the Earl of Wynstock finds himself ardently pursued by Lady Caroline Standish. His only hope of escape is to flee to Wyn Park in the country. But there another woman anxiously awaits him - for a dangerous gang of highwaymen h...
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...
Lady Odela Ford is in for a shock when she returns from Florence. Her faithless stepmother, the Countess of Shalford, is planning to marry her off to the Viscount More, her own lover. For Odela has become the heiress to an immense fortune, and theref...
Lady Sadira Bourne was promised to a man she despised: the Earl of Kensalf, the most desirable -- and marriage-shy -- peer in the Social World. But he was her Stepmother's paramour, and only by marrying him could Sadira prevent the scandal that would...
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...
Ottila Staverly is almost starving to death in her beloved home, the magnificent Staverly Park, because there is no money. Sight unseen, American millionaire Clint Wickham rents the house, and started to restoring to its former magnificence. Mr Wickh...
Charisa Templeton was saddened to hear of the death of her cousin, Vincent Mawde. She is further upset when Vincent's unscrupulous heir, Gervis Mawde returned from Paris to take possession of ancient Mawdelyn Priory -- and, he presumed the lovely Ch...
Although immensely saddened by the loss of their beloved wife and mother, beautiful young Jaela Compton and her illustrious father, Lord Compton of Mellor, one of England’s most outstanding Lord Chancellors, live happily together in his lovely Vill...
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 ....
The beautiful debutante Lady Valeria Netherton, at her grandmother's suggestion, left England to visit her redoubtable cousin, the Duc de Laparde. The spirited young beauty feared no matchmaking: She would never marry an aristocratic Roue who would s...
While Wellington's soldiers fought Napoleon's troops overseas, lovely Gina Lang left her finishing school for London, and a very different battle. For Lady Langdale, Gina's exquisite, newly widowed mother, was about to lose her fortune and reputation...
Drena is a young girl who marry to a Duke, but she discovers that her husband's mistress was plotting to kill her. Was her husband involved?...
The Most Noble Marquis of Mounteagle was shocked and disillusioned when he discovers that the seemingly innocent debutante he had hoped to make his bride had proved to be an ambitious schemer, who is hoping to marry another man for his greater title....
Lovely Alina Langley was desperately wondering how she could earn some money when her childhood friend, Denise Windham, arrived unexpectedly from London. In a gamble, Denise begged Alina to pretend to be her own mother, a widowed aristocrat, and acco...
Bride, widow -- but never a wife -- young English-born Aldrina found herself Queen of Saria, burdened with the cares of State... and the sinister attentions of a wicked and ambitious Royal suitor. Aldrina fled to a Fairytale Palace by the sea to rega...
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...
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...
Theodore, Duke of Eaglefield is handsome, distinguished and rich, but is bored with his life and with the beautiful women who throw themselves at him. Weary of the social rounds, he sets out to walk from Brighton to his ancestral home, Eagle Hall in ...
Her unscrupulous stepmother intended to sell Kyla to a depraved peer to satisfy her insatiable greed. Fleeing her home, Kyla found unexpected help -- first in the guise of a good highwayman, then in the awe-inspiring person of the Earl of Granston. U...
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...
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...
Handsome King Ivan of Arramia has no wish to lose his freedom, despite advice to marry, but he agreed to marry at last--and trade his notorious affaires d'amour for affairs of state. Princess Zelie has been badgering her father to find her a husband ...
Lady Vilma Dale admired Monsieur Ritz's wonderful new Hotel in Paris, outfitted with electricity throughout. Yet it was in the magnificent Ritz that the sheltered beauty was pursued by a wicked French Comte. The English Marquis of Lynworth also has r...
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 ...
By Royal command, King Inged of Klaklov would wed a British bride, to calm the turmoil of a Nation besieged. Queen Victoria chose a distant -- and destitute -- relation for the hasty matchmaking... lovely, ethereal Toria journeyed to meet her betroth...
When the spirited young Lady Athina Ling was forced to stay the night at a Posting Inn, she heard the screams of a small boy being savagely beaten by Lord Brunham, his stepfather. She vowed to rescue the child woefully mistreated, and very early next...
When fire razed her ancestral home, Erlina Sherwood sought shelter at Meldon Hall. The Manor house of the arrogant Marquis of Meldon had been all but destroyed by neglect. Erlina was astonished to find the Marquis himself in residence, amid the Hall'...
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...
In the magical, green-leafed bower of Monk's Wood, Salema and Charles fell instantly and forever in love... Salema was prepared to travel the world with her handsome, strong and gentle Stranger -- but Fate was to test their newfound passion. For Char...
Geta Naunton's elder sisters were stunned when she accepted Lord Roydon of Wick's shocking proposal. Lord Roydon would be offered a Governorship in India only if he were married... so he had simply sent to England for a bride! Indeed, the commanding,...
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...
England, 1892. A thousand pounds to the young lady who could play an Angel on the stage of the Marquis of Vauxhall's private theatre! The Marquis was imperious, irresistibly magnetic and utterly worldly... Angela Brooke was risking a scandal that co...
Betrothed against her wishes to an elderly Duke, Katerina left her French stepmother's home. Katerina fled, and while in exile, she met her neighbour, the dashing Prince Michael and was befriended him. But the Prince Michael was a man determined to w...
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...
Talbot Marsham was Society's darling, welcome at the most brilliant soirees. He was also impoverished and utterly without prospects ... Who would employ a Gentleman? Then, as in a Fairy Tale, an Emissary of Fate appeared on Talbot's doorstep: He was ...
It was a marriage arranged for reasons of State -- to protest would be to risk the displeasure of Queen Victoria herself... So Lady Gloria Winton, young and lovely, put aside her dreams of Love and set out for the tiny kingdom of Arginos. There, Gl...
Amalita Maulpin and her younger sister, Carolyn, were stunned to learn they were orphans! Nonetheless, Amalita vowed that Carolyn would have her London Season… Thus, Amalita became Lady Maulpin, a shy widow, chaperoning her late husband’s daughte...
It is bad enough that the beautiful Manella’s heartless uncle is threatening to sell her adorable English Setter, Flash and her beloved horse, Heron. But when he dashes all her hopes and dreams with a forced marriage to an aging, decrepit but...
Ilesa Harle and her father, the vicar of Littlestone, are increasingly finding it difficult to make ends meet. Meanwhile Ilesa's sister Doreen has become wealthy when the elderly peer she married dies, and it becomes obvious that she has now set her ...
Ivana Sherard was horrified! Her wastrel Guardian planned to sell her to a wicked, depraved Lord ... Only hours ahead of her pursuers, Ivana fled to London, where Fate brought her to the Earl of Lorimer. The dark, magnetically attractive peer was wor...
When Luella Hanley's father dies suddenly, he left her alone and penniless in Milan. Accepting a business proposition from a mysterious stranger, she finds herself accepting a commission to escort a little Italian boy home to his father, a English Du...
The Duke of Buckington was the handsomest nobleman in Society, and so notorious that when he saved Lady Lynda from drowning, his Honor demanded that he wed the high-born young beauty. Yet on her wedding night, Lady Lynda vowed to be the Duke's wife i...
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 the ...
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 for lov...
Newly orphaned, Josina Marsh has traveled to England--to meet her mother's estranged family at Nevondale Hall. Now, amid the splendors of Nevon, the lovely Josina discovers that her cousin, the Duke of Nevondale, a dissolute rake, is having an affair...
The Earl of Domoch arrived in Scotland -- reluctantly -- to take up his duties as Chieftain of his Clan. Raised in England, blinded by a Fakir's curse in India, the handsome, embittered peer felt lost among strangers... until lovely Vara McDorn becam...
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...
Tremulously, Amorita Howe agreed to help her Brother in his audacious scheme. Their dear old nanny required an expensive operation, and the penniless pair hoped to win the lavish prizes offered by the pleasure-loving Earl of Eldridge. The Earl's cou...
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...
The feud between the MacSteel and McBrara Clans has simmered for centuries, but now, inflamed by a sly, ambitious schemer, it threatens to blaze into cruel warfare. The last chance or peace is a wedding -- between Fyna MacSteel, sender as a river nym...
Their Stepmother has decreed that the daughters of the Earl of Armeron may never visit the splendid chateaux of France. Yet Lady Lencia Leigh vows her younger sister Alice will not be disappointed. Defying her evil stepmother's order, and disguised a...
On his return from India, the Earl of Rayburne finds his estate in shambles, his people in want, and majestic Rayburne Castle itself shockingly neglected In the Earl's absence, his uncle has absconded with everything he could lay his hands on, and th...
Meta Lindley is young, intelligent--and about to become a spy for Her Majesty Queen Victoria ... At the Queen's request, Meta and her brother have rented their beloved family Manor to a Russian Prince close to the Tsar... and Meta is to act as Govern...
Alicia was listening to him as if she were hypnotized. Her eyes were beld by his asn it was impossible to look away. "I love you, I love you," the Prince said. "I knew if from the first moment I saw you, bu I realized last night you were as out of r...
Returning from a dangerous mission in Russia, Viscount Brendon discovers a beautiful stowaway in his private carriage and agrees to pose as her husband in order to help her escape from an unwanted arranged marriage. Original....
Betrayed by the spiteful and sham innocence of a well-born debutante, the proud Duke of Stalbridge has retired to his ancestral manor, Stalbridge Hall. But the family is due to meet the future Duchess, and the disillusioned Duke requires a substitute...
The Earl of Ardwick is furious when he is jilted by the lady of his desires, the ambitious Heloise Brook, with her eye on a Dukedom. All of London will know of the proud Peer's jilting. Shamed, he left without a partner for Queen Victoria's Diamond J...
Lady Imilda Bourne is as determined as she is lovely: she will marry as her heart commands, or not at all. But her Stepmama has other plans for Imilda, and traps the Marquis of Melverley, the most eligible--and notorious--bachelor of the Beau Monde. ...
An unexpected legacy frees Mavina Lonsdale to return to India to seek her beloved father's resting place. Traveling alone from England, the gently bred innocent is shielded from the coarse attentions of a stranger by none other than the Honorable Maj...
Despite her disapproval of his scandalous lifestyle and neglect of his estate, Nola Brackley, the lovely daughter of the local vicar, comes to the aid of a lord threatened by the dastardly schemes of an evil rival. Original....
As a cousin of Queen Victoria, the beautiful Princess Marigold is obliged to yield to the Queen’s wishes when it comes to marriage â€" and the Monarch is most reluctant to allow her to marry the man she loves, Prince Holden of Allenberg, because sh...
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...
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 ...
When Rena's father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. And there in the earth she...
When the Balkan Prince Stanislaus demanded an English bride, Queen Victoria decided to send him Lady Lavina, whose family had a slight connection with royalty. Determined to avoid this fate, Lavina threw herself on the mercy of the Marquis of Elswi...
When John Chester returned to England after suddenly inheriting a Dukedom he knew his life had changed forever. But he didn't know just how much. Gina Wilton was like a breath of fresh air. But she was also everything John disapproved of in a young w...
Hugo, Earl of Ruven, is sailing home after ten years in India, where he served with his regiment. His grandfather, the old Earl, has died and Hugo has inherited the title and estate of Castle Ruven. He has also inherited his late brother's fiancee, F...
When Rosina's dear friend leapt to her death after the man she loved betrayed her, she vowed vengeance on all men. Rosina declared that no man could be trusted, including Sir John Crosby, member of parliament, whom she had secretly loved since girlho...
Sylvia, daughter of the Duke of Belham, is bored with the various young men she meets at Lady Lamborne's masked ball. At last she escapes their attentions and makes her way into the cool, moonlit garden, where she encounters a masked stranger. The ...
The daughter of a wealthy, ambitios man, Rowena knew that her father longed to marry her to a title, preferably the Duke of Wenfield, whom she disliked and did not wish to marry herself. To avoid marriage, they hatched a plot. Posing as brother and...
After her quiet life in the Highlands of Scotland, the Laird's daughter Ola Mcnewton is looking forward to going to London to take part in Queen Victoria's Jubilee. At first it seemed a good joke to pretend to be a Balkan Princess, and be entertain...
At the ball that was to change her life, Rona Trafford danced with a mysterious Harlequin. She learned that this prospective suitor was being unfaithful to another, and so fled to Paris, taking up a job as a governess. Her employer's brother joine...
Dorina's father had been an industrialist, an inventor and a genius who trained her to be his heir, sending her abroad to learn many languages. While she was in France she learned that he had died, and she must now take over his business. But she do...
Venetia was very lonely after the death of her parents. So when her cousin Mary begged her to help to save her from a forced marriage, Venetia was ready. Mary was in love with another man and expecting his child, yet the Queen wanted her to marry t...
Charles, Lord Hartley, was at his wits end. He had spent a fortune on his cousin John, and still the embittered John demanded more money. Charles knew he needed an heiress and he became swiftley attracted to Cliona, who had recently moved in to the ...
Carina was alone in the world and unsure of what the future held for her. Then a troupe of musicians, called 'Bertie's Beauties', had an accident outside her gates and she found herself swept up in their fate as she took over from their injured pian...
When Shona became secretary to the Marquis of Chilworth, all she was told was that they were going abroad so that he could write a book.She never suspected the dark secret in his heart or the terrible thing he meant to do.As they travelled on, she le...
Davina is the younger daughter of Lord Shelford and she has fallen for an actor who did not meet her father's approval. He has banished her from London to his newly acquired country seat, Priory Park, where Davina felt lonely, but not for long. She s...
Lord Milton should have been a happy man, with an ancient title and a magificent estate. But he was deep in debt and haunted by memories of the Crimea, where he had once been a soldier and taken part of the Charge of the Light Brigade. To take his m...
Simona Bell, the lovely daughter of Lord Belgrave, has been invited by her friend, Karoline von Honentaal to stay with her family in Berlin. Simona finds that Karoline’s father, the Baron, owns an amazing collection of art which interests her great...
Vanda Sudbury and Robert, the Earl of Cunningham, had been friends from childhood. They knew all each other’s faults and weaknesses and squabbled like brother and sister. So when her father tried to force a marriage between them, they were equally ...
After the death of her great-uncle, orphan Lady Rosanna Donnington was overwhelmed to learn he had left her his vast fortune. It was then her life changed and she became the target of unscrupulous fortune hunters. But she was determined to marry only...
Returning from finishing school in France, Louisa Hatton was full of enthusiasm for the life ahead. She was convinced it would be exciting and romantic. But her parents had already planned a very suitable marriage for her to Lord Westbridge, their ne...
Eugenia Dovedale's father had been High Steward to the Marquis of Buckbury and after her father's unexpected death, Eugenia had to leave 'Paragon' the family's beautiful and much loved cottage on the estate. She and her mother now lived uncomfortably...
Michael, the Earl of Danesbury was being hounded to marry Lady Alice Randall, a woman he did not love. Even the Prince of Wales was determined to force him into marriage. Michael fled to his dilapidated ancestral castle for the first time since inhe...
For years Celina Storton had been in love with Robin, the Earl of Torrington, but he spent his time in Paris, pursuing beautiful women and the more the merrier. Then his mother’s illness forced him to return to England, where she demanded that he m...
Lady Novella Crownley has been teaching at a girl's school far from her ancestral home, Crownley Hall, and one day her mother asks her to return. She leaves at once only to find that so much has changed since her last visit home. Her beloved fath...
Lady Elvina, the daughter of the Earl Winwood was rich, beautiful and in love. Any day now Captain Andrew Broadmoor would propose to her. But then she overheard him saying that he did not love her and would only marry her for her money. Elvina fled,...
The Earl of Cariston is faced with insuperable problems as he has completely run out of money. He has sold everything on his estate that he can, but even so there is nothing he can do to support those who rely on him and they are on the verge of star...
Martina knew that Sir Hugh Faversham adored her. She was uncertain how she felt about him, but she knew she could always turn to him for help. So when her friend, Harriet, begged her for help to avoid a forced marriage, Martina went straight to Sir H...
The Earl of Bracken is meeting his good friend Captain Charles Kenwood at his Club in St. James’s Street. He has just returned from a visit to Syria where he had been introduced to Sheik Abu Hamid, the owner of the most magnificent Arab horses the ...
“I will not marry a man I do not love!†When Lady Verena’s widowed father suddenly remarries, she finds that her stepmother is anxious to make a match of convenience for her new stepdaughter and produces a suitor whorepels her. Verena has alwa...
The beautiful Joanna West’s parents had been killed in a very nasty road accident and as she is the only child she inherits her father and mother’s house in the County of Huntingdonshire. When she sees the condition of her house, she realises at...
Calina Hart’s mother, the lovely Lady Carol Wood, was being forced by her ambitious father, the Earl of Hurstwood, to marry the Duke of Denholme, who is dull, boring and a poor rider â€" but is a Duke! Early in the morning of the day of her Weddin...
The Duke of Laverdale is ambitious to be appointed Master of the Horse and the new Queen Adelaide is determined that behaviour at Court should be moral after the licentiousness of King George IV. The Duke therefore ends his affaire de coeur wi...
"There is nothing for it â€" we will have marry for money!" The Strathcarrons have lived in splendour in Lednock Castle in Scotland for many generations, but the family fall on hard times when their fortunes become depleted. An American guest, Larry...
Viola Brookfield has not a care in the world until the awful day when her parents are tragically killed in a road accident, leaving her all alone in the world. So when her Aunt Mary, Lady Wakefield, writes to invite her to come and live with her in I...
Protected by loving parents, young, beautiful and happy, Lady Ravina Ashley has the world at her feet. Unused to harsh words, she is taken aback when a stranger at a ball in London takes her to task for her behaviour towards a clumsy suitor. But Ravi...
The Marquis and Marquise de Castillon together with their young son, Jean-Pierre, were forced to flee France for England when the French Revolution broke out in 1789. Jean-Pierre was educated at Eton and only returned to Paris when Napoleon came to p...
Justina Mansell, the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Mansell is told that her sister has been invited to visit India, but cannot accept. So Justina jumps at the chance to go in her place. Her aunt arranges for her to be chaperoned on board ship by...
“No, Papa! I cannot believe that you no longer want me here.†When Marina Fullerton’s beloved mother dies in a tragic riding accident, she is horrified when her father sends her away from the family home in Harley Street, saying he is unable t...
Shana, the beautiful daughter of Lord Hallam has not yet been a debutante as she has been helping her father write his autobiography. Although retired from the Foreign Office, Lord Hallam agrees to go abroad leaving his daughter alone in the country....
“Get away from me. As far as I am concerned, David, you are dead to me and this entire family!†The handsome Viscount Kennington has never enjoyed a good relationship with his father, the Earl, but he loves his grandparents and they love him. Bu...
Lady Lolita Vernon, daughter of the late Earl of Walcott and Vernon, has run away. Her stepfather, Ralph Piran is forcing her to accept the attentions and perhaps an offer of marriage from his business partner, Murdock Tanner, who is very rich but ol...
‘How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!’ When the beautiful Lucia Mountford’s mother remarries less than a year after her father’s death on the Titanic, she is shocked when the family’s fortunes suddenly go into rapid decl...
When Lord Rupert Brooke and his wife are killed in an accident, their only child, Titania, was forced to live with her uncle, the Duke of Starbrooke, who had never approved of her father’s marriage and did not consider her grand enough to be a memb...
Francis, the Marquis of Wimborton needed an heiress. Lexia had money and her father wanted her to marry a Lord. But she was a spirited girl, raised in America and she wanted to choose her own husband. The Marquis was too proud to court her, especiall...
Major Michael Moore has been playing a very dangerous part in the Great Game in India where he foils a plot to kill the Viceroy who tells Michael he is now a marked man and that he must return to England immediately. To his astonishment on his way ho...
Elvina Carrisford, has known little love and affection in her life. She is invited to be a companion to her cousin Delphine, who is to be engaged to the nephew of a French Prince. En route to her new home she meets an enigmatic and handsome stranger...
After Della had been orphaned she came to live in the country with her uncle, Lord Lainden, who rented a delightful house on the estate of his great friend the Duke of Marchwood. She was blissfully happy with her uncle and rode the Duke’s horses ev...
Two attractive, intelligent people with one thing in common both of them have sworn never to marry, unless it is for true love. Beautiful and headstrong, Lady Elva Chartham shocks her family when she denounces the debutante balls and festivities of L...
Lord Robert Templeton is adamant that the responsibilities of his newly inherited Earldom are not for him. Leaving his family home, Ledbury Hall, in the capable hands of his younger brother, Alec, he plunges headfirst into the heady delights of Londo...
As he cuts a swathe through the glittering balls and elegant soirees of London society he is pursued by debutantes and married hostesses alike. Admired by men, including the Prince of Wales, for his intelligence, bravery and ability to take on any ch...
Beautiful Jasmina Winfield is a thoroughly modern American girl who likes to make her own decisions. A skilled and daring horsewoman, she is used to taking care of herself and takes orders from no one -- especially not a man. Arriving in Yorksh...
Heir to the throne of Valdina, beautiful Attila vows two things -- to do everything in her power to return her beloved sick father, King Sigismund, to health and to find true love. But it seems that her stepmother, the scheming and selfish Queen Mar...
Robert Lyndon, heir apparent to a dukedom and newly spurned lover is desperate to save face amongst the young dandies and court ladies of Regency London society. Handsome, wealthy and decorated for his bravery in the army fighting for King and countr...
Returning home from France Robina Melville finds surprises awaiting her -- not all of them pleasant. Almost immediately it becomes clear that the familiar surroundings of Trentham House are not the sanctuary that she hoped for, and she soon feels unw...
1820 is a worrying time for His Royal Highness Prince Lászlé as the might of the Prussian Empire moves ever closer to the boarders of his independent principality, Opava. Concerned for the welfare and happiness of his subjects, he reluctantly sends...
Some girls can wait a lifetime for one man to fall in love with them, but Selena Norton is so pretty that every man she meets is promptly smitten â€" including those who are attached to others. Angered at gentlemen showering her with flowery complime...
Can you fall in love with someone before you meet them? Valona, the eighteenyearold daughter of the deposed Prince of Piracus believes she can. Beautiful, spiritual and aching for adventure Valona is convinced that the perfect man exists because she ...
When you are the sole heir of an English Lord who has made his fortune after striking oil in Texas, it is hard to know if the young men hotly pursuing you are in love with your beauty or your money. Declaring herself to be only interested in marrying...
The Marquis of Wynstanton had become involved with one of the beauties of London Society â€" Locadi, Lady Marshall and when her husband died unexpectedly, the Marquis set out on a long journey to India and Nepal, as he wished to avoid any gossip aris...
When you are the sole heir of an English Lord who has made his fortune after striking oil in Texas, it is hard to know if the young men hotly pursuing you are in love with your beauty or your money. Declaring herself to be only interested in marrying...
Neisa More and Carol Waverton are cousins. Both girls are beautiful, intelligent and hoping to find true love, but there is one major difference between them â€" money, or in Neisa’s case a distinct lack of it. The daughter of runaway lovers, Neisa...
Money may not be able to buy you love but without it an Earldom is an empty title as black sheep of the family, Michael Belmont, could discover to his cost. Heir to a huge country estate, filled with antiques and the finest furniture, Michael's gambl...
Wealthy businessman John Gardner counts his wife, the widowed Countess Napier, as his finest possession. Beautiful, refined and a devoted mother, the Countess has the one thing that all his money cannot buy -- a place in Society. When she dies still ...
An unexpected letter from an old friend, His Royal Highness Prince Kraus of Oldessa, to the Duke of Norlington contains a surprise that could change the lives of the young Duke and his ravishing sister, Lady Latasha, forever. Happily living on the No...
Malvina is young, beautiful â€" but most of all very rich. She dreams of marrying a man that loves her, and whom she in turn can love forever. Unfortunately her father has other ideas. Only too aware of the fortune hunters that prey on vulnerable you...
How far would you go to protect the things you care about the most? Lady Dorianna Dale is packing her trousseau for her illustrious Society wedding to a wealthy man she does not love, in the hope that she can save her family estate from the hands of ...
With all the trappings of wealth, but none of the money to maintain the large historic houses they inherit, society beauty Lady Galina More and her charismatic brother, Georgie, the Earl of Ranmore, are in despair. It seems that the only way to secur...
The Marquis of Kexley seems to have everything a girl could want -- wealth, good looks, intelligence, athletic prowess -- and a title. The only thing he doesn't possess is respect for the legion of women who throw themselves at him, desperate to clai...
Intrigue and imminent danger await the young men brave enough to join 'The Great Game', the political conflict between the British and Russian Empire, and Captain David Ingle is one the bravest as he saves a Fort in India from attack, disguised as a ...
Lively Leonora Cressy and her school friend, Isobel, have sworn never to fall in love. They prefer learning and books to men and scorn other girls whose heads are full of storybook romance. But Leonora is suddenly plucked from the safety of her all g...
Lord Salwicke is a very rich but worried man. His beautiful daughter, Tasia, is already twenty years of age, which has dampened his hopes of her taking London by storm. Though not quite an old maid, he fears she may have missed her chance for wedded ...
Sir Robin Dunstead returns from India after his father’s death to find that he has inherited two of the largest ancestral houses in England, but no money to restore them. Amazed to find both houses empty of servants and in a state of disrepair he b...
Devastated by the treachery of the woman he loves, the Marquis of Kenworth leaves London and the Prince Regent’s intimate circle of pleasure loving friends, to join the Duke of Wellington’s army as plain Captain Ivan Worth. Facing hardship and th...
Narina Kenwin is the only daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans and used to a quiet comfortable life in her father’s country diocese. Intelligent, loyal and stunningly beautiful, Narina is happy with her lot, although she does sometimes daydream abo...
Jilted by her faithless fiancée and at risk of cruel gossip from the debutantes and dowagers of London Society, life is not going as expected for beautiful Anthea Preston. Eager to leave the scandal behind, Anthea is heartbroken afresh when her belo...
Lady Elvina, the daughter of the Earl Winwood was rich, beautiful and in love. Any day now Captain Andrew Broadmoor would propose to her.But then she overheard him saying that he did not love her and would only marry her for her money.Elvina fled, tr...
Beautiful Aurora Hartnell is returning home to Hadleigh Hall for Christmas. Looking forward to seeing her elderly father Lord Hartnell again, she ruefully acknowledges that life in the country is likely to seem rather dull after the elegance of her F...
Tania, the lovely daughter of the late Lord Amesly, leaves her school in Paris and is travelling to Boulogne when her train crashes. Amongst the fear and confusion she is helped and befriended by a charming young Englishman â€" Captain Rupert More â€...
Scandal, adultery and an angry husband has to be avoided if the Duke of Rockinston, one of the most handsome and charming bachelors in London, is to keep his family honour and his preserve his place at the centre of Society. With the furious Earl of ...
At The Battle of Worcester in 1651, Prince Charles with thirteen thousand troops, both English and Scottish, is heavily defeated by Oliver Cromwell and flees to France.Clive More escapes the battlefield to a friendly house and is saved from Cromwellâ...
Helsa, the exceptionally beautiful daughter of the Reverend Alfred Irvin, is thrilled when she learns that Irvin Hall, their vast ancestral home, has been rented for a large sum by a certain Lady Basset. Her Ladyship wishes to host a grand house part...
The handsome and eligible Prince Ivan of Rusitania urgently needs to find a bride who is very young, very pretty and very rich. His cousin, Prince Peter of neighbouring Voskia, is determined to prevent him marrying as he intends to inherit Rusitania....
The Marquis of Milverton strides into White’s Club in a high state of irritation as he is being pestered by his family to take a ‘suitable’ girl for his wife. He is not surprised to find that his aristocratic friends are suffering the same pres...
Young, happy and deeply in love the future looks rosy for local beauty Lilliana Parker and her beau Robert, the dashing Earl of Sherborne. Their friends and family wait with baited breath for news of their inevitable engagement, certain that nothing ...
When you are the sole heir of an English Lord who has made his fortune after striking oil in Texas, it is hard to know if the young men hotly pursuing you are in love with your beauty or your money. Declaring herself to be only interested in marrying...
Wenda has struggled alone to keep the family’s crumbling ancestral home, Creswell Court, going. Her brother, Robbie, now Lord Creswell, is spending his time in London where he is a great success in Society and with the Prince of Wales and the beaut...
Beautiful, flirtatious and romantic Valeria Montford is used to attracting admiring glances from the most eligible young men in Society. But galloping through the French countryside she discovers that pride definitely comes before a fall. A confident...
Following the death of her husband, the Countess of Wenlock was living in her magnificent house in London with her son, Donald, and her beautiful daughter, Salvia. One day out of the blue Donald suddenly drops a bombshell. He tells his mother and S...
The young and handsome Duke of Barenlock is twenty-seven and is being constantly pestered by his mother and his family to get married. They are not only frightened he will not produce an heir to the Dukedom, but the Castle, one of the most famous in ...
The beautiful Flavia Linwood had been living in the country until she was nearly nineteen. She should have been a debutante in London the previous year, but she was in deep mourning for her mother who had died suddenly. Now at last she travels ...
Lord Waincliffe breaks his horse’s bridle out riding one day and calls at the nearest house for help so that he can ride home safely. It belongs to Terence Stourton, a Professor of Literature, and he meets his daughter, Rosetta, who repairs t...
The Earl of Wentworth has a fiery and unpredictable temper and is about to fight a duel in Hyde Park with a Frenchman who has insulted him, when he is restrained by his friend, Sir Thomas Babbington, and a helpful Policeman. At the same time the beau...
Wealthy Rupert Fitzalan leaves his successful Railway Company in America to claim his inheritance following the death of his doughty, proud Grandfather, Lord Fitzalan. A modern, forward thinking businessman, Rupert is also the last male descendant of...
When the Duke of Barningforde was told by his second son, Alastair, that he had married an actress in Paris without his approval, he exiled Alastair from England with only a very small allowance. His wife, Grace, actually came from a good Scottish f...
The Honourable Richard Brooke, the younger son of the Earl of Grandbrooke becomes a close friend of Prince Ivan of Karlova.The Prince however does not use his title as he is incognito. He is therefore known as Ivan Sazon.As is usual in Aristocr...
Young, handsome and very rich the Marquis of Harlington has just ended yet another unsatisfactory love affair that has left him feeling bored with women and resigned to the fact that true love simply does not exist amongst the upper class echelons of...
The beautiful Elissa Valentine has no idea what lies in store for her after the death of her beloved Papa, who was a talented artist. She travels to Yorkshire to start a new life at Fellbrook Towers as a companion to her fearsome grandmother, Lady Ha...
Queen Victoria sends for the Duke of Sherbourne and asks him to undertake a very secret mission on her behalf. It is so secret that only his loyal valet, Jenkins, is told.The Duke agrees and it takes him to Greece where he had not been for some...
Beautiful Lady Lucilla Welton is all alone in the world, having lost both her parents in a tragic accident. She has nowhere to go and so she stays with her cruel and distant Aunt Maud, who wants to marry her off as soon as possible. An ardent s...
Prince Nicolo of Vienz is irritated by his family and his Prime Minister continually begging him to be married for the sake of his country and to prevent it being taken over by a neighbour. He finally agrees to meet Princess Marziale, the daughter of...
Princess Zelda of Brienz in Switzerland is being harassed by her father to marry a King or Prince of one of the small countries of Europe.Zelda is very beautiful and determined that when she does marry it will be for love and only love and she ...
Dalma Wickham, having been in Athens to learn Greek, arrives at a British Steamer to return to London to find that they will not allow her dog, Twi-Twi, on board. Because she is turned away from the British ship, she walks round the quay and sees a m...
After the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent Army of Occupation in France, the Earl of Monthurst returns to his ancestral home in England to find it in a very bad condition. Because labour had not been available during the war, The Hall, which goe...
The British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asks Lord Kenington to travel to India to find out if growing reports about the Russian menace are really true. The Liberal Opposition in Parliament are sceptical and are certain that Disraeli is manufac...
The beautiful Lady Eleta Renton returns from France where she has stayed long over her time at the Convent School in Paris. Because her mother had married again after becoming widowed and then she died too, Eleta was in no hurry to come home When sh...
The beautiful Alnina Lester is confronted with a formidable task when her brother, Lord Lester, dies after fighting a duel in Paris. She finds that he has accumulated an enormous number of debts, and to meet his creditors everything in their house, ...
Princess Caterina of Theiss receives a letter from her close friend Princess Henriet of Istria asking her to stay with her immediately. The two Provinces were close to each other and part of Austria. On arrival at the Palace in Istria, Princess Cat...
On a hot summer’s day in 1880 the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt’s house in Hampshire. It is her seventeenth birthday and no one remembers it except for Thomas, the gardener’s b...
Lady Georgina Lang returns to The Castle from her father’s funeral to wonder what the future holds for her. Because her father had always longed for a son to succeed him, he had brought her up and educated her exactly as if she was a boy. She dres...
When two dashing gentlemen ride up to Rensham Hall, the ancestral Norfolk home of the beautiful Lady Chiara Fairfax, her world is turned upside down, as she and her mother are just recovering from the unexpected death of her father, Lord Fairfax. ...
Arliva Ashdown is not only the most beautiful girl in London Society but the richest as she has inherited her father’s huge fortune. At a ball she is giving she overhears two people talking outside the window and she is horrified to learn that, al...
The Marquis of Whisinford and his friend Lord Alfred Middleton meet at White’s Club and tell each other how bored they are with the London Season and the same parties with the same people night after night. They commiserate with each other for fin...
The beautiful Adella May is filled with joy as she sees Digby Dryden, the man she loves, walking towards her. But why does he turn away, refusing to look at her? Humiliated and hurt and her golden dream of love in ruins, what can Adella ...
After visiting the lovely Countess of Helston as her husband is away, Lord Lanwood did not arrive home until the early hours of the morning. And after sleeping later than usual the following morning, he is ready to go riding when his valet tells him...
The Earl of Hillingwood calls his great friend, Lord Waverstone, to an urgent meeting with him at White’s Club in St. James’s for a serious discussion. The Earl is determined that his only son, Royden, is married to his friend’s daughte...
When Russian revolutionaries burn down their beloved home in the Caucasus with their sick father still inside it, Ivor and his beautiful sister Weena decide to leave Russia for good and travel to England. Their mother, who was now dead, had been Eng...
The tenth Earl of Narbrooke is a miser. He is obsessed with money and is prepared to starve himself as well as his household and will not give a penny to his family even though he is the Head of it. He has locked himself away in his vast mansion an...
The beautiful Vanora is helping her uncle, Lord Blairmond the distinguished Statesman who lives in London, to write his autobiography, when she has an urgent call from her brother, Ewen, to return immediately to Scotland. He has just become Chieftai...
Clive, the Earl of Bourne, nearly twenty-eight, tall, handsome and pursued by enumerable women is determined not to get married. He is sick and tired of his father, the Duke of Shelbourne and his relations begging him to produce an heir and he has d...
The beautiful Iona Langdale is walking in her favourite wood the day before her wedding, which is planned to be a huge Society event with marquees and fireworks and attended by her large family and all her smart friends from London. She is musing dr...
Brought up in London by her widowed mother and her step-uncle and Guardian, Sir Uriel Reece, the beautiful Rosaleena knows little about the estate in Ireland she is about to inherit together with the lovely Rosscullen House. All she knows is th...
About to leave her school, the Five Oaks Boarding School for Young Ladies, the beautiful but penniless Rosilda Harvey is told by her unsympathetic Guardian that she must take a junior teacher’s job at the school and not come and live with her in th...
The beautiful Lady Sheila Rosswood’s father had lost nearly all his money on ‘get rich quick’ schemes which did not materialise although they seemed so good at first. He tried and tried to become a millionaire, but he was never lucky as...
The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Earl Granville travels to Windsor Castle for an audience with Queen Victoria. He had been asked by Count Yuri Unkar of Samosia, a small but significant country in the Balkans if an English bride of...
Lord Springdale is becoming increasingly irritated and tired of being told by his grandmother that he must marry and produce an heir to his illustrious title and estates. She keeps on telling him that, as he is the last of his line and at the ...
The beautiful Konstantina Millbank has become an orphan after her adored parents have both suddenly died. In the autumn of 1892 she finds herself in a country East of the Danube en route to live with her recently appointed Guardian, the shadow...
The Duke of Rockcliffe returns home to England from the British Army of Occupation which after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 is located at Cambrai. He had left England seven years ago when he was merely a young Lieutenant who intended to spend his ...
The beautiful Ariana Dancer is orphaned and has led a cheerless life in London with her disagreeable Guardian, Uncle Konstantin Bardici. He has shown little interest in his niece and she has been left very much to her own devices. One d...
When Lord Templeton is sent for by Sir James Redwell, the British Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, he knows that there is trouble somewhere in the world and because he is so successful at dealing with international problems he realises t...
The beautiful Colena Dalton has inherited a great fortune following the untimely death of her enormously rich father, Sir Arthur Dalton, in Paris after a long illness. After overhearing the Comtesse de Lyons telling her charmless son, Pierre, that h...
The Marquis of Craigmere, who is one of the most handsome and attractive men in the Beau Monde, is pursued by an exotic and beautiful married woman called Peony Lawson. The Marquis finds this affaire-de-coeur amusing and enjoyable until Peony says t...
The handsome Viscount Trent finally makes up his mind to accede to the pleadings of his family and get married. He is twenty-seven and for a long time they have been begging him to take a wife and produce an heir to his illustrious title, his famous...
The beautiful golden-haired Orlina Runford is the daughter of the renowned author, Sir Nicholas Runford . She lives very quietly in the country helping her dedicated father translate ancient manuscripts from all over the world and, as she is so inte...
The Earl of Langdale tells his beautiful daughter, Zela, that, having gone to London on a visit, he has become involved with the Comtesse de Courché, who is one of the famous beauties of the London Season. She is much admired by His Royal Highness ...
The beautiful Vanessa Shotworth was being made extremely unhappy at the way she was being treated by her stepmother while her beloved father was away in India with his Regiment. When she was late for breakfast because she had been out riding on a lov...
The beautiful eighteen year old Karla Stanton, who is living in the country with her brother training horses, is astonished when her half-sister Penelope, now Lady Melford, who is renowned as a great beauty in London, unexpectedly calls on her. She ...
The beautiful Yolisa Warren lives quietly in the country with her father, her mother having died five years ago. Unexpectedly her uncle, Lord Langford, who is a brilliant Diplomat and who is sent all over the world on secret missions, arrives at the...
Prince Serge of Tamrush, who himself had been sent a bride by Queen Victoria to save his Principality from invasion by the Russians, was now being asked by Prince Igor of Dubrik for the hand of his beautiful daughter Lavinia for the same reason. He ...
The beautiful Lola Fenton lives happily in a small cottage in the depths of Worcestershire, but she is suddenly orphaned when her father and mother are killed in a railway crash. Her uncle, the Earl of Kencombe, comes to the funeral and then tells he...
When Madelina Winston, a beautiful American heiress, arrives in England, she has at first only one thought on her mind, to try and trace her late father’s English family. Her stepmother, Mrs. Winston, has other ideas. Madelina might ha...
Lady Julia Wood was extremely happy living in the country with her father, the Earl of Wentwood, after her mother’s death, until he remarries unexpectantly after a visit to Paris. Her stepmother, who is very rich, does not want Julia in the ancien...
The beautiful Lady Diana Dinsdale’s father has died and shortly afterwards her mother dies as well and she is heartbroken at the loss of both her beloved parents. After the Earl of Dinsdale’s death, her mother had married again to William Walker...
Sir John Gilmour has received a letter from his old friend Gavron Murillo, who lives in Paris to say that he only has a very short time to live and wants to see him urgently before he dies. Gavron, who was of Oriental appearance and a very rich man,...
The beautiful Belinda Lanwick has not attended the dinner party given by her cousin as she is still in mourning following the death of her beloved father. However, when the guests were leaving, she saw Lord Ian Cheddington and thought him exceedingl...
The beautiful Martina Bradshaw has sadly lost both her beloved father and her loving mother. They live in the little Kent village of Preston Bailey where her father, a talented musician, had written his music, which had never been successful with th...
Since the death of her almost bankrupt father, the beautiful Andrea Clerefall has been reduced to the status of a drudge under the stern eye of her stepmother and her two unpleasant stepsisters. Her only friend is her late mother’s old Nanny...
Sheldon Kinswood was at White's Club with his friends when a Steward asks them if they know of a really good valet, as the Duke of Dartmoor is desperately looking for one. It is then that Sheldon tells his friends that the Duke is his uncle and he i...
The beautiful Georgina Malton is in America with her father, who is making large amounts of money in opening gold mines and is becoming even richer by investing in newly discovered oilfields. Georgina desperately wants to return to England because s...
The Earl of Rockhaven calls on his friend the Vicar, the Reverend Simon Wolverham, to ask if his beautiful daughter, Lucinda, will pretend to be his own daughter, Muriel, who is away in Scotland staying with her aunt. Fortunately the girls have simi...
King Martiza of Salamos has fallen asleep when he suddenly becomes aware that something is moving in his room. To his astonishment he finds that it is Princess Veria who has come for his Coronation which is to take place the very next day. She, as ...
The beautiful redheaded Tiana Weston sets out to visit her inheritance in Dorset with high hopes. It had been her parents’ dream to restore Castle Rose to its former glory as it is now a dilapidated ruin and only a small part is fit to live i...
Colonel Storton has set his mind on his beautiful daughter, Alvina, marrying a man with money and a grand title. When Lord Hillborough became their next door neighbour in the country, the Colonel considered him to be an excellent husband for Alvina, ...
The Marquis of Darincourt who is the greatest matrimonial catch in the Beau Monde decides at last that he will get married and has chosen Lady Charlotte Warde to be his wife. He has been pursued for years by every debutante and ambitious mother, but...
Michael, the handsome Earl of Monkford, returns from fighting in the Napoleonic War to find that his beloved home, Monk Hall, once a Monastery, has become thoroughly dilapidated from lack of money. And his estate has been sadly neglected with broken...
The beautiful Ilena Foringham not only helped her father, who was a senior Member of Parliament, with his speeches but she also assisted Lord Witherington with his. She had always found him a tremendous bore, but when he eventually proposed marriage...
The lovely red-haired eighteen year old Lady Viola Francis is orphaned. She and her fortune are in the power of her stepfather, the sinister Sir Rudolph Vane. Viola’s late father, the Earl of Galhampto...
Lorena Conway has devoted most of her life to being a secretary to her father, a noted historian. Sir Arthur suddenly dies and leaves Lorena with too little money to maintain her childhood home. Wondering how she will survive, the beauti...
The beautiful Princess Vasila, an orphan, who has been looked after by Baroness von Bergstein in a Grace and Favour house, is astonished when an Equerry arrives to take her to Windsor Castle to see the Queen. She is not told until she arrives that P...
The beautiful Alvita who had lost both her parents, was living quietly in her family home in Southern Russia. Her father had been Russian and her mother had been English. Alvita was pleased to receive a visit from her brother, Ivor, but shocked when...
The Duke of Lavenham learns from a letter that the beautiful Lady Penelope who he finds fun and amusing, is telling her friends that she is going to marry him. The Duke is horrified as he has no intention of marrying anyone for many years to come an...
The beautiful young Charisa Templeton has always loved her father's old friend, the Marquis of Mawdelyn, and as a child she roamed Mawdelyn Priory with his nephew, Vincent, whom she adored.And her father, who is a rich man, has helped support The Pri...
Although her vast inheritance from her Godmother seemed to be blessing, it has become a curse now that Susanna Laven's pushy mother is determined to marry her against her will to the impoverished Duke of Southampton. What is worse, as her mother repe...
When Queen Victoria is called upon to arrange a marriage for the dashing King Alexius of Vultarnia to save him and his country from the predatory Russians, the adventurous and beautiful Pythia takes the place of her cousin, Princess Erina, and heads ...
Ever since the cruel death of her beloved brother, David at the Battle of Waterloo, Lady Ilina Bury's father, the fifth Duke of Tetbury, has taken out his grief on her and now he too has died and his will reiterates his contempt of her. He leaves the...
While her beloved parents were alive, the beautiful young Cledra Melford had basked in the radiance of their love, barely noticing that they were poor and had to scrape by. To make ends meet.But, since they were tragically killed in an accident and s...
On her deathbed Lady Margaret Marsh reveals that there is no family money left to support her daughter, the stunningly beautiful Josina. They were cut off without a penny by their relations long ago when she eloped with Josina's father, the inveterat...
Freshly home from her Finishing School in Florence, the beautiful young Lady Odela Ford finds to her dismay that her new stepmother, the Countess of Shalford, is scheming against her and her beloved father. Odela's mother, who she adored, has died an...
Neil, the handsome Earl of Wynstock, is expected back from the English Army of Occupation in France where he has been with the Duke of Wellington since the Battle of Waterloo. And the people of his estate, Wyn Park, await his return to them impatient...
After their family mansion burns to the ground, the lovely Erlina Sherwood and her little brother, the sixth Baronet of Sherwood, go to the neighbouring estate to ask if they can stay at Meldon Hall as they now have nowhere to else go. It is just abo...
The beautiful Lencia is the image of her dear departed Mama and so is still the apple of the eye of her widowed father, the Earl of Armeron. Knowing how deeply Lencia and her younger sister, Alice, are missing their mother, their father promises to t...
After the death of her mother, Fleur Garton flees the emotional entanglements of her home life to be with her new love, Lucien, a French airman. But their happiness together is short-lived. Its 1942 and War breaks out and within two weeks Lucien is d...
After losing her mother to a fever, then her beloved father the Earl of Darrington - and now her Godmother too, eighteen-year-old Ilita is bereft, stricken by poverty as well as grief. For a fleeting moment, she's saved when her aunt takes her in. Bu...
Prinz Ivan Katinouski, von russisch-englischer Abstammung zählt zu den einflussreichsten und vermögendsten Männern am Hof Königin Viktorias. Er ist ein Lebemann und bekannt für seine zahlreichen Liebschaften. Lady Odele Ashfo...
Sylvia Wace, eine sehr hübsche junge Dame, ist mit plötzlicher Armut konfrontiert, nachdem ihre Mutter nach langer Krankheit stirbt, während der sie sie gepflegt hatte. Die auf dem Sterbebett liegende ‚Mrs. Cunningham‘ beauftragt eine Vertraut...