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Now that her beloved father has passed away and the family estate sold off to provide for her future, beautiful young, Zelina Tiverton is somewhat bewildered to find herself living in amid the glamour of London's Social World with her guardian, her Aunt Kathleen. Now her aunt has a greater shock in store, announcing that she is sending Zelina to Russia to stay as Governess with Prince and Princess Volkonsky. Clearly Aunt Kathleen simply wants Zelina...
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In the loveless household of General Sir Frederick and Lady Emily Osmund and their empty-headed twin daughters, begrudgingly adopted niece Azalea is little more than a wallflower. And all because her kind, heroic and beloved father died in a manner they wrongly consider scandalous – and because her mother was Russian!
'You must pay the price of your father's sins and what happened in India you will take to your grave with sealed lips', her uncle...
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The beautiful young Mimosa Shenson is, left alone in the world, penniless and stranded, in Tunisia after her father dies, from a snakebite while visiting the partially, excavated archaeological site of Thuburbo Maius.
Whatever can she do?
The answer appears to be in a chance reading of a local newspaper reporting that her cousin Minerva, who has been living a grand Villa near Tunis, but has suddenly, disappeared and is, feared kidnapped for her large...
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Bereaved of her beloved father at sixteen, and now her mother, Belinda Wyncombe’s only comfort is that she still has the family’s home. Until she finds her irresponsible stepfather, Captain D’Arcy Rowland, has squandered their money and fraudulently mortgaged the house.
This means he faces jail while Belinda faces penury, unless she complies with her stepfather’s shameful scheme to gain and ruthlessly exploit the trust of the famed adventurer?...
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The beautiful Cassandra Sherburn has, everything a young lady, could possibly desire.
Slender, flame-haired and alabaster-skinned and the heiress to her father's immense fortune, her father has promised her hand in marriage to the dashing young Marquis of Charlbury, heir to the ancestral home and estates of the Duke of Alchester and she believes that she is in love with him. And, over the years she has collected newspaper cuttings about him and pasted...
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All alone and penniless after the unexpected death of her much-loved father, the lovely but innocent Minella Clinton-Wood is desperate.
But who can she turn to?
Her Aunt Esther has made her reluctance clear, describing the idea of Minella living with her as 'a burden'. But then she finds a letter to her father from her slightly older friend, Connie, the local Parson's attractive daughter, thanking him for some mysterious kindness.
"Someday perhaps...
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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...
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The Earl of Cariston is faced with insuperable problems as he has completely run out of money. He has sold everything on his estate that he can, but even so there is nothing he can do to support those who rely on him and they are on the verge of starvation. In desperation he calls into his Club to find an old friend, Lord Shield, and tells him all his woes. Lord Shield is in a bad way himself, but does suggest that he visits a certain Mr. Randon who...
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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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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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The Marquis of Elvington, heartbroken to discover the woman he intended to marry has deceived him, decides to leave England and put as many miles as possible between them. Handsome, intelligent and a great favourite at the Court of King William IV and Queen Adelaide, the Marquis is used to the admiration of women and respect of men, so the duplicity of his intended wife strikes him a cruel blow.
However, a thick fog makes it impossible for his yacht...
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When the Armistice between France and England, came to an end in 1803, Napoleon interned ten thousand British tourists who were in France at that time. Most of these tourists had committed no crime and had simply been travelling when captured.
Many, to save being arrested went into hiding, among them the widow and daughter of Sir Edward Waltham, who had died that winter.
A year later, plunged into poverty and the seedier side of Paris life, beautiful...
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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...
14) 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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Just eighteen, beautiful and intelligent, Yola Beauharnais lives a blessed Fairy tale life at her magnificent family castle on the Loire.
Then her grandmother announces that she has been, promised in marriage by her late beloved father to the Marquis de Montereau. Yola is appalled. She has heard of the Marquis, who, although handsome and sophisticated, has a reputation in Paris as a rake, socialite and 'ladykiller'. How could she possibly marry such...
16) 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...
17) 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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After the death of the kindly old Earl of Yardecombe, Oscar the brash and pleasure-seeking new Earl seems to care little for the people of the Parish, let alone for the plight of young Dorina Stanfield, her widowed father and their impoverished family at the rundown Vicarage.
Dorina's opinion of this raffish gentleman is, lower still, when she hears of lewd goings-on with his flamboyant friends at the 'Big House'. Confronting his Lordship, Dorina...
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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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The Duke of Ravenstock is the most, attractive and elusive bachelor in London, and the most notorious.
His exploits and romantic escapades keep the salons of the Social world buzzing, but never more so than, when he announces that he will marry. His friends soon realize that what has, captured the Duke's heart is the purity and innocence of his intended bride.
The wedding date has been, fixed when the Duke, discovers by accident that his fiancé...
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