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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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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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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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Demure Prunella Broughton has long felt responsible for her lovely younger sister Nanette — since their mother ran away with a lover and then, not long later, their beloved father had died. As an heiress and a debutante, Nanette is already attracting much male attention.
But it's about Pascoe Lowestoft that Prunella is most concerned. Spoilt, dandified, vain and "far too good-looking for any young girl's peace of mind", this penniless fortune hunter...
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For years Celina Storton had been in love with Robin, the Earl of Torrington, but he spent his time in Paris, pursuing beautiful women and the more the merrier. Then his mother's illness forced him to return to England, where she demanded that he marry quickly, as she had not long to live. She had chosen his bride for him — Celina. He was horrified by this threat to his liberty, but since Celina was an old friend and as he loved his mother, he agreed....
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"'How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!'
When the beautiful Lucia Mountford's mother remarries less than a year after her father's death on the Titanic, she is shocked, when the family's fortunes suddenly go into rapid decline and her mother becomes ill.
Deeply in debt her stepfather borrows a considerable sum of money from the handsome but roguish Lord Winterton.
Horrified, Lucia discovers that not only has she been, pressed into...
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Destitute after the death of her beloved Papa, Carmela is miserable working as Nanny to the brattish children of the local vicar. So when her closest friend Felicity asks her to take her place in the home of her guardian, the dictatorial Earl of Galeston, she nervously agrees.
The subterfuge is necessary to ensure Felicity can marry the love of her life – and possible firstly because none of Felicity's feuding family have set eyes on her since...
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"Davina is the younger daughter of Lord Shelford and she has fallen for an actor who did not meet her father's approval. He has banished her from London to his newly acquired country seat, Priory Park, where Davina felt lonely, but not for long.She soon meets the Delverton brothers who live nearby, and also their mysterious companion, Jed Barker.
There are dark secrets surrounding Priory Park and the Delverton family, but Davina cannot help becoming...
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Dalma Wickham, having been in Athens to learn Greek, arrives at a British Steamer to return to London to find that they will not allow her dog, Twi-Twi, on board.
Because she is, turned away from the British ship, she walks round the quay and sees a most magnificent yacht.
While she is admiring it, a bomb goes off at the end of the quay and the seamen leave the yacht to see what has happened.
On an impulse, because she realizes it is her last chance...
11) The Healing Hand
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Tania, the lovely daughter of the late Lord Amesly, leaves her school in Paris and is travelling to Boulogne when her train crashes. Amongst the fear and confusion she is helped and befriended by a charming young Englishman — Captain Rupert More — and with him she reaches the ferry where she unexpectedly meets two friends of her late parents, Charles and Selina Bracebridge.
Captivated by Tania, and awed by her bravery in the face of adversity,...
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Beautiful Jasmina Winfield is a thoroughly modern American girl who likes to make her own decisions. A skilled and daring horsewoman, she is used to taking care of herself and takes orders from no one, especially not a man. Arriving in Yorkshire from Missouri to visit her relations, the Duke and Duchess of Harley, Jasmina is, captivated by the sad romantic tale of her near neighbor the reclusive Earl of Somerton. Leaving Harley Grange to spend Christmas...
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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...
14) 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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Eighteen-year-old Fenella is a mischievous as her freckled elfin beauty and feline green eyes suggest, but beneath that puckish charm she hides her ardent desire to do all in her power to make her beloved cousin Periquine, Lord Corbury, happy.
When to her chagrin the dashing Lord returns from the Napoleonic War after fighting with Wellington, penniless and passionately in love with another, a woman of great wealth and even greater beauty, whom he...
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Carina was alone in the world and unsure of what the future held for her. Then a troupe of musicians, called 'Bertie's Beauties', had an accident outside her gates and she found herself swept up in their fate as she took over from their injured pianist. Now one of the troupe, she went to perform at the Duke of Westbury's castle, never suspecting that the Duke would turn out to be the young man she had met for a few dramatic moments many years before....
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Now she is sixteen and a half, beautiful young Lady Imeldra is eager to leave school and resume her exciting life with her father the Earl of Kingsclere, who is renowned in Society as something of a "man about town". She is dismayed when he announces that his rather decadent lifestyle is not conducive to the necessary task of presenting Imeldra formally to Society and finding her an appropriate suitor, and that he is sending her to live with her strait-laced...
18) A Lucky Star
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"Jilted by her faithless fiancée and at risk of cruel gossip from the debutantes and dowagers of London Society, life is not going as expected for beautiful Anthea Preston. Eager to leave the scandal behind, Anthea is heartbroken afresh when her beloved Mama dies of a sudden illness.
So she is delighted when her indulgent Papa offers to raise her spirits with a Grand Tour of Europe. Intelligent as well as extremely lovely to look at, Anthea is...
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Eighteen-year-old Mistral is an innocent abroad in the sophisticated Cte D'Azur, where princes and millionaires mingle in the casinos and sumptuous hotels while others plot to relieve them of their riches.
Accompanied only by her embittered and domineering Aunt Emilie and kindly servant Jeanne, Mistral appears dressed all in grey like a ghost in the salons and ballrooms of Monte Carlo and sets Society's tongues wagging. It's not long before her waif-like...
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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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