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Falling ill with a bad cold, the beautiful young singer, Isa McNaver, leaves behind her busy London schedule of Concerts and heads for the Scottish Highlands where she grew up for a much needed rest. There she wanders the graceful moors and the breezy seashore contentedly, remembering her childhood and the local legends about long lost Clan treasure. Venturing into a deep dark cave, she stumbles across a murderous plot by accident. She overhears a...
382) The King Wins
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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 her father has died, is now ruling the State of Kavolana which is a smaller Balkan country bordering on his.
In a whisper she tells him that she has discovered a plot by her Prime Minister and his Cabinet...
383) Only A Dream
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Although her father is the acclaimed Music Hall performer, Keegan Kenway, his young daughter, Isla, who is ethereally beautiful, is never allowed even to go near the Music Halls, which were not deemed suitable places for a lady to be seen at.
Now that her mother is dead, her father is close to bankruptcy and so desperate for the proceeds of a benefit show that, when his co-star is taken ill, he is reluctantly forced to allow Isla to take her place...
384) A Very Unusual Wife
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When the imperious Alston, Marquis of Falcon cynically announces that he is interested in marrying his daughter in order to gain a Royal appointment, the Earl of Warnborough is thoroughly pleased.
There would be many benefits to being part of his far richer neighbor’s family and estates! But, the beautiful Mirabel is already betrothed and so is Deirdre, albeit secretly, which leaves only Elmina, the youngest and the Cinderella of the Warne family.
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385) Love Casts Out Fear
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The demure but beautiful Alecia Stambrook sorely misses her late mother, Lady Sophie. And now that her uncle, the Earl of Langhaven, has also died, there will be no more of the generous stipend that Alecia's father had relied on to survive as the books that he writes bring in very little money..
When her much-loved cousin Charis arrives unexpectedly at her home, Alecia is heartened although taken aback by her strange request.
Charis asks her to pretend...
386) The Penniless Peer
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All that Fenella has ever wanted is Lord Corbury's happiness. When he returns from Wellington's army, penniless and in love with a wealthy beauty, Fenella knows she must rescue her cousin from yet another scrape. In a daring bid to raise money for both Periquine's marriage and his needy tenants, they commit robbery, become highwaymen, turn smugglers and face countless dangers. It is only when, Periquine finds he might lose Fenella that he, realizes...
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Socialite and 'professional beauty', Lady Odele Ashford, is taken aback when her lover, the notorious womanizer Prince Ivan Katinouski, asks her to find him a young bride, who will give him the children he has, always wanted, specifying that she must be, pure and innocent and of noble English birth.
At first, she thinks that this will surely interfere with her own intimate relationship with the handsome and immensely rich Prince. But then, inspiration...
388) The Devil in Love
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Travelling alone to France to take up her position as governess to the Duc de Valmont's grandson, beautiful young Larisa Stanton receives dire warnings about the child's father. 'Keep away from Comte Raoul de Valmonte', they say. For Monsieur le Diable, (the devil), is handsome, wickedly charming, and utterly irresistible to women. Sure enough, at Château Valmont Larisa finds herself in a seething cauldron of violent passions, wickedness, and murderous...
389) The Island Of Love
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Sir Robert Westbury has two young daughters, Heloise, the beautiful "English Rose" and her demure older sister Lydia, who lives with the fact that her father is disappointed that she was not a son!
Since their mother died when they were children, self-effacing Lydia has grown accustomed to taking care of Heloise pandering to her every whim.
When it is announced that her sister is to marry the dashingly handsome Earl of Royston, and that he is whisking...
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Lady Lynda, einziges Kind des Duke of Marlowe kommt nach ihrer Schulzeit in Frankreich zurück auf das Schloss ihres Vaters. Dort fällt sie am ersten Morgen - während eines Spaziergangs zu ihrem geliebten Wald - in einen reißenden Fluss und wird von dem Duke of Buckington aus den Fluten gerettet. Er gehört zu einer Jagdgesellschaft, die gerade bei ihrem Vater weilt. Der Duke of Buckington ist sehr attraktiv und wohlhabend und hat einen Ruf als...
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Stürmisch, gut aussehend und elegant selbst in der Schlacht, hat der Herzog von Kingswood schon viele Herzen der Schönen der Gesellschaft gestohlen. Aber er selbst ist ein Eiszapfen, den niemand schmelzen kann und entschlossen, niemals zu heiraten. Um das Familienerbe zu erhalten zählt er auf seinen Vetter Richard, der heiraten und Söhne haben soll. Zum Schrecken des Herzogs jedoch lässt sich Richard von der Sirene der Society und bekannten Schönheit...
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The villagers affectionately named Selma the White Witch, and indeed, only her gift for herbal healing enabled the handsome Duke of Mortlyn to survive an attempt on his life. And the vicar's daughter trembled with love when the virile Peer surrendered to her gentle enchantment. Original Regency romance.
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When her father, Colonel Alister McCarron, asks her to accompany him to a family Wedding in the North of Scotland, the beautiful young Sona jumps at the chance, not just to meet her relatives in the venerable McCarron Clan but also to see the dashingly handsome Marquis of Inver, for it is he who is to be wed.
Thrilled by the Fairytale grandeur of Invercarron Castle and her heart fluttering at the Marquis's considerable charms, Sona is bemused to...
394) The Weapon is Love
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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 similar looks and Lucinda could easily be, taken for Muriel. The Earl explains to the Vicar that a certain Baron Schlesinger and his son, Kurt, from Germany have invited themselves to luncheon at his nearby...
395) Secret Harbor
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Fleeing an arranged marriage on her island home, Lady Grania O'Kerry runs straight into the arms of the notorious pirate, who has seized her family's plantation.
396) Revenge Is Sweet
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On the point of starvation after the death of her father, an inveterate gambler who has gamed away all the family fortune, young and beautiful Valessa Chester is literally, starving and on the verge of suicide by throwing herself in the river.
But then, it seems that Fate has intervened when three friends of the rich and powerful Lady Sarah Barton appear at her door seeking help after her Ladyship has been injured in a fall out hunting.
In gratitude...
397) Revenge Is Sweet
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It seemed a miracle from Heaven itself. Valessa Chester, lovely, alone and penniless, would be splendidly rewarded for her role in a house-party charade, a harmless prank to be played on the arrogant-and compellingly attractive-Marquis of Wyndonbury. But to Valessa's horror she discovered that she was the unwitting instrument of a scorned woman's revenge.
398) The Golden Cage
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Since his beloved wife's death, Sir Robert Royden finds it unbearable to stay at home in his ancestral Manor House and instead spends his nights drinking and gambling away the family fortune in the low spots of London, leaving his beautiful young daughter Crisa to her own devices and her adored horses.
One day, after a long absence, he brings to their home an American millionaire, who wants Crisa's hand in marriage in return for a large sum of money...
399) Signpost To Love
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Dispatched on a secret mission to Paris by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, the dashing Earl of Hawkshead is, held up on the road out of Calais by an accident between a post chaise and a diligence.
Stopping to assist the victims, he is accosted by a beautiful young waif called Baptista, who pleads with him to take her to Paris to escape the clutches of her cruel father the 'Preaching Peer', who aims to have her locked up...
400) A Nightingale Sang
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Dejected and jobless like so many other Servicemen after the end of the Great War of 1914-18, Tybalt Hampton escapes a ball in Berkeley Square and meets a delightful young girl who has also sought refuge in the little Temple in the nearby gardens because no one has asked her to dance.
It is too dark to make out her face, but in an enchanted moment they kiss in the moonlight and a nightingale sings in the trees above as if just for them.
Two years...