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In the dimly lit alleys of Victorian London, a dense fog cloaks the city, wrapping its secrets in an enigmatic shroud. The air is thick with anticipation as a mysterious letter arrives at 221B Baker Street, the famed residence of the unparalleled detective, Sherlock Holmes. The sender, a shadowy figure known only as "The Midnight Scribe," beckons Holmes and his ever-loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, into a web of intrigue that will test the limits...
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The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a...
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Daughter of the Earl of Longwood, a gentleman gambler, and the Countess of Longwood, a society beauty, Lady Yolanda Wood has an exciting if unconventional childhood travelling around the casinos and racecourses of Europe. But life changes dramatically after the tragic death of her father, and she and her ravishing mother are left penniless and alone. In mourning for her husband, and dependent on the kindness of self-made millionaire Oliver Garrack,...
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The British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asks Lord Kenington to travel to India to find out if growing reports about the Russian menace are really true.
The Liberal Opposition in Parliament are sceptical and are certain that Disraeli is manufacturing a scare about nothing in asserting that the prime objective of the Russians in invading Asia is to wrest India from the British.
On the P & O Liner to India, to Lord Kenington's surprise, a very...
5) The Castle
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"Beautiful, flirtatious and romantic Valeria Montford is, used to attracting admiring glances from the most eligible young men in Society. But, galloping through the French countryside she discovers that pride definitely comes before a fall. A confident horsewoman, she is mortified when she is thrown in full view of Lord Charles Waterford. Embarrassed, and missing the usual, praise for her equine skills, she decides that she hates Lord Waterford for...
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Can money buy you happiness? Impoverished Lady Viola and her twin brother David Northcombe find that their fortunes change dramatically, when their entrepreneurial father dies unexpectedly, leaving them a vast fortune that will, change their lives forever.
Returning home to England, still reeling from their dramatic change in circumstances, fate seems to have smiled on them when the handsome, but impoverished, Duke of Glentorran dramatically, rescues...
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"Hugo, Earl of Ruven, is sailing home after ten years in India, where he served with his regiment. His grandfather, the old Earl, has died and Hugo has inherited the title and estate of Castle Ruven. He has also inherited his late brother's fiancee, Felice de Lisle. No one who sees the handsome man standing at the rail with his face turned toward the approaching coast suspects the truth. During one of the first battles of the Indian Mutiny, Hugo was...
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Neisa More and Carol Waverton are cousins. Both girls are beautiful, intelligent and hoping to find true love, but there is one major difference between them – money, or in Neisa's case a distinct lack of it. The daughter of runaway lovers, Neisa's father is an impoverished Vicar whose passion is writing stories about his travels in the Far East. Back in England after accompanying her parents on their many adventures, Neisa lives a quiet and secluded...
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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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"After her quiet life in the Highlands of Scotland, the Laird's daughter Ola Mcnewton is, looking forward to going to London to take part in Queen Victoria's Jubilee.
At first, it seemed a good joke to pretend to be a Balkan Princess, and be, entertained by the handsome Duke of Cranborne. During one enchanted evening with him, they fell in love. But, did the Duke fall in love with her, or the mysterious Balkan Princess...
Then the Security Services,...
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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, she is shocked, when the family's fortunes suddenly go into rapid decline and her mother becomes ill.
Deeply in debt her stepfather borrows a considerable sum of money from the handsome but roguish Lord Winterton.
Horrified, Lucia discovers that not only has she been, pressed into...
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Princess Zelda of Brienz in Switzerland is being, harassed by her father to marry a King or Prince of one of the small countries of Europe.
Zelda is very beautiful and determined that when she does marry it will be for love and only love and she cannot possibly fall in love with any of her father's suitors.
She runs away from her home to her cousin, Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein, who has always been very fond of her.
She tells him that she is...
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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 decorated for his bravery in the army fighting for King and country, Robert is recognised as one of the most eligible bachelors in Society. Yet despite his success with the ladies, it seems that he cannot find the perfect wife.Beautiful Rania Temple is living in impoverished...
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When two dashing gentlemen ride up to Rensham Hall, the ancestral Norfolk home of the beautiful Lady Chiara Fairfax, her world is turned upside down, as she and her mother are just recovering from the unexpected death of her father, Lord Fairfax.
One of them, the handsome Mervyn Hunter, is soon in ardent pursuit of the lovely Chiara.
But can she trust his declarations of love or does the mysterious, dark-haired stranger she encounters by chance...
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"Golden haired, intelligent and beautiful, Della the much-loved niece of Lord Lainden leads a seemingly golden life in the English countryside. In tune with nature and a skilled horsewoman Della is happy and looking forward to her future. But an arranged marriage proposal to a man she neither trusts nor loves quickly shatters her rural idyll, seemingly forever.
Frightened, confused and caught between her belief in true love and family duty, Della...
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Viola Brookfield has not a care in the world until the awful day when her parents are tragically, killed in a road accident, leaving her all alone in the world. So when, her Aunt Mary, Lady Wakefield, writes to invite her to come and live with her in India, Viola decides to accept. But when, she arrives, she finds a country fraught with unexpected dangers and that her uncle, Lord Wakefield, behaves as if she is not welcome. Viola's life is further...
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"Narina Kenwin is the only daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans and used to a quiet comfortable life in her father's country diocese. Intelligent, loyal and stunningly beautiful, Narina is happy with her lot, although she does sometimes daydream about the far off places that she would love to see with someone special by her side.
And it seems that her wish to travel is about to come true when Narina receives an invitation from her school friend, Louise,...
18) The Healing Hand
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Tania, the lovely daughter of the late Lord Amesly, leaves her school in Paris and is travelling to Boulogne when her train crashes. Amongst the fear and confusion she is helped and befriended by a charming young Englishman — Captain Rupert More — and with him she reaches the ferry where she unexpectedly meets two friends of her late parents, Charles and Selina Bracebridge.
Captivated by Tania, and awed by her bravery in the face of adversity,...
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The beautiful Alnina Lester is, confronted with a formidable task when her brother, Lord Lester, dies after fighting a duel in Paris.
She finds that he has accumulated an enormous number of debts, and to meet his creditors everything in their house, which has been in the Lester family for generations, has to be, sold.
Even though she has, sold a great number of treasures, she is still short of money.
Alnina goes round the house to see what else she...
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Returning from finishing school in France, Louisa Hatton was full of enthusiasm for the life ahead. She was convinced it would be exciting and romantic. But her parents had already planned a very suitable marriage for her to Lord Westbridge, their new neighbour. He was a cold, hard man and he wanted Louisa despite her protests.
Her parents would not support her. Her father owed Lord Westbridge money. It seemed that for help she could only turn to...
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