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When a startlingly beautiful young girl with brilliant red-golden hair falls at speed from her horse before him, the dashingly handsome Osric, Earl of Helstone is uncharacteristically caught off his guard. Not only one of the richest men in England but also, in many women's opinion, by far the best-looking, 'The Elusive Earl' as he is known, is accustomed to Society Beauties falling at his feet – but not in so literal a fashion!
Rushing
The Bargain Bride is the thrilling tale of beautiful young Aleda, who is brought through no fault of her own from riches to the brink of ruin... Of her dashing but irresponsible brother the Earl of Blakeney whose profligacy has brought him perilously close to debtors' gaol... Of fabulously wealthy Social climber Doran Winton, who cynically buys the unwilling Aleda's hand in marriage along with her brother's debt to rescue them from penury... And
...Having retreated to his country estate to escape the amorous attentions of his mistress Lady Fiona Faversham, who is determined to marry him, the dashing Duke of Moorminster out riding when he is captivated by the sound of a church organ being played beautifully. Entering the small church, he is equally captivated by a young woman of almost angelic loveliness who is leading her choir of children with her own wonderful voice.
She is perfect
Things had been bad enough for the inspiring and beautiful young Helga Wensley when her much-loved father died some five years ago, leaving her and her mother in penury.
Recently her ailing mother too has passed away, which means that her stepfather, Sir Hector Preston, is now her Guardian. To make matters worse he promises her hand in marriage to a cruel and uncouth man called Bernard Howell, a Fate that she considers worse than dying.
With their beloved parents long passed away, the beautiful Angela Brooke and her brother Trevor are penniless and the upkeep of the dilapidated family Priory is all but impossible to manage.
Then one day Trevor returns from London with an exciting plan, a chance for Angela to earn the princely sum of one thousand pounds, which is more than enough to solve their financial problems just by playing 'make-believe' for a very short time.
With the death of her mother, her father's subsequent suicide by drowning in the English Channel, all in the foreboding shadow of imminent war, the beautiful young Fleur Garton is vulnerable to say the least.
Even more so when her new love, Lucien, a French airman, is killed just two weeks after the Second World War is declared and followed after by the death of his mother.
Left bereft and alone at a remote Château in German-occupied
A shy English Rose blossoms into an exotic bird of paradise in this thrillingly romantic twist on the tale of Cinderella.
With her slender, graceful, almost elfin beauty, Odetta may not look like a Cinderella but it's she who must stay at home while her aristocratic friend is dressed by the great couturiers and dances at Society balls.
That is, until she's whisked to Paris as her friend's lady's maid – and, on a crazy impulse, borrows
After her mother had succumbed to pneumonia and followed her husband to the grave, beautiful young Meta Lindley is bereft.
Now that her much-loved brother Richard is away in London most of the time, she is alone in the family's once laughter-filled Manor House with only silence and her father's pedigree stable of horses for company.
Meta is delighted when Richard pays her a surprise visit, but when he reveals that he and their Diplomat
...Petula is young, breathtakingly beautiful and, after her father's death, stricken with grief and with poverty as well. The family Manor is all but falling down, she is at the mercy of her dissolute loser of an uncle, who plans to sell her off in marriage and pocket the lion's share of her dowry!
Then Fate in the shape of a carriage crash brings a dashing Major to Petula's door.
And so begins Petula's thrilling rollercoaster ride
...Isolated monasteries nestling in the peaks, precipices and giddying gorges of the snow-capped Himalayas... The filth-encrusted and lice-infested hovels of the native people... It's all a far cry from the genteel sophistication she's left behind in Monte Carlo. But as always, Vivian Carrow's as defiant as she's beautiful – and, nursing a broken heart, she's determined to accompany her father on a perilous mission to Tibet. Faced with a haughtily
...11) World of Love
Almost in a heartbeat demure soon to be a debutante Carmella Bramforde plunges from virtue into a High Society world of lies, deceit, adultery and worse.
Dressed to kill and made up as one of the notorious professional beauties, she plans to burgle the Marquis of Ingleton's house party to retrieve the family heirloom her brother Gerry lost at cards.
Horrified by the depravity and vice, Carmella dices with death at the hands of
A tale of rags to riches – and above all romance!
From a London gentleman's club he can ill-afford to a grand highland castle ... From near bankruptcy to fabulous wealth, handsome 'man about town' Talbot Marsham's life changes forever when he inherits the title Earl of Cairnloch – as well as the castle and clan chieftainship that go with it.
With the beautiful young Tara at his side, he assumes his throne and faces a clan bristling
...13) Love Has His Way
After an evening dinner with renowned French ballet dancer and beauty, Nicole de Prêt, handsome young buck about town, the Marquis of Sarne, is stirred from a deep sleep to realise that he has been drugged and then rendered unconscious.
And he is in a strange bed in a strange house somewhere in London.
Far worse though is the revelation that in his stupor someone has married him to some young servant girl he does not even know by
...After her father dies in a riding accident, Gina Borne's mother loses the will to live and soon follows her husband to the grave. Not only is Gina grief-stricken – aged just 18, she faces a miserable, lonely life in the gloomy shadow of her pious uncle, who's known as "The Preaching Peer". Seeking escape, she successfully applies for a job as "companion" to the Earl of Ingleton's sickly seventeen-year-old ward, Lady Alice Hanbury.
It seems
...Man about town and something of a "ladies' man" the new Earl of Rockbrook has given little thought to a liaison at Windsor Castle in which one of the Queen's Ladies-in-Waiting, Lady Louise appears in his bedroom – so he is appalled when he learns that Louise's mother expects him to marry her. He motivation is clear – although penniless at the time, he has since suddenly inherited the title and estates after his uncle's death in a train crash.
...16) The Wicked Widow
Since their adored father, Lord Shenley, passed away, the beautiful young Kyla Shenley and her little brother, Terry, have no one to care for them except for their despised stepmother, Sybil, who has already taken a lover and is plotting to get her greedy hands on the children's large inheritance.
When Kyla overhears her plans to ensure that young Terry has a 'fatal accident' and to drug Kyla and hand her over to a ghastly old man called
...In Britain's Great Depression jobs are almost impossible to find. And the best innocent, bewildered and beautiful young Fiona can find is as a 'dance hostess' in a nightclub frequented by High Society – as well as London's seedy lowlife.
Between fighting off drunken thugs, old men and lecherous Lords, she learns the harsh realities of life in this shady nocturnal world and loses her heart – hopelessly – to a man who's promised to another.
...Dashing Druce Pevel, the Marquis of Peverell, Lord of all he surveys, with women falling at his feet...
A pair of money-grabbing, murderous cousins bent on bleeding him dry – or even dead...
Shamara, an innocent, yet strangely exotic, Missionary's daughter, plucked from an orphanage to become the Marquis's ward...
A bewildered Shamara finds herself voyaging aboard his yacht to Senegal – where it's the Marquis's turn to
...Dumped by a famous mother she hardly knew on an aunt, who brought her up as her own in the Welsh hills, Sally St. Vincent has lived a dull and sheltered life... But when her beloved aunt dies, she finds herself homeless and bereft on a train bound for London and the Berkeley Square home of her self-obsessed film star mother Lynn, the screen Goddess once described as 'desire personified'.
Sally's demure loveliness doesn't go unnoticed and soon
20) The Hidden Heart
When her mother dies, lovely Sylvia Mace is left penniless and homeless. Rather than depend on the charity of her unpleasant uncle she must find work and is entrusted with the upbringing of Sir Robert's daughter at Sheldon Hall. But a sinister secret overshadows all those living at the Hall, which is ruled by a possessive and ambitious old dowager, Lady Clementine.
In a cruel twist of fate, a murder is revealed by a spurned mistress leading
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