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"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 who repels her. Verena has always sworn that when she marries, it will be for love and for no other reason. Feeling that she has no choice but to run away, Verena makes a daring midnight escape from her home.

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 the stately Mrs. Arbuthnot, who is travelling with her two daughters and her little terrier, Muffin. Justina is quickly attracted to the good-looking Sir Thomas Watson who is most attentive and much admires her beauty when he joins the Arbuthnot table for dinner.

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 India, Viola decides to accept. But when she arrives, she finds a country fraught with unexpected dangers and that her uncle, Lord Wakefield, behaves as if she is not welcome. Viola's life is further complicated when she meets the handsome but enigmatic Earl of Devonport.

Efter en bitter kärlekshistoria flyr markisen av Elvington från London och sitt gods på landet och beger sig till Dover där hans lustjakt ligger och väntar på att föra honom bort från England. På ett värdshus möter han den unga Caroline som också är på flykt - från sin styvmor som hotar lägga beslag på hennes förmögenhet. Markisen tar henne med ombord och färden går till Medelhavet... Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) är den mest produktiva författaren i det tjugonde århundradet.

Prinzessin Laetitia möchte ihre Cousine, Prinzessin Stephanie, vor einer von ihrer Großtante arrangierten Heirat mit dem König von Zvotana retten. Denn Stephanie ist in ihren Bruder Kyril verliebt. Doch Laetitia und ihre Familie sind selbst von der Gnade der Großtante abhängig, da ihr Vater früh verstorben ist. Sie muss also vorsichtig sein. Da fällt ihr ein, dass die Zigeuner, deren Blut auch in ihren Adern fließt, vielleicht mit einem Zauber helfen könnten.

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 soon meets the Delverton brothers who live nearby, and also their mysterious companion, Jed Barker. There are dark secrets surrounding Priory Park and the Delverton family, but Davina cannot help becoming attracted to the handsome Lord Delverton despite his indifference to her.

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. Before he leaves, he asks Shana to run an errand to the landlord of the village inn known as the Rose and Crown, where she finds there is a crisis in the kitchen and offers to cook luncheon for the Marquis of Kilbrooke and his shooting party.

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 home he reads in a newspaper that following the death of his grandfather he has become the Duke of Grangemoore.

Als Lord Sheldons Mund in der Bibliothek ihres Onkels den ihren berührte, war sich Azalea nur des wütenden Feuers auf seinen Lippen und des Pulsierens ihres Körpers bewusst. Wie konnte sie ihm je das furchtbare Geheimnis anvertrauen, das ihr Leben überschattete? In einer Geschichte vor dem Hintergrund des exotischen Hongkong des 19. Jahrhunderts wird für Azalea die Grausamkeit ihres Onkels unerträglich.

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 starvation. In desperation he calls into his Club to find an old friend, Lord Shield, and tells him all his woes. Lord Shield is in a bad way himself, but does suggest that he visits a certain Mr. Randon who is temporarily in London and beg for his help.

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 for love. When the loutish Sir Walter Fenwick insisted she marry him, Rosanna decided enough was enough. She fled London and journeyed to Donnington Hall, her new country estate.

"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. But when a family scandal is aired after the sudden death of the Viscount's grandfather, the Marquis, the family feud grows worse. The Viscount retreats to the huge mysterious house in Devon left to him by his grandfather.

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, who rescues her from a wild blizzard and takes her to a nearby cottage. Here she and Serge, the stranger, sit out the storm. He turns out to be the valet to an aristocratic traveller.

I åratal uthärdade Lydia Bryant ett äktenskap med en man som var sjuk. Efter hans död åtar hon sig att vara sällskapsdam åt Ann Taverel och följer henne till Egypten där Ann skall återförenas med sin mor. Vid ankomsten till Kairo får Lydia en chock. Anns mor är invalidiserad. Hon lever bara i det förflutna och hennes make, Gerald Carlton, dricker för att glömma sitt olyckliga äktenskap. Undere samma tak bor dessutom Geralds väninna, lady Hugley.

"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 to bear her near him. She finds herself packed off to stay with family friends in Paris, chaperoned by her faithful maid, Ellen. Soon Marina finds herself captivated by her French host's good-looking son - but is he what he seems?

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 old and repulsive. While she is trying to cover her tracks in London she bumps into a small boy, Simon, who is weeping because he has been beaten cruelly by his stepmother.

Der attraktive Earl of Lyndhurst erholt sich von einer Verletzung, die er in der Schlacht von Waterloo erlitten hatte, in Cheltenheim im Haus eines Freundes. Während seines Aufenthalts fühlt er sich zunehmend von dem Geheimnis, das die schöne Griselda umgibt, angezogen. Sie ist eine begabte Krankenschwester und kümmert sich rührend um den Earl, doch wahrt sie immer ihr Geheimnis. Doch dann weiß Griselda keinen Ausweg mehr und muss sich an den Earl wenden. Plötzlich befindet sie sich inmitten einer verzweifelten Maskerade.

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 power. It was not long before he joined Napoleon's Army, survived the Retreat from Moscow and was badly wounded at the Battle of Waterloo. Whilst in hospital, he became friends with Colonel Hubert Dawlish who was in the next bed.

Lord Milton should have been a happy man, with an ancient title and a magnificent 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 mind off the past, he eagerly accepted the suggestion of a friend to become the manager of a hotel in Brighton, called the Paradise Hotel. He was seeking new discoveries, but he could not have guessed how startling his discoveries were going to be.

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 with her Great-Aunt Cloris in London as they could not afford anywhere else. Mrs Dovedale maintained strong hopes of her daughter making a good marriage and improving their position.