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Lady Loretta's father, the well-respected Lord Lieutenant of the County, is doing his best to force her into marriage with the Marquis of Sauerdun, the son of a good friend. Whilst her father thinks he is making a good match for his beloved daughter, she is aghast at the thought of an arranged marriage and vows she will only marry for love.
Searching her mind for a way to stay free to pursue the kind of love she has always dreamt of, she happens upon...
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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 dressed as a boy and, although she had been christened Georgina, he liked calling her George.
She was completely alone in the huge castle, which was now inherited by the new Earl of Langfield, a distant cousin...
43) Rivals For Love
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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 London as a waste of her time. Determined not to bow to the pressure of polite society into an early marriage, she returns home to the pleasures of the country and to dream of travel and adventure. Little...
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After the death of the kindly old Earl of Yardecombe, Oscar the brash and pleasure-seeking new Earl seems to care little for the people of the Parish, let alone for the plight of young Dorina Stanfield, her widowed father and their impoverished family at the rundown Vicarage.
Dorina's opinion of this raffish gentleman is, lower still, when she hears of lewd goings-on with his flamboyant friends at the 'Big House'. Confronting his Lordship, Dorina...
45) White Lilac
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When fog leaves the Duke of Marazion stranded at a bleak inn, he soothes his restless soul with a brandy, a book and a roaring fire. A glittering figure amongst London Society, the rich and handsome Duke has everything he could ever want, apart from true love. As he sits, determined to continue his journey as soon as possible, he cannot foresee the consequences of answering a late night knock at his door.
Astonished to find a young woman alone and...
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When Angus McKeith knocks on the door, the lives of Fiona Windham and her niece and ward Mary-Rose are, changed forever.
Following the recent death of Fiona's father, Lord Ian Rannock, and sister, Rosemary, the child has become heir-presumptive to her Scottish uncle, the Duke of Strathrannock, who has summoned Mary-Rose to his castle in Scotland.
Reluctantly complying, but insisting that she accompany Mary-Rose, Fiona finds the Duke handsome, yet...
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When the Armistice between France and England, came to an end in 1803, Napoleon interned ten thousand British tourists who were in France at that time. Most of these tourists had committed no crime and had simply been travelling when captured.
Many, to save being arrested went into hiding, among them the widow and daughter of Sir Edward Waltham, who had died that winter.
A year later, plunged into poverty and the seedier side of Paris life, beautiful...
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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. When he reaches England, he decides he will not announce his arrival to the family Solicitors...
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Beautiful eighteen-year-old Norina is dismayed when her widowed father Lord Sedgewyn quickly remarries to society beauty Violet – and even more so when she discovers her new stepmother's wicked plot to poison her and inherit a fortune held in trust for Norina.
In fear for her life, she flees in disguise, securing a position as secretary to a temporarily blinded French Nobleman who whisks her away to Paris and then to his opulent South of France...
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The Duke of Ravenstock is the most, attractive and elusive bachelor in London, and the most notorious.
His exploits and romantic escapades keep the salons of the Social world buzzing, but never more so than, when he announces that he will marry. His friends soon realize that what has, captured the Duke's heart is the purity and innocence of his intended bride.
The wedding date has been, fixed when the Duke, discovers by accident that his fiancé...
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Lady Athena Wade eine junge und reiche Engländerin und Tochter des vierten Marquis von Wadebridge findet sich in Griechenland im Palast des Prinz Yiorgos von Pamassus wieder. Ihre aus Griechenland stammende Großmutter hatte ihr nicht nur ihre Liebe für Griechenland, die griechische Kultur und Mythologie vererbt, sondern hat auch eine Heirat mit dem griechischen Prinzen Yiorgos von Pamassus arrangiert. Der Prinz regiert eine verarmte Provinz und...
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Innocent young Candida is almost destitute after the death of her beloved father.
Resolving to keep up the family's modest Elizabethan manor house in Hertfordshire and support Ned, the family's faithful servant, she sees no alternative but to sell her beloved pitch-black stallion, Pegasus.
So, when the worldly Major Hooper offers to take her and her mount to Hyde Park, where she will undoubtedly find a high price, she agrees, though with a heavy heart.
Little...
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Ravella Shane ist das sehr junge und sehr hübsche Mündel des Herzogs von Melcombe und lebt in einer Schule auf dem Land. Der Lebensstil des reichen und attraktiven Herzogs ist nicht bei allen gut angesehen ist, da er die Feste, Frauen und Wettkämpfe liebt. Er wird der Herzbube genannt, da ihm alle Frauenherzen zu fliegen. Ravella erbt das Vermögen eines entfernten Verwandten und zieht deswegen viele Mitgiftjäger an, da ihr das Erbe entweder am...
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Esmé Blanc se las había ingeniado para casarse interesadamente con Lord Seabrooke; pero no le sirvió de nada porque, a su muerte, el aristócrata legó cuanto tenía a su única hija, Daniela. Sin embargo, Esmé no estaba dispuesta a resignarse y convirtió a Daniela prácticamente en su cautiva, exigiéndole además continuas y cuantiosas sumas de dinero. En tal angustiosa situación, Daniela hubo de recurrir al Marqués de Crowle, quien, pese...
55) La Espia
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Ivana Sherard estaba horrorizada! Su derrochador Guardián planeaba venderla a un malvado y depravado señor, y con solo unas horas antes que sus perseguidores, Ivana huyó a Londres, donde el destino la llevó al Conde de Lorimer. El atractivo Conde, estaba trabajando en la Oficina de la Guerra, por la derrota de Napoleón, y Ivana fue enviada por el cielo, pues sería divino si ella aceptaba arriesgar su vida ¡ Una espía para Inglaterra! Su indomable...
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The dashing and raffish Justin, Marquis of Veryan, awakes from a drunken sleep to the appalling realization that in the throes of passion he has proposed marriage to renowned Society beauty Lady Rose Caterham.
Worse, still, she accepted and will soon be spreading word of their 'engagement' like wildfire throughout the Beau Monde. Fleeing to his country house on the South coast with his close friend Sir Anthony Derville, he plans to enjoy some peace...
57) Count The Stars
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The Duke of Brockenhurst, bored by Society and cynical about the beautiful women who cast themselves before him in a desperate bid to become his Duchess, accepts a wager to ride from London to York alone and incognito.
Outraged by the suggestion that he has lost his verve and the command he once had whilst distinguishing himself in the Army, he decides to reflect on his future, whilst setting himself the challenge to move amongst ordinary people...
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El bisabuelo de Minerva Linwood gastó todo su dinero en la construcción de un Castillo que el padre de esta, al heredarlo, no pudo mantener. Cuando Minerva y sus hermanos se enteraron de que el nuevo dueño del Castillo había muerto y se lo había dejado a Wogan, Conde de Corleston, un hombre que sentía una fatal debilidad por las mujeres. Entonces, su padre decidió que no era conveniente que la joven se dejara ver por él. Sin embargo, el destino...
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Gudula Hayward, eine junge und sehr hübsche Pfarrerstochter findet sich nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern allein in dieser Welt. Sie fällt auf die Lügen Lord Julius Westry herein, der sie nach London lockt mit Aussicht auf eine Anstellung, sie aber an ein Bordell verkaufen möchte. Sein sehr gut aussehender älterer Bruder, der Herzog von Oswestry, ein umschwärmter Herzensbrecher und Junggeselle findet sich in einer misslichen Lage, als Lady Marlene Kelston,...
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Lady Margaret, die Tochter des vierten Herzogs von Nevondale hatte die für sie arrangierte vorteilhafte Heirat mit dem Prinzen Friedrich von Luzenhoff, abgelehnt da sie sich in den Glücksspieler Captain D'Arcy Marsh verliebt hatte und war mit ihm davongelaufen. Die beiden hatten eine Tochter Josina und durchlebten gute und schlechte Zeiten aber waren glücklich, da sie sich sehr liebten. D'Arcy fiel in einem Duell und Lady Margaret starb nach schwerer...