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Beautiful and innocent, yet perceptive and intelligent the Rector's daughter, Odella Wayne, suspects that the local circus fortune-teller, Madame Zosina, is using her 'special powers' to hoodwink British sailors into revealing their warships' embarkation times at Portsmouth in order to pass the information on to Napoleon's spies and the French Navy is waiting to attack them at sea.
This is 1814 and a year before the Battle of Waterloo when the French...
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Renowned for his lavish lifestyle and a roving eye, Valient, Viscount Ockley, is completely bowled over by heiress, Niobe Barrington. But, it's not just for her dazzling beauty that he pursues he with such ardor, for although he lives like a King, it's all on credit. In reality he's all but, bankrupt and only, by marrying into money can he hope to restore his ruined house to its former glory.
But, Niobe's father, Sir Aylmer, won't hear of it and arranges...
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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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Beautiful widowed mother Lady Susi Sherington faces a terrible dilemma. Although she is deeply in love with the dashing, Jean, the Comte de Girone, her friend the Duchesse Lorraine d'Aubergue, insists she must shun him because, "he is a heartbreaker". What's more he needs a bride rich enough to support Castle Girone, the most imposing in Provence and the real love of his life. And thanks to the punitive will of her late (and much older) husband she...
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Left penniless by the death of her beloved parents, shy, naïve and unassumingly lovely Gilda Wyngate is, bemused, when her glamorous but spoilt sister, Heloise, arrives unexpectedly at the family's country Manor House full of talk about London's Social world. And, the good-looking and rich Marquis of Staverton, whom she is, determined to ensnare in marriage so that she can fulfil her ambitions and become a Marchioness.
Sadly, it is not to be. When...
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The letter from the beautiful and innocent Una Thoreau's dissolute father seems urgent when it arrives at her Convent School in Florence, where she is, being taught by very ,protective nuns.
Since he abandoned his family and went to Paris to pursue a career as a painter she has barely seen him, so in response to his request that she join him, she departs immediately. On arriving in Paris, she is horrified to find that her father has died in an accident,...
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In the economic collapse that follows the Napoleonic Wars, retired Ambassador, Sir Horace Lambourn, and his family are all but bankrupt and cannot meet their ever mounting bills.
Suddenly, though, a last minute rescue appears in the form of the request for the hand in marriage of Sir Horace's beautiful daughter, Camilla, from none other than His Serene Highness the Prince of Meldenstein.
Sir Horace is cock-a-hoop, especially when he learns of the...
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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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Amidst the exciting preparations for the grand opening of Prince Albert's prized Crystal Palace, a young orphan, Sorilda, is being forced into marriage by her recently cuckolded uncle, the Duke of Nuneaton.
Having sheltered lovely Sorilda since the tragic death of her parents, the usually fair-minded Duke has been driven to jealous retaliation by his deceitful new Duchess.
Suspecting his close neighbour, the Earl of Winsford, of ungentlemanly...
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Warren Wood is handsome, loyal and devoted to Magnolia. However, the one thing he lacks is a title and Magnolia betrays him in a heartbeat for the opportunity to be engaged to the Marquis of Buckwood.
For beautiful and beguiling as she is, behind her perfect exterior lies a scheming manipulative personality that is desperate for wealth and standing in Society.
Distraught and vowing to eschew love for evermore, Warren seeks solace in the African...
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When her grandmother dies, Paola, the beautiful young daughter of the Earl and Countess of Berisforde is dismayed to find that the family's customary six months' mourning means that she will miss her debut in the London Season.
Instead her mother sends her to stay in the ancient and historic Italian town of Lucca with her aunt, the Contessa Raulo, who is to be her chaperone.
Paola's adventurer cousin Hugo arrives just before she leaves and asks a...
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Beautiful young Charisa Templeton always loved her father's old friend the Marquis of Mawdelyn – and as a child she roamed Mawdelyn Priory with his nephew Vincent, whom she adored. Saddened to hear that the Marquis has died – she's glad his heir, Vincent, will be coming home from his army posting in India to claim his title. But then Fate strikes another blow with the news that Vincent has been killed! Reluctantly, Charisa and her father prepare...
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All her young life has been lived in the shadow of her father's disgrace after he was caught cheating at cards at his Club in London and Alita Lang lives a dismal life under sufferance with her begrudging aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Langstone. In fact the only love in Alita's lonely life is her passion for her uncle's thoroughbred horses, especially her beloved stallion, Flamingo, who she has taught many tricks to. She spends most of her...
15) A Dream in Spain
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Her beauty matched only by her vanity and selfishness, the Valeda's sister Hermione, the Countess of Eltesley, hasn't deigned to visit for more than seven years since their beloved father died. And now, out of the blue, she appears with a startling, yet humiliating proposition that's a dream come true – and a nightmare too…
In this Cinderella story set in Spain, Valeda may be the put-upon, unknowingly lovely heroine – but surely Hermione will...
16) 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...
17) A King in Love
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King Maximilian of Valdastien, handsome, clever but with a well deserved reputation as a ladies man, is under pressure from his Prime Minister to leave behind his bachelor ways, get married and produce an heir as soon as possible. Despite the fact that he vowed never to marry, with political unrest in Europe and encroaching danger from the Prussians, the King reluctantly decides to visit the surrounding countries to seek a suitable Queen. Meanwhile,...
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El Duque de Warminster no conseguia controlar su ira. Primero, aquella tonta jovencita se había introducido en su carruaje con engaños, obligándolo a cruzar media Escócia con ella. Luego, cuando el vehículo se volcó y él salió herido, volvió a mentir, diciendole a la pareja escocesa, que les había brindado hospitalidad, que ella y el Duque estaban casados. Sin embargo, su anfitriona había adivinado la verdad al instante. Con un brillo de...
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La joven Gisela Musgrave, tenía un sorprendente parecido, con la bella Emperatriz de Austria, Elizabeth. Al conocerla, llevó a cabo un pedido muy curioso. Pidió una extraña asignación, a la señorita Gisela Musgrave, para que ella se hiciera pasar por la Emperatriz de Austria, para una visita prometida, al señor del Castillo de Hawke, Hugo Quenby, para que no tuviera que interrumpir su caza en el campo Inglés que tanto la complacía. Pero había...
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Zena, es Marie Thérese, de Wiedenstein, una joven y bella Princesa, de un pequeño principado independiente entre Francia y Alemania. Su hermano, el Príncipe Kendrick es su hermano gemelo, el heredero del trono. Entonces la bella Zena, está alarmada cuando su padre le dice que se tiene de casarse con un Duque inglés, pero ella cree que los ingleses son fríos, arrogantes e insensibles. Cuando su hermano, el Príncipe Kendrick, también escucha...
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