Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
This is Love - cover

This is Love

Barbara Cartland

Publisher: Barbara Cartland

  • 1
  • 10
  • 0

Summary

When her chaise is damaged in an accident far from her home, the beautiful young Lady Athina Ling has no choice but to stay at a nearby Posting inn while awaiting its repair. There she is appalled to hear the pitiful screams of a young boy who is being savagely beaten by the ‘gentleman’ who appears to be his Guardian. After bravely going to the child’s rescue, Athina discovers that he is Peter, the nephew of the handsome Marquis of Rockingdale whose estate neighbours her own and that he, Peter, is the heir to a very considerable fortune.Seeing the child’s horrific wounds, the Marquis agrees to help Athina protect and look after him – but he also needs her help with a great problem of his own. Namely that he must become engaged to be married before Queen Victoria will allow him to take up the important position of State he craves of the Master of the Horse. Which the Marquis is superbly qualified to excel at as he has been closely involved with the breeding and training of horses all his life.So to help protect the boy, Athina agrees to a pretend engagement to the Marquis to satisfy the demands of the Queen. But the threat is far worse than either of them could ever have imagined. As they strive together to save the boy from his murderous stepfather, they begin to realise that their engagement is no longer a pretence and that, in fact, this is love!
Available since: 01/27/2020.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Boy Scouts on Swift River - cover

    The Boy Scouts on Swift River

    Thornton W. Burgess

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    When the adventurous Walter Upton and Hal Harrison set out with the young, but expert guide Louis Woodhull on a canoe trip through the wilderness, they were disappointed to take on an excitable Tenderfoot with them as their fourth. The boys had no idea what sorts of surprises awaited them from Nature, History, and even themselves. Would their training, equipment, and sense of camaraderie be enough to see them safely down Swift River?
    Show book
  • Got Me Wishing - cover

    Got Me Wishing

    Casey Cox

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A half-birthday + a second chance = one true love? As. If. 
 
 
 
Who needs a man when I've got cuddly kittens? 
 
 
 
No one's ever wanted me once they discover my secret. I guess that's why I've thrown myself into my work as a veterinarian, as well as become the proud paw-rent to my eight cat rescues. I've even managed to convince myself I'm purr-fectly happy being single. 
 
 
 
So when Bishop, a handsome stranger, strikes up a conversation, I don't expect it to lead to anything else. There's no way a guy wanting to start over is interested in love. So why has Bishop got me wishing for something more? 
 
 
 
Contains mature themes.
    Show book
  • A Vampire's Choice - cover

    A Vampire's Choice

    L.E. Wilson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    She’s a predator, not prey. Until he comes along… 
Vampire Shea Bennet is tired. 
Tired of the witch’s curse that makes her untouchable. Tired of craving what she can never have. 
But most of all, she’s tired of dreaming about the mysterious warlock who rescued her from a fate worse than death. 
Jesse Moss was her enemy. She was his captive. Now, their relationship is much more complicated than that. 
He says he wants to help her stop the demons threatening her family. He says he wants to break her curse. 
He wants to make her his . 
She’d love to believe him. Trust him. But after all they’ve been through and all he’s done, trust is a luxury she’s not sure she can afford. 
Especially when the only thing stronger than Jesse’s dark magic is her family’s desire to see him dead… 
A Vampire’s Choice, book 6 in the Deathless Night Series, is a fated/rejected mate paranormal romance featuring a strong heroine, a supernaturally sexy hero, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Download today and sink your teeth into spicy, hot, vampire yumminess.
    Show book
  • The Imp of the Perverse - cover

    The Imp of the Perverse

    Edgar Allan Poe

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Title: The Imp of the Perverse 
Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
Original Publication: 1845 
Public Domain: Yes 
Series Placement: Number 44 in the Timeless Terrors series 
Description: 
The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe is a chilling exploration of the human compulsion toward self-destruction — that sinister whisper urging us to do precisely what we know we must not. Told in Poe’s hypnotic, confessional style, the story begins as a philosophical essay on impulse and perversity, then descends into the fevered confession of a murderer undone by his own mind. 
This tale reveals Poe at his most psychologically incisive, dissecting guilt, pride, and the dark delight of defiance. Beneath its gothic calm lies a truth as disturbing now as in 1845 — that the greatest horror may be found not in the supernatural, but in the secret architecture of the human soul. 
Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance evokes Poe’s morbid eloquence and the relentless pull of conscience that drives his doomed narrator to madness. While the text is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre and uncanny, The Imp of the Perversestands as one of Poe’s most haunting studies of inner torment — a reminder that sometimes, the truest demon wears our own face.
    Show book
  • Blind Deception - cover

    Blind Deception

    Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Austin Blackstone lives and breathes for his club—his family. At seventeen, tragedy brought Austin and his sister to Polson, Montana, to live with a grandfather they never met before. His life-altering move eventually put him on the path to finding the Kings of Retribution MC. 
 
 
 
New Orleans is where he first laid eyes on Lelani. She needed their help, and he wanted nothing more than to protect her—to claim her as his own. The moment Austin allowed himself to kiss her, it became his undoing. 
 
 
 
At the age of thirteen, Lelani Mancini's world was shattered when she lost her parents, along with her eyesight, in a tragic accident. Feeling defeated and lost, Lelani struggled to adjust to a life of darkness. Though terrified of the unknown, she found the strength to move on. 
 
 
 
Years later, Lelani uncovered a secret, with her at the center of the deception. She put her trust in the wrong hands, almost costing Lelani her life. 
 
 
 
The darkness Lelani lived in was suffocating. Until she found light in an overprotective, tattooed Kings of Retribution MC member. Loving Austin is dangerous. 
 
 
 
Now, to protect her new life, Lelani is the one keeping a secret. 
 
 
 
Contains mature themes.
    Show book
  • The Ambulance Chaser - A Thriller - cover

    The Ambulance Chaser - A Thriller

    Brian Cuban

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    After being accused of the murder of a high school classmate thirty years prior, lawyer Jason Feldman becomes a fugitive from justice to find the one person who can prove his innocence and save the life of his son. 
 
Pittsburgh personal injury lawyer and part-time drug dealer Jason Feldman’s life goals are simple: date hot women, earn enough cash to score cocaine on a regular basis, and care for his dementia-ravaged father. That all changes when a long-lost childhood friend contacts him about the discovery of buried remains belonging to a high school classmate who went missing thirty years prior, and the fragile life Jason’s built over his troubled past is about to come crashing down. Soon, he’s on the run across Pittsburgh and beyond to find his old friend, while trying to figure out whom to trust among Ukrainian mobsters, vegan drug dealers, washed-up sports stars, an Israeli James Bond, and an ex-wife who happens to be the district attorney. The only way he’ll survive is if he overcomes his addictions so he can face his childhood demons.
    Show book