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The handsome and aristocratic, thirty-five year old diplomat Lord Athelstan knows that he is heading for trouble on his mission to the Caucasus to investigate how long the legendary Shamyl, the Imam of Daghestan, can hold out against the invading Russians. But little does he expect to be faced with another kind of conflict - with a beautiful young hostage imprisoned in the Imam's stronghold. The lovely Natasha is only nineteen and she was seized along...
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Handsome, noble Lord Alistair McDonon's gay life, as a denizen of London's Beau Monde far, far away from his Scottish roots, comes to a sudden and abrupt end.
When the tragic news, arrives that his two brothers have, drowned at sea, he is, summoned to Scotland by his estranged father, not only,to take up his title of the Marquis of Kildonon and position, of heir to the Chieftainship of the Clan, but also to marry, Lady Morag McNain, in order, to unite...
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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 is...
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"A novel from the dazzling world of China at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Stanton Ware, an English major, is on a secret mission to avert the threat posed by the boxers. He is accompanied by Zivana, daughter of an emigrated Russian prince, a beautiful and highly intelligent woman.
The team to carry out the sometimes extremely difficult and life-threatening rescue mission is gradually becoming a couple in love ... "
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A Ghost in Monte Carlo is a 1951 novel by Barbara Cartland. It was the gayest season Monte Carlo had ever known, Mademoiselle Fantôme was causing a sensation. Who was the exquisite "ghost", with her shining golden hair and dreaming dark eyes? Why did her formidable aunt guard her so carefully?
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Katie King is a girl with big dreams for the future! A dancer in the heart of London's theatre land, Katie is awaiting her big break, when her name will finally be in lights above the Gaiety Theatre. Fun-loving, cute and adoring of her charming boyfriend, the enigmatic Harry Carrington, Katie is sure that her unusual crowning glory of wild auburn curls will help catapult her out of the chorus line and into the leading roles she deserves. But Katie's...
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After her mother died when Serena Staverley was just nine, her father, Sir Giles, indulged his deep passion for gambling, leaving his only child in charge of an impoverished household.
Now a stunningly beautiful young woman, Serena is mortified to hear that her father has been, killed in a duel. Worse still, it seems that he went willingly, even deliberately to his death. But, why?
The appalling answer is, presented by her much-loved cousin Nicholas...
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In 1750 Scotland, just four years after Bonnie Prince Charlie's Rising of the Clans, it's hard to know who's loyal to the English and who is faithful to the Stuarts. And it's beautiful seventeen-year-old Iona's perilous mission to ascertain whether the Duke of Arkrae, head of Scotland's most powerful clan, is a traitor - or is he in cahoots with the English. The plan is for Iona to gain the trust of the Duke and his clan by claiming to be the sister...
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"After the sudden death of her parents, the young Nolita is alone and penniless. Lady Katherine, her aunt, is not inclined to take her in. She places Nolita as governess in Sarle-Park. There she should look after the rich, spoiled Take care of Bettine, an eleven-year-old half-orphan.
Nolita, who is extremely unhappy at first and does not feel comfortable in the large manor, gradually wins little Bettine's heart. The young, widowed Marrquis of Sarle...
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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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Lord Rowley, known as Roue Rowley is the most attractive raffish eccentric of his time. Alone exiled from England by the strictly converted society around Queen Victoria, he is worried that his reputation will hurt his daughter. He arranges for Darcia to be chaperoned by the widow of the French Ambassador to the Court of St James and for his daughter to be legally the Countess de Sauze.
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Lara, the beautiful red-headed daughter of Lord Hurlington, a country Parson, is horrified to hear that her friend, Jane, is on the verge of a breakdown after being horribly pursued by the lecherous Lord Magor, a regular guest at The Priory, the fabulous stately home of the Marquis of Keyston, to whose niece Jane is Governess.Ê Determined to teach Lord Magor a lesson and to seek out ideas for the novel she is writing about contemporary Society, Lara...
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Lord Frodham and his friend Sir James Overton lay a wager that they can dupe the snobbish, horse racing-obsessed Marquis of Ardsley into falling in love with some beauty of the lower orders. They can hardly believe their luck when by chance they rescue lovely young heiress Indira Rowlandson from her dead father's evil lawyer who is bent on marrying her off to a bankrupt stranger. Indira is set on joining a Convent to escape the unwanted attentions...
14) 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.
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When Durstan Hayle's eyes first caught sight of Lorinda, her eyes glittered with wild joy. She rode through the ballroom on a black horse and appeared disguised as Lady Godiva, almost naked except for her red and gold hair. Enraged by her behavior, Durstan bets that he can, tame this unpredictable beauty. But, he finds out how stubborn Lorinda herself is, captivated by her father's greed and callousness. How Lorinda saves Durstan's life in the end...
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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...
17) Winged Magic
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Aged just sixteen and still at school, Christine Lydford is, appalled ,when she is ordered by her stepmother to leave school to live with the Marquis of Ventnor on his grand estate where he is to oversee her continued education. As if that was not bad enough, the Marquis is a notorious rake and even worse, her lady's maid lets slip that secretly Christine's hated stepmother has arranged for her to marry the Marquis. And once, Christine is safely married...
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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.
19) A Witch's Spell
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Beautiful, young, impoverished Parson's daughter, Hermia Brooke, is happy with her simple country life, despite being shunned by her wealthy uncle the Earl of Millbrooke and her cousin, the spoilt and selfish Marilyn. In a chance encounter with a raffishly handsome gentleman, whom she decides resembles the Devil himself, she nevertheless helps him with a stone stuck in his horse's hoof. Rewarded with a golden guinea and a shocking kiss, Hermia finds...
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Pretty young Kelda Lawrence arrived at Mrs. Gladwin's Seminary for Young Ladies when she was fifteen, coming from the orphanage, where she was sent for three years after her father and mother were tragically, killed in an earthquake traveling in Turkey.
At the Seminary, she makes a firm friend in the beautiful Yvette de Villon who, although also an orphan, is from a wealthy French extended family. One day Yvette, comes to Kelda feeling tearful and...
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