Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782135367
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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Clive, the Earl of Bourne, nearly twenty-eight, tall, handsome and pursued by innumerable women is determined not to get married. He is sick and tired of his father, the Duke of Shelbourne and his relations begging him to produce an heir and he has decided that he will not marry until he is very much older. To his horror the Duke comes back from Windsor Castle to tell his son that Queen Victoria commands him to marry Princess Gilberta of Saxe-Coburg, who is arriving in England almost immediately. The Earl quarrels with his father who says that, unless he does as he is told, he will refuse to pay off his very large debts.In despair the Earl goes up to the nursery to see his old Nanny who has always loved him and to whom he has turned with all his troubles since his mother died. Nanny is appalled at the idea of him having to marry a German woman he has never seen and she therefore has a clever idea and suggests to the Earl that he runs away. In fact, to cover his tracks, Nanny suggests that he should elope with the person he loves more than anyone else, who is actually himself! The Earl does exactly as Nanny suggests As he thinks his father will send someone North to prevent him marrying at Gretna Green, he drives his horses South and eventually arrives at Land's End, where he rescues a very pretty girl from a highwayman, who his attempting to steal her favourite horse. The Earl then takes a job looking after horses for a distinguished General, who is the father of lovely girl.How, unexpectedly, he finds what he has always been seeking without really being aware of it, is told in this fascinating story by BARBARA CARTLAND.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782139966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Lorena Conway has devoted most of her life to being a secretary to her father, a noted historian. Sir Arthur suddenly dies and leaves Lorena with too little money to maintain her childhood home. Wondering how she will survive, the beautiful Lorena overhears a friend of her neighbour plotting to kill the Earl of Bramfield, who has recently and unexpectedly inherited from his father and whose vast estates lie near her home. Realising that she has no option but to try and convince the Earl of the peril he is in, Lorena sets out to confront him. When his elder brother died, the new Earl had to give up an Army career and return home. Now having inherited the title and estates, he is finding it difficult to adjust to his new position. He sees Lorena and listens to her tale, but cannot accept that his life is in danger. However, he offers Lorena a temporary job helping him to sort out his disorganised office and she brings her newly invented typewriter with her. Soon the Earl realises that the danger is very real and Lorena finds herself having to use all her wits to keep safe the man she rapidly becomes attracted to in a way that she never expected. Then the Earl’s younger brother, the Honourable Andrew, arrives home and life at Bramfield becomes ever more complicated and perilous.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782138935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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The beautiful Belinda Lanwick has not attended the dinner party given by her cousin as she is still in mourning following the death of her beloved father. However, when the guests were leaving, she saw Lord Ian Cheddington and thought him exceedingly handsome. She knew that he was one of the most sought after young men in London and was considered the most eligible bachelor in the Social world. It is then that she overhears an indiscreet conversation between her cousin and a Countess. The Countess speaks of a Russian Princess in London who is doing everything she can to attract Lord Ian and what is more Princess Natasha is suspected of being a Russian spy. When she receives a letter from her sister asking her to stay with her in London and they can go shopping together to buy a new wardrobe for when she comes out of mourning, Belinda decides to go. However, when she arrives she finds that she is on her own most of the time because her sister is so busy. One morning she sees an advertisement in The Times for a lady's maid to Princess Natasha. She feels strongly that she must defend her country and so applies for the position and begins work immediately. Once inside the Princess's house, Belinda cleverly finds a way of overhearing what is said when the Princess entertains a suspicious visitor. Hearing that Lord Ian is in grave danger, she has to find a way to warn him. How Lord Ian is almost given a new and powerful drug that would make him unknowingly reveal vital State secrets. How he and Belinda travel to Marseilles to find where this evil drug is made. And how Belinda is frightened and upset by what then happens, but finds the true love she has always been seeking is all told in this romantic and exciting novel by BARBARA CARTLAND.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782135898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Earl Granville travels to Windsor Castle for an audience with Queen Victoria.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ He had been asked by Count Yuri Unkar of Samosia, a small but significant country in the Balkans if an English bride of Royal Blood could be found to marry Prince Ivor and thus ensure the countryÕs protection of Great Britain and the Union Jack.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Queen Victoria had already sent many of her relations to sit on thrones to protect the Balkans from invasion by the Russians, who were intent on expanding their Empire at the expense of many small States.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ ÊThis time Queen Victoria could think of no one as she was rapidly running out of suitable relatives.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ However, Earl Granville had been awake all night thinking of solutions to the problem and then he remembered. Prince Vladimir a cousin of the Queen.Ê He had married a woman who played the piano in public, which was not considered correct for a Prince of Royal Blood.Ê They had been banished from London and had gone to live in a small village in Devon and then forgotten.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Earl Granville leaves immediately to see Prince Vladimir to ask if his beautiful daughter Linetta would go to the Balkans as bride to Prince Ivor.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Linetta finally agrees but only on the condition that she could get to know the Prince first and if she did not like him then she would return home to her beloved parents.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ She plans to go to Samosa as a Governess to the CountÕs children and in that way would meet the Prince without him realising who she was.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ How they met for the first time when Prince Ivor heard Linetta playing the piano as beautifully as her mother had taught her.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ How Linetta saved the PrinceÕs life by her quick reactions.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ And how she finds the love of her life through the beauty of herself and her ethereal music is all told in this exciting and romantic novel by BARBARA CARTLAND.Ê
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788670205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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The beautiful Alvita who had lost both her parents, was living quietly in her family home in Southern Russia. Her father had been Russian and her mother had been English. Alvita was pleased to receive a visit from her brother, Ivor, but shocked when he told her that they must leave Russia immediately, as a Revolution was inevitable and would start very soon. He had brought with him his friend, Nicholas, who said that he would help them pack up as many of their treasures as they could and make their way to England. Alvita felt a little unsure of Nicholas, but thought that perhaps she might be mistaken. Ivor insists that he should be a Russian Prince and Alvita a Princess as the English are always impressed by grand titles, although Alvita is none too sure about the deception. After packing her mother's jewellery, some valuable pictures and silver, they know that they must avoid the dangerous Revolutionaries and travel as fast as possible to the nearest Port to find a ship to take them to England. This Nicholas arranges for them and, when they arrive in England, Ivor by chance meets an old friend, Charles, the Marquis of Harrington, who he was friends with when they were at Oxford University. Charles takes them to his impressive house in London and, when he learns that they want to sell their treasures, he arranges for them to be displayed in the ballroom and the stables. It is when Alvita sees a valuable painting being removed from its frame that she knows that Nicholas is attempting to cheat the Marquis. How she warns Charles of what is happening in his house And how she and her brother find the love that they both sought but believed would never be theirs is all told in this unusual romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782139028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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The beautiful Martina Bradshaw has sadly lost both her beloved father and her loving mother. They live in the little Kent village of Preston Bailey where her father, a talented musician, had written his music, which had never been successful with the public. Now Martina has to find a way of making money to pay her household of Mrs. Amos the cook and Lily the housemaid, although a near neighbour, Sir Alexander Palmer, has bought many of her father's music memorabilia that she has no use for and is now showing a keen interest in Martina's welfare. Another neighbour, the handsome Earl of Westfield, has a ten year old half-sister, Lady Anne, who is a difficult child and has been impossible to teach music to. So the Earl engages Martina to teach Lady Anne and she soon gains her trust. In the meantime one of her mother's old friends, Mrs. Elizabeth Carrington, invites her to a party in London and she unexpectedly meets the Earl at the Station and he drives her in his carriage to her destination. Later she plays her father's tunes on a piano at the party and a music publisher promises to issue them. When the Country Fair comes to Preston Bailey, everyone in the neighbourhood is drawn to the spectacle including the Earl and Lady Anne. It is a happy day, although trouble is brewing for Martina. How Lady Anne goes missing in a dreadful stormy night and is found in the Earl's maze by Martina, only to lose her again. How Lady Anne is rescued from a raging river and Sir Alexander Palmer's true intent towards Martina is revealed. And how Martina and the Earl find the love they have both been seeking is told in this fast-moving romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.
Author: Joan Wolf
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1949135543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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HER MARRIAGE OFFERED EVERYTHING BUT LOVE When beautiful Amanda Doune wed the Duc de Gacé, the elegant exiled French noble offered her full enjoyment of his wealth and position in return for her total worship of him. But her early adoration could not long blind her to the fact that her husband was capable of loving only himself. HER LOVER OFFERED EVERYTHING BUT MARRIAGE Brilliant and gallant Adam Todd, Lord Stanford, offered Amanda all that she could want as a woman, at the cost of all that she had vowed to be as a wife. Was the loss of her good name and her beloved young children worth the promise of pleasure she tasted in the arms of her husband’s most deadly enemy? Amanda’s future and the fate of England itself hung on her moves in a game of romance and intrigue where kisses courted disaster and love rewrote the rules…
Author: James Tyrrell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Author: Gemma Blackwood
Publisher: Gemma Blackwood
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Two warring families. One forbidden love. Lady Cecily Balfour was always taught that the Hartley men are mad, bad and dangerous to know. When she meets Robert Hartley, Earl of Scarcliffe, she makes a few additions to that list: Stubborn. Infuriating. Handsome. Charming. Tempting. Society expects Cecily to make an advantageous match of her father’s choosing. What can she do now that her own choice is a man she is expressly forbidden to see? The Earl of Scarcliffe enjoys hunting, drinking, billiards, and bachelordom. Love does not feature on his list of requirements. Especially for a woman with a stubborn streak a mile wide and a penchant for riding off on his favourite stallion. And if that same woman is a Balfour? Not a chance! But Cecily just happens to have a pair of striking blue eyes, a taste for adventure and a rapier-sharp sense of humour… Robert’s heart is in as much danger as his head will be if they are caught together. When Robert and Cecily defy their powerful families for love, what will they have to sacrifice in return?
Author: Sadie Bosque
Publisher: Necessary Arrangements
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Theirs is a marriage of convenience She loves another... Lady Julie has dreamed of marrying her childhood sweetheart since she was four years old. Unfortunately, her father has other plans. He has his sights set on her marrying an earl. When she is forced into an unwanted betrothal, Julie needs to make a choice: wait for her true love and destroy her honor, or make a deal with the forbidding earl. He vowed to never love again... Robert, the Earl of Clydesdale, has sworn off love. A marriage of convenience is more to his liking. So he wasn't about to turn away a beautiful young lady's plea for help in exchange for her hand in marriage. But once he spends more time with his betrothed, his icy heart begins to melt. Only his betrothed is in love with another. Now Robert has a choice, either lock his heart away and live in misery, or take a risk and fight for the woman he loves. This work of fiction contains adult content, strong language, violence, off page death, bullying, nightmares, pregnancy and miscarriage. Reader discretion is advised.
