Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Yamina, era una hermosa y bella joven rusa, que al huir de Constantinopla por la guerra de Crimea, buscó refugio en un harén. Huyendo de la multitud y caso la capturasen la hubieran ciertamente, asesinado cruelmente. Al albergarse en el harén, su vida y su inocencia, también se encontraban en peligro. Yamina decidió escaparse de nuevo, escondida en un baúl que había sido enviado como un presente de la favorita del Sultán. Dentro del baúl,...
Author
Description
El Marqués miró con asombro el cabello de oro blanco y un pequeño rostro encantador de una bella joven, imposible de no mirar. «Ella es diferente de cualquier otra persona, que yo haya visto antes» ¿Quién era? ¿Quién podría ser? Cuando el Marqués supo la verdad sorprendente acerca de ella, sabía que podía utilizar la belleza de esta joven adorable, como un arma secreta contra su enemigo. Así que él, puso en marcha sus planes, astutos...
Author
Description
When her irresponsible brother rents the family home, Langston Manor, for the duration of the Royal Ascot races to Valient, Earl of Trevarnon and his wild gentleman friends, lonely and innocent young Demelza is afraid. Although married to a woman who has lost her mind and is in an asylum, Trevarnon is a well-known 'ladies' man' - and, for her own safety and modesty, Demelza agrees to hide among The Manor's maze of secret passages. As she watches,...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
When Lady Circe Langstone laid her claws on a man, it was his undoing. It was even said that the glowing flame of those green eyes was not the fascination of love, but the spell of black magic. It was said, too, that there was only one man in the whole Court able to resist him; the gallant and handsome Earl of Rochester, from whom Circe was willing to do anything to win him. But unexpectedly a rival got in his way… his own stepdaughter, Ophelia...
Author
Description
Although Chandra's father Professor Barnard Wardell is the world's most distinguished Sanskrit scholar, his earnings are barely, enough to support him, his daughter and their faithful servant Ellen. So when, the dashing Lord Damon Frome invites him on a highly paid expedition to Nepal it is a Godsend. But, having spent much of his advance, the Professor is struck down by a heart attack. So, to the fury of the woman-hating Lord Frome, demure young...
Author
Description
Katie King is a girl with big dreams for the future! A dancer in the heart of London's theatre land, Katie is awaiting her big break, when her name will finally be in lights above the Gaiety Theatre. Fun-loving, cute and adoring of her charming boyfriend, the enigmatic Harry Carrington, Katie is sure that her unusual crowning glory of wild auburn curls will help catapult her out of the chorus line and into the leading roles she deserves. But Katie's...
Author
Description
Do you really think you could work as I had to work to keep your mother from starvation? My dear child, you have lived in the lap of luxury all your life. You could no more earn a penny piece than fly over the moon!? Kasia's father laughs scornfully. This is justification for his decision to marry her off to a man she does not love ? purely to save her from fortune hunters. So Kasia runs away to prove him wrong by working as Governess to the Duke...
Author
Description
El Rey se acercó a la cama de Xenia y miró su lujoso cabello rojo que brillaba a la luz de las velas y sus tiernos labios, que temblaban porque tenía miedo. "¿Sabes lo hermosa que eres?" él dijo. Xenia sabía que el momento finalmente había llegado, el momento en que ella debía decirle la verdad. "¡Te amo!". Pero él lloró antes de que ella pudiera hablar. Él dijo: "Estoy loco... locamente enamorado... nunca en la vida soñé que me sentiría...
Author
Description
Following the economic ruin and death of her father, Nerita Dunbar is, left alone in London society. Fiercely proud and independent, she refuses to rely upon the charity of her relations and disguising her origins, finds herself a post as Nursery Governess in the country household of the Marquis of Wychbold. But soon, she begins to feel threatened by the dashing Marquis, a renowned lady-killer and old friend of her father's, who begins to show more...
Author
Description
All alone and penniless after the unexpected death of her much-loved father, the lovely but innocent Minella Clinton-Wood is desperate. But who can she turn to?
Her Aunt Esther has made her reluctance clear, describing the idea of Minella living with her as 'a burden'. But then, she finds a letter to her father from her slightly older friend, Connie, the local Parson's attractive daughter, thanking him for some mysterious kindness.
"Someday perhaps...
Author
Description
Lady Loretta's father, the well-respected Lord Lieutenant of the County, is doing his best to force her into marriage with the Marquis of Sauerdun, the son of a good friend. Whilst her father thinks he is making a good match for his beloved daughter, she is aghast at the thought of an arranged marriage and vows she will only marry for love.
Searching her mind for a way to stay free to pursue the kind of love she has always dreamt of, she happens upon...
Author
Description
Lady Georgina Lang returns to The Castle from her father's funeral to wonder what the future holds for her.
Because her father had always longed for a son to succeed him, he had brought her up and educated her exactly as if she was a boy. She dressed as a boy and, although she had been christened Georgina, he liked calling her George.
She was completely alone in the huge castle, which was now inherited by the new Earl of Langfield, a distant cousin...
Author
Description
The Marquis of Elvington, heartbroken to discover the woman he intended to marry has deceived him, decides to leave England and put as many miles as possible between them. Handsome, intelligent and a great favourite at the Court of King William IV and Queen Adelaide, the Marquis is used to the admiration of women and respect of men, so the duplicity of his intended wife strikes him a cruel blow.
However, a thick fog makes it impossible for his yacht...
Author
Description
The handsome and debonair Marquis of Raventhorpe is known throughout the Beau Monde as something of a ladies' man until he falls under the spell of Society beauty Lady Sarah Chessington.
But when he arrives at the Earl of Chessington-Crewe's house to propose, he realises that Lady Sarah wants him only for his wealth and position and he leaves in a fury, vowing that he will never marry.
By the wayside he encounters a young exquisite beauty utterly...
36) Look With Love
Author
Description
After losing her mother to a fever, then her beloved father the Earl of Darrington – and now her Godmother too, eighteen-year-old Ilita is bereft, stricken by poverty as well as grief. For a fleeting moment, she's saved when her aunt takes her in. But the Countess is, to Ilita's horror, bitter, jealous of her beauty and ashamed to be associated with her. Sent away to work for a recently blinded Marchioness under a false name and ordered never to...
Author
Description
Cuando el Conde de Ardwick finalmente decide casarse, pero es rechazado por una belleza ambiciosa con su ojo en el ducado. Entonces la suerte coloca a Lady Lupita Lang en el sendero del Conde, pero Lupita teme por su joven hermanito, que está en peligro de ser un primo despiadado, hasta que el Conde se nombra a sí mismo, tutor del niño, ganando el agradecido amor de Lupita.
Author
Description
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...
39) White Lilac
Author
Description
When fog leaves the Duke of Marazion stranded at a bleak inn, he soothes his restless soul with a brandy, a book and a roaring fire. A glittering figure amongst London Society, the rich and handsome Duke has everything he could ever want, apart from true love. As he sits, determined to continue his journey as soon as possible, he cannot foresee the consequences of answering a late night knock at his door.
Astonished to find a young woman alone and...
Author
Description
Major Michael Moore has been playing a very dangerous part in the Great Game in India where he foils a plot to kill the Viceroy who tells Michael he is now a marked man and that he must return to England immediately. To his astonishment on his way home, he reads in a newspaper that following the death of his grandfather he has become the Duke of Grangemoore. When he reaches England, he decides he will not announce his arrival to the family Solicitors...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request