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61) El Impostor
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El asesinato de tres oficiales ingleses en la India sirvió de aviso para Vincent, heredero del Marquesado de Mawdelyn, de que su vida corría peligro a su regreso a Inglaterra, ya que los compañeros muertos habían sido confundidos por él. Mientras tanto, en el Priorato de Mawdelyn, un primo lejano de Vincent había asumido el título de Marqués, pensando que el verdadero heredero estaba muerto. Cómo regresa Vincent a Inglaterra y tiene que hacer...
62) 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...
63) 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...
64) 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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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,...
67) 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...
68) 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...
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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?
72) 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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When her irresponsible brother rents the family home, Langston Manor, for the duration of the Royal Ascot races to Valient, Earl of Trevarnon and his wild gentleman friends, lonely and innocent young Demelza is afraid.
Although married to a woman who has lost her mind and is in an asylum, Trevarnon is a well-known 'ladies' man' — and, for her own safety and modesty, Demelza agrees to hide among The Manor's maze of secret passages. As she watches,...
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After their family mansion burns to the ground, the lovely Erlina Sherwood and her little brother, the sixth Baronet of Sherwood, go to the neighbouring estate to ask if they can stay at Meldon Hall as they now have nowhere to else go.
It is just about the only habitable residence in the village left after the Marquis of Meldon on inheriting the family seat disavowed his house and estate and everyone in or near it.
Because of his neglect, Meldon...
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After her father's heroic death through the treachery of a Russian femme fatale, young Solita found herself in the care of her 'Aunt' Mildred in Italy – the cousin of her father's comrade in arms Hugo Leigh.
On Aunt Mildred's death, a destitute, angry and hurt Solita travels to England to confront her errant Guardian, now Duke of Calverleigh, who had vowed to care for her but apparently neglected his duty for ten long years.
It is true, he had...
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"When Rosina's dear friend leapt to her death after the man she loved betrayed her, she vowed vengeance on all men. Rosina declared that no man could be trusted, including Sir John Crosby, member of parliament, whom she had secretly loved since girlhood.
Now a debutante, she found herself caught up in a whirl of social activity. An election was imminent and her father, Sir Elroy Clarendon, was favored to be made a government Minister.
Her new friend...
77) Love In the East
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When Shona became secretary to the Marquis of Chi worth, all she was, told was that they were going abroad so that he could write a book. She never suspected the dark secret in his heart or the terrible thing he meant to do. As they traveled on, she learned more about the tragedy that drove him, and she faced the fact that she was falling love with a man, whose heart was in the grave. Haunted by memories of his dead wife, the Marquis tried to shut...
78) An Ocean of Love
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When Madelina Winston, a beautiful American heiress, arrives in England, she has at first only one thought on her mind, to try and trace her late father's English family.
Her stepmother, Mrs. Winston, has other ideas. Madelina might have beauty and a fortune, but as far as Mrs. Winston is, concerned she lacks the crowning glory of life, an English title.
Mrs. Winston knows that there are many impoverished aristocrats hoping to marry money and wastes...
79) The Eyes of Love
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Although Scottish born and bred, beautiful young Vara McDorn speaks with a refined English accent thanks to her education in the South, which is why she is called upon to become Reader to the new Chieftain of the McDorn Clan, who has been blinded by an Indian Fakir's curse while protecting the Viceroy at a Fort on the North-West Frontier of India.
Troubled by his affliction and frustrated by his inability to understand the local Scots' brogue, the...
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Oppressed and trodden on by her aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Bruntwick, who despise her because her father died in debt and her mother was French, Rocana Brunt yearns to escape the confines of their Bruntwick Castle.
Yet when her dear cousin Lady Caroline is ordered much against her will to marry the imperious Marquis of Quorn, simply to extricate him from a potential scandal over one of his many liaisons, loyal Rocana agrees to take her...
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