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Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788675215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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After centuries of violence between the feuding McBrara and MacSteel Clans in the Scottish Highlands, a fragile peace is about to break into a new war when one of the MacSteels’ shepherds is murdered allegedly by the McBraras. In a desperate attempt to avoid further bloodshed before the imminent visit of the English King George IV, the Laird of the MacSteels proposes that they unite the Clans with a marriage and the Earl of Braradale agrees somewhat reluctantly. And so the Laird’s daughter, the elfin young beauty, Fyna, is obliged to marry a man she has never even met – the Earl of Braradale himself. Thus they are both ready to enter into a loveless marriage to save their Clans from further bloodletting and strife. For his part the Earl is dreading the marriage, imagining that she will be ‘pious and heavily built’, while for her part Fyna too dreads a loveless union with a man she does not love and who will look down at her as his inferior. As the two Clans celebrate their Wedding, the reluctant bride and groom begin to become acquainted and from the start both are pleasantly surprised to find that they have much in common, notably that they are both fey as many Scots are and can sense each other’s thoughts and moods. But it is only when the life of her new husband is imperilled by her murderous cousin, Hamish, that Fyna suddenly realises that she has fallen deeply in love.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788671090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The impulsive and rakish Marquis of Troon is due to be married to the disreputable but passionate Lady Dilys Powick in direct opposition to the wishes and advice of his closest friends. The Marquis then goes ahead and arranges a spectacular steeplechase with large prizes for the winners in order to celebrate his nuptials. When one of the contestants dies unexpectedly of a heart attack, the Marquis is stunned to discover that he has been named in his will as the Guardian of the contestant’s daughter, the sensible and charitable Valeta Lingfield, who is also very beautiful. An encounter at the Marquis’s superb stately home with a mistreated climbing boy tests the unlikely relationship between Valeta and the Marquis as she is determined to look after the boy until he can be returned safely to his parents. And further conflict, intrigue and danger follow a meeting with the villainous sweep, who is from a notorious criminal area of London. Will the lovely Valeta return safely from London? Who is behind these treacherous kidnappings? And will the Marquis ever change his ways? The answers can be found in this excitingand poignant story set in the Regency.
Author: Kit DesLauriers
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1680515365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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In 2006 Kit DesLauriers made history by becoming the first person to climb--and then ski--from the summit of each continent’s highest mountain, the famed Seven Summits. Centered on this quest, her book Higher Love represents a hero’s journey, rich with personal insights, life-threatening consequences, and a thrilling crescendo. Spanning seven continents in just two years, this deeply personal memoir recounts Kit’s initially secret journey that would change her life forever. From braving Antarctica’s bone-chilling temperatures to trudging through an African rainforest, from corn snow on the slopes of Australia to blue ice on Everest, Kit leads you up each mountain and gives you a heart-racing ride back down. This candid, fast-paced story shows how in¬spiration, teamwork, and honoring our true nature blazes the trail to every summit, on or off the mountain.
Author: Sophie Smith
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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"Never again would I let myself be talked into something so insane as this, no matter how alluringly dark and handsome my climbing partner was. I felt a hard, vicious ball of ice in my stomach every time I looked down at the ground far below, and my vision creased and blurred when I glanced up to the summit, so I glared ferociously at the rock directly in front of me, and climbed higher..."22 year old Sophie is living a life of paradoxes. She loves rock climbing, but is afraid of heights. She has embarked on a solo traveling adventure, but keeps meeting attractive men who insist on complicating things. She is heartbroken after the death of her mother, but feels more alive than ever as she traverses three continents and eleven countries, trying to find her way. This is a coming of age story; a tale of adventure; and a powerful memoir of loss and love.
Author: Alan S North
Publisher: Sweet Line Press
ISBN: 9780986087202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Reeling from the loss of his home and family, the author attempts to reclaim his former, youthful self by returning to Yosemite to rock climb full-time after a 28-year hiatus. As he tries to control fear and become the climber he once was, he struggles to understand where his 30-year relationship went wrong. His journey of rediscovery documents the adventurous climbing world of Yosemite Valley and is filled with pain, terror, broken limbs, brushes with death, camaraderie, and hilarious stupidity. The story of his marriage is raw, exposed, and painfully embarrassing. Interweaving a story of decline with one of rejuvenation, the author wrestles with the meaning of weakness, strength, failure, and success.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788675215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Book Description
After centuries of violence between the feuding McBrara and MacSteel Clans in the Scottish Highlands, a fragile peace is about to break into a new war when one of the MacSteels’ shepherds is murdered allegedly by the McBraras. In a desperate attempt to avoid further bloodshed before the imminent visit of the English King George IV, the Laird of the MacSteels proposes that they unite the Clans with a marriage and the Earl of Braradale agrees somewhat reluctantly. And so the Laird’s daughter, the elfin young beauty, Fyna, is obliged to marry a man she has never even met – the Earl of Braradale himself. Thus they are both ready to enter into a loveless marriage to save their Clans from further bloodletting and strife. For his part the Earl is dreading the marriage, imagining that she will be ‘pious and heavily built’, while for her part Fyna too dreads a loveless union with a man she does not love and who will look down at her as his inferior. As the two Clans celebrate their Wedding, the reluctant bride and groom begin to become acquainted and from the start both are pleasantly surprised to find that they have much in common, notably that they are both fey as many Scots are and can sense each other’s thoughts and moods. But it is only when the life of her new husband is imperilled by her murderous cousin, Hamish, that Fyna suddenly realises that she has fallen deeply in love.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788675037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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Man about town and something of a ‘ladies’ man’ the new Earl of Rockbrook has given little thought to a liaison at Windsor Castle in which one of the Queen’s Ladies-in-Waiting, Lady Louise Welwyn, appears suddenly in his bedroom in the middle of the night. So he is appalled when he learns that Lady Louise’s formidable mother expects him to marry her. Her motivation is clear, although penniless at the time, he has since unexpectedly inherited the title of his family’s Earldom and the huge estate of Rock Castle after his uncle’s and cousin’s death in a train crash. He realises that he could never be happy with Lady Louise and so he flees her and London for the safety of the countryside where he breaks his collarbone in a riding accident and is knocked unconscious. When he awakens, he finds that he is being nursed by a lovely country girl called ‘Purilla’. She is beautiful, demure and intelligent – in fact everything he ever wanted in a wife, so he persuades her to save him by marrying him at once. Purilla has already fallen deeply in love with the handsome Earl – but how can she turn a marriage of his convenience into one of true love?
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 178867491X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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The handsome Earl of Ardwick is smarting from the pain of discovering that his fiancée, the spectacularly beautiful but social-climbing Heloise Brook, is forsaking him for a Duke when he is halted on the road by a nasty carriage accident. There he finds beautiful young Lupita Lang and her six-year-old brother, Jerry, who are running away from home. After the recent death of their father, Jerry has now become the Earl of Langwood. Realising that he used to know their father well, he then takes them to the safety of his Grosvenor Square house where suddenly he sees Lupita in a new light. With her fair hair and blue eyes she is the most beautiful girl he had ever seen and, as she tells him that their wicked Cousin Rufus is bent on murdering young Jerry in order to inherit his title, a cunning idea then comes to the Earl, a way to protect the young siblings from their grasping cousin and also to wreak revenge on the equally title-hungry Heloise. After Lupita next appears on his arm dressed up as Cleopatra at the famed Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, to Heloise’s fury the Earl finds Lupita’s innocent allure increasingly impossible to resist and, although she does not know it, her heart is already his. But surely their love is lost before it has any chance with Cousin Rufus still determined to end his young cousins’ lives and seize the title and estate that he so desperately covets.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788674049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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When their father the Duke of Northallerton offers his daughter Caroline’s hand in marriage to his neighbour the Duke of Lynchester purely as a means of settling an ancient land dispute, she is appalled. Not only because she does not love the Duke but also because she is already madly in love with another. Desperate to help her older sister, the aptly named young elfin beauty Lady Elfa secretly visits the Duke of Lynchester and begs him to marry her instead – and to leave her sister free for the man she truly loves. Something about this young woman fascinates the Duke and, reluctantly, he agrees. And despite the constant attentions of Society beauty Isobel, who is determined to keep him for herself, the Duke finds himself becoming enchanted by Elfa’s quiet intelligence, innocence and beauty – just as she is spellbound by him.
Author: Margaret COX
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445737388
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 579
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This is the first volume of poems by Ron S King, a collection to enjoy.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788671112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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When Queen Victoria is called upon to arrange a marriage for the dashing King Alexius of Vultarnia to save him and his country from the predatory Russians, the adventurous and beautiful Pythia takes the place of her cousin, Princess Erina, and heads for the small Balkan country in a British Battleship. Princess Erina has just fallen in love with a good-looking Peruvian and Pythia could not allow her happiness to be torn from her for cold political strategy. On her arrival in Vultarnia she receives a warm reception and she is determined to win the hearts of her new subjects and the heart of their cosmopolitan worldly King. The King is surprised and impressed by his new wife and sees how much he could learn from her. But a Russian plot threatens to throw this popular new marriage into jeopardy and Pythia must think quickly in order to save the King and the beautiful country of Vultarnia. Will King Alexius fall in love with Pythia or remain attached to his glamorous and seductive Russian mistress? Will Pythia be able to stop a sinister plot to capture the King before it is too late? And will the King discover Pythia’s true identity and that she is not Royal? Find out in ‘The Queen Saves the King’, an exciting and moving romance from the incomparable Barbara Cartland.
