Barbara Cartland
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Die scheue Alecia Stambrook vermisst ihre verstorbene Mutter, Lady Sophie, und nun auch noch ihren Onkel, den Earl von Langhaven, der vor kurzem verstorben ist. Dessen großzügige Zuschüsse zu ihrem eigenen Lebensunterhalt und dem ihres Vaters fehlen nun und Geld ist immer knapp. Als ihre geliebte Kusine unerwartet eintrifft, macht sie ihr einen merkwürdigen Vorschlag mit dem verlockenden Angebot von 500 Pfund – sie soll an ihrer Stelle nach...
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Craig Vandervelt, handsome son of the richest man in America is begged by his cousin, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, to undertake a secret mission in the most flamboyant principality in Europe - Monte Carlo.
Intrigued by the fact that one of Britain's top agents in India, the reclusive but respected Randall Sare, has disappeared without a trace, Craig agrees once more to use his playboy status as a mask to find out what...
83) Love cannot Fail
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Following the death of her husband, the Countess of Wenlock was living in her magnificent house in London with her son, Donald, and her beautiful daughter, Salvia.
One day out of the blue Donald suddenly drops a bombshell.
He tells his mother and Salvia that he has lost all their money by trusting an American acquaintance of his who claimed that he would invest it all safely and produce big profits for the family
Donald leaves at once for America...
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A bitter young Earl's wounded soul is healed by the tender power of true love in Cartland's thrilling new romance. When his lovely, orphaned ward Olivia Lambrick finds the Earl of Chadwood badly wounded, she feels it is her duty to nurse him back to health--even though she is appalled by his cold, harsh manner and the cruel way he treats his tenants.
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Beautiful young Aspasia Stanton and her twin brother Jerry are horrified when they receive a letter addressed to their uncle and guardian, the much-loved Reverend Theophilus Stanton from Her Grace the Duchess of Grimstone. In it she coldly announces that that having "reached the age of sixty-five, you are retired from your living and you will vacate the Vicarage within a month of this date".
Whatever are they do do? Without the Reverend's stipend...
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When the lovely but demure eighteen-year-old Safina, daughter of the Earl of Sedgewick, is called home from her Finishing School in Florence by her stepmother, Isobel, her heart leaps at the happy thought of going back to her beloved home, Wick Park, and seeing her father again after living abroad for so long.
But to Safina's dismay, Isobel has summoned her to return under false pretences to force her to marry the penniless Duke of Dallwyn, a gentleman...
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Francis, the Marquis of Wimborton needed an heiress. Lexia had money and her father wanted her to marry a Lord.
But she was a spirited girl, raised in America and she wanted to choose her own husband. The Marquis was too proud to court her, especially as he believed her heart was given to Wayne Freeman, an American that her father had brought her to England to avoid.
They unexpectedly became the best of friends, escaping together from family pressures...
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Francis, the Marquis of Wimborton needed an heiress. Lexia had money and her father wanted her to marry a Lord. But, she was a spirited girl, raised in America and she wanted to choose her own husband. The Marquis was too proud to court her, especially as he believed her heart was, given to Wayne Freeman, an American that her father had brought her to England to avoid. They unexpectedly became the best of friends, escaping together from family pressures...
89) A Duel of Hearts
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Just seventeen, Lady Caroline Faye is already the toast of the Season and accustomed to the ways of genteel Society. So when notorious cad Sir Montagu Reversby offers to drive her in his phaeton from London to Sevenoaks, she innocently accepts, little knowing that he is planning to fake a broken axle so that she will be forced to spend the night alone with him at a remote country inn.
But, Lady Caroline of made of sterner stuff than the predatory...
90) Boda Secreta
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Anne escuchó voces que se acercaban y se preparó para su encuentro con el marqués, un hombre cuya crueldad y extravagante reputación la aterrorizaban.
- Este es Gallen, quiero que lo conozcas- oyó decir a su prima.
Anne levantó la vista. El corazón le dió un vuelco en el pecho y todo pareció girar a su alrededor. Había reconocido, en el Marqués de Havingham, al atractivo desconocido que la había salvado del peligro la noche del accidente...
91) A Shooting Star
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The beautiful Flavia Linwood had been living in the country, until she was nearly nineteen.
She should have been a debutante in London the previous year, but she was in deep mourning for her mother who had died suddenly. Now at last she travels to London for her Season.
Her father, Lord Linwood, and his friend Lord Carlsby are courtiers in attendance on Her Majesty Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle and they are very proud of their position at Court.
Quite...
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When beautiful young Lucille Winterton meets an exceedingly good-looking and very elegantly dressed gentleman, while out riding, she knows instantly that this must be the notorious Marquis of Shawforde. When the unpopular old Marquis had died the village folk, including the Wintertons, had hoped he would be more welcoming to them, and even invite them to the famous parties at the Big House. They are disappointed, worse still the village is alive with...
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Reluctant to accept her arranged marriage to an English Duke she has never met, beautiful young American oil heiress, Emmeline Nevada Holtz, nicknamed 'Vada' after the State, travels to Paris to buy her trousseau before meeting her husband-to-be.
When her travelling companion, Nancy Sparling, has an accident and hurts her leg, Vada assumes her name to avoid unwelcome attention and travels on with just her elderly maid, determined to make the most...
94) Love is A Maze
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With her mother ailing in the long absence of her father, Sir Terence Brantforde, who is abroad on a Top Secret Government mission, beautiful young Davina does not have enough money to buy the food her mother needs if she is to recover.
So she seeks work with a family friend and Society fashion designer, Lucy Crofton.
And is sent by Lucy to fit a new creation for the brash Lady Brant, which is a showpiece for the prestigious Marlborough House Ball,...
95) The Tree of Love
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"Devastated by the treachery of the woman he loves, the Marquis of Kenworth leaves London and the Prince Regent's intimate circle of pleasure loving friends, to join the Duke of Wellington's army as plain Captain Ivan Worth.
Facing hardship and the grim reality of battle, he is, convinced that no woman can ever be trusted to love him for himself, rather than his title, and turns his back on romance forever. Now, wounded by a shell from a French gun,...
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Waif-like and half-starved the beautiful eighteen-year-old Tara has no second name and no family.
Orphaned when her mother died tragically in a carriage crash, she was raised in the appalling 'Orphanage of the Nameless' in London and has no knowledge at all of the world outside.
The drunken Matron of the Orphanage, Mrs. Barrowfield, relies on Tara to control, feed and look after the many orphans while she spends most of the money intended for their...
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When the beautiful young Lady Orissa Fane is thrown out into the cold night by her hateful drunken stepmother, she flees to her brother Charles's barracks for his help and encounters a stern Major Meredith who clearly disapproves of her wayward brother.
At Charles's suggestion she travels incognito to Delhi under the name of Mrs. Lane to ask for the support of her dear Uncle Henry, who is the Colonel in charge of his Regiment and on the ship she...
98) Mine For Ever
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Young, happy and deeply in love the future looks rosy for local beauty Lilliana Parker and her beau Robert, the dashing Earl of Sherborne. Their friends and family wait with baited breath for news of their inevitable engagement, certain that nothing can harm the charmed life of this golden couple.
However, fate has other plans and the Earl is, called to rejoin his Regiment in India on a mission that is both dangerous and vital to Queen and country....
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Cynthia había perdido las dos cosas que más amaba en el mundo: primero Peter, el hombre con el que se iba a casar, y luego Birch Vale, la finca que había sido el orgullo de su familia.
Ella no había podido ayudar a no perder a Peter. Birch Vale era otro asunto. Quizás ella podría aferrarse a eso. Pero estaban las deudas de su padre para pagar...
Al final, vendió la propiedad a un hombre ardiente llamado Robert Shelford, un hombre misterioso,...
100) Too Precious to Lose
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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...