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The Earl of Rockhaven calls on his friend the Vicar, the Reverend Simon Wolverham, to ask if his beautiful daughter, Lucinda, will pretend to be his own daughter, Muriel, who is away in Scotland staying with her aunt.
Fortunately, the girls have similar looks and Lucinda could easily be, taken for Muriel. The Earl explains to the Vicar that a certain Baron Schlesinger and his son, Kurt, from Germany have invited themselves to luncheon at his nearby...
62) Secret Harbor
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Fleeing an arranged marriage on her island home, Lady Grania O'Kerry runs straight into the arms of the notorious pirate, who has seized her family's plantation.
63) Love Drives In
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"Dorina's father had been an industrialist, an inventor and a genius who trained her to be his heir, sending her abroad to learn many languages.
While she was in France, she learned that he had died, and she must now take over his business. But, she does not feel ready, especially as she knows he has been trying to design a horseless carriage.
For a while, she keeps his death a secret, to give herself time to learn, and goes to work for his great...
64) The Ship of Love
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"The daughter of a wealthy, ambitious man, Rowena knew that her father longed to marry her to a title, preferably the Duke of Wenfield, whom she disliked and did not wish to marry herself. To avoid marriage, they hatched a plot.
Posing as brother and sister, they would take a trip on a yacht with their likeminded friends and would help each other find the love of their dreams. Plans went awry on the Mediterranean, when Rowna was kidnapped by a Sultan,...
65) The Golden Cage
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Since his beloved wife's death, Sir Robert Royden finds it unbearable to stay at home in his ancestral Manor House and instead spends his nights drinking and gambling away the family fortune in the low spots of London, leaving his beautiful young daughter Crisa to her own devices and her adored horses.
One day, after a long absence, he brings to their home an American millionaire, who wants Crisa's hand in marriage in return for a large sum of money...
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Davina, a quien la ausencia obligada de su Padre le había impedido ser presentada en Sociedad, recurrió a una amiga solicitándole trabajo, ya que su Madre con quien vivía eventualmente en Londres, había caído enferma. Esta circunstancia la llevaría, tras una larga relación de imprevistos, y adoptando una falsa identidad, a realizar el sueño de su vida: acudir al Baila más famoso de la Temporada Social.
Como en el Baile conoce al Duque...
67) Revenge Is Sweet
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On the point of starvation after the death of her father, an inveterate gambler who has gamed away all the family fortune, young and beautiful Valessa Chester is literally, starving and on the verge of suicide by throwing herself in the river.
But then, it seems that Fate has intervened when three friends of the rich and powerful Lady Sarah Barton appear at her door seeking help after her Ladyship has been injured in a fall out hunting.
In gratitude...
68) Revenge Is Sweet
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It seemed a miracle from Heaven itself. Valessa Chester, lovely, alone and penniless, would be splendidly rewarded for her role in a house-party charade, a harmless prank to be played on the arrogant-and compellingly attractive-Marquis of Wyndonbury. But to Valessa's horror she discovered that she was the unwitting instrument of a scorned woman's revenge.
69) For all Eternity
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The Marquis of Stowe is on the verge of a dreadful scandal that threatens to ruin both him and the lovely, but married, Lady Burnham.
Knowing that their secret is out and that her husband will be plotting revenge, the Marquis casts about desperately for a way to avoid the scandal, which he knows is inevitable despite the wealth and good looks that have made him a darling of the Beau Monde.
Seeing a perfect solution, he decides to offer marriage...
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The demure but beautiful Alecia Stambrook sorely misses her late mother, Lady Sophie. And now that her uncle, the Earl of Langhaven, has also died, there will be no more of the generous stipend that Alecia's father had relied on to survive as the books that he writes bring in very little money..
When her much-loved cousin Charis arrives unexpectedly at her home, Alecia is heartened although taken aback by her strange request.
Charis asks her to pretend...
71) The King Wins
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King Martiza of Salamos has fallen asleep when he suddenly becomes aware that something is moving in his room.
To his astonishment he finds that it is Princess Veria who has come for his Coronation which is to take place the very next day.
She, as her father has died, is now ruling the State of Kavolana which is a smaller Balkan country bordering on his.
In a whisper she tells him that she has discovered a plot by her Prime Minister and his Cabinet...
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Golden-haired young beauty Anona adores her father, the East India Company seafarer Captain Guy Ranson.
So she is shocked to the core when he comes home to confess that far from being the successful shipowner she thought he was, he is a pirate, boarding cargo ships and threatening the crew and cargo unless they paid him a ransom. He describes himself as a 'highwayman on a ship'.
Fearing that he has been identified and may face the gallows, the Captain...
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Returning from finishing school in France, Louisa Hatton was full of enthusiasm for the life ahead. She was convinced it would be exciting and romantic. But her parents had already planned a very suitable marriage for her to Lord Westbridge, their new neighbour. He was a cold, hard man and he wanted Louisa despite her protests.
Her parents would not support her. Her father owed Lord Westbridge money. It seemed that for help she could only turn to...
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When the imperious Alston, Marquis of Falcon cynically announces that he is interested in marrying his daughter in order to gain a Royal appointment, the Earl of Warnborough is thoroughly pleased.
There would be many benefits to being part of his far richer neighbor’s family and estates! But, the beautiful Mirabel is already betrothed and so is Deirdre, albeit secretly, which leaves only Elmina, the youngest and the Cinderella of the Warne family.
Nevertheless,...
75) Love by the Lake
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"Lady Lolita Vernon, daughter of the late Earl of Walcott and Vernon, has run away.
Her stepfather, Ralph Piran is forcing her to accept the attentions and perhaps an offer of marriage from his business partner, Murdock Tanner, who is very rich but old and repulsive.
While she is trying to cover her tracks in London she bumps into a small boy, Simon, who is weeping because he has been beaten cruelly by his stepmother.
Because it seems a strange coincidence...
76) A Magical Moment
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The beautiful Lencia is the image of her dear departed Mama — and so is still the apple of the eye of the widowed Earl of Armeron. Knowing how profoundly Lencia and younger sister Alice are missing their mother, their father promises to take them to see the fabulous historic Châteaux of the Loire Valley in France — of which the most exciting and impressive of all is Chaumont.
But, to their chagrin, their hopes are dashed when the Earl returns...
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Beautiful young Aspasia Stanton and her twin brother Jerry are horrified when they receive a letter addressed to their uncle and guardian, the much-loved Reverend Theophilus Stanton from Her Grace the Duchess of Grimstone. In it she coldly announces that that having "reached the age of sixty-five, you are retired from your living and you will vacate the Vicarage within a month of this date".
Whatever are they do do? Without the Reverend's stipend...
78) Love cannot Fail
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Following the death of her husband, the Countess of Wenlock was living in her magnificent house in London with her son, Donald, and her beautiful daughter, Salvia.
One day out of the blue Donald suddenly drops a bombshell.
He tells his mother and Salvia that he has lost all their money by trusting an American acquaintance of his who claimed that he would invest it all safely and produce big profits for the family
Donald leaves at once for America...
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A bitter young Earl's wounded soul is healed by the tender power of true love in Cartland's thrilling new romance. When his lovely, orphaned ward Olivia Lambrick finds the Earl of Chadwood badly wounded, she feels it is her duty to nurse him back to health--even though she is appalled by his cold, harsh manner and the cruel way he treats his tenants.
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When the lovely but demure eighteen-year-old Safina, daughter of the Earl of Sedgewick, is called home from her Finishing School in Florence by her stepmother, Isobel, her heart leaps at the happy thought of going back to her beloved home, Wick Park, and seeing her father again after living abroad for so long.
But to Safina's dismay, Isobel has summoned her to return under false pretences to force her to marry the penniless Duke of Dallwyn, a gentleman...
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