Barbara Cartland
421) A Tangled Web
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Demure young beauty Carola Greton's brother, Sir Peter, comes home from London with a very strange proposition for his sister. He asks her to pretend for a few days to be the wife of his friend, the Marquis of Broxburne!
The reason for the charade is that the Marquis is in line for the post of Chairman of a new automobile Company founded by an American acquaintance, the multimillionaire Mr. Alton Westwood.
Although eager to secure the position of...
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"You are a very lucky young woman!" demure but beautiful Donela Colwyn's stepfather tells her condescendingly and then announces that she is to marry his friend, who he is so impressed with, the wealthy and influential Lord Waltingham.
But, Donela feels anything but lucky at the appalling prospect of wedding a man old enough to be her father and who she has only met once.
Desperate to escape she flees by stagecoach, little caring to where it is heading.
And...
423) La Bella Indomita
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Cuando la bella Lorinda escogió su traje de noche, con la clara idea de quedarse maravillosa, empezó el reto de planear con gran cuidado la estrategia que iría seguir, para conquistar un novio al que pudiera dominar. Ella quería salirse con la suya de nuevo y esclavizar su voluntarioso y joven esposo, como había esclavizado a los demás admiradores, tendría primero que cautivarlo, hacerlo enamorase perdidamente por ella, obligándose a sí misma...
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"The Marquis of Kexley seems to have everything a girl could want – wealth, good looks, intelligence, athletic prowess – and a title. The only thing he doesn't possess is respect for the legion of women who throw themselves at him, desperate to claim some of his attention. He firmly believes that the woman that could love him forever, and whom he could love in return simply does not exist.
Plagued by debutantes with ambitious mothers who have...
425) Inocente Aventurera
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Una emocionante historia de amor, entre una dama y un caballero aristócrata... Druscilla, había capturado al soltero más codiciado del Londres de la Regencia, el apuesto y joven Marqués de Lynche. La boda iba a ser una ceremonia muy impresionante. Sin embargo, le aterrorizaba el futuro. ¿Iba a ser perseguida, para siempre, por las mujeres que él había amado? ¿Se tropezaría continuamente con muchas hermosas damas rubias, que le reclamarían...
426) Love Comes West
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When beautiful nineteen-year-old Roberta's beloved father, the Earl of Wentworth, dies, she is left alone and bereft in North Africa.
Now she must travel to America to live with her aunt, Lady Margaret. On finally arriving, she is dismayed to find that she has died, her preacher husband has disappeared and that a cruel local Minister lives there instead, savagely mistreating Lady Margaret's young adopted son, Danny
When the Minister dies of a heart...
427) Love In The Moon
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Times have been tough for young Lady Canèda Lang and her brother Harry and they neither seek not expect help from the aristocratic French family that ostracised their mother Clémentine de Bantme in their outrage at her running away to marry their father, Gerald Lang, whom they considered beneath her.
Worse still, the couple incurred the wrath of the much older and powerful Duc de Saumac, to whom Clémentine was betrothed and so a bitter vendetta...
428) The Eyes of Love
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Although Scottish born and bred, beautiful young Vara McDorn speaks with a refined English accent thanks to her education in the South, which is why she is called upon to become Reader to the new Chieftain of the McDorn Clan, who has been blinded by an Indian Fakir's curse while protecting the Viceroy at a Fort on the North-West Frontier of India.
Troubled by his affliction and frustrated by his inability to understand the local Scots' brogue, the...
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Gudula Hayward, eine junge und sehr hübsche Pfarrerstochter findet sich nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern allein in dieser Welt. Sie fällt auf die Lügen Lord Julius Westry herein, der sie nach London lockt mit Aussicht auf eine Anstellung, sie aber an ein Bordell verkaufen möchte. Sein sehr gut aussehender älterer Bruder, der Herzog von Oswestry, ein umschwärmter Herzensbrecher und Junggeselle findet sich in einer misslichen Lage, als Lady Marlene Kelston,...
430) The Earl in Peril
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Lorena Conway has devoted most of her life to being a secretary to her father, a noted historian. Sir Arthur suddenly dies and leaves Lorena with too little money to maintain her childhood home.
Wondering how she will survive, the beautiful Lorena overhears a friend of her neighbour plotting to kill the Earl of Bramfield, who has recently and unexpectedly inherited from his father and whose vast estates lie near her home.
Realising that she has no...
431) A Heaven on Earth
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"Beautiful Aurora Hartnell is returning home to Hadleigh Hall for Christmas. Looking forward to seeing her elderly father Lord Hartnell again, she ruefully acknowledges that life in the country is likely to seem rather dull after the elegance of her Finishing School in fashionable Paris.
Resigned to a quieter pace of life, she is therefore, filled with anticipation when she hears that an eligible bachelor, Lord Moreton, has moved into nearby Elton...
432) The Golden Illusion
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Since her mother's death, the beautiful but innocent Linetta Falaise has led a sheltered life under the wing of her kindly French Governess.
So she is heartbroken to find that her beloved Mademoiselle is at death's door and that she, Linetta, had unknowingly been living off her meagre savings for the last two years.
As she now has no money, there is no alternative but for Linetta to travel to Paris and ask Mademoiselle's niece, Marie-Ernestine, to...
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Hoping to surprise and impress the horse-loving Empress Elisabeth of Austria during her imminent visit to his ancestral home, the Duke of Buclington decides that he must invest in some of the best thoroughbred Hungarian horses.
He had planned to take his lovely young daughter, Lady Aletha, to Hungary with him to buy them, but, when Queen Victoria sends him on an important errand to Denmark, he is then forced to send in her place his equestrian stalwart,...
434) The Husband Hunters
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After the death of her parents, young Andrina Maldon has selflessly borne the responsibility not only for the running a household impoverished by her father's profligacy but also for the future happiness of her two sisters.
Strikingly beautiful as they are, there is no hope of their finding a suitable suitor without someone to introduce them to the Social world.
So, she travels unchaperoned to London to seek the assistance of the Duke of Broxbourne,...
435) Fire On The Snow
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Raised by her aunt and uncle, the sanctimonious Duke and Duchess of Berkhamsted, the golden-haired and beautiful Alida Shenley lives in the shadow of the 'shame' that her late and much-loved father brought upon the family by marrying for love – and because her mother was a ballerina.
Being on the stage was tantamount to prostitution in Alida's Guardians' eyes and they inflict terrible punishments and humiliation upon her for what they see as her...
436) El Secreto Del Duque
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A Ilesa le sorprendió la llegada a su casa de su hermanastra Doreen luego de años de ausencia, indiferencia y silencio.
Doreen pretendía casarse con el Duque de Mounteheron y lo había citado con el pretexto de mostrarle unos cuadros de su Padre y así evitar que el Duque se enterara de un turbio asunto de amores en el que estaba involucrada.
El Duque luego de visitar el lugar decide invitar a ambas y a su Padre a visitar su Mansión.
Como los...
437) A Dangerous Disguise
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"After her quiet life in the Highlands of Scotland, the Laird's daughter Ola Mcnewton is, looking forward to going to London to take part in Queen Victoria's Jubilee.
At first, it seemed a good joke to pretend to be a Balkan Princess, and be, entertained by the handsome Duke of Cranborne. During one enchanted evening with him, they fell in love. But, did the Duke fall in love with her, or the mysterious Balkan Princess...
Then the Security Services,...
438) Love Lifts The Curse
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Young London man about town Hamish McMurdock bears a grudge against his uncle, the Earl of Kilmurdock, because he refused to consider Hamish's money-making plan of selling lobsters, crabs and salmon from the family estate
The refusal is unreasonable but understandable because, although a young man, the Earl is embittered, hating all women after having his heart broken unforgivably.
Hamish, though, plans to teach his uncle a lesson by sending an unknowing...
439) Caught by Love
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Famed for his horse-racing successes and worshipped by Society Beauties, the dashingly handsome Marquis of Broome is unjustly renowned as heartless and cruel. So, when on the nighttime journey from London to his Surrey estate he discovers a young stowaway hidden in his carriage he appears angry — but when the 'boy' is revealed to be a feisty but very beautiful young girl he quickly softens. Cara, as she reveals is her name, is running away. From...
440) Caught by Love
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On a moonlit January night, the Marquis of Broome, the friend and confidante of the Prince Regent, have a fateful encounter. There's a stowaway in his traveling coach! But, that's not all: under the men's clothes there is a beautiful young lady. This discovery has far-reaching consequences that suddenly change the life of the Marquis. Because the young stranger saved not only the Marquis, but the entire British government from a horrific attack. A...