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 is 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...
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El Duque de Strathvegon tenía que encontrar una salida. George Wallington había descubierto el romance que mantenía con su esposa y amenazaba con matarlo. En tales circunstancias, a la madre del Duque se le ocurrió una solución: su hijo debía salir de Londres y anunciar su compromiso matrimonial para evitar el escándalo.
Con este fin decidió dar una gran fiesta en su Castillo de Escocia e invitó a tres jóvenes casaderas más bellas de Londres...
63) Saved by love
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Having read with breathless excitement the tales of the legendary Dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Bold, Charles the Rash and John the Fearless, the beautiful Lady Yursa Home is thrilled when her grandmother takes her to Castle Montvéal, where the Head of their Family, the illustrious Duc César rules almost as if he was a King.
The untouched and innocent Yursa has a good idea of the visit's real purpose as she has overheard a supposedly secret conversation...
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La joven y bella huérfana, Lady Ina, viviendo en el Castillo de los tíos, se refugia en la pintura para amenizar su soledad. Un día percibió que tenía extraños poderes, cuando dibujaba, sentía como si entrara en trance y pintaba escenas del futuro. Ina estaba desconcertada por el sofisticado mundo de la sociedad londinense. Su tía Lucy, Lady Wymonde, contrariada, acepta la petición de su marido, de que ella fuera la acompañante de su inocente...
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The Marquis of Milverton strides into White?s Club in a high state of irritation as he is being pestered by his family to take a ?suitable? girl for his wife. He is not surprised to find that his aristocratic friends are suffering the same pressure and they
gather together to complain about their plight.
They are all having affaires-de-coeurs with seductive married ladies and the Marquis himself is very much involved with a glamorous Countess. However...
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The Marquis of Milverton strides into White's Club in a high state of irritation as he is being, pestered by his family to take a suitable, girl for his wife. He is not surprised to find that his aristocratic friends are suffering the same pressure and they gather together to complain about their plight. They are all having affaires-de-coeurs with seductive married ladies and the Marquis himself is very much involved with a glamorous Countess. However,...
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"Intrigue and imminent danger await the young men brave enough to join 'The Great Game', the political conflict between the British and Russian Empire, and Captain David Ingle is one the bravest as he saves a Fort in India from attack, disguised as a Muslim Holy Man.
Returning to Calcutta, David is congratulated by the Viceroy for service to his country, but warned that the Russian agents he thwarted now threaten his life. More importantly his grandfather,...
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Beautiful young orphan Nerina is, appalled to find that her uncle and resentful Guardian is forcing her much-loved cousin, Elizabeth, into a marriage of convenience with the disdainful, if handsome and rich, Sir Rupert Wroth.
As if that was not bad enough, Elizabeth is already secretly betrothed to the man she truly loves, a Captain in the Army.
So loyal Nerina exploits her startling similarity to her cousin and takes her place, marrying Lord Wroth...
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Cynthia había perdido las dos cosas que más amaba en el mundo: primero Peter, el hombre con el que se iba a casar, y luego Birch Vale, la finca que había sido el orgullo de su familia.
Ella no había podido ayudar a no perder a Peter. Birch Vale era otro asunto. Quizás ella podría aferrarse a eso. Pero estaban las deudas de su padre para pagar...
Al final, vendió la propiedad a un hombre ardiente llamado Robert Shelford, un hombre misterioso,...
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Beautiful eighteen-year-old Norina is dismayed when her widowed father Lord Sedgewyn quickly remarries to society beauty Violet – and even more so when she discovers her new stepmother's wicked plot to poison her and inherit a fortune held in trust for Norina.
In fear for her life, she flees in disguise, securing a position as secretary to a temporarily blinded French Nobleman who whisks her away to Paris and then to his opulent South of France...
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Novia, viuda——pero nunca esposa——Aldrina, joven, inglesa de
nacimiento, Reina de Saria, abrumada con los asuntos de estado... y las siniestras atenciones de un malvado y ambicioso pretendiente Real, se refugia en un Palacio de Cuento de Hadas a orillas del mar, para recobrar, aunque sea poco tiempo, su niñez despreocupada....
En un amanecer a orillas del mar conoce a Juro, tan radiante como Apolo, el Dios de la Luz.
Pero su relación sólo...
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The Marquis of Alchester is furious when his horse in the Derby Stakes of 1831 finishes in a dead heat, purely because of the unsporting behaviour of the rival horse's owner, the Earl of Branscombe.
The Marquis is doubly incensed when he hears that the Earl is arrogantly talking about marrying his Ward, who is an immensely wealthy heiress and he needs her riches to support his extravagant lifestyle.
Bent on revenge, the Marquis visits an orphanage...
73) Hiding from Love
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"Lively Leonora Cressy and her school friend, Isobel, have sworn never to fall in love. They prefer learning and books to men and scorn other girls whose heads are full of storybook romance. But Leonora is suddenly plucked from the safety of her all girls' school and thrown into an adventure that forces her to reconsider her childhood vows.
Returning home to meet the new stepfather who has taken her beloved father's role as protector and provider,...
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Michael, the Earl of Danesbury was being, hounded to marry Lady Alice Randall, a woman he did not love. Even the Prince of Wales was determined to force him into marriage. Michael fled to his dilapidated ancestral castle for the first time since inheriting his title. There he heard a girl singing and fell in love. She was Bettina, daughter of an eccentric Major, a genius with gardens plants and herbs. Determined to put the castle gardens in good order,...
75) Rescued by Love
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When Russian revolutionaries burn down their, beloved home in the Caucasus with their sick father still inside it, Ivor and his beautiful sister Weena decide to leave Russia for good and travel to England.
Their mother, who was now dead, had been English and so they themselves speak the language fluently.
Ivor told Weena that he had been expecting trouble from the locals for some time and had been secretly removing valuable paintings and objects d'art...
76) Hazard of Hearts
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After her mother died when Serena Staverley was just nine, her father, Sir Giles, indulged his deep passion for gambling, leaving his only child in charge of an impoverished household.
Now a stunningly beautiful young woman, Serena is mortified to hear that her father has been, killed in a duel. Worse still, it seems that he went willingly, even deliberately to his death. But, why?
The appalling answer is, presented by her much-loved cousin Nicholas,...
77) Hazard of Hearts
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After her mother died when Serena Staverley was just nine, her father, Sir Giles, indulged his deep passion for gambling, leaving his only child in charge of an impoverished household.
Now a stunningly beautiful young woman, Serena is mortified to hear that her father has been, killed in a duel. Worse still, it seems that he went willingly, even deliberately to his death. But, why?
The appalling answer is, presented by her much-loved cousin Nicholas...
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When Queen Victoria, the 'Matchmaker of Europe' decrees that beautiful young Zenka must marry King Myklos of Karanya she is horrified. Not only because she's never even met him – but also because her sister Wilhemina has. And she reports that the King is "…a beast, rude, disagreeable, and horrible to look at! His face is deformed and ugly." Even worse, it's said that he holds depraved orgies at his Castle in Karanya!
But her Godfather the Duke...
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Having lost her parents in a tragic carriage accident, beautiful but innocent young Cornelia Bedlington, living in Ireland, has inherited an enormous fortune and her Uncle George decides that she needs a chaperone for the coming Social Season in London.
Who better than her glamorous Aunt Lily who knows everyone smart!
Unbeknown to George or Cornelia, though, Lily is in the throes of a love affair with the startlingly handsome Drogo, the Duke of Roehampton,...
80) Count The Stars
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The Duke of Brockenhurst, bored by Society and cynical about the beautiful women who cast themselves before him in a desperate bid to become his Duchess, accepts a wager to ride from London to York alone and incognito.
Outraged by the suggestion that he has lost his verve and the command he once had whilst distinguishing himself in the Army, he decides to reflect on his future, whilst setting himself the challenge to move amongst ordinary people...