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  Love for Eternity

  Barbara Cartland

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  The beautiful eighteen year old Karla Stanton, who is living in the country with her brother training horses, is astonished when her half-sister Penelope, now Lady Melford, who is renowned as a great beauty in London, unexpectedly calls on her.
  	She wishes Karla to disguise herself as her aged aunt and chaperone and to go with her to Paris where she intends to spend three days, ostensibly shopping for clothes, but actually to be with the Marquis of Welbourne, who she is having a passionate affaire-de- coeur with.
  	Karla who has never been out of England and who knows nothing of the Social world and its ways is astounded at the request and frightened that she would be unmasked.
  	However, she obeys her sister when she produces a wig, dark spectacles and theatrical make-up to hide her face and make look much older.
  	Karla is thrilled with the beauty and glamour of Paris where everything is new and intriguing to her.
  	But the Marquis has a rival in the Duc de Alezia, who does his best to monopolise Penelope.
  	How the first women’s horse race takes place privately on the famous Racecourse at Longchamps.
  	And how Karla saves her sister’s face and the Duc’s bet on his Arab stallion at the last moment and finally finds love is told in this unusual and fast-moving story by BARBARA CARTLAND.

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  Miracle For A Madonna

  Barbara Cartland

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  It is almost impossible to believe, but it appears that the handsome young Italian Prince Antonio di Sogino has stolen an exquisite Florentine antique necklace from Jennie, the Marchioness of Kirkham, with whom he has enjoyed a brief dalliance on a visit to London. Distraught and terrified that her ageing husband will discover the loss of the necklace, she seeks help from her brother, Lord Mere, a military hero and a close confidant of Queen Victoria. Determined to help his sister Lord Mere travels to Florence and uncovers a sinister blackmail plot by the ugly and depraved Prince Vincente Gorizia, trapping a young beauty named Florencia into an unholy marriage. Lord Mere is struck hard by this appalling injustice and smitten in a trice by Florencia’s ethereal Raphaelite beauty, as he has always admired and been enchanted by Raphael’s paintings of other worldly Madonnas. Heroically he proposes to challenge her persecutor and meticulously plans his campaign to rescue Florencia from a dreadful fate worse than death. And, as he finds his sister’s precious necklace, he realises that he has lost his heart. But can he and Florencia ever be free of the evil Prince, free to marry and be together forever?

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  Love At Last

  Barbara Cartland

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  The handsome and eligible Prince Ivan of Rusitania urgently needs to find a bride who is very young, very pretty and very rich.
  His cousin, Prince Peter of neighbouring Voskia, is determined to prevent him marrying as he intends to inherit Rusitania.  He needs revenge on Ivan.  
  Peter invaded Rusitania hoping for a quick victory, instead he suffered a disastrous defeat.
  Danger follows Ivan from Rusitania to Paris and then to London, where he meets Lady Cecilia Beaumont, who undertakes to help him find a suitable bride.
  Almost-on-the-shelf, Cecilia is intelligent, stylish and very wealthy.  Wary of suitors after her fortune, she has given up on marriage and devotes herself both to her father, the Earl of Yarlington and the clinic she has founded to help the poor of London.
  Soon Cecilia finds her life threatened and her heart captured.  
  Then she meets Peters and Ivans ex-mistress, the voluptuous Countess Natasha.  Neither is what they seem on first sight.
  What happens as Ivan and Cecilia fight for happiness and their lives is told in this absorbing romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.

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  Love Rescues Rosanna

  Barbara Cartland

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  After the death of her great uncle, orphan Lady Rosanna Donnington was overwhelmed to learn he had left her his vast fortune. It was then her life changed and she became the target of unscrupulous fortune hunters. But she was determined to marry only for love.
  When the loutish Sir Walter Fenwick insisted she marry him, Rosanna decided enough was enough. She fled London and journeyed to Donnington Hall, her new country estate.
  She had heard that the Earl of Melton, whose estate bordered her own, desperately needed a nurse, having injured his leg in a riding accident. She had encountered him fleetingly on her flight from London, when he had been very ill. Making a shock decision, Rosanna decided to apply for the job as his nurse, know she could hide at Melton Castle under a false name.
  What would happen when Rosanna and Lord Melton met again as master and servant and would he discover her secret? Would Sir Walter track her down to Melton Castle?

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  A Shaft of Sunlight - Regency...

  Barbara Cartland

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  The Viscount Frome is in love, and intends to marry Claribel Stamford, belle of the Social Set, as quickly as possible. She is young, beautiful, charming and rich ? in fact he considers her the perfect match. The only drawback is that he needs the permission of his uncle, the Duke of Alverstrode before he can propose. The Duke, a more cautious man experienced in the wiles of aspirational young women, suggests a visit to Claribel?s home to meet her doting father Sir Jarvis, the well known race-horse owner. That way, the Duke can get to know Claribel and her father and set his mind at rest before welcoming her into his illustrious family. Impressed by Stamford Towers, but eager to escape the heady charm offensive of Claribel and her father, the Duke cannot shake the instinct that something is not right and remains on his guard. Even so, he is shocked to discover a sad young woman, Giona, alone watching the sunset over the magnificent gardens. He is astonished to discover that she is the niece of Sir Jarvis, but lives hidden away like a ?skeleton in the closet?. Horrified by her story of mistreatment, and intrigued by the mystery that surrounds her, the Duke offers Giona his protection and vows to uncover the family secret and restore her fortunes. But Sir Jarvis is just as committed to keeping his family secrets buried forever and will stop at nothing to keep his reputation intact. Two determined men, both used to getting their own way, but this time only one of them can win.

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  Lockdown

  Andrea Kane

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  Honeymooning FBI agents are called to rescue a bridal party held hostage in this romantic suspense short story from a New York Times–bestselling author. 
   
  In this absorbing Thriller Short, New York Times–bestselling author Andrea Kane melds the highs and lows of life. A wedding, a honeymoon and a hostage situation that runs high odds of turning out badly. 
   
  Basking in an idyllic honeymoon setting, former FBI hostage negotiator Sloan Burbank Parker is strolling the beach with her new husband one minute and negotiating to save three hostages the next in a wedding robbery gone bad. The hostages are a bride, her three-year-old son and his godmother Claire, a psychic. It takes all of Sloan’s skills and Claire’s special abilities to expose what’s really happening and get everyone out alive.

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