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Tras haber luchado en Francia y pasado una larga temporada en Londres, el Marqués de Melverley decidió regresar al campo. Allí encontró su Finca totalmente abandonada y pidió a Christina, una joven huérfana que había conocido en el camino que lo ayudara a poner las cosas en orden. Para lograr este objetivo tuvieron que enfrentarse a un ambicioso primo del Marqués que trataba apoderarse del título e incluso llegó a secuestrar a Christina...
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Just eighteen, beautiful and intelligent, Yola Beauharnais lives a blessed Fairy tale life at her magnificent family castle on the Loire.
Then her grandmother announces that she has been, promised in marriage by her late beloved father to the Marquis de Montereau. Yola is appalled. She has heard of the Marquis, who, although handsome and sophisticated, has a reputation in Paris as a rake, socialite and 'ladykiller'. How could she possibly marry such...
63) Gypsy Magic
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Although beautiful young Laetitia is a Princess, she and her family lead a life more befitting paupers. Despising them for the gypsy blood that runs in their veins, the Grand Duchess, their cruel Cousin Augustina, bullies and oppresses them just as she persecutes the Romany people and banishes them from Ovenstadt's Capital.
If only Laetitia could call upon some ancient gypsy spell to make things right.
Worse still, Laetitia hears that the hateful...
64) El Mejor Tesoro
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Tras servir en el Ejército de Ocupación en Francia, el Conde de Monkforde regresó a Inglaterra. El panorama no podía ser más desolador, pues su casa y su Finca se hallaban empobrecidas y sus recursos eran muy escasos. Linka, una prima lejana del Conde que siempre había vivido en la Mansión también estaba muy preocupada. Como única esperanza, ambos se dedicaron a buscar en la casa, que un día fue un convento, algo que los antiguos residentes...
65) The Love Pirate
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Arriving home from school, Bertilla is sad to find her home unprepared for her and her widowed mother is far from pleased to see her. Even worse, Lady Alvinston, a celebrated Society beauty, makes it clear that she has no intention of allowing her pretty eighteen-year-old daughter anywhere near the glittering London social scene she enjoys so much herself.
As her mother continues her scheming to snare a wealthy husband before her looks fade, the...
66) A Call of Love
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The British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asks Lord Kenington to travel to India to find out if growing reports about the Russian menace are really true.
The Liberal Opposition in Parliament are sceptical and are certain that Disraeli is manufacturing a scare about nothing in asserting that the prime objective of the Russians in invading Asia is to wrest India from the British.
On the P & O Liner to India, to Lord Kenington's surprise, a very...
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Als das Gebet endete war Tara plötzlich mit Torquil, dem Herzog von Arkcraig, verheiratet. Einem Mann, den sie vorher noch nie gesehen hatte. Das furchteinflößende Clanoberhaupt, der einen Erben brauchte. Aus dem Londoner Waisenhaus gerissen, wo sie ihre ganzen achtzehn Jahre gelebt hatte, war Tara nach Schottland als Rachemittel gebracht worden. Ihr einziger Besitz war ein Medaillon. Wie Tara den Herzog vor dem sicheren Tod bewahrt, eine jahrhunderthalte...
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El Duque de Kerncliffe, uno de los caballeros favoritos de la Reina Victoria, nunca sospechó que, a causa de un imperdonable desliz suyo en el Castillo de Windsor, la soberana inglesa le ordenaría que contrajera matrimonio. Impenitente soltero, pero abocado a perder el favor de la reina si no cumplía su mandato, buscó esposa entre las debutantes de la alta sociedad londinense. La personalidad de la novia ni siquiera le preocupaba. Pero ésta,...
69) Wish For Love
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Queen's Ford, built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and home to the noble Forde family for centuries, is crumbling into ruin.
Devastated by the reduced circumstances in which he finds himself due to the outlandish spending of his late father, the current Lord Fordcombe simply cannot afford to repair it.
With only a few loyal servants to serve the family, even the once beautiful gardens and stables are shabby and unkempt. In fact, the Forde family,...
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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 Chandra...
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Cuando el fuego destruye la casa de su familia, Erlina no tiene más remedio que buscar refugio en Meldon Hall. La casa está en mal estado, por lo que se sorprende al encontrar al Marqués de Meldon, viviendo en un lugar apartado y solitário, ya que un accidente ha dejado al Marqués ciego y amargado, pero con el tiempo, Erlina cura su alma herida con la alegría del verdadero amor... y así se realizan los sueños más increíbles de imaginar......
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The Duke of Rockcliffe returns home to England from the British Army of Occupation, which after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 is located at Cambrai.
He had left England seven years ago when he was merely a young Lieutenant who intended to spend his life in the Army.
Owing to the death of several Heir Presumptives to the Dukedom, he finds himself unexpectedly and to his great surprise the new Duke.
He also discovers that he has a Ward called Nelita,...
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A Ghost in Monte Carlo is a 1951 novel by Barbara Cartland. It was the gayest season Monte Carlo had ever known, Mademoiselle Fantôme was causing a sensation. Who was the exquisite "ghost", with her shining golden hair and dreaming dark eyes? Why did her formidable aunt guard her so carefully?
74) Hidden By Love
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Keeping up appearances for her older brother, Lord Anthony (Tony) Linwood, and his Society lifestyle while also caring for their young brother and sister is becoming too much for the beautiful Minerva as they have very little money and the bills are mounting every day. So when Tony confesses that he owes the terrifying gambling debt of two thousand pounds to his friend, the Earl of Gorleston, with an unsavoury and raffish reputation, she is mortified....
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Neil, the handsome Earl of Wynstock, is expected back from the English Army of Occupation in France where he has been with the Duke of Wellington since the Battle of Waterloo. And the people of his estate, Wyn Park, await his return to them impatiently.
Vanda Charlton, his beautiful childhood neighbor, waits with more concern than the others because, unbeknown to anyone else, a dangerous gang of highwaymen have moved into the West wing of the Earl's...
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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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When the Balkan Prince Stanislaus demanded an English bride, Queen Victoria decided to send him Lady Lavina, whose family had a slight connection with royalty.
Determined to avoid this fate, Lavina threw herself on the mercy of the Marquis of Elswick, a disagreeable man who had turned his back on the world following betrayal by the woman he had loved. Surprisingly, he agreed to help by pretending to be engaged to Lavina, and, with her father, they...
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The Viscount Frome is in love, and intends to marry Claribel Stamford, belle of the Social Set, as quickly as possible. She is young, beautiful, charming and rich ? in fact he considers her the perfect match. The only drawback is that he needs the permission of his uncle, the Duke of Alverstrode before he can propose.
The Duke, a more cautious man experienced in the wiles of aspirational young women, suggests a visit to Claribel?s home to meet her...
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Dutiful, demure and far lovelier than she knows, Princess Zosina, the eldest daughter of the Archduke Ferdinand of Lützelstein, is reluctantly obedient, when her father announces that she must marry King Gyórgy of neighboring Dórsia in order to create an alliance between the two nations that will defend them against the threat from the German Empire.
Arriving in Dórsia on a State visit she is greeted by the country's Regent, a kind, handsome...
80) The White Witch
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The Marquis of Wynstanton had become involved with one of the beauties of London Society, Locadi, Lady Marshall, and when her husband died, unexpectedly, the Marquis, set out on a long journey to India and Nepal, as he, wished to avoid any gossip, arising about their liaison. After his return, he resumed the affair, staying on in London for some time, when he should have gone straight to Wyn Castle and his country estate. Then he began to suspect...
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