Barbara Cartland
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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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Strikingly handsome the Russian Prince Ivan Volkonski leaves a trail of broken hearts behind him wherever he goes.
But when, his best friend, Lord Marston, takes him one evening to the famous Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, he witnesses a spellbinding dance performance of grace and spirituality that is to change his life forever.
The dancer, a beautiful young woman known only as Lokita, mesmerizes and enthralls, him with her dancing and brings back...
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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...
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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...
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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?
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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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The lovely young Nerissa Stanley, her brother, Harry, and their father, a distinguished academic writer on Elizabethan architecture live a threadbare existence in their family home.
So when her beautiful elder sister, Delphine, pays a surprise visit to her and Harry and then offers them a large sum of money, they have no option but to accept.
Delphine, who abandoned the family several years earlier to marry the rich elderly Lord Bramwell is now widowed...
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Her beauty matched only by her vanity and selfishness, the Valeda's sister Hermione, the Countess of Eltesley, hasn't deigned to visit for more than seven years since their beloved father died. And now, out of the blue, she appears with a startling, yet humiliating proposition that's a dream come true – and a nightmare too…
In this Cinderella story set in Spain, Valeda may be the put-upon, unknowingly lovely heroine – but surely Hermione will...
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Ravella Shane ist das sehr junge und sehr hübsche Mündel des Herzogs von Melcombe und lebt in einer Schule auf dem Land. Der Lebensstil des reichen und attraktiven Herzogs ist nicht bei allen gut angesehen ist, da er die Feste, Frauen und Wettkämpfe liebt. Er wird der Herzbube genannt, da ihm alle Frauenherzen zu fliegen. Ravella erbt das Vermögen eines entfernten Verwandten und zieht deswegen viele Mitgiftjäger an, da ihr das Erbe entweder am...
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Calina Hart's mother, the lovely Lady Carol Wood, was being forced by her ambitious father, the Earl of Hurstwood, to marry the Duke of Denholme, who is dull, boring and a poor rider – but is a Duke!
Early in the morning of the day of her Wedding to the Duke Lady Carol runs away with John Hart, who is a brilliant trainer of her father's horses, as she has fallen in love with him and refuses to marry a man she does not and cannot love.
The Earl...
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In St. Petersburg on a mission to glean intelligence for the Prime Minister on the likely intentions of Czar Alexander with regard to the ongoing war in which both Russia and the UK are at war with Napoleon's France, the dashing and eminently eligible bachelor Duke of Welminster is beset by diplomatic problems.
The War aside, there is the issue the Princess who is pressing upon him the attractions of her daughter Tania. At thirty-three, the handsome...
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Virginia, una muchacha de una familia abastada, era una joven afectada por la obesidad, con un aire enfermizo y sin atractivos femeninos para cualquier caballero de la corte, se vio obligada por su ambiciosa madre, a casarse con un caballero de la aristocracia inglesa, un caballero de título, pero arruinado. Todas estas tensiones y obligaciones la hicieron apartarse de casa, padecía de una crisis nerviosa, que le hizo adelgazar vertiginosamente...
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Beautiful young Claudia Anderson is all alone in the family home in Chelsea without a penny to her name after both her mother and her father, the celebrated actor Walter Wilton, are burned to death when the theatre where Walter is performing collapses in flames.
Reeling from the most terrible shock of her life, little does Claudia realize that Fate has another two mortifying shocks in store for her.
First, Lady Bressley arrives at her house, the Godmother...
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Lady Athena Wade eine junge und reiche Engländerin und Tochter des vierten Marquis von Wadebridge findet sich in Griechenland im Palast des Prinz Yiorgos von Pamassus wieder. Ihre aus Griechenland stammende Großmutter hatte ihr nicht nur ihre Liebe für Griechenland, die griechische Kultur und Mythologie vererbt, sondern hat auch eine Heirat mit dem griechischen Prinzen Yiorgos von Pamassus arrangiert. Der Prinz regiert eine verarmte Provinz und...
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Innocent young Candida is almost destitute after the death of her beloved father.
Resolving to keep up the family's modest Elizabethan manor house in Hertfordshire and support Ned, the family's faithful servant, she sees no alternative but to sell her beloved pitch-black stallion, Pegasus.
So, when the worldly Major Hooper offers to take her and her mount to Hyde Park, where she will undoubtedly find a high price, she agrees, though with a heavy heart.
Little...
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After the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent Army of Occupation in France, the Earl of Monthurst returns to his ancestral home in England to find it in a very bad condition. Because labour had not been available during the war, The Hall, which goes back to Tudor times, was badly in need of repair, while the farms on his extensive estate were untenanted and the fields unplugged. Not only had all the local men been taken by the Army, but a large...
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Having sailed with Sir Francis Drake, swashbuckling privateer Rodney Hawkhurst yearns for a galleon of his own with which to plunder the Spanish Main in the name of Queen Elizabeth. Seeking investment from Sir Harry Gillingham, he has a fleeting encounter with an elfin, tomboyish golden-red-haired beauty ? Sir Harry?s youngest daughter Lizbeth ? and is bewitched by her limpid green eyes. Yet it is fair and golden-haired elder sister Phillida with...
18) A Shooting Star
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The beautiful Flavia Linwood had been living in the country, until she was nearly nineteen.
She should have been a debutante in London the previous year, but she was in deep mourning for her mother who had died suddenly. Now at last she travels to London for her Season.
Her father, Lord Linwood, and his friend Lord Carlsby are courtiers in attendance on Her Majesty Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle and they are very proud of their position at Court.
Quite...
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Reluctant to accept her arranged marriage to an English Duke she has never met, beautiful young American oil heiress, Emmeline Nevada Holtz, nicknamed 'Vada' after the State, travels to Paris to buy her trousseau before meeting her husband-to-be.
When her travelling companion, Nancy Sparling, has an accident and hurts her leg, Vada assumes her name to avoid unwelcome attention and travels on with just her elderly maid, determined to make the most...
20) Love is A Maze
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With her mother ailing in the long absence of her father, Sir Terence Brantforde, who is abroad on a Top Secret Government mission, beautiful young Davina does not have enough money to buy the food her mother needs if she is to recover.
So she seeks work with a family friend and Society fashion designer, Lucy Crofton.
And is sent by Lucy to fit a new creation for the brash Lady Brant, which is a showpiece for the prestigious Marlborough House Ball,...