Resultado de "Barbara Cartland" em Todas as categorias

Alvaric Verne arver uventet titlen som Lord Vernham efter sin onkel og vender tilbage til familiegodset efter mange år i udlandet - kun for at gøre den ubehagelige opdagelse, at han har arvet et forfaldent gods samt en skyhøj gæld til naboen, Theobold Muir. Hans onkel har spillet alt væk, og Lord Vernham bliver hurtigt klar over, at hans eneste mulighed for at redde godset er at gå ind på den usympatiske Mr. Muirs krav. Han forlanger, at Alvaric skal gifte sig med hans datter, Jarita, som han aldrig har set.

Queen’s Ford, seat of the Forde family for centuries, is crumbling into ruin. Devastated by their reduced circumstances, handsome and bored Jeremy Forcombe is determined to find a solution. He persuades his sister, Mariota, to go along with his outlandish plan to masquerade as highwaymen. Things go awry when they meet their match in their victim and there is an accident with a gun. Now the handsome Earl of Buckenham is injured, and the siblings are praying for his recovery – to save them from the gallows, and perhaps so much more.

Hiding in the seedy underbelly of Paris, Vernita is keeping her sick mother alive by selling exquisitely embroidered lingerie to a shop that supplies the Princess Pauline Borghese. When Vernita approaches the Princess directly with a new negligee, she is enchanted and employs Vernita as a personal servant. As an English noblewoman in the enemy French court, Vernita has to tread carefully. However, both the Princess’ handsome lover Count Axel de Storvik and the all-powerful Emperor Napoleon are making matters more complicated...