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  Against the Stream

  Barbara Cartland

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  The sudden death of Dr. Shefford leaves Ann and his other children facing financial ruin.  Just as the family are to be split up and everything sold, a mysterious patient of the late Dr. Shefford proposes to Ann, and in order to keep the family together, she accepts.
   
  As Sir John Melton, a handsome, broody young politician takes the family to his country estate, Gulliver, Ann faces a life in the knowledge she does not love her new husband, nor fit into his world. How she keeps her treasured family together, how she saves them and those around her from heartache and ruin, and how she opens her eyes and her heart to what is before her, is all revealed in this beautifully told tale of grief, revelation, and love.

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  A Royal Punishment

  Barbara Cartland

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  By edict of her Godmother, the Queen, lovely young Clotilda is shipped off to an obscure Balkan nation to marry its sexually depraved and sadistic reigning prince… Her reluctant escort: a dashing and devilish Marquis, loved by London Society’s ladies as much as he’s loathed by their jealous husbands… As his innocent young charge is attacked and then kidnapped by murderous brigands, he loses his heart… And the Marquis’s royal punishment becomes an all-consuming labour of love.

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  Chosen as the Frenchman's Bride

  Abby Green

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  One night of passion with a billionaire Frenchman leaves an innocent beauty carrying his heir in this sexy international romance. 
   
  It isn’t easy for a woman to say no to a man like, tall, bronzed Xavier Salgado-Lézille. Jane tries to play it cool with the billionaire Frenchman, but she’s inexperienced . . . and a virgin. Falling in love isn’t part of the plan. But giving into his seduction leaves her pregnant! 
   
  Though it was only meant to be a passing affair, Xavier is in need of an heir. Once he learns that Jane is carrying his child, there is only one option. Jane has been chosen as his bride!

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  Until Leaves Fall in Paris

  Sarah Sundin

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  As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books. 
   
  Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. After they meet in the bookstore, Paul and Lucie are drawn to each other, but she rejects him when she discovers he sells to the Germans. And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission. 
   
  Master of WWII-era fiction Sarah Sundin invites you onto the streets of occupied Paris to discover whether love or duty will prevail.

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  Women have Hearts

  Barbara Cartland

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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 travelling 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 distraught because she has been summoned to go and live with her English uncle.
   
  This, Kelda thinks, does not sound so bad until Yvette explains that her uncle is ‘horrible’ and worse still lives in Dakar in the French West African Colony of Senegal as a recluse in a huge mansion..
   
  When none of the school’s Mistresses agree to accompany Yvette, to Kelda’s amazement the Headmistress instructs her to go with her to Senegal and look after her until she can be handed over safely to her uncle in Dakar.
   
  And so begins Kelda’s great adventure – and, when Yvette falls head over heels in love to a good-looking young man on the voyage, she and her new beau enlist Kelda in their plan to gain the acceptance of Yvette’s uncle to their marriage.
   
  There are severe problems when they arrive in Dakar as Yvette’s uncle has already promised Yvette’s hand in marriage to the Governor-General.
   
  Little do any of them know that Kelda too is soon to lose her heart!

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  Journey to a Star

  Barbara Cartland

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  The dashing Marquis of Oakenshaw is asked by the Foreign Secretary to visit Siam to reassure the King who has been upset by Britain and France quarrelling over the frontiers.
  Wealthy, handsome and a confirmed bachelor, the Marquis asks several friends to accompany him on his yacht to stave off the boredom of the long journey, including the latest Social Beauty – the recently widowed Lady Bradwell.
  At the last moment, Lady Bradwell, having accepted excitedly, finds herself without a lady’s maid. Her cousin Tarina, also very beautiful but extremely poor, agrees to come with her under a disguised name.
  How Tarina learns for the first time of the intrigues and temptations of Society but how she also lifts her eyes to the stars is told in this romance novel by Barbara Cartland.

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