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Handsome, noble Lord Alistair McDonon's gay life, as a denizen of London's Beau Monde far, far away from his Scottish roots, comes to a sudden and abrupt end.
When the tragic news, arrives that his two brothers have, drowned at sea, he is, summoned to Scotland by his estranged father, not only, to take up his title of the Marquis of Kildonon and position, of heir to the Chieftainship of the Clan, but also to marry, Lady Morag McNain, in order to unite...
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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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Left penniless and alone after her parents' sudden deaths, beautiful young Alina Langley is desperate to earn some money to pay off their debts when, quite out of the blue, her friend the glamorous Denise Sedgewick, arrives at her home from London in a smart carriage.
Now a famous Society beauty she has come to ask Alina for help. The man Denise loves has gone to Rome, upset after Denise deliberately made him jealous at a party and Denise is desperate...
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The beautiful Princess Ileana is virtually ruler of Zokala because her father the King, has been in a coma for over six months.
Enjoying the freedom her fathers illness allows her, she is shaken when the Prime Minister informs her that a large number of brigands under the leadership of General Vladilas have entered the country uninvited and are camping in the mountains.
To her horror the Princess discovers that the Zokalan Army and its aged Generals...
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"Dorina's father had been an industrialist, an inventor and a genius who trained her to be his heir, sending her abroad to learn many languages.
While she was in France, she learned that he had died, and she must now take over his business. But, she does not feel ready, especially as she knows he has been trying to design a horseless carriage.
For a while, she keeps his death a secret, to give herself time to learn, and goes to work for his great...
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Beautiful, flame-haired eighteen-year-old Princess Thea is horrified when her father King of a Balkan country called Kostas tells her she must marry the old, white-haired King Otho. So, taking her beloved horse Mercury, she flees the palace and finds herself lost in the wooded mountains. There she meets an overwhelmingly handsome artist called Nikōs who seems to be able to read her thoughts— and almost instantly the two fall in love.
But then a...
10) The Ship of Love
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"The daughter of a wealthy, ambitious man, Rowena knew that her father longed to marry her to a title, preferably the Duke of Wenfield, whom she disliked and did not wish to marry herself. To avoid marriage, they hatched a plot.
Posing as brother and sister, they would take a trip on a yacht with their likeminded friends and would help each other find the love of their dreams. Plans went awry on the Mediterranean, when Rowna was kidnapped by a Sultan,...
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"Young, handsome and very rich the Marquis of Harlington has just ended yet another unsatisfactory love affair that has left him feeling bored with women and resigned to the fact that true love simply does not exist amongst the upper class echelons of London, which are his usual habitat.
Casting around for a speedy escape route he is offered the prefect exit when the Prime Minister asks him to travel to Egypt and report on the Suez Canal, which is...
12) The Keys Of Love
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"When you are the sole heir of an English Lord who has made his fortune after striking oil in Texas, it is hard to know if the young men hotly pursuing you are in love with your beauty or your money. Declaring herself to be only interested in marrying a man who loves her for herself, Henrietta Radford is forced to flee Texas and return to England to escape the grasping hands of penniless fortune hunter, Prince Vasily. Beautiful, intelligent and brave,...
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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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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...
15) They Sought Love
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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....
16) A Duel of Hearts
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Just seventeen, Lady Caroline Faye is already the toast of the Season and accustomed to the ways of genteel Society. So when notorious cad Sir Montagu Reversby offers to drive her in his phaeton from London to Sevenoaks, she innocently accepts, little knowing that he is planning to fake a broken axle so that she will be forced to spend the night alone with him at a remote country inn.
But, Lady Caroline of made of sterner stuff than the predatory...
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Francis, the Marquis of Wimborton needed an heiress. Lexia had money and her father wanted her to marry a Lord.
But she was a spirited girl, raised in America and she wanted to choose her own husband. The Marquis was too proud to court her, especially as he believed her heart was given to Wayne Freeman, an American that her father had brought her to England to avoid.
They unexpectedly became the best of friends, escaping together from family pressures...
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Craig Vandervelt, handsome son of the richest man in America is begged by his cousin, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, to undertake a secret mission in the most flamboyant principality in Europe - Monte Carlo.
Intrigued by the fact that one of Britain's top agents in India, the reclusive but respected Randall Sare, has disappeared without a trace, Craig agrees once more to use his playboy status as a mask to find out what...
19) A Virgin Bride
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Scandal, adultery and an angry husband has to be avoided if the Duke of Rockinston, one of the most handsome and charming bachelors in London, is to keep his family honor and his preserve his place at the center of Society.
With the furious Earl of Darran hot on his heels, the Duke narrowly escapes complete social ruin after being discovered leaving the home of the lovely Countess at three o'clock in the morning. Unable to convince the Earl that their...
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When John Chester returned to England after suddenly inheriting a Dukedom he, knew his life had changed forever. But, he didn't know just how much. Gina Wilton was like a breath of fresh air. But, she was also everything John disapproved of in a young women, independent, assertive, always ready to contradict him. Yet she had ideas about restoring his dilapidated castle, and he found he needed her help. The more they were together, the more he noticed...
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