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  A Marriageable Miss

  Dorothy Elbury

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  When Miss Helena Wheatley's wealthy father decides she should marry nobility, only her ingenuity keeps her from being trapped in an unwelcome marriage! But with her father suddenly falling ill, she is forced to turn to one of her prospective suitors and beg for his help.Richard Standish, the Earl of Markfield, honorably agrees to aid Helena. He'll squire her around Town until her father recovers. Though when they are caught alone together, their temporary agreement suddenly looks set to become a lot more permanent….

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  The Darkness of Love

  Vivian Stuart

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  INTRIGUE. TENSION. LOVE AFFAIRS:
  In The Historical Romance series, a set of stand-alone novels, Vivian Stuart builds her compelling narratives around the dramatic lives of sea captains, nurses, surgeons, and members of the aristocracy.
  Stuart takes us back to the societies of the 20th century, drawing on her own experience of places across Australia, India, East Asia, and the Middle East. 
   
  From the brooding Scottish highlands… A Gothic novel – of romance and terror.
   
  Kate was the bride-to-be of a Scottish lord...
  And what a lord, thought pretty, vivacious Kate. Allan MacAllander was tall, dark, filled with charm and good humor, the thirty-third in a line of fierce Scottish chieftains that stretched back for centuries. Kate loved this fascinating man who would soon be her husband, just as she loved the strange, dark, yet primitively beautiful land beside the sea which would be their home.
  But soon several incidents became a bit too strange. There was Nairne, Allan's handsome yet enigmatic cousin, whose kindness to Kate hid intentions at which she could only guess. There was Mairi, the servant girl, whose impertinence quickly turned to seething hostility. There was the mysterious child-woman who fled into the brush whenever Kate approached her. And above all, there was the whispered secret of the MacAllanders: a generations-old curse of insanity.
  Then tragedy struck close to Kate's heart, and she knew suddenly that a nameless, murderous hate now threatened her own life…

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  The Passion and the Flower

  Barbara Cartland

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  Strikingly handsome the Russian Prince Ivan Volkonski leaves a trail of broken hearts behind him wherever he goes.
   
              But, when his best friend, Lord Marston, takes him one evening to the famous Théâtre du ChâteletinParis,he witnesses a spellbinding dance performance of grace and spirituality that is to change his life forever. 
   
              The dancer, a beautiful young woman known only as Lokita, mesmerises and enthrals him with her dancing and brings back emotional memories of his family that he had almost forgotten. 
   
              And he is determined to see her again and make her his own. Frustrated to find that she will see no admirers in her dressing room at the theatre after her dancing, the Prince stages a ‘kidnapping’ to force her to meet him. 
   
              Instantly Lokita and the Prince are in love and there is an electric magic between them and the Prince believes that Fate has brought them together and that they have loved each other in many previous lives so strong are their feelings for each other.
   
              But surely a commoner, no matter how beautiful and talented, cannot marry a Russian Prince? 
   
              The Czar of Russia, an absolute dictator, would never allow it and anyway Lokita’s over-protectiveduenna and Guardian, the redoubtable Miss Anderson, is determined to keep Lokita as far away from the Prince and his advances as she possibly can.

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  Say Yes Samantha

  Barbara Cartland

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  Samantha Clyde, the beautiful, and dutiful daughter of the ailing Vicar of Little Poolbrook in Worcestershire , lives a cosy sheltered life attending to her father’s needs and helping out with the Church bazaar at The Castle her impoverished family once owned. 
  	Her world is turned upside down when celebrated fashion photographer, Giles Bariatinsky, is very struck by Samantha’s enigmatic and unusual beauty and whisks her off to a glamorous new life as a model of haute couture in London.
  	Bewildered and intimidated by London Society’s decadence, she meets the dashing firebrand novelist David Durham, experiences her first ever kiss and loses her heart utterly in an instant. 
  	Almost as quickly, all her hopes and dreams are dashed when the man she loves despises her naivety. And since no other man will ever take David’s place in her heart, Samantha takes refuge in a Convent, resolving to become the sophisticated woman of the world that she imagines David Durham desires –

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  A Kiss In The Desert

  Barbara Cartland

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  The Earl of Bracken is meeting his good friend Captain Charles Kenwood at his Club in St. Jamess Street. He has just returned from a visit to Syria where he had been introduced to Sheik Abu Hamid, the owner of the most magnificent Arab horses the Earl has ever seen. They are both keen to buy horses from the Sheik who is reluctant to sell unless his greatest wish can be fulfilled. He wants to receive a Royal Princess as his guest at his house in the desert, so that he can show his neighbours how important and prestigious he in..the Earl and Charles concoct a plan to take a fake Princess with them to Syria, but cannot think how they can find a suitable candidate for the role until Charles suggests his beautiful sister, Vanda. The Earl has another reason for this escapade and leaving England in that he is being ruthlessly pursued by the glamorous Irene, Lady Grantham, and he is becoming disenchanted with her. Charles has no difficulty in persuading Vanda, as she is most enthusiastic about Arab horses. And they set off in the Earls yacht together. They are greeted cordially by the Sheik and Vanda plays her part splendidly as the Princess. They are very impressed by all the Arab horses, but dangers soon arise as Vanda is too convincing as Royalty and their whole mission is jeopardised. How the Earl saves the day and Vanda finds the love she has always sought is told in this gripping story by BARBARA CARTLAND.

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  The Triumph Of Love

  Barbara Cartland

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  Wealthy businessman John Gardner counts his wife, the widowed Countess Napier, as his finest possession.  Beautiful, refined and a devoted mother, the Countess has the one thing that all his money cannot buy – a place in Society.  When she dies still grieving for her first husband, the volatile Mr Gardener decides that his stepdaughter, Lady Selina, should become his passport into the titled classes. Eager to fit into a world that values birthright over cash, he decides to marry her off to the highest bidder. But he hasn’t bargained for his vivacious stepdaughter’s willful defiance.  Determined to marry only for love, Selina flees the harsh discipline of Gardener Manor and takes her chances on the open road. Rescued from peril by the Marquis of Castleton, a serious and thoughtful man committed to doing his best for the people of his estate, Selina finds in him an unlikely ally. Equally appalled at plans for his own arranged marriage, the pair join forces against those intent on pushing them up the aisle. Pitched into an exciting adventure that sees them chased across Europe, Selina and the Marquis soon discover that despite their age difference they are both romantics searching for true love. But will they find it, or will their sense of duty see them both married to the wrong person? Trickery, deception and a tangled web of emotions will see their good intentions pushed to the limits, before the final explosive showdown where the Marquis finally proves himself a man of shrewd wit – and passion.

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