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Barbara Cartland
Extremely poor and on the verge of starvation, Lady Milbanke makes a hasty decision to meet an old friend, the famous impresario Gustav Dessoff. To save herself and her daughter…
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BARBARA CARTLAND
Handsome, dashing and a friend of the Prince of Wales, Lord ‘Buck’ Melburne has London’s Society ladies swooning at his feet. So when he goes to his country seat at…
Dashing, handsome and much in demand with Society ladies, the Duke of Oswestry is trapped by the beautiful but duplicitous Lady Marlene with whom he has just finished an ill-advised…
As a cousin of Queen Victoria, the beautiful Princess Marigold is obliged to yield to the Queen’s wishes when it comes to marriage - and the Monarch is most reluctant…
Dashing Selby Harle, Lord Harlestone, has a reputation in London as a ‘ladies man’ and at the instigation of the influential Princess of Wales is all but blackmailed into marrying…
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…
Handsome, distinguished and decidedly dashing, Theo, the Duke of Eaglefield, has the world, and most of its women, at his feet. But he takes all this attention for granted and…
Sunny Naples is dark in the shadow of death as typhoid decimates its people, including the father lovely young Forella Claye adored with all her heart... Fleeing for her life…
An astonishing tale of grand passion, intrigue and espionage in the heart of turn-of-20thcentury China - a simmering cauldron of hatred and resentment of foreigners that rises to the boil…
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…
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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…
When her chaise is damaged in an accident far from her home, the beautiful young Lady Athina Ling has no choice but to stay at a nearby Posting inn while…
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…
Famed for his horse racing successes on the turf and worshipped by London’s Society beauties, the dashingly handsome Marquis of Broome is unjustly renowned as heartless and selfish. So, when…
Beautiful, young, yet fiercely independent, Shikara Bartlett sorely misses her much-loved father, the renowned archaeologist Professor Richard Bartlett, who appears to have gone missing on his latest dig in Egypt…
With Russian, English and Irish blood and described by her uncle Sir Terence O'Kerry, Head of the India Office as as mysterious as the Sphinx but as lovely as Cleopatra…
Emmeline Nevada Holtz was the richest - and the most sheltered - girl in America. Temporarily stranded in Paris without a chaperone, Emmeline realized that this was her one chance…
When Bengal Lancers Major Iain Hadleigh first encounters the beautiful young Brucena Nairn it is on a moving train in India as he forces her back into the carriage to…
It is bad enough that the beautiful Celesta Wroxley and her brother, Sir Giles, are alone after their mother had scandalously left their father and ran off with her lover…
Demure but pretty Prunella Broughton has long felt responsible for her lovely younger sister, Nanette, since their mother ran away with a lover and then, not long later, their beloved…
Handsome, athletic and pursued by women wherever he goes, it is hardly surprising that the tall striking Marquis of Kyneston succumbs to the temptation in London of a married beauty…
The beautiful red-headed Druscilla Morley has been cruelly misused and abused by so-called ‘gentlemen’ all her young life. And most recently by the lecherous Lord Walden whose children she was…
With the death of her mother, her father’s subsequent suicide by drowning in the English Channel, all in the foreboding shadow of imminent war, the beautiful young Fleur Garton is…
No comeco do seculo XIX, Napoleao se preparava para conquistar a Inglaterra e concretizar seu fantastico sonho de desfilar pelas ruas de Londres como o novo Imperador do Reino Unido…
Chandra escutou passos decididos ecoando pela sala… a tenue claridade de uma vela iluminou parcialmente um corpo bem-feito, alto e vigoroso. Por mais que ela se esforcasse, nao conseguia adivinhar…
Quando Lady Circe Langstone, punha as garras num homem, era a ruina dele. Dizia-se ate que, a chama brilhante daqueles olhos verdes, nao era o fascinio do amor, mas sim…
Intends to conjure up a period when addressing work colleagues by their first names was frowned upon, wives could expect to receive a weekly allowance of five shillings from their…
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Life changes dramatically for impoverished Lady Viola and her twin brother David Northcombe when their father dies unexpectedly, leaving them a vast fortune. Voyaging home, fate intervenes again when the…
Published in 2019 by arrangement with Carland Promotions. –Title page verso.
When her diplomat uncle arrives and invites her to come to the Balkans, Yolisa Warren is thrilled. But on the way, she learns that Prince Nikos of Kavalla has begged…
Overworked and exhausted through caring for her ailing father, the demurely lovely Delysia Langford goes to the family’s London house for a well-deserved rest.But her wayward and beautiful sister, Fleur…
Aristide, the Duc de Savigne is literally Lord of all he surveys - including the women who throw themselves at his feet only to be trampled and scorned. Arrogant and…
Wandering dreamily through the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace, the beautiful eighteen-year-old Zorina bumps into a startlingly handsome well-dressed young man who immediately steals her heart. Hardly able to…
Die Waise Pandora lebt bei ihrem Onkel, dem Bischof von Lindchester. Sie hoert zufallig, dass er sie mit dem Kaplan Prosper Witheridge verheiraten will. Entsetzt sieht Pandora nur einen Ausweg…
A bela e adoravel Lady Aletha Ling, aguardava ansiosamente pela sua primeira temporada social. Mas o seu pai, o Duque de Buclington, sabia muito bem que a aristocratica posicao da…
When their father, the Duke of Northallerton, offers his daughter Caroline’s hand in marriage to his neighbour, the Duke of Lynchester, purely as a means of settling once and for…
The thunderclouds of World War Two are gathering, sweeping away old notions of class. But still in 1938 there are almost insurmountable barriers to love - and not just those…
Not only has the beautiful eighteen year old Bettina Charlwood lost her beloved mother but is made all but destitute by her father’s constant gambling and she has to leave…
After her mother Lottie’s death in Paris, the penniless but beautiful Clova McBlane has no one to turn to, so she decides to head for Scotland to the Clan Lottie…
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…
Ceylon born and bred, yet English through and though thanks to their stern father, who is the local Vicar, beautiful young Dominica Radford and her five sisters are excited when…
Staying at the British Ambassador’s exquisite Bay of Naples Villa, beautiful young Cordelia and her brother David, the Earl of Hunstanton, are far from the Berkshire estate that is their…
Riding in the woods the beautiful young Farica Chalfont encounters a handsome yet forlorn gentleman called John Hamilton, whom she is sure is about to commit suicide as he is…
In the Black Forest Spa town of Baden-Baden for the money to be made at the gaming tables, professional gambler and Englishman Quintus Tiverton is disturbed to hear the sound…
